2024-02-13 Regarding the “Coutts 4” released on a Plea Deal:  2 YEARS without due process. 74 days in Solitary Confinement.

This podcast provides the best discussion of the how the plea deal works in the court system.   2024-02-06  Podcast discussion, Marco Van Huigenbos describes the situation: two of the Coutts 4 are now free, after 223 days in remand (jail) in Alberta.

The posting includes a couple of back ground postings about Marco Van Huigenbos, to help readers evaluate his credibility.

 

2024-02-09 This is the most accurate WRITTEN coverage I’ve read about “Conspiracy Charges Dropped, Chris Lysak, Jerry Morin Released after Agreeing to Plea Deals”

The journalist obviously used Marco as his source.  I also tried some more mainstream coverage.  I found coverage that lacked description of the effects of the serious (I think outrageous) abuse of process on the prisoners.

 

2022-06-17 Can solitary confinement be reformed or abolished in Canada? with thanks to McGill University’s Faculty of Law

Professor Tony Doob grants permission to use the material I posted.

Sent: February 9, 2024
To: Sandra Finley
Subject: Re: Solitary Confinement Alberta

Hi

No problem.    The talk was posted so that the maximum number of people possible could have access to it.   You are just helping do what was intended.

Best,

Tony

Anthony N. DoobCentre for Criminology and Sociolegal StudiesUniversity of Toronto  (Tony was a guest panelist from U of T.  McGill hosted the event.)  Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 3K9   Telephone: 416.946.7429 Home: 416.921.5973  Criminological Highlights: www.crimhighlights.ca

 

2024-02-09 Solitary Confinement, Alberta.  My Letter to Professor Doob.

I state the case.  People know what to do, better than I can tell them what to do!

 

2022-02-28 Covid protests, Vocabulary and Context. WE WILL DO BETTER . . .  NEXT TIME! say the Police. Linguistics. Definition of antifa.

To me, this is an important framework for understanding what we’re looking at.   You may have seen it before.  I update it occasionally.

 

2023-12-15 Quotes from David Korten’s “When Corporations Rule the World” added to Could Tamara Lich & Chris Barber have organized millions of people internationally. Or was it an “emergent, radically self-organizing social movement?”

This posting is the last link I’ll send.  Marco gets caught in the same web as Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.  Marco is charged with being “a leader”.  “The system” needs identifiable “leaders” they can prosecute or persecute.

The problem is>  emergent, radically self-organizing social movements do not have a single unit that organizes and can be held responsible.  We are in the midst of a phenomenon;  we are witness to it happening, a radically self-organizing social movement!  Amazing times we live in.  Simultaneously heart-breaking and monumentally challenging.