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shockedcanadian

(751 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 06:18 AM Jul 2014

Toronto woman stunned by police revelation in background check

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/07/18/toronto_woman_stunned_by_police_revelation_in_background_check.html



Sim Frayne couldn’t believe her eyes when she first saw the piece of paper that falsely identified her as a “person of interest” in the sudden death of her own stepfather. The words appeared on a Toronto police background check that she had requested in 2012 to present to the courts so she could retain custody of her two and half year old niece.

“It was the fear of possibly not being able to have her, which was terrifying,” said the Toronto woman. “I was mortified. I’m a volunteer. I do so many things.”

On Thursday, Frayne took her grievances to the Toronto Police Services Board to ask for a formal apology from Chief Bill Blair for the eight months, and hundreds of wasted hours, it took for her to clear her name. She didn’t get it.
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Toronto woman stunned by police revelation in background check (Original Post) shockedcanadian Jul 2014 OP
What Americans and others need to understand is that the sanctity of the individual in Canada... shockedcanadian Jul 2014 #1
no doubt archaic56 Jul 2014 #2
 

shockedcanadian

(751 posts)
1. What Americans and others need to understand is that the sanctity of the individual in Canada...
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 05:34 PM
Jul 2014

...no longer exists.


We have many agencies, all operating to make notes covertly, recruiting "C.I's" (confidential informants) to generate information on people, and these opinions and notes are applied to citizens in secret dossiers without a question to their validity or even motive (in my case the persecution against me started after I was rendered deaf as a youth by a detective, struck with a stick in my groin more than once, and had the audacity to "rat" the offending detective out). No charges need to be laid, no arrests, most importantly no convictions after one having their due process. There is no two ways about it, this is precisely what Canadians are facing. A mix of the Stasi and Gestapo methods that are somehow deemed acceptable by those looking to protect their turf; they circumvent the legal system by unjustly and illegally rendering their "perp" persona non grata. Their life in Canada non-existent, life time underachievers who often don't know why their efforts were constantly squashed.

As an example, in Ontario alone, you could come into contact with an undercover cop or confidential informant from multiple policing agencies, from municipal police to provincial, the RCMP and/or CSIS at the Federal level. ANY notes, details, accusations, interactions, "unfounded and unproven activities" can be made against you without the benefit of a lawyer, a qualified judge (who has seen most of the "dirty trick" campaigns that police in Canada engage in) or any evidence. This is direct, invasive and life altering interactions by the state on their own citizens...you as an individual have no recourse or rights; the agencies themselves are no different than the God ordained leaders of centuries past.

It has become frightening that the biggest National Security threat in Canada (and to our allies) is in fact the security apparatus itself. This is not innocuous activities without direct repercussions, this is life altering interference. What is most offensive, is that unlike someone being charged with a crime, hell even going to jail for a said crime, those in the database can NEVER receive a pardon...it is something seemingly reserved for the most vindictive purposes...

archaic56

(53 posts)
2. no doubt
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 08:03 PM
Jul 2014

having Canadian friends fighting Stephen Harper on many issues , this does not surprise me. What that man has done to First Nations is a crime. Very similar to what UK is now moving towards .
God help us if the REpublicans win in NOvember.I am already persona non grata in my county for poiting out their crimes.

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