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 Welcome to injusticebusters!
A year ago we were getting
ready for the fifth
estate update
January 23. The show was informative as always and we continued
to receive e-mail from those who had not seen us before.
Richard Klassen had a
lot of court dates a he fought for court orders to examine several
parties in the discovery process of Claim 271. He also fought off several attempts to have him dropped from the
lawsuit he launched in 1994. One of these attempts by Dueck and
government lawyers accused him of publishing sealed material
on this site. Sheila Steele took full control of the site at
that time.
Jason Warick wrote a
feature in the StarPhoenix in November.
We were unprepared for
the amount of attention we received -- and people at The Fifth
Estate tell us they got more mail than they've ever received
for a single show.
We all love the attention.
That is why we do what we do. The truth has been a kind, but
demanding taskmaster in this tale -- which began as a tale of
woe, got in stride as a tale of rage and is now coming fully
forward as a tale of triumph.
The government bureaucrats
and the Saskatoon Police Service higher-ups have shown themselves
to be boring men and women in gray who wreck people's lives as
casually as they cash their monthly paycheques.
In this case, it would
seem they believed they had found some vague connections between
a couple white trash families -- the Rosses and the Klassens
-- from which they could build a scenario which would be make-work
projects for a whole lot of professional people.
It did not occur to them
that even among disadvantaged groups of people there will often
emerge someone with the tenacity to fight through the lies and
deceptions and insist upon justice. Not only did Rick Klassen
emerge as such a person with a lots of talent but he was able
to find others who would fill in the areas he wasn't trained
to do.
It has been a confidence-building
adventure for all of us. The truth is a fierce concept but chasing
after it is it own reward.
We're not quite there,
though. We don't know how long the final push will take or what
the casualties will be. We do know that the genie is out of the
bottle and Saskatchewan can never suck it back in. We know that
our efforts will shine the way for others attempting to do the
same thing.
No one said it would
be easy. But, darn! They never told us it would be so much fun.
Please enjoy your visit
to the site, bookmark it, come back often, let us know if you
catch typos or links that don't work. -- Sheila Steele, webmaster
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Revitalizing the
archives
From 1998 until
2002, injusticebusters was in the throes of identity crisis.
What was it? What were we doing? We grappled with editorial policy
at the same time we were learning the nuts and bolts of building
and posting a website. Once we had a secure, paid site I had
full editorial control, although I talked regularly to Richard
Klassen who was forced to move his family several times and did
not always have access to the internet. Rick's pages: one | two
We posted our
earliest and later actions.
Early versions
of the site can be found on the Wayback Machine.
I began following
other threads to stories of police and prosecutorial misconduct
and the site's character took on another facet: a newsclipping
scrapbook where stories could live longer than they would in
print form. I also began picking up other stories of wrongfully
convicted people. It was an explosion. By 2003 there were over
700 pages. I also had contact with several other people (Don
Smith,
Leon
Walchuk,
Monique
Turenne,
the
Vopnis)
and kept these stories going.
It was the
story of the Ross children's treatment at the hands of the Saskatchewan
government which grabbed the attention of The Fifth
Estate.
The civil claim (The $10M Lawsuit as we called it) was only mentioned
briefly at the end of their show which aired in November, 2000.
When Richard
Klassen began to make progress in bringing his civil claim to
court, the government and police defendants alleged he was breaking
the rules of court by publishing discovery material on the internet.
- MacNeil
clinic (the
document which started it all)
- The
Thompson Papers
- Carol
Bunko-Ruys reports
This claim
was absolutely false. However, rather than risk being thrown
out of his civil claim, Klassen undertook before Judge Mona Dovall
to sever all ties with the website.
The court fights:
- Les
Perreaux report
- QB271
These pages have links which
lead to other pages from that era. Now that some of the dust has settled,
I have been going back through the material we had posted in
the early days. In the spirit of keeping the scrapbook alive,
I have been reformatting and placing links. The original material
remains intact. I hope the information, which chronicles our
struggle is useful to you.
The identity
crisis is over. We know who we are --Sheila Steele, March
28, 2005
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 Truth can never be
told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd. William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell
Truth suppress'd, whether
by courts or crooks, will find an avenue to be told. Sheila Steele, injusticebusters.com
If you hold the mouth
of Truth, It will burst out its rib-cage. Somali proverb
Publisher : Sheila
Steele
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court advice :
- How
to walk yourself through the justice system
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- Why
you should dump your preliminary hearing (written July 1998 and still valid)
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- Sermonette:
The
Naked Truth -- (You
will find links to many more sermonettes in the sidebar on this
page
Another target
of Dueck's malice: : Wilf
Hathway
Our activism
contributed greatly to the good vibes which happened around the
civil trial.
Index
to the stories on this website
This is not
regularly updated so if you are looking for a particular story
and you have a name or keyword, please use the site search engine(at
the bottom of the page) which IS regularly updated
Index to Saskatoon Police stories
This is a pretty good scrapbook
for the 1998-2002 period.
Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David
Milgaard untanling 36 years of Saskatchewan police and Crown
misconduct: : Opening day 1 | 2
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- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
- Terry
Arnold: : Snitch a
suicide?
- RCMP
scenario stings: Brian
Hutchinson starts digging
- Gary
wells: Faulty eye-witness
testimony
- Tulia,
Texas
- Gilmer,
Texas
- Willie
Upshaw
- Wrongfully
convicted in Canada
- Foster
Parent false accusations
- Martensville
- Don
Smith obscenity trial: an obscene conviction
- James
Lockyer
- Hurricane
Carter
- Johnny Cochran speaks up for
Bill Sampson
- Vopnis
- Abdulai
Mohamed
- Nfld Defamation story:
- Wanda
Young
- Racism in the Federal Civil Service
The Terrible Story behind the Atif Rafay and
Sebastian Burns convictions
Trial
set for June 15
We
know part of this disclosure is a forged statement and perjured
affidavit from a Winnipeg cop
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The
Crown is still fighting Fred Poirier -- and they are losing.
Secret Commissions Case from Northern B.C.
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- 2005: In
the United States the proven wrongful convictions just keep coming
at us!
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- Brandon Morin:
- Convicted in Oregon
- of rapes which did not happen
- This website has good information
about Measure 11 -- Oregon's Mandatory Sentencing requirements
which have been in place since 1994. In this case we see how
the combination of a flawed grand jury system and prosecutors
who seek not justice but convictions is a recipe for wrongful
convictions.
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