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Sermonette: January, 2001

Legal Treachery to keep Dueck's lies safe: He has applied to gag the plaintiffs in the $10M lawsuit and have the lawsuit turfed if they don't comply

January 11, 2001: injusticebusters just this morning became aware of the treacherous application lying in wait for the plaintiffs in the $10M lawsuit when they go to Court Tuesday morning, January 16 to discuss how the exams for discovery are to proceed. Dueck's lawyer has already secretly obtained an interim gag order from Judge Paul Hrabinsky, a judge who should not have been allowed to hear the application because he has already stated his allegiance to Superintendent Dueck and sent two people to jail for defaming him.

The brief to the court is deliberately deceptive. As we published February 3, 2000:

. . . On Feb. 2, Dueck's lawyer Mr. Rosmann stopped proceedings to get a Court order before April 15 placing a ban on publishing any of the material disclosed in the discovery exams. Richard Klassen proffered that he would agree to be excluded from the list of plaintiffs lawyer Ed Holgate provided the discovery information. Affidavit of Richard Klassen pledging to allow his lawyer to keep discovery depositions secret from him can be found here. The exams were stopped so the Defendants could apply to the Court for a more thoroughgoing gag order. . .

In the brief accompanying the Jan. 16, 2001 application before the court there is no mention of the April 15 deadline or the part of the transcript where Richard Klassen clearly states that he is prepared to give the other side ten weeks -- adequate time to prepare an application -- at which time he would vigorously oppose it based on sound legal principles. We all assumed that when that deadline passed, the matter was moot. injusticebusters are uncertain just when Barry Rossmann persuaded Mr. Holgate to extend the April 15 deadline by an additional ten months! We assume that he felt Rossmann would win a court application to extend the deadline as in the halls of gentile justice where lawyers and judges alike whine about their over-burdened schedules, such applications are routinely granted.

Rosmann's new brief charges Richard Klassen with vigilantism and says that publication of the material regarding this case subjects Dueck and the government defendants to physical danger. On the basis of what he is calling intimidation, Dueck is asking that the Court put serious teeth into the existing publication bans (which they have previously made no effort to enforce) by seeking the remedy dismissal of the lawsuit and jail time for injusticebusters.

Dueck is not now nor has he ever been in any physical danger from injusticebusters or anyone else who has taken an interest in publicizing this case. Dueck has not been defamed. He has been embarrassed. Queen's Bench Judge Paul Hrabinsky was also embarrassed when he ordered all the proceedings in the Lucas case sealed from public view. When he sentenced the Lucases in April, 1995 he attached the following to the file:

There shall be an order directing that the identity of any individuals alleged to have been involved in sexual misconduct and any information that could disclose the identity of such individuals, as well as anything which may be construed as defamatory material, shall not be published in any document or broadcast in any way.

This order was so sweeping it was ludicrous. The hyperbole which has passed for the Queen's English in the courtroom discussing this case has beome Babelian. To help cut through the noise, we could go back to the dictionary. Fair comment on matters of public interest is not vigilantism. Embarrassment is not intimidation. The embarrassment of being exposed as a criminal is quite different from the embarrassment of being falsely accused of sex crimes. The first kind of embarrassment happens to people every day in court and is accepted as part of our legal process. The kind of embarrassment which Dueck exposed the plaintiffs to is against the law.

There is a great deal of embarrassment. Social Services, Saskatchewan Justice and the Saskatoon Police are embarrassed that the public now knows they gave Michael Ross licence to rape his sisters for 43 months coinciding with suborning his perjured testimony. They are embarrassed that the public now knows that they were deliberately led to believe the plaintiffs in the $10M lawsuit were really guilty. Every individual in public office who has touched this case should be shamefaced and stunned by the magnitude of the damage he or she has contributed to. It would seem they learned nothing at all from the David Milgaard fiasco. It is too much to expect head prosecutor Richard Quinney to be embarrassed as he has demonstrated he has no human emotion and no conscience, either.

injusticebusters are embarrassed for not having been more forceful in telling this story. We have been careful to check every single fact and to err on the side of caution. We have always understood that lives and reputations are at stake. Michael and Michelle Ross, the persons who the original non-publication orders were designed to protect have been damaged most of all by this process. They have been put in real physical danger, existing on the seamy edges of society in profound poverty and in conflict with the justice system. We are proud that because we published their names they have found some dignity. We are ashamed that we cannot do more.

Dueck's application must be seen as a last-ditched effort by desperate authority to preserve a process which is more corrupt than we can even imagine. Justice in Saskatchewan stands in disrepute every minute Dueck remains at large.

There is no question his actions, as cited on this website and going beyond his involvement with the Ross children, are criminal. He has abused his position of authority in the community. He has smeared and jailed the innocent. He has used what a judge has called "Rambo" tactics to intimidate at least one witness.

The story is out. It has been aired six times on the Fifth Estate and every day people are showing their videotaped copies of the show to their friends. This January people in Saskatchewan aren't talking about the weather. They are talking about the Scandal of the Century.

The web pages of injusticebusters remain open to anyone on the other side who wishes to give his or her point of view on this story.

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More Sermonettes

2001

January: Legal Treachery to keep Dueck's lies safe

 

2003

 

Feb. 1: Where we stand

Feb. 15, 2003: Has Saskatchewan learned anything?

March 1: Connecting the dots

March 23, 2003: From Micro to Macro

March 25, 2003: About libel and malice

March 27: Gangs of Saskatoon: the police and prison guards

April 28, 2003: The Naked Truth

May 5: How low will they go?

May 15, 2003: Come clean Calvert, Cline!

May 30: Still smearing Milgaard - defamation is alive and well on the lawn of the Regina legislature and Precendent has been set as we reclaim our institutions

June 11, 2003: --Eric Cline carries on a corrupt tradition

Nov 7: Courage -- the only reward is justice

November 20: Just following orders

November 24: Mayor Atchison, community policing and graffiti

November 25: Michael Jackson

November 30: Corrupt officials must be severely punished: otherwise they just keep on putting the administration of justice in disrepute!

December 1: Christmas comes early for injustice warriors

December 4: Wide open Saskatchewan?

December 16: Crawling through the tunnel of justice since 1991

December 24: The Crown keeps right on breaking the law

December 30: Who will find justice under their tree?

 

2004

 

January 1. 2004: Unprecedented publicity and Happy New Year

January 8, 2004: Malice still afoot

January 10, 2004: Shame and mugshots

January 14, 2004: Telling more truth about the undefamable: McKillop and Quennell, the static duo

January 17, 2004: Fifth Estate returns and A working class hero is something to be

January 22,23, 2004: Justice is still prevailing -- it is just taking longer and Bits and pieces are now coming together to tell the story of the century

January 27, 2004: Telling the truth about the undefamable, restoring reputations to the defamed.

February 5, 2004: Negotiations and strategies: getting an intransigent government to remedy its damage

February 10, 2004: How many lawyers does it take to ruin a province? and Lawyer continues to treat people's lives as a cruel game: monopoly?

Febrary 16, 2004: Calvert is not King Arthur

March 29, 2004: Counting down to the damages trial

April 16, 2004: The internet, the courts and now the movies -- We will so what it takes to get justice

May 1, 2004: If Frank Quennell is any example of what former Justice Minister Chris Axworthy called "evolving," Saskatchewan is ready to kiss justice good-bye!

May 27, 2004: Some observations on Saskatchewan and justice

June 7, 2004:Media coverage of Monique Turenne's story illustrates journalistic laziness

June 8:, 2004 -- The police not only failed to serve and protect Don and Lorna Smith and their children but set them up for false charges and community shunning

September 2, 2004: A tale of three cops: Dueck, Gobeil and Schinkel -- with an update on how they get away with criminal obstruction of justice

November, 2004: Wilfred Hathway, Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns -- RCMP stings offensive to community standards

November 11, 2004: Rogue Platoon? Identifying the rotten apples in Saskatoon Police Service and why we need a full public inquiry into our whole justice system

November 28, 2004: Can Justice Minister Quennell take a few more steps? The Prosecutors' office is still harbouring crowns who put the administrative of justice in disrepute

November 12, 2004: Saskatchewan Justice in chaos: The Stonechild report suggests it is.

November 28, 2004: The price for being a good judge or a good prosecutor

December 30: When the government interferes with the judiciary, we know a Police State is a dangerous possibility (The government appeal of the Klassen/Kvello decision)

 

2005

 

Jan 1, 2005: Chewed up digested and spit out

Jan. 5, 2005: More on chief Sabo

February 18, 2005: Tunnel vision: Darren Koehn, Wilf Hathway and Leon Walchuk

March 2: Fixing the system: Time to quit talking and implement previous commission recommendations

March 19, 2005 : Injustice as ShowBiz