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Article #391"The NEW Downtown Eastside Vancouver Community Court is the "hamster in a cage" effect of a SELF-SERVING! GOV'T that DOES NOTHIN...
From: kenneth.selin
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:24
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:24
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CLASSIC! Case of System Abuse ======================== It's just *ANOTHER* CLASSIC CASE of blatantly spending public money that ONLY! BENEFITS *THE SYSTEM* from what I can see. It allows *THE SYSTEM to *pour* MORE! MONEY into the judicial/penal systems and pockets of the Vancouver Police Force as well as those of the pharmaceutical companies. It seems to be nothing, but a SCAM! that DEFRAUDS! Canadian taxpayers. Background Information ================= About Downtown Eastside Vancouver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside About Vancouver Community Court http://www.communitycourt.bc.ca First! the Bureaucratic BULLSHIT! ======================== Premier Gordon Campbell at the September 2008 inaugural opening of the Downtown Eastside Vancouver Community Court in the presence of the Attorney General Wall Oppal, Chief Judge Hugh Stansfield, and Solicitor General John Van Dongen said that the community court facility "represents a new approach in tackling some of the most difficult issues facing downtown Vancouver." ( In this - allegedly - new approach, what's *really* new?) (What *specifically* is the Attorney General doing regarding white collar crime or crime at the municipal and provincial Gov't level? NOTHING! it seems. 200+ jails in Canada and no civil servant ever goes to jail. Is this what the Attorney General calls dealing with crime effectively by IGNORING IT, but he woN'T ignore Vancouver Downtown Eastside crime, NO SIREE! That's where he draws the line in the sand. Ha! Ha!) In his news release he adds "the community court brings a range of services and agencies together to find innovative solutions to the problem of crime in Vancouver's downtown." (What *innovative* solutions is the Attorney General referring to? MORE! UNDERCOVER COPS that use entrapment to send people to jail? Convections rates seem to go up and up when crime goes down and down year after year: is the JUDICIAL SYSTEM *intentionally* DEFRAUDING the Canadian taxpayer? It CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE IT.) Solicitor General John Van Dongen, (the Province's Chief Public Accountant whose job it is to ensure that taxpayers get VALUE FOR THEIR MONEY), jumped into this 3-ring CIRCUS as well. He's said: "Dealing with crime effectively means getting at the root causes of why crime happens in the first place. This approach will ensure that chronic offenders are dealt with effectively to prevent them from reoffending. That will increase public safety for everyone." That's THE RHETORIC! This TYPICAL GOV'T RHETORIC makes it sound all FINE and DANDY. But is it?. (Instead of talking rhetorically about public safety, what about dealing with THE COST OF DEBILITATING! POVERTY where a poor person can cost THE SYSTEM anywhere from $35,000 upwards to $65,000: publicly paid lawyers, $800 a month medication, innumerable Emergency visits at $250 a visit; hospital stay at $1000 a day, Police/judiciary/jail costs, etc.) ALL! this is SINISTER! and ALL! a LIE - in my view. Here's why. PRETENDING! to Help: a Case of "déjà vu" ============================== It's NOTHING, but PRETENDING to help the poor by creating DUMMY JOBS (jobs that are NOT! *really needed) for Crown attorneys, defense lawyers, Police, social/health services, and court workers. Its especially good for the Vancouver Police Department as it allows them to STAY BUSY while *artificially* RAMPING UP! their statistics in order to justify higher deployment numbers: POLICE RACKETEERING! - as far as I am concerned at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer that see his taxes continually going up with NO END in sight. It looks like *THE SYSTEM* using the Vancouver Downtown Eastside derelicts as a GOLD MINE to LINE ITS POCKETS. *THE SYSTEM* is set to process 1,500 persons using this community court system, that's 1,500 out of 15,000+ who will be accused either of mischief, assault, auto theft, and/or drug possession. (The Gov't claims that there are 15,000 people in the Downtown Eastside: that's the figure published by the Carnegie Centre monthly newsletter run by Gov't operatives - I suspect - like everything else in Canada involved with the anti-poverty movement like Vancouver's Pivot Legal housed NOT! surprisingly housed in a former Gov't welfare office on Hastings. http://www.pivotlegal.org The Bureaucratic SHUFFLE ==================== What *THE SYSTEM* will do is SHUFFLE! the POOR and the Homeless around so *THE SYSTEM* gets the BIGGEST! BANG possible. What so the POOR and Homeless get in return? ZIP! NADA! They will be SHUFFLED! FIRST to the Police who will pass them off to the Judiciary who will pass them off to correctional services who will pass them off to health services who will pass them off to social services. Those that get considered to be mentally ill - nearly ALL! - (That seems to be THE TREND in correctional services these days.) will have to consume medication daily worth $800 a month. And once they leave the penal system, they will go on mental disability paid by the Province (NOT! the City) getting $900 a month to liveon. Total monthly cost to the Province: ($900 + $800) $17,000. After all that, they will still NOT be much better off. NOT! reall because they still WON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY live on. [The ÉPC (Égalité Party of Canada) would give the person $1200 - a saving of $500 for the Province; a single mother would get $1800 a month; a disabled person, Canadian athlete, or professional cultural arts performer would get $2400 at the end of the month if s/he received no income that month.] The POOR NEED! $$$ ================ ALL! this Gov't NONSENSE! does NOT! give the POOR what they need: MORE! MONEY. ALL! this Gov't NONSENSE! does NOT! solve the MOST BASIC! PROBLEM the POOR have to contend with: TOO! LITTLE money. ALL! this Gov't NONSENSE! BLEEDS *NEEDLESSLY* the BC taxpayers. What's SINISTER! about the Vancouver Community Court? The people involved with it get to justify their good high-paying jobs processing the derelicts of Downtown Eastside Vancouver without *really* helping the POOR with their most pressing problem: NOT! having ENOUGH MONEY. The POVERTY is SO EXTREME! that the POOR are forced to live in DEPRESSING CONDITIONS that reminds them that they doN'T have any future whatsoever so they take drugs to forget tomorrow and just concentrate on getting by today. A good word that describes what the Vancouver Community Court is all about: MONSTROUS! MONSTROUS! *Self-serving* Gov't Apparatus ================================== This HUGH! GOV'T APPARATUS built around Vancouver Community Court housed in a BRAND NEW! multi-million FACILITY (by Main Street Vancouver Police Station) will NOT! give the POOR a penny more. The MONEY SPENT on this USELESS! APPARATUS doesN'T solve THE PROBLEM of the Poor: they need MORE! MONEY. The need MORE! MONEY so they can live *decently*; so they can have a chance of building a future; so they can start to believe in themselves once again; so they can give themselves a better tomorrow; so they can start dreaming of getting back on their feet and reintegrate into society by working at a job like everyone else. MAKING ZOMBIES out of them by MEDICATING THEM to the gills is NOT! THE SOLUTION though the psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, along with others in *THE SYSTEM* would like to make Canadians believe it is. The money spent on Vancouver Community Court would have been better spent by giving the Poor what they need the most: MORE! MONEY. And what has the Gov't done? The Gov't has TAKEN! away their future, DEPRIVED! them of a BETTER! TOMORROW so they live in a STATE OF CONSTANT CRISIS which causes them to sleep a lot of the time as a means of coping with their desperation. Obviously, the POOR! in BC - like in the rest of Canada - are VICTIMS of a senseless, HEARTLESS *self-serving* GOV'T. The one word to decribe this kind of Gov't is MONSTROUS! Making the POOR Work for FREE! ========================= The Gov't wants to round up the derelicts of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside skid row and bring before the Vancouver Community Court which will then *FORCE* THEM to do "community service" like cleaning up the neighbourhood, working in community kitchens, and dining rooms (Which ones? There are less than handful.), cleaning up and maintaining roads and community gardens. That's the thinking, the "raison d'être", behind the Vancouver Community Court. This means they'll be charged by the Vancouver Police either with mischief or loitering or something or other to get them before a community court judge who will *ORDER* THEM to do "community service". The POOR and Homeless *forced* to live in HELLISH CONDITIONS in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside! will NOW! be *forced* to WORK for the GOV'T - FOR FREE? It's the GOV'T WHACKED! or what? Who's running the *fine* City of Vancouver and the BC Gov't? QUACKS? The BOTTOM! LINE ============== Essentially, all this Vancouver Community Court stuff is ALL! about the Gov't *PRETENDING* TO CARE and nothing more. This is clear when one looks at the so-called Vancouver Harm Reduction Program which seems to be more MAKE! BELIEVE than anything else: it comes across as a CLASSIC CASE of the Gov't PRETENDING - almost - NOTHING is - in fact - QUITE A BIT. Vancouver's Harm Reduction Program Hoax: Catholic Church+Media DoN'T Care ========================== When I asked for assistance from the Vancouver Catholic Church, the Bishop's Office gave me two (2) sheets of paper: one (1) indicating where I could get a FREE meal; the other indicating where the FEW! shelters for men were. (The Bishop's assistant told me NOT! to bother them for anything else and on another occasion made it clear they were NOT! going to help me any further. Sorry.) This is what I learned when in Vancouver LAST YEAR from mid-April till the beginning of July. Basically, there is VERY! LITTLE RESOURCES that the Homeless can depend on. In fact, Vancouver can accomodate *LESS THAN* 500 homeless men foodwise and shelterwise. The situation for women might even be WORST! What's ABSOLUTELY STUNNING is the fact that NONE! of the resources are co-ordinated and are for the most part volunteer-based: the City of Vancouver is NOT! directly INVOLVED WHATSOEVER! - except in the case of two (2) community centres and the Vancouver Injection Clinic http://eh-ok.ca/injection.htm which is next door to the Carnegie Community Centre. By the way, Mr. Harpers wants to close Vancouver Injection Clinic because he and the Police want to treat drug addiction as a criminal problem rather than a health problem which it is. What I find SHOCKING! is the fact that this INTOLERABLE! SITUATION for the Homeless is NOT! denounced neither by Vancouver's largest Church, the Vancouver Catholic Church nor any other religious denomination for that matter and the media people are FINE! with this. Who cares? They doN'T! One things is for sure: taxes are NOT! going up because the Gov't is doing MORE! for the Poor. THE PROBLEM is NOT! the Homeless, NOT! the Poor, NOT! Poverty. THE PROBLEM IS *THE GOV'T*. THE GOV'T *IS* THE PROBLEM. Bad, irresponsible, morally reprehensible Gov't. ONLY! Two (2) Vancouver Community Centres Serve the POOR =================================== NEITHER OFFER MUCH: the Gathering Place http://www.dtes.ca/cms/index.cfm?group_id=2921 downtown off Granville Avenue and the Caregie Centre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Centre at the heart of Downtown Eastside Vancouver. 72 Inexpensive Meals - MAX! ===================== The one (1) downtown, the Gathering Place Community Centre, located at 609 Helmcken Street, (on the same block, but behind Granville Avenue) offers exactly 32 inexpensive meals: once in the morning, once at noon, once at night. The other, the NOTORIOUS! Carnegie Centre Community Centre located at 401 Main Street (at the corner of Main and Hastings, KEY DRUG DISTRIBUTION SPOT for Vancouver) serves 40 inexpensive meals: once in the morning, once at noon, once at night. In all, the City of Vancouver ONLY! subsidizes 72 meals: THAT'S IT! (THAT'S - ALMOST - NOTHING! isN'T it?) So much for the *so-called* City of Vancouver's "harm reduction program", eh? NO! - BIG - BUCKS involved here. <grin> FREE! Services for a $1 ================= For a dollar yearly membership, the HOMELESS can use the facilities: I bought a membership at both places so I could use their *small* computer room and print a few pages for FREE! (This membership card requirement allows the Police to track the persons using the facilities.) At the Gathering Place the homeless can have their clothes washed for FREE and use the computers in the small computer room and print off a few pages for FREE, use the TV and weight room, watch a FREE movie every Thursday evening and get their haircut - *IF* the person decides to show up which - when I was there was NOT! very often. Many of the VOLUNTEERS are on probation and doing Court- imposed community service. As a result, they doN'T always show up when they're supposed to. Carnegie Centre Community Centre unlike the Gathering Place houses a branch of the Vancouver library. It also has a small computer room on the third floor, and various areas where people can sit around inside and outside on the patio as well as aboard room and a class room both of which are located on the third floor. SCANDAL! Regarding Vancouver City Volunteers ==================================== The Vancouver City LITERATURE regarding their treatment of volunteers at both these community centres are nothing, but boldface LIES! The City of Vancouver literature states that the volunteers are taken on excursions and out to public restaurants - montly. Where are the pictures on the bulletin boards to confirm that. There areN'T any. What a volunteer will get FAR LESS: a few measly cafeteria meal tickets at the end of the month *IF* they showed up ALL! the time. Clearly, it's NOT! surprising that lack the necessary volunteers in order to be able to offer the various services: if the volunteers doN't show, NO! service. For example, if the volunteer assigned to the Computer Room doesN'T show up, NO ONE can use the Computer Room. This happened several times to me at the Carnegie Centre. When it comes to treating its volunteers *properly* at these two community centres that cater especially to Vancouver's POOR and Homless, the City of Vancouver does what? It LIES! It *consistently - it seesm - PRETENDS! to be doing MORE! than it actually does. Mens' Shelters: A HORROR! Story ========================= 1. Catholic Charities Men's Hostel It is 95-bed facility located at 828 Cambie Street in Downtown Vancouver just off Robson Street (next to the Bishop's office): a homeless person has to REGISTER EARLY in the day for a bed at night. Apparently, it has no lockers and bed bugs are a constant problem; it looks old and run-down from the outside. 2. Belkin House http://www.belkinhouse.ca/facility.php The Salvation Army has a BRAND NEW downtown building, Belkin House is just a block from the Holy Rosary Cathedral on Dunsmuir Street, a few block up from Grenville. To stay there you have to be admitted to one (1) of their programs by a social agency and you're obliged to participate in the program in order to stay there. It's THE ONLY! DECENT LODGING a homeless man can expect in the City of Vancouver. The only other really decent shelter besides Belkin House is the Hyland House in Surrey, a 35-bed facility. http://www.options.bc.ca/program_info.php?program_id=27 EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS! 3. First Baptist Church It is located at 969 Burrard Street http://www.burrardstreet.com downtown Vancouver at the corner of Nelson and Burrard, three (3) blocks up from Granville Avenue. It can accommodate 30 men with floor mats after the FREE! 9 p.m.Monday meal. Those that sleep over will also get a FREE! breakfast at 6 a.m. 4. Anchor of Hope http://www.salvationarmy.ca/2006/02/09/anchor’s-of-hope-for-the-homeless It's located at 134 Cordova Street East in Vancouver's Gas Town just next door to Downtown Eastside Vancouver. This seeding-looking Salvation Army shelter can accomodate 50 people with floor mats. Besides that, there's NOT much else. Tent City for the Homeless Needed in Vancouver =================================== It is important to note that on August 11sth 2008 Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman said that Vancouver has a place for every homeless person. "There is room at the shelters. Our shelters run at about 90-per-cent capacity." This was his response to the demand made by the Homeless for a tent city in Vancouver because due to a LACK! of shelter space for the Homeless. http://www.streamsofjustice.org/2008/08/vancouver-can-shelter-all-homeless.html Is there ENOUGH space for the Homeless or NOT? Who's lying? Gov't RUSE used with the Poor ====================== The Gov't alway likes to speak in terms of the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS spent to help the Poor and Homeless when asked what's being done for these VULNERALBLE PERSONS. And it does so CONVINCINGLY and even WITH GUSTO especially when it's the Liberal Party. It THROWS FIGURES AROUND *WITHOUT* SPECIFICS. to convey the FALSE! IMPRESSION that the Gov't cares and is doing something about it. It's just a RUSE, a TRICK. Remember how the Prime Minister Mulroney in the early 1980s PROMISED! - WITH A LOT OF MEDIA FANFARE - that the Gov't of Canada was going to accomplish its goal of NO! CHILD POVERTY - WITHIN 20 years. What was done - over this 20-year period - to end child poverty? NOTHING! Absolutely NOTHING! What's being done - NOW? AGAIN! N-O-T-H-I-N-G. The Gov't LIED! then and continues to LIE! now. Is this GOOD, RESPONSIBLE Gov't? It's THE SHITS! City of Vancouver Evicted Low-Rent Tenants from 10 Hotels =========================================== The City of Vancouver purchase of 10 low-rent hotels to be refurbished + offered to budget-sensitive tourist for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics has greatly aggravated the shelter situation. BOYCOTT! the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics =================================== Given the CARELEES TREATMENT OF THE HOMELESS AND THE POOR by the Gov't, the ÉPC (Égalité Party of Canada) is calling upon the World to BOYCOTT! the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. FREE! FOOD (A) FREE! Food: A Church Affair ===================== 1. St. Paul's Anglican Church Food Bank http://www.stpaulsanglican.bc.ca It's at 1130 Jervis Street just off Davie Street which is the centre of the Gay District of Vancouver in the West End. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davie_Village It opens every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Half the stuff they give out makes little sense: bread, but no margarine; cereal, but no milk; no meat ever, etc. Once I got a tin with only Chinese lettering on it and was told "DON'T COMPLAIN: IT'S FREE!" It turned out to be squid in some sort of strange milk white liquid. YACK! Because it's the only Food Book around in downtown Vancouver serving single people, there's alway a LONG LINEUP. This inevitably means those at the back of the line get a fraction of what those at the front of the line get. 2.Union Gospel Mission (Baptist Church) (http://www.ugm.ca) The $7 million donation-based operation located at 616 Cordova Street East serves both men and women, but separately. (For women, there's the Union Gospel Mission, Women's Drop-In at 601 Hastings Street East). They're about a mile from the Carnegie Community Centre at Main and Hastings. They have a modest addiction program for men who can live there and work in the kitchen. They offer two (2) meals in the evening serving 100 tasty hot meals - each time - at 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. after a 30-minute service given by various Vancouver Baptist churches often providing music and singing. The Union Gospel Mission will NOT accept any person who is drunk or high on drugs. (The Union Gospel Mission also has a community residencial tower for the Poor in downtown Vancouver next door to the Gathering Place Community.) 2. United Church http://www.firstunited.ca The United Church at 20 Hastings Street East on the other side of Main Street from the Carnegie Community Centre seems to be the PREFERRED SPOT for the derelicts who are stoned or drunk. It serves about 70 meals. Unfortunately, they may be closing their doors due to a lack of support in the community. 3. Gospel Church It's a few blocks before the Carnegie Community Centre on Hastings and smack in the middle of skid row. This very seedy-looking building is run-down, but it has convenient street-level access. They serve a meal after their 30-minute 9 p.m. service. 4. Franciscan Sisters http://www.thedoorisopen.ca/ The Francisan Sister on Cardova Street, two (2) blocks from the Vancouver Main Street Police Station serve soup and sandwiches to about 30 to 45 people though their website says 400: that's just NOT possible because the place is SO! SMALL. They don't have the room for more than 50 persons. Perhaps, the Sister inadvertently added an EXTRA zero to 40, perhaps. <grin>) They are known to give clothes to people who obviously need them when they show up for soup and sandwiches and are well loved by the community. Unfortunately, they are only open A FEW DAYS A WEEK: NOT! every day. 5. Central Presbyterian Church http://www.centralchurchvancouver.ca/ They're located at 1155 Thurlow Street - just behind St. Paul's Hospital on Burrard Street, three (3) blocks up from Granville Avenue. It offers a monthly Sunday 8 a.m. breakfast the last week of the month just before the people receive their welfare cheque to 200+ persons. 6. First Baptist Church It's located at 969 Burrard Street http://www.burrardstreet.com downtown Vancouver at the corner of Nelson and Burrand, three (3) blocks up from Granville Avenue. It serves a very good hot meal at 9 p.m. to 120+ homeless persons : meal tickets are given out at 8 p.m. along with 3 pieces of soft toffee candy. (B) FREE! Food: on the Sidewalk ======================== 1. Muslim Food Convoy It consists of tow (2) small cars and a panel truck parked outside the Carnegie Centre on Hastings Street. Four (4) or more persons serve a warm meal with orange juice to about 60 Street People about 9:30 p.m. many Fridays: they're VERY! friendly, helpful, understanding, efficient, and sincere. 2. Baptist Panel Truck A Baptist panel truck will put up on Hastings across from the Carnegie Community Centre sometimes around 8 p.m. on Friday to offer something to eat and drink. It'll serve about 30+ Street People. 3. Sikh Yellow School Bus It arrives every three weeks or so with a lot of young people who are laughing and smiling and parks on Hastings not too far from the Carnegie Community Centre. They offer brown bag lunches to the Street People. 4. Ragtag Catholic Street Group A few adults along with several young people make up this group. They will go down Hastings Street offering smiles, hugs, sometimes candy and socks around 8 p.m. on most Fridays. The individuals vary: the are NOT always the same people. It's clearly a HALFHEARTED EFFORT on the part of the Catholic Church. The women who are Street People like to see them and talk to them. The men tend to ignore them all together. BINNING: a Self-help Affair =================== In Vancouver there are individuals who work 24x7 going from bin to bin picking up bottles that they'll return to the Bottle Depot on Hastings Street right in the middle of skid row. After about 10 hours of work the person using his grocery cart will have picked up enough bottles to earn about $15 to buy his ONE BIG MEAL of the day. Unfortunately, the Vancouver Police will come around 10 p.m. and arbitrarily pick up one grocery cart that it puts in the back of the Police truck after scattering the person's person contents all over the street leaving the Street Person angry and upset and the Police smiling. I saw this *routinely* happen. I talked to one such person who had the papers to prove that cart was rightfully his: the Vancouver Police still took his cart away from him putting an end to his binning days. He was doing alright for himself thanks to that cart because he could go binning: collecting bottles in the City bins. $1 Pizzas ======= The Homeless and Poor in Vancouver survive on $1 pie-shaped pieces of pizzas. I bought mine at the corner of Granville and Helmcken near the Gathering Place Community Centre. The Dangerous *HABIT* of 3-day FASTS ============================= Because the Homeless and the POOR have NO! MONEY they get into the habit of eating every three (3) days because after 24 hours a person forgets s/he's hungry. EATING SO! LITTLE affects the ability to think clearly and to keep track of time. Drugs in Downtown Eastside Vancouver: Myth versus Reality ============================================ According to a fairly recent and major sociological study of the area only one (1) in four (4) persons has a drug problem: the drug problem is NOT as widespread as it is commonly believed. Drug addiction needs to be seen as a health problem rather than a criminal matter that benefits the judiciary system at GREAT EXPENSE of BOTH the Canadian taxpayer and the addicted individual. We know today that THE PROBLEM is POVERTY, NOT! addiction. The addition is driven by HOPELESS! POVERTY and the ACCOMPANYING STRESS. The POVERTY *forces* people to commit crime and become SEX-TRADE WORKERS in order to survive. Undercover COPS Sell Drugs? ====================== It's true undercover cops sell drugs right in front of Carnegie Community Centre including Mexican undercover cops who come to participate in the security aspects of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: A GOLD MINE for Cops who will make tons of overtime. And they pocket the money. This is common knowledge. But I saw too with my very own eyes. I also saw a tall smart-looking tall Chinese guy sell drugs right in front of the Carnegie Centre as well and boy was he SLICK. The Chinese will not get caught for two (2) reasons: the Chinese now use their intelligence people - in my opinion - to ensure that any criminal activity the Canadian Chinese ommunity is involved in goes undetected. I saw this myself. And because the NEW! Police Chief of Vancouver Police is from Mainland China. He became Chief after becoming Deputy Chief. This is ODD! When looking for a NEW! Chief the local Police Force will go looking for one from outside the Force which is what they Ottawa Police does. In my view NONE! of this is surprising given that NO! Gov't employee goes to jail, every Gov't organization has its own internal mafia beit a hospital, college, university, Police force, military base, etc. And where the ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC PURSE is particularly BAD! there will always be found a non-consenting culture of sexual exploitation of women of which my wife was a victim and for which I had to suffer the consequences. The Gov't is 100% CROOKED in the view of the ÉPC BY DESIGN. To solve this the ÉPC is proposing 100% CLEAN! Gov't that the people can police themselves financially using the Internet and find out for themselves who are making the financial decisions in the Gov't and who is benefiting from the finincial decisions - Bay Street Organized Crime - rumour has it. Final Analysis ========== When EVERYTHING! is taken into account Vancouver's Harm Reduction Program along with the Downtown Eastside Community Court is nothing more than SCAM! DESIGNED to make Canadians believe that the Gov't is really doing something about POVERTY in Downtonw Eastside Vancouver when it isn't really. When it comes to helping the Homeless, the Gov't is NOT! in the picture: the Churches are. But their help is NOT only UNCO-ORDINATED and HALFHEARTED, it benefits FEW! people - about 500 people AT MOST. It's BLATANTLY NOT SERIOUS. It's VERY! SHABBY for a country as rich and prosperous as Canada. The CRUEL! REALITY is that there NOTHING! *substantial* for the Poor and Homeles, just a LITTLE BIT OF THIS and a LITTLE BIT OF THAT - pell-mell. It's *clearly* NOT! enough: it's NOT EVEN the BARE MINIMUM. The Churches should be the FIRST to be decrying this DISMAL SITUATION from the pulpits if they cared about the Homeless and the Poor, but they doN'T because THEY GET PAID BY THE GOV'T for THE LITTLE BIT THEY DO to help the Poor and Homeless. For that reason the ÉPC (Égalité Party of Canada) intends to impose on them a 10-year 10% Punitive Religious Revenue Tax on ALL! religious denominations. And what does the Canadian MEDIA PEOPLE do about this DREADFULL SITUATION? THEY LOOK THE OTHER WAY to avoid seeing it. Yet, HOW! THEY LIKE TO REVEL IN THEIR CYNICISM regarding THE SYSTEM which they are aiding and abetting by looking away. Perhaps with the advent of DOMESTIC TERRORISM (which I suspect we'll see towards the end of 2010) they'll start to take notice that THE UNDERLYLING CAUSE of terrorism is POVERTY. This recent terrorist bombings in New Delhi, India, confirms this. For the World to eliminate terrorism it needs to eliminate POVERTY: today, with technology its doable. The war we need to fight is the WAR ON POVERTY. We doN'T fight POVERTY and Homelessness by doing very little and looking the other way which has been till now THE CANADIAN WAY. The ÉPC (Égalté Party of Canada) plans to ATTACK POVERTY HEAD-ON! by making the Gov't TOP! priority helping Canadians create their own small businesses so they can become independently wealthy: this is A PARADIGM SHIFT away from a LAW and ORDER POLICE STATE to one where the emphasis is on JOB CREATION via small business and PROSPERITY rather than the Police and judicial/penal system. It's A REVOLUTION. BOYCOTT! the Elections ================== If the Gov't doesN'T care about the POOR and the Homeless, it MOST CERTAINLY doesN'T care about you either. On Election Day show the Gov't that you DON'T CARE TO VOTE by taking the day off and enjoying yourself. SUPPORT! the ÉPC =============== For NO! POVERTY. For 100% CLEAN! Gov't financially policed by Canadians via the Internet, SUPPORT the ÉPC (Égalté Party of Canada). It's the ONLY! political party committed BOTH! to REDISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH by DECRIMINALIZING the Gov't in order to eliminate poverty and to helping Canadians build their own small businesses so that they can be independently wealthy. Kenneth Selin (say'leen) B.A.(Psychology), B.A.(Spanish), B.Admin., B.Comm.(Honours), B.A.(Italian) "magna cum laude" ~~~ President/Party Leader of the Égalité Party of Canada http://www.eh-ok.ca ~~~ Let's DEcriminalize Government in order to end proverty. DÉcriminalisons le Gouvernement afin d'enrayer la pauvreté. ~~~ "talking about a revolution" (Tracy Chapman) http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYWOwWAguk&mode=related&search =
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X-Google-Thread: f67a2,9f13186f648a07f0,start X-Google-Thread: 111b2d,9f13186f648a07f0,start X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,9f13186f648a07f0,start X-Google-Thread: 109a5e,9f13186f648a07f0,start X-Google-Thread: 10dfca,9f13186f648a07f0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf67a2,gid111b2d,gidf7b9c,gid109a5e,gid10dfca,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: kenneth.selin@gmail.com Newsgroups: man.general,nb.general,ns.general,calgary.general,edm.politics Subject: "The NEW Downtown Eastside Vancouver Community Court is the "hamster in a cage" effect of a SELF-SERVING! GOV'T that DOES NOTHING! for the POOR" says the President/Party Leader of the Égalité Party of Canada Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 901 Message-ID: <f98cbad8-f8b6-479f-8a8f-c3f64a27d9ed@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.30.202.21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222464261 26282 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2008 21:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.30.202.21; posting-account=CPde0AoAAACqt4rKVWx6mwJEjQloFzP2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 squid7.tpl.toronto.on.ca:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE7)