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Professor's blog posts spark backlash, prompt internal review at Mount Allison University

February 25, 2021

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Professor's blog posts spark backlash, prompt internal review at Mount Allison University

University condemns 'inappropriate' comments, students' union says it has received multiple complaints


Marie Sutherland · CBC News · Posted: Feb 23, 2021 4:24 PM AT

 


Mount Allison University said in a statement that it has received complaints about a faculty member's blog and that 'serious concerns have been expressed' about posts related to systemic racism, sexual violence, gender and colonization. (Submitted by Mount Allison )

Mount Allison University has launched an internal review after receiving complaints about an associate psychology professor's personal blog.

In a statement, the university said it has received complaints about a faculty member's blog and that "serious concerns have been expressed" about posts related to systemic racism, sexual violence, gender, and colonization.

"We neither support nor agree with the inappropriate comments that have been posted to this blog," the university said in its statement, which was posted Monday night on Facebook and emailed to faculty, staff and students.

"We recognize that comments such as these are hurtful to many people in our community and more widely."

The university said it has initiated its "internal review processes," and will be looking into the situation to determine next steps. 

It noted concerns have been raised by the Mount Allison Students' Union, the Black Students adviser and diversity educator, the Indigenous Affairs co-ordinator and the Indigenous Student Support Group, and said it would ensure that these issues "are addressed without delay."

The statement did not identify the professor or the blog.

 

Jonathan Ferguson, president of the Mount Allison Students' Union, said the union has received complaints about Azar's blog. (Tori Weldon/CBC News file photo)

Multiple complaints about blog, students' union says

However, Mount Allison Students' Union president Jonathan Ferguson told CBC News that the blog in question was that of Prof. Rima Azar, a health psychology professor at the university.

"Many students reached out to us yesterday morning about the blog," and complaints have continued to come in since then, he said.

"They were concerned about what this professor was saying throughout her blog … denying systemic racism in New Brunswick or in Canada, talking about BIPOC students in unkind ways, labelling Black Lives Matter a radical group —  stuff that doesn't run in line with the values of our institution at all."

Several Twitter posts have also cited concerns about Azar's blog, bambisafkar.ca, Ferguson said.

Ferguson said the students' union flagged the concerns to administration and will now stand back and "give them time to go through the process" of an internal review.

 

Mount Allison health psychology professor Rima Azar declined to comment on her personal blog posts or on the university's decision to launch an internal review of complaints about it. (Mount Allison University)

Reached by email on Tuesday morning, Azar said she was ill and was awaiting medical test results.

She declined to comment on the personal blog or on any measures the university is taking in response to complaints about it.

According to the Mount Allison website, Azar is also an adjunct professor at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick and at the Université de Moncton school of psychology. 

Asked what next steps and possible repercussions of the internal review would be, Mount Allison communications officer Aloma Jardine referred CBC News to the statement issued Monday evening.

"We will not be making further comment at this time," Jardine said.

Ferguson noted the students' union has no specific hoped-for outcome, other than to ensure its students feel represented and heard.

"A lot of people will rightfully bring up where freedom of speech falls into this, but I just want to say on behalf of the students of Mount Allison that freedom of speech doesn't mean amnesty from consequences," he said.

"She is free to say what she feels and students are free to express how upset they are with those comments."

About the Author

Marie Sutherland is a web writer with CBC New Brunswick based in Saint John. You can reach her at marie.sutherland@cbc.ca.

 

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Commenting is now closed for this story.
 
 
 
 
David Amos
Oh my my 
 
 
 
 

Ray Oliver
Our most pathetic generation yet 
 
 
 
 
 
Tony Mcalbey 
Some people are sensitive. If you don’t like the blog don’t read it.  





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Joseph Carrier 
They buried the lede so deep in this story it would take only a real editor to point it out...ahem 
 
 
 
 
 
 
View the profile of "Paul Miller"
Paul Miller 
so no freedom of speech allowed at our universities anymore either huh? I see a theme here in our culture. Only one opinion is allowed on every topic. Very helpful to know.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
View the profile of "Jay Forner"
Jay Forner 
And yet again people can't express their own views because of cancel culture. I wouldn't exactly say the prof is right but I wouldn't also say she's wrong either. What I will say is those are her views and that should be ok. The university tipped its hand and just proved what education is all about .....indoctrination. Their views and their views only are accepted and preached no matter who you are dumping thousands into an institution that gives you the final seal to say your now educated! Haha. It's unbelievable how it works the other way and is totally acceptable, like myself having high schools students attending a particular school and having this type of indoctrination shoved down throats. No matter where your children are being educated they need to learn to think freely for themselves and not have teachers or profs thinking for them. It could be unacceptable in some eyes this lady's behavior but it's also unacceptable for anyone to be silenced for voicing their opinions. It should work both ways.
 
 
 
 
 
 
View the profile of "Buford Wilson"
Buford Wilson 
Much ado about nothing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tim Simmons
Anyone else remember a time when we could voice an opinion without being vilified?
 
 
Mandel Rooney
Reply to @Tim Simmons: that time never existed. The problem is now adays everyone posts their opinions online and makes them widely known. In the past only your circle of friends/family/colleagues, who likely agreed with you, knew your opinion. Now everyone tweets the most idiotic thoughts they have and expect others not to express their opinions.
 
 
Kay McLeod 
Reply to @Mandel Rooney: I don't think that's true. When I was in university actual critical thinking WAS encouraged. I was taken as a child to 'Speakers Corner' in London where people got on soapboxes and spouted whatever they believed in. The society I was raised in represented to me that the considering of every idea was the healthiest way for a society to move forward. We've abandoned as a society the model that we should defend everyone's right to have their own ideas, no matter how wacky, as the foundation of a healthy democracy and that's disastrous. Social media just makes that worse. It's deeply dangerous for a democracy to drop the standard of "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ali Kostova 
No hate. Defamation. Libel. Slander. So, no illegality. Just someone feeling offended for an expression contrary their own. So now we need to ‘cancel’ this person for the temerity of expressing an opinion.
 
 
Paul Bolton 
Reply to @Asterlab Inc.: No, I think some people are vastly over represented by the news media, and use it at every turn. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Laura Smith
I wonder if the best practice is to yield to these students opinions on what should be given as a punishment ? Maybe they are relying on their decades of experience in the real world. Maybe.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justin Gunther
The Legault government is going after the going after of speech. Perhaps the Higgs government should follow suit.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Parker  
We hope Rima Azar can defend her rights to free speech, that the Universities internal investigation will not lead to another example of the inquisition of Lindsey Sheppard at the University of Wilfred Laurier in Waterloo, Ontario. That was proven to be a very egregious and defaming act in the annals of University history in Canada
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Murray Gelatino  
"Reached by email on Tuesday morning, Azar said she was ill and was awaiting medical test results."

Hmm.
 

Murray Gelatino 
In all probability the experiment was a success or a failure?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tim Apple 
I'm really not convinced that it's a university's business to be holding an 'internal review' over faculty members' external lifestyle choices - unpopularity is not a crime. I read the prof's "offensive" blog posts. Hardly a clarion call to violence and oppression... just many social-themed questions. Although some, like 'What if a First Nations person dreams only of working in the Alberta tar sands?' only left me scratching my noggin.
The subsequent doxxing and cancel-culture orthodoxy is a whole other, sinister issue. Don't know what she teaches - but I'll bet she's seen the writing on the wall. Hope she doesn't have to fear for her safety - that would be a brutal irony.
 
 
Justin Gunther
Reply to @Tim Apple: Not convinced? This whole woke culture apparatus targeting certain groups over others with extreme and asinine measures is an affront to common sense and polite society.
 
 
Justin Gunther
Reply to @Justin Gunther: Polite society was a poor pairing of words. All I mean is this stuff is making it hard for all of us to get along more than it's actually solving any real problems.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cindy Cooper  
Woke Willies ruin everything.
 
 
 
 
 
Justin Gunther
Who wants UNB to get their 10 mil in emergency funding, or whatever it is they're looking for? Not me.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John MacKenzie
The professional victims are going to run her out of town for wrong-think. Here we go!
 
 

Pete Kropotkin
Reply to @John MacKenzie: I'm sure some right wing think tank will hire her soon enough.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emery Hyslop-Margison
So now professors have to tow the line with institutional “values”. Mark this as the end of education. It’s indoctrination and bend the knee or bust. What a joke!
 
 
Jack Dawkins
Reply to @Emery Hyslop-Margison: It's happening all over the universities, I want my kids views challenged to see if they stand after criticism, not have them live in echo chambers of weak ideas.
When I see the foot steps of immigration pointing away from North America I will concede we aren't improving as a culture.
 
 

Pete Kropotkin 
Reply to @Emery Hyslop-Margison: They stopped hiring full-time professors decades ago ... no tenure means your just an employee. Adjunct professor means she on a limited contract basically.
 
 
Emery Hyslop-Margison
Reply to @Jack Dawkins: What’s especially sad is that those who know better are complicit for their own personal political interest.
 
 
Jack Dawkins
Reply to @Emery Hyslop-Margison: or to scared to speak because outrage/cancel culture will take their jobs. Admittedly I haven't seen the posts mentioned; but, I can assume since it came from the student union side of things(were activists generally congregate) I would be stunned if the blog bother the majority of people.

Get the students to read The Patristic Mind by Gad Saad and White Fragility by Robin De'angelo and come up with their own views on polarizing subjects like Systematic Racism 
 
 
Emery Hyslop-Margison
Reply to @Jack Dawkins: When these terms become orthodoxy we should be suspicious because they are an ideological distraction from the real policies that cause social stratification such as globalization.
 
 
Graham McCormack 
Reply to @Emery Hyslop-Margison: The article didn't say anything about towing the line. It said there was an internal review.
 
 
Jake Devries
Reply to @Emery Hyslop-Margison: That ship sailed 5-6 years ago...
 
 
Emery Hyslop-Margison
Reply to @Jake Devries: That’s about the same time I retired from academics. The actual shift was gradual: it moved faculty from academic freedom to clerical proletariat labour. We’re definitely moving toward some kind of totalitarianism - the authorities seem to love the lockdowns and the destruction of mobility rights as well. There’s a steady erosion of individual freedom.
 
 

 

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Probe of professor's blog a form of cancel culture, free-speech group says

Group calls internal review an 'egregious violation' of academic freedom, urges Mount Allison to reconsider

 

Marie Sutherland · CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2021 7:00 AM AT

 

 

Mount Allison University has launched an internal review after complaints about the personal blog of health psychology professor Rima Azar. (Brian Chisholm/CBC News file photo)

Mount Allison University's decision to launch an internal review following complaints about the personal blog of one of its professors is an "egregious" violation of academic freedom, a group dedicated to the protection of free speech and scholarship says.

Earlier this week, Mount Allison announced it was conducting an internal review after receiving complaints about an associate psychology professor's blog.

In a statement, the university said "serious concerns have been expressed" about posts related to systemic racism, sexual violence, gender, and colonization.

"We neither support nor agree with the inappropriate comments that have been posted to this blog," the university said.

On Wednesday, the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship rallied to the professor's defence.

The society, a group of Canadian professors headed by philosophy professor Mark Mercer, sent a letter urging Mount Allison to rethink its decision.

"The professor alluded to in the tweet is Rima Azar, associate professor of health psychology, and the comments Dr. Azar posted on her blog "Bambi's Afkar" concern matters of public and academic importance, such as freedom of expression, university policies, the existence of systemic racism in Canada and teaching in a multi-cultural society," the group said in a letter to Mount Allison.

"SAFS is concerned that Mount Allison's [statement] violates Dr. Azar's academic freedom and will function to suppress discussion and inquiry" at the university. 


Mark Mercer, president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, says Mount Allison has "no legitimate reason" to look into Azar's postings. (Submitted by Mark Mercer)

In an interview, Mercer said Mount Allison has "no legitimate reason" to look into Azar's postings, and said he sees its decision to do so as a response to public pressure.

"It's an expression of cancel culture and it perpetuates cancel culture," Mercer said. "As soon as the investigation is called, that's an act of cancelling."

Azar declined to comment on the internal review or on the society's response.

Mount Allison acknowledged Friday that it has received the letter, but did not respond to questions about whether it will continue with the review.

"We have no further comments at this time," communications officer Aloma Jardine said in an email.

Mercer said he has not heard back from Mount Allison yet, but that he is hopeful the university will change its position and use the controversy as a "teachable moment."

"When we're confronted with positions that we think are false or dangerous, we should analyze them, discuss the arguments for and against," not shut them down, he said. 

Mount Allison University should be using the controversy around the complaints as a teachable moment about the academic values of free speech and discussion, Mercer said. (Submitted by Mount Allison )

No topics should be off-limits, Mercer says

Earlier this week, Jonathan Ferguson, president of Mount Allison Students' Union, said it received multiple complaints about Azar's blog.

The complaints were not about any one post specifically, he said, but rather about "what this professor was saying throughout her blog … denying systemic racism in New Brunswick or in Canada, talking about BIPOC students in unkind ways, labelling Black Lives Matter a radical group —  stuff that doesn't run in line with the values of our institution at all."

Husoni Raymond, a St. Thomas University graduate who was mentioned in Azar's blog, tweeted: "So one Black person wins an award and that means there's no racism? Disappointing to see a professor who's still ignorant to what racism is and will be using her power within the institution to uphold racists ideologies. Racism IS in Canada. Racism IS in NB."

Raymond was responding to a post by Azar in which she said, in part:

"NB is NOT racist. Canada is NOT racist. We do not have 'systemic' racism or 'systemic' discrimination. We just have systemic naivety because we are a young country and because we want to save the world.

"Oh, one quick question to Mr. Husoni Raymond: Upon your graduation from St. Thomas University, you have been named the 2020 recipient of the Tom McCann Memorial Trophy for your 'strong leadership and character' ...

"If NB is as racist as you are claiming, would one of its prestigious universities be honouring you like that?"

Mercer said no topics should be off-limits.

"The point of freedom of expression on campus is to remove impediments from discussion ... so that people can say what's on their mind," he said.

"So when a university says it doesn't support this view, then that's the institution saying there's a party line. And then when they say they're investigating, then they're saying there are some things that cannot be said."

About the Author

Marie Sutherland is a web writer with CBC New Brunswick based in Saint John. You can reach her at marie.sutherland@cbc.ca.

  

 

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Marguerite Deschamps
- Freedom of expression is just an illusion. It never existed and never will be. Sooner or later it will end up catching up to you. One would be better advised to exercise his right to remain silent.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
James Risdon 
It would be nice if the same kind of respect for freedom of speech existed among journalists in the mass media. As a journalist, I have been raked over the coals by others in media for things which I posted on my social media and own website.

I don't recall there being any hue and cry about respecting my freedom of speech at the time from any journalists, despite the fact that I had been a director of the Canadian Association of Journalists, won journalism awards and worked in the media for decades.

It seems to me like the call to respect freedom of speech only applies in Canada to those with whom the activists agree.















 
Al Clark
Tried to make a post about what free speechers really want. Hilariously it didnt pass.....
 
 
Rose Kins 
Reply to @Al Clark: sorry al, I guess the tax payer funded media only allows responses that flow with the “story “. Same thing happens to me. I’m actually surprised a few of mine made it today :)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Matt Steele
Unfortunately , free speech and thought is under attack in Canada , and the " cancel culture " is being used to silence people who do not agree with every thing that they are being fed . Canada is going down a dangerous road ; and things seem to be getting worse . Luckily Canadians can still use the ballot box to save the country , so let your voices be heard on election day !
 
 
JOhn D Bond 
Reply to @Matt Steele: Well said.
 
 
David Peters
Reply to @Matt Steele:
Unfortunately, the only choice at the ballot box is for the welfare/warfare state, imo. There is no smaller gov't, lower taxes and regulations, bring the troops home and stop supporting all the war starting sanctions option.
 
 
Holly Mossing 
Reply to @Matt Steele: Freedom of speech, action and thought do not provide a free pass from their consequences. Bambi won’t see any consequences from her blog, but Mt. A. has every right (and obligation) to review for themselves to ensure it is not dangerous or inciting hatred (it’s not, it’s just immature and self-serving.)
 
 
Tim Simmons 
Reply to @Matt Steele: It's not just Canada; it's western culture in general. And voting is no help since 67% of us told JT to hit the road in the last election. As it stands, no politician will stand up to the social justice crowd to avoid being treated like Azar. It's why stuff like this happens.
 
 
Safa Rani
Reply to @Matt Steele: who is worth picking? Dumb, dumber, dumbest, green mess, or the Bloc if you live in QC? Vote by your favorite colour?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emery Hyslop-Margison
Congrats to Dr. Mercer for standing up against cancel culture. The actual concern here is that universities, driven by political expediency and cultural acceptance, are undermining their most fundamental mission: that is, the promotion and protection of debate on potentially controversial subjects. Surely even the most hardened administrative technocrats at Mt. Allison can appreciate the danger in their actions.
 
 
Johnny Jakobs
Reply to @Emery Hyslop-Margison: all for financial gain 
 
 
Safa Rani
Reply to @Johnny Jakobs: I don’t think their International Student cash cows give one care about Canada or the existence of systemic bias. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Emery Hyslop-Margison

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Emery Hyslop-Margison (born 1957) is a Canadian professor of education, and an author of six books and numerous scholarly articles. He held a Canada Research Chair with a focus on democratic learning in 2005–2007.

Hyslop-Margison received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in 2001. His dissertation argued for the liberalization of vocational and career education based on the concern that these programs indoctrinated students into a neo-liberal mindset (Hyslop-Margison, 2005). Much of his work challenges contemporary neo-liberal values that situate economic objectives as the sole purpose of education (Hyslop-Margison, 2007).

Hyslop-Margison's most recent scholarship argues that neo-liberalism is no longer sustained through ideological manipulation, but increasingly through the use of brute force, or the repressive state apparatus (Althusser, 1971). This shift is manifested, in part, through the international trend toward the election of right wing political parties, including the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President. 

 

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Judith holds a B.Sc. Hons. degree in psychology from Acadia University and a B.Ed. (with a concentration in special education) from the University of New Brunswick. She earned an M.A. in the psychology of education from Simon Fraser University, then completed a Ph.D. at McGill University. Her specialization is school and applied child psychology.


Judith worked as a district school psychologist for many years in Fredericton and Oromocto before moving to private practice. While she undertakes assessments primarily at her office in New Maryland, she also travels to various First Nations communities in New Brunswick to provide psychoeducational services to students and families. Many of the assessments have been supported by Jordan’s Principle. 


Judith also acts as a consultant for the Office of First Nation Education in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. She has participated in many professional development sessions discussing the impact of multi-generational trauma in First Nations communities. 


Judith is a licensed member of the College of Psychologists of New Brunswick (CPNB), a member of the New Brunswick Association of School Psychologists, and is affiliated with the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).

 

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Mark Mercer

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Mark Mercer

Mark Mercer received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1991 and began teaching in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in September 1999. He was chair of the philosophy department from 2010 to 2019. He works mainly in philosophy of mind and ethics.

Dr Mercer’s current interests in the philosophy of mind concern the nature of mental states and the question how beliefs and desires can be causes and effects.

In ethics, one of his projects has to do with the problem why care to promote the good or to do the right thing; another has to do with the claim that while we value some things intrinsically, nothing is intrinsically valuable.

Since arriving in Halifax, Dr Mercer has developed a passion for ancient Greek philosophy. He likes each year to teach at least one course on the pre-Socratics, Plato, or Hellenistic philosophy.

Dr Mercer is a committed civil libertarian and a champion of liberal education and academic freedom.

The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS) is a national group of academics and others who support academic freedom and the merit principle in higher education. Dr Mercer became a member of SAFS in 2007 and was elected president in 2015.

 

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How to improve your BS detector


Welcome to the web version of Need to Know: Science & Insight, a new form of personal journalism that looks at what we Need-to-Know at this time of pandemic, existential crisis of climate change and unravelling of nature’s life supports. Learn more.


Dear Friends: We’re in the middle of a storm of lies, distortions and misinformation. It’s going to get worse when it comes to vaccines, climate change, alternative energy, and other solutions to bring about a transition to a sustainable, zero-carbon future.

I’ve been navigating through this mire for 25 years, including the recent Texas blackout. A subscriber prompted me to share with you some Need-to-Know tools I use to keep my BS detector robust and well tuned. Please share any of your tips in the comments.

Recently a subscriber asked me about an “intriguing and somewhat disturbing” video from Prager University about renewable energy. 

That set my BS detector tingling.

Anything from PragerU is disturbing since it’s a right-wing YouTube propaganda channel pretending to provide online education. And of course it’s not an accredited university.

Prager has pumped out over 650 short videos since 2011 — often featuring professional liars from Fox News such as Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson.

The Prager videos are slick, with a white male in a suit very confidently explaining something in a I-know-more-than-you tone. In this case how 100% renewable energy is impossible, as well as being an expensive, environmental disaster. 

In the video Prager expert Mark Mills conveniently forgets to mention climate change or the enormous environmental impact of coal, gas and oil.  

Turns out Mills is a big investor in the oil & gas industries and is with the free-market think tank the Manhattan Institute (MI). They are well-funded by the fossil fuel companies like Exxon and Koch Industries and known for its efforts to gut environmental regulations, cut welfare spending (except corporate), and lobby for tax breaks. 

Mills’ has no particular expertise in energy or science, other than an undergraduate degree. That hasn’t stopped him from posing as an energy expert to attack renewables in videos and opinion articles (op eds). 

First find out who is behind the curtain

I researched this before even looking at the content of Mills’ video. The Need-to-Know for me is to first find out who is behind the curtain because good propaganda is convincing and contains some accurate, factual information. It takes expertise or a lot of investigation to untangle the distortions, half-truths and cherry-picked data.

Second find out if they have an agenda

So before reading or listening to someone I want to know if they have any expertise, if they have a political agenda or a vested interest in the topic. Then I can decide if I want to listen to what they have to say.

I used two primary tools from my BS detector kit in this case: 

Sourcewatch identifies who is behind and who funds various think tanks, institutes and other organizations. They document their research and I’ve found them to be reliable. 

DeSmogBlog maintains an extensive database of both individuals and organizations who try to confuse the public and stall action on climate change. International in scope. There are far more than you think — I use the search function a lot.

Texas blackout’s perfect storm of misinformation 

Last week there was a blizzard of lies claiming that the massive power blackout in Texas was caused by frozen wind turbines. A Need-to-Know is there are wind turbines in Antarctica generating electricity for US and New Zealand research bases. And it also gets pretty cold in Alberta where wind turbines have been spinning away since 1993.

During that record-cold in Texas some turbines didn’t work because someone failed to ensure they were winterized. Practically every major news outlet in the US, as well as independent fact-checkers, have debunked the big lie that millions of Texans were without heat and power because renewables are no good.

Unsurprisingly Fox News blamed wind turbines for the blackout 128 times over two days according to MediaMatters.

Oily quid pro quo

Ted Cruz and other Republican politicians from Texas who blamed wind turbines also happen to get buckets of cash from the oil and gas industry. In fact Cruz and two others pocketed $1.1 million in the 2020 election cycle according to an investigation. And Cruz wasn’t even up for re-election. 

If you read that article I linked to you’ll also see Texas Governor Greg Abbott received $1.6 million last year from one oil company CEO, and nearly as much again from some other Texas oil tycoons.

Even in Canada know-nothing pundits like Rex Murphy used the Texas blackout as an excuse to deny climate change for the zillionth time and to claim renewables are a waste time. Murphy has received buckets of cash from the fossil fuel industry, a fact that is almost never disclosed in the newspapers, websites, TV programs where he appears.

No expertise, a political agenda and vested financial interest — So why read it?

Murphy has no expertise in energy or science but he does have a clear vested interest and a political agenda as a climate denier. His expertise is as a clever, engaging and supremely confident propagandist. In other words, a snake-oil salesmen loudly claiming environmentalists with their vested interests in clean air and a stable climate are the real snake-oil merchants.

The Texas blackout became the ‘perfect storm’ to attack clean, low-cost renewable energy to prevent it from kicking fossil fuels to the curb. And the attack has been loud and sustained with the new Biden administration’s intent on serious actions to reduce US carbon emissions. 

The shock doctrine at work 

The attack was also intended to distract from the real causes —climate change-fueled extreme weather and failure to maintain Texas’ electricity infrastructure — which is primarily gas.

Author and activist Naomi Klein has documented how this kind of disaster is often used to push "unpopular free-market policies that tend to enrich elites at everyone else’s expense”. Klein explains how this “shock doctrine” works in a new op ed

The Texas disaster is already paying off. “Obviously, this week is like hitting the jackpot,” boasted the CEO of Comstock Resources, a shale gas drilling company as gas prices skyrocketed and households faced electricity bills over $16,000 according to the Intercept and New York Times. 

We all Need-to-Know that the lies, distortions and misinformation about climate change, wind and solar energy, as well as electric vehicles are going to escalate as the US and the rest of the world make the transition to low-carbon living. There will be loud and sustained efforts to sow doubt and confusion to slow and delay this absolutely essential transition to protect our future.

However we’ve already had two decades of delay. There’s no time for debate. We need to rush, to make a rapid transition knowing there will be mistakes along the way. 


Tools to reinforce your own BS detector

No tool is perfect. I use multiple ones to look behind the curtain and debunk false claims.

The big picture tool

Merchants of Doubt: A documentary film and a book on the tobacco industry roots and how the whole climate denial industry operates. I reviewed the film for The Guardian a few years back. 

The how-to handbook tool

The Debunking Handbook 2020 from George Mason University. It’s a 12 page guide on how-to debunk misinformation by 22 academics — yep misinformation and propaganda is so persuasive today it’s become an academic discipline

Sharpen your BS detection instincts tool

The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation. It’s a free app and fun to use while challenging. Great even for kids.

The best fact checker tools

FactCheck.org — US focused but excellent for coronavirus and Facebook misinformation

Politifact –  rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.  Won the Pulitzer Prize. 

AFP Fact Check – fact check fake photos and videos as well. This is the best for non-USA fact checks.

Snopes — one of the first — covers a huge range of topics from Nigerian email scams to latest facebook lies

Media watchdog tools

Climate Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage. Helps readers know which news to trust.  [Coverage is thin - can’t keep up with deluge]

MediaMatters. This is a liberal site with ties to US Democrats for monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. Media. I use them occasionally and it helps to be aware of their bias. 

Media Bias / Fact Check  — A database that assess bias and accuracy of over 3600 media sources. 


A final thought: Memes are not the best way to get your news. Memes have been hi-jacked too. For example iFunny memes, a meme-sharing app from Russia, is chock-full of misleading claims.

Until next time, stay safe

Stephen

 

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Kim Kierans

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Kim Kierans teaches Media and Society, Professional Journalism Environment and Exemplars in Contemporary Journalism. She joined the school of journalism in 1997 after 30 years working for newspapers and the C.B.C. as a reporter, news editor, associate producer and presenter.

She is visiting professor in the Communication Department at the Asian Center for Journalism at Ateneo de Manila University where she has developed online and blended courses and taught in the MJ program for 15 years. She has conducted training in Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Russia. She is co-author of Asia’s Media Innovators Vol.2 (2010) and co-editor of The New Journalist: Roles, Skills, and Critical Thinking (2010).

Kierans is vice-chairperson of the federal Independent Advisory Board on Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures. She is former King’s vice-president (2010-2017) and director of the School of Journalism (2003-2010).

She has an honours degree in classics from King’s/Dalhousie and a MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from St. Mary’s University. Her research interests include community media, concentration of media ownership and the pedagogy of online learning.

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"University of Kings College journalism professor Kim Kierans said newspaper companies have been 'bleeding red ink' from lack of advertising, even more so since the pandemic.

Kierans is glad to hear the BNI memo says reporters will still be working and able to tell their stories in those communities.

She pointed out that Nova Scotia's Saltwire Network of Newspapers went further than BNI, laying off 240 staff for 12 weeks.

But the closing of local newspaper offices, she said, will definitely leave a hole in those communities.  

 "The newspaper is the town square," Kierans said. "People drop in. They pick up papers there, they drop off advertising there, and you have a sense of exchange of ideas. People talking to one another."

 

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David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise


David Amos

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Reply to @David Amos: Trust that I am not surprised

Methinks the Irving Clan, their buddies Premier Higgy, Mayor Marc Thorne and their many cohorts must recall Professor Kim Kierans copying some words the Kings County Record had published about the reasons why I was running in the election of the 38th Parliament them posting her opinion of me in a Halifax newsrag in June of 2004 N'esy Pas?


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Reply to @David Amos: BINGO

 

Methinks Madame Kierans or anyone else can review her words on 21 of this old file of mine N'esy Pas?

 

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Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Brunswick News to close community newspaper offices across province

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Replying to @alllibertynews and 49 others
Methinks many folks are just as disgusted at the Fake News as I have been for years but this article takes the cake locally N'esy Pas?



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Brunswick News to close community newspaper offices across province

Employees will work from home, says BNI memo


Connell Smith, Gail Harding · CBC News · Posted: May 26, 2020 5:14 PM AT



BNI vice-president Jamie Irving issued the internal memo Monday. (Gabrielle Fahmy/CBC)

Community newspapers across New Brunswick are losing their offices, many of them in the heart of their small cities and towns, after a decision shared with staff this week by Brunswick News Inc.

In an internal memo issued Monday, BNI vice-president Jamie Irving told staff the offices would be closed permanently and employees would work from home.

The offices to close are home to the Kings County Record in Sussex, the Miramichi Leader, the Campbellton Tribune, the Northern Light in Bathurst, the Bugle Observer in Woodstock, and the Victoria Star and Cataracte newspapers in Grand Falls. BNI offices in Richibucto, Edmundston and St. Stephen will also close.

Sussex Mayor Marc Thorne of Sussex called it a "sad day" for every community affected.


Sussex Mayor Marc Thorne: 'I think it's just a terrible thing.' (Gary Moore, CBC)

"I think it's just a terrible thing," Thorne said Tuesday. "BNI may feel that nothing's been lost, that they're still going to cover the communities, but I can promise you that's not the case. If you don't have people living and working in your community and building relationships, you don't have the same quality of paper at all."

The newspaper company will keep the locations of its three daily papers open, although the Telegraph-Journal in Saint John and the Daily Gleaner in Fredericton had already moved from the buildings they'd occupied for decades into less central properties.

The Moncton Times & Transcript, where BNI prints its daily and community newspapers, remains on Main Street.



An internal memo from Brunswick News vice president Jamie Irving advises staff the offices of nine weekly newspapers would close permanently and staff would continue working from home. (CBC)

Emails and calls by CBC News to BNI publisher Mike Powers and editor-in-chief Jackson Doughart were not returned.

As with many businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, BNI staff have been working from home as a safety measure.

Madeleine Leclerc, the former editor of the Cateracte and Victoria Star, said the writing was on the wall three years ago when she left the company.

The reporters were being pressed to focus less on very local stories and to do more that would be of interest to people around the province who read the Telegraph-Journal.

Fears for local news

"I hope that our weeklies are not going to be forgotten or passed over for the provincial edition," Leclerc said. "That's what I hope. And if they do cover, then it gets printed in the TJ, I hope it's not buried on the back page."

It is not clear from the BNI memo if the weekly papers will continue to produce print editions. Production of the English-language daily and weeklies is already centralized in Saint John.

While the office closures are disappointing news, David Cadogan, former owner of several weeklies, including the Miramchi Leader and Kings County Record, said COVID-19 was likely the last straw for the newspaper chain.

"I'm frankly very, very sad," Cadogan said. "I certainly don't blame Brunswick News. These are just the absolute doomsday times for newspapers."

Pandemic would have worsened problems

Cadogan said the closure of businesses during the pandemic would have hurt  the advertising revenue that helps keep offices open and staff employed.

"It's a terrible, terrible time to be in the newspaper business, so I understand what they are up against and I understand the necessity for what they are doing."

Cadogan said he believes that even this is a just a stop-gap step for the newspapers as people have known them for many years.

"They are essentially on the way out," he said, adding this is happening all across Canada and the United States.

A 'champion' for a community

He believes it is a huge loss for communities, who need a "healthy independent newspaper to champion for the community and stick up for its interests, work its politicians and discover any bad behaviour that's taking place in the government or the public."

"You know the community needs a champion and someone to stick up for the citizens, their readers."
Cadogan questions who will do that when community newspapers close completely.

"If the people will not support a newspaper — advertisers and citizens — they're going. And I'm not blaming the people for that because all the other things working against the newspapers are making it pretty well impossible for them to exist as we knew them."

University of Kings College journalism professor Kim Kierans said newspaper companies have been 'bleeding red ink' from lack of advertising, even more so since the pandemic.

Kierans is glad to hear the BNI memo says reporters will still be working and able to tell their stories in those communities.

She pointed out that Nova Scotia's Saltwire Network of Newspapers went further than BNI, laying off 240 staff for 12 weeks.

But the closing of local newspaper offices, she said, will definitely leave a hole in those communities.
 "The newspaper is the town square," Kierans said. "People drop in. They pick up papers there, they drop off advertising there, and you have a sense of exchange of ideas. People talking to one another."






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David Amos
Methinks many folks are just as disgusted at the Fake News as I have been for years but this article takes the cake locally N'esy Pas?









David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise


David Amos
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Reply to @David Amos: Trust that I am not surprised

Methinks the Irving Clan, their buddies Premier Higgy, Mayor Marc Thorne and their many cohorts must recall Professor Kim Kierans copying some words the Kings County Record had published about the reasons why I was running in the election of the 38th Parliament them posting her opinion of me in a Halifax newsrag in June of 2004 N'esy Pas?


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: BINGO

















Dennis Atchison
This is a key reason (amongst many) why I created The Dennis Report in 2013 and carry on with today (see Facebook, Youtube or website). To offer in-depth, authentic and local/provincial stories and conversations on New Brunswick. We have no place to tell and share what is happening in our province, and all the good things we do. Please watch.


David Amos 
Reply to @Dennis Atchison: Yea Right Methinks you should admit to yourself that everybody knows you act only in support of the Fake Left Nesy Pas? 


 













Graeme Duke-Gibbs
The internet killed newspapers. Anyone can be a reporter now. Just film people or things and put them on facebook. Now YOU are a reporter!! This is what the internet was supposed to do, bring democracy to reporting. So get out there people and find interesting stuff and post it.


JoeBrown
Reply to @Graeme Duke-Gibbs: Amateurs post uninteresting or non factual "stuff" because they don't have any training.


David Amos
Reply to @JoeBrown: I strongly disagree 
 
 













Allan J Whitney
Tough time to be in the fake news business.


David Amos 
Reply to @Allan J Whitney: Yup 













 
Peter demerchant
Its surprising to me people still read the Brunswick News rags. I cancelled my subscription a couple years ago after many years and it was a great move. Nothing more than a daily dose of propaganda and one family's opinion on how nb should look. Imagine if nb ' ers had a objective honest news paper to read each day, we haven't had that in decades.


Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Peter demerchant: Propaganda, unlike on here lol.


JoeBrown
Reply to @Peter demerchant: Subjective claims.


David Amos
Reply to @Peter demerchant: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir 
 
 
 
 








 
Jack Robins
The Federal government should stop subsidizing the racket!
 

James Risdon
Reply to @Jack Robins: I agree. There should be no bailouts for media companies.


Ben Haroldson
Reply to @James Risdon: Keep this site running though, right? No gov't money in this site lol.


David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Good Point 















 
Jos Allaire
Newspapers are going the way of this old Mac Wiseman song: ♫ ♫ ♫


James Risdon
Reply to @Jos Allaire: I find it odd that you or anyone else would celebrate the loss of jobs and community newspapers in New Brunswick.

What possible reason could you have for being happy about the demise of community newspapers?



Jos Allaire 
Reply to @James Risdon: Just as I feel bad for the blacksmith and the buggy builders before. But you cannot stop progress... although the fossil fuel industry is trying hard to.


David Amos 
Reply to @Jos Allaire: I concur 















 
James Risdon
I am a fluently-bilingual journalist in Bathurst with more than 25 years of experience as a reporter and editor and I have studied business administration in college.
Any business and community leaders in Bathurst who want to have a home-grown newspaper here to rival what is left of The Northern Light are welcome to contact me and back me financially to open a new community newspaper in our city.
When I first moved to Bathurst back in 2001, The Northern Light had an editorial staff of four and was thicker than the Telegraph-Journal is now. It was also printed right here in Bathurst.
The printing presses were carted away. The Northern Light building was destroyed. The editorial staff was cut and then cut again. Now, even the rented offices of The Northern Light are disappearing.
Do you want a community newspaper in Bathurst? Do you think you deserve one, that Bathurst is big enough and has enough readers and businesses to support one?
If you the answers to those questions is "Yes", then I would be happy to work with you to help make that happen.


James Risdon
Reply to @Jos Allaire: Pourquoi?

Est-ce que vous pensez qu'il n'y plus rien à discuter dans notre société ou que tous les nouvelles importantes sont déjà transmises dans les médias que nous avons?

Moi, je crois qu’une dialogue plus approfondi sur les enjeux importants dans notre société est quelque chose qui nous manque.

Nous nous devons d’être mieux informés.



Jos Allaire
Reply to @James Risdon: Commencez quelque chose en ligne.


James Risdon 
Reply to @Jos Allaire: Ca, ca ne réponds pas la question.


Lou Bell
Reply to @James Risdon: Bathurst is a failing community , as is much of the North Shore . Unfortunately for them the Liberals are not in office to throw away good money to another failing community .


Lou Bell  
Reply to @James Risdon: Liberal critic Roger Melanson could probably come up with some underhanded , undisclosed way to get the monies for a paper .


David Amos
Reply to @Jos Allaire: Well put


Jos Allaire
Reply to @Lou Bell: The meme faux tea met la croix sue tooth New Brunswick, money tchie pay.? 
 
 
Jos Allaire
Reply to @James Risdon: Fini le temps des gazettes!  
















Mac Isaac
All those dead and buried newspapermen & women must be rolling in their graves with this announcement. Community newspapers, big or small, contributed mightily to the societies in which they existed...and will be missed as mightily!


James Risdon 
Reply to @Mac Isaac: I am a newspaperman. If some business and community leaders want to back me, I'll start a newspaper in Bathurst.


Graeme Duke-Gibbs
Reply to @Mac Isaac: it all ended the day the internet was created. Now everyone, and I mean everyone can be a reporter, just look at that guy who asked that girl to put her dog on a leash! Bam, he is now a reporter. Or that guy in N.S. who did that flooding thing. BAM, another reporter and on and on. If you want to get the news out just walk in town and film interesting stuff or people and put it on facebook! BAM, NOW you are a reporter!!


Mac Isaac
Reply to @Graeme Duke-Gibbs: Journalism is NOT exactly the same as "reporting". Journalists will actually delve into a subject whereas what you're referring to as "BAM, another reporter" is nothing more or less than doing a video which can be manipulated in whatever way that person or another wishes. Journalists actually write! A long time ago I knew a man who created a community newspaper which was quite a good newspaper. It didn't pretend to have as an objective, a Pulitzer but it reported on the weekly happenings in that town and elsewhere in the area. Revenue paid for the staff, make-up and printing as well as distribution. Suddenly that was all gone because the local daily saw their revenue drop a little. This daily then went to all the advertisers and offered wider distribution at half the price charged by the weekly. We all know where this led! BUT, and this is important, the daily DIDN'T suddenly pull up stakes. It actually created another weekly which did much of what the first did; only better! This new weekly actually won awards for the stories it did. I daresay there's little to no community involvement in the kind of "reporting" to which you refer. If all you want is biased "reporting" you're in luck because that's what you're going to get...in spades! Unregulated "reporting" is about to become the norm when the only news you'll be able to access is online. Actual journalism, vis a vis in the local communities, is effectively dead. And that's incredibly sad for all of us; including those of us who get SOME of our information from online sources.


David Amos
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Reply to @Mac Isaac: Cry me a river


David Amos
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Reply to @Graeme Duke-Gibbs: Methinks Higgy's blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc proved that in 2006 when a judge acknowledged that bloggers are journalists It should not have been a small wonder when the Irving Clan had one of my blogger accounts and two email accounts illegally deleted 2 years later or the fact that the employee who bragged that he was the one who done it got fired not long after I published his email and one from his lawyer/wife/Green Party leader in other blogs N'esy Pas? 

 
David Amos
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Reply to @David Amos: BINGO

















valmond landry
the best newspaper in NB is ACADIE NOUVELLE good coverage good way to learn french
and good news coverage .
 

James Risdon
Reply to @valmond landry: Don't the Irvings have an ownership share in the printing side of that newspaper, Acadie Presse?


David Amos
Reply to @valmond landry: Dream On

 
Katelin Dean
Reply to @James Risdon:


Katelin Dean
Reply to @Katelin Dean: @james Risdon - They don't have any ownership of Acadie Presse, simply a contract to print it. No influence whatsoever on what goes inside. 









 
Janice small
Billionaire looking for bailouts..
 

Ray Oliver
Reply to @Janice small: Yeah cause that's their true bread winner in the game they own. Journalism.


David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Ray Oliver: Methinks its rather obvious that you work for them N'esy Pas?


David Amos
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Reply to @David Amos: BINGO













Donald Smith
They used to have a morning newspaper and an afternoon paper ? Their a day after it happens newspaper now.
 

Ray Bungay
Reply to @Donald Smith: Retro News or Classic News


James Risdon
Reply to @Donald Smith: That's because the printing of the newspaper takes time and they are still trying to cover breaking news as if theirs was the only news source in town.

The solution to this problem is for newspaper journalists to do investigative reporting and write features that are original and interesting and something you can't find anywhere else.



David Amos
Reply to @Donald Smith: Methinks many would agree that it is much worse than that N'esy Pas? 












 
Gary MacKay
I find it hard to understand that a communications company like this decided that the way to communicate a change in the way they are positioned in communities across the province would choose an email to staff to disseminate in what ever way the public wishes to believe has happened. I can appreciate that things have changed only it did not just happen with current events. There were better ways to do this and in my opinion it included communicating.
 

James Risdon
Reply to @Gary MacKay: You're assuming they care about how you and I and the rest of the public perceive this. I put to you that they probably don't because there's nothing anyone will do about it. Or, at least, that's what they are counting on.


David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Gary MacKay: Methinks everybody knows that a certain Irving media VP has Mental Health Issues Thats why he could not testify at a recent lawsuit against his company N'esy Pas? 

 
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @David Amos: BINGO
















David Guitard
Time to leave the old ways of doing business and move into the future. They can do just as much from home as they can from an office and they don't have to drive to work.
 

Douglas James
Reply to @David Guitard: It's no wonder newspapers are failing. People don't even understand the role they play in ensuring a vibrant community.


James Risdon 
Reply to @Douglas James: Amen.


David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Douglas James: Clearly you don't either 

 
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @David Amos: BINGO 










 

Justin Time 
need a "healthy independent newspaper to champion for the community and stick up for its interests, work its politicians and discover any bad behaviour that's taking place in the government or the public." True, but that's something Brunswick News is not. The papers are probably operating at a loss given the state of newspapers everywhere, but they continue to exist to try and steer public opinion and promote their own agenda. Just another tool that can be used to pressure politicians as well. I don't believe there exists an independent newspaper or news outlet anywhere. The last few months have only solidified that opinion.
 

John Smith
Reply to @Justin Time: Online news has become the only source to find the truth. BNI would not print any story that went against their interest. They fired a cartoonist because he would not do what he was told. These newspapers are no longer useful to BNI so they cut them off.


James Risdon
Reply to @John Smith: I'm a big fan of putting news online but you are sadly mistaken if you think that online news outlets are necessarily free of bias. If anything, I think bias in the media has grown a lot over the last couple of decades as media budgets have shrunk and politics has become ever more polarized.


David Amos
Reply to @John Smith: I concur 
 
 
 










Carlson MacKenzie
These papers haven't been a true community paper for years. Shortly after ownership came into the hands of the empire they evolved steadily into the advertisement polluted fluff that they are today.


James Risdon
Reply to @Carlson MacKenzie: Then invest in me and I'll start a true community newspaper.


David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @James Risdon: Yea Right


David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @David Amos: BINGO









Jeff LeBlanc
Sad but that's the way she goes. Also it's not like those papers were the epididmy of great journalism.

James Risdon
Reply to @Jeff LeBlanc: They used to be good community newspapers.


David Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: Long ago before your buddies in the Irving Clan bought them











mabel short
--so everyone...establish local news sheets in each community...

Donald Gallant
Reply to @mabel short:

Exactly. They complain about Irving.

Now he’s gone and they say what !



James Risdon
Reply to @mabel short: I am very happen to help any group of business and community leaders who wants to financially back the start-up of a true community newspaper in Bathurst.

I've put out the offer. If people take me up on it, it'll show they're serious about community news. If they don't, well, that will speak volumes about how they feel as well.



James Risdon
Reply to @James Risdon: happy


David Amos
Reply to @mabel short: Check out Facebook sometime


David Amos
Reply to @Donald Gallant: Tah Tah 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Blogger Who’s a Court-Approved Journalist

Many bloggers describe themselves as journalists. Last week Charles LeBlanc, a rooming house resident who lives on social assistance in Fredericton, New Brunswick, received a court decision establishing his journalistic credentials.

The confirmation came last Friday when a judge dismissed charges against Mr. LeBlanc of obstructing a police officer.

For the last two years, Mr. LeBlanc has been expressing his views on poverty and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder through a blog (oldmaison.blogspot.com). The idea, he said, came from benefactors who also provided him a small digital camera and a computer.

He declined to name the people, however, partly because at least one of them is employed by his favorite target: the many companies in New Brunswick controlled by the Irving family, which owns, according to a report on media ownership released by Canada’s Senate earlier this year, all the English-language daily newspapers in New Brunswick.

In June, Mr. LeBlanc went to Saint John, New Brunswick, to report on a protest against a meeting of chamber of commerce and board of trade members from Atlantic Canada and New England. Protestors stormed the meeting. Mr. LeBlanc was among those arrested.

Officers from the Saint John police testified they are regular readers of Mr. LeBlanc’s blog as part of their effort to gather intelligence on protests. William J. McCarroll, the provincial court judge who heard Mr. LeBlanc’s case, wrote in his decision that “Mr. LeBlanc is a ‘blogger.’ I’m sure that many, if not the majority of Saint Johners, are not familiar with this word.”

After reviewing videotape from a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation crew at the scene, sometimes in slow motion, the judge found that it contradicted testimony of the arresting officer, Sergeant John Parks.

“Members of the so called mainstream media were taking photographs and filming in the same area without interference from the police,” the judge wrote in a 20-page decision. “I believe it’s fair to say that the defendant was doing nothing wrong at the time he was approached by Sergeant Parks and placed under arrest. He was simply plying his trade, gathering photographs and information for his blog alongside other reporters.”

The judge also said that the police had no right to delete about 200 photos stored on Mr. LeBlanc’s camera.

Mr. LeBlanc said he had considered improving his skills by studying journalism at a local university. That is, until its journalism department accepted a donation of 1 million Canadian dollars from the Irvings. “Do you think I could study in a classroom listening to an Irving employee?” he asked. 

IAN AUSTEN

 
 

 

Blogger gives his views on the decision of Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paulette Garnett!


Mar 21, 2017
 
 
 
 

Judge says defamation law will eventually tame internet

Blogger Charles LeBlanc ordered to pay $2,925 in court costs to Fredericton as lawsuit dismissed

By Alan White, CBC News Posted: Mar 21, 2017 3:00 PM AT 

A lawsuit against the City of Fredericton by blogger Charles LeBlanc has been dismissed by the Court of Queen's Bench.
A lawsuit against the City of Fredericton by blogger Charles LeBlanc has been dismissed by the Court of Queen's Bench. (Redmond Shannon/CBC)

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paulette Garnett says defamation laws will eventually tame "the Wild West" of the internet.

Garnett makes the statement in her March 16 decision that dismissed a claim by blogger Charles LeBlanc that the City of Fredericton breached his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Acrimonious history


LeBlanc has an acrimonious history with the Fredericton Police Force that culminated in a charge of criminal libel under Section 301 of the Criminal Code being laid against LeBlanc for posting on his blog at various times that a Fredericton constable was a "fascist cop" and "sexual pervert."

LeBlanc also used a bullhorn outside the Fredericton police station to state the force employs "sexual perverts" and that the constable who issued him a ticket in 2011 for bicycling without a helmet in the city's downtown was a "faggot."

​New Brunswick's Attorney General eventually directed in 2012 that the criminal libel charge against LeBlanc be dropped because several other provinces had found Section 301 of the Criminal Code to be unconstitutional.

In November 2016, LeBlanc was informed by two members of the Edmundston Police Force that he was being investigated for defamatory libel under Section 300 of the Criminal Code following a complaint lodged with the Fredericton force.

Because of its contentious history with LeBlanc, the Fredericton force asked Edmundston police to investigate the complaint.

Child sexual exploitation cited


Meanwhile, LeBlanc initiated the lawsuit against the City of Fredericton and its police force because in the initial criminal libel investigation, Det. Robb Costello made an official request for information about LeBlanc's internet usage by stating he was carrying out a criminal investigation related to child sexual exploitation.

Following a two-day hearing last week, Garnett dismissed LeBlanc's lawsuit, noting that the city filed 17 affidavits in the case and LeBlanc did not file any, so the only evidence before the court was the city's.

"This evidence leads to the conclusion that the actions of the City were done in good faith, that the procedures were in keeping with the policies of the police department, that Mr. LeBlanc was treated in the same way as any other citizen in similar circumstances and that his [Charter] rights were not infringed," Garnett says in her ruling.​

Garnett ordered that LeBlanc pay $2,925 to the city in court costs.
'He believes that his right to free speech includes the right to defame others with impunity.' - Paulette Garnett, Court of Queen's Bench justice
However, in her decision Garnett comments on defamation in the internet age.

"Although Mr. LeBlanc clings to his rights under the Charter, it does not appear that he has any concern for the rights of others," Garnett writes. "He believes that his right to free speech includes the right to defame others with impunity.

"One commentator has compared the internet to the Wild West and although the common-law action for defamation may take time to tame it, it will eventually do so. Those who carelessly or viciously attack their neighbours should beware of the Lone Ranger."


To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.

By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Comments are welcome while open. We reserve the right to close comments at any time.


   
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 Frank Johnston
Frank Johnston
Charles is that irascible "gadfly" essential to the health of the state.
 
 



Rod McLeod
Rod McLeod
Content disabled.
This guy again? For someone who complains about KGB style policing he sure illustrates a good case for it.
 
 
 
 

 


Matt Steele  
Matt Steele
When you look at all the incidents involving the Fredericton City Police and Mr. LeBlanc ; then it is obvious that the police has abused its authority on several occasions when dealing with Mr. LeBlanc . This includes such instances as raiding his home , and seizing his computer equipment ; petty charges such as riding a bicycle without a helmet , etc . As this current case proves , it is difficult for a man like Mr. LeBlanc who has limited funds to fight the City of Fredericton who is funded by the taxpayers . It is truly an injustice .


Graham McCormack   
Graham McCormack
@Matt Steele Oh please! This was all his making and as much I was would like to think this will make him go away, I don't see that really happening.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled.

@Matt Steele Ask yourself an obvious question. If you go to Chucky's Leblanc"s blog you will see that last evening he was reading this CBC article and no doubt all the comments as well. I would bet dimes to dollars all the cops and politicians in Fredericton are reading them too.

If Chucky were truly an honest dude then why does he not defend himself in this comment section instead of allowing people like you to comment on his behalf in his defense?

After all you and Chucky cannot deny that this domain controlled by the Crown is supported by taxpayers who also pay for Chucky's welfare and health care. I know why Chucky does not speak up in a public domain which he can do for free. It quite simply is because he cannot control the comment section and delete his responses if he becomes embarrassed by his own published words. More importantly Chucky cannot block folks he calls "Coward Jerk faces" because in fact that is just exactly what he is.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@David Raymond Amos Interesting that CBC would block that comment I guess just like their blogging buddy Chucky I will have to blog it N'esy Pas?


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@David Raymond Amos At the very least CBC should not deny the fact that these are Chucky's words last night about this article about him.

Blogger gives his views on the decision of Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paulette Garnett!

https://youtu.be/UMeC2MFxhmI


I wish we had true Journalists that would investigate issues. The Judge wants me to pay court cost.. < good luck with that one >..but seriously....How much money have the Lawyers made from the Taxpayers to pursue this case? < Trust me it's not over yet >

Must be well over $100,000!!!!

Posted by Charles Leblanc at 10:51 pm

Everybody knows that Chucky and I hate each other with a passion and that I am proud of my Scottish ancestors and that he is not. However the Scottish guy in me agrees that it is kinda strange that CBC knew of the judge's decision before the French dude did. However everybody knows how the Crown plays with the Justice System in New Brunswick N'esy Pas Blaine, David, Justin, Dominic, Brian, Serge and Denis???
 
 
 
 
 
 




Rosemary Stones   
Rosemary Stones
What a hilarious temper tantrum and all for what -- a bicycle helmet? Too funny. Always makes my day seeing one of these stroppy boys of the net getting a good scolding.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos

@Rosemary Stones Cease and desist with your fancy British words that we poor Maritmers cannot understand
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Mike Archibald
Mike Archibald
There's a big difference in making these claims when one side admits 17 affidavits and the other side doesn't know what an affidavit is. He represented himself, and all anybody has to do is read Bernard Richard's report on the matter to know that he was not 'treated like any other citizen'.

Even Bernard Richard said that it was pretty specious for an officer to ticket Charles for riding a bicycle without a helmet immediately after Charles had videotaped fredericton police officers beating a guy on the ground.

The incident of the form couldn't be proven to be fraudulant, which doesn't make it not so. The police maintained it was 'an error' that they somehow used the child exploitation form to get the IP address rather than the criminal libel form, which is pretty ludicrous on the face of it.

And even the fredericton police force admitted that they made a mistake in taking Charles computer to read through all his correspondence for a charge which was ultimately dropped.

While I agree that Charles was irresponsible with his comments, the fact is that nobody in their right mind would take such comments seriously, and had Charles the money for a lawyer this case would have turned out far differently. For one thing, Charles comments have ZERO to do with whether the police force infringed on his rights, its interesting that the judge spends more time talking about what HE did rather than what the police did. But its hardly surprising.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Mike Archibald Did you forget the obvious? This was Chucky's lawsuit attacking the cops.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Mike Archibald Your old buddy Chucky is reading this stuff. Why does he not respond?

 
 
 
 
 
 



Paul Bourgoin   
Paul Bourgoin
Judge says defamation law will eventually tame internet AND SANTA CLAUSES LIVIES AT THE NORTH POLE!!!!

 
David Raymond Amos   
David Raymond Amos
@Paul Bourgoin What!!! Where does my favourite fat guy live then?
 
 
 
 
 
 





Paul Bourgoin
Marc LeBlanc
Here's some advise on exercising your right to free speech Charles.Buy yourself one of those HD recorders that look like an ipod(complete with fake ear buds).It's truly amazing what MLA's and Crown Corp managers will tell you when you ask the right questions.


David Raymond Amos  
David Raymond Amos

@Marc LeBlanc Do tell us.


Rick Aubie  
Rick Aubie
Yup, have fun identifying them through TOR and several cascading IP changers. Yup....great idea!


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Rick Aubie Thats not exactly true. Best that you confer with the CSE and their Yankee and British cohorts within the Five Eyes. They know a few tricks that would astound the most clever of hackers. I know for a fact that the RCMP and the FBI often partake of their cyber space expertise.

However down here in the Maritmes we have are local clowns like Chucky who think that they are untouchable and are surprised when they push things way past too far. Remember this article by CBC?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/charles-leblanc-fredericton-police-libel-1.3853481


I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop signaling that Chucky has finally been properly arrested and charged under Section 300 and 319 of the Canadian Criminal Code.

For the record I also suspect that the nasty little dude attacking the young lady in Moncton will be cornered in short order.merely because it is politically important to do so.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/university-moncton-emails-police-no-contact-1.4033306

Too bad that the RCMP and the FBI did not work so diligently when they knew my kids were being harassed on the Internet since 2005 and it obvious malice continues to this very day.
 
 
 
 





Paul Bourgoin 
John Jude
Hooray!
Justice Garnett and the Fredericton and Edmundston police forces.

  
Paul Bourgoin 
Jonas Smith
"Court of Queen's Bench Justice Paulette Garnett says defamation laws will eventually tame "the Wild West" of the internet."

Yup.....just like how the trickle down effect was supposed to take care of the middle class............Laughable
  


Winston Smith
Winston Smith
@Jonas Smith
The "Trickle Down Effect" did take care of the middle class. It decimated it.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Jonas Smith Perhaps Her honour should inform President Trump to smarten up or she will fine him three grand and hang him by his nasty Tweeting thumbs as well
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Joseph Vacher 
Joseph Vacher
haha i do love seeing people get their come-up-ins


Phil Peters
Phil Peters
@Joseph Vacher
He won't have to pay. The province has a program for people who don't have the means. I also think the judge is dreaming in technicolor if she thinks you can tame anyone you can't identify. Mr. LeBlanc's case is special in that regard. Trump's been slandering and defaming non stop. How typical is it that try and make examples of poor people who can't make things go away with their money. Court looks foolish here thinking it has more power than it does.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Phil Peters The only thing about Chucky's case is that has managed to get away with the obvious malice for so long. Never forget this was his lawsuit that he could not carry forward after he yaaped too much and pissed off his British ghost writer.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
Ray Bungay 
Ray Bungay
One can only hope Judge Garnett. The sooner some realize the internet is not as annomyous as they think then yes it will settle Down.

But news media like this one, CBC, could do a better job vetting some of its posters to ensure those you still use made up names stop posting or commenting. When this media and others made the policy change I went right away with my real name! CBC as done a great job but other media needs to come on board.


David Peters
David Peters
@Ray Bungay
You want to threaten people into silence?

 
Jonathan Stephenson
Jonathan Stephenson
@David Peters If you make the post, you own it.

If people are afraid of the ramifications of owning what you post, they should post positive stuff.

Like they say: if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all.

   
Rosemary Stones
Rosemary Stones
@Ray Bungay CBC has not made it fake name free, on the comments section. Not by a long shot. There are several clever fake ones being used. I guess the millenials who might be in charge of vetting are too young to get some of the cultural references.


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Ray Bungay I have always used my real name and yet CBC has blocked me for years for political reasons. Go Figure

    
David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
@Rosemary Stones Your comment begs the obvious question. Is that your real name?

   
David Peters
David Peters
@Jonathan Stephenson
When you have all the corruption that's going on, do your really want to silence people? Pointing out corruption is not nice but needs to be done.

...and who are more vindictive than those responsible for the corruption? Would you want them knowing your address?


David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos 
@David Peters I do it all the time I am not shy with my name and contact info



 
 
 

Thursday, September 29, 2005

SUSSEX - GOLD FOUND AND BERNARD LORD'S OPINION!!!!

VLT-gold

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is more like a mint for Bernie.

Anonymous said...

“I have to remind MLA Kenny that it was the former Liberal that cut the hourly pay for home support care workers by $2.” Tony Huntjens in a letter to editor in the Gleaner.

When will these idiots stop living in 90s and realize that 21st century is upon us. What kind of drug he is on?

Anonymous said...

John Hamm a man of great integrity resigned as a Premier of Nova Scotia. We have unscrupulous Bernard Lord who is still Premier. There is something wrong with us NBers to tolerate this man as our Premier

David R. Amos said...

Here is the real reason Hamm quit it is at the very bottom of this particular blog. This email is also why the dudes in Fredericton are so nervous these days. Simply put I'm back. I can only wonder how long this Blog will remain before Chucky Leblanc deletes it in order to cover up the public corruption he secretly supports.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: bsharpe@nl.rogers.com ; davidamos@bsn1.net ; duffy@ctv.ca ; martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; news@ctv.ca ; am@ctv.ca ; diane.bourque@flsc.ca ; jcrosbie@pattersonpalmer.ca ; gbyrne@pattersonpalmer.ca ; corp.website@sunlife.com ; cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca ; shickman@pattersonpalmer.ca ; lrikleen@Bowditch.com ; John.Conyers@mail.house.gov ; smay@pattersonpalmer.ca ; bmosher@mosherchedore.ca ; carterweb@emory.edu ; Robert.Creedon@state.ma.us ; Brian.A.Joyce@state.ma.us ; parkhill@stu.ca ; plee@stu.ca ; billestabrooks@navnet.net ; kentlib@nbnet.nb.ca ; police@fredericton.ca ; wickedwanda3@adelphia.net ; marno3@shaw.ca ; cmgstjohns@nf.aibn.net
Cc: guild@interlog.com ; ombudsman@cbc.ca ; lise@cmg.ca ; pacificpalate@telus.net ; ajehman@hotmail.com ; maureen_matthews@cbc.ca ; gerry@cmg.ca ; bvessey@pei.eastlink.ca ; sallypitt@hotmail.com ; garyparsons@nfld.net ; neilmac@vzw.blackberry.net ; deesdee@yahoo.com ; shawk_1999@yahoo.com ; cari_blanchard@yahoo.com ; cturner@nbnet.nb.ca ; briann@accesswave.ca ; mplaurin@sympatico.ca ; lebelb@nbnet.nb.ca ; slmsmbouchard@hotmail.com ; maurice10@rogers.com ; m.meldrum@ns.sympatico.ca ; twomech@nb.sympatico.ca ; dugasp28@hotmail.com ; embateman@hotmail.com ; sawebb@hotmail.com ; pgcastle@hotmail.com ; newschick@hotmail.com ; oldmaison@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: This is who I am Bobby Baby. Read it and weep.


I had to respond to this. Brian Gaudet should have read my last email before bouncing it back to me with his insults. I was already gone. At least this Frenchman, sounds more like a proper Maritimer. Yet if he was going to spout off to me he should have been man enough to say it front of the rest of you too. Let us all see if he has truly Billy Gates blocking me after trying to pick a fight with me. Yahoo will tell the tale on that. That said, I do admire that he defends his wife's name and is willing to fight about it even if he does not understand the issues. That is honourable but dumb. I was confused that the email address said two mech so I suspect that he may be a mechanic just like me and not any sort of lawyer or newsman either. I like that as well.
It seems he has been raised on the four F's just like me. Only thing is I ain't hiding behind an electronic mask like he said. If he had bothered to read I had even inserted my phone number. I will be coming to Sackville very soon but by then your protests will likely be over and I would be met with the indifference that I was faced with last year. So I will bother you all no more even though I will be forwarding and blogging this email in many other places. It is the same methods that the locked out people employed to bring CBC to the table. they have no right to put down my actions against them. I do not wish to speak to the CBC or the employees about a lawsuit I am filing against the Crown because of their actions against me. That would be kinda dumb even for a Maritimer don't you think? I would rather have spoken to pissed off people CBC had locked out of work. It made far more sense to me.
I have many friends in the Sackville area. Perhaps Frenchy should ask around about me to some mechanics he may know to see if most folks who know me well think me to be a liar. He should not rely on CBC to find out the truth about me. To offset any confrontations from people he did not know, Frenchy should have told his wife not to use his email address. If he did not want to be bothered by people she and her other CBC buddies had ignored last year during the last federal election he should have told me out of the gate that he was not his wife. She could have gotten her own hotmail account like my eleven year old in Amherst just did. Instead she used her husband's email to tell the world on the internet that she was actively protesting being out of work? She was soliticiting our support for her plight but in the next electronic breath her husband proves that they care about nobody else? CBC and all of its reporters are the bullshitters in this matter not me. They are self centered greedy bastards also.
CBC does have a mandate to give all people running for a seat in Parliament equal time not just the people the reporters want to win. That is the law and their mandate as a Crown Corp. In case you are reading this Brian Gaudet talk tough all you wish. I don't scare easy because I am too dumb to know fear. Ask the Secret Service who tried to take me away to Cuba over two years ago or the jailers who threw me in the hole last year because I was pretty pissed off if I am a chickenshit or not. Because I display no fear people label me as crazy in order to make themselves feel better about their own cowardice. I have walked the walk for far too long to be frightened by anyone now. I live each day as my last. Only integrity surprises me now. It is a rare thing to find combined with age and power.
If you don't believe me or think I am harrassing you in any way why not call the RCMP or sue me French?. Bring along this email to prove how I have offended you. I will love to argue the Crown about it in court. I will bring along what I served upon the CBC in Saint John while I was running for Parliament last year. It should make for an interesting argument that CBC will not report. Their lawyers have not answered me yet but many others have and know tha CBC got my material too. It appears that i must sue to get an answer as to why the CBC ignored its mandate.
Frenchy I would prefer to meet your lawyer face to face in court in a civil lawsuit rather than duke it out on the street with you and inspire another criminal matter. Besides I have too much to lose even if I won such a senseless thing in court or in the street. You are another ordinary asshole like me. There is no need to battle with you. I am getting too old for such nonsense now but I will certainly defend myself from anyone. If you wish to pursue the matter be forewarned that I don't fight fair anymore. If perchance I lose I am very big on getting even. My battles are never over until that happens. What I teach my son also holds true for me. I tell him to never back down from anyone because it is too expensivee to one's own pride and you will have to run from bullies your whole life. In truth a brawl proves nothing at all except how dumb we can be. Nevertheless like hockey fighting can be a great sport sometimes. Confused? Me too. what do you teach your son Frenchy?
Like you Frenchy I prefer face to face confrontations but only in front of many witnesses these days so that nobody can accuse me of saying or doing anything wrong. If you wish to fight, call the cops first and announce your intentions then all that I ask of you is that you throw the first swing so that my actions will be in defence. Is that OK with you Frenchy??????
You are right about one thing though. Nobody cares. However it is not stupid of me to piss people off. It is merely one of those things I do that nobody seems to appreciate. It works like a charm to get others to prove to me that they are assholes. The big difference between an asshole like me and an asshole like you is that I care about what happens to others. You don't. If you disagree why not help another Maritimer by the name of Byron Prior. He needs all the help he can get. I don't. You don't even have to Google him. Read the portion of his his web site that was at the bottom of the second email I sent to you today. If you have any heart in you at all pick up the phone and call him to see if he is for real for yourself. I did the best I could to help him with his litigation against Billy Matthews and all his Newfy buddies while your wife's buddy Ian Hannamansing who is from Sackville only called Byron a liar while he was doing his big special in Newfoundland about justice last year.
If my memory of what Byron said about the show that night is correct, your wife's fellow CBC workers carefully edited Byron from any of their tapes shown on TV while the Attorney General Tommy Marshall's son sat right by his side and made it on TV. In my opinion the CBC dudes in Newfoundland should all be fired ASAP for that reason alone. That fact has nothing to do with me and my concerns whatsoever. All Canadians were denied the opportunity to hear what Byron Prior had to say about how justice is being served in the Maritimes. It should make no difference at all whether or not Hannamansing thought of Byron a lair. We all had the right to hear what he had to say after CBC had invited the public they work for to speak on TV. How else can we decide the truth about anything if we do not hear from all sides? This is a Democracy isn't it is free speech a myth on public TV? CBC does not have the right to to be judge and jury simply because they have the ability to edit tapes.
Get it Frenchy???????????
Here is my phone number again Frenchy 506 434 1379 if you wish to ask me any questions. I will not bother to look up yours. I do not care about you think anymore if you don't wish to speak man to man. I will do as you requested and merely leave you all alone just like I said in the last email I ever intended to send to any of the CBC crowd. Now that they are comfortably back at work editing the truth for Paul Martin's benefit not ours, I know it would be fruitless to approach them anymore.
Before you give me a call Frenchy, perhaps you should review email that you bounced back to me. For your education here is my face as well and an article about me in a local paper then ask yourself why the CBC reporters ignored an interesting little circus.
I ain't hiding and I ain't a lair. I am just another Maritime asshole just like you Frenchy. You should understand me as being a simple, sincere and serious asshole even if you do not believe that I am a man with some pretty serious beefs against the corrupt justice system and the CBC that helps it in its malice towards us all. It is late and my rambling rant is over. As I wrote this I kept remmbering my encounters with the Frenchy from the far side of my hometown of Dorchester last year. His name is Charles LeBlanc. Man that bastard is full of hot air. I had to get this off my chest. I will sleep better with you dismissed from my mind too. Good luck with your own conscience from now on. Say Hey to Chucky Leblanc for me will ya> Like you he is blocking my emails after sending me a flood of them last year. I will lay odds your wife knows of him. The Maritimes ain't that big a place and he is quite a bragger.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "McKnight, Gisele" McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.com
> > > > To: lcampenella@ledger.com
> > > > Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
> > > > Subject: David Amos
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Lisa,
> > > > > David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he
> > became
> > > an
> > > > > independent (not representing any political party) candidate in our
> > > > federal
> > > > > election that was held June 28.
> > > > >
> > > > > He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called
> > > Fundy-Royal).
> > > > I
> > > > > wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates. That
> > > story
> > > > > appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story, written
> > by
> > > > one
> > > > > of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report on
> the
> > > > > candidates' debate held June 18.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the election.
> > The
> > > > > winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a photo
> > taken
> > > by
> > > > > reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the photo
> > that
> > > > > ran, but this one is very similar.
> > > > >
> > > > > Gisele McKnight
> > > > > editor A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate
2.JPG
> > > > > Kings County Record
> > > > > Sussex, New Brunswick
> > > > > Canada
> > > > > 506-433-1070
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd

By Erin Hatfield

"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."

The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.

The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.

The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.

Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices. Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders. Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."

Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.

The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to register sex offenders rather than register the property of law abiding citizens."

The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.

Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time, anyplace," Armstrong responded.

As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate, candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making process for the June 28 vote.

Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his favourite possessions—motorcycles.

McKnight/KCR

The Unconventional Candidate

David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….

By Gisele McKnight

FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."

Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.

The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada.

One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail to meet Elections Canada requirements.

When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his favourite place to do so—Fundy.

Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians.

"I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."

The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he needed to change his life.

"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that sometimes in midlife."

So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952 Panhead motorcycle.

"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact) experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask for anything, but you take what they offer."

For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs and conversation all over North America.

Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls himself.

He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."

Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.

"But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said. "It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"

Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.

"I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."

And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.

"I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."

What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.

"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window.

NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.

"There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me, especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right. Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."

Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have your X by his name.

"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and say, ‘what the hell.’"



Brian Gaudet twomech@nb.sympatico.ca wrote:

From: "Brian Gaudet" twomech@nb.sympatico.ca
To: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: This is who I am Bobby Baby. Read it and weep.
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:41:47 -0300


Listen, asshole.......This is not Suzanne's email it is her husband. I certainly don't care for the remarks that you are making about her. Having said that, I asked you once politely to remove us from your list. I will have blocked you by now, so I will not have to put up with your e-mails or bullshit any longer...................But I am not one for emails anyway.........I prefer to talk face to face............So you can't hide behind this electronic mask.............Do You get it???????????? I would not hide from a pathetic waste of oxygen such as you antway. People just don't care............Understand............No body cares about you and your stupidity..................Go AWAY...........
----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: bsharpe@nl.rogers.com ; davidamos@bsn1.net ; duffy@ctv.ca ; martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; news@ctv.ca ; am@ctv.ca ; diane.bourque@flsc.ca ; jcrosbie@pattersonpalmer.ca ; gbyrne@pattersonpalmer.ca ; corp.website@sunlife.com ; cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca ; shickman@pattersonpalmer.ca ; lrikleen@Bowditch.com ; John.Conyers@mail.house.gov ; smay@pattersonpalmer.ca ; bmosher@mosherchedore.ca ; carterweb@emory.edu ; Robert.Creedon@state.ma.us ; Brian.A.Joyce@state.ma.us ; parkhill@stu.ca ; plee@stu.ca ; billestabrooks@navnet.net ; kentlib@nbnet.nb.ca ; police@fredericton.ca ; wickedwanda3@adelphia.net ; marno3@shaw.ca ; cmgstjohns@nf.aibn.net
Cc: guild@interlog.com ; ombudsman@cbc.ca ; lise@cmg.ca ; pacificpalate@telus.net ; ajehman@hotmail.com ; maureen_matthews@cbc.ca ; gerry@cmg.ca ; bvessey@pei.eastlink.ca ; sallypitt@hotmail.com ; garyparsons@nfld.net ; neilmac@vzw.blackberry.net ; deesdee@yahoo.com ; shawk_1999@yahoo.com ; cari_blanchard@yahoo.com ; cturner@nbnet.nb.ca ; briann@accesswave.ca ; mplaurin@sympatico.ca ; lebelb@nbnet.nb.ca ; slmsmbouchard@hotmail.com ; maurice10@rogers.com ; m.meldrum@ns.sympatico.ca ; twomech@nb.sympatico.ca ; dugasp28@hotmail.com ; embateman@hotmail.com ; sawebb@hotmail.com ; pgcastle@hotmail.com ; newschick@hotmail.com
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:00 PM
Subject: This is who I am Bobby Baby. Read it and weep.


Hey

To put it simply in answer to your dumb request Mr. Sharpe. My answer is HELL NO. That is a nice as I can put it. I just called Katie Nicholson and introduced myself. I will it leave you to wonder whom I will call next. Your clue is that you sent them greetings as a Locked-Out brother in sunny St. Johns.

To elaborate, I must say that I definitely will not go away. Look how you people act since you have been locked out of your jobs. You behave far worse tha I. In fact I may be coming to Newfoundland very soon to copy the material in the dockets of Newfoundland Supreme Court in the Billy Matthews versus Byron Prior matter as it pertains to me me. I need hard copy before I sue the CBC and the Crown. My question right now is hey Bobby Baby why don't I sue you too? Maybe I will come around and watch your people do their song and dance for their job. Perhaps you should try meeting me toe to toe and looking me in the eye if you want to meet a simple sincere and very serious man and then dare me to. I will be real easy to pick out. I am the hairy bastard in the Kilt once worn by a good friend of mine Ol Tom. He is one of the last of the Ladies from Hell. I wear it with his blessings. too many of his friends fought and died many years ago so that shit like this should not happen in our own nativeland. Even the Yankee bastard I call Deputy dog has met Ol Tom long before I dated the Yankee's sister. You bear the same first name as Deputy Dog Bobby Baby and you just forwarded all them your dumb little email that jerked this mangey old dog's chain bigtime. Need I say that my wife did not like receiving your response? She has warned me not to send out her email address anymore. Like her I do not listen real good sometimes but I did accomadate her on her birthday at least.

Bobby Baby if you want someone's shoulder to cry on give the lady Liza Frulla a call. She is a former sister of yours correct? I think she may have some job security issues when there is finally a federal election called. The sooner the better for me and the NDP. Frulla did not answer me so I must remain a man of my word and pass this email on as I promised her I would. Quite honestly I did not expect her to answer me. Everybody knows that she does whatever Paul Martin and the warroom dudes within PCO/PMO offices tell her to do. I needed the proof of contact thats all because I was banking on the fact the warroom will tell her to ignore me. I was just playing her like a fiddlewhile fishing for response from yo sos like you and hopefully an ehtical person or two. Paul Dugas who likes to play the fiddle in the town where I was born should certainly get my joke. On the one year anniversary of Ashcroft visiting Canada and Wayne Easter's office talking to me, he joined a forum to yap about violins. I found the coincidence strangely comical. If Paul Dugas or anyone within the CBC had elected to report my doings on that day instead of talking about fiddlin etc, we would all be better off right now. The CBC recived received my material July 16th 2002, the very same day Argeo P. Cellucci did. That was long before the War on Iraq had started. Have your conscience dwell on that sad fact for a minute or two before you answer a lot of ghosts in your Heaven or Hell someday. As you can see I study people a bit and I already have a pretty good idea who will be naughty and who may be nice. I learned long ago cops, lawyers, bankers, priests and newsmen never are. So I attack them out of the gate but only in an ethical fashion byway of the written word and carefully worded phone calls. Newsmen should know that the word is mightier than the sword. You make your living by it you should die by it as well. Please fall on it ASAP or use it to hang the rest of the corrupt bastards. How is that for a challenge?

Furthermore I like to do everything in threes just like they purportly do in Heaven and Hell. Now that Suzanne Gaudet, Paul Dugas from the town where I was born and you the Newfy Bobby Baby have responded to me you have sealed the fate of the Crown Corp of CBC for me. I need no more responses from the likes of you. Why spoil my own fun? I will likely not tell you anymore about what I am up to after I send the next email and print both of them as evidence to use in Federal Court. I will sue the Minister who oversees your conduct and none of you can ever say that you did not know the truth of my concerns before I did. The CRTC can go to Hell for all I care. Starting with their crooked little Minister many of the public servants under her supervision need to be replaced if the public trust in your profession is ever going to be upheld.

Even though the unethical people at CBC, CTV and all other media pretend to have no understanding of what I mean, a lot of Maritimers understand me quite well already. Blogging is truly the only way to go these days. Watch out. Ordinary folks will replace you in a New York minute. Why else has CBC locked you out I might ask? It appears to me that only the Frenchmen has job security EH? Why do you think that is? Better yet look how quick Bloggers embarrassed Dan Rather before you call me a dreamer. That said look to find the text of this email in many Blogs in the near future and you can study the work of a very fierce political animal. All you should have to do is Google your own name or email address. Turn about is fair play. EH? If you don't like please sue me just like Billy Matthews did with Byron Prior. Google that name some time then tell me all is well in Newfoundland.

It is my fellow Maritimers that I want pissed off at the CBC etc. and all the corrupt politicians they have chosen to support. I do not give two hoots about you as a man Bobby Baby. To me you are just a dumb little pawn in a big big game. I am taking on the Masters of War alone despite the laughter from the likes of you. IF you want some insight in to my character have Rudyard Kipling explain my nature to you within his wonderful poem called IF. I take his advice not your. thus you have the reason behind my simple answer of NO. What I would prefer though Newfy is for you to call me a liar in a public forum. I dare ya. You do not seem all that sharp to me so I will warn you I was raised to the F's of the Maritimes that your former Premier explained to the Yankees years ago. I found it funny the chickenshit named only three. So much for being politically correct EH? He came close but no cigar. Castro will get my joke someday soon. Here is me phone number 506 434-1379. Use it Newfy if you dare to use a phone with a caller ID. Otherwise do not bother at all. just find me in the Blogs.

On a personal note Bill, I liked your voicemail to me. You and I should have a long talk sometime. I think it would be best to do in public in front of many witnesses who have no idea what we are talking about. I am up against some pretty bad acting Feds right now. I am sorry to say that I cannot afford to trust anyone. A very busy Bar or Diner where ordinary folk like me hang out are my favorite haunts. I know of a few down your way. Maybe I will give ya call when I am heading to your town. Better yet for the benefit of your party why not come see me ASAP? I ain't hard to find ask the RCMP. They have been watching me like a hawk.

Veritas Vincit

David Raymond Amos



Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 06:00:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: ROBERT SHARPE bsharpe@nl.rogers.com
Subject: Re: Moma and Max and Happy Birthday Cards
To: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com,
davidamos@bsn1.net, duffy@ctv.ca, martine.turcotte@bell.ca, news@ctv.ca,
am@ctv.ca, diane.bourque@flsc.ca, jcrosbie@pattersonpalmer.ca,
gbyrne@pattersonpalmer.ca, corp.website@sunlife.com,
cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, shickman@pattersonpalmer.ca,
lrikleen@Bowditch.com, John.Conyers@mail.house.gov, smay@pattersonpalmer.ca,
bmosher@mosherchedore.ca, carterweb@emory.edu, Robert.Creedon@state.ma.us,
Brian.A.Joyce@state.ma.us, parkhill@stu.ca, plee@stu.ca,
kentlib@nbnet.nb.ca, police@fredericton.ca, wickedwanda3@adelphia.net
CC: guild@interlog.com, ombudsman@cbc.ca, lise@cmg.ca,
pacificpalate@telus.net, ajehman@hotmail.com, maureen_matthews@cbc.ca,
gerry@cmg.ca, bvessey@pei.eastlink.ca, sallypitt@hotmail.com,
garyparsons@nfld.net, neilmac@vzw.blackberry.net, deesdee@yahoo.com,
shawk_1999@yahoo.com, cari_blanchard@yahoo.com, cturner@nbnet.nb.ca,
briann@accesswave.ca, mplaurin@sympatico.ca, lebelb@nbnet.nb.ca,
slmsmbouchard@hotmail.com, maurice10@rogers.com, m.meldrum@ns.sympatico.ca,
twomech@nb.sympatico.ca, dugasp28@hotmail.com, embateman@hotmail.com,
sawebb@hotmail.com, pgcastle@hotmail.com, bsharpe@nl.rogers.com,
newschick@hotmail.com

Who are you to have me on your list? Go away.



--- David Amos wrote:

>
> Yo Mama
>
> In lieu of a Birthday card or gift this year
> I figured sending you our Joy Boy Max will have to
> do to cheer you up and then later this email may
> give you some more joy at the thought that it may
> give Deputy Dog a serious stroke or a minor hat
> attack at the very least. I have been waiting awhile
> to repond to the bastard's blog for your benefit as


Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:49:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: RE Communications in the Public Interest
To: liza_frulla@pch.gc.ca, Frulla.L@parl.gc.ca
CC: betty.macphee@crtc.gc.ca, ocrdct@hotmail.com, davidamos@bsn1.net

From: "Paul Dugas" dugasp28@hotmail.com
To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Moma and Max and Happy Birthday Cards
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:36:14 -0300

Please remove me from your email list thank you

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:51:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: So much for ethical reporters the town I was born in EH?
To: dugasp28@hotmail.com, m.meldrum@ns.sympatico.ca, maurice10@rogers.com




Suzanne Gaudet is just like Bill Hamilton, She plays the see no evil, hear no evil speak no evil game. While Maurice Doiron, Murray Meldrum and Paul Duhas just opt to play dumb. What must Liza Frulla think of all this. From my point of view you do nothing so why not replace you with nothing at at. It is cheaper for the Taxpayer to keep piping in the BBC. Bullshit is Bullshit no matter what the accent.


twomech@nb.sympatico.ca wrote:

From: twomech@nb.sympatico.ca
To: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Hey Duffy I know why Dr. Hamm quit and why dog MacKay don't hunt in Nova Scotia
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:00:42 -0400

Please remove me from your mailing list. Thank you.

>
> From: David Amos
> Date: 2005/09/30 Fri AM 08:40:44 EST
> To: duffy@ctv.ca, martine.turcotte@bell.ca, news@ctv.ca, am@ctv.ca,
> diane.bourque@flsc.ca, jcrosbie@pattersonpalmer.ca,
> gbyrne@pattersonpalmer.ca, corp.website@sunlife.com,
> cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, shickman@pattersonpalmer.ca,
> lrikleen@Bowditch.com, John.Conyers@mail.house.gov, smay@pattersonpalmer.ca,
> bmosher@mosherchedore.ca, carterweb@emory.edu, Robert.Creedon@state.ma.us,

Hey Lady Liza Frulla
I got the following response from the email I just sent to one of your underlings Ms. Macphee so I called the number she suggested and got the usual governmental voicemail from her help so I left a message. I got a call back just now from her assistant at 819 997-0313. I told her that I would send this email to you and she affirmed my right to do so. However when she attempted to lay down the law to me, I told her I would see her in court. I prefer to argue their lawyers in court rather than spit and chew with civil servants on the phone on my dime. More importantly to me is that I responded to you her Minister byway of email because I require hard copy for evidence to use during the pending arguments of the complaint against the Crown that I do intend to file in Federal Court in Fredericton New Brunswick soon. I am sending you two more emails after this one because my lawyer advised awhile ago to try hard to make my matters well none to the media. From this point forward as the Minister who oversees the CRTC who can never saw that you did not know what many other have known for quite sometime. For what is worth in my humble opinion if you play your political cards right you could be our first Lady Prime Minister.
I will give you Ms. Frulla the weekend to respond to me before I send this particular email to many others but many others will be receiving what Ms. Macphee aready got. I do not care what her assistant Ms Gable may think. She can gab to somebody else about what she wishes to inform me of. I have done my homework and need no advice from the likes of her. What Ms. Gable may not understand about me is that unlike Paul Martin I am a man of my word. I am just like him in one regard. I am also a very fierce political animal who is is equal and opposite in all things that define men. Martin is evil. I am not. Martin is a very wealthy lawyer. I am a just poor layman. Martin is labeled as Honourable and I am called as crazy as a loon. However I am a man Martin is not. He is a snake. I am indeed a very Proud Canadian who is definitely not proud of the people who speak for me. Get it Ms. Frulla?
As Minister Responsible for Status of Women, you really should make certain that the integrity of all women in government does not come into question. From my point of view some women such as the Yankee Judges, Sidney Hanlon, Paula Carey and Cristina Harms for example do much harm to the reputation of your gender. What they have done to my little family in the USA in order to support the rampant public corruption in Canada and the USA should offend anyone with half a mind at all. My wife is a woman too after all. She has never done any wrong at all. Her only offence to the justice system was to stand against the politcally connected family members who had stolen her interests because no lawyer would dare speak for her. When she had her breakdown I took up the fight as any proud husband and father should. It is not only my right but my duty to protect my little Clan. The biggest difference in our genders is that men are not so quick to cry or back down from any bully. My wife is a very tender soul while I can be as mean as a the snake Paul Martin is.
The New World of the Internet has afforded me quite a weapon to do battle with against the likes of Paul Martin and all his crooked cohorts. There is still a place in this Old World for a fierce ethical warrior such as I. Otherwise crooked men and women who are merely low people in high places to me will walk all over us common ordinary folk. I am no physical threat to anyone. I do battle with the word not the sword. It is mightier. Anyone who once worked for CBC should understand that simple fact.
Furthermore this email is definitely not Spam. I am greatly offended when the powers that be label it as such and block it to protect their own greedy interests. Whether you or anyone else believe me or not, my communications are in the best interest of the public. I feel confident that it is much to the chagrin of the people who have failed the public trust in their elected and politically appointed positions. I suspect that is why Nancy Gabler sounded so pissed off just like the tone of Hélène Lapointe's email to me . Rest assured many Canadians will be reading this email after I sent it to you. It is me on the phone to your office right now after that I am putting a bunch of material in the mail and serving many lawyers in hand. My phone call is an ethical effort to introduce myself in order to prove to you that I am sincere.
I know what I have sent to many Members of Parliament during the course of the past two years and I keep very good record to prove simple truths. For certain you just made my list of people who may be naughty or nice. After Xmas Martin must see that Gomery tells his tale and the Canadian people will decide once again who they think is naughty and nice. As as the freedom loving individual that I am I will decide long before then in the hope that my opinions become well known before an election is called. Whereas the people cannot depend on the CBC etc. to report all things of public interest, I will rely on the Blog.
I have no doubt whatsoever that your buddies within the CBC reported heavily your run for a seat in Parliament last year. As one of our newest Ministers besides Belinda Stronach ask them for your own education why the CBC failed in their mandate to report my bid for a seat as well. Better yet if you want to have fun take it out with the nasty dudes inside the warroom of the PCO/PMO offices. I will wager my name is the biggest curse word in Parliament right now. I am certain that is why it is not said over the airwaves or put in print. From now on at least you can never say that you did not know my name too.
I am begging ya, please do not be like two other women who once worked for the CBC Adrienne Clarkson and Michaelle Jean. Nobody is that dumb. They must have deliberatly ignored my laments because Paul Martin directed them to. May I suggest that you read this entire email from the point of view of an ethical Minister in charge of the public interest of the Canadian people? Please do the right thing despite what the leader of your party may wish. If not as you talk the talk on TV etc in the coming months about the doings of CBC and Parliament etc I will walk the walk and complain of many politicans in court. History has proven that in the end the truth usually wins out even if it is ignored in court in the present tense.
By the way guess who is campaigning hard for a fall election? To have an election on Boxing Day is righteously fine by me. I ain't religious. Ask the Holy See or George W. Bush why. I dare ya.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Excerpt from CTV.ca, Canada on Sep 27, 2005 of news by the Canadian Press

"CBC employees in Quebec and Moncton, N.B., are not affected by the lockout.

Information pickets set up early in the day under pouring rain didn't try to stop Prime Minister Paul Martin or Adrienne Clarkson, the Governor General, as they headed in for a morning news conference on Parliament Hill.

Clarkson, who will be replaced Tuesday by Michaelle Jean, governor-general designate, leaned out of her car to speak with CBC pickets.

At the rally, locked-out workers presented petitions signed by thousands of CBC fans calling for an end to the labour dispute.

Heritage Minister Liza Frulla acknowledged the anger of the Canadian public, telling the rally that cabinet ministers have been hearing demands that something be done to get the network back in business.

"All summer, we had messages from the population out there, messages from all through Canada, saying how they miss you," she told the rally. "



I just had to insert the campaign manager for Oscar Doucet for Leader Hélène Lapointe's answer in comical font. It is too funny to do other wise. How is is that dor the local NDP trying hard to play dumb?



"Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:28:40 -0300
Subject: Re: Free Thinkers please feel free to blog this.
From: Hélène Lapointe helenel@nb.sympatico.ca
To: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com

I DON'T WANT TO RECEIVE YOUR E-MAIL ANYMORE. PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR
MAILING LIST!!!

Le vendredi, 30 sep 2005, à 10:30 Canada/Atlantic, David Amos a écrit :

> The CBC and all others in the media and governemnt will not relay
> this crap to the people. Perhaps we the people should all ask the
> politicians who were elected to speak for us why I have been compelled
> to sue the Queen and the Holy See along with the USA.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: duffy@ctv.ca ; martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; news@ctv.ca ; am@ctv.ca"

"Macphee, Betty" betty.macphee@crtc.gc.ca wrote:


Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Free Thinkers please feel free to blog this.
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:30:51 -0400
From: "Macphee, Betty" betty.macphee@crtc.gc.ca
To: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com


I will be away from the office until Friday, September 30th. If you have any urgency, please send your email to Nancy Gabler or contact her at 997-4319.
Je serai absente du bureau justqu'au vendredi le 30 septembre. Si vous avez des urgences, svp envoyer votre courriel à Nancy Gabler où téléphoner à 997-4319.



Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:30:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Free Thinkers please feel free to blog this.
To: sahara@free-thinkersclub.com, publiceye@cbs.com, Leblanc.D@parl.gc.ca,
Murphy.S@parl.gc.ca, dmitchell@irvingmitchell.com,
contact@citizenscentre.com, cbc@crimlaw.ca,
belanger.jean-daniel@psio-bifp.gc.ca, pgriffin@lsrsg.com,
jlaskin@torys.com, wbrock@dwpv.com, carley@lutz.nb.ca,
registerodonnell@norfolkdeeds.org, info@mwpc.org, Lliss@rubinrudman.com,
regbert@egbertlaw.com, has@harveysilverglate.com, lawald@web.apc.org,
ahamilton@casselsbrock.com, brad.green@gnb.ca,
gary.ostoich@mcmillanbinch.com, info.com@chrc-ccdp.ca,
Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca, Scott.A@parl.gc.ca, radionews@mpbc.org,
publisher@whatsup.nb.ca, kjamerson@wagmtv.com, kbabin@globaltv.ca,
jfoster@globaltv.ca, atvnews@ctv.ca, cmorris@cp.org, info@ccna.ca,
kbissett@broadcastnews.ca, bdnmail@bangordailynews.net,
ehutton@atlanticbusinessmagazine.com, argosy@mta.ca,
sylvain.martel@csn.qc.ca, events@cpac.ca, mmacdonald@cp.org,
crgeditor@yahoo.com, jeff.mockler@gnb.ca
CC: rmoir@unbsj.ca, suzanne.ball@nbsc-cvmnb.ca, manon.losier@nbsc-cvmnb.ca,
ottawacomments@state.gov, Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca, Mackay.P@parl.gc.ca,
elizabeth.weir@gnb.ca, ndpnpd@nbnet.nb.ca, mail@allisonbrewer.ca,
aj_titus2002@yahoo.ca, ken.ross@gnb.ca, nanluke@nb.sympatico.ca,
ericson@unb.ca, ocrdct@hotmail.com, helenel@nb.sympatico.ca,
coates2001ca@yahoo.ca, maryanne.bourque.pollack@gnb.ca,
harbourmla@nb.aibn.com, president@ndp.ca, info@gomery.ca,
lcampenella@ledger.com, AdamsoV@erc-cee.gc.ca, betty.macphee@crtc.gc.ca,
potterl@scc-csc.gc.ca, josee.touchette@justice.gc.ca,
renaudlp@oag-bvg.gc.ca, rdaoust@privcom.gc.ca, rod.smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
smorel@gg.ca, rraymond@lcc.gc.ca, execassistant@nafta-sec-alena.org,
caroline.whitby@transfair.ca, pbroder@imaginecanada.ca,
cforcese@uottawa.ca, David.Fewer@uOttawa.ca, Philippa.Lawson@uOttawa.ca,
Stephane.Emard-Chabot@uOttawa.ca, Chantale.Fore@uOttawa.ca,
exec@casis.ca, gkealey@unb.ca, dgollob@cna-acj.ca,
justicepourmohamedharkat@yahoo.ca, mail@ccla.org, info@amnesty.ca,
rocht@iclmg.ca, katiag@ccic.ca, admin@cbanb.com, info@cba.org



The CBC and all others in the media and governemnt will not relay this crap to the people. Perhaps we the people should all ask the politicians who were elected to speak for us why I have been compelled to sue the Queen and the Holy See along with the USA.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: duffy@ctv.ca ; martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; news@ctv.ca ; am@ctv.ca ; diane.bourque@flsc.ca ; jcrosbie@pattersonpalmer.ca ; gbyrne@pattersonpalmer.ca ; corp.website@sunlife.com ; cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca ; shickman@pattersonpalmer.ca ; lrikleen@Bowditch.com ; John.Conyers@mail.house.gov ; smay@pattersonpalmer.ca ; bmosher@mosherchedore.ca ; carterweb@emory.edu ; Robert.Creedon@state.ma.us ; Brian.A.Joyce@state.ma.us ; parkhill@stu.ca ; plee@stu.ca ; kentlib@nbnet.nb.ca ; police@fredericton.ca ; davidamos@bsn1.net
Cc: guild@interlog.com ; ombudsman@cbc.ca ; lise@cmg.ca ; pacificpalate@telus.net ; ajehman@hotmail.com ; maureen_matthews@cbc.ca ; gerry@cmg.ca ; bvessey@pei.eastlink.ca ; sallypitt@hotmail.com ; garyparsons@nfld.net ; neilmac@vzw.blackberry.net ; deesdee@yahoo.com ; shawk_1999@yahoo.com ; cari_blanchard@yahoo.com ; cturner@nbnet.nb.ca ; briann@accesswave.ca ; mplaurin@sympatico.ca ; lebelb@nbnet.nb.ca ; slmsmbouchard@hotmail.com ; maurice10@rogers.com ; m.meldrum@ns.sympatico.ca ; twomech@nb.sympatico.ca ; dugasp28@hotmail.com ; embateman@hotmail.com ; sawebb@hotmail.com ; pgcastle@hotmail.com ; bsharpe@nl.rogers.com ; newschick@hotmail.com
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:40 AM
Subject: Hey Duffy I know why Dr. Hamm quit and why the little dog MacKay don't hunt in Nova Scotia(slightly edited DRA)


The sad part is so do you people. I am gonna tell everybody the truth about what CTV and CBC have refused to report for years for the benefit of the rampant public corruption you support for your own personal gain. Need I say that I am happy the crooked CBC dudes are locked out of work right now? It appears to me that blogging is the only way to go these days. What say you? Call me a liar after you hear me speak in Federal Court in Fredericton in the near future. I dare ya to have your lawyer Martine Turcotte explain why Robert C. Pozen has become George W. Bush's favorite Democrat. Better why not ask Sunlife's Yankee lawyer Jeffery Carp why a proud Maritimer smells a lot of rotten fish in Beantown.

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Dr. Hamm you picked an interesting day to Quit
To: premier@gov.ns.ca, jdewolfe@ns.sympatico.ca,
michael.baker@ns.sympatico.ca, morse.mla@ns.sympatico.ca,
parentma@gov.ns.ca, rodneym@ns.sympatico.ca, rrussellmla@ns.sympatico.ca,
barnetbe@gov.ns.ca, ronchisholmmla@auracom.com,
bill.dooks@ns.sympatico.ca, elf@ns.sympatico.ca,
bill.langille@ns.sympatico.ca, btaylormla@rushcomm.ca,
chatawaymla@hfxeastlink.ca, mlaclarke@ns.sympatico.ca,
Peter.Christie@ns.sympatico.ca, dentreca@gov.ns.ca,
a.macisaac@ns.sympatico.ca, rhurlburt@auracom.com, hinesgb@gov.ns.ca,
educmin@gov.ns.ca, codonnellmla@ns.sympatico.ca,
kgmorashmla@ns.aliantzinc.ca, Mackay.P@parl.gc.ca
CC: john.macdonell@ns.sympatico.ca, mmacdonald@navnet.net,
mhraymondmla@eastlink.ca, wilsond@gov.ns.ca,
marilynmoremla@ns.aliantzinc.ca, jpye@ns.sympatico.ca,
joanmasseymla@ns.aliantzinc.ca, gaudetw@gov.ns.ca, mackinrv@gov.ns.ca,
macdonman@gov.ns.ca, gordiegosse@ns.aliantzinc.ca,
corbettmlacentre@ns.sympatico.ca, stephenmcneil@ns.aliantzinc.ca,
boudrebv@gov.ns.ca, billestabrooks@navnet.net,
davidawilsonmla@eastlink.ca, samsonmp@gov.ns.ca,
charlieparkermla@ns.aliantzinc.ca, Regan.G@parl.gc.ca


Looks like I am about to rain on your party. Perhaps the sneaky political/lawyers Regan and MacKay will tell you why if your own lawyer Mikey Baker won't do so.



"As premier, I am proud of our record,'' Hamm said.

Unlike many of his predecessors, the family doctor is leaving office without a cloud of controversy hanging over his head.



----- Original Message -----

From: David Amos
To: Sgro.J@parl.gc.ca ; legerv@sen.parl.gc.ca ; trenhm@sen.parl.gc.ca ; ringup@sen.parl.gc.ca ; losier@sen.parl.gc.ca ; Thibault.L@parl.gc.ca ; Poirier-Rivard.D@parl.gc.ca ; Picard.P@parl.gc.ca ; Lavallee.C@parl.gc.ca ; Guay.M@parl.gc.ca ; Gagnon.C@parl.gc.ca ; Faille.M@parl.gc.ca ; Deschamps.J@parl.gc.ca ; Demers.N@parl.gc.ca ; Brunelle.P@parl.gc.ca ; Bourgeois.D@parl.gc.ca ; Bonsant.F@parl.gc.ca ; oec-bce@parl.gc.ca
Cc: buckley@pol.state.ma.us ; steve@djflynn.com ; ombud@globe.com ; paul@djflynn.com ; dan@djflynn.com ; letter@globe.com ; publicrelations@cubanmission.com ; rusun@un.int ; france-presse@un.int ; uk@un.int ; contact@germany-un.org ; c103@c103.com ; general.info@thomson.com ; davidamos@bsn1.net
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:16 PM
Subject: I bet a man named Mr. Tax who works for the Justice Dept doubts that he will



----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: scottmk@gov.ns.ca ; bev.harrison@gnb.ca ; ted.tax@justice.gc.ca ; graham@grahamsteele.ca ; hepstein@supercity.ns.ca ; deveaux.mla@ns.sympatico.ca ; ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca
Cc: davidamos@bsn1.net ; BBACHRACH@bowditch.com ; adams_sammon@msn.com ; fbinhct@leo.gov ; david@lutz.nb.ca ; HeafeyS@cpc-cpp.gc.ca ; alicia.mcdonnell@state.ma.us ; Scott.A@parl.gc.ca
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:08 AM
Subject: Hey Ted Tax as soon as I saw that the Lt. Gov had honoured you


I figured you would do nothing to rock the Queen's boat for reasons of job security. However even you and your pension funds rely on the ethics of the Yankees employed by the SEC in the USA. Perhaps you should side with me ASAP. My kids need a roof over their heads. I am not above suing anyone to get one including the Queen and the Holy See. However it is your job to prosecute criminals not mine. Correct?



"Ted Tax and the Department's Atlantic Regional Office (ARO) were honoured at a Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor's Awards Ceremony. Tax was presented with a Certificate of Recognition for "contribution to the Reserve Force by taking positive action to assist its employees who are reservists in maintaining their commitments to the Canadian Forces." Following September 11, 2001, there was an increase in the demand for military legal officers on operational deployments. Major John Smithers, a lawyer with the Tax Law Services Section of the ARO, was granted military leave to serve on an overseas mission."



For the record this is the text of the cover letter sent to Baker etc. Lets see what Mr. Speaker has to say now. I believe he is an ex cop ain't he? Lets see if he remembers how to uphold the law. If not don't you think it is high time that the lawyers in the NDP give the crooked Conservative Goverment the Boot? Everybody knows they are lapdogs for George W. Bush. Why else did he make it a point to fly down and see them last year and snub Paul Martin and his cohorts in Ottawa?



July 31st, 2005

Lt. Gov. J. Léonce Bernard Lt. Gov. Myra A. Freeman

Premier Pat G. Binns Premier John F. Hamm

c/o Att. Gen. Mildred A. Dover c/o Att. Gen. Michael Baker

Fourth Floor, Shaw Building, North Department of Justice 4th Floor
105 Rochford Street Room 5151 Terminal Road

P.O. Box 2000 P.O. Box 7
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 7N8 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2L6



Lt. Gov. Norman L. Kwong Lt. Gov. Iona V. Campagnolo

Premier Ralph Klein Premier Gordon Campbell

c/o Att. Gen. Ron Stevens c/o Att. Gen. Wally Oppal

208 Legislature Building Stn Prov Govt PO Box 9044

9E210800 - 97 Avenue Parliament Buildings East Annex

Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2B6 Victoria, BC V8V 1X4


RE: Public Corruption

Hey,

Apparently everybody wanted to play dumb about my concerns and allegations so that Humpty Dumpty Martin’s minority government would not fall and they could party hardy while the Queen was in Canada. As you all know months ago, I began faxing, emailing and calling the eight other Lt. Governors I had yet to cross paths with. I fully informed them of my indignation towards the Governor General Clarkson and two of her other Maritime Lieutenants Roberts and Chaisson before the latest wave of bad acting Yankees invaded my home in the USA without warrants or due process if law.

I made certain all of the provincial Attorney Generals and Premiers can never deny the fact that I tried to make them well aware of my concerns and allegations in order to make everybody should sit up and pay attention. Not one person from any of your offices ever responded in any fashion at all. You can be certain that I expected the deliberate ignorance. It is one of the oldest tricks in the book that lawyers employ in order to play their wicked game of see no evil, hear no evil speak no evil. I knew it would happen particularly after Nova Scotia’s Conflict of Interest Commissioner Merlin Nunn had blocked my emails before I had contacted you. I have no doubt it helped to relieve him of his ethical dilemma before the NS NDP decided what to do about their chance to unseat the Conservatives. I have no doubt whatsoever many lawyers in Canada were praying that the Suffolk County District Attorney would have me back in the loony bin by April 28th and that all your troubles would go away. I opted to let you all have your way and did not bother you anymore until the Queen had left our shores and Parliament quit for the summer. Now it is my turn to have some fun and raise a little Political Hell.

While the Queen, Clarkson and Martin where all having a grand old time on the Canadian dime my little Clan went through living hell down here. Trust me, lawyers need to learn some new tricks. Ignorance is no excuse to the law or me. Making some Canadian Attorney Generals and their political buddies show me their arses is child’s play to me after all that I have experienced in the last few years. If you doubt me ask Michael J. Bryant and Yvon Marcoux why I am so pissed at their bosses and the DHS. Then check my work for yourself. If the tag team of John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge could not intimidate me, believe me you people don’t have a prayer. Both of those dudes have quit their jobs but I am still standing and squaring off against their replacements now. If it were not for all the decent folks I know, the snotty ones like you would make me feel ashamed to be a Canadian. There is no shortage of lawyers. It is just that ethical ones that are rare birds, that’s all. You must know how easily the Canadian people can replace you with other lawyers if it becomes widely known how willing you are to ignore crime if it means some fancy dude may be compelled to suffer for his own wrongs.

The justice system is supposed to be self-policing. It should clean up its own act rather than trying to maintain a false mask of integrity for lawyers that are obviously criminals. It is way beyond my understanding why you people would choose to support the likes of Paul Martin, Adrienne Clarkson, T. Alex Hickman and Billy Matthews if you are not all as crooked as hell as well. The deliberate ignorance and double-talk employed by the wealthy few to dodge simple truths is absolutely offensive to ordinary people blessed with the rare attribute called common sense. Not all folks are like sheep.

Paul Martin’s latest tricks make for a very fine example of truly how bad things are. Even amidst wholesale scandals breaking out hell, west and crooked everywhere lawyers and politicians just close ranks and stand together as thick as the thieves they are. I stress tested the ethics of the ladies of the Bloc Quebecois and the Gomery Inquiry immediately after Martin’s carefully orchestrated little circus in Parliament on May 19th was a matter of history. Lets just say I was not surprised to not hear one peep in response from anyone other than to get a call from an unidentified and very nervous but cocky Yankee lawyer claiming that Tony Blair was mad at me.

Pursuant to my phone calls, emails and faxes please find enclosed as promised exactly the same hard copy of what I sent to the Canadian Ambassadors Allan Rock and Franky Boy McKenna and a couple of nasty FBI agents on May 12th just before an interesting event in front of our home in Milton. I have also included a copy of four letters I have received in response since then that you may find interesting to say the least. I also sent you a copy of a letter sent to a lady Ms. Condolezza Rice whom our former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney considers to be the most powerful woman in the world. The CD of the copy of police surveillance tape # 139 is served upon all the above named Attorney Generals as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.


I will not bother you with the details of what I am sending to you byway of the certified US Mail because I will be serving identical material to many other Canadian Authorities in hand and tell them I gave this stuff to you first and enclose a copy of this letter. All that is important to me right now is that I secure proof that this mail was sent before I make my way back home to the Maritimes. However I will say I am also enclosing a great deal more material than what Allan Rock had received in the UN. Some of it is in fact the same material the two maritime lawyers, Rob Moore and Franky Boy McKenna in particular received, while I was up home running for Parliament last year. Things have changed greatly in the past year so I have also included a few recent items to spice things up for you. I am tired of trying to convince people employed in law enforcement to uphold the law. So all I will say for now is deal will your own conscience and be careful how you respond to this letter. If you do not respond. Rest assured I will do my best to sue you some day. Ignorance is no excuse to the law or me.

Veritas Vincit

David R. Amos

153 Alvin Ave

Milton, MA. 02186




The enclosed letter from The Public Service Integrity Office, whose boss recently testified before the Gomery Inquiry and following quotes prove why I must speak out.

"Well what do you expect?" said Le Hir in reaction. "Anybody who had been involved in that kind of thing isn't going to admit readily, or willfully, to having participated." Asked why he's waited 10 years to come out with his allegations, Le Hir said he was "sworn to secrecy." "I'm breaking that oath, and the only way I could have been relieved by that oath was by a judge in a court saying, 'Mr. Lehir, I understand that you have made an oath of secrecy; and you're hereby relieved of that oath."

"Mr. Wallace added that police and the courts, not internal rules, are best-equipped to deal with bureaucrats who cross the line and break the law. But Judge Gomery did not appear satisfied. "It takes a major scandal to get the police involved," he said. "It is not in the nature of the public service to call in the police."

Everybody knows that in order to protect the rights and interests of my Clan and to sooth my own soul, I have proven many times over that all lawyers, law enforcement authorities, and politicians in Canada and the USA are not worthy of the public trust. I maintain that their first order of business is to protect the evil longstanding system they have created for their own benefit rather than the people they claim to serve. Call me a liar and put it in writing. I Double Dog Dare ya.



Baker got my material. So did everyone else. Only the Attorney General in Quecbec refused it. I bet our newest Governor General knows why. It is likely for the same reason she will not accept my emails. It should be obvious to anyone why I must sue the Crown.



USPS Track and Confirm

Label/Receipt Number: ED71 7170 440U S
Detailed Results:

Delivered Abroad, August 05, 2005, 9:23 am, CANADA

At Foreign Delivery Unit, August 05, 2005, 8:10 am, CANADA

Out of Foreign Customs, August 04, 2005, 2:52 pm, CANADA

Into Foreign Customs, August 04, 2005, 2:22 pm, CANADA

Arrived Abroad, August 04, 2005, 2:22 pm, CANADA

International Dispatch, August 03, 2005, 10:28 am, KENNEDY AMC

Enroute, August 03, 2005, 9:08 am, JAMAICA, NY 11499

Acceptance, August 02, 2005, 10:32 am, QUINCY, MA 02169

 
 
 
 
 

Saturday, April 01, 2006

ROOMERS TRULY HAVE NO RIGHTS!!!


Picture 064, originally uploaded by Oldmaison.

EVICTION NOTICE
FOR CHARLES LEBLANC

It has been bought to my attention that you have been bloggling too much and taking too many pictures without consent of individuals.

You must leave the premises in one houe as of this time and date. 7:15am April 2/06

Thanks

Millie and Jim

102 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are being evicted for blogging?

Anonymous said...

Methinks it is because of our little spit and chew EH Frenchie? Did ya notice the CT Yankee put back my work and a great deal more?
Give me a call at(506 434 1379) and try to call me a liar. I Double Dog Dare Yaa Too. Say Hey to your wannabe lawyer buddy Vaughn for me will ya.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

April Fool's

Anonymous said...

Way ahead of ya Frenchie I was already laughing at the joke
Verita Vincit
David Raymon Amos

Anonymous said...

You ain't as quick on the draw all of a sudden. Did you fall asleep Frenchie or have a stroke?

City Under Siege The Fight for Saint John said...

who the heck is David Amos?

Anonymous said...

is this for real. he is a good person, he trys to help people out. i hope he is not evioted because he is a good person

Anonymous said...

The obvious answer is: You see my phone number why not call me and ask me direct? I ain't shy.It is not my fault you never heard of me. I ran for a Seat in Parliament twice with no hope of getting elected if you are so concerned about LNG whay not ask me what i know of the crap. Furthermore I sent you some emails to prove my integrity. Didn't so it I before I tried to post my comments in your blog? Why did you block them? My question Mikey MacDonald is who the hell are you?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Watch Frenchie prove his malice shaortly by making this blog melt as he always does however As a double check I just emailed it to you and Chucky in order to prove that it once existed.

City Under Siege The Fight for Saint John said...

Mr Amos when I tore apart Mr Chases article I sent it to him with my full name .I don't care that you know who I am.

I may soon have a pipeline running through my back yard which is going to change the quality of life of my family.I am a citizen who got fed up with one sided journalism.There is no smoke and mirrors with me.I am calling them as I see them.If you don't like the blog .I guess all I can say is don't blog or blog away .Thats what it is there for.I don't expect everyone to agree with me.Thats democracy.
If you are trying to intimidate me with your rants.think again.

Anonymous said...

No you think again Mikey Baby. USE your telephone as I challenged you to do. The simple truth should not intimadate an honest man. It was you who struck my words. If you had bothered to read my so called rants before you ignored them and then asked the world you the Hell I am, you would have noticed I agree with you and in fact know about this crap than you can dream of.

Anonymous said...

Now stayed tuned to this particular blog and watch Frenchie make it melt. He is the liar not me. He labelled me as a Hells Angel when I ran against the aptly named lawyer Rob Moore in Fundy in 2004. There is no denying that I am a vindictive son of a bitch with a long memory but even you must admit that i am fair. Although both Chucky and Indymedia erased their blogs when I protested their obvious malice, like you they erased everything I attemped to post. Ask yourself why Mikey Baby and the cry me a river again about what Irving is having crammed through your backyard. Guess who saves every word I write or what is said of me to use in litigation? In answer to your question in your own blog. Yes the people in Saint John should sue somebody in order to put a stop to the evil Empires control. Good luck finding a lawyer that ain't afraid of Irvings. You took a picture down as soon as you got a phone call. In my book that makes you a chickenshit. You talk the talk but do not walk the walk. You should have let them sue you in order to meet them in court and make you issues well known and recorded in the public record. I have been begging someone to sue me for years if they think they can prove what I say is untrue because whenever I sue them the corrupt courts meerely see it dismissed and stricken from the record. Look up Byron Prior sometime in Google and then tell me again that you
Obviously you used my phone number now I know yours. Clearly you just pissed me off Lets see you apology ya bastard.

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

ok...I just came back from moving someone. I see that David is debating his issues again.

Listen David? I'll let a debate your issues in this blog here.

I must delete the blog that has emails.

As long you don't swear and smear anyone? You should be ok!!

Everyone has their different style of sending out their message.

I got mine and you got yours.

By the way? Evicted??? It was a April Fool joke from Millie and Jim but I didn't bite!...lol

Anonymous said...

This is weird! What in the hell is going on here?

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

Hey David??? Why don't you start your own blog?

You got that email list and you could invite people to your site like I do!!!!

Anonymous said...

THere's no site like Charles!!! Entertaining as all hell! I have no idea what all these people are talking about, but it's more entertaining than anything on television! God bless the loonies!

Anonymous said...

February 24th, 2006

Rick Hancox Executive Director
c/o Suzanne Ball Senior
Legal Counsel
and Manon Losier General Counsel
and Secretary to the New Brunswick
Securities Commission
85 Charlotte Street, Suite 300
Saint John, NB E2L 2J2
RE: Securities Fraud and Public Corruption
Sir,
Pursuant to our conversation today please find enclosed exactly the same material sent to the eight other provincial Attorney Generals in Canada before I returned to my native land again this year. Obviously the AGs Brad Green and Tom Marshall have known the truth of my matters since the summer of 2004. They have maliciously ignored my false imprisonment in the USA for their own political benefit. The tapes enclosed are exactly the same copies that were served upon the lawyers acting for Rogers Media byway of their newsman Tom Young today. As you listen to the tape you will hear that I mentioned your Commission on air in Saint John weeks ago. Methinks you should have called me then instead of waiting for me to contact you again today.
The tapes and the CD of wiretap tape #139 are served upon the Commission's lawyers Ms. Ball and Ms. Losier as in confidence as officers of the court in order that my allegations of illegal wiretaps by crooked law enforcement authorities may be finally properly investigated ASAP by ethical law enforcement authorities. Hopefully this will be done before I sue the Crown about my false imprisonment but I am not holding my breath. April 3rd is coming fast. Upon your study of these documents you will see that I have not yet given the Yankee SEC all of my evidence of Securities Fraud. However every Attorney General in Canada has been made well aware of it for quite sometime before the SEC declared it was willing to investigate the actions of the former Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale. To date not one person has responded me nor did me the simple courtesy of returning my calls or emails as you finally did today.
Clearly I must complain of the Crown myself without delay before further harm is done to my Clan. Rest assured I will be calling you, Mr. Hancox and the lawyers within your Commission to testify at a trial of my matters in Federal Court in Fredericton. A very pigheaded yet ethical Maritimer knows that justice has been delayed way past too long for the benefit of public corruption and not the public trust. I will not wait for anyone on public service to act within the scope of their employment anymore. To put it simply, after our conversation today I had no faith that you were willing to do your job.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB E5P 3G2

Anonymous said...

Nope the first question should be Chucky where is the computer I gave you in 2004 Yopu know the one the Anglo due from Minto took home for you. You claimed it was no good yea well I would like to have it back

Anonymous said...

The next question is does your buddy Vaughn Burnett still have the material that you promised you would serve upon Brad Green in June of 2004 for me? Has he listened to the CD which is a copy of police surveilance tape # 139? I will call hinm and you as witnesses to testify in Federal Court in Fredericton. The wannabe lawyer and you buddy Bernard Richard both admitted to me that they had the evidence before I was falsely imprisoned in the Yankee jail in 2004. So much for etyhical EH?

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

What do you do with a computer that don't work?

You know the answer!

Papers? to deliver to the Justice Minister? Sorry...I'm not a Sheriff!!!!

Remember be nice in this blog....

Anonymous said...

What's everybody talking or fighting about ?

Always read your site Charles.

The person is right. More entertaining the TV, and I mean that as Big Compliment :>)

Anonymous said...

As far as blogging goes I do have one but do not post much. Because unlike you I feel that less is moreI do not need a blog I employ other people's blogs and only deal with the issues they raise first then take them down the path of the garden of good and evil just like I did with you years ago when they call me a liar. Check with your associate Mikey. He did not allow even my first comment. Just like your buddies in Indymedia. However they certainly allowed you to slam me. Didn't they Chucky?
Just in case anyone cares about the spelling I am typing quickly because Methinks Chucky will soon erase this stuff just like he always does. However here is my phone number again call me and I will show anyone the proof of what I is true and I will even allow them to listen to a wiretap tape or two.

Anonymous said...

Your said the computer didn't work but I know that it did and I brought it all the way from Boston because you were crying poor mouth on the phone. Furthermore I have to witnesses that heard you say you would love to take on Brad Green. the Anglo dude from Minto is one. you the one you call a bigot. I was looking for you in the legislature library to witness me serving the liberal lawyers Burke and Lamrock next door at 710 Queen St when your buddy Dannyboy Bussieres and the Fredericton cops threw me out on June 24th 2004. I was not talking from the gallery as you falsely claim. I have a witness to that fact to . In fact he is a Deputy Minister you was on the floor at the time. the Commisssioners you have befriended made false allegations about me.

Anonymous said...

Charles? Friends with the commissioners?? That's funny! Sounds like you two guys should be getting along great-two peas in a pod of crazy. Nobody even knows what you guys are talking about.

Anonymous said...

C'mon keep it going

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
wroteBonjour

Mr. David Raymond Amos,

We respectfully invite you to consider a Letter to the Editor, i.e.., How Free Trade undermines Maritime Economic Development. We had heard you make some representation about a U.S. company which truck out Maritime 'wealth', as a result of not having similar .provincial resources rights as Alberta, Many Maritimes would be potentially interested in such an editorial.

Merci.

Office of John Stokes

The Canadian National Newspaper
internet site: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com

Anonymous said...

Hey Mr. Stokes
Thanks for the suggestion. As you should know the most glaring example of a company that has been raping the Maritimes with abandon for many years is obviously the Irving Empire. However lately there are some very nasty new players on the scene such a PCS and Corridor Resourses etc etc. I am very busy these days and I am not a journalist. You people are though yet it seems you would rather me say the awlful truth than yourselves because of some possible lawsuit EH?
So be it. I will because it is not slander if one's words are true. Perhaps you should consider checking my work and then come to court sometime in order to listen to me argue all the smiling bastards. You can have much of my work in a click of the button of my mouse. But first please allow me to introduce you to the New Brunswick Securities Commission. I got a rather interesting response from them today whilst I was in Fredericton. They have ignored my concerns for almost a year but now that Bernie Lord's government is getting tipsy, it appears all the bad actors want to show me their arse just in time for me to boot it.
It is Securities Commissions such as this that allow many publicly held companies such as Corridor Resources or Magna Entertainment etc to get away with many things rather than remind them of the law and on how they should conduct business in an ethical fashion. That said, these Commisssions have no say whatsoever over the Irving Empire and that is truly bad. It is a privately held corporation that knows very well the power of money and on how to pay off greedy politicians in order to get anything they want. In the nutshell of the Maritimes that is quite simply everything. It seems that I am the only Maritimer who is not afraid of the ghost of mean old KC Irving and his monoply game. It has always been hard times in the Maritimes. We lament about it all the time but our apathy and fear of the Irvings etc gives us the govenments we deserve.
Print this if you wish. You are off the hook that Irving's lawyers threaten ordinary folks with. I am fearless yet never reckless with the truth. I stand by my own words and invite anyone to sue me if they think I am a liar and wish to argue me. I hate it when the chickenshits send crooked cops against me bearing false allegations in a faint hearted effort to shut me up. It does the smiling bastards no good and only serves to make matters worse.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

March 24, 2006

Michael “Tanker” Malley
C/o Cleveland Allaby
480 Queen Street
Suite # 200
Fredericton NB. E3B 1B6

Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP
C/o Derek Burney
Chair of the Board of Directors of NB Power
515 King Street Fredricton, NB E3B 4X1

Jody Carr
C/o Paul Blackmore
Chestnut Complex
470 York Street
Fredericton, NBE3B 3P7

Patrick A.A. Ryan
Edgecombe House
736 King Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1G2
Re: Public Corruption

Sirs,
Pursuant to my many phone calls and email to your offices please find enclosed the material I promised to you before I file my complaints in Federal Court in Fredericton. The CD which is a true copy of wiretap tape number 139 is served upon you all in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the Crown.
While Norm Betts and Derek Burney’s buddy Stevey Boy Harper is busy in New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of Jody Carr’s buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. I am polishing off my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the very corrupt House crumbles ASAP. If not maybe President Chavez will help me bankrupt the crooks working within NB Power within a crooked government’s blessing. Methinks Tanker will need another lawyer if the one he has now continues to play dumb. Lord paid Allaby a lot of money to study the doings of the Justice Dept a long time ago. He should understand the scene.
Shame on you all for forcing me to go to such lengths to protect my rights under the Charter. Methinks you have underestimated my diligence EH? Now ask yourselves why I don’t sue you after I sue the Crown? I fail to see any reason not to. That is the only way I know of to hold such people as you accountable. Stevey Boy Harper never will even though he talks the talk of such things. Everybody knows what I served upon his party’s lawyer Arthur Hamilton before I was falsely imprisoned in the USA in 2004.
Despite whatever Act our latest Prime Minister wishes to introduce to the Canadian people that he claims will compel our government to act with integrity, he can never deny my right to drag anyone into court. In fact he has done so himself in the past and I am no less of a man than he. Even a simple pigheaded Maritimer has the right to argue the law even with people who think themselves above it. How you all have failed to uphold the law and the public trust placed in your public office is either a matter of public record or soon shall be or my name ain’t Dave. There is no Democracy without Truth and Justice. It is just that simple.
Thats all for now fellas. I look forward to seeing you all in court someday or I will die trying to make it happen in an ethical fashion. It is just another one of those things I do that lawyers fail to appreciate. Ask your friends why that is if you don’t already know.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2

Anonymous said...

Hey
Everybody received hard copy in hand to their offices except of course what the UPS dudes are bringing to Paul Shuttle and Andre Arthur. Obviously Yankees ain't as quick as me even when I give them two days head start. I have signatures and pictures to prove that all the New Brunswickers named below got their material today as I promised last week except for the sneaky Conflict of Interest Commmissioner Mr. Patrick who hides behind locked doors. He just sent the Sergeant at Arms who tried to run me off again.
However the Frenchman Danny Boy Bussieres had to accept my material on behalf of the Commissioner and our Queen whom he represents no matter how much he wishes to ban me from the Legislature. He didn't sign anything but what transpired between us was witnessed by a man who was not involved. I gave the crooked Quebecer hard copy in hand. Somebody speaking for the Queen should answer me ASAP. EH? If Danny Boy wishes to attempt to ban me from the Legislature again he really should put it in writng. EH? Perhaps he should clearly state the reasons behind his malice and who is accusing me of what. Otherwise I will ignore him until we meet in court. Then I will have many questions for him on the public record. I repeat, I have never threatened or harassed anyone. The next time he and I meet I hope to have many witnesses watching our exchange of words instead of just one man.The Sergeant at Arms Danny Boy Brouseirres lake most lawyers and politicians is a liar.
I will leave you all to wonder who receives this email next but lets just say I was very correct about my assessment of the Public Utilities Board and the New Brunswick Securoties Commission. corrupt Maritimers act just like crookedYankees. After all most of them are lawyers and their brotherhood practices their malice across borders all day long every day. The thing is can they trust each other when the politiking gets down and dirty. Methinks there is no honour amongst theives no matter how powerful they are. What say you? I know your answer already and that only time will tell the tale to prove what I say is true. Until then I will simply remain a man of my word and hope for justice to prevail. It is your job to uphold the Public Trust not mine.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

March 24, 2006

Bernard Shapiro
Ethics Commissioner
C/o Andre Arthur MP
325 de l'Eglise
Donnacona, Québec G3M 2A2

Jean T. Fournier
Senate Ethics Officer
C/o Senator Noel Kinsella and Michael Comeau
Holy Cross House Rm. 206
St. Thomas University
Fredericton NB

Kevin Lynch Clerkc/o Paul Shuttle
Director of Legal Operations
Privy Council Office
59 Sparks Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A3

David Gourdeau
Commissioner for FederalJudicial Affairs
c/o Willa Doyle
District Administrator
Suite 100
82 Westmorland Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 3L3

Re: Public Corruption

Sirs,
Pursuant to my many phone calls and email to your offices please find enclosed the material I promised to you before I file my complaints in Federal Court in Fredericton. The CD which is a true copy of wiretap tape number 139 is served upon you all in confidence as officers of the court and or Parliamentarians in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the Crown.
While Stevey Boy Harper is busy in New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of his little buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. I am polishing off all my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the very corrupt House crumbles ASAP.
Shame on you all for forcing me to go to such lengths to protect my rights under the Charter. Methinks you have underestimated my diligence EH? Now ask yourselves why I don’t sue you after I sue the Crown? I fail to see any reason not to. That is the only way I know of to hold such people as you accountable. Stevey Boy Harper never will even though he talks the talk of such things. Everybody knows what I served upon his party’s lawyer Arthur Hamilton before I was falsely imprisoned in the USA in 2004.
Despite whatever Act our latest Prime Minister wishes to introduce to the Canadian people that he claims will compel our government to act with integrity, he can never deny my right to drag anyone into court. In fact he has done so himself in the past and I am no less of a man than he. Even a simple pigheaded Maritimer has the right to argue the law even with people who think themselves above it. How you all have failed to uphold the law and the public trust placed in your public office is either a matter of public record or soon shall be or my name ain’t Dave. There is no Democracy without Truth and Justice. It is just that simple.
Thats all for now fellas. I look forward to seeing you all in court someday or I will die trying to make it happen in an ethical fashion. It is just another one of those things I do that lawyers fail to appreciate. Ask your friends why that is if you don’t already know.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
PO Box 234
Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2

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Anonymous said...

David Amos is mentally ill folks. just ignore him and maybe he will go away. he is a criminal and a liar. he rants and raves like a lunatic. he makes charlie seem like a choir boy. he is one sick s.o.b.

Anonymous said...

Well I must say I am not surprised. I am in fact delighted to introduce some folks in the Martimes to the man most responsible for my false imprisonment in the USA. I have been fishing for him to make his usual appearance within a Blog. If one speaks of the devil long enough he is sure to appear. EH Chucky? This crook's name is Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara of the Norfolk County sheriffs Dept. A bigger snake in Massachusetts there never was. Right now it is suppertime and I ain't goona let it grow cool worrying about what he may say of me but rest assured I will relish and save every word of it. Stay tuned and I will post many of his words that have been deleted from many other blogs in order to protect him and the crooks who have covered up his many crimes.
At least I have a name EH Deputy Dog? Even on the internet you use girlfriend's Wicked Wanda Willard's ID

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

Hey? As long he leaves his view in this little blog and not others? I don't have a problem with the guy.

He's pretty mellow with his words compare to past emails.

Hey? We might have a second Spinks here???...lol

Anonymous said...

David is a less of lunatic compared to Chucky.

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

SPINKS??? WHERE ARE YA????

Anonymous said...

Now that I finally see one vote of confidence.It is time to stress Chucky's words to the max. Lets see if this post stands the test of time. I am posting something that only a few politicians have seen. Whereas Chucky's buddy Danny Boy Brussieres had banned me from the Legislature and Chucky did not have the balls to deliver the material to Brad Green I and my son, Max delivered in hand the matereial to both of the following dudes offices in Moncton right after Canada Day and Paul Martin's boat had been caught in Sidney with more coke than coal on board. We then went home to where I was raised in Dorchester Nb and I laughed at the thought of Charles LeBlanc as I drove through his hometown. If he had had the sand to deliver this letter and the material I had given him to Brad when he promised to so. He would be my hero, Bernie Lord's government would have fallen, my adversary Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara would have gone to jail instead of me and most importantly my little Clan would be still in their home today. If Brad Green Bernie Lord and Franky Boy McKenna had acted with integrity I would not have to sue the Crown in order to have a fraudulent warrant for my arrest revoked in the USA. Anyone should feel free to print or email the text of this letter with abandon simply because Brad Green answered it. I can email anyone a copy of his response in a tif file. In fact I will email one to Frenchie and Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara, Brad Green and his buddies first first. You will know that Chucky got it first and can never play dumb no more. I will forward it on to anyone who asks and they can decide you is crazy and who is not and who is a liar and who is not. My email address is motomaniac_02186 at yahoo.com and my phone number is 506 434 1379 I do not call people collect as Chucky does.

July 1st, 2004

Brad Green
c/oBernard Lord
132 Mill Road
Moncton, NB. E1A 4A5

Frank McKenna
c/o McInnis Cooper
655 Main St.
Moncton NB E1C 8T6
RE: Corruption
Hey Fellas,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Paul Zed before he met Paul Martin at the airport last weekend. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated. As you review the material it should be painfully obvious to you why I have no respect for your chosen profession of lawyer/politician. I must say that both Mr. Lord and Mr. McKenna were clever to keep some distance from the recent federal election but I don’t think it was very wise for Mr. Lord to have me expelled from the Legislature Building for political reasons rather than legal reasons.
I have done as the Sargent at Arms ordered on June 24th and stayed away from the Legislature and waited for it to take its summer break so that no more bullshit about me can be said. I have now delivered this material to your constituency office Mr. Lord so that you may deal with this at a personal level with Mr. Green. I will complain of you Mr. Lord and your friends Mr. Green, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Burke to court along with the Fredericton Police Dept. and the Sargent at Arms if I do not receive a satisfactory response very quickly and convince me of your ethics and stand with me. I have not heard from the Fredericton Police Dept. thus I suspect that Corporal Ross has done as he threatened and thrown this material in the trash for the benefit of his fellow police officer, Mr. LeBlanc.
Mr. Green may I suggest that you study every word and listen to the CD closely and prepare to argue every word if you disagree with the fact that a fellow Canadian has the right to seek justice and relief for the many wrongs practiced against him. What would you do if the Men in Black had appeared at your door and were willing to take you away to Cuba without counsel because of false allegations were made against you in order to stop you from defending your family’s interests? As you can see I have come home to protest these actions in a political and legal fashion. I have done only as the Solicitor General Anne McLellan has suggested and given the evidence to those who claim to have jurisdiction over me. You speak for the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police. They dropped the ball the instant they pulled me outside the building for no reason. They claimed jurisdiction but refused to investigate. I have seen it reported that I had tried to speak from the gallery and the Sargent at Arms falsely claimed that I had attempted to serve someone within the legislature building. Both statements are untrue. I left materials at the door in the custody of the security guard as he requested. I was only looking to find Charles Leblanc in order that he may witness me delivering the enclosed materials to T.J. Burke’s office. This was necessary for me to do because as you know most lawyers are reckless with the truth. I will let your fellow politician/lawyer. Peter McKay, explain to you the reason why that is. However it was no longer necessary to require a witness because the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police had watched me go into 710 Queen St and come out without the material they had just refused after harassing me. They are my witnesses as you are now.
As for you, Mr. McKenna, I expect you and your fellow lawyers at McInnes Cooper to uphold the law and conduct yourselves in a professional manner according to the rules that allow you to practice law for a fee. Don’t you think you should act ethically rather quickly and report your newfound knowledge of crime? At the very least I have made you witnesses to my complaints and rest assured I will be asking you many questions in court if the RCMP doesn’t ask you first. Mr. McKenna, I read your recent speech about how you likened the actions of federal political leaders to various purebred dogs. I must add my two bits worth to your comments. Those fancy dogs don’t hunt like the mangy old mutt that is the guard dog of my little Clan. I don’t bark but I am quick to bite. If you turn around you will see me sniffing at your heels. If any lawyer makes one false move, I make every effort to rip his nuts off. Check my work before you call me a liar.
I have followed the money home to the Maritimes. I find that you and many other liberals have been in pursuit of filthy lucre every bit as much as Mr. Mulroney, Mr. Crosbie and their many cohorts. The Maritime Provinces have suffered the most from the many years of political abuse by greedy lawyers and their bosses. Mr. Harper called Maritimers defeatists but he failed to say who was beating us up. Obviously it was federal politicians on both sides of the fence. The last thing Mr. Martin is to me is noble. In my opinion he is a fine example of a very crooked lawyer aspiring to be an adept politician like his daddy. I view your speech about dogs simply as a little dog licking a big dog’s nuts in a stylish way in order to win the Alfa male’s favor and someday win his position amongst a pack of political thieves. Feel free to argue me after you explain to me real slow how Cardinal Law was legally removed from my complaint and what right the Men in Black had to try to take me away because I am exposing the awful truth about bad acting bankers and Feds. Please don’t pretend that you guys don’t know a few very well heeled Yankees that have helped you along in your own personal pursuit of happiness. Mr. Tobin got a great job working for an interesting Conservative. Eh? Should Belinda listen to Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Harper or to her new CEO? What do you think? How much time do you think I may have left on the planet for asking such questions as this? What do you think may cause my demise? In the end I will rest assured that someday my ghost will be very vindictive against lawyers that failed to uphold the law. At this point in time it would be very easy for some lawyer to act ethically and become the people’s political hero. What say you? Can you trust your legal and political friends to not turncoat and stand with me? Interesting dilemma, eh?

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton. MA. 02186

Certificate of Service

I, David R. Amos on July 2, 2004, I served the enclosed materials in hand to the offices of Frank McKenna at McInnis Cooper 655 Main St. Moncton NB E1C 8T6 and Bernard Lord at 132 Mill Road. Moncton, NB.E1A 4A5

David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186

Anonymous said...

"WOW" What a guy.Where did all that come from. Sounds like this guy has a problem.NO maybe a lot of problems.Too bad.

Anonymous said...

He just goes on and on doesn't he?

Anonymous said...

yeah it's not pretty. it's like a car wreck that just keeps happening. kinda scary knowing he is in our back yard again. Mr.Amos you need professional help man. i can give you some numbers. you don't have to live with your paranoia. there is help if you seek it.

Anonymous said...

Before I can even begin to believe that you are for real Why not crawl out of cyber space and into the real world. It stars by proving to all that you have a name. Cheap shots under Anoymous in Chucky's ain't worth squat to me unless you are man enough to look me in the eye and stand by your words. I do What say you got a name and a set of balls or just a mouth like Chucky?

Anonymous said...

Only the crooks are scared that I am back in the Maritimers. A lot of ordinary folks like me are laughing at how I am poking holes in their stuffed shirts. This letter is wickedly funny, Both Adrienne Clarkson and Herménégilde Chiasson answered this one after my wife and I and a lawyer who wanted Rob Moore's seat in parliament visited the Police Commission in New Brunswick. Bev Harrison would not answer this letter or even return my calles even though he has represented me from my spot on the hill since I landed home last year. His assistants have affirmed to me several times that they received it. I am demanding an answer from Tanker now tha old Bev's assistant Bill Oliver refused to call me back for the last time on Friday. I do not care what the tough talking Danny Boy Bussieres says only the Speaker can authorize the Sergeant at Arms to ban a man from the legislature. Besides that the Governor General his ultimate boss told me I was doing the right thing before I returned to the USA and into Deputy Dog's buddy's jail. I wiil put this letter and the responses in the same email to Chucky and Deputy Dog

August 24th, 2004

Lieutenant-Governor of
New Brunswick,
Herménégilde Chiasson
Old GovernmentHouse
51 Woodstock Road
Fredericton, NB E3B 9L8
Phone (506) 453-2505
Fax (506) 444-5280

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,
Bev Harrison
Constituency Office: Hampton-Belleisle
Room: Unit 4, 46 Keirstead Avenue
Hampton, NB E5N 5A4
Phone (506) 832-6464
Fax (506) 832-6466
RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Premier Lord and Frank McKenna on the day after Canada Day and a copy of Brad Green’s response. I have also enclosed a letter to Senator Joe Day that was to be forwarded to the Arar Commission. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as the Queen’s representatives of in order that it may be properly investigated. I ask New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor of, Herménégilde Chiasson to forward this material to the Governor General of Canada. I have already emailed her notice to expect this material and I will email her the text of this letter as well.
Whereas the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 1 o'clock p.m, perhaps you fellas can find a little time to answer me before I sue the Queen in the USA. My questions are as follows: Why did Sergeant-at-Arms, Dan Bussieres and the Fredericton Police Dept. ask me to step outside the Legislature Building and then forever ban me from re-entering the premises on June 24th, 2004? What will you do with your newfound knowledge of crime?
It is only fair that I ask these questions. After all I am a Canadian Citizen and I do have the right to ask any question to those who represent me. Whether they are born to the position or elected or appointed or merely hired, they all must uphold the law and the public trust. The Queen of Canada, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is the official Head of State and is represented in New Brunswick by the Lieutenant-Governor. Therefore, the Lieutenant-Governor is the nominal Head of State at the provincial level, empowered with the responsibility of representing the Queen in the province. Thus I have asked him the aforesaid questions before I leave the jurisdiction of New Brunswick.
The Ombudsman, Bernard Richard told me to take my matter up the Speaker of the House and thus far Mr. Harrison has ignored my phone calls and emails. Bev Harrison did have the opportunity to ask me any question he wished before he decided not to vote for me. It seems he would rather have the lawyer, Rob Moore speak for him in Parliament. I would not be surprised to learn that Bev Harrison was the same man I had spoken to months ago or that he had attended the debate in Hampton. I have no doubt that Mr Harrison knows exactly who I am and why I was in Fredericton that day. I am not a rebel just because I make inquiries and demand that people in public service uphold the law.
The problem is that on June 24th I was a candidate for the 38th Parliament. I was busy challenging those still in public service such as John Herron to do their jobs and uphold the law. I was merely in the legislative building looking for the Frenchman Charles Leblanc so he could witness me serve this material upon the lawyer, T J Burke next door. I had made certain that many politicians were made well aware of my concerns and allegations before coming home to run for a seat in the next Parliament. The local liberal, Leroy Armstrong was willing to debate me so I was giving this material to his liberal lawyer friends to review. Dan Bussieres offended me for political reasons not legal reasons. The Speaker of the House should not have allowed the Sergeant’s actions or at least responded to my inquiry. These must be irrefutable facts because after almost two months of asking everyone imaginable about the actions of the Sergeant-at-Arms, no one would even tell me his name let alone explain his actions, It appears that the Government of Canada would rather assist corrupt politicians within a country that had rebelled against the Queen than assist one of her subjects to escape their harassment.
I must return to the USA because I have been summoned to court to argue more false allegations made against me. Whereas my country is willing to throw me back into Ashcroft’s clutches, I must complain of the Crown. It seems the Yankees may have been right long ago when they refused to pay taxes without proper representation. Perhaps Canada should follow suit. We all know what has been said about the evils of longstanding governments. What say you sirs? Am I speaking sedition or common sense?
I have heard that Louis Riel once said that the French would take over Canada without firing a shot. Now many of the French wish to separate. Maybe true Canadians can reunite our country in the same fashion. There is no need of the cartridge box as long as we properly employ the soap box and ballot box. The tools of bloodless revolutions are the laws of the land. They are in the hands of people begging us for our vote every so often. Canada does not need to pay homage to a Queen who will not check the work of the people representing her and us. We need a new form of government. I agree with Louis Riel’s thinking when he proclaimed that the Metis were “loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England’. If we are rebels, we are rebels against the Company that sold us” Although he was labelled a rebel, Louis Riel was a Canadian patriot who did stop Western Canada from being absorbed by the USA. He was also elected to Parliament twice. He would abhor NFTA as much as I. The words in Riel’s diary are well worth heeding.
“O my God! Save me from the misfortune of getting involved with the United States. Let the United States protect us indirectly, spontaneously, through an act of Providence, but not through any commitment or agreement on our part.” Riel stated in his diary this as well: “God revealed to me that the government of the United States is going to become extraordinarily powerful.”

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton. MA. 02186

Anonymous said...

This letter really put Lizzy Weir's panties in a knot. Chucky's buddy Bernie Richard answered me immediately but she never did. When I got out of jail and jumped bail in the USA one year later and started demanding answers from the NDP she was not long taking a job from Bernie Lord and leaving her party in the toilet. Bernie Richard di the same thing years ago to save Lord nasty little minority. The problem is the liberals are no better ask the not so good Dr. Doherty if he wishes to argue me in public about it. In order to argue him and the pretty woman Bernie Lord had his eyes on I tried to run in Bernie's snap election in Saint John Harbour because in my opinion I caused Lizzy to quit and run off. I knew I would never be elected but the decent folks who always voted NDP deserved to know the score and my opinion of the LNG scene is worth listening to. However the not so non partison Anne Hollies and her yo yo underling Paddy Addison illegally refused me for the benefit of Bernie Lord.The Irvings and the Spanish dudes who have lost their popularity in other countries want to put such a dangerous thing right int the damned harbour and the crooked Mayor suppots it? What planet is he from I must ask. People with no names call me crazy. Well in retort I say if the politicians are sane then I am glad I am nuts.
However before they put me away anyone can have this letter and Bernie Richard's very dumb answer. I would not be surprised if this blog turns into a pumpkin by midnight EH Chucky? However if you leave it up I will post sometime a very wicked Cinderella Affadavit by Newfy Johnny Crosbie's law firm of Patterson Palmer that will explain why the liberal President in NB Greg Byrne has now gone solo.

August 24th, 2004

NDP Leader Elizabeth Weir
Constituency Office
39 King Square North
Saint John, NB E2L 1E6

Bernard Richard
Office of the Ombudsman
767 Brunswick Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8

Re: Corruption

Sir and Madam,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor, Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others today. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
There is no need to be long winded with you two people. I can prove contact with each of you and your associates many times. I know that you are expecting this material and why I am providing it to you for your review. Not only will I be mentioning your names today to the Police Commission but your names can be found in various places within my documents. I feel that you are entitled to review the material and I am entitled to expect you to act ethically and with integrity as would befit an officer of the court. What you will do with your newfound knowledge of crime? Please send your response to this letter to the address below. I can no longer linger in New Brunswick and wait for politicians to find the time to uphold the Public Trust.

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R, Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186


CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, David R. Amos, of 153 Alvin Ave. Milton, MA. on August 25th, 2004, I delivered the enclosed material to the Office of the Ombudsman, Bernard Richard at 767 Brunswick Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8. Whereas the Provincial office building at 710 Queen St. is no longer assessable to the public, I will provide these documents to Elizabeth Weir’s Constituency Office at 39 King Square North Saint John, NB E2L 1E6 as soon as possible.

David R, Amos

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

Some people sent me private emails asking me- Who the hell is that nut???

Well? As I said earlier in the day.

No swearing or smears and everything should be ok.

I can delete this particular blog in seconds but we'll keep it here.

So far so good....

Try to be nice....

Anonymous said...

One no named dude lamented that I go on and on and I admit that that is true. On ther other hand earlier another fella ask for more and lamented that I was too slow posting. Rest assured I know most Maritimers do not give a damn about legal crap or politics. I fit in that boat as well it is just that the smiling bastards attacked me and my little clan and I must defend myself the best way I know how. I figure fire with fire so to speak so I went fiercely political and did not care about being elected. I just wanted to make my issues public for the benefit of my family first and foremost and the awful truth only hurts crooks. Most folks would find this crap boring yet lawyers and politicians like old women are gossips big time. They climb to the top pulling on the balls of others to get there. Trust that many would find this an interesting read. There is a lot to tell after being blocked in most places for years and I am trying hard to stay local to Fredericton only simply because that is the audience the Chucky draws. If the dude don't like to read my stuff click to another of Chucky's mindless blogs and look a pictures that take a long time to look at in dial up.
For ethical lawyers (if there is such athing) benefit here is something that will help explain the news today in a very funny light. McAllister answered me but Miller did not. Miller's (David Hache's too)law firm is merging with the rest of Patterson Palmer's outfit so it appears I have now crossed paths with the same bunch of bastards at least four times in various matters. Merging makes a firm more powerful but it also opens the door to the need to defend the bad actions of your many partners. Everybody knows you can't trust lawyer the that Patterson and palmer in Halifax went with Franky Boy McKenna's buddies i all to funny to me. The dudes in Turo are the only smart ones in the bunch. They said to hell with them all. Maybe I will give then a call. If you cannnot find an honest lawyer your might as well hire the wisest one EH? As i said Byron Priors complaint will prove to the Maritimes why. Look him up on the web or in front of Parliament next week.

August 24th, 2004

Gary A. Miller
371 Queen St. Suite 400,
Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y9

George A. McAllister
212 Queen St.
Fredericton, NB E3B 1A8

RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
Months ago I contacted you, Mr. McAllister by phone and informed you that I wholeheartedly agreed with your standing that Insurance companies were making the consumers cover their losses in the stock market. Brad Green and Premier Lord played Ms. Weir and the Commission like a fiddle and were merely doing their part to assist the interests of the Insurance Companies at the expense of the public trust. Although you were happy to hear that your opinions had been read and understood, you definitely did not want my evidence supporting your claims. Pursuant to my last statement to you, Mr. McAllister I have now proved to you that I am a man of my word and I now expect you to obey the Code of Conduct that you must obey in order to practice law for a fee.
Mr. Miller, the same holds true for you. Within these documents you will find the name of a lawyer you know very well, David Lutz. I find this man to be a very poor example of an officer of the court and I don’t mind telling the world my opinion of him. Please read my letter to him and let me know as to whether or not you stand with him and against me. If anyone were to ask me, Mr. Lutz is a man in need of legal aid and has no right to charge others for his malicious assistance. Will you spring to his defence when I file a complaint against him? Whether you fellas like it or not I have now made you witnesses to my sad complaints before I returned to the USA.
If I survive the malicious prosecution that I am looking forward to in Boston next month, I will return to litigate in New Brunswick. There is no middle ground for any lawyer to stand on in this battle within two corrupt justice systems. All that I have demanded from any lawyer is simple ethical conduct. Why is that too much to ask for?
I have read your various spit and chews with Brad Green and I must admit I find them to be quite comical from my position as a layman in the catbird seat. Rest assured that I will endeavour to make my opinions widely known. Sue me if you wish. In fact I double dog dare ya to. Bring this material to court so that the jury can have something to read while we argue truth, justice and the Maritimes kowtowing to the American Way.
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R, Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186

Anonymous said...

Even if you do delete it Chucky you know for a fact that I already saved it. With luck I will be showing you a printed copy of it in court someday. I will ask you many questions in public not private emails about what the hell you know about this crap. Why you lied about me called me names and didn't give Brad Green my material as you promised spoke volumes to me about your integrity. Don't even try to argue me about my manners. I know how to behave myself it is you who does not.

Anonymous said...

2005 01 T 0010

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
TRIAL DIVISION

BETWEEN:
WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF
AND:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT

AND BETWEEN:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT/PLAINTIFF
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF/FIRST DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: T. ALEX HICKMAN SECOND DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: THOMAS MARSHALL THIRD DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: DANNY WILLIAMS FOURTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: EDWARD M. ROBERTS FIFTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: JOHN CROSBIE SIXTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: PATTERSON PALMER SEVENTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
SUMMARY OF CURRENT DOCUMENTCourt File Number(s):2005 01 T 0010Date of Filing of Document:25 January 2005Name of Filing Party or Person:Stephen J. MayApplication to which Document being filed relates:Amended Application of the Plaintiff/Defendant by Counterclaim to maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in it’s entirety, and to refer this proceeding to case management.Statement of purpose in filing:To maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in its entirety and refer this proceeding to case management.
A F F I D A V I T

I, Stephen J. May, of the City of St. John’s, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Barrister and Solicitor, make oath and say as follows:

THAT I am a Partner in the St. John’s office of PATTERSON PALMER solicitors for William Matthews, the Member of Parliament for Random-Burin-St. George’s in the Parliament of Canada.

THAT Mr. Matthews originally retained Mr. Edward Roberts, Q.C. on or about 30 April 2002 after Mr. Byron Prior, the Defendant/Plaintiff by Counterclaim, had made allegations against Mr. Matthews in a publication called “My Inheritance - The truth - Not Fiction: A Town with a Secret”. In that publication, the allegation was made that Mr. Matthews had had sex with a girl who had been prostituted by her mother. That girl was alleged to have been Mr. Prior’s sister.

THAT upon being retained, Mr. Edward Roberts wrote a letter to Mr. Prior. That letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “1" to my Affidavit.

THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts’ letter to Mr. Prior, Mr. Roberts received a 1 May 2002 e-mail from Mr. Prior. That e-mail is attached as Exhibit “2".

THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts receipt of the e-mail, Mr. Prior swore an Affidavit acknowledging that what had been said in that publication was false. That Affidavit is attached as Exhibit “3" to my Affidavit. Following Mr. Roberts’ receipt of that Affidavit, Mr. Matthews advised that he was satisfied not to pursue the matter any further and our firm closed our file.

THAT on or about 25 October 2004, I was retained by Mr. Matthews following his gaining knowledge that a web site, made a series of allegations against him relating to my having sex with a girl of approximately 12 years old through to an approximate age of 15 years old. It also accused him of being a father of one of her children and accused him of having raped that girl. Upon checking the web site I saw that Byron Prior, the Defendant, had been identified as the author of the material on the site.

THAT Mr. Matthews instructed me to write Mr. Prior, to remind him of the fact that the allegations had been admitted to being false through a 16 May 2002 Affidavit to advise him of Mr. Matthews’ intentions to commence legal proceedings if the comments were not removed from the web site. A copy of my letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “4" to this Affidavit.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “5" a transcript from a 5 November 2004 voicemail left by David Amos, identified in the voicemail as a friend of Mr. Prior.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “6" a portion of a 6 November 2004 e-mail from Mr. Amos.

THAT until I received his voicemail and e-mail, I had never heard of Mr. Amos.

THAT Mr. Amos has continued to send me e-mail since his 5 November e-mail. Including his 6 November 2004 e-mail, I have received a total of 15 e-mails as of 23 January 2005. All do not address Mr. Matthews’ claim or my involvement as Mr. Matthews’ solicitor. I attach as Exhibit “7" a portion of a 12 January 2005 e-mail that Mr. Amos sent to me but originally came to my attention through Ms. Lois Skanes whose firm had received a copy. This e-mail followed the service of the Statement of Claim on 11 January 2005 on Mr. Prior. I also attach as Exhibit “8" a copy of a 19 January 2005 e-mail from Mr. Amos.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “9" a copy of a 22 November 2004 letter addressed to me from Edward Roberts, the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador covering a 2 September 2004 letter from Mr. Amos addressed to John Crosbie, Edward Roberts, in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor, Danny Williams, in his capacity as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Brian F. Furey, President of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. I requested a copy of this letter from Government House after asking Mr. Roberts if he had received any correspondence from Mr. Amos during his previous representation of Mr. Matthews. He advised me that he received a letter since becoming Lieutenant Governor, portions of which involved his representation of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Roberts’ letter also covered his reply to Mr. Amos.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “10" an e-mail from Mr. Amos received on Sunday, 23 January 2005.

THAT I swear this Affidavit in support of the Application to strike Mr. Prior’s counterclaim.


SWORN to before me at
St. John’s, Province of Newfoundland
and Labrador this 24th day of
January, 2005.


Signed by Della Hart STEPHEN J. MAY Signature
STAMP
DELLA HART
A Commissioner for Oaths in and for
the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
My commission expires on December 31, 2009.

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Amos,

On behalf of Ms. McLellan I would like to thank you for your email message concerning the current federal election. I regret that the volume of messages prevented me from responding sooner.

Your message has been brought to Ms. McLellan`s attention, as she is always pleased to receive comments, both positive and negative.

Again, thank you for bringing this matter to Ms. McLellan`s attention.

Sincerely,
Kirsten Odynski
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Anonymous said...

Hey Mr. Costello
Need I say I was not impressed by you yesterday. At least you confessed that you knew who I was but so much for a jealous defense of your client’s interests. EH? That said there is no need to send you hard copy of my material. Your associates within McInnes Cooper already have enough to review and confer with you about.
Perhaps you should call the dudes or ladies (: Tell them how I chuck rocks will ya? from Patterson Palmer in Halifax that merged with your firm or better yet Lenny Hoyt and Franky Boy McKenna. In my humble opinion your little buddy Franky Boy as Canadian Ambassador should have tried to stop NB Power’s malicious lawsuit against Venezeula in the USA before it picked up steam. But what do I know. EH? I think the dudes from Venezeula were wise to bring the issues back to the Maritimes and into the Irvings’ lap. I think it was a hoot that they employed your firm to do so. What say you? Whereas you do not wish to speak to me I will speak to these dudes about you, Embassy of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 32 Range Rd Ottawa Ontario K1N 8J4, Phone: 613 235-5151 and then send them what I sent Allan Rock Franky Boy Mckenna and the FBI almost one year ago. Perhaps you should call some of your friends mentioned below that I served my stuff upon yesterday after I talked to you and ask them what the Hell I am up to if you don’t already know.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

P.S. the following was an interesting article to come out in the local paper just as Humpty Dumpty had the Governor Gerneral drop the Writ on the last election. It certainly seems to me that the Irving’s and Bernie Lord were trying hard to help Stevey Boy Harper’s government and John Wallace get elected in order to protect their own selfish interests. EH? If he won’t tell ya then ask me why Franky Boy does not want to be the liberal leader right now. I Double Dog Dare Ya. As I said in closing yesterday you have my number but maybe the dudes from Venezeula lost it so here it is again 506 434 1379. Your problem is do I want to talk to you now. Whilst I am talking to your clients about your incompetance I will explain to them why I am preparing to sue your whole god damned law firm.

November 25, 2005
Liberal leader ‘jeopardizing’ NB Power’s chances in lawsuit over failed Orimulsion deal: Tory MLA
New Brunswickers should question whether Liberal Leader Shawn Graham is fighting for them or for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, says a Tory MLA. Jody Carr, MLA for Oromocto-Gagetown, made the stinging indictment against Mr.Graham Thursday during a heated committee hearing where the Liberal leader took repeated swipes at David Hay, NB Power’s president and chief executive officer, for failing to answer legal questions regarding the utility’s Orimulsion lawsuit. Mr. Graham questioned some of the tactics being advanced by NB Power’s legal staff and demanded to know how much the power corporation budgeted for the legal battle against the Venezuelan government and its state-owned oil company.
Mr. Carr said the Liberal leader crossed the line in Thursday’s committee hearing and could endanger NB Power’s lawsuit. “The issue is complicated and it shows the issue is far over his head to what he can comprehend,” Mr. Carr said in an interview later."He was in effect working on the side of the Venezuelan government by jeopardizing the court proceedings."He was jeopardizing the chances of government and NB Power recouping the $2.2 billion in savings and therefore, in essence, that put him on the other side.” NB Power restarted its lawsuit on Sept. 1, when it filed a statement of claim looking for $2.2 billion in financial damages, which equates to the price difference between purchasing heavy fuel oil to burn at the Coleson Cove Generation Station and Orimulsion, a cheap water-and-bitumen mixture patented by Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).
NB Power has hired Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales to quarterback the lawsuits filed in Fredericton and New York along with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to serve as their U.S. counsel. Mr. Hay estimated that the corporation has already spent as much as $600,000 on legal bills relating to the Orimulsion lawsuit.The Liberal leader grew increasingly frustrated when Mr. Hay stonewalled his attempt to get a firm answer on NB Power’s budget for Orimulsion-related legal fees. “For the life of me I can’t understand how it could jeopardize the court proceedings in saying how much we are thinking this court challenge may cost,” Mr. Graham said.Throughout the committee session, Mr. Hay assured the Liberal leader that the power corporation was evaluating the risk-reward ratio at each legal “fork in the road.” Mr. Hay said he cannot disclose any details that could tip the utility’s legal hand considering the Venezuelans are keeping a close eye on the proceedings."We are dealing with people with extremely deep pockets. And if you go to a poker game “... and you say, I have my $1,000 here or whatever it is you are playing with, that gives an advantage to the other side,” Mr. Hay said.
Mr. Carr also accused Mr. Graham of misleading Saint John residents about the Orimulsion costs during the recent byelection campaign in Saint John Harbour. Mr. Carr said he found it disconcerting that Liberal campaign signs said the Conservative government lost $2.2 billion through the bungled Orimulsion fuel deal but now Mr. Graham admits the money was a “potential loss of savings.”
- Daniel McHardie - Canadaeast News Service Source: Telegraph-Journal | page A5 on Nov. 25, 2005

Anonymous said...

From: “Steve Erickson”
To: motomaniac
Subject: from Steve Erickson from Masschusetts
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:26:32 +0000


Mr. David Amos,
we talked about 2 years ago. My cell that we talked on is [Boston area code cellphone # snipped]

Much has happened good for me since then.

Are you in Canada, in Parliment, or are you still in the Boston area?

-Steve Erickson


Does this stuff answer your question Stevey Baby? I read what you said of me within your long winded Blogs. I told you the truth years ago and now I will tell you a little bit more. To me you are just another greedy sneaky Yankee now. But to be fair to you I must admit that we have our share of bull___ing bloggers and crooked politicians in the Maritimes as well One of them is a Frenchie named Charlie Leblanc and another named Bernie Lord. Please allow me to introduce them and some of their cohorts to you. Their emails are wittin and his Blog and yours is below. How dare you bastards imply that I am a one percenter in order to promote yourselves.

http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2006/03/very-first-day-at-new-brunswick.html

This is obvious Bull__ supported by Charlie Leblanc for his old buddy the malevolent Sergreant at Arms Danny Boy Bussieres were talking two years ago. Now that he has lost his trusted staus he files a human rights compalint after he laughed at my false imprisonment in a Yankee jail?

Original article is at http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/7980.php Print comments.
IS ELVY ROBICHAID SEEING THE LIGHT????
by Charles LeBlanc Friday, Jun. 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
Fredericton

updates from Charles

I got a few late stories that I want to bring up.
They had a protest at the Legislature on Wednesday
and I would say about 400 people showed up. I made my
own little investigation in the crowd and I soon found
out that many people from the Northern Part of the
Province knew about my protest.
These Acadians read about my protest in L’Acadie
Nouvelle! A few weeks earlier, I found out that the
English Population from the Miramichi area didn’t know
about my fight so this shows me that it’s so important
to have the media covering your issues.
During the protest, I felt like I was in a police
state. There were cops are over the place. I
approached three of them and said - My God? We need
violence, bricks going through windows, people being
shot and tear gas!!!
This is the only way that the Government will
listen.
One cop said - If I have to use my gun? I know
exactly where my first bullet is going to go!! Pretty
scary…lol….
Speaking of violence?
That guy from the Sackville area who went to
Toronto with his vehicle full of guns! Very scary
Stuff!!!
What did I tell you people in the past? Someone is
going to crack up one of these days and I know for a
fact the area targeted is going to be the Legislature.

There’s always undercovers cops around but only
when the House is in session.
As God as my witness I hope nothing happens but
it’s just a matter of time till someone is push over
the edge.
I guess a guy name David Amos was shown the door
yesterday at the Legislature. This guy is running as
an Independent candidate in the riding of Fundy Royal.
I met the guy over the net and he has a beef with our
political bureaucrats.
I admire people fighting for what they believe in
but you can’t get carried away. I guess in this case?
He wanted to speak from the Gallery and that’s a big
faux pas!

Anonymous said...

After Stevey Boy Harper gets sworn in I will call Washington to see if Spectre got the wiretap tapes and then start forwarding this email everywhere. In an ethical effort to impeach Bush and his lapdog Harper myself.
What did Lamrock, Burke, Murphy, McGuinley and you think of the copy of # 139? Scared the shit out of you EH? Whereas you little local liberal lawyers would not help me unseat Premier Lord and stop Stevey Boy Harper in h9s tracks i will through in the same lawsuits with him. It is hard to get good help these days. The word integrity does not fit in the job discription of a lawyer or a Parliamentian. EH?
The fact that Emerson just crossed the floor and the Dastardly Dave Dingwall story broke yesterday kinda sends your wicked little party down the tubes EH? From my point of view it looks good on you dudes. Say Hey to Franky Boy McKenna for me will ya? I hope to argue you all very soon in court.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos



FEDERAL EXPRESS February 7, 2006
Senator Arlen Specter
United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. Specter:

I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wiretap tapes. I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.

Very truly yours,
Barry A. Bachrach
Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003



David Amos wrote

To Whom it may concern
I know Petey Baby MacKay don't love me so there is no sense in wasting my dime calling him. Hell he has refused to answer my letters or call me back even after Belinda Baby dumped him, so I do not expect him to do the right thing as Minister of Foreign Affairs other than to accept nasty little Franky Boy McKenna's resignation ASAP. Tell me is Franky Boy entitled to severance pay like his fellow Malawyer ritime buddy Dingwall is? Whereas the liberals Wayne Easter and Landslide Annie refused to protect my dumb arse over the years in their capacity as Solicitor General/Minister of Public Safety. I guess I should be fair and allow it Mr. Day's to try to act ethically on my behalf for a day or so, before I sue the Crown. EH?
Rest assured that I ain't holding my breath waiting for Mr. Day to call me back. Like many of the rest of you Stockwell Day has known of my troubles ever since Harper was elected as his latest boss in 2004 when he sat in the 37th Parliament
In the meantime in answer to Andrew Kyrstal's very dumb question on the radio just now.,methinks I should inform the NHL dudes that are being prosecuted by corrupt Yankees how I can help them.I know Andrew Kystral and all the Rogers dudes never will. What the New Jersey Dudes are up to right now is merely a case of the big bad pot calling a minor little kettle black to me and Andrew Kyrtal knows it too. Just like the Lord Conrad Black versus FitzGerald matter in Chicago everybody is trying to play dumb and it was to funny that Peter C. Newman apologized after I sent his lawyers some of my stuff..
Tell me something honestly if any you can find it in your soul to do so. Do you really think that the Conservatives thought that I didn't notice that Mulroney's right hand man Dereck Burney set up your Cabinet or that Michael Fortier was not a partner in his law firm?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

As a little reward Frenchie Here is the reason Franky Boy McKenna, Allan Rock, John Manley, and Brian Tobin will not run for leader of the liberal party.
Call them and ask them or the FBI to sse if they wish to call me a liar. Better yet call the Yankee Senators Arlen Spevter or Russ Feingold. Nitey night Chucky. The clock clicked past midnight and the blog has not turned into a pumpkin yet. I am impressed with your your Newfound sense of integrity but quit the wise cracks and try to say something about this crap I have posted that really matters. Will ya? A polite argument in public in front of many witnesses would be nice.

May 11th, 2005

Ambassador: H.E. Mr. Allan Rock
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 Second Avenue , 14th Floor
New York , NY 10017

Ambassador Franky McKenna
Canadian Embassy
501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001

Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Special Agent David Price
FBI Minneapolis
Suite 1100
111 Washington Avenue, South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2176

RE: Rampant Public Corruption in Canada and the USA
Hey,
Now that Paul Martin has finally set the date for his confidence vote, methinks its time to pack my bags and head for home. I must raise some serious political hell in the Maritimes before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts does its worst to bankrupt my wife and put my kids on the street before I can expose the rampant public corruption. This is also a very good day to prove within the USA that we are well aware of each other and of my concerns and allegations in order to stress test the integrity of the US Mail. It and the Canada Post have failed me big time in recent years particularly just before the Yankees falsely imprisoned me last year for the benefit of George W. Bush, John Kerry and Paul Martin to name a few. I have no doubt whatsoever each of you dudes know more about me than I do about you. However that does not mean that I have not studied each of you a lot more than the ordinary layman. Just so we are clear, I have no respect for any of you. I know that all of you are as crooked as Chief Mearn, his cops and the lawyers who are coming into our home tomorrow without a warrant. This mail should prove your malice and willingness to support crime and public corruption.
Pursuant to my many emails, phone calls and faxes etc., you will find enclosed as promised exactly the same material I served upon the Solicitor Generals Teddy Olson and landslide Annie McLellan last year before I ran for Parliament last year. The CD of the copy of wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as officers of the court and FBI Agents in order that it may be properly investigated. Franky got this stuff and more last year. The FBI got even more the year before. Perhaps they should go find the original tapes that the Suffolk County District Attorney and Special Agent in Charge Ken Kaiser have been playing dumb about for far too long. This material was good enough to impeach George W. Bush last year and cause many people to quit or lose their jobs. It is every bit as valuable today and you all know it. Ask the many people whose names can be found within these documents or Franky Boy or Claude Richer, Allan Rock’s lawyer buddy in the RCMP about this stuff before you call me a liar. As you all know I am out of jail on bail pending my upcoming criminal trial in front of a jury of my peers. I have the right to remain silent in the USA. I will employ different rights in Canada and say a lot.
What I choose to say while stumping for a seat in Parliament in Canada is of my concern not yours. If you dudes do your jobs here and I act ethically and legally up home with luck the world will be far better off in short order. I have already checked the rules with the people working for Elections Canada. We agree it is perfectly legal for an innocent man to run for Parliament while being prosecuted with false charges in the wrong jurisdiction and venue in the USA. Everybody knows I can secure my personal freedom quicker in a political forum in Canada rather than argue crooked judges in the USA. They have already imprisoned me on bull**** charges without even reading me my rights or telling me why I was in jail. The crooks are not going to have a sudden fit of ethical behavior now without it becoming a matter of political will. We all know it is high time for a change, the sooner the better for the Maritimes as well as the rest of the world. What better politician to argue with than a right wing lawyer named Rob Moore?
As you all no doubt know I have been talking to many people within the UN and have sent many much of my stuff. You all must have laughed as hard as I did when the Cubans were afraid to talk about my stuff. I must agree with George Bush about one thing. The UN is certainly in need of an overhaul. Yet we all know that nasty dudes like Maurice Strong’s buddy, Paul A. Volcker, the Former North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and Karl Rove’s puppet, John Bolton are just going to make matters worse. The same holds true with the turncoat Robert C. Pozen. He now offers advice to Bush on how to fix Social Security simply because I sent him running for cover with my Putnam Investment concerns and the malevolent media control of Global Corporations. Feel free to argue me or act ethically. You choose. I don’t care. Franky Boy knows he is way past too late. I am just rubbing his nose it before I talk a lot about him and his failure to uphold the public trust in our old stomping grounds up home. I can’t help but wonder how he explained his “Harper is a lapdog for Bush” dogma to Karl Rove and his nasty cohorts. I suspect it was an allowed comment from an insider of the Carlyle Group. Don’t you? We all know Stephen Harper would never fit in that group. He is as dumb as a post. All of his successes playing at politicking have just been a matter of luck and playing on the PC and Liberal scandals. Harper is kinda scary to me. He has a truly awful agenda in store for all Canadians like evil old T. Alex Hickman and Johnny Crosbie did for our Newfys.
Sometimes less is more. So in conclusion I will just quote former Inspector General of the DHS Clark Kent Irwin and simply say it would have benefited all if he had taken his own advice way back in November of 2003 when he had an important job.
POGO: “Any advice for your fellow public servants?”
Irwin: “Well, just do your job and let the political chips fall where they may. Unless you’re willing to do that, it seems to me you shouldn’t take the job in the first place.” What say you?

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton MA. 02186

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Anonymous said...

So charlie what papers did he ask you to deliver to brad Green?

And why didn't you complete the task?

Anonymous said...

Hey David Amos you complain about Chucky's pictures. He posts many pictures of himself so you fall in love with him. He really likes you.

Chucky really needs you.

Anonymous said...

I am impressed with Chucky's newfound sense of ethics the blog still stands this morning. If anyone would like to view the material and listen to a copy of a wiretap tape that Chucky and his buddy Vaughn are so afraid of all they have to do is call me and meet me in public somewhere before I leave Fredericton. I am sitting in town right now and trying to write my first complaint to file in Federal Court ASAP. Here is my cell number again 506 434 1379
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

Methinks Mr Amos is a wacko

Anonymous said...

Mr. Amos is in good company with Charlie though. They will get along fine. They seem to have a lot in common.

Anonymous said...

Methinks too but Mr. Amos is in good company with Charlie though. They will get along fine. They seem to have a lot in common.

Anonymous said...

Oh ye critics with no names why not pick up the phone tomorrow and call your Ombudsman and Chucky's buddy Bernie Richard mention my name and ask him whether or not he received this email on August 11th, 2004 at 3.11 pm two weeks before he met my family in his office. Then if you grow up and get a name and an emaiul address watch me prove to you I am no friend of Charles Leblanc


Hey Bernard
Thanks for your response though. I didn't believe you on the phone the instant that you tried to make an issue about not receiving the email to Wayne Steeves. I figured that you were covering for Brad Green because that would mean that you knew the CISNB was involved. I laughed when you repeated it in the email. Do you think me dumb?The Fredericton PD guard the legislature correct? Ask Sgt. Kelly or Chief Carlisle if they had jurisdiction over me when they threw me out. The Crown always has jurisdiction over a Canadian citizen particularly when he is on native soil. I figured out it was Dan that threw mw out. He should have taken the stuff in the yard just as soon as he affirmed that he and the cops had jurisdiction over me as he ordered me away from the legislative building. They did watch me go into 710 Queen St to serve TJ Burke and come out without the stuff. They know I did it. Over Two hundred people watched me serve Leroy.Armstrong once he stuck his nose in my affairs. Anne McLellan and Brad Green both suggested that I give this stuff to cops that claim jurisdiction. Go argue Bruce Noble. .I don't need any luck Uncle Franky has been dead for two months even though no one has notified my wife I know it. Watch me turn the worm on the Secret Service, the FBI and the RCMP
There is no way you could have known about Connie Fogal without getting Wayne Steeves' email as well. He should have sent the CISNB out to do their job by now. Obviously that is not the case. Maybe Elizabeth Weir will have more luck making you understand. As for me I simply don't trust you. I will be calling you to court. We can argue about integrity and jurisdiction there. In the mean time perhaps you should go find Leroy Armstrong or T J Burke or Brad Green or Premier Lord or Bruce Noble and ask to see the documents and the copy of the wiretape tape I sent them before I compel you to argue about them with me. There is another fella running around Fredericton with the same stuff. His name is Vaughn Barnett. If the politicians won't talk to you, maybe he will. his number is 457-4559 But he is likely out in the front yard protesting something. I don't trust him either because he and Charles Leblanc are buddies and I know he is a liar.

Cya'll in Court
David R. Amos

Anonymous said...

I still can't understand what this guy is trying to say. His posts/letters or whatever are WAYYYYYY too long! I still have no idea what his beef is or who it's with.

Anonymous said...

I sent the email I promised I would to Chucky and many of his buddies. I will forward it on to anyone else. All you have to do is ask. Again my email address motomaniac_02186 (at) yahoo.com

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

My beef is what all politicians talk about but do nothing about because they are the ones who practice it. In a nutshell it is called Public Corruption Get it? If not so be it. I have said enough for now.
Dave

Anonymous said...

All I know is that David and Chucky make great friends. They are heavenly made couple. They think alike and behave alike.
Only difference is that David rights a little better English when Chucky sucks.

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

rights???????

Anonymous said...

Ok "writes" smart a**.

Anonymous said...

Charlie you've been leaving comments since someone above asked you what papers you were supposed to deliver to brad green for this guy?
and #2 why didn't you complete the task?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for asking that question again but rest assured Chucky will never answer it?
Dave

Anonymous said...

> HELL ANGELS FROM MONTREAL LOOKING FOR CHARLES
> LEBLANC????
> by Charles LeBlanc Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004 at 11:26
> AM
> oldmaison@yahoo.com Fredericton
> Thursday morning, I showed up at the Legislature to
> use the computer at the Library.
> I was told by security that two rough looking
> individuals walked through the doors and asked for a
> Charles Leblanc?
> They described the guys as rough looking and one of
> them had a long gray beard with a leather jacket!
> At first, I believe it was the Hell Angels coming
> down from Montreal for a hit on Charles.
> Hours later, I seen my bigot buddy Matthew Glenn and
> he was in front of the Legislature with his
> blowhorn.
> For you people who don’t know the bigot? He’s the
> one who started the Anglo Society. I seen him
> preaching to three young kids and of course I butt
> in and said - Hey Bigot??? Why don’t you bigot go
> home?
> Minutes later, we were approached by two guys and
> they asked politely –Where can we locate a Charles
> LeBlanc???
> In a matter of seconds, the bigot quickly pointed at
> me.
> I said to myself - Ohhh?? Thanks a lot Bigot!!!
> At the end? It was a guy named David Amos and I
> guess that he’s running at an independent in the
> riding of Fundy Royal. The guy have been living in
> the area of Boston and he's been following my
> updates on the internet. I'm telling you that the
> information highway is a great way to spread the
> message to the rest of the world!
> We talked for around 30 minutes and it was nice to
> see the bigot, me and David Amos together debating
> our own little concern issue. We all have our own
> issues and it’s too bad that we cannot unite and
> fight but that’s the way Canadians do things.
> They remind silent until the Government really
> pissed them all and go out and vote the party in
> power out of office

Anonymous said...

From: charles leblanc
Subject: Re: This is David Amos
To: moto maniac

I don't know what you're talking about but I gace your
info to Vaughn...Maybe he can explain to me what your
papers are all about...lol


--- moto maniac wrote:

> Hey Charles
> I just found out a simple truth about you. You
> are a liar. Not only did you not give my stuff to
> Brad Green as you promised. You did not give it to
> the man from Minto that you enjoy calling a bigot. I
> just had a little talk with him and he affrimed what
> I had suspected about you and denied receiving the
> documents etc. from you as you claimed.
> Perhaps you should get honest and give the
> stuff to Vaughn Barnett. (I just called him 506
> 457-4559 and left him a message to assure him that I
> am sincere and this is not spam I have not been to
> Fredericton lately but I plan to come soon if you
> don't give him the documents and CD I will) I am
> certain he will understand them and know what to do
> with them. Rest assured that I will tell him you
> have them. (In fact I just did didn't I) You can
> explain your own actions to your friends. I
> understand you well enough already.
> I always suspected that you were all about
> Charles LeBlanc and in the self promotion game. But
> I thought you may at least be ethical. Turns out you
> are just a liar and a chickenshit like all the rest.
> By the way I did figure out who threw me out of the
> legislature it was a french fella by the name of
> Dan. I have no idea why he would claim that his name
> was Jean Claude but it does explain to me why he did
> not show me his ID. I ain't no Hells Angel as you
> and the fellas in the legislature like to claim that
> I am. However I am a plenty pissed off boy from
> Dorchester who just had another French asshole show
> me his ass. Ask me why I am not surprised? Don't you
> think I asked around about you? Never forget you
> were raised just up the road from me. I told you
> that out of the gate when I first called you from
> Boston. Remember? That should have been a little
> clue to you. You should have done the same before
> slandering me and adding to the offense by proving
> to me that you are a liar. I
> gave you the benefit of my doubt but you proved for
> me once more first impressions are seldom wrong. I
> have now thrown you in the same boat with your
> frienf the Sergeant at Arms(Even that has acquired a
> french spelling for an English Queen) I don't hate
> french folks but I do find french bullshit very
> contemptable. I have many Cajun friends that share
> the same opinion about french Canadians. In fact I
> was the first Canadian that a lot of them ever met
> that they actually saw eye to eye with. We quickly
> put the english/french stuff in the proper corner
> and went on with our pursuit of happiness We just
> laughed at your snotty attitudes about culture.
> everybody knows it ain't about that at all. It is
> about money and power as usual. Wave all the flags
> you want, you can't fool me. I am too stupid. What
> you and all my other fellow maritmers seem to be
> overlooking is that while we can't see the forest
> for the trees because of our petty squabbles, the
> evil Global dudes have been raping our
> forest primeval. They playing us like a fiddle
> while you dance their jig out of your own self
> interest. Do you want a job in the media or do you
> wish to be like Michael Moore and become famous
> byway of notoriety? Do you really think anyone in
> the media owned by the rich and powerful takes you
> seriously? Can anyone take you seriously once they
> find you to be a liar? At least I do what I say and
> say what I mean. What say you now Chucky Baby?
> Better yet wait until I turn up and say it to me in
> front of your friends. Premier Lord know I love to
> argue with Frenchmen we can talk about it on his
> front lawn. You buddy Dan and the CISNB can listen
> in.
> The following are your words about me. I find
> that you are so full of yourself it is ridculous
> particularly in light of the fact that I consider
> you to be full of shit. Watch how easily I prove
> that fact about you the next time I am in
> Fredericton. Which maybe sooner that you think. Rest
> arrured I will be telling your friends what I think
> of you. Feel free to argue with me. It should prove
> interesting to see who they believe.
> David R.
> Amos
> 506
> 434-1379

Anonymous said...

Vaughn did you get my material as Leblanc claims? You are the third guy he says he gave it to. If not I know I will be the last. I have had enough of him and his funny ways at my expense. He whined and complained that he had no computer so I gave him one. But he failed to even say Thanks. Now the liar wants people to buy him a Bull Horn so he can bother more people with his Bullshit. Well Fredericton has already met a real legal and social activist and i did it all without a whisper or any press coverage. Soon Ottawa will receive the same stuff and much much more before I return to the USA to argue the bastards pulling the strings up here in our old houses. The folks working there seem to care more what language the liars are speaking in rather than what they are actually saying. Charles LeBlanc spoke with a forked tongue when he claimed his Scottish heritage. He made my blood boil and my ancestors bones rattle when he went on and on about his roots. First the frenchy wants his flag on the government houses then he wants to wave it wearing our kilts? I am of the Keith Clan and founded my own. My ancestors were fine and noble warriors. Read their motto on the beer bottle Chucky and tell me if you believe it or not. Rest assured I do. Neither my Septs nor I would accept such a man as Charles Leblanc as a trusted friend.

Anonymous said...

David,

Yes, Charles gave me the material - although I must admit that I was not able to make much sense of it. Because of that, and because it appears to be out of my area of expertise, I doubt that I can help you very much. Also, unfortunately, your clash with Charles, and your low opinion of him (which I feel is unwarranted) has created a conflict of interests, as Charles is a friend of mine and a fellow activist. Since I doubt I can assist you much anyway, perhaps that doesn't matter. In any event, good luck with your cause.

Vaughn

Anonymous said...

Chucky finally met his match in David Amos. Chucky deserves it. He messes with good people. Someone is speaking out.

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

I must admit that you have lots of guts to condenm me in my blog site.

Anyway? I tried to read those papers and I can honestly say that I don't uderstand what your battle is all about?

I never told you that I would give those papers to any MLA's. Why the hell do I want to be involded in your issues anyway.

I got enough on my own plate.

Ok...you got a little blog because a good supporter of this blog asked me to let you post your views.

Don't blow it!!!!

Is you wish to smear and used bad words? I'll delete the whole blog.

Try to be nice. Not too many websites allowso you to post your views so be nice in here.....

Watch the language....is not??? Well? Why don't you start a new blog????

Is easy to do.....

I really don't understand your point of view.

All the activists are trying to bring important issues to the public and you wish to condenm the same people.

Why burn all those bridges?

Oh well c'est la vie.....

Anonymous said...

Lets get this straight Chucky so there is no misunderstanding. You only allowed my words to stand this time around because other people read them and asked you to? Hmmm some ethics EH?

As for guts not only is my belly bigger than you my balls are as big as basketballs compared to yours. I ain't afraid of Count Peter Hans Klovenbach so why would I be afraid of you? You and your wannbe lawyer friend know full well I have been trying to impeach George W. Bush byway of the courts since 2002. Long before that nonsense in Iraq began. You hate me because if you had even glanced at the papers you just confessed you read then you know I sued Cardinal Law and caused him to quit his job on Dec 13th, 2002. It had nothing to do with child abuse like the media claims. It was merely filthy lucre that is all. Well my wife's cousin the exbanker turned priest Robert T. Kickham is still around around and cooking the books for the brand new Cardinal in Beantown. You know the dude in named O'Malley.

Furthmore Chucky you offer no argument to anything I state other than lie about not promising to serve Brad Green or falsely claiming that the computer I gave you was no good? The best you can is make jokes or critize my choice of words whilst I point out your serious lack of integrity?

In my law books it is not illegal to have poor manners or use the words I have employed thus far(as of yet anyway) I believe it falls under something that can be found in the Charter

However to slander someone and tell ouright lies about them for one's own gain is more than offensive. I have been falsely imprisoned because of the perjury of people like you who choose to support public corruption for their own gain. Methinks I should seek relief in court in fredericton particularly when I can prove it. Furthermore you know you have told several lies within the very blog.

I will wager if I posted something that you can never refute this blog will evporate immediately. Perhaps I should seal its fate and let your friends wonder why you erased me so quickly after I busted you in front of everybody. Never fear though I saved this blog in its entirety already. However you really should check you email and press print on the tif file that I just sent you and yoy hard copy of the proof that I keep wonderful records. Some of your buddies and adversaries may be reading it already. At the end of the day you may realize that I just may turn out to be the honest man that you ever met.

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

I give up....I'm just going to continue bloggling away.....Bonne Chance...

Anonymous said...

Don't you think you should hire a lawyer too? That last email was hell in a hand basket wasn't it? Why not call Cleveland Allaby (your know Tanker's lawyer) he hates both Bernie Lord and me but he won't demand any sort of apology from me. Hell he won't even whisper my name. Just maybe Cleveland Allaby will help Vaughn and you to understand my material and then ask you two dudes why you didn't call the RCMP years ago. Yea I know I am pipe dreaming. Honest cops and lawyers don't exist. That is pure Hollywood all the way and a long long way from the Maritimes EH? Ask my Newfy buddy Byron Prior how bad things really are around here. I Double Dog Dare Ya too Chucky.
Que Sera Sera and
Cya'll in Court
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

Chucky giving advice to David Amos to not burn bridges? That is funny. Chucky is good at burning bridges himself. He has no bridge left to burn. How can give advice to others to not do the same.

Anonymous said...

Subject: Fwd: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you


Everybody loves a mystery. A lot of folks were no doubt wondering why the big talking old fart named Petey Newman apologized to Lord Conrad Black not long after he and Mikey Levine laughed off his lawsuit at the big party in Toronto. Didn't it seem strange to anyone that the Tory's law firm wrote the crooked old Lord a fat cheque as well? It seems that the Torys, a dude named Mr. Moate, Levine, Greenspan, Newman and I may be the only ones to know the true reason why and I am the only one who will tell the tale. Here is your clue see if you can figure it out. I know of two Maritimers who will never have a hope in hell of figuring it out because they do not have two clues between them and if the did they would not know what to do with them. One dude everybody calls Tanker and the other I call Frenchie. They know who they are do you
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:36:11 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos
To: Eddy Greenspan
Subject: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you

Say hey to your buddies the old fart Peter C. Newman and and the corrupt Yankee FitzGerald for me will ya?

"Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." wrote:

Subject: RE: Since Susan Prosnitz and her boss Fynn would not answer Hard Copy
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:10:13 -0500
From: "Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." To: "David Amos"

Please delete my name from your emails

Greenspan, White
144 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1G8
Tel: 416-366-3961
Fax: 416-366-7994

Anonymous said...

Subject: RE: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you

"Cleveland J. Allaby" wrote:

Please do not email, write, copy or send anything to me in the future.

Anonymous said...

Bingo You Mr. Cleveland Allaby win the cake baked by Bernie Lord.

Cya'll in Court . Thanks for finally responding to me. Your timing is perfect. One hour before or so before the 39th Parliament begins and just in time before I polish off my first complaint to file in Federal court in Fredericton. Was it done so quickly after I blogged my letter to you in Chucky LeBlanc's web page? Did the gossip about my blogging in his website reach you first thing this morning? In my book you are as dumb as the Frenchie is. Wise or dumb I will call you as a witness to testify in Federal Court before I get around to suing you. Perhaps your lawyer and I should talk now. Hostile or not you will make an important witness not only on because of your lawsuits concernining Native Aboriginal matters (Remember Barry Bachrach represents me in the USA right now) but more importantly because Bernie Lord paid you a lot of money years ago to study the Justice Dept. (Wasn't it 112,000 grand or so?)
Obviously Cleveland you are no wiser than Eddy Greenspan. Clearly you think your status as a well known lawyer allows you not only to ignore and not uphold the law but break it if you wish. Should you have contacted the RCMP as soon as you listened the the CD I provided you with. Guess what I told them you got it already. My next calls are to the General Counsel of the SIRC and the old lawyer who represent the following folks. He has played dumb with me for way past to long.

THE CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION
A. ALAN BOROVOY, GENERAL COUNSEL
Suite 200, 394 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X4
phone: 416-363-0321
fax: 416-861-1291

Cleveland did you really think your email will scare me off? Look how fast I bounced it back and forwarded it to many others. When a man has been diligently attempting to impeach George W. Bush for over three years despite the attacks from crooked Feds etc nothing scares him anymore. A threat of litigation coming from the email box of a lawyer into mine is like manna from heaven to me. Didn't I slam Eddy Greenspan the same way? Man you are dumb if you though that I would not do the same thing with you. You just proved for me that every body else got my email and hard copy too. you asgin the same question I asked you on February 23rd. Whois your god damned lawyer maybe I know him already. If not tell him he has a fool for a client. Will ya?

Tell me honestly, Cleveland if you can find it in your your soul to do so. Why Didn't you sue Bernie Lord as you threatened to do particularly after you and I talked the day before I gave my material to your buddy Tom Young and the New Brunswick Securities Commission? I heard of no apology from him and I laughed when I saw Tanker being trundled down to the Speakers chair arm in arm with two crooks. I figured another backroom deal went down and Tanker needed a smarter lawyer because I had heard nothing from you and I made certain that you knew the score with Hard Copy of my material before that shit went down. Something definitely smells rotten in New Brunswick EH?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

The question still remains who is the April Fool and will Chucky evict me for Blogging?

chucky leblanc wrote:

You can add this note to all the millions of other
notes but I feel that I have to send ya this note.

We allowed you to have your own little blog. I believe
it's a good way for you to spread your message.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the
message is???...lol

Anyway, there's no need to condenm the people who are
activists like Vaugh.

I believe it attracts new visitors that search the
names you mention.

But once that blog is delete? It's too fini.

I too had problems at the Legislature and it's in
front of the Human Rights Commission.

It takes time.....

All I'm asking is that you try to be nice and don't
condenm people like Vaugh who an activist also.

Just try to be nice.....

Lets try to spread our message in a nice way!

What do you think???

Anonymous said...

What, specifically, are all these people being sued for? You rant and rave and nobody can make heads or tails out of what you are talking about.

We know you ran for office. We know that you try to impeach Bush (and anybody who does that certainly gets good marks from me!) We know that for some reason they held you in jail? Is that correct?

I'm assuming its under the new terrorism laws, since you say they wouldn't let you see evidence. That also is not surprising the way the US is functioning.

But what are all the lawsuits about? There is something about wiretap evidence that for some reason you are sending to canadian politicians and lawyers..why is that?

What exactly are all these law firms doing? If they are crooked, then specifically what evidence do you have? That lawyers are crooks also doesn't surprise most people, I"m mostly surprised we continue to elect so many of them.

But if you could explain point by point what the grievances are against these people, then people may understand. Perhaps you don't care and just want to let off steam, that's fine too, that's what blogs are for. However, many people would like to know what you are suing these people for?

Anonymous said...

Good day to ye with no name. thanks for the question. Methinks by your questions you must be Vaughn.I stated the reason for my first lawsuit clearly live on CTV news to that Murphy character at suppertime just before I was allowed to debate Andy Scot in Oromocto.
My first lawsuit will be to seek relief for the offense against my rights under the Charter because I was falsely imprisoned without being charged, held without bail and it was all done without even being read my rights. Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out. I had tried to remove the matter to the proper jurisdiction and venue in order to prove the malicious prosecution to no avail. the bastarsds in the USA will never give a jury of my peers and Federal Court in Canada does not employ a jury. Thus I must make my issues well known locally before I file so that the Judges will not dismiss my complaints so easily as they have done in the past. Give me a call if you are not Vaughn and I will meet you show you the evidence.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.S. My next posting is quite a rant. I explain things in greater detail to say the least but my manners are slipping fast. It will be the maximum stress test of Chucky's newfound sense of ethics.

Anonymous said...

So you are suing the canadian government for being held in jail in the US? Is that right, or were you held in Canada? How does that even work?

Why go on a lengthy rant to 'test' Charles? Take a break if your manners are slipping. Having your messages deleted on the last place your story can be told hardly seems helpful.

"Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out"

That makes no sense whatsoever. People don't need long rants, they need clarity. You are suing the canadian government because they refused to help you while in US custody, is that correct?

Anonymous said...

Bingo. Vaughn

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't it be funny if you are not Vaughn but actually Clevelans Allaby or Bras Green or Jeff Mockler or beter yet David Lutz or Vaughn's buddy Brucy Baby Noble. that can't be though because Vaughn must be Chucky's only legal minded friend

Anonymous said...

I am typing to fast because I am upt to something far more important right now involving J. Division. Mean old Zach's old stomping grounds.

Anonymous said...

You know what? I am am gonna take you advice and take a break from Chucky's little sideshow and go downtown to see what condition my condition is in Fredericton. I will be the ugly guy grinning and smoking a lot but not saying a damned think. From now on i want everything i say recorded. One must do such things when one sues the Crown.
EH Vaughn?

Anonymous said...

Well, that makes some sense anyway. So how are these New Brunswick lawyers involved? Are you saying that none of them will represent you or what? You are sending them this wiretap evidence for what reason? If it's federal court why are you even in New Brunswick, all the lawyers in this province are idiots and irving lackeys. Why not go to Toronto where there are at least some civil liberties lawyers.

The trouble is, I don't know of any legal grounds that 'forces' the canadian government to intervene in a foreign country's legal system. If somebody plants coke on you in columbia and you get caught, then plead with canada to help you out, you'll be out of luck.

Under the charter canadians have fewer rights than americans. Our 'terror laws' are the mirror image of the US's, but never even had moranda rights or anything ike that. In Canada, you are simply f&&&&& if you cross the state, as any native, environmentalist, protestor, or civil rights attorney will tell you.

I don't know of a single case where somebody successfully sued, even David Milgaard was given a settlement since it was dragging out so long. Natives have tried suing for years.

However, it's easy to talk from the outside. But if Ernst Zundel couldn't sue for being held for almost a decade with no charges against him in Canada, I don't see how far a lawsuit against Canada for not intervening in a foreign country will go.

Anonymous said...

Civil rights? Where do you think you ar?? Lok at th e blog. A woman can't panhandel to make life a little bettre. Boarding house residents can't do anything. This was a joke, but if that owner wanted to, he could toss Charles for just that reason. Hell, owners could show up at their apartments and tell them they want a blowjob, any body who said no would be told to get out. Welcome to New Brunswick.

Anonymous said...

I am back in more ways than one.
It is half past quitting time and all the corrupt politicians are out getting drunk or laid or both. Tis time for bloggers to come out and play maybe with luck what the smiling bastards read in the morning will give a few of them a stroke and Lord can call some more snap by elections EH?
"Welcome to New Brunswick?" Jeez I was born and raised here i have lived here for over forty years of my life. I am older than Chucky and lived just down the road from where he was brought up in Dorchester NB. I went to High School and UNB in Fredericton when most of the snots that are screwing us did. Why do you think I am so pissed off? You don't think I know the score. If someone claims that I am a Yankee again I think I may hunt them down. If because a man lives somewhere else for awhile makes him a man of that place then how come a Newfy is always a Newfy everywhere he goes.
Here is a God's moment for Chucky:
Wht did God tell the Newfys?
Play dumb til I get back Will ya?
that joke seems to hold true here to. since I left the room nothing further was said. How come. cat got you tongue chucky or could it be the emails I sent ya?
Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

Can ya tell I am fishing?
If you speak of the devil he is sure to appear particularly when you jerk his chain and piss him off.
Dave again

Anonymous said...

Nobody called you a yankee, but starting threatening people is sure to get you deleted, as well as guaranteeing no court in the country will give you the time of day except to prosecute. As was said, there is virtually zero chance of suing the government for your claim. At least Charles is being constructive and taking it to the human rights people and doing his part to get more rights for new brunswickers. But good luck getting to court.

Anonymous said...

I see that you are watching Vaughn. Spoken just like a lawyer you wish to be. "Hunt you down" is an expression. But it brought you out of the woods didn't it. Perhaps you should read your next email real slow. Before I go I must ask you are you trying to intimadate me by making false allegations against me?
Love and Kisses
Dave
(hows that for nice Chucky?)

Anonymous said...

"As was said, there is virtually zero chance of suing the government for your claim."
Hmm maybe I will ask Vaughn under oath in court someday why he has formed that opinion of my pending lawsuit. Clearly he knows more of my matters than what I or Chucky have given him. I am still human don't you know. Fredericton does not have the only courts in this old World. I except them crooked judges here to try hard to dismiss my matters. Why to you think I am raising hell first. If anyone should understand what I am up to it is an actvist.
Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

You certainly ain't Bruce Noble because he represents the Fredericton PD if you choose to send them to hassle me. He already know I have a few bones to pick with him in court. I would welcome more false charges. Here is the obvious question. Are you Chucky's buddy Vaughn or are you not? If not who are you?
Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

Thirty minutes have passed and still no comment. Come on now the email was not all that long Vaughn.
Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

I have noticed that Chucky hit counter has picked up a little speed. His count is starting to appraoch Byron Prior's website. Here it is if anybody cares. I know I do. Byron is human too and he has been far more offended than Chucky ever was.

http://maxpages.com/sexualabuse

I was bored waiting and check to see if it clicked over a big milestone for him.

80 grand was how many viewers he had when the MP Billy Matthews intmadted him into taking it down.

Chucky is appraoching that number for the first time. this is Byron second kick at the can of worms of injustice.

Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

Tick tick tick Methinks when the count get to 100 I will evict myself before I get the bum's rush. It is getting kinda boring here anyway. I wil just safe the posts and go about my evening knowing nobody will miss me here.
Hell I was even being kinda sorta nice:)
Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

Your silence is deafening Vaughn i must be coorect at you or are you to busy trying to revive Chucky with mouth to mouth. Did I give you two too much information in the last email and it overloaded you little minds? What gives Chuckys other blogs barely have any comments at all he can't be that busy. I will leave the comment after 99 for Chucky to fill in or delete. He always likes to have the last word. EH? I will post this look for a comment and then be gone to leave you to wonder when and where we will cross paths again.
Love and Kisses
Dave

Anonymous said...

Now I don't even make sense to myself. I will consider myself evicted and save the blog in its entirety to argue about later.
Cya'll in court or in Hell.
C'est la meme chose n'est pas?
Bon nuit ma petite chou chous.
(Aren't I nice)

Veritias Vincit
(check the Keiths beer bottle)
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

I don't know who Vaughn is, I was interested in the story because I couldn't decide whether you were crazy or just very angry. I still don't know.

I know there are constructive uses for anger, Charles has accomplished quite a bit with his. I'd hate to see ANYBODY spend all that time and energy in a fruitless cause such as trying to sue the government. The mention of being an 'activist' was heartening. Charles has been an activist and he and Tim Smith have almost single handedly got the rights of tenants on the map, and soon an injustice there 'may' be rectified, one that is a hundred years overdue.

Yet he and Tim accomplished it in less than two months, albeit with the help of a byelection.

Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book, their entire federal system is an illegal entity. Manlin Chee has been a public defender for over twenty years, won many awards, and now sits in jail because she sat on a panel that argued against the patriot act. While Canada isn't MUCH better, it is SOME better.

But like I said, the courts will give no recourse, as the courts have clearly stated that Canada's own terrorist act does not infringe on civil liberties. Anybody who thinks highly of civil liberties in Canada just needs to remember Oka, or Quebec, where thousands of french were rounded up without charge just so Trudeau could pretend to be macho.


There are lots of organizations that are attacking these things, and personally I think its a shame that those who have virtually identical claims against the government can't seem to get along. If there were a dozen Charles Leblanc's in the province we could literally turn the province upside down. YOu seem to have the passion, but maybe a little too much, as often you are incomprehensible. That's unfortunate because those who are victims of the aggression of the state are those whose stories most deserve to be heard.

Just a recommendation, but when you mentioned all those lawyers then you definitely got my interest. These guys work in a shroud of secrecy and somebody with the guts to air their dirty laundry would definitely accomplish more good with political activism than with lawsuits. Courts were designed to put undesirables in jail, not mete out justice. Hell, New Brunswick doesn't even allow class action lawsuits!

I don't always agree with Charles, and often his views and how he states them make me cringe, but I'm glad that he does what he does, and NB is a province that NEEDS more 'activism'. I'd just suggest doing it in a way that's guaranteed to get the most results. But that's just my opinion-not Vaughns.

Anonymous said...

What planet in cyber space are you from oh yet with noname who claims not to be Vaughn? The first thing you should do when you touch down on mother earth is get a name. Then learn to read BEFORE you write. I ain't no god damned activist. GET IT? However I am a very fierce political animal. GET IT? I am just a very pissed off Maritimer with way bigger balls than you.

Some activist you are with only half a mind to say something like this to me. Go to jail sometime in Yankee Doodleland and then come back home and tell me that crap again.
"Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book,"

After you figure out the nonsense that you just wrote in support of a liar. Why not get an email account and a telephone too and learn how to use them BEFORE you attack a man who understands more about what you are yapping about than you could ever dream. I have no doubt that you are clever and you may be well on your way to being just another lawyer but you cannot learn to be ethical in any law school. You must be born with the genes. It seems that you and Chucky are a couple bricks shy of that load.

On the other hand in reading some of your words about what Chucky has done I think you may be the political science student at the homeless shelter that the lady that was on Tom Young's show spoke of when I called her afterwards. Either way I don't care. i don't want to know you.
Ask you buddy Chucky sometime to share his emails from me with you if you are truly are not his buddy Vaughn. Better yet go on a mission with your mouse and go through Chuckys many blogs and figure out who he is for yourself. Then ask Vaughn if you can view the hard copy of the material he admited having BEFORE I was falsely imprisoned in 2004. Activists have a lot to learn about listening to folks before there is trouble. It seems they allow things to happen just so they can protest about it later. I was challenging the FBI etc and arguing crooked US Attorneys about other matters in Federal Court in Boston months before that nonsense in Iraq began. whereas you seem to have a love of lucre Vaughn should tell ya that in two matters I was awarded judgements by default for 32 million bucks and I laughed and told them to shove it up their arse because the judgement came from the wrong court. It is all about jurisdiction venue and justice. I cannot demand integrity of others without proving my own first. When the crooked lawyers filed motions to remove the defaults and file their answers late I did not oppose them. It so shocked the hell out of the Yankee bastards they were not long sending the Secret Service to try to take a man away who would rather argue the awful truth than take a pay off.
In my book false imprisonment is definite illegal and when I look at your writing and Chuckys I cannot forget what I was taught. There are NO degrees of honesty either you are or your are NOT. Go kiss Chucky good night. Will ya? I have had enough of both of you oh ye who may be Vaughn. I so not feel sorry that I do not believe you.(Damned for a little Damned for at lot)
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Anonymous said...

One last ting before I sign off that I forgot to say. Yankee lawyers swear an oath before the Bar before they are allowed to practice law for a fee. Part of it goes something like this. "I will not delay or deny any man for lucre or malice" the politicians and lawyers I am arguing ignore their oath for lucre which far easier to understand than the malice you and Chucky wish against me. i tried to help Chucky and even gave him a computer because he whined that he did not have one. The only thing I asked in return was for him to go to Brad Green's office and give him a pile of documents and one CD in an unsealed envelope so that every one could see that there was nothing harmful inside.The liar claimed many things and slammed me six ways to Sunday while blocking my protests. I was getting even on April fools and draging him into a place where most lawyer fear to go. An ethical argument in public view. Like Tom Young on the radio he keep threatening to press the delete button when things were not going his way. Charles Leblanc is all about Charles LeBlanc no less no more.
Veritas Vincit

 
 
 
 
 
 


 
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From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 9:12 PM
Subject: The media will never mention my name perhaps you should EH Mr. Dion?
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The tif file is cool Tracy just press print, read it and think about it. i sent that out and got a response while I was running for a seat in the 38th Parliament over a year after the Yankees attempted to take me to Cuba.

David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:42:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: The media will never mention my name perhaps you should
To: info@dpsip.ca



David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: The media will never mention my name perhaps you should
To: imam@salaheddin.org, administration@salaheddin.org

I do have the evidence to impeach George W. Bush and Stephen Harper too.

David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:11:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: Mr. Bosworth since you called my friend asking questions here is why we laugh at newsmen
To: fyntail@yahoo.com



David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Mr. Bosworth since you called my friend asking questions here is why we laugh at newsmen
To: martinhbosworth@gmail.com, wendygrossman@earthlink.net

Press print on this attachment trust that it is pretty funny. As you know Yahoo is serious about not allowing viruses into their domain and I have already taken on their lawyer Mikey Callahan when then attempted to kill my email account like Bad Boy Billy Gates once did.

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From: David Amos <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: This is too funny many other newsmen will gossip sooner or later
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        Do ya think the building will go beside Brian Mulroney Hall? UNB will have an interesting cluster of buildings named after many crooked old dead farts from the past that worked hard  to screw up the futire of our grandchildren. EH Chucky?
      Tis a shame that their history books will never tell our kids the simple truths we know today. They say history is written by the winners. But I wonder what will happen when they start digging up the CDs that I have stashed about the countyside. They do tell an interesting story and truth is stranger than fiction. EH? Have you figured out what I am up to yet Chucky? A couple of people have.
                                                                       Veritas Vincit
                                                                               David Raymond Amos

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: This is too funny many other newsmen will gossip sooner or later
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:16:14 -0400

       To explain this a little to the newsmen that get this next. Please notice that Brian Mulroney's buddies buried their heads in the sand and had shown me their arse once I had busted their boss in front of his friends.  Meanwhile all the fellas under Bell Canada's wing are all still playing dumb, even though everybody knows Obama is scum. Just like his adversaries, Mulroney's chums. To top it all off Frontline knows absolutely every goddamned thing since the time I was running for Parliament. I am not smart enough to make this up and it is too funny not to share. But first I must give it to the French fellas at Quebecor byway of Bill Gates because that is the kind of guy that I am. Somebody has to make Mulroney pay for his sins. :)
 
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Note: forwarded message attached.
Brian Mulroney
c/o Luc Lavoie
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Quebecor Media Inc.
(514) 380-1974
(514) 236-8742 (cell)


Hey,
   I just called Luc Lavoie's office and left a message but not my phone
number. From now on I want hard copy. Lets just say Mulroney should have
done the Right and Honourable thing a long time ago, particularly as soon as
I notified the lawyers working at Cendant Corporation. I served them once in
person and once by confiremd US Mail. Maybe Belinda should have had him call
me when I contacted her. I know I am the reason he did not speak at the
Conservative leadership convention. I also know Mulroney, Arthur Hamiliton
and John Crosbie were likely some the lawyers who advised Harper to shut up
about what he knew about the Arar Commission.
     I had a great laugh to see the spit and chew between Senator Kerry and
Mulroney but I also know that Mulroney is the reason that Forbes and Sun
Media has not reported my doings with the SEC in the USA or even my of run
for Parliament. Ain't it funny how everyone said Fundy was a riding to watch
but no one whispered my name.  I know  I do not have to be redundant and
send the same documents and wiretap tape to you that I sent to Mulroney and
his many associates long ago before I complain of all the various companies
and lawyesr he is in bed with. Title 18 in the USA will make all the lawyers
fall on their own sword. Hell even you guys claim the merits of the internet
and email is just as efective as the US Mail in the litigation process. Ask
Frank Quatronne or Martha Stewart about that before you disagree. Bill
Gates' lawyer offered no comment so I sent that bastard US Mail just to rub
it in. IF you think I am pissed off you are right. Brian Mulroney could have
easily stopped the distruction of my Clan's beloved Beach House but he would
rather have stood with his corrupt friends than me. Or is it simpler than
that? Did Mulroney just want his peice of the action in the fraudulent Real
Estate transaction by Coldwell Bankers because he thought I had no hope of
stopping it myself? We all know how Mulroney loves money. Airplane deals
proved that.
      What say you J. Serge Sasseville do you stand with your boss and his
peers or me? I know Lavoie will hang with Mulroney until the bitter end. 
Perhaps you may wish to confer with Martine Turcotte or Robert C. Pozen,
they have just received the most recent hard copy of material. Proof of my
contact with Mulroney can be found within the stuff if perchance he tries to
call me a liar. There is still time for you three folks to act in a ethical
manner and uphold the law according to the Rules of Professional Conduct.
After Sept 3rd your are too late. that is the day Massachusetts Trail Court
tries to call me a criminal and I demand a jury of my peers.
      This is not an offer to settle before I file my complaints. That came
along ago to Mulroney and his buddies. Now I look forward to arguing the
bastard or any lawyer he chooses to send against me. I had offered to settle
with BCE before I complained of them but the deal was off the instant they
tried to puill a fast one in an effort to delay me in the hope no doubt that
some bad acting Yankee might put a stop to me when I return to the USA.
Their silence since has spoken volumes. Martine should have contacted me the
instant ATV got the hard copy like i told her they would. I will forward you
some of our email exhange so that we may all get to know each other quite
well. these emails will be forwarded to many others but I ain't telling you
who. My next emails come byway of Yahoo as a double check in case you choose
to block me.
     Say hey to Mulroney for me and I will try to say hey to Kerry for you.
Maybe Ms. Turcotte will share with you what she knows about Kerry and
Mulroney will tell her what he knows about William Cohen and why he quit
Cendant Corp so fast. Maybe Joe Day will tell you about Barack Obama and me.
I am about to tell Obama about Day. Turn about is fair play. Obama used my
stuff against Senators Edwards and Kerry to become a big wig in Beantown
last month. I can use a Senator from Canada to take the wind out of his
sails the following month. An Alliance dude once called Sun Media a bunch of
scumbags. I would have to agree and laugh because it was a case of the pot
calling the kettle black.
                                                          Cya'll in Court :)
                                                                            
      David R. Amos
                                                                            
      153 Alvin Ave.
                                                                            
      Milton MA. 02186

----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:00 PM
Subject: Fw: Ron Show this to Joyce this is too funny

 
----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
Cc: cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca ; tor_news@tor.sunpub.com ; martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; corp.website@sunlife.com ; kcarmichael@bloomberg.net ; davies.carl@nbpub.com ; news@timestranscript.com ; oldmaison@yahoo.com ; nbombud@gnb.ca ; advocacycollective@yahoo.com ; brad.green@gnb.ca ; dayja@sen.parl.gc.ca ; dan.bussieres@gnb.ca ; slevin@mail.house.gov ; Layton.J@parl.gc.ca ; Efford.J@parl.gc.ca ; Easter.W@parl.gc.ca ; Mackay.P@parl.gc.ca ; scotta@parl.gc.ca ; Brison.S@parl.gc.ca ; davidorchard@sasktel.net ; rosent@math.toronto.edu ; Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca ; pm@pm.gc.ca ; Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca ; Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca ; Valeri.T@parl.gc.ca ; Dosanjh.U@parl.gc.ca ; randall.shafer@comcast.net ; cei@nbnet.nb.ca ; Moore.R@parl.gc.ca ; alltrue@nl.rogers.com ; caomc@nb.aibn.com ; jeffrey.rudman@wilmerhale.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:56 PM
Subject: Ron Show this to Joyce this is too funny

  Romina
       What are you trying to do sucker me? I am telling my own tale in court. I am suing your company, Bell Canada. Get it?  
   May I suggest that you talk to your own lawyer, Martine Turcotte and decide what planet you all come from. I just got out of a jail after being put there by the bastards your lawyers assisted to cover up the crimes practiced against me. Discuss my troubles with Robert C, Pozen or Martine Turcotte not me. 
       If you or any of your company wish to communicate with me, address your concerns to my attorney, Joyce Richardson. Turcotte should have her number.
         If Sunlife ain't figured it out yet as to why I am about to sue them. They had best check with Jeff Carp about the stuff I sent him at MFS and his prior association with Hale and Dorr. Jeff Rudman would be good fella to start with but defintely not the last within the aforesaid law firm.
                          David R. Amos
 
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From:"moto maniac" <motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com>
To:cwhite@wob.nf.ca
CC:michel.lalande@bell.ca, jean-francois.legault@bell.ca, christopher.ginther@bell.ca, atvnews@ctv.ca, bcecomms@bce.ca, newsroom@globeandmail.ca, p.macewan@balmoralfarm.ns.ca, dean.macdonald@actwu.ns.ca, elizabeth.macpherson@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca, brenda.reid@aliant.ca, martine.turcotte@bell.ca, info@hoeyassociates.ca, motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject:FW: Re: I am curious
Date:Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:18:04 -0400
      >From: "David Amos"   <motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com>  >To: <martine.turcotte@bell.ca>  >CC: <diane.valade@bell.ca>  >Subject: Re: I am curious  >Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:01:35 -0300  >  >Ms. Turcotte  >      Great. Thanks for the response. It saves   time and unnecessary expense   >and     redundancy because as I said, your local ATV   Station is getting a hard   >copy and Mr. Pozen will receive his upon my   return to the USA. I will   >attach hardcopy of this email to those documents   so they will understand   >that I am serious about my complaints. But I   will remain true to my word   >and not forward this email to anyone
 outside   of       your company. Trust that I   >am seeking friends not more foes. I truly   believe that CTV should   >capitalize on this story but I am somewhat   dubious after I saw how Bell   >Canada employed its media to slam the people   striking against Aliant last   >night. Please never forget I have been compelled   to play the wicked   >political game and I do understand the argument   at the bottom of this   >email. I am very much against the huge mergers   at the Global Level. I am   >certain every lawyer and politician knows why.  >                                                              Best Regards  >                                                                David R. Amos  >   ----- Original Message -----  >   From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca  >     To:   motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com  >   Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca      >   Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:28 AM  >   Subject: RE: I am curious  >  >  >   Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your   documentation.  There is   >no need to send us a hard copy.  As you have   said yourself, the   >documentation is very voluminous and after 3  
 days, we are still in the   >process of printing it.  I have   asked one   of   my   lawyers to review it in my   >absence and report back to me upon my return in   the office.  We will then   >provide you with a reply.  >  >  >  >   Martine Turcotte  >   Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du   service juridique  >   BCE Inc. / Bell Canada  >   1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700  >   Montréal (Qc) H3B 4Y7  >  >   Tel:         (514) 870-4637  >   Fax:         (514) 870-4877  >   email:      martine.turcotte@bell.ca  >  >  >  >   Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute   direction:  Diane Valade  >  >   Tel:         (514) 870-4638  >  >   email:      diane.valade@bell.ca  >  >  >  >  >  >   -----Original Message-----  >   From: David Amos   [mailto:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com]  >   Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:12 AM  >   To: Turcotte, Martine (EX05453)  >       Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca; W-Five@ctv.ca  >   Subject: I am curious  >  >  >  >   Madam  >  >         I did not receive a response from you   to the last email so I am   >not certain if you received it. I must inform   you that I will be closing my   >briefcase in Yahoo for public view at the end of   the week. I have a great   >deal of material to add and I only wish certain   parties to view it. I   >opened it for you the other day as an act of   good faith. Mr. Pozen can   >check my work in the dockets of the various   courts around Boston they are a   >matter of Public Record my files are     not. As you   can see by this and some   >following emails. I am very busy dealing with   criminal matters first before   >filing civil complaints in the USA. As I told   you when you called a lot has   >been happening. I have made a lot of cops mad at   me and I don't trust them   >a bit particularly after the Police Commission  
 is       willing to check their   >work so i have been busy watching my back and   covering my butt. However   >that does not mean that I have not thought about   our conversation and was   >curious about a few things.  >  >          I was glad to receive your call and   impressed by the fact that   >you were more than willing to receive the   material and a copy of the   >wiretap tape in particular. Your stated   willingness to uphold the law was a   >rare statement to me.  However I was curious why   you only mentioned my   >voicemail to Mr. Pozen and not the email to your   company and the news       >program that it owns. Did they not inform you as   well? If they didn't I am   >not surprised because I have some other rather   interesting denials from the   >Media. the most interesting would have to be   from the PBS program called   >Frontline when I introduced its producer Michael   Sullivan to the US   >Attorney Michael J.
 Sullivan.   Now     that is a   story well worth W5 telling.   >Too bad they showed me their ass. As a courtesy   to you and a further act of   >good faith, I will not forward this email to   anyone else until after I   >return to the USA and nothing has been resolved   between BCE and I and I am   >compelled to name it in my complaint. I would   find it very hard to believe   >that Mr, Pozen does not know everything he needs   to know about me right   >now.  >  >         I had also called a lawyer, Steven   Skurka who had a week long   >little special on CTV . I had tried to inform   him that I knew my     rights his   >assistant hollered at me. You from speaking to   me yourself that I am not a   >rude character. I found it too funny to be   treated that way and I had   >resolved to serve him this stuff byway of the   local ATV Station that had   >presented his smiling talking head to me. That   is why I was telling you   >that
 you could get   this stuff     from the local ATV   station. I found it quite   >strange that you did not rely on them to send it   on to you. Thus I must   >make an extra copy to comply with your request.  >  >          I know the date stamp on the forwarded   email is incorrect but   >that is because my old laptop goes to the first   year in it when I boot up   >and sometimes I am too busy or tired to bother   changing it. However MSN   >tracks it with the true date. Brad Smith and I   have a bone to pick as well   >and I have been checking his work rather closely   since he ignored my letter   >to him last     year. His boss Bill Gates is gonna   be very angry and Brad Smith   >and Steve Balmer in the near future if I have   anything to do with it. If   >you do act ethically and immediately I will   settle with your company very   >cheaply in comparsion to the bottom lines of my   first two complaints. In   >fact I will be so
 impressed I will   immediatlely   offer     you a better job than   >the one you have now. Please study the material   I will provide you closely   >and ask me any thing you wish.  >  >          I will do as I promised and send the   material you requested as   >soon as I can put it all together. Right now I   am on the move and far away   >from my printer. Is the following your correct   address? Perhaps you should   >consider sending someone to the my meeting with   the Police Commission in   >Fredericton next week in order to hear me speak   of these matters to law   >enforcement before I return to the USA. Once I       do return there I will serve   >the Mr. Pozen the material as promised and call   him to testify in my   >pending trial. The following emails should   explain some of my concerns to   >you. My wife will be in Canada next week as well   to pick up our kids. I   >will allow you to speak to her if you wish. She   has
 had a nervous   breakdown   >over the legal   crap   and I do have her Durable   Power of Attorney pursuant to   >M.G.L. 201 B. Mr. Pozen can ask Robert S.   Creedon Jr. about that document.   >I argued it with him before the entire Judicuary   Commitee on Sept. 18th   >2003.  >  >          I will call you in a minute to make   certain that you get this and   >the following emails.  >  >                                                                              >                      David R. Amos  >  >   Martine Turcotte  >  >   1000 de la Gauchetiere Ouest  >   Floor 41  >   Montreal, Quebec H3B   58H   Canada  >  >   Tel: (514) 870-4637  >  >   Fax: (514) 870-4877  >  >  
 
Date:Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:48:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:"moto maniac" <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
Subject:Thanks for asking
To:martine.turcotte@bell.ca
CC:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Martine Turcotte
1000 de la Gauchetiere Ouest
Floor 41
Montreal, Quebec H3B 58H Canada
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
 
                       Re: Robert C. Pozen and the rest of the fellas
Martine
     I will send the material as you requested and I will send some forwards of emails sent to others about these matters. The files contained here are older. Much has happened since I came home and ran for Parliament. I will return to the USA to begin litigation as soon as the Canadian authorities assure me that I will not be harassed by the DHS in the USA.    
     I have unlocked the files for you. This wicked stuff. Trust me I am not smart enough to make this up and just dumb enough not to quit defending our rights and interests. Feel free to ask me anything you wish in order to stress test my ethics to the max.
     I will settle with your company very cheaply if you simply tell the truth to the Arar Commission and the Media interests that your company controls do the same for the public benefit. The same holds true for Mr. Pozen in America. All he has to do is go to Norfolk Superior Court and start reading what is left of the dockets and then act ethically immediately. Tell him to say hey to Francis Galvin, Charles J. Kickham Jr. and J. Owen Todd for me.
 
                                                                            Dave
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:01 PM
Subject: RE: My turn to tell a tale.

Dear David,
 
I would like to thank you for your recent email to W-FIVE. We review every story idea that we receive and give it serious consideration.   
 
At W-FIVE we have a limited number of stories to complete in a year, and although we do not plan to pursue your suggestion at this time, your letter will remain on file for consideration at a later date.
 
We do feel your story is an important one and we appreciate your input.
 
Sincerely,
Romina
W-FIVE
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 1980 2:07 PM
To: W-Five@ctv.ca
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca; oldmaison@yahoo.com
Subject: My turn to tell a tale.

I think is time to let a little something out of the bag for the benefit of a few Maritimers who think they know something about the Media.I did notify CBC, the Rogers crowd and Harry Steele's folks that I knew a little bit about the Media and that I had written a book about it. Problem is I need an editor and I believe I may have found one.He comes in the form of a disenchanted newspaper man. But the thing is I want to put it on the web for all to read for free so there is no money in it for him. So I guess I wiil sue some big company with a Prima Facia complaint and settle for a lesser amount out of court. Lets just say I am looking hard at you dudes. I had zeroed in on the Yankee media long ago and I am certain folks within the Ottawa Citizen and Democracy Watch had checked my work(Hey Duff say hey to Dan for me) I have crossed paths with many of Globemedia's people many times for many reasons and I can easily prove it. What I  haven't bothered to tell them that I knew the reason Gobal etc never mentioned me was Frank McKenna and the Irving influence because basically that was a no brainer anyway. However If Globemedia and all their cohorts didn't think I knew about the influence Robert Pozen in Boston, you had best think again. then give Mr. Spitzer, Mr. Galvin, Mr. Shelby and Mr. Donaldson a call and drop my name along with Mr. Nesters and Mr. Koski's and tell them my stuff is off to the Arar Commission I am heading back to the USA to call Mr. Pozen and many folks he calls friends to court. Perhaps in Ottawa Bill Rowe will truly speak for the common man after all if the worm turns on his buddies. How do you people sleep at night? What say you? Why not get honest with the world and I will settle cheap? I will give one of your lawyers something real soon before I serve Mr. Pozen his just due byway of this lawyer Jeffrey N Carp MFS Investment Management
500 Boylston Street Boston MA 02116-3741 617-954-5747 Perhaps he should call Putnam investments or the Brookline Savings bank and say hey to Mr Chapman and Mr Tripp for me. I just called Bob Pozen at 617 954-5707 and introduced myself so that he can never say that he never heard my name.

MFS set to agree to second settlement

  • MFS set to agree to second settlement

    By SINCLAIR STEWART
    00:00 EST Wednesday, March 31, 2004
By SINCLAIR STEWART
00:00 EST Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Sun Life Financial Inc.'s Boston-based mutual fund arm will agree to a $50-million (U.S.) settlement today with U.S. regulators over allegations the firm directed trading commissions to brokerages in exchange for preferential treatment, according to people familiar with the matter.
Sources said Massachusetts Financial Services Co. will announce a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning that will also include "compliance reforms," in addition to a token $1 disgorgement penalty.
Eric Morse, a spokesman for MFS, declined to comment. A spokesman for the SEC refused to discuss any talks with the firm.
The embattled fund company is hoping this settlement will enable it to move beyond the intense public and regulatory scrutiny it has endured in the past several months.
In early February, MFS agreed to a $350-million settlement with the SEC and New York State Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer for allegedly permitting improper trades in some of its bigger funds. That figure included $225-million in penalties and restitution to investors, along with $125-million in fee reductions spread out over the next five years.
The fallout within MFS, which manages about $140-billion in assets, was also considerable. Its two highest-ranking officials -- chief executive officer John Ballen and president Kevin Parke -- were each fined and slapped with temporary suspensions by the SEC, leading to their departures from the firm. Long-serving chairman Jeffrey Shames also retired in the aftermath of MFS's problems, and was replaced by Robert Pozen, formerly a senior executive at Fidelity Investments and onetime associate general counsel at the SEC.
Mr. Pozen has been charged with cleaning up the mess, and tightening the firm's internal controls.
He has already hired new legal and compliance officers, added monitoring staff, and imposed a ban on so-called "soft dollar" transactions. The firm also prohibited the practice of directing trading fees to brokerages in exchange for being placed on a preferred list of customers and receiving better visibility for its funds.
This latter arrangement, known in industry circles as "pay for play," is at the centre of MFS's pending settlement with the SEC. Sources said the current settlement talks advanced fairly quickly because of the voluntary compliance improvements MFS has undertaken.
In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Pozen attacked the basis of the regulator's case as "very weak" and said it should have raised this as a problem when it conducted audits of the company.
Nevertheless, he said he hoped to settle the matter quickly, in large part to avoid a costly legal battle and prevent nervous investors from pulling their money out of MFS funds. So far, the damage has been contained to one major client, the Illinois Teachers Retirement System, which fired MFS last month as lead manager on a $664-million portfolio.
The SEC is investigating about a dozen other fund companies for directed brokerage, although sources say MFS will settle individually, rather than as part of a group.
Last fall, brokerage powerhouse Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $50-million to settle charges it failed to tell investors it was promoting funds with which the firm had a special arrangement. Morgan Stanley had a "Partners Program" of 14 funds, including MFS, that paid "substantial" fees in return for the brokerage steering their funds to investors, the SEC claimed.
The regulator indicated a few months ago it would begin investigating a number of fund companies for directing commissions, but did not say which firms it would target.
Sun Life revealed in a filing that MFS was under investigation for this practice just a couple of weeks after its first settlement with the SEC and Mr. Spitzer. The news came as a surprise to most observers, some of whom criticized the insurer's CEO, Donald Stewart, for not disclosing this probe earlier.
MFS is hoping to recoup some of the $175-million it must repay investors under the terms of the first settlement by suing firms and individuals that engaged in market timing and late trading of its funds. Market timing involves making frequent trades in and out of funds in order to cash in on minor pricing discrepancies. It is not illegal, but is usually prohibited by many fund companies, since the quick trading can raise administrative costs and undermine returns to investors.
----- Original Message -----
From: R. S. Webb
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:50 AM
Subject: Fw: possble story

 
----- Original Message -----
From: R. S. Webb
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Fw: possble story

 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: RE: possble story

Dear Mr. Amos,
I would like to thank you for your email to W-FIVE, sorry for the delay in responding.
We review every email and story idea that we receive here at W-FIVE and give it serious consideration.  Your email has been forwarded to our executive and senior producer for review.  If we are interested in pursuing your idea further, you will be contacted by one of our researchers.
Thanks again for your input.  Your interest in our program is much appreciated.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: R. S. Webb [mailto:cei@nbnet.nb.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:28 PM
To: W-FIVE@ctv.ca
Subject: possble story

I am a Canadian Citizen who thus far, as a plaintiff, has two Lawsuits in the US District Court of Massachucetts they are numbered 02-11686- RGS and 02-11687-RGS. They were removed to that Court from the Norfolk Superior Court by the US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan very improperly. However they shall remain there because of my status as a Canandian Citizen. Judge Sterns has not even held a Conference about the matters because he likely does not want to hear the matter because I have presented all Members of the Bar with their worst fear of a catch 22 problem. Accordinging to law he is late. I have complained of 47 defendants 34 of whom are State Defendants( the Attorney General, The Commission of Judicial Conduct Board of Bar Overseers etc) and 3 are Federal Treasury Agents. Some of the defendants are over two months late in their answer to the Summons. The smallest suit amounts to 188 million dollars in the form of relief. There is a lot to these matters and too much to briefly explain. But in a nutshell my wife's Aunt, who is buried beside Rose Kennedy, left my wife some money. It was stolen by her relatives in executing the estate. No news there. But the crooks are very well connected politically and every part of the old crony network in Boston covered for them. The crook and our cousin, Charles J. Kickham Jr of the Kickham Law Office on Beacon St, has been past President of Bar Associations. He has sat on the Board of Governors of Harvard Law School etc. I have given much information to many members of the press who have simply ignored some interesting facts. What should be somewhat newsworthy is how far a wild colonial boy has come in prosecuting Pro Se the most profund Yankee carpetbaggers. My next two lawsuits Under title 18 are wickedly righteous. I have left one copy of much information in Saint John New Brunswick at a lawyer's Office, Mosher and Chedore 33 Charlotte St if some one wishes to view them. I can be reached at this Cell number 506 434- 1379
                  David R. Amos
 
LAW
Canadian Media Deregulation Provides Insight Into FCC Proposal
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Critics of consolidation say the integrity of the news is being undermined by the effects of concentrated ownership

 
Editor's Note:  This story has been updated to correct inaccuracies. Please see the corrected version here. 
The original version of this story (see below) posted on May 29, 2003 incorrectly stated that Canada's two national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the National Post, recently laid off their online editorial staffs. According to globeandmail.com editor Angus Frame, there have been no recent editorial layoffs at globeandmail.com; the site's 18-person staff continues to write and edit stories that are published exclusively online. The National Post did not have dedicated online editorial staff, and did not have online editorial layoffs.  The story also failed to acknowledge that the country's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, also has a significant online operation.
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to unveil new media ownership rules June 2 that some experts believe may change the face of American journalism.
The new rules would allow media companies to own television stations and newspapers in the same cities.
The FCC barred companies from owning newspapers and TV stations in the same market in 1975, but big media owners like the Tribune Co., Knight Ridder, MediaNews Group and the New York Times say it's time to lift that ban.
They argue that cross-ownership makes for better journalism: Staffers working for companies that own newspapers and TV stations in the same market can work together to create richer, multimedia news reports that can then run in the company's paper and on their stations and Web sites.
Advocates say the synergies of convergence lead to cost savings, increased advertising revenues and greater efficiencies.
Cross-ownership already exists in some markets: The FCC granted about 40 exemptions to the cross-ownership rule in cases where a company already had television or radio stations and a newspaper in a single city. The FCC also granted exemptions in larger markets after media mergers produced cross-ownership situations.
'The concentration of ownership in a lot of major Canadian cities is of interest for a lot reasons, but mainly because it provides too much news coming through one pipeline.'
--Russ Mills, former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen
The Tribune Co., for example, owns television stations and newspapers in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami.
How further media consolidation and convergence would play out if the FCC does lift the ban on cross-ownership has been the subject of hot debate in the weeks leading up to the commission's June 2 vote.
Experts familiar with the rapid consolidation of media in Canada say the U.S. should look northward for some lessons on what loosening cross-ownership restrictions could mean to journalism in the U.S.
In Canada, the deregulation of cross-media ownership occurred gradually over the last 20 years. Within the past eight years, it has led to massive consolidation of media companies.
Most of Canada's news media -- including newspapers and broadcast stations in all of its major cities -- are in the hands of two media giants: CanWest Global Communications Inc., and Bell Globemedia -- a division of the country's largest telephone company, Bell Canada.
The rapid media consolidation in Canada has inspired an often-acrimonious debate over whether Canadian journalists are able to report objectively on social and political issues and whether the country's corporate media has allowed business interests to undermine the role of journalism in a modern democracy.
"Based on the experience in Canada, dropping restrictions on cross-ownership certainly hasn't worked out well," said Russ Mills, former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen in Canada's capital city, who was fired by CanWest in a fight over editorial independence.
"The concentration of ownership in a lot of major Canadian cities is of interest for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it provides too much news coming through one pipeline," he said. "When companies use ownership to control the news, and they do have the ability to do so, it hurts everyone."
Though the two media conglomerates said cross-media consolidation would improve online journalism, many media observers say online journalism at local papers has gone downhill in the wake of consolidation.
The country's two national newspapers, the National Post, half-owned by CanWest, and The Globe and Mail, owned by Bell Canada's media wing, Globemedia, have laid off the online reporters and editors at the two papers that once produced copy separate from print editions.
The two papers, former online staffers said, were the only ones in Canada that were doing something other than simply repurposing content from newspaper pages into newspaper Web sites.
Executives at Bell Globemedia and CanWest have defended the cutbacks, saying they were a result of cost-cutting efforts and consolidations undertaken after spending billions of dollars to acquire newspaper and broadcasting properties.
 
Consolidation accelerated in 1990s
Canada's restrictions on cross-media ownership were carved largely from regulatory decisions on broadcasting licenses made since the 1950s by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission -- Canada's version of the FCC.
By the mid-1980s, Canadian media experts say, exceptions to cross-media ownership rules had eroded the cross-ownership ban to the point that it was unenforcable and largely ignored.
By the mid-1990s, consolidation of Canadian media companies had accelerated on the strength of dot.com economics. And in 2000, CanWest, the second largest broadcaster in the country, announced a $3.5-billion deal to purchase a majority of the nation's newspapers -- including papers in the nation's 12 largest cities.
Within weeks, Jean Monty, Bell Canada's CEO at the time, announced that Canada's largest phone company had set its sights on owning both content and the multimedia pipelines into consumers' homes.
The decision prompted Bell Globemedia to purchase the Globe and Mail and the nation's largest TV network, CTV, in 2001.
Despite the rising consolidation of media outlets, the massive purchases of newspapers by CanWest Global and Bell Globemedia took many Canadian journalists and media-watchers by surprise.
CanWest and Bell executives convinced Canada's CRTC that convergence was necessary to attract advertising revenue and reduce costs if newspapers in many Canadian communities were to survive. And they promised that resources from new revenues would be devoted to improving the quality and reach of journalism through the Internet.
When questions about convergence arose during CRTC hearings on both companies' broadcast licenses shortly after their newspaper purchases, they promised regulators that they would separate management of news-gathering operations by their television stations and newspapers.
Officials from the Canada National Newspaper Guild complained that keeping management separate would not prevent companies from forcing journalists to perform work for both newspapers and television, to the detriment of journalistic independence.
Critics -- including journalism professors, journalists, newspaper and broadcast union officials, and some government officials -- have argued that the quality of journalism has gone down, not up, as a result of convergence.
Joyce Smith, an assistant professor at Canada's Ryerson University, teaches online journalism and worked on the online staff at the Globe and Mail before those employees were laid off last year.
She said the one opportunity to see convergence succeed might have been missed by Bell Globemedia in its efforts to cut costs to recoup some of what it spent on media acquisitions.
"What I found interesting was that the actual idea of convergence wasn't a hit with people working with just the newspaper or just television," Smith said. "Where it really happened was with the online news team. There were things the TV folks could clearly do much better with the online newspaper. By pooling resources, it all did work much better.
"But in the tradition of journalism," she said, "reporters were asking, 'What does this mean for me? Does it mean that I have to file stories to the Web and then do stand-ups in newsroom, while doing my piece for the deadline at the end of the day?'
"Basically, (owners) wanted reporters to be one-man bands," Smith said. "That has been played and replayed here. It made sense from a business model, but journalists, especially those who have been around for a while, went into newspapers and TV for a reason. Some are great at doing both, but not everyone has the same aptitude. And no one has the time in the day to do it all. Some of the expectations were outrageous."
Canada reexamining changes
While U.S. media critics and media executives have been testifying over the past few weeks in Senate hearings on the proposed changes in the FCC's media ownership rules, Canada is busy reexamining what has come of its own cross-media consolidations.
Two inquiries are underway by Canadian government officials to explore the impact of cross-media ownership and consolidation on journalistic integrity and media responsibility.
The Canadian Senate's Committee on Transport and Communication began taking testimony at the end of April on those issues and is expected to report its findings within the next year.
A House of Commons committee on Canadian heritage is expected to release an 800-page report next month on its own yearlong investigation into the impact  of media concentration and political efforts by corporations to ease restrictions on foreign ownership of Canadian media.
But media-watchers, who have a ringside seat on Canada's great media debate, say they are doubtful that government investigations will produce any new regulation on media conglomerates.
"The horse is out of the barn," said Arnold Amber, director of the National Newspaper Guild of Canada. "But the good news is that this has at least inspired a vigorous national debate on press freedom and responsibility."
Amber and other critics of media convergence said promises of more stories and better information from combining print and broadcast news staffs have largely failed in Canada.
"Bell Globemedia is talking about restructuring and selling off its media wing," Amber said. "The failure of convergence to bring in revenues was primarily responsible for the resignation of Bell Canada's CEO, Jean Monty," who stepped down in April 2002.
Geoffrey Elliot, vice-president of corporate affairs for CanWest, said that convergence has not led to revenues, or the reduced costs, the company had hoped for.
But Elliot, and other supporters of cross-media ownership, argues that all sides have benefited from consolidation.
"We are a family-owned business that saw an opportunity in which the whole was greater than the sum of the parts," Elliot said. "We saw substantial potential synergies on the sales side by putting television and newspaper assets together, since they both serve primarily advertising clients as sources of revenue, and serve a combination of local and national markets."
Amber said the companies likely saw their primary financial advantages from a convergence of back-office technologies -- combining circulation, sales, printing and management operations.
But it was something else that brought issues to a head in Canada over media consolidation and sharing newsroom resources: The loss of diversity of voices within the Canadian media took on new importance, observers say, after a series of events that led to accusations of censorship and political bias by CanWest's owners.
In December 2001, CanWest -- which owns 11 major dailies and 22 smaller papers in Canada -- issued a directive to its newspaper editors that they would be expected to run three editorials per week that reflected the position of CanWest's owners on political or social issues.
The decision was met with a spate of criticism -- especially when editors were told that other local editorials were not to contradict those from corporate headquarters.
A byline strike ensued at the Montreal Gazette, and inquiries by the newspaper guild there led to findings that work by columnists and cartoonists was spiked when it conflicted with opinions from corporate headquarters.
Several journalists quit; some staffers published a protest Web site.
The furor finally boiled over into the public arena last June when Russ Mills, the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, was fired by CanWest for running a series of stories and an editorial that outlined alleged political and financial irregularities in the administration of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Elliot, the CanWest vice president, said the controversy arose because Mills failed to let CanWest's owners know in advance of the series or the editorial -- which called on Chretien, a friend of CanWest patriarch Israel Asper, to resign.
Mills said he had not sought permission for either the investigative series, or the editorial, because he believed in preserving "editorial independence."
The problem, Mills said, was that the new owners were trying to dictate local editorial policy from corporate headquarters.
Elliot described the concern over attempts at a national editorial policy -- which has since been largely abandoned -- as a tempest without substance.
He said CanWest's owners were "well within their rights to propose national editorials," and that their actions were no different that those of other newspaper ownership groups prior to media consolidation.
"There has never been any effort to control what was published in news stories," he said.
Since his firing, Mills has become an outspoken critic of media consolidation in Canada, and he testified in April before the Canadian Senate committee conducting media hearings. He was also awarded a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard University and is the incoming dean of the journalism program at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
Meanwhile, Mills' firing prompted a public opinion poll by Canada's largest media union that found that the incident had caused the public to lose confidence in the media's editorial independence.
The results, union officials said, showed that Canadians were concerned about press freedom and wanted the government to look into problems associated with media concentration.
Peter Murdock, then vice-president of the communications union, told Canada Newswire that the poll "demonstrates that Canadians want their journalists protected from the whims and prejudice of media barons. It is a grim warning to media corporations and government that Canadians believe that the very integrity of the news that feeds our democracy is being undermined by the effects of concentrated media ownership."
It is clear that online journalism at Canada's newspapers has changed dramatically under CanWest's corporate control.
The company replaced independent newspaper Web sites with a common site, Canada.com, which allows consumers to access local news by clicking on the community they are interested in.
Elliot said community news on the Web site comes from local newspapers and television stations, and said that consolidating that information on a single Web site provides consumers better access to local news across the country -- as well as reduces costs.
Bruce MacCormack, former head of interactive media at CanWest, said supplementing newspaper and television content with a common Web site has made access to news more efficient and allowed the corporation to serve consumers better.
"The consumers of online media ... were also television viewers and newspaper readers, and at different points in the day, different media were the best way to reach those people," MacCormack said.
"Someone watching television in the evening could be told about stories being developed for the next day's newspaper, which is read on the commuter train as people go to work," he said. "Then, during working hours, the Internet was the most effective way to get them up to date on news, and tease them for television use at night."
"These were handoff mechanisms that worked to reach people, so consumers and the public were able to access services in the most appropriate media, for whatever method they could best be served."
CanWest recently filed testimony with the FCC to support the relaxation of cross-media regulations in the U.S. That testimony challenges media critics on their central objections to cross-media ownership.
"Today's media market is the richest and most diverse in the history of modern media," the document says. "Cross-ownership has strengthened media companies and encouraged greater diversity and more sources of information.
"Experience," it adds, "simply does not support the contention of some opponents of cross-media ownership, that consumers would have access to fewer point of view, or would see only repackaged versions of the same content across multimedia platforms."
Smith, the Ryerson professor -- despite her criticisms of the handling of online media opportunities in Canada -- said she sees differences between media ownership consolidation in Canada and in the United States.
"In the U.S., because of the size of the market, the chance of one or two owners gobbling up everything, I think, would be less than in Canada," she said. "But there is some caution in that.
"If you are thinking about journalists, there are wonderful things about operating in a converged environment. It was really exciting thinking we could potentially have video, and it may be good for news consumers in the sense that (online video) will be a faster way of converging types of media.
"But you get a lot of the same stuff. There is no alternative. You are going to lose some (editorial) voices in the process."


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Website https://journalists.org/
Revenue $156.70 Million
Employees 815 (View all )
Founded 1999
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The Online News Association is the world’s largest digital journalism association. Membership includes journalists, technologists, executives, students, educators and other digital media professionals. ONA’s mission is to inspire and support innovation and excellence in digital journalism. The mission is served through work in five focus areas:

  • Developing strategies for emerging tech
  • Sharing best practices on audience engagement and metrics
  • Innovative news storytelling
  • Experimenting and finding new revenue and business models
  • Cultivating newsroom leadership, culture and diversity

ONA also hosts the annual Online News Association conference and administers the Online Journalism Awards.

 
 

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The ONA Board guides the association in its mission to inspire innovation and excellence among digital journalists

Under the bylaws, the board may be comprised of up to 15 voting members. Elections are held each fall surrounding the annual ONA Conference and Awards Banquet. Terms are for two years and begin on Jan. 1.

Current Officers

ONA Board President
Global Head of Visuals
The Wall Street Journal
ONA Board Vice-President
Head, News Product Experience
Google
ONA Board Treasurer
Executive Director
RevLab at The Texas Tribune
ONA Board Secretary
Editor, Newsroom Development & Support
The New York Times

Other Members

Student Journalist
Florida A&M University
Chief Digital Content Officer
Hearst Television
Journalism Consultant
Independent
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Newmark J-School at CUNY
Director of Community Engagement
Southern California Public Radio
Founder & CEO
Fathm
Presenter
AJ+
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
West Virginia University
Senior News Partnerships Manager
Twitter
Director of Audience
The New York Times Opinion
Social Media Strategist
Chalkbeat
Senior Correspondent
NowThis

At-Large Members

President Emeritus
Rich Jaroslovsky, Vice President for Content, SmartNews, Inc.


All officers and board members elected or appointed per bylaws.

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Executive Director/CEO
Online News Association
Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer
Online News Association
Chief Knowledge Officer
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Director of Programs
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Senior Digital Manager
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Director of Finance and Administration
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Meeting Manager
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Strategic Partnerships Coordinator
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Communications Manager
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The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

The Tribune was founded in 2009 by John Thornton (a venture capitalist in Austin for nearly 20 years and passionate believer in public media), Evan Smith (the veteran editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly and host of a weekly interview program on PBS stations), and Ross Ramsey (former owner and editor of Texas Weekly, the state’s premier newsletter on politics and government, now rebranded as The Blast).

The Texas Tribune and its destination website were launched in November 2009, thanks to $4 million in private contributions as seed funding, a small band of talented computer programmers and some of the most accomplished journalists in the state.

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The Tribune is located at 919 Congress Avenue, The Sixth Floor, Austin, Texas 78701. Our main phone number is (512) 716-8600.

News
The Tribune, which has the largest statehouse news bureau in the United States, covers a full range of topics including public and higher education, health care, immigration, criminal justice, energy, poverty, the environment, water, transportation — pretty much every line in the state budget. We also cover the major candidates and campaigns for office, though we train our sights less on the candidates than the issues. To further our pursuit of statewide engagement, we provide all of our content, for free, to print, radio and television news organizations throughout the state, and nationally in partnership with The Washington Post.

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The Tribune has become an authoritative source for providing user-friendly databases of public information in Texas. Our reporters and software engineers collaborate to present a full picture for readers, giving them the tools to be more thoughtful, productive and engaged citizens. Examples include our government salaries database, U.S. Senate fundraising tracker, analysis of state demographics and a look at the capacity of shelters for migrant children.

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Each year we host 50-plus on-the-record, open-to-the-public live events — on college campuses, in community centers and everywhere in between — at which public officials, policy wonks and newsmakers answer for the work they’re doing and how they’re spending your tax dollars. Events are often available via livestream video, for those who can’t attend in person, and following the conversation we publish and archive video online. Our signature annual event, The Texas Tribune Festival, attracts thousands of attendees to downtown Austin to learn about Texas’ biggest challenges and to engage in thoughtful discussion about their respective solutions. Decision-makers, industry leaders and community activists from near and far come to take part in this three-day event.

As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, The Texas Tribune is supported by individual contributions and membership (click here to join), major gifts, corporate sponsorships, events and foundation grants. A complete list of the Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.

 
 

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Rosental Alves

Alves is a professor and the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He began his academic career in the United States in March 1996, after 27 years as a professional journalist, including seven years as a journalism professor, in Brazil. He moved to Austin from Rio de Janeiro, where he was the managing editor and member of the board of directors of Jornal do Brasil, one of the most important Brazilian newspapers. Alves has three basic areas of research: international reporting, journalism in Latin America and internet journalism. He created the first class on online journalism at UT in the 1997-98 academic year. A working journalist since he was 16, Alves received an undergraduate degree in journalism from the Rio de Janeiro Federal University. He was the first Brazilian awarded a Nieman Fellowship to spend an academic year (1987-88) at Harvard University.

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Jane Borochoff

Borochoff is the founder and executive director of Educational Programs Inspiring Communities, a 15-year-old Houston-based nonprofit that serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. An energetic community volunteer and exceptional social connector, Jane is a graduate of the American Leadership Forum, Leadership Houston and the Center for Houston's Future. She is also a past chair and past president of the Texas Lyceum. A native of Brenham — where, she says, she ate Blue Bell Ice Cream nearly every day in school — she's an alumna of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Glenn Brown

Brown has worked at the intersection of media, technology, and audience in a variety of companies and nonprofits: Creative Commons (CEO, Board of Directors), Google (Product Counsel), YouTube (Product Counsel, Head of U.S. Music Partnerships), Twitter (co-founder of Twitter Amplify video partnerships / product), betaworks (EIR), and, most recently, the Obama Foundation (Chief Digital Officer). He is a senior advisor at MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication and worked as a student, affiliate, and later a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Glenn grew up in Austin.

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Trei Brundrett

Brundrett is the chief product officer for Vox Media, a native digital media company. Since 2008, he has led the team developing Vox’s publishing platform, Chorus, which is designed ground-up to deliver content and provide community for more than 70 million readers around the world. He was named to The AdWeek 50 in 2012. AdWeek noted that under Brundrett’s direction, “Vox Media has evolved into one of the most agile Web-based publishers." Brundrett has been instrumental in growing the company from 100 sports blogs to a ground-breaking media organization publishing seven premium brands including SB Nation (sports), The Verge (technology culture), Polygon (video games), Eater (restaurants), Curbed (real estate and home), Racked (fashion) and most recently Vox — a news site dedicated to helping its audience understand the news. With 15 years of experience, Brundrett has led large-scale internet strategy, advertising and development projects for Fortune 500 companies, political campaigns and media clients such as Microsoft XBOX, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Shell Oil, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, U.S. Sen. John Kerry and Texas Monthly. He studied astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Chao is an independent investor who most recently served as the chief operating officer of New York Public Radio. Previously, he was a partner in the strategy and corporate finance practice at McKinsey & Company, where he advised energy and commodity companies. A native of Houston, John has a degree in chemical engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Garza, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009, is counsel in the Mexico City office of the White & Case law firm. He previously served as an elected member of and as the chairman of the state’s energy regulating body, the Texas Railroad Commission — the first Latino Republican to win statewide. Before that he was Texas Secretary of State, appointed by Gov. George W. Bush. He got his start in politics in the late 1980s as a Cameron County judge — the youngest person ever to hold that post, and the first Latino elected countywide since Reconstruction. A Brownsville native, he has an undergraduate degree from UT-Austin and a law degree from Southern Methodist University.

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Irving is the President and CEO of the Irving Group, a consulting firm providing strategic advice and assistance to international telecommunications and information technology companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations. He previously served as vice president for global government affairs for the Hewlett-Packard Company. In the Clinton Administration, he spent almost seven years as assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information and as administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. A native of Queens, NY, he has a undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from Stanford University.

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LaQuey Parker is a consultant and community volunteer who sits on the Advisory Council for the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where she serves on the executive committee as co-chairwoman of the UTeach Task Force. She is also on the board of directors for the Texas Lyceum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan leadership organization. Parker previously worked as director of the UTeach Institute at UT and in the chief technology office of Cisco Systems, where she founded the company’s Worldwide Education focus and its Advanced Internet Initiatives Team. Born in Newfoundland, Canada, Parker has an undergraduate degree from UT.

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Sachs is an Advisor at Cityside, a media company that is taking a new approach to local news, backed by Google and other leading funders. He was previously CEO of OneSpot (sold to Aclate), a marketing technology company that delivers individualization across digital channels, and is used by leading global marketers. Prior to that, Steve was was EVP, Consumer Marketing and Sales at the Time Inc. division of Time Warner. Steve is on the board and past board chair of The Texas Tribune, a nonpartisan, nonprofit digital media company, and a mentor in TechStars and Capital Factory. He also was a founding board member of Texture (sold to Apple).

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Jim Schachter

Schachter is president and chief executive officer of New Hampshire Public Radio, the state’s leading news organization and producer of acclaimed podcasts including Outside/In, Civics 101 and Bear Brook. He previously was vice president for news at WNYC, where his staff won Peabody, DuPont, Murrow and Polk awards. He spent nearly 17 years at The New York Times, rising to the position of associate managing editor. He has been a reporter or editor at the Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star and the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal. A native of Glendale, Calif., Schachter has an undergraduate degree from Columbia University.

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Margaret Spellings

Spellings is president and CEO of Texas 2036, the Dallas-based nonprofit that is laser-focused on what it will take to ensure Texas remains a great place to live and do business through the state's bicentennial and beyond. She recently stepped down as the president of the University of North Carolina System. In George W. Bush's second term as president, she served as the U.S. Secretary of Education. In his first term, she was White House Domestic Policy Advisor. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she's a graduate of the University of Houston.

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Matt Thompson

Thompson has been the editor-in-chief of the Center for Investigative Reporting since February. He previously served as the executive editor and deputy editor at The Atlantic, as the director of vertical initiatives for NPR, and as an editor and reporter at news organizations around the country, including the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the Fresno Bee. He's a former member of the board at the Center for Public Integrity. A native of Florida, Matt is a graduate of Harvard University.

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John Thornton

John Thornton has two abiding passions: Venture capital investing and nonprofit journalism.

In 1991, John joined Austin Ventures, which became the largest regional capital firm in the US. He served for four years as the firm’s managing partner and led nearly 50 investments in young software companies that created more than $1 billion in value for AV investors. In 2017, he co-founded Elsewhere Partners, a boutique software investment firm focused on bootstrapped companies in non-coastal markets.

In 2008, John founded the Texas Tribune, one of the largest local news organizations established anywhere in the world during the 21st century. In 2018, John co-founded the American Journalism Project, a first-of-its-kind venture philanthropy firm dedicated to starting and growing local news organizations. AJP has received over $42 million in commitments from the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Emerson Collective, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Christopher Buck, Facebook, and the Democracy Fund.

John serves on the boards of several private software companies as well as The Texas Tribune and The City, a nonprofit news startup in New York. He also serves as a senior advisor to CAVU Venture Partners, an investment firm focused on consumer-packaged goods. He is a graduate of both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Trinity University, where he graduated first in his class, was named Distinguished Alumnus of 2015, and is a former trustee. He lives in Austin with his wife Erin and their boys Wade and Wyatt.

 
 
 
 
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