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2005: Year of the David Milgaard Inquiry: 35 years in the making!
Global TV weighs in
Jan. 15, 2001 The StarPhoenix published misinformation that Saskatoon Police Service Superintendent Brian Dueck and the City of Saskatoon had a beef with injusticebusters for publishing material obtained through discovery in the civil trial process. Reporter Les Perreaux had published this information in good faith after talking to StarPhoenix lawyers. Perreaux was quick to correct the mistake.
Global TV took its cue from the StarPhoenix and decided this was a story it should cover, especially since there was the possibility someone might go to jail. So they interviewed Theresa Dust, the boss of Barry Rossman who represents Superintendent Dueck and let her run with the lie put forward in their brief for the Jan 16 court hearing where they allege injusticebusters has improperly published discovery material. She knows this is not true.
Theresa Dust and Barry Rossman also know that it is not true that injusticebusters selectively published information from the original 1991 disclosure material which shades the truth. Throughout the brief they refer to Richard Klassen as a dangerous person and claim that we neglected to mention Dueck questioning him about his father and about an incident involving Hugh Beck, formerly Hugh Stonechild who was brutally murdered shortly before the charges were laid against the innocent people.
Dueck's lawyers are lying outright. The falsity of their position can easilybe found. But the reporter at Global didn't bother to check the facts. Linda Walker had originally arranged to interview Richard Klassen, co-owner of the website, but backed down at the last minute when her bosses told her they were not prepared to risk defying the publication ban by talking to him so they talked to Sheila Steele instead. Ms. Walker spoke of both Dust and Judge Paul Hrabinsky as close associates!
One thing clearly came out of the Global piece: Theresa Dust stated unequivocally that it is the City's intention to use the lies they are dressing up as truth to have the whole lawsuit dismissed.
In its brief supporting the application for a permanent gag order on the information in this case, Rossman claims that injusticebusters deliberately edited material to leave out certain information. The page they refer to is the beginning of a transcription of Dueck's 1990 Red Deer interview of Rick Klassen which we began to transcribe but didn't finish. They suggest that Rick had something to hide. The incidents he refers to are handled in some depth on the following pages:
The Stonechild story, posted Dec. 98
Peter Klassen, wrongly convicted of molesting the Ross children posted and added to since April, 1999.
On the one hand they are saying we have published too much information and then they say we haven't published enough.
Theresa Dust had the nerve to say that it is damaging to Dueck's side of the lawsuit if the story comes out in "bits and pieces." Where is she coming from? All stories are made of bits and pieces and a truthful person will put those bits and pieces together in such a way that a truthful picture emerges. Dueck and company want to manage the bits and pieces, to be allowed to carry on with the same type of deceptions they have been laying on the Saskatchewan public since the days of David Milgaard.
As a colleague on the internet has stated, sunlight is the best disinfectant. njusticebusters trusts that the sun will be shining on Jan. 16 when this case goes to court. The harmful speech which the city lawyers and government bureaucrats have been spreading about injusticebusters will finally be fought with free and open speech.
Regina Global posted the story for a while , but continued to confuse the Foster Parent Scandal with Martensville.
See Rick's Fighting back page for an e-mail sent from Manitoba which Dueck claims frightened him. This page also tells where to contribute to the Richard Klassen Defence.
October 21, 2003:
I have been going through the website, making sure all the links are working and stopping to read some of the old mterial.
I am flushed with pride at what we have accomplished.
Many times it felt as though we were smashing our heads against brick walls.
The only thing we had going for us was the truth. We did not always behave tactfully. We were often open to the accusation that we were obsessed or unbalanced -- and that we could not win. While it is true that we were often over-wrought and exhausted, we always went back to the drawing board to figure out how to tackle the problem more successfully.
At no time did we ever concede that we might lose.
No matter what happens now, as we wait for Judge Baynton to come down with his decision, we cannot lose. We have reached the eyes, ears and hearts of people willing to hear the truth. And, I believe we have thoroughly discredited those who set about to plow us under.
E-mails keep coming in from people who find themselves victims of sloppy/malicious police investigations and prosecutors prepared to take a chance on sliding lies past a judge to chalk up another conviction on the road of ambition. We are able to point them to solid precedents and provide them with not only hope but workable advice on how to defend themselves. -- Sheila Steele
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd. William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell
- Publisher : Sheila Steele
- Co-founder: Richard Klassen
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Index to the stories on this website
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Index to Saskatoon Police stories
This is a pretty good scrapbook for the 1998-2002 period.
- The Klassen/Kvello civil Trial
injusticebusters' daily reports page one 1 page two
Final judgment: Dec. 30, 2003 |
Post judgment publicity
- articles and editorials from Jan 6-9
- Sabo's apology
- Editorials: StarPhoenix, Leader Post and National Post
- National Post front page story, Jan. 10
- Sarah Gibb's profile of Richard and Kari Klassen |
- Lives ruined by Jason Warick, Feb. 19
- April 15/04: Judge Baynton warns defendants' lawyers not to delay damages trial
- Dueck drops his appeal
- Full transcript of Dueck's examinations for discovery which were part of the read-ins at the civil trial
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:
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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