Defending yourself a crime?

When did lawfully defending yourself with the EXACT SAME TOOLS used by government SERVANTS become a criminal offence under our common law and criminal code??? Did members of parliament, and our servant police deliberately forget what "Rule of Law" means, and instead adopt a 'rule of lore' standard?

Hint: Rule of Law means the law protects and applies EQUALLY to everyone and MOST ESPECIALLY, IT DOES NOT GIVE MORE RIGHTS OR PROTECTION to GOVERNMENTS (or our civil SERVANTS) that are created FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS!!

Most curiously, perhaps, WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY TEACHING PEOPLE IN LAW SCHOOL? Something is afoot folks...

One of the surest signs you are living in a police [or nanny] state is the loss of the unalienable inalienable right of self-defence, one of our most basic RIGHTS! If you didn't learn this by the first month of your law school training, demand your damn money back, then slap your professor (after all, he believes he has no right to lawfully defend himself)!

This is a disgrace to our "free" nation! [Above video is clip from CH News in Victoria, BC]

Victoria police Insp. Phyllis Senay remains in hospital after apparently
accidentally shooting herself late last week.

Senay, 49, a 25-year veteran of the force, was wounded in the thigh when
her .40-calibre service handgun accidentally discharged Friday when she
was getting out of her car after returning from required firearms
training. She was [allegedly] on duty.

PUBLICATION: Times Colonist (Victoria)
DATE: 2005.11.02
PAGE: B2
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These are the same bunch who repeatedly dare to lecture free and law abiding citizens for using their COMMON LAW RIGHT to use handguns to defend themselves and their family.
What the Times Colonist forgot to mention in their little piece, however, was that the Victoria Police Inspector was returning from a 'firearms training session' that she was supervising and conducting.

Judging by the below story, it seems inspector Phyllis will soon be only a heartbeat or two away from the top position at the Victoria Police Department.

You sure you want to leave your life solely in their hands?

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Police chief to fill city manager role

Posting covers period until permanent replacement is hired; Victoria force will see first female deputy chief -

Carolyn Heiman, Times Colonist

Published: Wednesday, May 24, 2006

No word on whether he'll be armed but Victoria Police Chief Paul Battershill has been named acting city manager until a new person is hired.

A resulting change in the police department also means the force will have its first woman deputy police chief in 148 years with Insp. Cory Bond taking on some of those responsibilities.

Mayor Alan Lowe said Tuesday he asked Battershill to take on the role until a successor can be found for Joe Martignago who steps down May 31 after what was termed a "mutual agreement" to part ways.

The search for a permanent replacement is expected to take six to nine months.

Lowe said Battershill's salary will get a "minor" increase to match the $164,075 a year, including a $7,200 annual car allowance, that Martignago is paid.

Battershill is still to keep the role of police chief but when he cannot perform those duties, deputy chief Bill Naughton will be acting police chief. Likewise Bond takes on some of the roles of deputy police chief.

Currently Bond and Insp. Phyllis Senay are the highest ranking female city police officers. Senay was named inspector in 2001 and has been on a Workers' Compensation Board leave since November 2005 after her .40-calibre service handgun accidentally discharged, striking her thigh.

Lowe said Victoria will be looking for a new police chief when Battershill's contract ends in December 2008 -- a year later than originally planned and extended to accommodate his new role.

In the meantime Naughton and Bond will have an "an opportunity to perform," Lowe said. "We have developed an organization within the police department in which succession planning and grooming people (whether for roles in Victoria or elsewhere) are quite important."

Battershill was on a flight to Dallas for a police-related speaking engagement and was not available for comment. Last year the city of Edmonton wooed him for their top police job but Battershill announced in November he would stay in Victoria.

Lowe said Battershill was chosen "not because he is police chief but because of his skills." He said Battershill would have goals for the transition period but they would be announced on his first day on the job. "The present city manager is still running the show and out of respect to him we don't want to say this how we want to change things."

Lowe described the job of city manager as one requiring good human resource management and added Battershill has good working relationships with both the police union and the CUPE Local 50. As well, the manager has "to work with council, look at council's strategic direction" and work with managers and staff to follow that direction.

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=341e66ce-8913-4be0-b92b-eff137e01174&k=11342

Click below link for another example of gun safety, as practiced by the Police.

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1163028002/Gunslinger_cop

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[Victoria] Officer wounded in accident on shooting range - Rob Shaw Times Colonist, May 13, 2008

A Victoria police officer shot and injured himself with his handgun while training at a firing range earlier this month, the department confirmed yesterday.

Sgt. Sean Plater shot himself in the hand accidentally May 1 at a shooting range on the Malahat, police spokesman Sgt. Grant Hamilton said. Plater, who is president of the Victoria police union, was re-certifying on his semi-automatic Glock pistol, which is mandatory in Victoria twice a year, Hamilton said.

"I don't know the circumstances of how it happened," Hamilton said. "He may have nerve damage to the injured hand, and we anticipate he may return to work in a couple of months." The bullet pierced the side of his hand below the pinkie, Hamilton said.

The RCMP and Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner are investigating because the incident involved the discharge of a police firearm.

Plater is a 17-year veteran of the force and works in the department's crime-prevention division. He received a medal for bravery for pursuing armed robber Stephen Reid in a shootout in 1999.

"It is a minor injury, but we take it very seriously," Hamilton said. The police department's firearms expert is reviewing training procedures, he said.

"We fire over 200,000 rounds per year and over 3,500 hours of actual range training time, and this is the first time we've had an accidental shooting by a member at the range," Hamilton said.

Victoria police Insp. Phyllis Senay shot herself in the thigh with her handgun while getting out of her car in 2005. Senay, 49, has not returned to work, although she received Workers Compensation until March 25, 2007, and was then was put back on the Victoria police payroll. She will receive full salary until August 2008, an amount close to $167,000.

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Here's a newspaper clip we found where the police even shoot each other. What is also interesting about this story is that Global TV reported that the officer had been shot by a "suspected drug dealer", and it is doubtful the media would gain much from lying about this. Clearly there was no doubt about who the shooter was within minutes of the shooting. It seems that, over and over again, the police lie out of force of habit to cover their tyrannical boney backsides, so who can say how often this type of accident occurs, when it is their habit to lie to the media.

Notice that even after admitting to the incident, which occurred in a two-story apartment building filled with children, Staff Sgt. Casey Dehaas "refused to identify" the police officer involved in the shooting.

Do you think the police would be 'kind enough' to withhold your name if you accidentally shot someone?

Also note that once again the heavily armed SWAT team was employed in this raid where no weapons were reported or believed to be present.

Policeman admits to shooting officer - Boston Globe

A 27-year veteran of the Boston Police Department pleaded guilty yesterday to assault charges for shooting a fellow officer with his service weapon after a night of heavy drinking.

Female officer shot colleague before taking own life - June 11/07

LONDON, Ont. -- It was a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of a retired London, Ont., police superintendent and the force's highest-ranking female officer, London police announced Monday.

Mountie shoots fellow officer
Rifle round fired into policeman's leg during raid west of Sundre

Dan Singleton For The Calgary Herald - August 31, 2007

An RCMP emergency response team member underwent surgery Thursday after being shot in the lower leg by a fellow officer during a raid on a rural residence two kilometres west of Sundre.

He is expected to make a full recovery, say police.

The officer, who has not been named, was wounded when police stormed a mobile home in executing an illegal weapons search warrant about 5 a.m.

The officer, who has been a member of the emergency response team for about 10 years, was taken to hospital in Calgary, 100 kilometres from Sundre.

Border guards flunking their shooting lessons
CanWest News Service - September 26, 2007

WINDSOR -- One in five Canadian border guards, training to carry firearms, has been flunking their shooting lessons.

"Eventually, they will be armed. But not everyone is going to qualify," said Marie-Claire Coupal of Windsor, Ont., fourth national vice-president of the Customs and Excise Union.

Coupal said part of the reason a fifth of trainees has been failing is the short training period of three weeks, compared with 16 weeks for RCMP. Most of the failures were in 25-metre shooting -- a long distance that doesn't reflect normal border conditions, she said. --

Gun-shy border guards on firing line - Canwest News, May 30/08
The prospect of layoffs for border guards who cannot qualify for gun licences under the new plan to arm them has become a major snag in contract talks for 100,000 federal employees.

With all due respect to your editorial's statement that it is "dumb" for Canadians to

exercise their right to lawful self-defence, such a right is in fact the foundation of any

Our unalienable right of self defence is historically established in our common law

and predates our Magna Carta. Concomitant to the unalienable right to self-defence

Notwithstanding any statute to the contrary, the only argument a government could

hope to make in limiting our right to carry firearms for lawful defence would be to

require a level of competence in the operation of a dangerous tool. That duty was

Arguments based on emotionalism and fear-mongering don't cut it, particularly in

arguing for guns for oneself while taking the right from others, which seems to be

Thanks to these LAWLESS 'government abuse' enforcers of TOTALLY unlawful gun

policies that target the peaceful and law abiding, thousands of Canadians have become

literal prisoners in their own homes, deprived of their immutable right to simply

Crime Widow now dreads nightfall after three masked intruders broke into her
Renforth residence last month

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Telegraph-Journal As published on page C1 on November 29, 2006

SAINT JOHN - A 75-year-old Renforth woman "shook for three days" after finding three masked intruders in her home about 2 a.m. last month.

The woman, who is five-foot-two, weighs 90 pounds and requires oxygen for a respiratory condition, now dreads nightfall and has difficulty sleeping, she said in her victim impact statement, filed with the provincial court.

"I visualize the scene in my kitchen that night - three masked men standing in the kitchen . . . a thick heavy grey carpet knife with its wide blade exposed.

"I have never felt so helpless and frightened in my life," said the woman, who hid in the downstairs bathroom while they ransacked her home.

Even today, when she thinks about that "harrowing" night, she shakes.

"I realize they have seen the interior of my home and fear they could describe it to others and even return themselves."

The woman, who lived alone prior to the Oct. 13 incident, has had to have her adult son move in with her.

"This invasion of my residence certainly shatters the belief of feeling secure and safe in my own home and community where I have resided for 46 years."

Your tax dollars at work...... Is this the police service you expected for your tax dollars?

Did you know you are more likely to be arrested, harassed and intimidated by "Police"

for lawfully defending yourself with a firearm, than if you unlawfully assault someone?

In fact, you stand a better chance of being arrested and harassed just for trying to get

NON lethal weapons to defend yourself. Folks, that is a police state..... So if you need

Queue twilight zone music before reading below... Government and Victoria police take

That's the warning from Canada Border Services Agency and Victoria police after they seized two high-voltage stun guns being shipped into Canada from an American seller on eBay.

"We need to educate people that when you are ordering stuff over the Internet or mail order, to be very, very, sure you are allowed to possess that item in Canada," said Victoria police Sgt. Grant Hamilton.

The stun guns were shipped in boxes labelled digital cameras, said Mike Hryciuk, chief of Canada Border Services Agency customs mail centre in Vancouver. They were first noticed during an inspection in Toronto, and then shipped to Vancouver where customs officials contacted Victoria police, he said.

Police delivered the packages and began a month-long undercover investigation, said Hamilton.

[Note: Just having the item is deem a crime. No victim... no damages... no malicious intent... yet we are told this a crime. We call this a POLICE STATE.... ]

"There's no legal reason anybody should have these [weapons], they are dangerous," said Const. Mike Massine, the Victoria police use-of-force training expert. "Some people might claim it is for self-protection, but I would argue if you need a weapon for self-protection you are running with the wrong crowd."

[Read this above statement a few times.... You'll need to do that, to convince yourself you are not hallucinating some Orwellian nightmare]

The seized stun guns claim to discharge 200,000 to 400,000 volts of energy. They are likely far less powerful than that, but can still incapacitate or harm someone, said Massine. Stun guns are different from Tasers used by police, which operate at a lower voltage and can shoot two barbs carrying the energy. Stun guns must be held against the target.

Hamilton said the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the seller.

Three Greater Victoria residents were shocked when their parcels containing two stun guns arrived in the mail from the U.S. -- accompanied by police officers, handcuffs and multiple criminal charges.

A 37-year-old woman suspected of having bear-sprayed a man in downtown Victoria yesterday is facing numerous charges.

Those witnesses gave police a licence plate of the suspect's vehicle and said the man and woman had been talking in the parking lot before the spraying incident.

Deo said the spray can be purchased in several places including hardware and fishing stores, and while not deadly, it can cause painful effects.

NANAIMO -- A 37-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to the brutal attack of an elderly

Police charged the wrong man in a home invasion murder, and now both he and his

partner are walking free after murdering a disarmed (by police & government) 82 year

Just ask yourself this simple question: Did she have a lawful right to defend herself

Ruling lets man jailed for killing walk free - April 28, 2007
Susan Lazaruk, CanWest News Service
A Nanaimo roofer tried twice for the murder of a 82-year-old widow in her home walked out

of B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver a free man after spending five years in federal prison.

At the first trial in May 2003, a jury found physical evidence enough to convict Mercer. His palm

prints, fingerprints and a bloody footwear impression near the body that matched his sandals

The conviction was overturned on appeal in 2005 because the trial judge instructed jurors in

error that Mercer could be found guilty of murder in two cases: If he killed the woman or helped

In typical 'bizzaro world' fashion, the "powers that claim to be" who are supposed to be looking out for OUR interests, have responded to a rather unusual rash of violent robberies of women in the skytrain area, with what they are calling a "safety campaign".

Instead of encouraging women (they don't mention what men should do) to carry handguns or even pepper spray or night sticks, to defend themselves, transit is offering "free whistles" that they feel will "scare away" an attacker.

This comes on the heels of SEVERAL upgrades of weapons given their skytrain employees, including semi-automatic 9mm handguns, as seen in below pic.

We saved the video [Click image below] to prove this is not our wild imagination.... If this sort of civil SERVANT response to violence seems expectable to you, you've been perfectly programmed by the media that you are noting more than chattel.

The fact is this: YOU are the creator and boss of ALL government authority, and YOU have an inalienable and inherent RIGHT to lawfully defend yourself with reasonable force. Since our government servants carry handguns for THIS EXPRESSED PURPOSE in service TO US, it is therefore established fundamental law that you have this right, and the government MUST (BY LAW) not infringe your rights. A servant can not be greater than his master!!! Write this down! We create government, government does not create us.

[At left] Skytrain security guard practices lawfully defending himself with new gun he was issued.

Vancouver Tops Among Canadian, U.S. Cities For Home Break-Ins, Report Says Dec 15, 2007

Vancouver: More homes are broken into in Vancouver than any other major Canadian or American city, according to an annual report released yesterday. The statistics gathered by the B.C. Progress Board showed that Vancouver had almost four times the amount of break-and-enters last year than Toronto and New York City. In 2006, Vancouver reported 1,121 break-ins per 100,000 people, compared to Toronto with 404 and New York City with 310. [full report]

Do you really believe people like this young woman become criminals if they carry weapons to lawfully defend themselves from being killed or permanently injured? What part of ' right to security of the person' do the federal government or police not understand?

Wallin attacked Park in May 2002 when the 22-year-old stopped to adjust her headphones while jogging in Stanley Park. He strangled her with her headphones cord, then his hands, putting her in a coma.

Park, who spoke four languages and played the piano and flute, is now in a wheelchair, unable to speak. [full story]

Below is a perfect example, from thousands upon thousands, of how "helpless individuals" can lawfully defend themselves with firearms. How DARE our police and government say what this woman did was a crime. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

Woman recounts break-in Colorado Springs Gazette Aug 16, 2001
72-year-old testifies she shot suspect in three rapes - By Bill Hethcock/The Gazette

Jean Zamarripa had just said her bedtime prayers when she heard a strange noise toward the back of her house.

At first, the 72-year-old grandmother thought it was her humidifier, but she quickly figured out it was someone trying to break into the back door of her Knob Hill home.

Minutes later, she shot Anthony Allen Peralez and ended a string of rapes targeting women in their 50s, 60s and 70s, prosecutors said Wednesday on the first day of Peralez's trial.

Zamarripa told jurors she grabbed her loaded revolver from under her bed and braced her elbow on the counter to steady her trembling hand.

Barefoot and in her nightgown, she waited with the gun aimed where she thought the intruder would enter.

Outside, she heard him prop open her storm door.

Then he ran up to and broke through the locked door, ripping the deadbolt holder out of the doorjamb.

The intruder's momentum knocked him to the ground, but Zamarripa never adjusted her aim. When he stood up, Zamarripa wounded him with three out of four shots from about eight feet away before he scrambled out the door.

"I knew if I didn't shoot him, he would have raped me," she said.

Zamarripa said she knew of a 56-year-old woman and a 74-year-old woman in her neighborhood who had been raped shortly before the Nov. 18 break-in at her home.

She seemed calm as she testified. But she told jurors she was full of fear that night.

"In 72 years, I had never lived through anything like it," she said. "The only way I can describe it is sheer terror."

Prosecutors have charged Peralez, 41, with burglarizing, raping and beating a 56-year-old woman Sept. 2 on North Sheridan Avenue and a 74-year-old woman Aug. 6, 2000, on Eagle View Drive.

He also is charged with burglarizing, kidnapping and raping a 51-year-old Security woman Sept. 12, 1999.

In all three cases, the women lived alone, and in each case the women were forced to bathe or were cleaned after being sexually assaulted.

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Of course had this been Canada, this woman would have had to hope the intruder stayed put till she could unlock her firearm, then retrieve her ammo, then load it. Then she'd be facing charges for assault, and the intruder would be suing her for damages.

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The police are not here to help you.... they are grocery clerks sent [by government liars, thieves and thugs] to collect a bill.

Ever here the police say they are short of staff and revenue when they take fifteen minutes to get

Well evidently they have the time to now arrest and fine poor and homeless people who can't

pay their bus fare. Also notice how the media spin mixes serious assaults and vandalism into

the issue of non payment to make the new policy more acceptable to the public. Watch below

Top cop blind-sided by Angels

UPDATED: 2007-03-26 18:44:30 MST
Police Chief Jack Beaton encourages the crime-fighting Guardian Angels to work with police

'Angels' aim for danger zones - Canwest News Service, May 25, 2008
Halifax residents got a guardian angel yesterday. Actually, eight of them, all sporting red shirts and berets and an attitude that says they can make the city a safer place.

Fred Folz is the 49-year-old organizer of the volunteer crime-fighting group Guardian Angels' Halifax chapter -- five men and three women who'll walk the city's streets for the first time early this morning. [full report]

Anyone, who while having guns, proposes to 'remove by force' someone else's equivalent right, is acting out aggression and assault - and is acting contrary to every fundamental tenet of law ever created and conceded in history.

Think of the right to bear arms this way.... A government is a potential assailant.... and there is no principled argument by which a potential assailant could regulate or restrict the ability of a (potential) victim to protect themselves. - BCRevolution