From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #531 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Sender: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Errors-To: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Cdn-Firearms Digest Wednesday, October 1 2003 Volume 06 : Number 531 In this issue: 'Lunatic' killed his family Edmonton Sun LETTER OF THE DAY Judge tosses murder charge [ONT] Grit plan a debt generator Re: Re: My seatbelt choice and risk Woman bears up to home invasion try Ejection from party sparks beating Weed poses risk CFDv6n528 Loaded vs Readied Answers Response to your article - may be used as a letter to the Editor if you Another Duck Hunter Bust ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:07:02 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: 'Lunatic' killed his family http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-09-30-0009.html Tuesday, September 30, 2003 'Lunatic' killed his family Cowardly dad taunted three-year-old son with death threats against his mom By KRISTEN ENEVOLD AND JOHNNIE BACHUSKY, SUN MEDIA RED DEER -- A cowardly dad who murdered his wife and son before turning the gun on himself made a chilling promise to the three-year-old boy: I'm going to kill your mommy. Little Alex Fekete died from a single shotgun blast, but not before his dad forced his young boy to watch as his mother Blagica was gunned down. Josif Fekete, 45, then shot his son and himself, in a final act of cowardice. Those who knew the killer are not surprised a man who could taunt a child with death threats would follow through. "(Alex's) dad taught him to hit women, to swear, and tell people, 'Mom is going to die' -- I heard it word for word," said Byron Harpold, the live-in boyfriend of murder victim Blagica. Josif and Blagica's surviving son, Jozef Fekete, described what RCMP told him had happened. Jozef said it was early Sunday evening when his father dropped off little Alex at the apartment on Ross St. The father and son met Blagica in the foyer, where Josif pulled a shotgun and fired a single round into his ex-wife, instantly killing the 40-year-old. Within seconds, all three were dead. Still in shock, the surviving son said cops had been called to the apartment numerous times to deal with the fallout from his parents' broken marriage, which ended about a year ago. "Just last Wednesday I was there and she was very scared, but she was getting on with her life by finding that apartment and working and I had never seen her so happy," said Jozef. "I talked to Alex, too, and I told him to be good for mom." Months before Josif, a Red Deer cab driver, went on his killing spree, Blagica told people she was scared something horrible would happen. "(Josif) told her that no one would save her, no matter where she was," recalled Lori Ost, daughter-in-law to the murdered woman. Blagica's grieving boyfriend, who was working in Drumheller at the time of the murders, said the killer gave off too many warning signs, and shouldn't have been ignored. "This shouldn't have happened," said Harpold. "(The killer) was a lunatic, he figured he was still in Yugoslavia," he said, explaining Josif and Blagica moved to Canada about eight years ago in search of a better life. Josif, who was convicted in 2000 of assaulting another male with a weapon, did not handle the break-up well and would threaten Harpold in his frequent bouts of anger. "I called 9-1-1 lots of times," said Harpold, adding that while driving last week, he was almost run off the road by Josif, who was behind the wheel of his cab. He complained to the local RCMP and even gave them a written statement, one that contained witness accounts of the incident. "The cops told me he didn't do anything wrong and that's why he wasn't charged," said Harpold. RCMP Insp. Peter Calvert confirmed cops had been to the apartment several times, "on a variety of issues." There were no formal charges against Josif that involved physical violence, or incidents where police were able to take direct, intervening action, Calvert said. The last time police were called to the house was Friday, he added. Harpold said he would have felt more comfortable if Blagica and Alex had stayed at the local emergency women's shelter while he was away at work. "I wanted her to go there to be safe," he said. Moriah Boyd, executive director of the Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter, said Blagica used the shelter on occasion. "She felt she was at risk and we took her word for that and the RCMP took her seriously enough to accompany her to her home while she got personal belongings and clothing." Autopsies on the victims are scheduled to be conducted today in Calgary. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:07:26 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Edmonton Sun LETTER OF THE DAY http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonSun/editorial.html >From Edmonton Sun LETTER OF THE DAY IN SUNDAY'S letters, R. Hartloff expressed surprise that he couldn't pay for gun registration because our federal government is not accepting its own cash. The Canadian passport office here in Edmonton refused a current valid Canadian passport as identification when I was getting a new passport just last month. They insisted that I show them an Alberta driver's licence. How ironic that one of the few places in the world that won't accept a Canadian passport as ID is the Canadian government? Les Thompson (And no wonder. Do you know how easily our passports can be forged?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:18:12 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Judge tosses murder charge http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/os.os-09-30-0014.html Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Judge tosses murder charge Not sure if woman intended to kill hubby By MARK BELLIS, Ottawa Sun CORNWALL -- A woman who stabbed her husband to death in Cornwall three years ago won't be going to jail for murder, and if her defence lawyer gets his way, she won't be doing any jail time. Donna Joyce Whitteker, 49, sobbed with relief in the arms of her daughter as the family of her dead husband James, 42, wept after the judge dismissed a second- degree murder charge against her. Whitteker, who killed her husband after stabbing him once with a knife on Sept. 16, 2000, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but the Crown tried to upgrade the charge to second-degree murder. In his ruling yesterday, Justice Roydon Kealy said the incident was a domestic conflict that resulted "in a great tragedy." EXTREMELY DRUNK But Kealy also said that the Crown had not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Whitteker intended to kill her husband, which is needed for a guilty verdict in a criminal trial. Kealy said Whitteker was extremely drunk at the time of the killing, with a blood-alcohol level of .265% -- more than three times the legal limit for driving -- but added that was "no excuse for the commission of a crime." He said Whitteker was also disoriented from sleep deprivation, depression, menopause and sinus medicine. Whitteker, a small, grey-haired woman, was out on bail during the trial. Defence lawyer Alan Brass said he would ask for a conditional sentence, which is no jail time, community service, limited house arrest or other punishments, for up to two years. Crown prosecutor Murray MacDonald said the killing had been a "terrible tragedy to the Whitteker family" and that he would be presenting a full report during the sentencing hearing. Whitteker will be back in court Oct. 16 to set a date for the sentencing hearing. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:18:43 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [ONT] Grit plan a debt generator http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/os.os-09-30-0033.html Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Grit plan a debt generator Liberal hydro policy calls for government borrowing, McGuinty says By ALAN FINDLAY, Queen's Park Bureau NORTH BAY -- Ontario Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty said yesterday his party's hydro plan is an uncosted strategy of building more public power plants and invoicing the indebted public sector. Commenting three days before what is largely anticipated to be the election of a majority Liberal government in Ontario, McGuinty was unable to tell reporters the cost of his plans, which include significant spending on hydroelectric and natural gas-fired generators. "We're going to have to borrow money with that," McGuinty said. He said it's been 13 years since the province has built a new power plant, which has left Ontario lacking sufficient power. "We don't have a choice in this matter," said McGuinty. "It took us 13 years to get into this mess ... it's going to take us some time to get out of this mess." ADDITIONAL GENERATORS Originally supporters of a more privatized, deregulated electricity market, the Liberals reversed course in the wake of the Tories' failure to implement floating power prices last year without soaring rates. McGuinty said a Liberal government will charge power at cost, which would make it cheaper in the evenings. The Grit plan now is to build or contract for construction of additional generators such as an expansion of Niagara Falls' Beck III generator and new generation on Toronto's Portlands site. The Grits would also plug in additional lines to Manitoba (an estimated $1-billion project) and Quebec (approximately $300 million). Energy Probe director Tom Adams said the Liberal plan will take the province back to the days of Ontario Hydro, which created a debt of $38 billion before it was restructured into several smaller companies. "It's crazy. We've been there, we know what it means," said Adams. He's also skeptical of any Beck III expansion. According to a Canada-U.S. agreement, Ontario is already diverting as much water as it can from the Niagara River to power the existing hydro turbines, which makes another turbine doubtful. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:25:12 -0600 (CST) From: Mark L Horstead Subject: Re: Re: My seatbelt choice and risk > From: Bruce Mills > Date: 2003/09/29 Mon PM 08:15:12 EST > To: undisclosed-recipients: ; > Subject: Re: My seatbelt choice and risk > Which says more about the evils of "socialized medicine" than it does about the > freedom to wear a seat belt, or a helmet, or to smoke or drink. Restricting > someone's right to choose because injuries which *may* occur *may* "cost the > system more" is just another weapon in the socialist's arsenal of enslavement: > first, they hook you on the pipe dream of "universal health care", and then use > that as justification to intrude on every other aspect of your life. They may well save the system money too. Those that die won't be sucking up huge sums for cancer treatment or years of care in senior citizens' homes. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:25:43 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Woman bears up to home invasion try http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/os.os-09-30-0034.html Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Woman bears up to home invasion try By ANDREW SEYMOUR, Ottawa Sun A Gatineau woman slammed the door on a 250-lb. intruder who was muscling its way into her home Sunday night. Suzanne Leveque was in a second-floor bedroom of her Normandie St. house in Hull when the family dog started barking wildly at the front door at about 9 p.m. Realizing something was wrong, Leveque started to make her way downstairs and came face to face with a mother black bear climbing through the screen door. "There was the head and one leg already inside," said Leveque, who ran down the stairs and slammed the heavier inside door. "I thought 'there was no way you're coming in here,' " she said. EATING APPLES Leveque said her husband and 14-year-old son had been out for a walk before the pesky bruin tried to break into the house and could only shout and watch helplessly from across the street as the bear clawed its way through the screen. Leveque said she later learned the bear and her two cubs had been sitting in a neighbour's tree eating apples before the mother came down and tried to get into her house. After she closed the door, the bear and her cubs climbed another nearby tree where Quebec wildlife officials were able to eventually tranquilize and capture them. The bears were released back into the wild yesterday morning. Leveque said the last place she expected to see a bear was coming through her front door. "I've had a cottage for 20 years and I've never seen a bear," she joked. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:32:41 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Ejection from party sparks beating http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/09/30/212854.html Tue, September 30, 2003 Ejection from party sparks beating By Rob Lamberti, Toronto Sun A Mississauga man was stabbed, beaten and whipped by three men who were angry that he booted them out of a house party. Peel Regional Police captured three men armed with a knife, baseball bat and a whip shortly after the Saturday attack. The victim, 23, was cornered by the men at Ogden Ave. and South Service Rd. at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, and he was stabbed in the upper body. The attackers took his jacket and fled. The victim was taken to hospital for emergency surgery. His injuries are serious but not life-threatening. Peter Twardowski, 19, of Oakville and Dariusz Wojtowicz, 22, and Steven Bailey, 21, both of Mississauga are charged with aggravated assault, possession of dangerous weapons and robbery. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:32:50 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Weed poses risk http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/09/30/212862.html Tue, September 30, 2003 Weed poses risk Police issue jimson warning after teens hurt By IAN ROBERTSON, TORONTO SUN Four Hamilton residents, including two young teens, survived a narrow brush with a legal but deadly weed that grows wild and in gardens, police said yesterday. Datura, popularly known as jimson weed, left a 13-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl violently hallucinating Sunday, said Det.-Sgt. Rick Wills of the Hamilton Police vice and drug branch. After the boy went to Hamilton General Hospital at about 1:15 a.m., he was transferred to the McMaster University Medical Centre intensive care unit. Wills said the boy was so high on the plant's "extremely toxic" narcotic that McMaster staff did not know who he was until after the girl went to a police station suffering from similar intoxication nine hours later. Police checked her address and found two more people under the influence of the weed in a Victoria Ave. N. home. One is related to the boy, but the family tie, ages and sex of the pair in the home were not disclosed. Jimson, which has white or purple trumpet-shaped flowers, causes problems "mostly with local young persons who may try this deadly weed without the knowledge of its dangers," Wills said. Also called devil's weed and stinkweed, its narcotic alkaloids can cause delirium and hallucinations. It can be so toxic that people have died from smoking it or overdosing on a tea made from the dried leaves, stems and kidney-shaped seeds. Seeds found in a spiked pod on the plants are the most dangerous part of the plant. Police issued a warning about ingesting the weed and urged anyone aware of a user to get them medical aid. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:32:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Tom Falls" Subject: CFDv6n528 Loaded vs Readied When we crewed the first Coyote off the C-17 onto Kandahar Airfield at dawn on 3 Feb 02, we stopped at the terminal, gave the infantry their cases of ammo out of the back (easiest way to get it off the plane) and then we ALL loaded our weapons. I loaded my C8 carbine and Browning Pistol and - other than when I cleaned them (a lot) or emptied mags firing them for practice - they stayed loaded for three months until we got on a Herc and flew to Dubai (Woo Hoo!) for four days of R&R. Same routine for 2 1/2 months on return to Kandahar. The Co-ax MG and the AA MG were loaded on the perimeter or outside of the gate, but unloaded in camp. The 25mm M242 chain gun was fed up to the sprockets, but the cannon was not readied ("cycle the ghost round") until we crossed the Line of Departure on ops. Readying a 25 mm cannon takes scant seconds to due and long minutes to undue ( a real pain). We never unloaded our pers weapons in camp. They stayed loaded in meal lines, "O" Groups, the internet cafe, or just squatting over half of a 45 gallon drum taking a dump. The Americans (in the 101st) did unload theirs in camp, and had more NDs. Whenever there was an ND in the Brigade, ALL 3000 of us - American and Canadian - were told to do handling tests on our pers weapons. We even did this on OP. Did it help? Well, it kept up the awareness, if nothing else. Some poor Yank had an ND on a HumVee mounted 40mm Mk 19 (Boom-Boom! WHUMP-WHUMP!) inside the camp, and so we Coyote crews did handling tests on our C7 s, C8 s, M203 s and pistols. Our attitude towards readying a weapon was that it was no big deal, and if you felt that you should chamber a round then you probably better. I told my troop that I would rather go to my Court Martial than their funeral, and that seemed to be the general consensus of all the leadership there. I would give the same instructions today. Tom Falls ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:58:15 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Ackermann Subject: Answers Linda, Here's my 2 cents: 1. What kind of license? (or 'certificate' of competence or...?) Lifelong competency certificate based on successful completion of a firearms safety course. Prior military, police, or other firearms training accepted in lieu. No renewal required. State must prove you unworthy to revoke. Maybe REQUIRE mandatory membership in local, provincial and federal firearms organizations. (Before anyone gets all nasty at me consider the effect of an influx of FIVE MILLION new members into our rights advocacy groups). 2. Who may qualify for ownership? Any Canadian citizen, or permanent resident free of conviction for serious violence (i.e. attempted murder, not just a Saturday night scuffle after a few too many with the boys), 12 years old or older. 3. Safe storage law will stay as is, is that OK? No, it is full of inconsistencies and needs to be reworked. One example: It is prohibited to store primers next to powder - even when they are both in their factory packaging (tested and proven safe from risk of chain fire or explosion) - and yet primers are in physical contact with powder in ammunition! Makes no sense. Another example: Ammo storage crate must be wood with brass fittings. This harkens back to the old days of black powder and nitro glycerine. Modern ammo WILL NOT EXPLODE when set alight and thin walled metal ammo cases are used by the military every day. Law should be based on fact, not conjecture. 4. Any other issue you can add here. Yes, the RIGHT TO LIFE leads directly to the RIGHT to ownership of property and the the RIGHT to own and responsibly use firearms for sport AND DEFENSE of the person, one's family and neighbors, and one's country. Without these ancillary rights, there is no true RIGHT TO LIFE. 5. What about registration, what to do with existing data if it is dropped? Print it all out, roll it into a long cylinder, and shove it so far up Cretin's, Rock's, Cauchon's, Easter's, Kookier's, McLellan's, Austin's, and Therrien's collective asses that it comes out their noses. Then they can use the paper tube protruding from their noses to snort more of the drugs they must have been on to think up this hallucinogenic load of crap in the first place. Replies to: freefall7@shaw.ca - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS Secretary, St. Mary's Shooters Association Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 My email: mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca My Bio: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mikeack/mikeack.htm SMSA URL: www.smsa.ca "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 00:15:16 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Ackermann Subject: Response to your article - may be used as a letter to the Editor if you Family violence in Red Deer lead to three deaths in a murder-suicide despite numerous police calls regarding this couple's breakup, the latest being a plea to police made by victim Blajica - two days before her murder - for protection against her estranged husband. The reason the gun registry is such a useless waste is because it does nothing to prevent crime while it diverts essential resources away from police who are "short staffed" to the point that they cannot hope to enforce good laws like those against threatening your spouse, let alone bad ones like the gun registry. They have even had to recently withdraw lab services to allied peace officers siting lack of funding. Leaders of women's groups and shelters should be demanding our government spend their tax money where it will do some good: enforcement of laws that would keep the Josef Feketes of the world away from the Blajicas and the Alexes and ongoing funding of support programs for women in need of protection. They should demand an end to waste on Billion Dollar Boondoggle schemes like the gun registry. - -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS Secretary, St. Mary's Shooters Association Box 13, 120 Cameron Rd. Sherbrooke, NS Canada B0J 3C0 902-522-2172 My email: mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca My Bio: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mikeack/mikeack.htm SMSA URL: www.smsa.ca "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 00:16:31 -0600 (CST) From: Edward Hudson Subject: Another Duck Hunter Bust Saskatoon Gun Law Protester May Finally Have His Day in Court Tuesday, 30September2003 Humboldt, Saskatchewan After nine months, three arrests, 22 hours in jail, and 25,000 kilometers of travel, Saskatoon veterinarian Ed Hudson may finally get his day in court. Dr Hudson was hunting ducks southwest of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Tuesday morning when two RCMP constables confiscated his double barrel shotgun, ammunition, hunting vest, and issued him an order to appear in provincial court to face possible charges for “Possession of a firearm without a valid possession license.” “Jack Wilson and I had our duck blind set up in a canola stubble field about five kilometers south of the # 5 Highway and were working my Labrador retriever in some high grass beside the grid road when the police arrived. They were very polite, but having my shotgun confiscated leaves a bit of bad taste in my mouth,” Dr Hudson said. “The officers read me my ‘Rights’, and after I gave them my name, address, and date of birth I basically shut up.” Mr Wilson, who was hunting with Dr Hudson, but did not have a firearm, was not charged. Mr Wilson has recently been charged under Section 91(1) of the Criminal Code for “Unauthorized possession of a firearm” on two previous duck hunting expeditions in the western part of Saskatchewan. When asked why he and Mr Wilson have gone to such extraordinary lengths to be charged for violating the Firearms Act, Dr Hudson explained, “If the Firearms Act actually did any of the things its proponents claim, I should have been in jail since January the first. I have no firearms license, and none of my firearms locked in my basement are registered. Are Canadians safer today because the RCMP have confiscated one of my shotguns ? Is your family safer ? If you answer ‘yes’, then you have to ask yourself why I am still allowed to have over fifty unregistered firearms at home. Even without a license I am not perceived as a threat to society. Therefore a license would not make me any less of a threat. The Firearms Act was built upon a lie. Canada will be a safer country when this unjust law is repealed.” Dr Hudson is to appear in provincial court in Humboldt this coming Monday, 05 October 2003 at 10 a.m. Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association 402 Skeena Crt Saskatoon Saskatchewan S7K 4H2 1-306-242-2379 1-306-249-2359 fax edwardhudson@shaw.ca www.cufoa.ca ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #531 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:akimoya@cogeco.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca FAQ list: http://www.magma.ca/~asd/cfd-faq1.html and http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/homepage.html FTP Site: ftp://teapot.usask.ca/pub/cdn-firearms/ CFDigest Archives: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/ or put the next command in an e-mail message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca get cdn-firearms-digest v04.n192 end (192 is the digest issue number and 04 is the volume) To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next five lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-alert unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".) 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