On 5 Sep 97 at 19:07, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: ------ Forwarded message --------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 19:07:19 -0600 From: Karl Schrader <schraderkg@intranet.ca> Subject: Bill C-95 Re.: recent amendment to Criminal Code, Bill C-95 -------------------------------------------------------------- Did any legal expert analyse the recent amendment to the Criminal Code regarding the mere membership in an organization consisting of more than 5 people which imposes a penalty in prison from 5 to 14 years if any mischief is even mentioned? This amendment is aimed at the biker gangs, however, the way it is worded, it can be applied to any group, be they environmenta- lists, unionists, recreational firearms owners, birdwatchers or even stampcollectors where the mere mentioning of mischief is ground enough to face 5-14 years in jail. This development here in Canada is truly frightening and is remi- niscent of a movie called "Judgement at Nuremburg" with Spencer Tracey and Burt Lancaster, where Burt Lancaster played a German Judge under Hitler, who applied all kinds of laws, created by the Nazis, which were clearly against common sense and human values and utterly repressive. These laws were pushed through the German puppet parliament by the then party in power. We are all aware of what happened in the end to this regime. Several thousand Canadians, however, had to make the supreme sacrifice to eliminate this evil and now it rears it's ugly head here in Canada . This amendment was the subject of a radio interview this morning with a defence lawyer on CBC 2. The lawyer was utterly shocked at what can be done with this legislation and strongly expected a charter challenge. Unfortunately this will require again enormous amounts of funds to be wasted in a completely unproductive and wasteful manner. Why are we constantly running up against laws which have to be challenged ? Why can the new laws not be drafted in a way that they are charterproof ? Just imagine if we did not even have the Charter. The people who are drafting the laws and are getting paid good salaries can not all be idiots ? And what about the parliamentarians who pass these laws ? One does not need a gun to destroy a human life, all that is needed is a repressive law. Let someone with a criminal record just try to get a job when he comes out of jail. "" If it saves only one life !" (Wendy C.....) FOCUS: If 97% of Canadians are being pushed around by 3%, there is something seriously wrong !! -- Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Finest of Limoges porcelain and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants physicists and engineers, LabView programing. PGP encryption keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 ID# 5B51964D : 152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C