HERE'S A THOUGHT... KEEP KILLERS IN PRISON

CANADA... LAND OF ETERNAL FORGIVENESS...

-- "Convicted killer Natalie Pasqua was granted bail Thursday on her latest set of charges, (three offences, including a May 28 allegation of robbery), but under strict conditions that include house arrest. Pasqua was originally convicted of the 2007 second-degree murder in Prevost’s death, but after the Alberta Court of Appeal ordered a retrial the Crown accepted a guilty plea to the reduced charge of manslaughter." --

Ottawa... different city... same deal.

The Usual, well... you know...

On July 10, 2019, Shawn Vassel, 35, of Toronto, was arrested. He is charged with:

1. Second Degree Murder
2. Discharge Firearm with Intent
3. Careless Use of Firearm
4. Unauthorized Possession of Firearm
5. Possession of Prohibited or Restricted Firearm
6. Possession of Firearm Contrary to Prohibition Order x 2

Vassal, Vassal... that sounds so familiar...

In 2011, Vassel — 27 at the time — was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 shooting of Husam Dagheim.

Obviously Pierre-lite needs to make handguns "super double illegal."

Or we could stop letting cold-blooded killers go free.

UPDATE: Maybe this'll slow him down a bit

Facing charges of second-degree murder in connection with a deadly shooting in May, the 35-year-old Vassel’s in a hospital bed at St. Mike’s — paralyzed from the waist down — after Monday’s ‘all-out gun battle’ in the Queen St. and Ossington Ave. area.

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RELATED: Afghani thug gets "Hamilton Handshake"...

Suleiman Husaini had ties to London and Toronto, where he was well known to police for gun crimes. Husaini was convicted in 2013 for having two loaded handguns in a car. One of the guns had been used in a shooting in Toronto in May 2011.

Good riddance.

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LAST WORD: Diversity is our streng...

The man wanted for hacking a Toronto father to death last year with a machete sits in an Iranian prison — but not for much longer.

Before Toronto Police could put out a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest first-degree murder with a warning that he was armed and dangerous, Sepehr Yeganehfathollah, 26, was already on a plane bound for Turkey and then Iran.

Toronto's Regent Park...

...everything you've come to expect.. and less...

-- TORONTO -- “He displayed the values we taught him, honesty, integrity, charity and kindness. He respected everyone,” James’ mom bellowed in court. --

Hey, Moms... I'm just thinkin' that whole "proceeds of crime" thing... for some of us, anyway... might take some of the sheen off that halo.

No, no, you're right... what was I thinking? Forgive me my moment of madness. I mean, who wouldn't love this guy?

"James was highly respected in the community because he purchased walkers for the elderly, bought groceries for the poor and refused to sell drugs to children."

Damn, talk about standards.

You figure that's why that 16 year-old trigger-puller decided to change Mr James horoscope?

I guess maybe "the community" has a different definition of "children" than the rest of us... not to mention that "honesty & integrity" thing. They also seem to have gotten past all that silly dithering about capital punishment.

You've just gotta love how the MSM has decided to paper this thing over by peddling this whole Robin Hood myth. Trouble is... it's not going over all that well in the comments on this article.

Call me a dinosaur, but I remember when the words "honesty & integrity" were used to describe "law-abiding" citizens... and not dope-dealing parasites... however charismatic they might be.

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RELATED: Yeah, let's go with Robin Hood...

...instead of, you know, Lord of the Flies...

"It would seem pretty obvious to me what's happened here. The original report contained a typo wherein they described his career as one selling DRUGS when what they really meant was that he sold HUGS!"

Hang on a second... you mean...

...spending 2 billion taxpayer dollars to harrass farmers, skeet shooters and duck hunters... doesn't actually do anything about urban handgun crime?

-- TORONTO -- An alleged gang banger who has twice been acquitted of charges of shooting little boys is once again behind bars for a crime involving a gun.

And the family of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, one of the two young victims Gregory Sappleton has been accused of shooting, hopes that the 25-year-old stays locked up.

Sappleton was also among three youths arrested following a drive-by shooting in August of 2005 that saw four-year-old Shaquan Cadougan and several others sprayed with bullets outside a townhouse complex on Driftwood Ave., southeast of Jane St. and Finch Ave. W.

Don't you worry, though... he's only an "alleged" gangbanger. I guess that means he won't be in the Ignatieff-approved long gun registry.

Remember, folks... friends don't let friends vote Liberal...
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THE COMPASSIONATE INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"not to worry gang bangers and prostitutes who have their 24 sussex contacts lobby for them are all ok eh."
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 8:07 AM, April 12, 2011

Oh, nonny... you do all the work for me.

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LAST WORD: Bring back the death penalty

Deir believes capital punishment would be appropriate for the killer of her daughter, a repeat offender who was released from a four-year sentence for a similar shooting rampage in Toronto five months before he killed Zaveda.

Ironically, the earlier shooting rampage by Weese was kept hidden from his jury for fear of tainting the verdict.

Bright lights, big city...

...never a dull moment...

-- TORONTO -- Police have released security images of a man they would like to question about the murder of a 29-year-old last week.

Benjamin Owusu Brefo died in hospital on March 28, hours after police found him shot behind a low-rise building at 4 Kingston Rd., just north of Queen Street East.

Meanwhile, in other "violent crime is down" news...

Gangster Shawn Anthony Vassel was to learn Monday about his parole eligibilty following his conviction for gunning down a rival dealer during a drug ripoff. But prosecutor Brian McGuire’s sickness caused sentencing proceedings to be postponed.

Following a complicated eight-week trial a jury found him guilty last month of the 2007 second-degree murder of Mississauga dealer Husam Dagheim.

Justice Michael Tulloch sentenced Vassel to a mandatory life term.

Get out while you still can.

Remember back... you were a kid...

...there were all those drive-by shootings & home invasions?

-- Yeah... me neither. --

Cameron Holder, Williams' father, issued an emotional plea on Tuesday for anyone with information to call police.

"I'm begging anyone that knows anything about it, even if you might think it's not relevant or it's not important, call the police, call Crime Stoppers… We need your help," Williams told reporters.

"This is not about my son anymore," he added. "This is about Toronto, this is about the youths. We need to stop this senseless killing."

How about we start, though... by taking more of these mindless thugs off the street?

Lloyd Johnson, 36, was found guilty of attempted murder, attempted robbery and several other charges in January for the shooting of Salahaldin Ali, 51, in Ali’s apartment near Adelaide and Elias streets on May 18, 2007.

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LAST WORD: No child left behind, huh?

Amin Kassim fired four shots into Muluka Hassan Ali’s head and ran off with their two-year-old son, Sammy, on May 14, 2005, said Crown attorney Beverley Richards as she outlined her first-degree murder case to a jury.

Kassim also took two photos of Ali’s bullet-riddled body on the floor of her downtown Church St. apartment, court heard.

What... he needed to update his Facebook page?

More prisons aren't the whole solution here... but it's a start.

There was any real justice in the world...

...they'd toss this freak in with Clifford Olson... and weld the door shut...

-- TORONTO -- A North York woman who shopped for a CD while her baby was dying of agonizing burns to 40% of his tiny body was found guilty Monday of manslaughter.

Miguel Fernandes died of horrific injuries that were inflicted on Sept. 11, 2007.

The third-degree “immersion burns” he had suffered were so horrific that the first layer of skin on parts of the back of his body fell off.

Manslaughter?

Unbelievable.

No, no... wait... it gets better...

"It is a curious country, this one, that you can be convicted of killing your child and still you get to walk out of the courtroom, free as a bird, la-dee-dah."

"That’s what happened on Monday at Ontario Superior Court in Toronto."

If only they could all be Toronto

Shining beacon of Canadian Journalism brands Calgary "unlivable"...
But, wait a minute... maybe Toronto isn't gonna be Toronto very much longer...

Figures produced during Ford’s campaign estimated that some $20-million could be saved across the city if all of the city’s residential and commercial garbage collection was outsourced. The C.D. Howe Institute has put the savings at closer to $49-million.

“This is good for the city,” Coun. Doug Ford, the mayor’s brother, said Sunday. “This will ensure we never have a garbage strike again.”

But Ford vowed this is only the beginning.

“We’re going to be outsourcing everything that is not nailed down.”

Well, that sure sounds like a good thing. Maybe Mayor Ford could use the savings to hire a few more cops...

Toronto resident Pierre Oliver Ellis, 23, is wanted for first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting death of a 16-year-old boy in Scarborough, police say.

Ellis is accused of killing Keyon Campbell on Dec. 2, 2007. It was the city's 80th murder of the year.

Yeah... let's talk "livable", shall we?

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THE COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

You show yourself as the biggest fool in the blogosphere you are really just a raving drunk.
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 12:27 AM, February 08, 2011

"Morons like you will line up and kiss the arse of some fat fuck who whispers sweet nothings in your ear. In 4 years, I'm gonna drop by, and laugh at you about this really, really hard."
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 3:10 PM, February 07, 2011

Hmmm... going by the other dozen frothing diatribes you've sent me today, Nonny... don't you mean 4 minutes?

Bright lights, big city...

Toronto police pulled an oil drum out of the Toronto harbour today that they believe contains a murder victim encased in cement.

“At this point I’ve got a good idea who’s contained within that barrel, but I’m not at liberty to speculate,” said Det. Vander Heyden.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I suppose the Liberals will be calling for a concrete registry."

Oh gawd... don't give them any ideas.

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UPDATE: Barrel body identified

Police believed millionaire loan shark Quang Lu was murdered shortly after he disappeared in October 2007. The discovery of a body in a barrel on Sunday proved the prediction by police specializing in Asian organized crime was correct.

The first thing we do...

...is hang all the lawyers...

-- TORONTO -- The teenaged girl whose testimony was the catalyst in the Jordan Manners murder investigation told her aunt that she had witnessed the act inside C.W. Jefferys Collegiate on May 23, 2007.

But the witness’ statement was never heard by the jury at the trial of two 20-year-olds, J.W. and C.D., accused of murdering the 15-year-old Manners.

But that's not all...

Another piece of evidence that the jury also never heard was that one particle of gunshot residue was found on one of the accused men’s right hand.

The test was taken seven hours after the shooting. But Justice Nordheimer ruled that the accused’s rights were violated as he didn’t consent to the test, and the police didn’t have a search warrant authorizing the test.

The fact is, we have a legal system... not a system of justice.

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RELATED: Un-freakin'-believable

If the judges decide that fairness requires a new trial, the courts will have to replay an arduous case that consumed five years, featured 129 witnesses and included 1.3 million pages of documents.

That's odd... I think they had me back at "human head in a bucket."

Just another victim...

...of our heartless, elitest society...

A 22-year-old paraplegic who has launched a $17-million lawsuit arising from his incarceration in the Toronto (Don) Jail on drug charges now has another court date in sight: He has been charged with dealing cocaine, marijuana and Ecstasy from his room at St. Michael's Hospital.

Further investigation revealed that a loaded handgun and a bulletproof vest were allegedly found in Mr. Milligan's room, along with other drugs.

I guess you never know when you might have to cap a rogue candy-striper.

Oh yeah... the best part of this was that the fuzzy-bunny Red Star held this guy up as their "Victim of the Week" just a little while ago.

Milligan was locked up at the Don between October and December 2007 after Toronto police raided his apartment and charged him with drug possession.

At the time, he was 19 and trying to adjust to life after a gunshot injury to his spine left him a paraplegic in the spring of 2007.

Live and DON"T LEARN, eh?

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AIRBRUSH UPDATE: Now you see it...

...now you don't...
Pravda would be proud.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Arrested for dealing dope while in a wheelchair in a hospital."

"I think that's the gansta' trifecta."

I don't get it. I'd have bet large... that Dawg & Company would have dropped by to defend this poor lad.

Oh well.

Maybe basing your defense...

...on an episode of CSI Miami wasn't such a master stroke after all...

Christopher Little has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Julie Crocker and Paula Menendez.

Superior Court Justice Michelle Fuerst said lawyer John Rosen did everything he could in Little's defence. Rosen tried to convince the jury that Menendez could have killed Crocker and then hanged herself in the garage of the home Little and Crocker lived in when they married.

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No wonder the thugs just laugh at us

Meet Andre Bourne...

"The defendant was on parole at the time of this homicide and had been released from jail slightly over two months earlier.

He had been convicted in Toronto on Feb. 8, 2006 on charges of pointing a firearm, possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm and ammunition, assault with a weapon and unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle."

For committing these crimes with "loaded .45-calibre and .38 calibre handguns, "his global sentence had been two years and three months."

Each time, after serving laughable time, the court set Bourne free!

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RELATED: Good times in Toronto...

...a little clubbing... a little stabbing...

Police are looking for a group of suspects after two men were stabbed near the Guvernment nightclub early Saturday morning.

Police have a vague description of the suspects, and have conflicting information so far but say this was a confrontation between two groups of men.

The group of suspects was armed with a knife, and may also have a gun.

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You can do...

...absolutely everything right and still pay the ultimate price...

They wanted his cellphone so they stabbed him in the heart.

And now three young men, who callously murdered a 16-year-old Grade 12 North Park Secondary School honours student in the fall of 2007 are heading to prison after a jury in Brampton found them guilty of murder yesterday.

The courtroom was full of tears and sobbing as the jury found Omari White, 19, and Jamal Johnson, 21, guilty of first-degree murder and Eric Robinson, 21, of second-degree murder.

A fourth man, Ryan Walwin-Townsend, 22, will face a separate trial for first-degree murder this fall.

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RELATED: Remember Michael Oatway?

Mr. Oatway's mistake was not to cower properly before S.M. and his three friends as they effectively surrounded him in the narrow rear confines of the bus, S.M. smartly directing him, at knifepoint, to hand over his iPod.

Bright lights, big city... is it really worth your life?

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The bulletproof...

...Bacon-mobile.

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RELATED: One for the good guys...

-- TORONTO -- Three men have been arrested and charged in the 2007 shooting death of wealthy Toronto philanthropist Glen Davis, opening a dramatic new chapter in a long-stalled murder mystery.

Charged with first-degree murder are 37-year-old Marshall Ross of Toronto, and Ivgeny Vorobiov and Dimitry Kossyrine, both 30, from Richmond Hill.

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Farmers, deer hunters, target shooters...

Totally off the hook... once again.

A Toronto man has died from a gunshot wound suffered in a melee police suspect was linked to rappers who commandeered a stage at a dance competition.

As hard as it is to fathom... the Liberal's 2 Billion dollar Farmer Bob Rifle Registry was apparently unable, yet again, to stem Toronto's recent tide of urban slaughter.

Keegan Allen, 18, was taken off life support at 5:50 p.m. Tuesday at St. Michael's Hospital.

Allen was shot in the head around 2:20 a.m. Saturday during an all-ages dance event, billed as Showdown 2007, which attracted 600 people to the Hungarian Cultural Centre on St. Clair Ave. W. just east of Oakwood Ave.

Well, if it wasn't that roving gang of middle-age gun collectors... who is responsible?

Toronto Police said a group of rappers got up on stage for an impromptu performance and began spewing "vulgar and offensive" lyrics at women and others in attendance.

A disagreement over musical tastes?

RELATED: Oops... sorry, I missed one

A young woman is dead and three others are in hospital after a shootout at a backyard party at a townhouse near Jane St. and Finch Ave.  Two victims ran into the townhouse. One woman in her 20s was found shot in the stomach in a second-floor bedroom. She was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead.

Another woman in her 30s was found on the main floor, bleeding from a wound to her leg. She is being treated in hospital.

Two others managed to get themselves to hospital.

LAST WORD: No deer... no AR15s...?

Toronto Police are warning women to be careful as they hunt for two young men believed to be responsible for a violent weekend sex attack on a 17-year-old girl in an empty government housing unit in Flemington Park.

Police are looking for Jahmar Sweet, 18, who may also go by the name Jahmar Drelle.

The second man, who may go by the name Jonathan, is described as black, 18 to 20, about 6-feet tall, with a muscular build.

Politically Correct Silence Kills

What will it take to stop the madness?

"Why are we living like this, like animals, just shooting down one another?"

Not everybody in the black community is afraid to say it... and that's a start.

If no one is willing to admit what the problem is here... nothing will ever be done to fix things.

UPDATE: You'll never guess what happened...

AGAIN.Rapper Michael "Trick" George of the group "Lowlife" gets to live, so to speak, his art.

Homicide investigators are looking for the public's help in piecing together the details of the city's forty-sixth homicide after a man was found dead in a car early this morning.

Upon arrival, they found the body of Michael George, 25, inside his Chevrolet Malibu in the driveway of his residence on Wilcox Creek Pathway.

Police say he had been shot several times.

RELATED: Time out for an opposing viewpoint...

Marla emailed me to say she thinks there is some sort of equivalence between the fatal shooting of high school student Jane Creba and the murder of Marla's friend, 31 year-old Sean "Juice" James.

Creba was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but you do not allow the same room for Shawn.

Why, because he is black, was on a street known for late night drug deals - late at night - and dresses a certain way?

Marla... are you accusing me of being a racist?  

Let me point out a couple of  glaring inconsistencies in your thesis...

ONE:  Witnesses state a cab rolled up on Sean at two in the morning in an area of the city known for prolific drug dealing... whereupon the occupants of said cab lit your friend up like the Honest Ed's marquee..

In the Creba murder, two gangs of young, armed black men started blasting away at each other on one of the city's busiest streets during retail shopping hours. 

TWO:  Neighbours identified Mr James as a drug dealer.

Now Marla, perhaps the witnesses are, for whatever reason, lying about your friend. It doesn't seem like the simplest, or most obvious explanation... but it certainly is a possibility.

Will you, in turn... admit that it's also possible that the media coverage is correct?

As for your comments regarding the Ephraim Brown shooting...

With Ephraim's family, that is where they were celebrating a family birthday etc. It may not have been the most responsible thing in the world to do, in hindsight.

But at the time, they probably were trying to enjoy themselves and not anticipating a gang member to show up and destroy their nice evg. People the world over -and here in Toronto, live differently from you, party differently from you and exist differently from you.

Marla... all I can say here is that, cultural differences and "partying differences" aside... letting an 11 year old child out at "Banger Central" at one in the morning is not only not, "the most responsible thing in the world to do"... it borders on sheer insanity.

And whoever decided to let Ephraim out at this hour, at this place will have to live with the knowledge that they could have... and indisputably should have... made another choice.

LAST WORD:  Back to the old country

Two men wanted for first-degree murder in connection with a fatal daylight shooting in Rexdale earlier this month are believed to have fled to Jamaica, Toronto police said.

Gone, but not forgotten

While 11 year-old Ephraim Brown has been getting the lion's share of the ink & symapthy... Sean "Juice" James was also murdered last weekend... and his friends have come together to immortalise him...

My personal favourite here is...

"juice and denver brothers from another mother fo real"

You get a sense of Sean's popularity from an article in the Toronto Red Star...

Shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a shooting at a Bleecker St. apartment called The Hamilton. They found a man who later died in hospital from gunshot wounds.

Police said a Beck cab had glided up beside the man outside the building and at least one of the cab's passengers fired shots.

Neighbours said the man sold drugs but was the "nicest person."

UPDATE: Red Star slams on the brakes...

Throws their drug dealer story into reverse.

Friends and family have set up a vigil to James, who worked in public relations.  He was a polite, well-mannered man who "had a beautiful soul," said his long-time girlfriend. "He touched so many people in so many different ways."

"He didn't have one enemy to my knowledge."

Well... maybe just one, huh?  Perhaps someone from a competing public relations firm?

LAST WORD: Bright lights, big city...

A 16-year-old boy has been shot dead after being chased by youths on bicycles, police have said.  Officers were called to reports of shots being heard on the Stockwell Gardens Estate in Stockwell, south London, just after midnight.

The Met's Operation Trident team, which investigates gun crime in London's black community, is investigating.

I used to walk to grade one...

...when we lived in Scarborough.

Now I'd be afraid to drive down the street.

A man being hunted for a Scarborough murder was already being sought on warrants for assault and a weapon charge.

Granzille Tucker, 22, also known as Rickey, is now wanted for second-degree murder in the shooting death last Thursday of Bradley Frank.

But in David Miller's "Oh, so politically correct" world... the solution isn't to fight crime... it's to hide crime.