UPDATE This 2004 report sheds a bit more light on the actions of Sacha Bond. As it turns out, the gun was loaded after all;
Islamorada – An Islamorada man was arrested Saturday just before 4 a.m. after he pulled a gun inside an Islamorada bar and began pulling the trigger.Fortunately for the people he was shooting at, the first four times 19 year old Sacha Bond pulled the trigger, he was firing on empty chambers. Deputies who recovered the gun found only two bullets inside. He was tackled by employees and patrons of the bar just before firing on one of the live rounds.
The incident occurred at Woody’s Bar in Islamorada. Bond was inside and reportedly failed to compensate the entertainer who was performing for him so he was asked to leave. He returned a few minutes later, pulled out a revolver, pointed it at the people inside and began to pull the trigger. After he pulled the trigger four times without discharging a bullet, two employees and a patron of the bar tackled him to the ground.
Deputies James Freed, Alvin Burns and Joseph Moran were called to the scene and when they arrived, they found Bond still being held on the ground. A search turned up a holster for the gun clipped to his belt and a knife in his pocket. He was bleeding from a cut on his forehead and he was taken to Mariner’s hospital for treatment of the minor injury. He was then charged with four counts of attempted murder, four counts of aggravated assault and he was booked into the Monroe county Detention Center. There is no bond allowed on the charges.
What motivated CTV's Kathy Tomlinson to whitewash the facts of this case to the extent she did in this so-called "whistleblower" segment?
(h/t reader Ann.)
Between this headline...
Gunman Kills Four In Florida Strip Bar
and this one?
Mentally-ill Man's Family Fights To Get Him Home
Answer: forgetting the bullets.
It's a not-so-subtle distinction that manages to elude CTV's Kathy Tomlinson - who apparently believes that "exposing" Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day as a man who won't accept "drunk and off his medication" as an excuse for attempted murder elevates this bit of apologist journalism to "whistleblower" status.
In January, 2004, Sacha Bond was in Florida visiting his mother, who was living there temporarily. He wasn't taking the prescribed medication which controls his mental illness and behavior. Late one night, he took his mother's car out to a strip bar in the Florida Keys. He was 19 and underage, but still, the bar served him approximately 10 drinks. While intoxicated, Bond got into an argument with a bouncer, who threw him out."I don't remember very much," Bond told CTV News, in an interview inside the prison.
Police records show Bond came back to the bar with his stepfather's gun, and pointed it at several people. He tried to fire it, but there were no bullets in the chambers. Bar staff tackled him, roughed him up and called the police.
"All I remember is when I dropped on the ground and they were beating me up," said Bond.
Beat him up? He should be thankful they didn't kill him. Florida is a "shall issue" state.
Bad choices, bad consequences. But they could have been worse - he might have emerged from his self-inflicted drunken stupor long enough to load the gun.
Related trivia: psychologist Dr. Merry Sue Haber is quoted in the CTV report;
"You have a young person who has a future," Dr. Haber told CTV News, in Miami. "And who, really, without drugs and alcohol and on the proper medication is not dangerous at all."
Dr. Haber has a history. She took conducted now discredited "memory retrievals" in the infamous Country Walk "ritual child abuse" case;
Q. All right. Now I want to get back again to these -- the sessions that you had, because the next names on my list here are Dr. Rappaport and Dr. Haber.Do you recall if -- when they would start these sessions what would they say to you? Do you recall what they would say?
A. No. I can hardly remember. This has been so long. You know, I remember just that I will calm down, and I just wanted to get it over with because, you know, they told me this happened, this happened, this happened.
And I will break down and say no, no, no, it didn't happen.
And then they would tell me that yes, I have to accept it, I have to confront it. So they were long sessions and tiring. I just remember that that was the procedure.
And I would go to bed, and I don't know why, but I would dream about the same things the kids were saying and the same things they were telling me.
So I came back, and the first question was so what did you dream about last night, did you have any bad dreams or did you not. If I had bad dreams had to tell them about my bad dreams in detail. And they did tell me, you see, you remembering.
More here.
At the very least, he should be provided with his prescribed medications.
I also don't see why the transfer request is so unreasonable, given his lack of priors, his psychiatric history, and the fact that he isn't being given any medical treatment in Florida. Nobody's saying he should walk free in Canada upon his return. He'll still be incarcerated for a decade, only here he'll be given meds and therapy and will be closer to his family.
Minister Day's office cites Section 10(1)(a) as the singular reason for denying the transfer request. Yet "whether the offender constitutes a threat to the security of Canada" is only one of four factors to be "considered". The others are:
(b) whether the offender left or remained outside Canada with the intention of abandoning Canada as their place of permanent residence; [Answer: NO]
(c) whether the offender has social or family ties in Canada; [Answer: YES] and
(d) whether the foreign entity or its prison system presents a serious threat to the offender's security or human rights. [Answer: YES, insofar as the denial of prescribed medications while incarcerated constitutes a threat to the Charter right to security of the person]
Had this story happened in Canada, as it has in various forms a number of times, it would have unfolded like this:
"Police records show Bond came back to the bar with his stepfather's gun, and pointed it at several people. He tried to fire it, but there were no bullets in the chambers. Bar staff ushered patrons out the doors as they called the police. Bond was shot dead when in his delusional state he refuse to obey police orders to put down the gun."
Bond is indeed very lucky, and arguably, resides where mental illness get a fighting chance to be survivable. Citizens confident in their ability to take of themselves, knew how to deal with the situation, subduing him and handing him over.
In kinder, gentler, all firearms are bad, the state will protect Canada, the cops would have just shot him.
(d) whether the foreign entity or its prison system presents a serious threat to the offender's security or human rights. [Answer: YES, insofar as the denial of prescribed medications while incarcerated constitutes a threat to the Charter right to security of the person]
Hey Adam...he is in a foreign country! Our Charter of lies and hug-a-thug do not apply. Should he have his meds. Yes,but if he won't take them,as he has shown,then he should get them in a secure setting,ie. jail/psych ward. Or perhaps we can repatriot him back to your home,so you can look after him??? And you are made responsible for him? Like before Turdopia hit this sorry excuse for a free country?
Skip, your hypothetical scenario makes no sense. Are you saying that Canadian bar staff are somehow less courageous than their US counterparts, merely because they don't have access to guns? That simply living in an area where citizens are legally allowed to carry concealed firearms somehow makes you calmer under fire, more adept at physical combat, more confident in disarming (by hand!) someone pointing a gun in your face, even if you're not carrying one yourself? The bar staff tackled the guy. There's no indication that they were carrying weapons themselves.
Oh, and if a loaded gun is fired in a crowded place, I guarantee you mass panic, regardless of whether staff and/or patrons are armed or unarmed.
Justthinkin: "he is in a foreign country! Our Charter of lies and hug-a-thug do not apply."
Under the terms of the Treaty Between Canada and the US on the Execution of Penal Sentences, the US would already have approved Mr. Bond's transfer request, making this a deliberation strictly between the Canadian government and a Canadian citizen. Given this, and given that our standard articulation(s) of human rights for Canadians is (a) the Charter, and (b) possibly the UN Declaration, our Charter eminently applies in this case.
"Should he have his meds. Yes,but if he won't take them,as he has shown,then he should get them in a secure setting,ie. jail/psych ward."
Um, that's actually more or less what Mr. Bond and his family had requested, and what was denied by Minister Day. Again, nobody's demanding that he be immediately set free upon his return to Canada. They want him to have access to treatment, and to serve his sentence in Canada.
Seriously, did you read any of this thread before posting your comment?
The issue that everyone has missed so far is why is anyone who is in such a mnetal state out traveling freely beyond an institution or country no less?
And we wonder why the streets are full of homeless (and we know CTV looooooves the homeless--they even feed and house them at their studios you know) it's because the mental institutions are EMPTY.
This scenario comes courtesy of the misguided belief that the mentally ill can somehow function properly in society, so let's open the doors of the Cuckoo's Nest and let them all free!
Stupid f*&^ing liberals.
maybe the us will get tired of housing him and send him back to canada so we can bear the cost. if we can't lock up anyone who refuses to take meds to keep them sane then then we are better off with the young man being in the us.
What planet is "Dr." Haber living on: "You have a young person who has a future...who...without drugs and alcohol and on the proper medication is not dangerous at all."
Yeah, well. The operative word here is "without."
Any one of us without drugs, alcohol, and the proper medication would probably a) not be in a strip bar, b) not have drunk TEN alcoholic beverages, and c) not have pointed a gun at anyone with intent to do harm.
Why can Dr. Haber not get it through her obviously adled brain that none of the people Sacha Bond pointed that gun at would have had any chance at a future if he'd loaded the gun.
I agree with Jack at Jack's Newswatch: If you're drunk (or drugged up) when perpetrating a crime, you should get double time: no if, ands, or buts. Full stop.
This pathetic bit of CTV Gotcha Journalism directed at Stockwell Day is a fine example of what we're dealing with.
It's amazing how the Conservatives are responsible for all Canadians who travel the world and get themselves in trouble, personal responsibility be-damned.
The Bond story is a real Lefty sob story. The guy was off his meds and on booze, deadly combination,then driving a car and in possession of a gun. Never mind what he may have done to himself, it's what he may have done to others.
In the end the Lefty asswipes in the MSM will put the ball in government's court, no responsibility falls on him or his family.
CTV presents one side of the case. No-one knows the particulars of his prison behaviour.
I have a hard time believing he is not allowed his medication in the prison for no reason...
"He should be thankful they didn't kill him. Florida is a "shall issue" state."
Yes, but bouncers don't carry, or at least they're not supposed. Maybe this is not the case in other states, but Florida law generally prohibits even those with a license from bringing a gun into somewhere where's there's alcohol.
Liz J: "In the end the Lefty asswipes in the MSM will put the ball in government's court, no responsibility falls on him or his family."
Yet again, why is it so difficult to understand that the family of Mr. Bond is simply requesting that he serve his sentence in a Canadian prison facility, where he has better access to treatment and family visits? In what way is this shirking responsibility for his actions?
His family also knows, A'dam (what's with the apostrophe?), that the Canadian so-called "Justice System" would probably have him out on parole in a few months. The bleeding hearts would feel sorry for him and his family. Boo hoo.
Sacha Bond's family didn't ensure that he not be let loose in the community in Florida, so what's to say they're going to keep an eye on him up here when he gets out of prison?
As a Canadian, I feel far safer knowing that Sacha Bond is serving his time in a U.S. prison, in the country in which he was charged, than become a burden on Canadian taxpayers, seeing as his family seems to have abdicated responsibility for his actions.
'Funny thing--the liberal thing, actually--that his family did not monitor Sacha's very risky and dangerous behaviour when he was in Florida but, now that he's in trouble with the law, his family shows concern for his well-being: not, you notice, for the well-being of the community but only for their own concerns.
The Honourable Stockwell Day has made the right decision. Someone hand a hanky to the Bonds, Dr. Haber, and the CTV sob sisters.
To the people that think Mr.Bond should serve his sentence in Canada then he should have done the crime in Canada.The problem here isnt being jailed in Florida,its him acting like an idiot after being thrown out of a bar.He should have stayed out but then that would have meant taking responsibilities for his actions which up till that time he had'nt.I remember a friend telling me that when he worked in the oil patch in Alberta when a bouncer asked him to leave he just got up and left the bar.He considered himself a tough guy but he found that the nice bouncers"opened the door" before they threw him out.
In a polite civil society miscreants who would randomly murder innicent bystanders are quickly dispatched by either law enforcement or the law's auxillery force; an armed citizen.
Utopian cretins like Tomlinson are on a dyslexic crusade to empower the criminally insane and disarm their victims.
I can't believe the number of people of leftist views think that our charter protects them when they cross the border to any other country. Or think they are protected with I'm Canadian means anything. Canadian law applies in Canada only. Just because we are so stupid that we give charter rights to any one getting off a plane from somewhere, regardless of who they are or what they have done, doesn't mean other countries do the same. Break their laws, go to their jails.
Sure, bring him home to serve his sentence, we can pay, he's our responsibility. What criminal wouldn't want to serve time in Canadian jails?
He even gets to vote!
Believe what you will but it's in the best interest of prison authorities as well as the prisoner to give medication to anyone with a mental disorder. I cannot believe he's not getting his meds.
"The issue that everyone has missed so far is why is anyone who is in such a mnetal state out traveling freely beyond an institution or country no less?"
Because the mentally ill are people, too?
"it's because the mental institutions are EMPTY."
Um, no. They're always at capacity. Always. A new admission to a psych facility usually means bumping someone else who needs to be there. The new admission gets the spot because they represent a risk to themself or others -- whereas the person being discharged might be kind, sorta, stable. Maybe. This is the case in EVERY province.
Do some research and you'll be amazed.
"And we wonder why the streets are full of homeless"
They would be full of homeless people who aren't functioning properly because there's a severe lack of outpatient care for the mentally ill, or in hospital care except for those who present as the most acute at that particular time.
"This scenario comes courtesy of the misguided belief that the mentally ill can somehow function properly in society, so let's open the doors of the Cuckoo's Nest and let them all free!"
I'm a diagnosed schizophrenic who manages to run my own businesses and support a wife and daughter. My last hospital admission caused by my schizophrenia was back in 1999. I'm also an alcoholic who has been off the sauce for over 15 years now. I'm not unique.
There are quite a few of us nutso addicts in the community around you functioning at a high level. We pay taxes, raise families, volunteer in the communities we live in, and for the most part, we keep our noses clean. It's frustrating to us to continually be judged by the most extreme examples of our community. It's like judging all Indians as drunk and useless because of the one you saw passed out in a puddle of his own puke on the bus last week.
"if we can't lock up anyone who refuses to take meds to keep them sane"
I don't take meds most of the time. Yes, the meds minimize some of the symptoms, but one pays a heavy price for it. Within 15 minutes of taking the pills you can literally feel parts of your soul switching off. How would you feel about losing your capacity to be creative? To have dreams about the future? To love others? That gets taken away too. Most people think it's the side effects that are the problem -- they're not.
Here's the deal I propsose: If you are made aware of your illness and you take your drugs as prescribed and something awful happens, you are allowed to claim insanity as a defense. If you make the informed decision to stay off your meds and you do something stupid, you have to take your lumps like anyone else. Fair is fair.
My slightly unbalanced two cents.
To the people that think that he should get free meds while in prison so that it would be in the prisons best interest,I will just bet you that his symptoms are kind of hard to recognize in a prison where there are rapists and murderers and not in open society where his family has been catering to him.In fact I would venture to say that he is a model inmate as well as a boyfriend of some very tough and mean gentleman.He will be wishing very fervently that he had stayed out of that bar.
Don't blame Canada & Minister Day for an act of violence committed in another Country because he did not Take his Meds, All to often we have seen person's perform an act of violence & plead insanity because They Made the Choice to stop taking their Meds. And who pays for these acts, the innocent victims of the crime. This act is a What IF? What if the Gun Had been Loaded?
What if he had gotten into a car accident & innocents were killed?, again he made the choice to Drink & stop taking his med's alwhile knowing the Consequences. He was served 10 drinks Underage, he was served? In the article it does not state who said he was served 10 drinks Also He knew he was underage what was he even doing in the bar, he was 19 able to know that the age Posted is 21, The Dr. states that he is not a Threat aslong as he takes his Meds, any person with mental disorder is not a threat aslong as they don't stop taking their Meds, Why was someone not making sure that he was taking His Meds? If he has such a severe case of Bipolar Why was their not any adult supervision? Was he their in Florida by Himself? I also find it hard to believe that the State of Florida Prison System do not have a Medical Program for Mentaly impaired criminals & why was there No interview with a state Corrections Official? Iam sorry i do not mean to come off as a hardcore but you know what iam tired of Innocent Victims having No Rights because a person is off their Meds.
In typical left/liberal/legal-community fashion A'dam tries to deflect the topic of discussion to a matter of extradition law and prison medical services.
The ORIGINAL POINT OF KATE'S POSTING was the bias exhibited and careful, propaganda-wise chice of headlines by absurdly biased journalists.
I notice our resident nutcase-gunman apologist doesn't tackle *THAT particular issue though . . .
In typical left/liberal/legal-community fashion A'dam tries to deflect the topic of discussion to a matter of extradition law and prison medical services.
The ORIGINAL POINT OF KATE'S POSTING was the bias exhibited and careful, propaganda-wise chice of headlines by absurdly biased journalists.
I notice our resident nutcase-gunman apologist doesn't tackle *THAT particular issue though . . .
A'dam: No I'm not saying they are more courageous because they have access to guns. I'm saying that because they are allowed access to guns for self-defence, they have a mindset to be comfortable with the idea of self-defence, and a willingness to use it. Canada prosecutes people who use self-defence citizen's arrest and encourages "victims" to cower and hide. And lately, police in Canada have taken to shooting the mentally ill who "threaten" (at least 3 cases quickly come to mind in the last 2 years). My point was, and remains, had that bar scene occured in Canada, Mr. off-his-meds would very likey been shot by the police. Whether he had bullets is, and would have been, immaterial.
You quite apparently know squat about self-defence, or the use of guns.
From the article this guy was staying at his mother's house, he wasn't a homeless stumble bum just passing through Florida. His diagnosis, was he a schizophrenic or taking meds for ADD?, is a big piece of the omitted information. Was he mad or just bad in psych parlance? And what's mom's responsiblity to the community in this if son is psychotic and out of control? One phone call to the cops and he gets picked up and delivered to a psych facility for evaluation. I've worked psych emergency for many years and that's how most of my clients are delivered to the door.
That he left the bar, went home, got a gun and returned to the bar with the intent of using it, says he's thought processes were probably better organized than a totally disorganized florid psychotic. Nor was his alcohol level that incapacitating. Most drunks would just flop into bed.
I work in a Florida psych setting the past two years, psych treatment is provided at the jails and prisons. If he has an underlying psychosis he'll get meds. If he is just an anti-social jerk with an alcohol problem that will be sorted out fast.
Dr. Haber and her ilk should have their licenses revoked.
He's supposedly bi-polar.
I say "supposedly" because it seems to me that half the people I know are diagnosed with something these days.
"He's supposedly bipolar"
That's just Liberal schizophrenia. All lefties are bi- something - bipolar, bi-sexual, bi-lingual, bi-goted, bi-lateral, everything but bi-partisan...
"That's just Liberal schizophrenia. All lefties are bi- something - bipolar, bi-sexual, bi-lingual, bi-goted, bi-lateral, everything but bi-partisan..."
Look here, you. I have enough problems with this bloody disease (schizophrenia) without also being tagged as a Liberal for having it. Last I checked, I don't steal from people so I'd appreciate it if you would stop lumping me in with Chretien and company.
Sean don't start ranting at Kate because she insulted Liberals. Read her post again and you will see she wasn't "tagging" you as a Liberal.
SO CALM YOURSELF & SMARTEN UP!
I found your posting about your own schizophrenia to be eloquent and even moving. I am truly sorry that the medicine "switches off part of your soul". That's terrible and you truly have my sympathies. Thanks for informing me about it.
We need connservatives like you sir. Your admission and description of your disease took some balls to write. You seem like a fellow worthy of respect.
Don't fukkk things up by losing your temper at Kate.
Take care Man. I hope to hear more from you in the future. Keep posting.
"Sean don't start ranting at Kate because she insulted Liberals. Read her post again and you will see she wasn't "tagging" you as a Liberal."
My comment was addressed to Skip, not Kate. Please don't jump to conclusions. I am not disagreeing with anything in Kate's post -- I'm disagreeing with some of the commenters riding her coat tails. That's different.
And, frankly, if Kate can object to being called a "knuckle-dragger" by Kinsella then surely I'm allowed to object to being lumped in with Liberals?
Whoooooopsy! After reading YOUR comment again SEAN I realized you may have been making an anti-Liberal joke. If that was the case, the joke's on me. AAAAARRRGGHHH! :D
Guess you and I are posting at exactly the same time. I DID jump to conclusions. Sorry. Have a good one. Busy saturday. wife's pissed that I'm on the computer gotta go.
A'dam
As an American, I'd say "Bilateral treaties are supposed to be upheld. When Canada starts complying with the treaty again and surrenders our military deserters to us, we'll resume giving your criminals back to you".
"Bilateral treaties are supposed to be upheld. When Canada starts complying with the treaty again and surrenders our military deserters to us, we'll resume giving your criminals back to you."
Moot point. In this particular case, your government has already offers to give Mr. Bond back to us. It's just that our government is unwilling to take him back.
'been around the block: "Sacha Bond's family didn't ensure that he not be let loose in the community in Florida, so what's to say they're going to keep an eye on him up here when he gets out of prison?"
You point being what, exactly? His family is under no legal obligation to "keep an eye on him" after he's released from prison, whether he serves his time in Canada or the US.
"As a Canadian, I feel far safer knowing that Sacha Bond is serving his time in a U.S. prison, in the country in which he was charged, than become a burden on Canadian taxpayers, seeing as his family seems to have abdicated responsibility for his actions."
You understand that it's a reciprocal treaty, right? You'd rather see Mr. Bond serve his time in a US prison rather than be a burden on Canadian taxpayers. Did you stop to consider that fact that, by your own logic, Canadian taxpayers would be equally burdened by US criminals serving their time in a Canadian prison?
"Funny thing--the liberal thing, actually--that his family did not monitor Sacha's very risky and dangerous behaviour when he was in Florida but, now that he's in trouble with the law, his family shows concern for his well-being: not, you notice, for the well-being of the community but only for their own concerns."
Right. It's unheard of for conservative types to rally around a family member after he/she has gotten in trouble with the law. Only liberals do that. And conservatives always demonstrate concern for the well-being of the community. Always. Liberals clearly don't care about communities, ever. And it's obviously Mr. Bond's liberal family's own fault for not keeping him under lock and key at all times, because he's bipolar and therefore by default a risk and a danger to, you know, normal people. And you can make your claims because you've magically been able to divine Mr. Bond's family's political leanings (duh! obviously liberal!) from the scant information provided by the CTV report.
That's just his first and middle name. His last name is Asshole, as in "A Damn Asshole."
Bravo, Doug, you really got me there! Quite the original zinger! Three cheers for Doug -- champion wit of SDA!
It's the old Lefty song, the culprit is not responsible, it's society at large who must take the blame. We have proof of that with certain posts on this thread.
And it's obviously Mr. Bond's liberal family's own fault for not keeping him under lock and key at all times, because he's bipolar and therefore by default a risk and a danger to, you know, normal people.
Not entirely, but, I bet 30 years in psych they don't have clean hands entirely in this.
Hey, a'dam, if he lives with his family and he is a danger to the community, if they are aware of that, they have a duty to call the cops. End of story. When he left the bar, was he manic or just drunk?, I don't know, you don't know, but, he went home and got a gun with a plan to return to the bar. Psychosis is defined as disorganized thinking. He seems to have stayed on task. How rational was he? Anyone see him at home? How responsible is it to have an accessible gun when you've got a psychotic alcohol abusing family member? Not very.
I don't know the ins and outs of the reciprocity laws and neither do you. His case might not even apply. I'm sure there are Americans sitting in Canadian prisons that mom here would like home too.
If this is a family of numbskulls planning on a return to Florida after his prison stint in Canada, maybe it's better we see that he does the time here.
A'dam (thanks, Doug, for filling me on the full import of A'am's name...):
I stand by everything I said.
I have neither the energy nor the inclination to answer all the words you put in my mouth.
Maybe "A'dam" is a female dog, or maybe a dam as opposed to a dike, who would know?
Is it with a capital "A" or lower case "a", both have been used?
I have a brother who is bi polar, and if he has just one drink, meds or no meds he is off on a manic high. This man was aware of what would happen to him if he drank, and he chose to drink, He sounds just like my brother, sets himself up for a manic high and off he goes into la la land having a blast and disrupting anything and everything in his path. Not a care or a responsibility in the world. The ultimate high.
By the way when my brother comes down everything: assaults, property damage, terrifying our 84 year old mother. and his daughter, the list is very long. And it is always someone else’s fault, never his own.
"By the way when my brother comes down everything: assaults, property damage, terrifying our 84 year old mother. and his daughter, the list is very long. And it is always someone else’s fault, never his own.
Posted by: alan at May 19, 2007 7:02 PM "
alan...you have my utmost sympathy, so please do not be offended by this,but I think you have just revealed the true nature of leftards/dippers. They are bipolar,only in their case,they are off their meds ALL the time!
So, a gentleman who resides in Florida walks into a bar, aims his gun, and pulls the trigger. In response, a Canadian journalist blows the whistle on Stockwell Day, and the Conservatives, for allowing the Americans to prosecute and jail the man.
"Quebec mother Diane Levesque is in a lonely, desperate battle..."
Those damned Conservatives. And it's not just Quebec mothers they're violating. The Quebec father of the gunman recalls receiving a letter from Stockwell Day: "Worst moment of my life," Bond said. "I felt horrible. I went into a depression. I sas crying. I couldn't believe that. My own country..."
Your own son. In Florida. With his Mom. And a gun.
The son has no recollection of his gun-pointing and trigger-pulling: All I remember is when I dropped on the ground and they were beating me up."
Well, that's just the sort of thing that's going to happen in bars in Florida when there's a Conservative government in Canada.
*Thank-you* CTV, and Kathy Tomlinson, for connecting the dots. This country needs a lot more GTA-Liberal-remora-PR-journalists who dress and act like realtors. There can't be more than ten or twenty thousand of them, out of a population of what, 30 million?
According to his mother young Mr. Bond was addicted to cocaine and went to the bar in hopes of getting his hands on some of the stuff. His stepfather had told him how dangerous the area was so this drug-addicted, mentally ill young man decided to take a gun with him to protect himself. In the process he consumed 10 drinks in two hours, refused to pay the woman who was dancing for him and was thrown out of the bar by the bouncer. Young Bond only had to find his car in order to retrieve the gun and was back to exact revenge a few minutes later. Hardly the impression the CTV "whistle-blower" wanted to leave us with. He didn't black out until after he had pulled the trigger four times. He was about to pull the trigger a fifth time when he was wrestled to the ground. The fifth time would have been lucky. It was the first one to have a live round in the chamber. This fact comes from the Islamorada newspaper from Feb. 2, 2004. Bond's hope is to come back to Canada and appeal his sentence. No thanks! We don't need another drug addict with a gun (owned by step-dad and probably legally owned by same) on our streets. Seems to me this young thug is where he belongs. The whole interview can be seen on The Verdict at http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/sbplayer/Docs.html
WL-M Reducks
*****Utopian cretins like Tomlinson are on a dyslexic crusade to empower the criminally insane and disarm their victims.******
do U kno anything about dyslexia???????
if not, ask steven hawking, as he is very intelligent and probably the best known dyslexic around
"Failed to compensate the entertainer who was performing for him." Should read 'Failed to pay for a nude table dance.' The club is a strip club. What kind of person responds to be bounced for not paying a stripper with a gun? Day is correct, Canada is a safer place with this fellow in a Florida jail.
Let Him Rot!
Reporter Kathy Tomlinson has blown it. Her item on CTV wasn't reporting at all. It was pure fabrication.
As Kate asks, what is her motivation for whitewashing Sacha Bond's crime? Why would she not mention the cocaine, the fact that his stepfather, for crying out loud, told him he was going to an extremely unsafe area of the city and 'lent' him his gun, and that, in fact, there were bullets in the gun he carried into the bar, just not in every chamber?
These details are entirely telling. Any half-way competent reporter would have noted them and would never have filed the report Tomlinson did.
I hope someone's let CTV know that they aired a fabricated story.
I would maybe have a bit of sympathy for Sacha Bond, had he committed a crime such as shoplifting, but the crime that he committed was attempted murder of four innocent bystanders with a gun.
Since he committed this crime in Florida, he is subjected to the Florida criminal code. He did receive a fair trial and appropriate legal representation, was convicted and sentenced in a Florida court of law, so he absolutely deserves the prison sentenced that was imposed on him. There is no miscarriage of justice as CTV’s Kathy Tomlinson is attempting to imply.
I hope he rots in jail. I would rather prefer him rotting in a Florida jail that coming back to Canada, getting one of those early releases and killing some of our citizens in Canada.
A'dam,
"Bilateral treaties are supposed to be upheld. When Canada starts complying with the treaty again and surrenders our military deserters to us, we'll resume giving your criminals back to you."
Moot point. In this particular case, your government has already offers to give Mr. Bond back to us. It's just that our government is unwilling to take him back."
Why is it moot? The Canadian govt is still NOT following the treaty, by NOT extraditing a number of our military deserters, as required by the treaty. Apparently domestic politics, pandering to the hard (pacifist, anti-America, anti-war)left, trumps treaty obligations.