p2pnet: $3,740 needed
p2pnet view P2P:- If I act criminally, breach public trust, improperly take personal benefits, spend years claiming to be innocent when I know damned well I’m guilty, cost taxpayers millions of dollars, no problem.
Not if I’m in British Columbia, p2pnet’s home province.
If I break the law here, local taxpayers will fork out for my legal fees, and I’ll go virtually scott free, laughing all the way.
I wish. 
The crimes in the intro were listed by BC premier Gordon Campbell who used them to describe the law-breaking activities of Dave Basi and Bob Virk, two trusted government aides who admitted selling confidential government information but, after they pleaded guilty, were gently let off with house arrests and a few hours of public service.
Oh — and local taxpayers will pay their six million dollar legal bills.
Well, I do live in BC, and I’m trying to raise not six million — not even six hundred thousand.
I need $5,000 for legal expenses in Canada’s most important internet lawsuit.
But the chances of Mr Campbell and/or his government and/or BC taxpayers rushing to my rescue are zero.
$3,740 vacuum
I’m being sued by one Wayne Crookes, former federal Green Party of Canada financier. He says when I linked to a link which linked to a story he says defamed him, I published it too, thereby also defaming him.
It’s nonsense, of course, and Crookes has already lost before the BC Supreme Court. But he’s still trying it on with the Supreme Court of Canada, which has scheduled a hearing in Ottawa for December 7.
If he wins, that’ll be the end of an open and free internet in Canada. Instead, it’ll become an empty space where people are afraid to hyperkink, or connect to each other, for fear of being sued by another Crookes. And the repercussions will echo around the world.
The hearing wil be live streamed on the SCC website.
The $5K I’m trying to put together is for direct and unavoidable costs such as travel, accommodation, legal disbursements. My lawyer, Dan Burnett, is providing his time and services for free. But we still have to meet these out-of-pocket expenses.
The last time I wrote about this, the kitty stood at $831. It’s now reached $1,260.
That’s great, but Dan and I still need another $3,740. And we need it sooner rather than later so we can book our air tickets in advance before everything goes for the December Christmas rush.
“Canada is free and freedom is its nationality“, former Canadian prime minister Wilfred Laurier once said.
It’d be nice to keep it that way.
Anything you can manage will be really helpful.
October 23rd, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I like how your losing a defamation lawsuit will suddenly result in a restricted internet for everyone
BRUTAL STRAW MAN FATALITY
October 23rd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
@daeman:
I’m assuming you mean “straw man FALLACY” (?)
And, if you’re going to share that kind of determination, you could at least explain how you arrived at it, otherwise your “Dubyaspeak” just makes its own statement.
October 24th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
@daeman: I suggest you read up on legal “precedent”. Here is a wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent
Basically once hyperlinks have been ruled once to be ‘re-publishing’, that is de-facto law in Canada. So yes, this would mean a more restricted Internet in Canada.
October 24th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
How is your hot sauce project? Can that help you?
October 24th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
“I like how your losing a defamation lawsuit will suddenly result in a restricted internet for everyone”
Are you really that’s stupid or are you just pretending?
Never heard about the power of precedence?
The corporate parasites has been using this trick since the beginning of the specie.
This is valid.
October 24th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
LOL I don’t think the dumdum with a big mouth knows why Jon is being sued. For a link. The basis of the internet.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
go to bank & take out PERSONAL loan, make deal with banker with interest included in bill, tell banker to send u bill, should have big 96 all by it’s self, pay bill with bond in your name (birth certificate number),
details: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=accepted+for+value&aq=0
check with any Master Accountant for verification
our family paid off house, cars, bikes, essential service bills, cottage land, boats, just about everything
your blue ink pen is your best friend
October 26th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
option 2: get PERSONAL bill from lawyer and pay as option 1
bill should have check attached, same as any major phone bill