VPD Fearmongering

Chief Graham even claimed to be privy to super secret CSIS documents [classed "c" allegedly meaning "classified", but probably meaning "crap"] and claimed "If I was to tell your listeners what our intelligence is telling us and what I know, I tell you there would be some sleepless nights".

Can you say MISDIRECTION??? FEAR MONGERING??? CAUSING A DISTURBANCE TO THE PUBLIC PEACE???

[That's odd: If we are all targets of terrorism, why are we not given that information so we can choose whether or not to act on it? How is revealing information [allegedly] important to our life, considered too secret for us to know about? Who do these civil servants think they work for, and who is kidding who with this BS? Clearly the intent is to create fear.... if you know of a threat, you can deal with it. Unless of course your goal is to let it take place to increase government power????]

The police chief's office later back pedalled and said Graham was misquoted. His office issued a statement reiterating that all that Graham said was that Vancouver is a haven "for a number of difficulties and issues."

[Well, read that quote from Graham again folks, and you decide: "If I was to tell your listeners what our intelligence is telling us and what I know, I tell you there would be some sleepless nights. I would ask that you invite me back on your show [CKNW] a month from now and we'll talk about nothing but terrorism."]

"I can't speak to what the chief's motivation might be, or if he misspoke. I don't know," said RCMP John Ward.

"The point that is important to make is that there is no specific threat at this time. But we have to become more vigilant and that's probably what the chief was saying."

[So the RCMP acknowledges that Chief Graham was inciting fear without grounds, yet seemingly applaud his actions, regardless. Apparently we need to be "more vigilant" about a non-existent threat!! But if there is "no specific threat", what the hell is in these "classified" documents that would make us lose sleep? Perhaps it is more likely these so-called "classified" documents are in fact telling police Chiefs or other government civil servants to "raise public alarm" in order to "justify" more police spending and more despotic legislation?]

Graham's office added that although there are no specific threats to the city, recent terror acts like the bombing in Madrid means people should be vigilant and report anything suspicious.

[But i thought Grahams office said he was not referring to terrorism? Read again: The police chief's office later back pedalled and said Graham was misquoted. His office issued a statement reiterating that all that Graham said was that Vancouver is a haven "for a number of difficulties and issues." ]

John Thompson of The MacKenzie Institute says the threat of terrorism in Canada is real and on-going. He says he finds it more surprising that Graham is the only police chief raising the alarm about terror in Canada.

"I do pick up a lot of material from over the U.S. and western Europe. And I have problems sleeping at night," he says.

[There's that "problems sleeping at night" quote again verbatim!!!!! Is that merely a coincidence, or is it perhaps evidence that both went to the same CSIS propaganda meeting, and/or read the same "classified" documents? Remember, CSIS was given an additional 8.3 BILLION dollars to "monitor terrorist activities" in Canada, and only has one arrest to show for this massive tax payer expenditure.... The propaganda mill is clearly feeling the need to do some overtime. Next line from the CTV article also provides some interesting insight]

[UPDATE: Now we have a nice little story concerning CSIS tyrants "monitoring" a Muslim group for some TWO years, only to have the RCMP arrange the sale of harmless fertilizer....gee how scarey... I can't sleep anymore, what about you?

So now the trial, and the as yet nonexistent evidence, is sealed from public view - how tidy is that? More info HERE]

David Harris, a former chief of strategic planning with Canada's security agency, CSIS, agrees. He says "anybody who says Canada's not a potential target in the year 2004 is living in a fool's paradise."

[Wouldn't every country on the globe be considered a "potential" target of terrorism?]

"We know that of all the countries that Osama bin Laden himself has threatened, only Jordan and Canada have yet to be struck. And we know that good deal of plotting is going on in the direction of Jordan. So why should Canada be immune?" he told CTV News.

[So why does the FBI not regard Osama as a suspect in the 911 attack? For more info click HERE]

Vancouver isn't the only city feeling threatened.

A week after an Ottawa man was arrested on terrorism charges, the capital is under a heightened state of alert, with stepped up security at dozens of government buildings including the Department of National Defence headquarters.

[So lets review the facts from this article one more time.... The Chief of the Vancouver Police Department says we should all be losing sleep over being a target of terrorism; then his office says he was not referring to "terrorism"... Then CSIS says we are definitely a "potential target" of terrorists, and because they arrested one potential terrorist last week, they have put the government on a "state of alert"...

So why are these reports "classified super secret" if we are "fools" for not readily knowing the "imminent" risk we face?

Doesn't this sound a whole lot like deliberate disinformation, sensationalism and fear mongering? Simple hogwash, designed to "justify" the BILLIONS of dollars given to CSIS to fight, so far, non-existent terrorism in Canada? Not counting the provocation by police "informants" working month after month, year after year, to find someone flakey enough to buy fertilizer, or fantasize about cutting off Harper's head so they can pat themselves on the back and disturb our sleep at the same time.

[Did we call this one or what?] keep reading BC Revolution.... and have a look at the below story released only within a few days of the big "visions of fertilizer dancing in my head, staged terror photo op" CSIS production.

Story from 'Global' media (below) sheds additional insight into motives of VPD fearmongering..

but should we except his explanation that all this was to add one additional officer?

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police chief Jamie Graham said he was misquoted about the threat of terrorism in the city.

After his appearance on an open line radio show Wednesday it was reported that Graham claimed Vancouver has become a haven for terrorist activity, and said the city is not well equipped to handle it.

His office has issued a statement saying Graham actually said Vancouver is a haven for a number of difficulties and issues that affect other parts of the world.

The statement adds there are no specific threats to the city but with recent acts like the bombing in Madrid, people should be vigilant and report anything suspicious.

Graham also repeated his aim to expand the police force's representation on a national security team called INSET, the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, composed of RCMP, CSIS, Immigration, Customs, and a number of members from various municipal forces.

The police department wants to increase the number of officers working on the team from one to two.

© Global BC 2004 http://www.canada.com/vancouver/globaltv/story.html?id=2cf64b3d-a5ed-4f26-8c03-8775c2058ded

Mayor of Vancouver backs police chief's terrorist warning.
Apr 8 2004, CBC

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell says he's glad the city's top cop is making terrorism his top priority.

Chief Jamie Graham had said on Wednesday that residents would suffer sleepless nights if they knew what he knows about terrorist threats.

Campbell says he understands where his police chief is coming from.

"As an ex-police officer I've certainly been in the position that the chief has," he says. "Maybe not at the same level, but having knowledge that has kept me awake at night.

"That's what police are for. We pay them to stay awake at night, to worry about our safety."

Campbell says the chief was trying to make the public aware that we live in a dangerous world. But he says he's not aware of any specific threat to Vancouver.

Solicitor General Rich Coleman and a spokesperson for the RCMP have both downplayed Graham's statement, saying they know of no imminent terrorist threat to the city.

http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_mayor20040408

Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham last week breezily invoked the American-invented War on Terror to justify his proposal to install police video cameras around the city’s public spaces. In an interview May 19 with Bill Good on CKNW radio, he said public cameras would help in the Vancouver Police Department’s contribution to the War on Terror, before he went on to dismiss critics warning of privacy invasions with the usual corker, “If you’re doing nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to hide.”

This weak argument—always trotted out by authorities whenever the issue of police surveillance comes up—must be quashed once and for all. Why the “nothing to hide” cat has never been held under water long enough we’ll never know, but it does seem to have amazing abilities to keep coming back.

There are any number of replies that should have killed it by now: “Then I suppose you won’t mind me installing a camera in your bathroom,” or the always reliable—or always should be reliable—“Why stop at cameras? If you’re doing nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, why not allow police to search your body, your house, your computer files?”

Why indeed not? Besides the pure voyeurism of it, what is it that makes us shudder so chillingly at the idea of unwarranted police searches of our selves, our homes, and our computers? What really lies at the root of our strong natural resistance to the idea of those powers landing in the hands of police?

The same arguments advanced in favour of video surveillance cameras can be used to justify unwarranted police searches of our bodies, homes, and files. It will surely reduce crime, it will expose crime where police weren’t aware of it, it will be a strong deterrent to more crime, it would provide great tools to police investigating crimes, and to follow Police Chief Graham, it would be an important tool in the War on Terror. All good things, no?

Yet, no one who makes those arguments is even remotely convinced it is a good idea to allow police these extraordinary powers of surveillance. The reasons invoked to resist these powers are the same as those that can, and should, be invoked to resist the installation of police surveillance cameras in Vancouver’s public spaces.

Nothing is more corrosive to the social fabric of a city than unwarranted police surveillance. This is what all veterans of bloody battles for democracy and justice in countries around the world throughout history tell us, and our own most observant commentators, from George Orwell to Robert Fisk and John Pilger, repeat it: the encroachment of the police state marches in lock-step with the shrinkage of the democratic and just state.

It is our well-founded fear of the potential use of this information as a tool of corruption and abuse of power—and the equally frightful potential for mistakes made with that information—that brings on the chill we feel at the mere mention of unwarranted police surveillance and monitoring in any of its forms, no matter how little we have to hide.

What is the price we would pay for Chief Graham’s local version of Total Information Awareness? The new police-installed anti-terrorism-juiced cameras won’t be your garden-variety, convenience-store set-up, but instead will be a centralized web of digital recorders linked to sophisticated computers running facial recognition software. These work in some airports around the world by flashing a miniscule light bright enough to cause everyone to glance up at the source to allow the computer to frame the face perfectly for the facial recognition software to work its magic.

That magic is simple enough. Facial recognition software measures the distance between the centre of the eyes and compares that measurement to one between the eyes and the centre of the chin, and makes other similar types of measurements and comparisons. It turns out such ratios and distances produce a unique profile for each of us, as unique as our fingerprints. But our facial characteristics are much easier to gather than our fingerprints.

This software, in tandem with police cameras and data banks of public information, is no longer the sort of anonymous, disconnected, and relatively sporadic surveillance we are familiar with as we move from bank to store and through traffic lights. It is an interconnected web of total surveillance showing our every move, complete with a sign over our heads showing our names, our addresses, our phone numbers, our ages, and our drivers’ licence numbers, as well as a good deal more information we think is private, but is not. Our credit ratings, our email addresses, our online habits, where we shop, what we eat—all of it is available with no warrants.

There are a lot of things we do that are not criminal, but that can nonetheless be something we don’t want known. People have affairs, or they go to “massage” parlours; they might wish to meet with future employers they are considering jumping to, or they might meet secretly to settle sensitive business transactions; government and private sector whistle-blowers might meet with journalists to pass along information; political operatives might need to meet with opposition figures to arrange secret deals. Despite Chief Graham’s assurances, there is plenty we may wish to hide, even when we are doing nothing criminal.

And what’s more, even if we are up to no good, is this level of surveillance justified? Imagine getting a jay-walking ticket in the mail, complete with a photo. How about a debilitating tax audit triggered by too many visits to Holt Renfrew, information police shared with Revenue Canada?

Imagine a crusading police officer tracking every move of an abortion-providing doctor. How would you feel if you made a career of making public speeches highly critical of the police, knowing they can track all your patterns and know where you are at any moment? Politically motivated people may have friends in the police department who can help them learn who an opponent is having lunch with, and where. The opportunity for blackmail and other forms of corruption this information makes available is staggering.

There is a well-known and widely practiced police technique of catching minor criminals and offering to drop charges for information on more major criminals. Informants are useful because they can go places police can’t. Use of this technique would explode once police gained new evidence of petty crime on countless more potential informants. The power police would have in our society would match that exercised by the world’s most tyrannical police-state regimes—all without their having to dispense with the façade of democracy, accountability, and justice.

When Chief Graham mentioned the War on Terror in justifying the web of cameras he envisions for Vancouver, this is what came to my mind. He should be opposed, and opposed strongly.

The Vancouver Police Department's newly formed counter-terrorism unit investigates at least one file per week, says the inspector who oversees the unit.

And since the unit was formalized in May, Insp. Rob Rothwell said credible information has been turned over to the RCMP's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), the lead counter-terrorism squad in the province.

For security reasons, Rothwell couldn't discuss the nature of the information but said the findings are an example of why the Vancouver police's counter-terrorism unit is essential to preventing terrorist activity in the city.

"What's important to express is although it might look like there's a high incidence of reporting, fortunately there's a very low incidence of concern related to the investigations," said Rothwell, the officer in charge of the criminal intelligence section. "Most of them we can investigate and explain and dismiss as just being unusual circumstances or not being a threat."

Prior to the unit's formation, Rothwell said city police assisted in suspected terrorist probes linked to Vancouver. Once case involved a Vancouver man, Rudwan Khalil Abubaker, killed by Russian troops in Chechnya two years ago.

Reports out of Russia claimed Abubaker was an explosives expert working with Chechen rebels. At the time, police said Abubaker regularly attended the Dar al-Madinah mosque on Victoria Drive.

It's the same mosque where Muslim cleric Younus Kathrada is alleged to have preached in favour of a jihad, or holy war against non-Muslims. Kathrada later told reporters his comments were misinterpreted.

Another case of note involved Vancouver police investigating a group linked to the Tamil Tigers, a separatist group fighting for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority.

Rothwell wouldn't elaborate on the investigation, but a story published in the National Post last month said offices of the World Tamil Movement-an alleged fundraising arm for the Tigers-in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver were searched in the past six months.

The Vancouver police's counter-terrorism unit has made headlines in recent weeks because of a perceived controversy between the VPD and the RCMP. The controversy stemmed from allegations that the VPD wasn't satisfied with INSET's efforts and formed its own unit.

In a story in Wednesday's Courier, Rothwell and RCMP Cpl. Tom Seaman, a spokesman for the RCMP's B.C. headquarters, both denied any rift between the two squads.

The controversy made its way to Police Chief Jamie Graham, who took time out at a Vancouver Police Board meeting Wednesday to echo comments made by Rothwell and Seaman.

"Just in case there happens to be any doubts at all about the relationship between the Vancouver police and [INSET], we have maintained a relationship with this unit for many years, in fact since its inception," Graham said. "[The VPD's unit] is designed to complement what they do."

As Rothwell told the Courier in an earlier interview, the VPD unit investigates tips and leads to dismiss or confirm terrorist activity. Any credible information is turned over to the RCMP, he said, adding that "it's not glamorous work" and requires hours of detective legwork.

"We're not modelled after the TV show 24 where we're kicking down doors with sophisticated weaponry, arresting terrorists. This is about properly and thoroughly investigating any tip or concern that could be connected or related to terrorist activity."

Part of the counter-terrorism unit's job will be to create more public awareness to generate tips. That approach will likely mean more work for detectives, but Rothwell stressed that a nugget of information could ultimately help prevent a terrorist attack.

"If that means having to chase down hundreds of what appear to be pointless and meaningless leads, we're going to do it."

The budget for the unit, however, seems to be controversial. Mayor Sam Sullivan, who is also chair of the police board, told the Courier after Graham's speech to the police board that there was no formal vote on the creation of the unit.

Sullivan acknowledged council voted in favour of more officers for the department, but added "there are issues around this and the board needs to discuss this." That discussion was to occur in a private meeting Wednesday with board members, he said.

When asked if Vancouver police needed its own counter-terrorism unit, Sullivan said he was "keeping an open mind." He pointed out that "a lot of the problems that we saw in the Sept. 11 attacks could be traced back to too many people not communicating enough."

Added Sullivan: "We do have an INSET group that is very well funded, very well staffed and I'm very interested in ensuring that the city isn't trying to do something that could actually make the city less safe."

Get ready for the command and control grid if you live in Vancouver. Now you know what the hype was for.... even though the two examples used as support for surveillance cameras and "smart ID cards" were both long ago exposed and documented as government sponsored terrorist events.

Note that the media refers to both the "Madrid" and "London" false flag terrorism bombings, while at the same time stating Vancouver residents have no fear of terrorism - and so they shouldn't, excepting the fact that we keep watch on CSIS, who along with MI5 and Spanish intelligence, were also caught trying to stage terrorism.

VDP flip flops on cause of above shooting.... first blame gangs... then blame guns.

This shooting has all the initial marks of a police sponsored hit intended to heighten public fear over (you guessed it) both gangs and guns, so as to support coming surveillance policies and maintain publics hysteria over guns, while the government gives more guns to police and border guards. Who do you think is bringing in most of the guns and drugs into Vancouver?

"While police believe the shooting was not random, they could not say if all eight victims were the intended targets."

Interesting choice of phrase. In fact, they don't know if ANY of the victims were "intended targets" and claim not to know who the shooter are, so ask yourself when they got the idea the shooting was gang related? Don't police say "its too early to speculate what the motive for the shooting was, but we're continuing our investigation and will explore all avenues" ?

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." - Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe Commander in Chief

The chief had written on the sheet: "A bad day at the range is better than the best day

at work."

The incident happened last month and city manager Judy Rogers was concerned enough

to complain to Mayor Sam Sullivan, who then took the issue to the Office of the Police

Complaints Commissioner.

Deputy complaints commissioner Bruce Brown says he has begun a preliminary investigation

of the incident, which could lead to a full inquiry.

Graham has issued a written statement saying, "the original gesture was made with only

the most positive of intentions" .......

Vancouver Police Department officer under investigation for fraud
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/08/29/1784226-cp.html

VANCOUVER (CP) - A 16-year member of the Vancouver Police Department is under criminal investigation for fraud.

Police say the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner received a complaint from another police officer in December 2005. The complaint involves the Vancouver Police Union hockey team which takes part in charity fundraising events that benefit the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada and the Vancouver Police Union Charitable Foundation.

Search warrants on a number of financial institutions are currently being executed as part of the investigation. Police did not release the name of the officer under suspicion, saying only that he is a homicide detective now on administrative leave. Vancouver Police Department spokesman Const. Howard Chow refused to confirm or deny whether the complaint stemmed from a dispute over record keeping of gate receipts from the union's Oldtimers Hockey Challenge in March.

Vancouver Police review policy, and say they're ok with killing innocent homeless people...

Vancouver police officers 'justified' in using deadly force against homeless man: report
Canwest News ServiceDecember 15, 2009

"After considering the totality of the circumstances facing the two police officers, notwithstanding that there was a tragic outcome, the officers were justified in using force that was intended or likely to cause grievous bodily harm or death," said the report by Insp. Len Goerke released Tuesday."

Watch this YouTube clip of above killing....

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