This is a report from Valence Young about Harper’s stand against middle class Canadians in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Where are the real leaders?
Where’s McGuinty?
Where’s Ignatieff?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Valence Young replied on Sun, Aug 8 2010 7:15 PM
I participated in the protest at the prison farm in Kingston today. The purpose of the protest was to stop cattle trucks from entering the prison farm. The cattle trucks had been ordered to remove the dairy herd. Apparently, no trucking company in Ontario would do the work. The trucks were from Manitoba.
In protest, more than three hundred people gathered at the prison gates at Gardiners Road and Bath Road. There were arrests. The three trucks – the largest of cattle trucks, “possum bellies” – were stopped by protesters at the southbound Gardiners/Bath junction. Police agreed to allow protesters to engage in stopping the trucks’ progress for ten minutes - on the understanding that those who continued to block the vehicles would be arrested. The first arrests were made after the ten minute period had ended. When the lead truck crossed the intersection, it was blocked a second time by at least 150 people standing and sitting five-deep at the prison farm gate. Arrests began again, but the police stopped the process, perhaps because there were so many people involved. After the arrests stopped, the trucks were backed up from the intersection to the southbound Gardiners/Bath junction. The people stayed in place. The lead truck approached a third time but was again rebuffed. At 5 pm this evening the trucks had been stopped from entering the prison farm to load calves and heifers. There is concern that, regardless, the trucks will enter the prison farm later this evening. Some individuals plan to stay at the entrance all night. There are plans to resume occupying the space in front of the prison gates tomorrow, Monday morning, in an attempt to block another convoy of trucks from entering/leaving with the the second part of the herd, the dairy cows, after the morning milking. It is hoped the people who are prison farm supporters – and local to the Kingston area – will join the 6am prison farm protest at the junction of Gardiners Road and Bath on Monday, August 9th. Best regards to all, Valence
This is another problem with the Harper PMO type leadership that the Country seems to want . Our present P.M. was elected by appox. 35,000 voters and a bunch of conservative party delegates before that .
To my reading no press reports stands out on reabilitation or prison farms from liberal justice critic bunch . (Iggy and Mark Holland have preached to the converted and our Agri critic made press headlines in Kingston newspaper .)
On Agri Huron – Bruce riding is the # 1 agricultural riding in the Country . Our federal liberal assoc. riding presidents (past and present) are agri experts as are many liberal members . Our liberal MPP is the Provincial Agri Minister for Ontario .
Do you see anyone from the federal liberal agri dept. swarming Huron – Bruce for input or support ?
I totally agree with the protesters but I think the public need some numbers to understand this issue properly.
The key issue is recidivism. Criminals who are rehabilitated on a prison farm have a much lower rate of recidivism than prisoners from standard prisons. I don’t know the figures but I have heard informally that prison farms are much better for getting criminals on the straight and narrow.
If someone knows these numbers it would be good to see them in this blog. It would also be good to get these figures into the Kingston and national Newspapers and it would be good to get these figures to Michael Ignatieff.
When Michael visited Oakville he mentioned his disagreement with closing the prison farms and building the new concrete prisons but it was a fairly minor point.
Please Jim :
Read up on document dump on inter government communication introducing the census changes . I believe this is why citizens and opposition critics seem to be shadow boxing a lot of the time .
PMO / PCO is a $ 75 million machine focused to support the current P.M. . Harper has raised this to a new level called Message Event Proposal .
“An investigation by The Canadian Press revealed in June that MEPs are being used across the federal government to literally script words uttered by cabinet ministers and lowly backbenchers as well as screen media requests for interviews with public servants who have expert knowledge of government policy.”
Arresting middle class Canadians and keeping data banks full of banking info on little people . BUT propoganda over substance
Money laundering at casinos rampant, RCMP report says
By Chad Skelton, Postmedia News August 12, 2010
“Since 2003, FINTRAC (the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada) has sent several disclosure reports to the RCMP on suspicious transactions involving casinos throughout Canada, with amounts totalling over $40 million,” the 2009 report states.”
Sgt. Dave Gray, of the B.C. RCMP’s integrated proceeds of crime unit, acknowledged Wednesday that not a single person has been charged with money laundering at B.C.’s casinos in recent memory.
“If we had more resources, then we could perhaps set broader priorities or conduct more investigations,” he said. However, Gray said the lack of charges is also due to police focusing on more “target-rich” areas — such as currency seizures at the border
I agree.
Unfortunately, we can’t do everything all at once…but we surely can do a helluva lot better than we have been.