Hearings resume at 0930 hours (9:30 am) this morning, Monday, 11 February 2008. Emile Robert, former area manager of the Cornwall probation office will continue his testimony and commence cross-examination.
I decided to leave further comment on Robert’s testimony to date alone – I’m not sure how much I missed with the webcast transmission problems and have no recourse to English transcripts to fill in the gaps.
I don’t believe Robert’s testimony will hold up well under cross-examination. We shall see..
Re Perry Dunlop warrant. All is quiet in the western front. I will attempt to find out what is happening today. What I did confirm is what we essentially have guessed:
(1) This whole matter of the contempt charges and the warrant for Perry’s arrest is, legally, a grey area.
(2) The civil contempt conviction is apparently very difficult to enforce.
(3) A charge of criminal contempt, which is being sought by Justice Glaude, is not a power to used as a vendetta by a judge.
(4) Public inquiries fall into a grey area of the law.
(5) Perry could be tried and convicted of the criminal contempt charge in absentia, but would then have to be hauled into custody, and that opens up the whole area of inter-provincial jurisdiction.
(6) The decision to retain an outside Crown means retaining a special prosecutor. A special prosecutor is sometimes retained for “complex” cases. In this instance that could mean retaining a lawyer with the special skills required to argue the case for the inquiry-related contempt citations and the subsequent issuance of a warrant.
In addition, a special prosecutor might be deemed necessary because of the real or perceived conflict of the AG’s office. The need to retain an outside Crown could therefore be due to either (i) the complexities of the case, (ii) the conflict of the AG’s office, or (iii) both.
A royl legal mess!!! I think the commission have themselves and the Ontario Divisional Court boxed in! Meanwhile the Dunlops wait, and wait, and wait……
Enough for now
Sylvia
It looks like Perry could beat this if he stays put where he is. In Canada we hear endlessly about “Rights” . The whole population is fixated on rights so how can we tolerate this vendetta against Perry Dunlop trying to make a crime out of refusing to testify for the umpteenth time so as to catch him in some contradiction however trivial.
The original idea of Rights laws was to protect citizens, as a restraint on the overwhelming power of Government over citizens. If there is any valid meaning to the notion of “Rights” the attack on Perry Dunlop should end immediately before attempting this legal jututsu needed to put him in jail.
In Re: Sylvia’s blog, “A royal mess” “Monday 11 February 2008 at 1:18:34” (blog time)
For all you “pea brains”, with various “motivations and intentions”, who visit Sylvia’s website periodically, as opposed to frequently and who therefore, very unfortunately, miss out on the “context”, as it “evolves”, in relation to the witness, testimony-evidence, provided at the “Cornwall Public Inquiry”,….”THIS ONE’S FOR YOU!!!!!”
FOR ALL of you who have difficulty in considering or “accepting” the “related events” surrounding Commissioner Glaude, (“The Applicant”) vs. Perry Dunlop,(“The Respondent”), at “Ontario Divisional Court”, ……..”THIS ONE’S FOR YOU!!”…..so…
“Let’s “keep it simple”, “so-to-speak”.
FOR you guys, let’s “PRETEND”-force yourself, that Sylvia’s blog, as referenced herein, is in fact, a true and accurate representation of the “facts”, or, let’s “PRETEND” her “blog” is a “partial”, true and accurate representation of the “facts”. “Let’s Pretend” that the cries of “cover-up” are in part or in whole, true and accurate. WOULD YOU BE OUTRAGED? Then, what would you do?
OR,
regarding the above, is it easier to simply say, WHAT IF WHAT SYLVIA WRITES ABOUT IS ALL FALSE?
Instead, you want to hear the words “guilty”, before YOU “WILL BELIEVE?” Or, instead of thinking “PRETEND” or investigating the “facts” yourself, you conclude, “these are ALL fictional writings, written by a “vindictive” friend of Perry’s….the writings are better suited for the “book of the month Club?”
WILL it take the “mainstream news media” to write about, what Sylvia writes about, to be more convincing to you or does Commissioner Glaude have to say, “guilty”? (not mandated)…..do you “rely” on the words, “innocent until proven guilty”, “the rule of law”, before you decide. WELL, don’t count on it!! What if the “inmates are running the asylum”, “so-to-speak?” WHAT if YOU like me and the Dunlop’s, highly respect and are obedient to the concept of, “innocent until proven guilty” or “the rule of law”, but corrupt people in authority have violated “our trust” in them? DO you have “independent” thought?
ARE you in “denial?” CAN you see the “elephant in the front room?”
Is “dysfunction” a word only associated with, the addicted “middle class” or “the disabled” or “the poor” or “the uneducated” or “the less fortunate” or “the less affluent?”
I mean, in “my opinion”, for ANYONE who has been around and closely following the events since in or about 1993, including this public inquiry, the proof of “cover-up”, is as clear as the nose on your face. FOR anyone WHO has “EXPERIENCED” the “facts”, not only is the “nose on the face” so evident, but the frustrating torture, of the ongoing “cover-up”, MUST BE excruciating!!!
CORRECT, Sylvia has NOT formally quoted sources, so her “blog” appears to be “less credible” and therefore can be “written off” by some, as simply, Sylvia’s “opinion” or something she picked-up around the “rumour mill”.
BUT, what would make Sylvia’s “blog” more credible, more believable, for some of you, who have NOT been “directly involved” with the unfolding of events since 1993?
Better yet, what if you were “involved or knowledgeable” about the facts since in or about 1993, why would you “elect” to minimize or deny the significance and credibility or reliability, of the information, Sylvia writes about? (motives?, intentions?)
WHY have the “mainstream news media” NOT EVEN scratched the surface, of what Sylvia may be “clearly explaining” or “eluding to, in her most recent blog?”
INSTEAD, “the mainstream” rely on Mr. Engelmann for “ALL” information and then they “ALL” scurry off, publishing almost EXACTLY the same “stories.”
WHY does the “mainstream” elect to “avoid” newsworthy stories, requiring some investigation and instead, publish the “same old, same old”? For example: Interview after interview…”….why don’t you go and tell your story…just tell your story, so many people are counting on you”. I mean, are they REALLY counting on Perry? NO, I don’t believe so. “The people” know “the facts” and the “reasons” eliciting “fear”, which consequently, “keeps the secrets hidden and silent!!”
Mark my words, IN MY OPINION, any of the “alleged victims”, actual “victims”, their representatives, supporters or others, who make those same, “mainstream newsmedia” type, statements, are ignorant of the “facts”, motivated $$$$$$ to “deny” Perry Dunlop, or are “scum bag” lawyers and their “sad, sick and dysfunctional clients”, who are motivated by $$$$$$$, under the guise of “helping them.”
IN FACT, the reality is, MANY of the “alleged victims”, etc., etc., have been “told” to avoid any statement, news media releases, interviews, relating to “Perry Dunlop’s” name in particular and Sylvia’s website or other “personalities” in general. (signs and symptoms of a closed, dysfunctional and abusive “system”, wouldn’t you agree?)
Or, isn’t it just great….I mean the “profile” of Perry Dunlop that the “mainstream” has constructed and marketed to the world; you would think you are at an out-of-the-way, carnival, “sideshow”.
HOORAY!! HOORAH!! HOORAY!! HOORAH!! “Come and see Perry Dunlop, the defiant, rogue cop, WHO, against all odds, alleged the existence of a “paedophile ring” and has INDEPENDENTLY taken on “THE SYSTEM”, with HIS BAR E HANDS, to, save the children!! HOORAY!! HOORAH!!”
….when the story really is “The Ontario Justice System, protectionism, cronyism and CORRUPTION!!”
LOTS COULD HAVE BEEN LEARNED BY MANY, at “Divisional Court”!!!
WHY does the “national mainstream news media” like other “pea-brains” decide NOT to attend VERY IMPORTANT “Divisional Court” proceedings, to secure “facts” and instead, relies on a “biased” interpretation of the proceedings, offerred by Perry Dunlop’s “OPPOSITION”; i.e. Peter Engelmann-Commissioner Glaude? (or are you so naive and “closed in” that you would never even believe that “Engelmann-Glaude” could be “giving their spin” on the “events”, because they are “Officers of the Court”?)
WHAT motivates some of you reader’s to be “skeptical” of Sylvia’s blogs? HOW can you access the “truth”? “Can You Handle The Truth?”
IN MY OPINION: THIS is about “corruption” and “abuse of power”…..and exactly why, “so-called hero’s of the “mainstream news media”, like Mr. Julian Fantino (Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner), Garry Guzzo (Ex-politician, lawyer, judge, etc), as well as other witnesses “turned yellow.”
“There was a cover-up in 1993 and there continues to be a cover-up today.” “I have no faith in the Ontario Justice System.”