Blue Like You

Why is it only the good ones seem to leave the LPC?

Please stay Dr. Martin ! The future of free speech in Canada depends on you. You are making a difference.

Just ignore all the Kindergarten antics and keep your eye on the ball.

Have we been had?

Neo links to this morning’s Globe article, Parole Board won’t consider Martin’s guilt :

…According to the 110-page verdict, the judge found Ms. Martin guilty of depositing and transferring illicit funds. Between March and August of 2001, she received nearly $60,000 in Canadian funds in her Mexican bank account, and about $3,000 of it was transferred from the Latvian bank account of one of Mr. Waage’s shell companies. Most of the money – $38,700 – was transferred by Ms. Martin from another account in her name.

Ms. Martin also received a $15,000 transfer from Keith Nordick, a Saskatchewan man living in Puerto Vallarta who was Mr. Waage’s right-hand man in the scheme.Mr. Nordick pleaded guilty in a California court to fraud and money laundering in 2005.

Ms. Martin also transferred $16,000 from her bank account to Mr. Waage’s sister, Lynn Johnston. Ms. Johnston is wanted on fraud charges, but has never been apprehended…

But apparently all the Parole Board needs to concern itself with is whether or not Brenda Martin could post a threat to others.

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Update - And under the heading, Can’t win for losing , we have these editorials:

Maybe Ottawa only likes some of us - Thomas Walkom (Star)

What about the other 1,750 jailed Canadians? - Record

Travellers must be wise to the laws - Lorrie Goldstein (Sun) (A somewhat more balanced approach)

It gets worse! - Brenda Martin’s supporters urge Ottawa to grant speedy release (Record):

Brenda Martin will likely remain behind the razor-wired perimeter of Grand Valley Institution for Women for a few more days.

However, supporters of the 51-year-old Trenton native, who spent the past two years in a Mexican prison, are urging the federal government to move quickly toward granting her freedom.

"I don’t see why they have to keep her in for one more minute," lawyer Edward Greenspan said in a phone interview yesterday. "We’re waiting for them to do the right thing …

Hey! Whose paying his salary, BTW??

And now get this:

…Macklin said he believed it was clear Martin will remain in custody for a few days.

"It’ll likely take some time before she ultimately is able to be what you’d call fully recovered," he said, adding that it’s good she will receive the medical treatment she needs while she is in prison.

Once Martin is released, she would have to wait 90 days before being eligible for free health care in Canada …

Get that? Free health care in prison! None if she’s out.

So, why is Greenspan talking about doing "the right thing"?

Sunday Update : Angelo Persichilli - Who are we to call Mexico ‘corrupt’?