Monday 18 February 2013

False Accusation in the CF

I've been asked to relate some of my unwanted experience in the area of false allegation. I'll try to be brief, but even then it's not a short story. There are those on this site, who knew of me on the now defunct mens-rights.net website, where I was known as "sav539", which is how my military kit was marked. I was a reservist combat engineer with 8th Field Engineer Regiment (now 41 CER) in the Canadian Armed Forces, with the rank of Master Corporal in July of 2004. At that time, I was an instructor on a basic training course that was held at the Debney Armoury here in South Edmonton. It was the second basic training course that I'd taught on, but the politics were much worse than the course two years prior. We were ordered to push candidates through who were physically incapable of some of the most basic soldierly tasks, including showing up for class. We had two such individuals on the course, who were mother and daughter (against regulation), who went AWOL during the course, but were retained due to politics. At the end of the course, a celebratory party was ordered (again despite regulation). They went AWOL for a third time at the beginning of the party, and were told when they showed up, that they would be charged the next day for having gone absent. The next morning, they made accusations about three of the instructors. The allegations about the female instructors were ignored, but the one about me, wasn't. By that evening, I was charged by an investigator from CFNIS (internal affairs) who had only started the job that afternoon. She arrested and charged me after having interviewed the mother and daughter together, without doing any other investigation, including not interviewing the Course Officer, but instead ordered him to destroy the statements collected by him during his own investigation. It took her another 10 days to look at the "crime scene", which had been sealed by course staff members, and another 4 days after that to interview other potential witnesses. Then began 3 1/2 years of a trial day here, and another there. I already knew I was going to be convicted half way through the process, as the judge had at various times shown his bias towards my counsel and myself, despite the fact that the mother and daughters testimony in court contradicted even their statements to CFNIS. My counsel had chosen to not cross examine my accusers about my version of events on the stand, so when I testified what had happened, the judge and prosecutor both acted as though what I had to tell them had to be B.S., especially because what I had to say actually fit the facts. Because, my memory of the events was so accurate, I had to be lying, and because my story fit the facts, it must be "concocted". My counsel showed up on the last two days of trial in the same rumpled suit, with my file in a two-four box of Rickard's Red. So the verdict of "Guilty" assigned by the judge wasn't a surprise. After that, I fired my lawyer, and hired Mr. Brian Beresh, who tried to convince the judge to declare a mistrial, as both the judge and prosecutor had commented on the fact that a proper cross examination hadn't been done. The judge refused to do the right thing, saying that he would leave it to the Alberta Court of Appeal to decide. On the 7th of January, 2008 he sentenced me to three years of incarceration for a crime I didn't commit, despite my stack of character reference letters, and my having undergone 2 days of FACS assessment, of which the determination was that I had little to no traces of deviant characteristics in my psych profile. I spent the next 5 1/2 months locked up, until I was released on bail by the appellate court pending their hearing my case. On the 9th of April of 2009, they sat to hear the arguments from both sides, except that when my appellate lawyer stood up to present my case, he was immediately asked to sit down, as the panel of judges were happy with the written presentation and needed no more convincing as to whether or not there had been a miscarriage of justice. Instead, they spent the next 15 minutes attacking the prosecutor who was there on behalf of the Crown. They then came back with an unanimous decision to overturn the conviction and ordered a new trial. They went so far as to state that the trial judges reasoning betrayed "a casuistic and result-driven approach". In other words, he twisted and ignored evidence in order to convict me. The second trial began on the 26th of October, with the Crown starting off with the complainant. When Mr. Beresh cross examined her, she first tried crocodie tears to illicit sympathy. When that didn't work, and he 'd confronted her with the fact that she'd falsely accused me to get out of the AWOL charges, and that she'd been receiving a pension of $1500/month, two years prior to my conviction, she went on a swearing rant, for which she wasn't charged with contempt of court. When her mother took the stand, she was likewise confronted with her fabricated story and her past of theft and false accusation. I found out at that time, as individuals from her past were brought into the back of the courtroom that she was asked to identify. They included past employers from whom she'd stolen, and finally a man that she and her daughter had falsely accused of sexual assault to get out being charged for theft from his restaurant. Wrecking an innocent man's reputation had got them out of trouble multiple times before, so why not use a tested and tried method again. Finally, the truth came out in court, on the 30th of October,2009. After only 66 minutes of deliberation during their lunch, I was finally exonerated by the jury. It had taken me 5 years and well over 200G to clear my name in court. If not for the money I've made in the oil patch, and help from family I wouldn't have been able to fight back and restore my and my family's honour. I'm still trying to put my life back in order, and to get the military to admit that what they did was no less than a witch hunt. They had policies in place to make a scapegoat of an accused, but no policy of what to do if the accused was really innocent. I've gone through the chain of command all the way from the unit, all the way up to the Prime Minister's Office, but they all ignore the Principle's of Leadership that they instill in their own troops.
by silvaticus

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Monday 4 February 2013

Hayley & Harley's story - Forced adoption


Published on Jan 23, 2013
This is my story. One of thousands. Forced adoption and the wrongful removal of children from loving parents is a serious miscarriage of justice and yet it is allowed to go on behind the doors of the secret family courts every day throughout the UK and worldwide. their motive...... MONEY its as simple as that.
I have a pile of files nearly as tall as me and have yet to find good reason to take Harley-Jade from me. She wasn't harmed in any way, nor was she neglected. My care for her was never an issue. But a social worker who would like to give mystic meg a run for her money can stand in court with a 'prediction' and suggest that although a child has come to no harm, there may be a risk she may do in the future - I wonder if I predict that England will win the next world cup, do you think they'll hand us over the Jules Rimet ??.

Click for video Hayley Rainbow

Friday 1 February 2013

Encourage Domestic Violence? There's An App For That



More information @ Mensrights-help how to protest that Apple would promote domestic violence against men to their female customers, especially to girls as young as 4 years of age.

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