Who is to say that these people weren't at the house when we was arrested? The police are there to arrest him, not to evict him.
So what happens now? I assume anyone in the house at 12:01am tonight gets evicted, correct?
I think 'the Chief' was already there - if you watch the footage from last night's newscast, where the police went and spoke to him (this was before the 2 am arrest), it looks like the Chief was standing in the doorway with Antonacci or whatever his name is. There was also some woman standing in behind both of them.
A two-year standoff in a north Calgary duplex ended peacefully Friday night when the last four occupants claiming the apartment as their embassy drove off into the night.
The three-car convoy left the Parkdale property just after 8:30 p.m. under police supervision, making good on their promise to leave before a midnight eviction deadline.
“We are leaving in peace,” a man from the house wearing a purple shirt, who didn’t identify himself, said earlier Friday.
“We didn’t realize that all this was this way. I regret I wasn’t informed before that anything was going down this way.”
And you'd be in big caca for doing that. You'd probably be the one arrested, not the tenant.
And rightly so.. One can't be critical of FMoTL because they pretend the law doesn't apply to them and then say it's ok to take the law into one's own hand.
It went on for two years because the lady didn't know her rights or the proper procedures.
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And rightly so.. One can't be critical of FMoTL because they pretend the law doesn't apply to them and then say it's ok to take the law into one's own hand.
It went on for two years because the lady didn't know her rights or the proper procedures.
That's true, but the frustration is understandable. We are all usually alive to the mischief these FMotL (or OPCA) litigants do to the justice system, but we sometimes forget that there is a wronged party on the other side who has suffered a loss, and is now likely to be out of luck in terms of ever getting any kind of remedy.
I don't know what the answer is--except maybe to follow Justice Rooke's example, and to treat these guys like the idiots they are. They are gumming up the works of an already overburdened system, and in many cases they are screwing over a litigant on the other side (in this case their landlady, but it could also be an ex-wife, or anyone really) who is being deprived of a lawful remedy by their shenanigans.
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That's true, but the frustration is understandable. We are all usually alive to the mischief these FMotL (or OPCA) litigants do to the justice system, but we sometimes forget that there is a wronged party on the other side who has suffered a loss, and is now likely to be out of luck in terms of ever getting any kind of remedy.
I don't know what the answer is--except maybe to follow Justice Rooke's example, and to treat these guys like the idiots they are. They are gumming up the works of an already overburdened system, and in many cases they are screwing over a litigant on the other side (in this case their landlady, but it could also be an ex-wife, or anyone really) who is being deprived of a lawful remedy by their shenanigans.
That is exactly how they should be treated. There are some vexatious litigants who suffer from a variety of mental illnesses and should be treated with sympathy. Freemen on the other hand are selfish, useless idiots who should be treated with scorn. The alternative results in unmanageable waste of time for all involved and an abuse of the justice system.
That is exactly how they should be treated. There are some vexatious litigants who suffer from a variety of mental illnesses and should be treated with sympathy. Freemen on the other hand are selfish, useless idiots who should be treated with scorn. The alternative results in unmanageable waste of time for all involved and an abuse of the justice system.
I would be willing to bet there is some substantial overlap in these two groups.
Alberta forestry staff have been warned to avoid a wooded area south of Grande Prairie after a land-claim dispute led to armed threats.
A message circulated through Alberta's forestry community Wednesday warned that a group claiming to be freemen-on-the-land have occupied a cabin about 80km south of Grande Prairie and refuse to leave.
"They have reportedly occupied his trapper's cabin," read the email, "and indicated to him that they 'will defend it with all necessary force'."
The group has occupied the cabin since May, according to one of the three trappers whose registered lines have been taken over.
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Someone should collect every municipal election sign in the city and put them all up in the yard.
We did that for a federal electioin one year while I was in university. We were interviewed by CBC. We started it one night on the way home from skiing and it snowballed from there.
Two years?
