ConCalls: Proxy Investigation #RoboCon

No new information in this post, just something I found ironic and amusing.

On Feb 21, 2011[sic; 2012] I queried and accessed “freeproxyserver.ca” from my home computer. I did this from my home computer as my Elections Canada computer firewall blocked access under “Category: Proxy Avoidance”.

I just noticed the obvious date error, after chuckling at the content filter (not “firewall”) problem posed to the investigator.

The EC investigator used his home computer because his work computer wouldn’t let him investigate the proxy service he uncovered both Prescott and Poutine used. It’s still unexplained why Prescott’s account would have used a proxy service to access RackNine for legitimate robocalls which as you can see he was paid to do by the Burke Conservative campaign. It appears to be damning evidence that has not been acted on by prosecutors.

The EC investigator concluded for the courts:

that IP address 99.225.28.34 was used by Andrew Prescott as client #45 in communications with RackNine on behalf of the Marty Burke [Guelph Conservative] campaign, but was also involved in a session which originated from IP address 64.64.11.139, “freeproxyserver.ca”;

…the Burke campaign return noted above at paragraph 111. I found a single entry for an expense of $1,100 for Andrew Prescott under the column for “salaries and wages”.

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Hat tip to Alison
More on RoboCon, in court right now.

ConCalls: Israeli Ambassador Told Canadian MP to Stay Home

A little strange news linked to the election fraud of last year: The Liberal MP Borys W., who led the case to have Etobicoke Centre’s results overturned successfully, was once told by Israel to not go to Lebanon. It’s presumably not usual for a country’s ambassador to demand an elected official of Canada not travel to a third country. An added circumstantial twist is that Dean Del Mastro (implicated in election spending allegations by a large unexplained cheque written to his 2008 campaign) was set to go on the trip to Lebanon, but did not go. Other MPs set to go, still went with Borys.

In another trip, CSIS provided security for Borys, as there’d been a credible threat made against his life. He was to be thrown from a train.

Canadians still anxiously await the Supreme Court decision to uphold or overturn the lower court’s rebuke of Elections Canada’s administration of the nullified vote in Etobicoke Centre last year. Conservative Ted Opitz of that riding continues to act as if he has legitimacy as an elected MP.

We’re also waiting for charges against whomever Pierre Poutine and the others are, who organized thousands to hundreds of thousands of fraudulent calls pretending to be from Elections Canada. The calls were made. The records are there. Why are authorities delaying in tracing them and pressing charges more than a year later?

TrapWire, PRIME, Now Alberta Police Fingered

I was shocked, and disapointed that the CBC article today about police reports including Charter violating intel, didn’t have mention of BC’s PRIME system.

Bruce Carson Charged

Designed as expiring news on a Friday in the middle of Summer, instead of last Winter when the report on his alleged guilt was complete, these charges come a year too late. Bruce Carson was accepted into the Prime Minister’s Office and his personal influence circle despite previous fraud convictions. Why? Because the PMO wants to learn from people with experience in the realm of conning and oil huckstering.

Let's not forget, Carson had fraud convictions BEFORE he was in PMO | The Bruce Carson controversy soc.li/cEjUKRV #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc—
Gareth Perry (@GarethPerry314) July 27, 2012

If you want to catch up on who Bruce Carson is, and why he’s so important to exposing the rot in the Prime Minister’s Office, you simply must read some work by The Sixth Estate.

In March, it looked to me as if this day wouldn’t come. So, what changed? I’m not sure, but I’d like to know. And I’d like to see the RCMP start laying Elections Act charges when Elections Canada fails to act in a timely manner.

RCMP – Really Carefully Monitoring People

Originally appeared on BackoftheBook.ca

How can I write this without sounding, well, paranoid? I believe the RCMP is watching too many people, and abusing its resources. There are plenty of signs this is taking place, and it worries me. The police should not be monitoring Canadians without having a reasonable suspicion that criminal acts are imminent or are taking place. It is not a valid reason to pay police to watch all activists, especially ones who peacefully oppose prevailing political governance. Are we not a society free to disagree with our government?

Here’s an incomplete, but startling, list of reports that suggest the Mounties are getting their man by putting everyone, innocent people too, under a microscope.

• Yinka Dene Alliance is not a terrorist organization. If the report had said RCMP were monitoring “Polish Canadians” (as a random example), do you think there would be more outrage?
• RCMP interrogate former Conservative candidate for passing documents from anonymous source to Ethics Commissioner in Parliament (after Parliament mail room lost first submission).
• A BC man got a visit from the RCMP after contacting the Prime Minister.
• Until the 1980s, the RCMP kept a secret list of people they considered to be Communists, and were prepared to round these people up in the unlikely event of the Cold War heating up. PROFUNC was ended by accident.
• The G8/G20 brought Canada’s so-called “largest ever” police spy operation down on activists whose worst members did damage comparable to unruly drunk hockey fans in Vancouver. Meanwhile, the police assigned to watch the protests ended up being charged with crimes. RCMP “abandoned policy”, and kettled protesters, which resulted in the arrests of hundreds, to possibly over a thousand, innocent people.

Since there are no laws clearly governing the use of your personal information collected by the ruling political party into their CIMS database, they could be sharing this intelligence with the Mounties. Would it change your answer to any survey or political phone call if you knew your response could end up on an RCMP surveillance watchlist?

As a political blogger, I’m pretty much screwed if the government takes an active interest in me. Even though I’ve previously worked in a job for the government where people, with less oversight and more authority than the RCMP, confirmed I’m loyal to Canada (and the Queen even) and am the opposite of a threat to national security, I have little doubt that now I’m an unhappy smiley face in CIMS, and who knows what other police-state Stasi-style databases. With social networking, it’s easy to track most of my contacts. When Toews’ Bill C-30 passes, the police will be able to do legally what they’ve probably been doing since September 11th, 2001. I also carry a cell phone, so my movements could be mapped, or conversations bugged using the phone mic. Ubiquitous technology is stacked against a free, democratic Canada.

Will the RCMP maintain the peace in Canada, or bring an end to it? Will they resist the pull of pervasive electronic monitoring of every person? I know what I hope for, but the signs are pointing in the wrong direction.

Who Defends Us?

Who defends the rights and freedoms of Canadians?

• A) soldiers
• B) police
• C) citizens
• D) lawyers
• E) press
• F) politicians

If you came to your own conclusion, and answered “G) All of the above”, then you understand a functioning democracy.

Daniel explains:

The government is clearly aware that this “law [78]” would not withstand a millisecond of Charter scrutiny. It actually expires in July 2013, well before challenges could actually wind their way through the Courts. The intention is thus clearly just to bring down the hammer on this particular movement by using methods that the government knows to be contrary to basic liberal-democratic rule-of-law principles.

Whether or not you disagree with the tuition debate, if you support a free and democratic Canada you have to appreciate what hundreds of thousands of Quebeckers are doing out in the streets for our rights. When part of the system oversteps its bounds, it’s up to the other parts to put it back into line. The citizen peaceful protesters are serving that role now, while the politicians, and police get out of control. If all goes well, the politicians will back down from their illegal law, and lawyers will step in. If things go the wrong way, we’ll be hearing from the soldiers.

Largest manifestation of civil disobedience in Canadian history. 200,000 ppl is a credible estimate. May be more. #22mai #ggi #manifencours—
Ethan Cox (@EthanCoxMtl) May 22, 2012

Scratch that earlier estimate. 400K.
#mai22

The Clowns in Quebec are Crying

Actually, the clowns are in public office. First they make it so police can claim a group that is assembled peacefully is illegal (which is a clear violation of Charter rights). Now Loi 78 and the City of Montreal is going after mask wearers at public gatherings celebrating political events. Au revoir, Bonhomme! I always knew he was a shifty character out to cause mischief.

Will ballgames where a couple fans out of tens of thousands throw something at authorities, be declared illegal assemblies? The other night a fan threw something at an ump. Was tear gas fired back, and the SkyDome crowd told to disperse by police? Yes, that’s an extreme comparison, but you should ask yourself why sports fans have more civil rights than people walking on the street for a better education system.

ConCalls: After a Long, Unexplained Absence #cdnpoli

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That’s a bogus expression. It creates worry, and doubt. That’s what a lot of people were feeling when Brian-Michel LaRue disappeared from online life he’d been immersed in most waking hours for the first 6 weeks during the RoboCon drama broke wide open in February.

One of his last Tumblr posts in April 2012, besides outing who he says is Pierre Poutine (and seems to be confirmed by Postmedia information yesterday) was a joke about the 95 degree heat:

Just so you guys know what the Miami weather situation is like…IN APRIL.

BRB DYING

Days later, no one I knew who knew him online could reach him. He suffers from cancer, and had just had a painful surgery. Worry grew. A month passed.

Today, he’s back with this explanation. He’s also tweeted, from his now protected account some details that I don’t know if he wants widely shared yet, so I won’t comment here yet about them. It’s scary, from a political standpoint.

It’s going to take some time and evidence for me to feel comfortable trusting his information after these wildly inconvenient circumstances unfolded. His detractors will like that doubt he claims his absence they are responsible for, but it’s unavoidable at this stage. I know a lot of other people were worried about him though, so will be relieved he’s shown up again. The Conservatives, are probably not quite as relieved.

UPDATE: Some of his recent Twitter comments are gone, and the most recent indicates that his account was compromised and is being purged now. http://www.cdnpo.li is also down.

UPDATE AGAIN:

FYI guys: I'm not tweeting or blogging anything related to Canadian politics on here or anywhere. Please don't ask.—
bipolaroid (@bipolaroidme) May 07, 2012

His original RoboCon blog is now down.
I suspect there’s a chilling effect from something. What a damn shame.

UPDATE 3: Yet again his blog is back, and so is his Twitter, the following day. What a rollercoaster. Who knows what is going on at this point? Change of heart? Change of mind? Impersonation? Who knows, but I’m bewildered.

Bruce Carson Slipping Away?

Oil Man Bruce Carson is possibly getting a free pass from a government who came to power claiming to be tough on lobbyist stains. After being caught red handed with ex-con Bruce Carson in the Prime Minister’s Office, advising Prime Minister Harper, the report on what to do has been largely ignored by the main stream media since December. Fortunately there are solid bloggers raising the issue before it dies, and Harper’s friend Carson slinks away unscathed.

If the media won’t talk about this scandal again until the politicians do, make sure to have your non-Conservative MP bring it up in the Commons soon.

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A little backstory from a year ago, with the May 2nd election, and RoboCon yet to come.

RoboCon – The Waiting Game Is Rigged To Lose

The full exchange is on my Black Knight post.
D.I.D. writes:

If we revert to mob mentality and, like the French Jacobins, call for the King’s head, then we are no better than Harper and his political mafia.

I think we have to start shaking some trees already, to see what nuts fall out.
So I explain why and when, because we can’t be afraid to talk about this scandal and speculate as to what it means and will come from it:

I understand completely what you are saying [about waiting for a court judgement on guilt], I just think we’ve twiddled our thumbs a little too much waiting for justice to be done. Meanwhile, our Prime Minister heads a party convicted of Election Act crime, has cabinet ministers guilty of election crimes, a Senator guilty, and another minister under investigation right now for allegedly using a second set of books for a campaign to overspend.

This PM has appointed Senators, Supreme Court Judges, Cabinet, and even the Governor General (recommended him to the Queen; And she’s said in a letter to a Canadian subject that she’s staying out of calling an election if Harper gets out of line, as he’s been already). He was kicked out of Parliament for holding it in Contempt, and subsequently there were thousands of people tricked (by Poutine, who had access to Conservative-like phone lists) into going to the wrong place to vote, so that Harper’s supporters in key ridings beat the other voters by only about 6000 votes across the nation, to give him a “strong and stable” majority.

With that power, he sought to limit Elections Canada’s investigatory power. Hey, doesn’t he appoint the RCMP commissioner too?

So with his “allegedly” stolen majority, he can limit the resources of the investigators so it takes them an election cycle or two to prove guilt. There likely exists no paper proof, or Cadscam-tape-like-recording that he ordered Poutine’s team to do what they did. If it works up to the SCoC, his appointees decide if he was naughty. And the RCMP’s top boss, who would help steer emphasis on areas of enforcement, could be replaced by the PM. No conflict of interest problems there!

Assuming everyone listed above is doing their job honestly and to the letter of the law, is not practical in a situation like this. We know they haven’t, because the investigation into RoboCalls didn’t pick up until 2 journalists started digging and blabbed the UNPROVEN-IN-COURT evidence so we could form theories. Canadians have been hoodwinked out of our democracy. The Conservative threats of a “coalition coup”, were oddly prophetic, since an unexpected, and undemocratic takeover took place with only 1 in 4 voters’ uninformed consent.

We can wait days for more answers, maybe weeks, but I draw the line at us waiting months before Poutine, and answers are found. Who was involved in the conspiracy to illegally take over our democracy? Are we no better than Haiti where we spend millions of dollars to prevent electoral corruption? We’ve been killing people in Afghanistan because they’re blocking people from getting to polls. As a country we’ve said voters have a right to vote, without physical impediments imposed by corrupt forces. What gives us the right to enforce that now?