HANDCUFFS & LEG IRONS ARE STANDARD PROCEDURE IN ONTARIO

Well that certainly eases my mind to be advised that our society and civilization approve of handcuffs AND legirons for non violent prisoners being transported to and from court. The article in the Waterloo Region Record is titled "Del Maestro's leg irons standard procedure for all prisoners: OPP". Don't get me wrong, I believe that Del Maestro and his Conservative party/government are assholes extraordinaire. I also believe he is guilty as sin and a professional liar. All that said neither he nor 95% of prisoners should be in leg irons. That is typical judicial/police nonsense pretending how important and brave they are dealing with these Hannibal lector's of the election system. Puleaseee give me a break. Putting arrested but unconvicted persons in handcuffs much less legirons is middle ages crap and unworthy of a civilized society. Maybe the reality is that we are not nearly as civilized as we pretend to be.

SO ELECTION EXPENSE RULES CAN BE ENFORCED AFTERALL

Who would have thought it? A sitting member of our federal Parliament has been convicted and sentenced to jail for one month plus being put on house arrest for four more months. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys the story titled "Del Maestro sent to jail for a month". Mr. Del Maestro may well be a wake up call for politicians at all tiers of government including here in Woolwich Township. While Councillor Bauman certainly found a cunning route around his failure four times in a row to file his election expense reports he is now on notice in the future. Plus his expense report for the 2014 election at least is on the Township's website where it should have been a long time ago.

Similarily Councillor Scott Hahn may be wishing that he had taken the election rules much more seriously and perhaps, it is absolutely unproven to date, he should have thought a little longer about producing a number of invoices/receipts that are challenging the smell test. Mayor Shantz will appear before the Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC) this Thursday at 11 am. in Woolwich Council Chambers. Her reports also indicate a number of contraventions of the Municipal Elections Act plus other possible discrepancies that an Audit hopefully will clarify.

DIRTY, ROTTEN, FILTHY, MUNICIPAL POLITICS

Woolwich Township are a microcosm of why the environment is going to hell in a handcart. They are also a microcosm of why democracy is so fragile. Their municipal Council are made up of both rookies with minimal ethics as well as experienced Councillors who are liars and bullies. Last evening they dissolved the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee after four members plus a supporter (moi) spoke strongly and factually in support of them. This Council also lied through their teeth while doing their dirty deed; claiming that some/majority of the current CPAC (until August 31/15) could be appointed to the two newly formed comittees called RAC and TAG. Meanwhile Uniroyal/Chemtura and their bed partner the Ministry of the Environment are rolling together in the mud, in delight.

This beyond idiot and into corrupt Council has given the green light to the complete destruction of public consultation here in Elmira, Ontario. Granted it was a badly flawed model to start with, with the Municipal Council doing all the appointing to CPAC. It is now nothing but a joke as the citizens are literally relegated to third class status while bureaucrats and politicians are the ones in control. The TAG (Technical Advisory Group) committee including citizens has zero authority or control whatsoever. They report to RAC (Remediation Advisory Committee) which reports directly to Woolwich Council. RAC have a total of five bureaucrats from the local Conservation Authority (GRCA), plus Region of Waterloo combined with the Woolwich Mayor and a Councillor along with the paid (professional?) Chair of TAG and then two alleged honest citizens. Fat chance of that with this set up.

The purpose of all this is to get myself and five honest citizens out of the hair of Chemtura Canada, formerly Uniroyal Chemical. They have destroyed the local water supply and poisoned the people and wildlife throughout the watershed. When even their bought and paid for consultants combined with a corrupt Ministry of Environmrnt could not stop the citizens group, they waited for a new municipal Council to do the job. Councillor Bauman and Mayor Shantz have led this corrupt charge.

AND YET ANOTHER CASE OF A MURDER CONVICTION WHEN THERE WAS NO CRIME

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "The 45-year battle to prove Ontario man didn't kill his common-law wife". When and what will it take to stop these needless criminal convictions? How can the police, the Crown, judges and the whole judicial system continue to get things so wrong?

Of all the screwups by the judicial system the ones that are most egregious are those whereby an innocent person is convicted of a murder that never happened. There was the self appointed expert (Dr. Charles Taylor?) who kept determining that this child and that child died via criminal assaults only to learn years later that shaken baby syndrome had been over diagnosed for decades. Then of course we had Milgard, Morin and D. Marshall all wrongly convicted.

In this particular case both husband and wife had been drinking and she had fallen. A fatal stroke ensued and he was convicted. Decades later four different nueropathologists have ruled the death as accidental including one hired by the Crown. It was however the Association In Defence of the Wrongly Convicted who once again have stepped in and righted another miscarriage of justice. How many more before citizens see a pattern? Is our judicial system nothing more than a huge machine grinding up lives for its' own glory and financial benefit? Rather than pride in our institutions I am learning to be ashamed of them.

ENOUGH ALREADY. OUR GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO ASSAULT CITIZENS & IGNORE THEIR OWN LAWS

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "Ontario accused of segregation violation". A female inmate took the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services to the Human Rights Commission. They settled at the first day of the hearing with conditions including that all inmates receive a handbook advising them of their legal rights in regards to segregation ie. solitary confinement. Christina Jahn was sufferring from both cancer and mental illness when the Ontario Ministry put her in solitary confinemnt for more than 200 days. As a result she did not receive necessary treatment for either condition. Her cancer is now terminal partly due to her lack of treatment at a crucial time. Meanwhile a number of Ontario jails continue to ignore the ruling by the Human Rights Commission which has resulted in enforcement action being requested of them. All of this is ridiculous based upon world wide studies of the use and abuse of solitary confinement. Here in Kitchener a nineteen year old girl with a history of mental illness and extensive time in solitary confinement took her own life while in custody. The Public Inquiry was damning of the local authorities as well as of the federal Correctional Services.

LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY LEADS TO MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION

Woolwich Township are starting to get a name for themselves and it's not the name they want. For decades they were known for their annual Maple Syrup Festival. Then they were known for the destruction of their drinking water by Uniroyal Chemical. Recently they're becoming known for their politicians being under scrutiny for violations of various laws. The former Mayor while still in office was being investigated for Fraud and Breech of Trust. Charges have since been laid. Then it was (and is) Councillor Scott Hahn who is being both audited and investigated for badly mishandling his election expenses. After him Councillor Mark Bauman was briefly ousted as a Councillor due to his complete failure to file any election expense report at all, contrary to the Municipal Election Act.

Last (we hope) but not least is Mayor Sandy Shantz who also has failed to fill in her election expenses correctly. Amazing how people who pretend to be informed and superior during election campaigns really just aren't that smart afterall. She failed to recognize that her total Contributions exceeded $10,000 which automatically was to trigger an Audit at her expense. Instead the Municipality may well be on the hook to do the Audit if the Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC) so rules after a hearing at 11 am. on July 2, 2015 in Council Chambers.

PART-TIME, LOW WAGE WORK - THE NEW ONTARIO

And a roaring thank you to all the little people at the top who have made it possible. M.P.s, M.P.P.s, corporations and even municipal politicians. Monday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "Huge shift to low-wage work needs changes, says study". The following statistic is scary : "the share of Ontario workers now earning minimum wage is now five times higher than in 1997.". Equally concerning "almost a third of all employees in the province are now making within $4 of the minimum wage, compared with less than 20 percent othe workforce in 1997.".

Yes absolutely all rightwingers, Conservatives , business types and those born with a silver spoon in their mouths can rejoice. Your filthy policies disguised by governments as good for the economy have accomplished so much. Our society is being sucessfully reduced to the haves and the have nots.