Sandra Finley

May 062016
 
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/03/i-never-advised-mike-duffy-about-housing-expenses-david-tkachuk-says.html

The Conservative senator says the only advice he ever gave was about caucus responsibilities, contrary to Duffy’s testimony at the trial.

Mike Duffy testified he spoke with David Tkachuk, pictured, and asked whether he could claim expenses against his Ottawa-area home as a secondary residence. Tkachuk said the meeting never happened.

Mike Duffy testified he spoke with David Tkachuk, pictured, and asked whether he could claim expenses against his Ottawa-area home as a secondary residence. Tkachuk said the meeting never happened.   (FRED CHARTRAND / THE CANADIAN PRESS File Photo)  

OTTAWA—A senior Conservative senator who was labelled as the guru of Senate rules by Mike Duffy’s judge says the widely-held view of his role in the whole affair is more fiction than fact.

Sen. David Tkachuk insists he never advised Duffy on questions about his housing and travel allowances, despite Duffy’s criminal trial having been told otherwise.

Tkachuk says the only advice he gave during a January 2009 meeting of new senators was about caucus responsibilities, since he hadn’t yet been appointed to the executive of the Senate’s internal economy committee, which oversees expense rules.

Duffy testified at his trial that he spoke with Tkachuk one-on-one after the meeting and asked whether he could or should claim expense against his Ottawa-area home as a secondary residence.

The question came amid media reports that raised questions about Duffy’s constitutional eligibility to sit as a senator from Prince Edward Island.

Duffy testified Tkachuk told him the claims were essential to quell eligibility questions and that Duffy should claim for daily meal allowances in the capital, even though Duffy said he personally didn’t believe in them.

Tkachuk said the meeting never happened.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Tkachuk said he would have told Duffy to speak with Senate lawyers or someone on the internal economy committee if he faced questions on Jan. 7, 2009, about Senate rules. Tkachuk said he didn’t join the internal economy committee until Feb. 10, 2009.

“It’s important that people know I wasn’t sitting there advising Sen. Duffy about how he should conduct his residency claims at a meeting that I never had with him and that I had no right to be at because I wasn’t a member of internal economy,” Tkachuk said.

Duffy has not responded to a request for comment.

Late last month, Ontario Court Justice Charles Vaillancourt dismissed 31 criminal charges on fraud, breach of trust and bribery against Duffy, all of them related to his Senate expenses. Vaillancourt called the Senate rules vague and ruled that Duffy was forced to take a $90,000 payment from Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s then chief of staff, to pay off his politically problematic housing expenses even though Duffy contended he had done nothing wrong.

Tkachuk’s role in the affair related to his position on the internal economy committee, which oversaw the audit of Duffy’s expenses and subsequent changes to spending rules.

Tkachuk wasn’t called to testify and he says the Crown never contacted him, even though he was available to take the stand. He says he was surprised he wasn’t called as a witness.

He says the facts in the criminal trial skewed his role in the matter and he wants to give his side of the story.

“I know what the truth is, as far as I’m concerned, and the facts bear me out,” he said.

Duffy returned to Parliament Hill for the first time Monday since his acquittal and he returned to his seat in the upper chamber on Tuesday amid colleagues who voted to suspend him without pay in late 2013.

Much like before his suspension, he sits near the front door, in the back row close to Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin, former Conservatives who were also suspended without pay over questionable expenses.

Sen. John Wallace said the suspension process was a debacle and a breach of due process.

He said the Senate should give Duffy back the almost $270,000 he lost in wages during his suspension because Vaillancourt’s judgment “totally demolished” the basis for the suspension: That Duffy was negligent with his spending.

“There was a rush to judgment and some would say a rush to political judgment and he paid the price for it,” Wallace said.

To get the money back would require passing of a motion, which any senator could put forward.

Sen. Don Plett, the Conservative whip, wouldn’t say whether Duffy deserved the back pay.

“His pay was not deducted because of any criminal charges. They were deducted because of a disciplinary action, well before there were any criminal charges. The two are not related,” Plett said on his way into the Senate chamber.

Apr 202016
 
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/health-minister-jane-philpott-discusses-crisis-in-attawapiskat-and-assisted-dying-bill-1.3535593/saudi-arabia-deal-a-question-of-principle-1.3535644
Saudi Arabia deal: a question of principle?    (I would prefer a better title – –  this is a story about the resistance, one man who is mounting a Court Challenge, Daniel Turp.  A good interview.)

Listen 8:51

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the government’s decision to go ahead with a $15 billion arms contract with Saudi Arabia a ‘question of principle’ – but is it a done deal?

Constitutional lawyer Daniel Turp hopes the answer is no. He’s leading a court challenge against the federal government, hoping a judge will block the sale due to Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations.

“The principle here is about protecting human rights,” Turp told Chris Hall on CBC Radio’s The House. “I think that’s the issue that concerns Canadians.”

Canada releases redacted report on human rights in Saudi Arabia

As Liberals defend Saudi arms deal, U.S. report highlights human rights concerns

When the Conservative government originally made a $15-billion deal in 2014 with Saudi Arabia to sell the country combat vehicles, it was heralded internally as a success. Despite the deal proving more politically complicated for Justin Trudeau, he has repeatedly said his government will not intervene to cancel the contract.

The Canadian government’s rules state it will not export arms to countries that perpetrate consistent human rights violations, with the exception of there being no reasonable risk the arms could be used against civilians.

Justifying the approval of export permits to send $11-billion worth of combat vehicles to Saudi Arabia, Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion said he has seen no evidence that the country would use Canadian arms against its own people.

“As with all export permits, the Minister of Foreign Affairs retains the power to revoke at any time the permits should the assessment change,” Dion said this week. “Should I become aware of credible information of violations related to this equipment, I will suspend or revoke the permits.”

Turp isn’t buying that explanation.

“The one thing that’s so unconvincing is the argument Minister Dion made,” Turp said.

“To say you will suspend or revoke the permits if you become aware of violations…well, that will be a little bit late, you know? Too little, too late. Those vehicles will have been used to breach human rights.”

Turp said he understands that to cancel the contract would have “economic consequences” for Canada and specifically in London, Ont., where the light-armoured vehicles are produced by General Dynamics Land Systems.

“You clearly sense that what’s important here is the trade aspect of this contract. But it’s not about stability, it’s not about strategy. It’s about human rights. It’s about not exporting military equipment to countries that routinely and severely breach human rights.”​

2016-03-03 Can Trauma be Passed on through our DNA? By Jonathan Davis

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Apr 202016
 

Can Trauma be Passed on through our DNA?

 

This is a topic we’ve followed.   Links to the set of related articles is included in:

2015-06-06 Epigenetics, is it the same as, or different from, cellular memory passed inter-generationally? (Residential Schools. Trauma)

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Text of  Can Trauma be Passed on through our DNA?   By  Jonathan Davis  appears below, in case the original article disappears.

Learning to release trauma before we pass it on to the next generation

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. ― Susan Pease Banitt

Intergenerational Trauma is the idea that serious trauma can affect the children and grandchildren of those who had the first hand experience, due to living with a person suffering from PTSD and the challenges that can bring. What’s new is that, thanks to the emerging field of epigenetics, science is discovering that trauma is being passed down to future generations through more than simply learned behaviours.

One widely reported example is of holocaust survivors passing on the effects of trauma to children and grandchildren. It seems that trauma or its effects are being passed down through our genes, and it has enormous consequences for us as a species.

Alt text hereScience is showing that intergenerational trauma is a reality

What are we Passing on our Children?

The single most dangerous idea I learned in school is that the genes you get from you parents are passed on to your children, and nothing you do in your life changes them. Thankfully, however, the findings of the new scientific field of epigenetics is starting to change this dangerous attitude. We do indeed pass on the exact same chromosomes from parent to child, however the quality they are in when we receive them can be improved or diminished according to what happens to us and the choices we make during our lifetime.

The reason why it’s dangerous for us to believe otherwise is that it has lead to entire generations of people believing that their choices concerning their own body and the environment affecting it have no detrimental effect on the genes of future generations. In short it has the potential to see us devolve, simply out of ignorance. Fortunately, as awareness of epigenetics spreads, it’s helping people understand that how we live our lives can change the quality of our own genes for the better and those we pass on to our offspring.

Alt text hereIs trauma passed down through our DNA?

What Is Epigenetics?

We all know the image of a DNA double helix. Imagine now that each of the thirteen rungs in the spiral ladder that makes a chromosome is not simply a rung, but a binary, amino acid on/off switch. You may have received an exact same chromosome that your mother or your father carried, but this chromosome has been changing according to the way you’ve been living your life Some rungs in the ladder are off where they were once on and vice versa. Your genes are responding to the environment like you are, because like you are, they are alive.

Our DNA exists at the heart of our cells and provide the instructions for new cells to be created, so better quality DNA equals better quality instructions for cells to be created and in turn a happier, healthier body. On the other hand continued degradation of the epigenetic structure of our genes could be leading to lowering of immunity and fertility, and increased susceptibility to cellular mutation.

When Emotional Trauma Becomes Overwhelming

In simple terms trauma occurs when we reach a point where we can’t cope, we are overwhelmed and we don’t have the tools or skills to find our way through. We find ourselves in a state where our sympathetic nervous system goes into overdrive and we can get stuck in fight or flight mode for far longer than our body is designed to remain that way. Sustaining this state of high alert causes depletion and disruption of the normal functions of our system. In our culture we refer to acute cases of this as PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.

Alt text herePTSD is widespread among survivors of war and other traumatic events

Thanks to this diagnosis, we have this somewhat arbitrary boundary which almost says that the truly traumatised people are on one side and the rest of us are on the other. The reality is that the boundary between those who suffer from PTSD and everyone else was invented, created, made up by the human mind with little regard for the fact that trauma is carried within us all in varying degrees. Each of us is on a sliding scale that goes all the way up to and past the line that tips a person into being diagnosed with PTSD.

The kind of trauma we all carry can include the smallest things like the time we were laughed at for not knowing the answer to a question, or other seemingly insignificant things like being teased as a child. It can include any moments of pain and tragedy that have occurred throughout our life, but by far the biggest factor of whether the pain remains with us as trauma is whether it was overwhelming, and whether it continued to be overwhelming.

Alt text hereWe need support to be able to feel and process our trauma

According to transpersonal psychologists, when the trauma is so overwhelming that our only defence mechanism is to avoid feeling it, then we continue to carry it until someday we have the courage and strength to finally feel all of it and come to emotional completion, though the physical event may have ended long ago. A number of problems can prevent this: a person may not feel like they are in a safe enough environment, or not supported enough to go into the vulnerability of feeling their old pain in order to release it. The person may struggle with being re-traumatised by going back in to the memory of what happened.

Releasing Our Trauma So It Doesn’t Get Passed On

For some people, it’s enough to explain to them that they simply need to accept and allow the feelings of pain and discomfort to exist instead of trying to hide them, avoid them or push them away. As soon as as a person judges and labels their inner pain as something bad or something they don’t want or don’t like, they are inadvertently and unwittingly grabbing and holding their pain and preventing it from leaving.

Alt text hereLearning to release trauma before it is passed on to our children

Allowing the pain to flow instead of trying to stop it from happening is how we allow it to leave us and be released, however there is considerable risk of re-traumatization. In my opinion, this occurs when a person wakes up their old pain and trauma to try to release it, but then instead of accepting and thereby allow it to flow out of them they contract contract around it with their judgment that this is something they don’t want. So they experience the pain again, but do so without actually releasing it.

For many at the extreme end of the trauma scale known as PTSD, these experiences of past pain and trauma coming up in order to be released are uninvited and involuntary. During these bouts which can be triggered by anything that remotely resembles the original trauma or nothing at all, re-traumatisation is occurring repeatedly and compounding the problem.

Alt text hereRe-traumatisation can compound the problem

What Happens When We Can’t Release Our Old Pain and Trauma?

If a person experiences trauma and they are never able to come to emotional completion because it is simply too overwhelming then the environmental influence of those events on the body through immense amounts of stress hormones signal to the genes that the environment is hostile and unsafe, and this has an effect on the epigenetic quality of the genes. The epigenetic structure of the genes changes and these genes in this state can then be passed to subsequent generations.

The worst examples of intergenerational trauma occur when a generation is born carry the trauma of their parents, and their parents and now the children as well are still living in circumstances that are traumatic. In some cases this can go on for generations, particularly in cases of ongoing war, colonialisation and genocide. Prof. Judy Atkinson speaks about her work helping entire indigenous communities heal from transgenerational trauma in her book Trauma Trails, and the traditional approach she works with can be found in the following Uplift article. Techniques such as breathwork and vipassana have also been successful as well as severe cases of PTSD having been healed through psychedelic means such as MDMA assisted psychotherapy, or ceremonial use of Ayahuasca.

Alt text hereCan trauma be passed between generations?

Evolving, Not Devolving As A Species

I like to think that the epigenetic structure of our DNA can be like either a rock or a crystal. The molecules in a rock can be identical to those found in a crystal with the only difference being that the molecules in the rock are jumbled and those in the crystal are more aligned allowing light to pass through. In the same way, perhaps there are more jumbled and more aligned states that the those amino acid on/off switches in our DNA can find themselves in. The good news is that if our epigenetic structure can become relatively jumbled due to challenging and painful environmental factors, they may also become more aligned as we make healthier decisions about exposing ourself to less environmental contaminants and, if possible, less emotional contaminants like stress and trauma.

My personal theory about life is that the reality we live in is a rigged game; that all paths lead to learning and growth. The less gentle path may be for the quality of our DNA to degrade, perhaps increasing the likelihood that a) those that can’t adapt fast enough don’t survive, as well as b) sudden mutation jumping us to a different sub-branch of the evolutionary tree. The more gentle path to evolution may be by bringing our epigenetic code into higher states of alignment by healing our past pain and trauma and perhaps even healing the trauma that was passed to us from our ancestors. The only question that remains is: what kind of species do we wish to be?

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Words By Jonathan Davis

Amplifying personal healing and growth for collective evolution.

Apr 152016
 

Establishes:  Solo has docs.  Finley provided password.  Solo copied them.

The first document establishes GPC Ombuds Committee investigation of Ashu’s complaints about me.

The second document is evidence provided by Ashu that he saw and made copies of the posted material (286 pages).

Author:  Ashu Solo

Date: July 26, 2015

Recipients:   blawrence@sasktel.net, hvoth@sasktel.net, lynn.oliphant@usask.ca, lynn.oliphant@yourlink.ca, jannorri@gmail.com, ‘Mark Bigland-Pritchard <mark@lowenergydesign.com>, patricia.farnese@usask.ca, Dave Abbey <turninggreen2014@gmail.com>, Larry Waldinger <lwaldinger@gmail.com>

Description:   Solo has docs.  Finley provided password.  Solo copied them.

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From: Ombuds Chair [mailto:ombuds.chair@greenparty.ca]

Sent: June 1, 2014 9:36 PM

To: sandra.finley <sandra.finley@greenparty.ca> Subject: Ombuds issue

 

Sandra,

I am the chair of the remnants of the Ombuds Committee, and we have been asked to deal with complaints by Ashu Solo. There are a number of things we are not clear about; I hope you can help us understand the facts in the case, and the background, better than we do now.

It would help us to better understand the background of your complaint to Federal Council about Mr. Solo.  Are you willing to enable us to access the information about that, or to forward it to this address?

Thank you.

Sara Golling

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June 20, 2014:    I removed the password so that the members of the Ombuds Committee and Ashu Solo could see the information I would use to defend myself against Ashu Solo’s 10 complaints against me, calling for the revocation of my membership in the Green Party of Canada.

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THAT ASHU SOLO RECEIVED THE PASSWORD AND MADE COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS:

I high-lighted the relevant text.

Note that there are many falsifications in Ashu’s text.

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Subject: CIVIL CLAIM AGAINST FINLEY AND GREEN PARTY OF CANADA: BULLYING OF ME IN SASKATOON EDA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 03:08:48 -0600
From: Ashu M. G. Solo <amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us>
Reply-To: amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us
Organization: Maverick Technologies America Inc.
To: blawrence@sasktel.net, hvoth@sasktel.net, lynn.oliphant@usask.ca, lynn.oliphant@yourlink.ca, jannorri@gmail.com, ‘Mark Bigland-Pritchard / Low Energy Design Ltd’ <mark@lowenergydesign.com>, patricia.farnese@usask.ca, Dave Abbey <turninggreen2014@gmail.com>, Larry Waldinger <lwaldinger@gmail.com>

 

Without Prejudice

Sandra Finley, the former CEO of the Saskatoon-Humboldt Federal Green Party Association, has been spreading lies about me to try to drive me out of the green parties.  She did so as part of a vetting process on me for me to be a GPC candidate in which she was assisted by Vicki Strelioff and Penny Swartz.  This vetting process immediately turned into spreading lies about me.

As part of this vetting process, Finley created 52 blog posts about me containing over 175 lies about me and my family as well as personal information about me and my family.  After Finley posted my family address, there was vandalism at their house probably because I have a lot of enemies from my civil rights cases.  My damages include, inter alia, loss of high paying employment opportunities for me, loss of other opportunities, medical damages, and numerous other damages.  Finley will be liable for my damages.  I won’t repeat the lies in an email, but I’ll show them to you in person if you like.  Is this something that you think is acceptable of your friend Finley?

Finley’s 52 blog posts about me were 286 pages when printed out.  286 pages.  Think about that.  Doesn’t your buddy Finley have anything better to do with her time?  Anyone could find a more useful way to spend that time.  If I were writing 286 pages, I would write a book or numerous research papers and articles, not 52 blog posts to defame someone.

My lawyer filed a statement of claim against Finley, Finley’s current and former web hosting companies, and the GPC and served it to the defendants.  Finley has hired a lawyer for $300/hour to defend herself.  Finley previously refused to listen to demand letters from my lawyer and me.  Several days after being served with a statement of claim, Finley finally took down her 52 blog posts about me.

I have seen absolute proof in the form of emails on Finley’s blog that Finley sent the Saskatoon-Humboldt Federal Green Party Association some of these lies and that this was part of her vetting me to be a candidate on behalf of the EDA and GPC.  This is why the GPC is liable for her actions too.  Patricia tried to convince me that the GPC won’t be liable probably because she doesn’t want me suing the GPC, but I know the GPC is liable and my lawyer strongly believes that the GPC is liable.

The EDA let someone who they knew was hostile toward me, Finley, vet me without my knowledge and send the EDA lies about me without even giving me a chance to defend myself.  They should not have done this.  THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE LET SOMEONE WHO THEY KNEW WAS HOSTILE TOWARD ME DO VETTING OF ME OR DO SO WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE OR SEND THEM LIES ABOUT ME WITHOUT GETTING MY SIDE OF THE STORY.  They made the GPC liable for Finley’s actions by letting Finley vet me.  Finley’s vetting of me was an attempt to drive me out of the GPC, as she repeatedly openly admitted on her blog.

Furthermore, the EDA didn’t forward me the emails containing lies that Finley sent them about me and give me a chance to defend myself.  THEY SHOULD HAVE FORWARDED ME THESE EMAILS AND GIVEN ME A CHANCE TO DEFEND MYSELF.  I’ve seen these emails because Finley posted them on her blog and Larry has now forwarded them to me.

The EDA was angry and crying at me for repeatedly emailing the EDA about what Finley was doing, but they were the ones who let Finley vet me, which consisted of her lying about me to try to drive me out of the GPC.  Patricia said that I should deal with the ethics committee, but they didn’t even respond to or deal with my complaints.  Then the Ombuds Committee later took over the matter.

The EDA didn’t want me suing Finley.  I should have sued her much earlier than I did.  That would have stopped her from posting 286 pages full of lies about me on the Internet.  The problem is I had a lawyer before who was too busy with his corporate cases to write the statement of claim.  Now I switched to a less busy lawyer who filed the statement of claim.

I was driven out of the EDA by Finley spreading lies about me and endangering my family.  Instead of getting mad at her, the EDA got mad at me fighting back against it.  I’M JUST GETTING STARTED IN FIGHTING BACK AGAINST IT. 

Under Canadian common law (Supreme Court of Canada judgment in Crookes v. Newton), web hosting companies are liable for defamatory content by their clients once they’ve been made aware of it.  For this reason, Finley’s current and former web hosting companies are defendants in this civil claim too.  After Finley’s first web hosting company received the demand letter from my lawyer (they ignored my demand letters), they discontinued Finley’s web hosting service and then Finley moved her blog (including her libelous blog posts about me) to a web hosting company in Russia, who we are also suing now.

Furthermore, some of you turned a blind eye to Strelioff cutting Larry off the EDA mailing list, even after I informed the EDA of this multiple times.  YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS TO A GOOD PERSON LIKE LARRY WHO HURT NONE OF YOU.

Kaitlyn, who was on the executive, said it’s not in her job description as financial agent to worry about Strelioff cutting Larry off the EDA mailing list.  It wasn’t in Kaitlyn’s job description to take pictures of Elizabeth May when she came here to promote a book, but Kaitlyn did that.  Then Kaitlyn had the audacity to say she would like the help of Larry on doing the financial agent work.

Lynn Oliphant started forwarding EDA emails to Larry.  Jan Norris complained about Larry being cut off the EDA mailing list and then I believe Strelioff cut her off the EDA mailing list too at least in one email I saw.  This is the kind of totally dysfunctional social club that you belong to.  It’s a dysfunctional social club, not an EDA.

The former Federal Council president told Strelioff to add Larry back to the EDA mailing list and Federal Council assumed she did and didn’t even bother telling Larry they had requested this.  But Strelioff never added Larry back to the EDA mailing list.

Strelioff and Swartz were helping Finley in vetting me, which was really driving me out of the green parties as Finley openly admitted on her blog.  They may be added as defendants in the civil claim later too.

I only found out that Finley was vetting me when she made her blog posts on me visible to the public.  Why didn’t I find this out earlier?  What’s with this secretive vetting bullshit?  Why aren’t people asked about doubts about their qualifications instead of just assuming that the lies are true?  I indicated an interest in being a candidate, but never said for sure that I wanted to be a candidate, so there was no reason to even vet me.

The EDA had three people with no engineering or advanced math education reviewing my refereed (peer-reviewed) research papers in engineering and advanced math.  Engineering and advanced math research papers are incomprehensible to laypersons.

The EDA should have told me in August 2013 when Finley was claiming that I’m faking employment in an American company with a similar but clearly different name to my company name and when she sent you a research paper I didn’t even write and never claimed to write and falsely claimed I wrote it and it’s nonsensical.

Finley also posted on her blog all of my emails to the EDA because Strelioff forwarded these to her.  In these emails, I was complaining about Finley’s lies and mentioning some of them while complaining.  Finley is going to be liable for this too.  Don’t give Finley more lies to post by forwarding to anyone these emails in which I’m complaining about Finley’s lies and the EDA’s approval of Finley secretly vetting me.  This is a confidential email.

Is it racism, gender bigotry, religious bigotry, or blind friendship that caused Strelioff to try to drive me and Larry out of the party when her friend Finley was spreading lies about me and to turn a blind eye to Finley’s lies?  What would cause the EDA to turn a blind eye to Finley sending libelous emails about me that I didn’t know about from August 2013?

Sean Turner quit the EDA too because of Finley spreading lies about me.  Larry resigned as financial agent because of Finley spreading lies about me.  The EDA has been destroyed by all of these unprofessional and unethical acts and the truth is going to come out in court.  Finley, the GPC, and Finley’s web hosting companies are going to pay for my damages.

Following is Finley’s motivation as she wrote on her blog.  This is bullshit about me threatening people’s safety, etc.  On her blog, Sandra Finley made the following bizarre statements about her motivation in spreading lies about me:

TITLE:  Why bother with Ashu Solo?  What do I want for others?  and Women Who Run with the Wolves.

Why am I bothering with Ashu Solo?

I take my lessons from “Women Who Run With the Wolves” and the child’s book, “Julie and the Wolf Pack”.   And many, if not all indigenous groups:  you develop a way to deal with those who are destructive of the fabric (health) of the community or the pack.   Failure to do so means that the pack or the group will not survive.

Ashu will destroy the Green Parties in Saskatoon with his attacks.  He has to be removed from the group.  It might be unpleasant to do so, but one person should not be allowed to exercise his destructive powers.  He drives people out;  the opposite is required – – – – without even mentioning his threats to personal safety of people in Saskatoon.

The parallel in the Wolf Pack is the lead female who barred a lone male from joining because she intuited trouble.  Another pack accepted him;  he had rabies.  End of that pack.  It’s about survival.  Of the pack, but also of the individual because you do not survive in the Arctic on your own.   For survival (Arctic), it is essential to be in a group working together.

Here’s an excerpt from the amended statement of claim on Finley’s motivations:

  1. Furthermore, Finley was actuated by malevolence toward the Plaintiff, her statements were knowingly false or knowingly likely to mislead the public, and she made the statements with the intention of harming the Plaintiff’s reputation. The intentional wrongs of Finley as pleaded herein are shocking and egregious and warrant an award of punitive, aggravated, and/or exemplary damages.
  1. Example 1:  Finley published this statement by herself password protection on her Blog in or about 2013 or 2014 and made the statement visible to the public on or about June 20, 2014:

TITLE:  Why bother with Ashu Solo?  What do I want for others?  and Women Who Run with the Wolves.

Why am I bothering with Ashu Solo?

I take my lessons from “Women Who Run With the Wolves” and the child’s book, “Julie and the Wolf Pack”.   And many, if not all indigenous groups:  you develop a way to deal with those who are destructive of the fabric (health) of the community or the pack.   Failure to do so means that the pack or the group will not survive.

Ashu will destroy the Green Parties in Saskatoon with his attacks.  He has to be removed from the group.  It might be unpleasant to do so, but one person should not be allowed to exercise his destructive powers.  He drives people out;  the opposite is required – – – – without even mentioning his threats to personal safety of people in Saskatoon.

The parallel in the Wolf Pack is the lead female who barred a lone male from joining because she intuited trouble.  Another pack accepted him;  he had rabies.  End of that pack.  It’s about survival.  Of the pack, but also of the individual because you do not survive in the Arctic on your own.   For survival (Arctic), it is essential to be in a group working together.

  1. Example 2:  Finley published this statement by Jane Doe using the fake name Tonia Zimmerman under password protection on her Blog in or about 2013 or 2014 and made the statement visible to the public on or about June 20, 2014.  This statement is about using Finley’s Blog posts against the Plaintiff to drive him out of the Green Party of Canada and Green Party of Saskatchewan:

That is likely the wisest course of action–I can definitely be patient about seeing the other material–I hope that he backs away from the Greens willingly so that we really don’t need to use ANY of it, though it is so good and vital to have it all documented, and by someone with a sterling reputation.

  1. Example 3:  Finley emailed the following statement by herself to Jane Doe on or about December 13, 2013, published this statement under password protection on her Blog in or about 2013 or 2014, and made this statement visible to the public on or about June 20, 2014.  This statement shows that Finley’s motivation was to drive the Plaintiff out of the Green Party of Canada and Green Party of Saskatchewan:

Do not worry about drawing me into this fracas.  I feel badly for you!  My Green friend and I had hoped that we might have convinced Ashu that the Green Party was not a good place for him.  But he is persistent.  And has a couple of supporters.  He can be convincing when he wants something.

  1. Example 4:  Finley emailed the following statement by herself to unknown individuals on or about August 28, 2013, published this statement under password protection on her Blog in or about 2013 or 2014, and made this statement visible to the public on or about June 20, 2014.  This statement shows that Finley’s motivation was to drive the Plaintiff out of the Green Party of Canada and Green Party of Saskatchewan:

But your idea is important.  And there’s a down-side to not taking action, things get “put off” and then permanently “put off”.   Until he’s in and then there’s a crisis.   We don’t need that!

The practice of driving people out of the party is absolutely disgraceful, totally unprofessional, and extremely unethical.  And it’s illegal if it involves spreading defamatory lies about someone.  It’s also highly  unethical, disgraceful, and unprofessional to cut people off the EDA mailing list.

Finley falsely claims that I am the principal of a U.S. defense contractor that is among the top eight contributors to politicians and that does data surveillance.  Finley claims this because I have a company called Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc. and the Natural Security Agency has a Trailblazer Project.  Just because of the common word “trailblazer,” Finley claims that I operate a U.S. defense contractor.

Finley sent the EDA a research paper that I didn’t even write, never claimed to write, and never even heard of and then claimed that I wrote it and it’s nonsensical.

Finley found a company with a similar but clearly different name to my company and suggests that I was faking employment in this company with a similar but clearly different name.  (Mark has a company called Low Energy Design.  There is a company called Low Energy Designs in Europe.  Finley never claimed Mark is faking employment with that company because she isn’t targeting Mark.)

Finley said repeatedly on her blog that she was driving me out of the GPC because she thought it would protect the party.  Therefore, to retaliate against her and the EDA that let her vet me, I’m gonna do my best to lawfully destroy the GPC with the truth about what they did to me.

FINLEY PICKED THE WRONG PERSON TO MESS WITH THIS TIME BECAUSE I’M GOING TO LAWFULLY RETALIATE WITH EVERYTHING I GOT.  The same goes for her minions Strelioff and Swartz.  But my civil claim is not about revenge.  It’s about getting compensation for my damages, getting a permanent injunction against the defendants so they can’t defame me now or in the future, and getting a judgment that what they said was lies to protect my public reputation.

People can hate my guts for lawfully retaliating, but they should hate the guts of the people who started this.

I’M BURNING WITH RAGE about how much time of mine this EDA has wasted by letting Finley vet me.

Like I showed you above, Finley openly admits that she was trying to drive me out of the party.  Finley had blog postings showing that Strelioff and Swartz were helping her with this

For the actions of Finley, Strelioff, and Swartz in trying to drive me out of the party, I’m lawfully retaliating against all of them and the EDA.  I’m also lawfully retaliating against Strelioff for forwarding all of my emails to Finley.  I’M GOING TO LAWFULLY GET JUSTICE WITH EVERYTHING I GOT.

By letting Finley secretly vet me without my knowledge, which quickly became her spreading lies about me, THE EDA CAUSED ME SO MUCH IN DAMAGES including, inter alia, loss of employment, depression, and numerous other damages.

This case is going to trial because I’ve spent a fortune on legal fees now and lost a helluva lot of money from her damage to my reputation among other major damages to me.  I won’t settle out of court with Finley.  Finley is going to pay for, inter alia, my major damages, loss of employment, medical damages, and legal fees and I’m going to get a court judgment that her lies are lies.

Finley concluded that I’m bad for the party because of my civil rights cases and because she thinks I’m a “destructive force” in her words according to her blog, but she recruited the notorious criminal Brendan Cross to be a Green Party of Sask. nominee and made him the face of the party as the media spokesperson:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/brendan-cross-a-prospective-green-party-candidate-1.1046266

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/26/brendan-cross-pantless-regina_n_938629.html

Did they really think that I was worse for the green parties than Brendan Cross?

Finley repeatedly stated in her blog posts about me that they were GPC vetting results.  Finley took down her blog posts about me after being served with a statement of claim.

The Green Party of Canada is liable for Sandra Finley’s actions because of the following:  Sandra Finley is a volunteer operative for the Green Party of Canada.  Green Party of Canada electoral district association (EDA) executives and volunteers have broad discretion to do whatever they think is in the party’s interests and only other Green Party of Canada executives, staff, electoral district association executives, and volunteers can stop them.  Sandra Finley says repeatedly in her Internet postings about me that they were part of a vetting process on me to be a Green Party of Canada candidate for the House of Commons.  Sandra Finley says repeatedly that two other Green Party of Canada members (Strelioff and Swartz) helped gather the information on me.  Sandra Finley shows that she emailed a branch of the Green Party of Canada called the Saskatoon-Humboldt Federal Green Party Association with the lies as part of the vetting process and nobody in the Saskatoon-Humboldt Federal Green Party Association objected or told me about it and the financial agent for the Saskatoon-Humboldt Federal Green Party Association agreed with her that it’s good to vet people, but said they should check with me about any questions they have on my qualifications.  Also, Sandra Finley includes in her Internet postings a bogus complaint made against me to the Green Party of Canada by a person using a fake name.  I made many ethics complaints against Sandra Finley on January 15, 2014 with the Green Party of Canada and they waited months to start processing them.  Finley openly admits that she did what she did because she thought it was in the party’s best interests to drive me out of the party and she did so as an active Green Party of Canada member.  There is a breach of fiduciary duty by the Green Party of Canada and Sandra Finley in making public vetting results as Sandra Finley has done.  The vetting results contain over 150 lies and distortions.  There is a breach of fiduciary duty by the Green Party of Canada and Sandra Finley in making public the private email conversations of EDA operatives.  There is a breach of fiduciary duty by the Green Party of Canada and Sandra Finley in making public a complaint, particularly a bogus one, to the Green Party of Canada about a member.  All of this makes the Green Party of Canada liable for her actions.

Apr 152016
 
CONTINUING,  Court dismisses charges against London arms fair protesters
The Guardian, The Independent in the U.K.  and Common Dreams,  URLs for three versions of the story:
The Guardian version of the story:

 Police move a protester from the road as a truck tries to make a delivery to the DSEI arms fair in London. Police move a protester from the road as a truck tries to make a delivery to the DSEI arms fair in London. Photograph: Peter Marshall/Demotix/Corbis

A court has dismissed charges against protesters who blocked the road outside a major London arms fair, after they argued that they acted to stop greater crimes being committed using weapons bought in the UK.

District judge Angus Hamilton, sitting at Stratford magistrates court, said the defence had presented clear and credible evidence that illegal activity had been conducted at the Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in previous years, and that police arresting the activists had failed to investigate to ensure it was not happening again.

Five men and three women had been charged with wilful obstruction of the highway after attempting to block military vehicles from entering the ExCel centre in Docklands, east London, in September. They said they had acted to stop the sale of weapons to regimes accused of human rights abuses, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Other non-direct actions, such as writing to MPs, had failed to block arms sales to authoritarian regimes, the defence claimed, with support from expert witnesses from Corruption Watch UK, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Bird), and Amnesty International.

The prosecution lawyer had argued that no arms sales would be blocked by the demonstration and that protesters could have no idea where the arms were going. She said that if the eight were acquitted, protesters could resort to more violent direct actions in the name of stopping the arms trade. This argument was dismissed by the judge.

Defendants and their supporters burst into applause as Hamilton dismissed the charges on Friday against Isa al-Aali, Angela Ditchfield, Lisa Butler, Thomas Franklin, Javier Gárate Neidhardt, Susannah Mengesha, Luis Tinoco Torrejon and Bram Vranken.

Aali, a Bahraini refugee granted asylum in Britain after he was tortured in his home country for taking part in protests against the regime, said he was delighted with the ruling.

“I was unjustifiably imprisoned in Bahrain on an unfair trial and today I have seen a day of justice,” he said. “The fact that the weapons which were used to kill and torture people in Bahrain and Saudi is something that the court has seen to be legitimate, that there are violations committed by these totalitarian regimes. My role in taking direct action was important in circumstances where legal remedies were exhausted.”

Mengesha said the ruling confirmed everything the protesters knew. “We already knew about the illegality at DSEI but it’s great to see it publicly accepted. At the start of the case it was one where they would be trying the defendants; by the end it seemed that we tried Saudi, Turkey, Bahrain and the DSEI arms fair.”

Butler had just returned from Kurdish areas of Turkey, which was an international partner of DSEI 2015, when she was arrested outside the arms fair. “At the time, and even right now, Turkey has been conducting massacres of civilians in Kurdish towns and cities,” she said. “I blockaded DSEI arms fair to try to prevent greater crimes from being committed by the Turkish state.

“Police definitely didn’t take our concerns seriously. Not only is there illegal torture equipment in DSEI, there are also arms that are sold by legal means and then used illegally. With Turkey, the arms companies are complicit; if those arms companies know that Turkey is massacring civilians, then arms companies are complicit in those war crimes.”

Sayed Ahmed, director of advocacy at Bird and one of the expert witnesses called on behalf of the defence, said: “Sending arms to totalitarian regimes which are certainly used to repress the people in their millions and also to cause wars in the Middle East region is not acceptable.

“The direct actions by the activists was clearly needed as legal remedies didn’t find a way to stop the UK government in arming one of the most repressive regimes on earth.”

A spokesperson for DSEI said the fair takes legal compliance seriously and representatives from HMRC, the Department for Business and other government agencies were present in the run up and throughout the 2015 event.

“They had free and totally unrestricted access to all exhibitors to in order to undertake checks that all equipment, services, documentation and any other forms of promotion complied with UK, EU and international law,” the spokesperson said.

“As a result of this close cooperation, and the processes put in place, compliance regulations were not breached at DSEI 2015.”

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Court Challenge in Canada to Saudi Arms contract by Constitutional lawyer Daniel Turp

The protests in Canada mount over the $11 billion armaments contract with Saudi Arabia.     – –  see the “Comments” below.

Lyle’s input (Canadian Wheat Board   CWB)

Apr 152016
 

You might not be a fan of this kind of music.  Don’t let that prevent you from listening to the video!

Excerpts from the dialogue:

music is the thing that can humanize even the most abstract moment.”

“Technology can actually increase privacy.”

“Saying that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different to saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. It’s a deeply anti-social principle, because rights are not just individual, they’re collective.”

“What may not have value to you today, may have value to an entire population, an entire people, or an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don’t stand up for it, then who will?”

(Click on the black square.  It will take you past the advertisement.)

French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have collaborated on a track called Exit, which will appear on Jarre’s forthcoming album, Electronica Volume II: The Heart of Noise. The collaboration came about after Jarre gave an interview to the Guardian last year and asked if he could be put in touch with Snowden

 

MORE ? . . . 

The Guardian’s coverage of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks has had a wide variety of repercussions, but perhaps none are as improbable as the latest: a collaboration between the 32-year-old whistleblower and French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, on a techno track to be released this weekend.

“Edward is an absolute hero of our times,” said Jarre, whose piece with Snowden, called Exit, appears on his forthcoming album of collaborations, Electronica Volume II: The Heart Of Noise, the former CIA employee making an unlikely appearance on a list of special guests that also includes the Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan and rapper Peaches.

“When I first read about him, it made me think of my mother,” said Jarre. “She joined the French resistance in 1941, when people in France still thought they were just troublemakers, and she always told me that when society is generating things you can’t stand, you have to stand up against it. The whole Electronica project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side we have the world in our pocket, on on the other, we are spied on constantly. There are tracks about the erotic relationship we have with technology, the way we touch our smartphones more than our partners, about CCTV surveillance, about love in the age of Tindr. It seemed quite appropriate to collaborate not with a musician but someone who literally symbolises this crazy relationship we have with technology.”

The Guardian passed on a contact for Ben Wisner, Edward Snowden’s solicitor. “I had no idea if he would be interested,” Jarre said of his contact with Wisner, “but he loved the idea, thought Edward would love the idea and put us in contact. I sent him a demo of the music, then had a meeting with Edward over Skype, 90 minutes of conversation, where I gave him the understanding of what I wanted to do, we talked about his situation, the reason why he did what he did, then we recorded his vocals.”

Jarre subsequently travelled to Moscow to meet Snowden. “I wanted to film him, because I want to play the track on stage. I think it’s important if I’m playing at festivals with a young audience that the statements in the track are promoted and exposed. We spent three hours together, we filmed him, we talked about a lot of things.”

Snowden declined to speak to the Guardian about the track, but in the video Jarre shot in Moscow, he claimed to be a fan of electronic music – “The melodies I remember with the most fondness are from video games” – and said he was “really surprised” by contacted by the author of the 12m-selling album Oxygène and holder of the Guinness World Record for attracting the largest concert audience in history. “It was something I wasn’t expecting. As an engineer, someone who’s not really cool, it was something of a treat to collaborate on a big cultural project.”

 

 

 

 

 

Apr 152016
 

RELATED:

2016-02-05   Ottawa to face court challenge over $15 billion Saudi arms deal, G&M

2016-01-07   Canadian Arms Sale Pours Fuel on Saudi-Iran Fire, Chronicle Herald

We can kiss Canada’s human rights credibility goodbye

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-can-kiss-canadas-human-rights-credibility-goodbye/article29630940/

 

CESAR JARAMILLO

Contributed to The Globe and Mail

Cesar Jaramillo is executive director of Project Ploughshares, an anti-war group that tracks arms sales.

 

Damning revelations about Ottawa’s handling of the controversial $15-billion arms deal with human-rights pariah Saudi Arabia have confirmed that the Liberal government authorized the bulk of this contract even after having repeatedly claimed that it had already been approved by the previous government.

 

Both the Harper Conservatives and the Trudeau Liberals have argued that failing to fulfill the deal would damage Canada’s international reputation. But it is the reputation cost of actually fulfilling this dubious contract that all Canadians should be most concerned about.

 

Any Canadian attempt to speak out on international efforts to protect human rights will soon be met with skepticism and disdain. One can almost hear it: “Ha! … Says the country that is arming one of the most repressive regimes on Earth.”

 

Canada takes public pride in valuing the protection of human rights and in maintaining stringent military export controls. But its voice in the arena of human rights will be utterly diminished, if not silenced, as Ottawa ploughs ahead with the implementation of this deal. And it could take decades to repair the damage.

 

Did Ottawa adequately consider the high cost of this diplomatic handicap?

 

The Canadian government has argued that if Canada does not sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, someone else will. Not surprisingly, the ethical flaws in this argument have been noted by a growing number of observers. Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbour dryly noted, “This argument that if we don’t do it somebody else will do it I find, frankly, the least convincing. It is not infused with moral, ethical values.”

 

Saudi Arabia’s record clearly shows that it cannot satisfy human-rights safeguards that require that “no reasonable risk” exists that Canadian-made military goods will be used against civilians. Thus export permits should not have been issued, and the deal should not proceed. Yet proceed it will.

 

A necessary implication of Ottawa’s approval of the export permits is that it sees no reasonable risk in shipping military equipment to a regime notorious for violating the human rights of its citizens (and, of late, citizens of neighbouring countries). If it intends to stand by this position, the Canadian public deserves to know – in detail – how this determination was reached.

 

Canada’s concerns about its ability to conduct business internationally had Saudi Arabia been deemed ineligible to receive military exports cannot be reasonably justified. The argument that an arms deal cannot proceed because it has not met domestic export controls is surely compelling. Which prospective trading partner would find it unreasonable for Canada to make export authorizations contingent upon full compliance with domestic regulations?

 

Strict adherence to export controls should not only be the norm when selling military goods, but should be seen as a badge of honour.

 

There are still options to review the deal, at least in theory. If, going forward¸ the government acknowledges the existence of a reasonable risk, even after having granted export permits, then every effort must be made to revisit the decision to authorize it. That much has been conceded by Global Affairs Canada, which acknowledged in January that the department could consider suspending or cancelling existing permits, should relevant reports emerge. Given Saudi Arabia’s worsening human-rights record, such reports are likely to emerge regularly.

 

In a peculiar twist, the Conservatives are now chastising Trudeau’s Liberals for their intention to fulfill the deal and for the secrecy surrounding its authorization. Conservative foreign affairs critic Tony Clement even suggested that the deal be scrapped, pointing to changing “realities on the ground” in regards to the Saudi involvement with the ongoing conflict in Yemen.

 

A cat can only be skinned so many ways, and Ottawa clearly exhausted its attempts to rationalize the Saudi arms deal. But it still had the audacity to grant the requisite permits. Even so, questions about the compatibility of the Saudi arms deal with existing export controls can and should continue to be raised, as they remain essentially unanswered.

 

The credibility of Canada’s voice on human rights has taken a big hit. And if Ottawa still refuses to acknowledge the flagrant inconsistencies in its position, it might at least want to drop the line about Canada’s export controls being “some of the strongest in the world.”

 

Hi all,

 

This article might be of interest: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-can-kiss-canadas-human-rights-credibility-goodbye/article29630940/

 

Very best,

Cesar

 

—–

Cesar Jaramillo

Executive Director

Project Ploughshares

140 Westmount Road North

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6

Tel. 519-888-6541 x 24302

www.ploughshares.ca

Apr 132016
 

Ashu Solo claims I lie, from Complaint to Police by Daeran Gall.  My name is used 20 times. 

See the supporting evidence Daeran Gall provided in his Complaint to Saskatoon City Police.   Each use of my name (20) by Ashu Solo is high-lighted.

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From: Daeran Gall   Sent: September 30, 2015 6:58 PM

To: Sandra Finley  Subject: Fwd: Complaint

———- Forwarded message ———-

From: Daeran Gall

Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:47 PM

Subject: Re: Complaint To: “Baron, Dennis” <Dennis.Baron@police.saskatoon.sk.ca>

Events of Saturday, June 27, 2015 Ashu had been sending me many many messages of a violent and malicious nature, sometimes several per day via Facebook prior to the event at on June 27. He apparently hates  me because I do not condone his actions and defend Sandra Finely. I used to at least try to listen to him, and was in many ways the only person who would. It is probable he considered me a friend who betrayed him.

I even considered not going to the event knowing that he would likely be there.

He had really stepped up the messaging prior to the event as if warning me that he would be. I decided not to be intimidated by him and went. Upon seeing him at the event, he came up to me with a file folder and I just told him to stay away from me. Upon the ending of the event he again came up to me with an angry voice and threatening manner with his file folder.

I feel his threatening manner and endless years long emails and posts would only just escalate if I gave him any more consideration. So I pushed him with some force away from me and told him to “leave me the fuck alone” in a stern tone, and I walked away. He followed with taunts and accusations. I felt at this point the best thing I could do was leave. So I did. I am sorry for not responding to this earlier, but this man has already taken up far too much space and time in my life. I feel he is has some sort of persecution complex that distorts his perception of reality. I used to try to listen to him, to be someone who would try to understand. However anyone who does not see he does is classified as ‘enemy’. It seems he believes that he is being persecuted by a conspiring lot of people who spread defamatory lies about him, when in fact he is very likely the one that put up a fake web site in the name of Tonia Zimmerman.

His actions are difficult to fathom, however at the event I decided I had had enough, I no longer can let the fact that he likely has some sort of mental illness illicit anymore compassion for his endless crusade of revenge. He disrupts meetings, behaves in a very threatening and aggressive manner and should have a restraint placed upon him for future events in my opinion. Here is some of the Facebook messaging from prior to the meeting, I stopped long ago reading emails from him. I offered to meet and yet again ‘hear him out’ but decided against it.

>>> Daeran Gall

<daerangall@gmail.com>Jun 25

to Ashu you wanna meet.

You have left a large amount of violent and aggressive messages in my FB. Which i no longer read at all.

IF and only if you stick to the point.

Time and place of meeting.

And we can find a time i suppose next week.

But if you lay down anymore derogatory or violently toned emailed, I don’t even know why i would bother.

I don’t respond to spam or junk mail.

 

Some highlights from Ashu’s stream of Facebook posts.

“nobody was posting lies about you all over the internet nobody contacted the green parties with lies about you”

“you may fantasize about flowers and rainbows, but real men fantasize about violence”

i fantasize about violenc

*violence

ain’t nothing wrong with that

that’s what a military officer does

you pathetic civilian coward” “the only way i fantasize about banging her is in the face with punches & kicks

she’s lucky i’m a law abiding citizen” in Reference to someone named “Tonia Zimmerman” when I suggested that he sounded like someone in a lover’s quarrel.

 

Ashu M. G. Solo

You’re (i.e. Daeran is)  despised in the provincial Green Party for being a bootlicker to Finley and for promulgating lies about me You called Finley a “powerful woman.”  She doesn’t look so powerful now that she’s paying a lawyer $300 per hour to defend herself. You’re the biggest hypocrite and idiot ever.  You think because of the Christmas message case, everyone should be able to spread lies about me without consequences including Finley. Finley’s bootlickers including you are despised in the provincial Green Party And you’re one of her bootlickers You raised such an uproar over a truthful blog about Zimmerman and then you threaten to post a libelous blog on me, you hypocritical piece of trash.

6/15, 9:59am Ashu M. G. Solo

I don’t give a damn about people insulting me or making racist comments about me, but nobody is gonna post defamatory lies about me and get away with it not even you you may not give a damn about your reputation ..but i sure as hell do and i’m gonna protect it with everything i got and i got a lot. you had the audacity to compare a little criticism over your fluoride cause to what zimmerman and finley do nobody was posting lies about you all over the internet nobody contacted the green parties with lies about you you moron nobody put up 52 blog posts (286 pages when printed out) full of lies about you like finley did to me, you hypocritical piece of waste what you need is a brain transplant if you’re above the actions of your friends, find new friends, not that they’re your friends anyway

6/15, 10:33am Daeran Gall

maybe you want to meet in person, Ashu.

June 20 6/20, 3:19am Ashu M. G. Solo

Okay, let’s meet and I’ll show you some of Finley’s lies I see you’ve been talking to Finley again Finley’s posting of your lies about me made you much more liable for damages Your defense of Finley, you’re thinking that people can lie about me without consequences just because I filed a civil rights case, and your lying about me show what a piece of excrement you really are I’ll let you know when I’m free to meet

6/20, 5:56am Ashu M. G. Solo

You’re also a piece of excrement for your hypocrisy in thinking it’s fine for Finley and the person using the fake name of Zimmerman to spread lies about me and you to spread lies about me, but not for me to tell the truth about you doing this And you’re a piece of excrement for threatening to put up a website about me And you’re a piece excrement for taking a quote out of context which doesn’t even have anything wrong with it you may fantasize about flowers and rainbows, but real men fantasize about violence you’re a backstabber you pretend to be people’s friends and then stab them behind their back and you’re a bootlicker to finley i think u wanna bang her

June 20 6/20, 11:03am Ashu M. G. Solo

what a disgusting thought you’re also a piece of excrement for causing such an uproar over a blog about a person using the fake name of zimmerman, but not giving a damn about your buddy finley making over 150 defamatory statements about me and you’re a piece of excrement for thinking that a blog about zimmerman would harm the green party, but not thinking that finley posting all of our arguments in the EDA on her blog would harm the green party

6/20, 11:19am Ashu M. G. Solo

and you’re a piece of excrement for not causing an uproar about that do you want finley to be your mother or something? do you wanna bang her/ or are you just a complete brainless idiot? besides being a piece of excrement

6/20, 11:31am Ashu M. G. Solo

look in the mirror at what a piece of excrement you are

6/20, 11:39am Ashu M. G. Solo

i’m gonna sue you, you son of a bitch like i’m suing your friend finley she thought i was bluffing about suing her ask her how much she has blown on legal fees now you’re gonna live a life in poverty like she will when i’m done suing her i doubt if you have any property cuz your green buddies said you’re a homeless bum, but i’ll get your future wages garnished for the rest of your pathetic life

6/20, 11:45am Ashu M. G. Solo

you pretend to be people’s friends and then stab them in the back you goddamned backstabber

6/20, 4:05pm Ashu M. G. Solo

HILARIOUS YOU THINK THE GREENS ARE YOUR FRIENDS WHEN THEY INSULT YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK AND YOU INSULTED THE TWO GREENS WITH HONOR AND INTEGRITY WHO DEFENDED YOU UNTIL YOU STARTED SPREADING LIES ABOUT ME. YOU’RE GONNA SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WORKING TO PAY OFF THE DEBT YOU’LL HAVE TO ME AFTER I GET A JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU.  WAIT AND SEE. IT JUST TAKES TIME TO GET IT ALL FILED.  DOESN’T MEAN YOU AREN’T GONNA GET THE STATEMENT OF CLAIM.  ASK FINLEY.  SHE DIDN’T THINK SHE’D GET ONE TOO.  SHE WAS THE TOP PRIORITY TO SUE, BUT I’M GONNA SUE YOU TOO.

June 20  6/20, 8:40pm Ashu M. G. Solo

YOU’RE A TRULY DESPICABLE PIECE OF EXCREMENT I’M GONNA GET YOU THROWN OUT OF THE GPS BUT I’LL COPY YOU ON THE EMAILS BECAUSE UNLIKE YOU, I DON’T TALK BEHIND PEOPLE’S BACKS YOU PIECE OF EXCREMENT

6/20, 9:19pm Ashu M. G. Solo

NOBODY WILL GET AWAY WITH SPREADING LIES ABOUT ME DID YOU HEAR THAT, GALL I’LL SUE EVERYONE JUST WAIT FOR IT, GALL

June 21 6/21, 4:25am Ashu M. G. Solo

YOU’RE ALSO A PIECE OF EXCREMENT FOR BEING A BIGOT TOWARD VETERANS

6/21, 7:23am Ashu M. G. Solo

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BUDDY FINLEY POSTED THE EMAIL MENTIONING YOUR ORIENTATION ON HER BLOG

June 21 6/21, 6:12pm Ashu M. G. Solo

DEFAMING PEOPLE IS ALL ONE BIG JOKE TO YOU, YOU PIECE OF EXCREMENT WE’LL SEE HOW MUCH OF A JOKE YOU THINK IT IS IN COURT, YOU PIECE OF EXCREMENT I HATE YOUR GODDAMNED GUTS

June 23 6/23, 3:18pm Ashu M. G. Solo

YOU’RE PROBABLY THE STUPIDEST PERSON I’VE EVER COME ACROSS AND I’M NOT EXAGGERATING WHEN I SAY THAT YOU HAVE NO COMMON SENSE OR STREET SMARTS YOU’RE AN IMBECILE WHO THINKS LIES ABOUT ME BY AN INDIVIDUAL USING A FAKE NAME CAN HARM THE GREEN PARTY, BUT DON’T THINK LIES BY FINLEY OR HER POSTING ALL OF OUR ARGUMENTS ON OUR BLOG CAN HARM THE GREEN PARTY YOU’RE A HYPOCRITE WHO CAUSES SUCH AN UPROAR ABOUT THE FORMER, BUT LICKS FINLEY’S BOOTS OVER THE LATTER YOU’RE JUST A PIECE OF EXCREMENT GO TO HELL YOU GODDAMNED PIECE OF EXCREMENT, YOU WERE CLAIMING AT AN EDA MEETING THAT I WAS CAUSING TROUBLE WHEN YOU AND FINLEY WERE CAUSING IT GO TO HELL I’M GONNA SEE YOU IN CIVIL COURT, YOU PIECE OF EXCREMENT

6/23, 3:58pm Ashu M. G. Solo

YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE ANY DEFENSE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR ACTIONS CUZ YOU KNOW YOU’RE DEAD WRONG AND A GODDAMNED HYPOCRITE

June 24 6/24, 3:18pm Ashu M. G. Solo

YOU BRAINLESS PIECE OF EXCREMENT, THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE MAKING RACIST & BIGOTED COMMENTS TOWARD ME AND INSULTING ME AND CRITICIZING ME.  WHY WOULD I SINGLE OUT ZIMMERMAN FOR LEGAL ACTION?  CUZ SHE & FINLEY TOOK THINGS INFINITELY FURTHER BY POSTING LIES?  YOU SAW ON ZIMMERMAN’S TIMELINE THAT SHE WAS POSTING LIES.  YOU DIDN’T SEE THE LIES SHE POSTED ON STARPHOENIX ARTICLE COMMENTS, TWITTER, AND SENT TO THE MEDIA, YOU IMBECILE

6/24, 3:18pm >>>

Daeran Gall <daerangall@gmail.com>  Jun 25

to Ashu You have left a large amount of violent and aggressive messages in my FB. Which i no longer read at all. IF and only if you stick to the point.

Time and place of meeting.

And we can find a time i suppose next week.

But if you lay down anymore derogatory or violently toned emailed, I don’t even know why i would bother.

I don’t respond to spam or junk mail.

Ashu M. G. Solo

YOU GOT THE BRAINS OF A MONKEY, GALL YOU REALLY DO

June 25 6/25, 10:13am Ashu M. G. Solo

LET’S MEET TOMORROW EVENING, GALL AT THE LIBRARY AT 6:00 PM IS THAT OKAY WITH YOU? I’LL SHOW YOU SOME OF FINLEY’S LIES

June 25 6/25, 2:21pm Ashu M. G. Solo

WHAT TIME DO YOU WANT TO MEET TOMORROW EVENING, GALLSTONE? WE CAN MEET AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY DOWNTOWN WHERE THE GPC EVENTS WERE

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Baron, Dennis (Police) <Dennis.Baron  AT   police.saskatoon.sk.ca> wrote:

Good day,

I have received a complaint of an assault from Ashu SOLO. I’m looking for a phone number for you so we can talk about this.

Please contact me back by email with a phone number and I will try to call you as soon as I can.

Thanks,

Cst. Dennis BARON #704 Saskatoon Police Service

“A” Platoon Patrol

Phone: (306) 975-8300

Fax: (306)975-8359

dennis.baron@police.saskatoon.sk.ca

Apr 132016
 

Selected emails show deteriorating state of Tonia Zimmerman in face of cyberbullying, to February 2014

re  Ashu Solo driving Tonia Zimmerman off social media.  And eventually out of Saskatoon.

The first quotes are from emails I have posted.   The remaining quotes are from emails that are on my computer, not posted.

. . .   I re-read the following in its entirety.   It is a wretched story.

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o    December 5, 2013

o

12/5, 3:14pm

Tonia Zimmerman

Hi Sandra,

Sorry to seem like a broken record, but the harassment from Mr. Solo hasn’t stopped.  He threatened to create more websites defaming me, unless I acquiesced.  I am attaching proof of these interactions.  Out of sheer fear, I deleted my twitter account, and also this Facebook account (which I have reopened to write you).

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December 9, 2013   (Zimmerman was trying to find solutions)

Is there a way one could wrest control of the Official Facebook and Twitter pages from him?  Perhaps by starting new ones?    (“him” is Ashu Solo)

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December 27, 2013    Ashu Solo came to the Saskatoon Airport at 6:00 AM, when I was in line with my daughter to check-in for a flight.  He had called people in Saskatoon with my surname, beginning around 5:00am, to find the time of my departure.  A WestJet attendant had been watching Ashu Solo’s verbal attacks on me.  She stepped in and called Security.

At the time, Ashu Solo’s allegations (attacks) seemed crazy.  Later, I realized they weren’t crazy.   Ashu Solo was desperate to know whether Tonia Zimmerman had given me the email thread between himself (Ashu Solo) and radio talk show host John Gormley.   The email thread is damning of Ashu Solo.   On December 27th, the time of the attack, I had not seen the email thread.  Tonia Zimmerman gave it to me later.

You can see by the date and time of the following:  After attacking me at the Airport, Ashu Solo immediately renewed his attacks on Tonia Zimmerman.  I knew nothing;  he had to “get to” Tonia Zimmerman, to stop her from ever giving the email thread to me.

The following is the second and final time that Zimmerman took down her Facebook and Twitter accounts because of harassment by Ashu Solo.   (The first time was December 5th – see above.)  Ashu Solo had just ramped up what he had been doing to her since December 2012.

“Patricia” is Professor Patricia Farnese, U of S Law School.

  • December 27, 2013

12/27, 7:13am

Tonia Zimmerman

Hi Patricia.  The blogs about my character have started up again.  I’m deleting my Facebook and twitter accounts.  You can still get a hold of me at (phone number removed)   .  This is just getting to be too much. 

(Link no longer valid)  https://sites.google.com/site/toniazimmermansaskatoon/   (This blog still has a remnant)    http://toniazimmerman.wordpress.com/

Ashu Solo put up the blogs.  He usurped the name “Tonia Zimmerman” and attacked Zimmerman’s employability.

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January 7, 2014.  Tonia Zimmerman wrote to Sandra Finley:

Given the levels of harassment, and especially since it has been in person in your case (only because Mr Solo doesn’t yet know where my apartment is) . . .

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January 10, 2014.  Tonia Zimmerman:

I guess I’m just a bit war-weary, Sandra.  I do think we’ll beat him in the end, and the Greens will be a better group for it.  But this experience with him has cost me a lot.  I miss seeing and hearing about my friends on Facebook.  I tire of thinking so often about this madman that has turned my life upside-down, but at times I’m almost consumed with it, because that means I get my life back.

I wonder how calm and collected people like Larry or Vic would be if it were they that had their photos spread all over the internet simply for opposing a wannabe tyrant.  Memories of the most vulnerable and fragile times (my struggles with depression) brought vividly up, in an attempt to get people not to hire me.

Day after day, these sites remain up, and it’s really affecting me.   I have reported the sites, and received e-mails explaining until there is legal precedent proving the blog’s inaccuracies (!) wordpress will not remove them.  All of which makes me wonder why I am even bothering playing by the rules (ie, not posting the TRUE info we have on Solo), when Solo plays only down and dirty?

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ASHU SOLO kept on hammering Tonia Zimmer.  Ashu’s use of manufactured news websites that take over a person’s name when an on-line search is done on the name.    See January 25 below – – Ashu Solo lists half a dozen “news” items he has manufactured and posted on-line about Tonia Zimmerman.

But prior to that,  Tonia Zimmerman, recorded this about “Sponsored Content” and sent screen captures:

January 21, 2014

From: Tonia Zimmerman  Sent: January 21, 2014 2:25 PM   To: Sandra Finley

Subject: RE: Attack mode stealth 2.2?  SCREEN CAPTURES TONIA> AND CROCELS “For Hire”

Hello Sandra,

. . . .    Please find the captures attached.

Tonia

PS–did you notice on the first crocels article, that in the tags at the bottom, it clearly states “Sponsored Content”.  I think that must mean AShu is PAYING to have these stories planted about me.  Which strongly discredits crocels–news for hire!

SCREEN CAPTURE:

Screen Capture of one of Ashu Solo's "news" articles about Tonia Zimmerman

Screen Capture of one of Ashu Solo’s “news” articles about Tonia Zimmerman

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January 25, 2014

—–Original Message—–

From: Ashu M. G. Solo [mailto:amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us]

Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:31 PM

To: Larry Waldinger; votelau@gmail.com; John Murney; Vicki Strelioff; ‘Mark Bigland-Pritchard / Low Energy Design Ltd’; Kaitlyn Harvey

 

Subject: Articles & Sites on Harassment of Ashu M. G. Solo

 

“Tonia Zimmerman engaged in cyberbullying and cyberstalking of civil rights activist” on Crocels News http://www.crocels.info/news/5086/tonia-zimmerman-saskatoon-troll/

“Saskatoon cyberbully Tonia Zimmerman strikes again against civil rights activist” on Crocels News http://www.crocels.info/news/5172/tonia-zimmerman-trolling-civil-rights-activist/

Criminal Complaint against Tonia Zimmerman for Criminal False Messages, Criminal Harassment, and Criminal Defamatory Libel by Ashu M. G. Solo http://tonia-zimmerman-criminal.blogspot.ca/

Civil Claim against Tonia Zimmerman for Defamatory Libel by Ashu M. G. Solo http://tonia-zimmerman-civil.blogspot.ca/

Tonia Zimmerman in Encyclopedia of Trollers:   (As of 2017-04-11,  the 2 links are invalid)

http://www.trollingacademy.org/online-safety-sociability/2338/tonia-zimmerman/

This trolling research lab maintains an online encyclopedia of trollers and has added Zimmerman to it.

“Tonia Zimmerman engages in cyberhickery against civil rights activist”

http://www.trollingacademy.org/online-safety-sociability/2362/tonia-zimmerman-engages-in-cyberhickery-against-civil-rights-activist/

This is an article on a trolling research lab Web site.

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February 4, 2014.  Tonia Zimmerman to Sandra Finley:

I am 28.  . . .

I appreciate your kindness and for defending me.

I think I’m going to have to take a more decided step back from this whole affair.  While I am no longer as afraid for my person (though there are more (As at April 11, 2017.  Trolling Academy   This link has been broken for 22 days websites bearing my face, all threatening my financial ruin), I have been left quite adrift from much of this.  I suppose you could call it disillusionment (or maybe it’s just old fashioned depression) . . .

I’m sorry this message is such a downer.  I’m just not in a terribly bright place right now.  Maybe tomorrow will be better.

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Feb 13, 2014.    Tonia Zimmerman went completely incommunicado, vis-à-vis myself (Sandra Finley).    She had spoken in December 2013 about returning to her home province of Alberta because of the impact of Ashu Solo on her life.  (I have an email in which she states that Ashu Solo began his assaults on her in December 2012.)  In the short time I knew her,  she rallied her courage to continue the fight.  She had tried hard for more than a year.  She was fearful lest Ashu discover where she lived, or her phone number.   He robbed her of her Right to Free Speech.   He was relentless in his attacks.  In the end, it was too much, it was hard to see where the remedy would come from.

It is now March 2017 – – THREE YEARS later.   I feel as though we are getting closer to putting an end to the antics of Ashu Solo.   However, the TIME, the FINANCIAL COSTS, the wear and tear, the OPPORTUNITY COSTS,  the number of people adversely affected, the costs of the time for Police Departments, for the Justice System. for the Saskatoon Health Authority (in the case of a woman Ashu Solo tried to get fired from her job), the fact that we are not yet at the end – –  all this combines to tell me that Tonia Zimmerman’s decision to leave Saskatoon to escape Ashu Solo was indeed a sound decision.

Just as I can tell you some of what Ashu Solo did to Tonia Zimmerman, myself and other people,  Tonia Zimmerman told about Ashu Solo’s attacks on other people from her circles.  She supported her statements with screen captures from facebook.

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REMINDER:   there are copies of some of the material Ashu Solo posted about Tonia Zimmerman at  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=11416.  

And the Ashu Solo file on my computer has the note from Tonia:   Ashu Solo used LinkedIn against her.  She could not get onto LinkedIn without having an account.  But she did not want to reveal to Ashu Solo her place of actual employment.  So she stated a place at which she had minimal connection.   Ashu phoned that office and was told that Tonia Zimmerman did not work there.   The mis-statement of where she worked saved her from attacks by Ashu Solo through her actual place of employment, but opened her up to his accusations that she falsified her work experience.

 

Apr 122016
 

On 2016-04-12 08:50, Daeran Gall wrote:
for the record.. Ashu began this campaign against me years ago..
he openly admits to taking out a web page in my name to spread ‘the truth’ of his victimization by the green party.

i don’t know what his relationship to crocels is, but I am certain he manages some aspect of it.. I sent a request to the agency and his response was extremely rapid.. as if he had received the email personally

it is my opinion that he suffers from some sort of exaggerated reality, whereby he does actually see himself as a victim of some vast conspiracy against him, and his heroic efforts to free himself from them. As well as empower others.

kind of like the way some of us try to bring attention to corporate malfeasance and influence.

I am only guessing but I think he sees himself as a kind of Super Bernie Sanders, campaigning against influence and corruption.

He has openly written to me of his intention to put up the web page and his doing it.
I would advise taking out web pages in your own name at least and on places like wordpress, blogspot.. and others.

it is all terrifyingly real. I don’t think he can be stopped now, except by some kind of legal intervention.
Thank you for all that has been done in this regard so far.

Also beware of facebook friend requests.. i am sure he has and creates alias’s as needed.

also i am sure he may have email aliases that resemble names of people in lists..

http://www.daerangall.com/

Ashu Screen Cap Daeran Web site Apr 2016

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From: Mark Bigland-Pritchard / LED
Sent: April 12, 2016 9:01 AM
To: Daeran Gall <daerangall@gmail.com>; lynn.oliphant@usask.ca; lynn.oliphant@yourlink.ca; turninggreen2014@gmail.com; patricia.farnese@usask.ca; hande.dk@sasktel.net; shawn.setyo@gmail.com; jannorri@gmail.com; Sandra Finley <sabest1@sasktel.net>
Subject: Re: Web Page indimidation

I think you’re right about his psychological state.

But I’m not going to bother with acquiring urls. I’ve seen the pages which he put up about Vicki, and they scream out “crank”. They say more about Ashu than they do about Vicki. No sensible person is going to take him seriously.

As for Crocels, if you do a search on the guy who runs it you will see he is another misfit with a few rather large chips on his shoulder. Again, it should not be taken seriously.

And Ashu no longer has the ear of the media here. So his reach is minimal.

What he can do, it seems, is drag people down in expensive court cases. But if Sandra wins hers, and Ashu is charged costs, I don’t think he’ll be able to do much for a very long time.

m

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From: Sandra Finley [mailto:xcorp@shaw.ca]
Sent: April 12, 2016 11:56 AM
To: ‘Mark Bigland-Pritchard / LED’ <mark@lowenergydesign.com>; ‘Daeran Gall’ <daerangall@gmail.com>; ‘lynn.oliphant@usask.ca’ <lynn.oliphant@usask.ca>; ‘patricia.farnese@usask.ca’ <patricia.farnese@usask.ca>; ‘hande.dk@sasktel.net’ <hande.dk@sasktel.net>
Subject: RE: Web Page indimidation

Thank-you for your documentation, Daeran.

Appended: an update on the Court Case, for those who have not seen it.  (not appended here.  Duplication.  See list of UPDATES in Index.)

Request (Daeran): can you please forward “He has openly written to me of his intention to put up the web page and his doing it”.
Otherwise, there will be no way to confirm that he is the author of the web page(s) about you.

I am very sorry about Ashu’s continuing harassment of you. You pay a large toll.

I agree with your statement, I don’t think he can be stopped now, except by some kind of legal intervention. (The only other way is the use of violence.)
In order to move things ahead as quickly as possible, I respond immediately to anything to do with the court case.

Take good care,

Sandra

P.S. For the “Reply to All”, I removed turninggreen2014@gmail.com (I don’t know who this is) and Shawn Setyo. I know Shawn but the Ashu thing predates his more recent involvement with the GPC in Saskatoon. I prefer to keep the number of people involved smaller rather than larger. /S