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1. Star Chamber [Secret court proceedings & etc.]
   An English court of law active in the Tudor and early Stuart periods, abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641. An outgrowth of the royal council, it was made up of privy councilors as well as judges and supplemented the activities of the common-law and equity courts in both civil and criminal matters. Initially well regarded because of its speed and flexibility, Star Chamber became unpopular as the Stuart kings used it with increasing arbitrariness to enforce the royal prerogative. Its name thus became synonymous with secret, irresponsible court proceedings. (Academic American Encyclopedia) >>>
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~altmann/star-chamber.html

2. There seems to be an increasing trend among police to feel that they have the right to use their special powers to target those who criticize them. For Beaton to justify the confiscation of a computer by saying that the site was “mean-spirited and in poor taste” and that “…the authors have no regard whatsoever for our members who wear the uniform with pride” shows a form of union-think, but one that is dangerously empowered by the special priveleges we entrust to the police.
   Such a takeover is happening in Edmonton, too, Earlier this year the EPS conducted a “drunk-driving sting” operation which targetted a journalist who had suggested in a column that in light of the deaths of innocent civilians, it might be time to re-examine the police chase policy, and the police commission chair, who had called for more public accountability for police actions. The attempted sting (neither man was intoxicated, according to witnesses) begun at a casual function sponsored by the Edmonton chapter of the Canadian Association of Journalists.
   Seven police officers conducted surveilence on the two men for over four hours during the function. Police radio transcripts, heard by a journalists, show that police frequently drove by the journalist’s house in the surrounding days, describing it’s location and exterior features.
   One officer, on the night of the sting, expressed his excitement at potentially catching one of the two police critics: “I’m getting a f***ing chubby” (erection).
   Since then there have been frequent incidents of the EPS using their data base to get personal information on those who question such EPS tactics. Local lawyer Tom Engels has been a frequent target.
   The police chief at the time of the “sting”, Fred Rayner, stepped down on Feb. 8, and has yet to be replaced. Under interim chief Darryl D’Costa, instances of date-base abuse have worsened. And anytime police behaviour is mentioned, they seem to play the victim card, the “no one understands” gambit of any closed brotherhood.
   After seemingly interminable delays and obfuscations, the eternal question is ripening in Edmonton: Who will police the police? The EPS’s answer always has the exact same subtext: “We will police ourselves as we see fit. No one who does not wear our uniform has any right to comment on anything we do. Those who do comment may end up regretting it”.

3. I don’t know about those Alberta cops. This is the Star Chamber and secret stuff I would expect from the Liberal Party Police (RCMP) – – not the Edmonton and Calgary cops.

4. God, I hate speaking up in defence of the Calgary cops, who are a stinking disgrace; but the fact is, given how easy it is to wipe a computer hard disk which contains evidence, an Anton Piller injunction is a sensible and justifiable step to take in an action for slander over the net. And if the action is unsustainable, the victims have ample occasion for compensation.

5. I should add that it was surprising how many Edmontonians wrote letters to the editor of The Journal, commending the police officers in question for tackling “drunk-driving”. Of course, the fact that neither man was intoxicated, but rather were public critics of the very sort of tactics that EPS used that night, apparently flew well over a few letter-writing heads.
   I guess it’s true that in light of the ridiculous delays and obfuscations, there has to have been “ample” time for “compensation”, and legal recourse. There’s just been no “occasion” for it.

6. ebt, It’s interesting that we’re both conservative, but have completely opposite viewpoints. I’m a big fan of the CPS and their past tactics, but I’m not a supporter of the methods used in this instance. Using the Anton Piller injunction may be understandable, but I’m still not sure why all the secrecy surrounds this case. Surely the CPS could reveal WHY they’re keeping everything so hush-hush. Couldn’t they at least say it has something to do with (pick one): National Security? police anit-terror tactics or investigations? Specific CPS members names being mentioned in specific investigations (which don’t have to be released to the public)? From the outside it simply APPEARS (perception) to be the Chief trying to hide some embarrassing allegations and to hide some defamation of character. It APPEARS to be serious overkill for such an issue.

7. Actually any type of serach for a straight up Cop that doesn’t put politics above the job will come up empty. Ever since Silverberg changed the service into a political butt snorkeling bureaucracy, it’s hard to find a cop when ya need one in Cow town. What you will get are politically sensitized public “helpers” who are more concerned about offending someone’s tender feelings than busting the head of an armed punk or running gangster punks out of town.

8. Edmonton Police Services is now known as the most corrupt in the country. They are having trouble finding anyone who will take over as Chief to clean up the mess. Get ready for many, many headlines about these self-serving thugs. There are just a few but they cover for each other and quite frankly the number of “falsely accused” in Edmonton because they were set up by these cops would boggle the mind.
   This police service cannot police itself. The police commisioners are all quiting. They are rudderless and out of control…The person who comes in to try to clean up this mess will most likely be in danger if they do not get help from the province, the city and the RCMP.
   Lawyers who try to take these cops are are targeted to abuse and set up for charges. Citizens who complain had better watch their backs and the backs of their friends and family.
   It is bad. The EPS is officially out of control.

9. As a direct follow up to this, we see today that Calgary’s top uniformed trough guzzler, Jack Beton, told council that ” gangs are here to stay”.
   Stares in disbelief.
   Now.. a cop telling me he can’t do his job (make the city a very bad place for criminals to set up operations) may wash with insulated pinkos like Bronconier but when the head of my police department, who is making more than most private sector managers, tells you that there is nothing he can do with gangs and gang violence…after the virtual carte blanche slate the police were given with the anti-gang laws and several justice department laws that allow them virtually all the legal leway short of, and possibly including, murder,..that they can’t do anything with common vicious little street punks running typical street crime cons.. How lame is that? How well equiped are they to deal with the mob or terrorists? Do I really feel safe when the top cop publicly surrenders to these vicious punks and then will throw me in jail for protecting myself when they have abandoned their duty? Why are we paying police whan what they are telling us is that there is no way we can be removed from a state of criminal anarchy anyway….I’ll save my money and take care of myself…just let me use my gun to protect myself if you can’t/won’t. I wonder how popular hot house burglaries would be if a few of these goblins were laid out on a slb by armed home owners?
   Time to fire this fat assed do nothing bureaucrat and hire a real cop….at the very least “to send the right message to the police functuion that citizens will not be ripped off for their fat saleries only to be abandoned to the mercies of street gangs….The time has come to again hire real cops…sheep dogs who WANT to protect the sheep…we’ve been hireing sheep to guard sheep from the wolves or we put muzzels on our sheepdogs because we fear they may hurt the wolves feelings with their barking.
   Tome to abandon the practice of putting a police uniform on a social experimental guina pigs….We need to hire cops again…like the ones Calgary had who ran punks like this out of town with their arms broken…guess what?.. they never came back.
   When will we realize the police department and police functiuon is NOT a social experiment in multicult and affirmative action….IT’S THE THIN BLUE LINE STUPID!….and we don’t need any sissies or confused political quislings standing on the line between civilization and the barbaric hordes of criminal psychopaths out there.

10. Deloitte and Touche should send off some alarm bells – that is the outfit that scottie tissue (Brison) hired to “audit” the LPC books re: adscam Martin et al.