September 20, 2023
Dear Paul:
I received yours and M’s mail today along with a jail warning that “religious and cultural material” isn’t allowed.
I attended video court on September 12 and13th. A female judge put me over until September 20. On the 13th another female judge wanted to set a trial date for December of 2024! And she cranked at me to get a real lawyer who could arrange an earlier trial date for me. Say what? Blackmail! So, I put her over although she did set a preliminary hearing date for December 1, 2023.
My trial for my 2020 charges begins Monday, November 20. So, I’ll be shipped back to Fort McMurray on the Friday.
Although I hear good things in here about my appointed lawyer, Gary Smith, I’ve yet to ever meet him or speak with him. Nor do I have any access to my disclosure or the many court notes that I made.
Shipping me here shut me off from all that, which I’ll tell the judge on the 20th when I shall also ask for and “11-B” dismissal of my by now three year old charges. If those charges are dismissed, I will then re-apply for bail on these new charges using Gary Smith who, as you know, was denied access to me during my August 24 bail hearing. This was technically a breach of my ‘defendant rights’ as he well knows but I am wondering what he did about it back then. I also wonder who called him to attend this hearing (via video) and then so casually shut him out of the hearing? As I don’t know his number, it surely wasn’t me as being in an RCMP lockup, my only call permitted was to you.
At my August 24 failed bail hearing, the female Crown hinted at my “rightwing beliefs” while the judge encouraged her and then, 24 hours later, I was crowded into a paddy wagon van for a loud, bumpy trip to Edmonton, my companions were three Indians and two Blacks. I kid you not. People just don’t get it.
This jail is unlike Ontario jails. Guards are on the unit all day. They call you by your first name. It’s clean and roomy, with an exercise room included. I’m in a unit with 60 or so White guys. Guys come and go daily, as they either serve a short sentence or come up with the 200 bucks in bail money which will set them free. [$200 and you can’t come up with that!?]
Meanwhile, look at me. Why do all of my courtroom trials always seem to be with zero audience? Yet, the Crown frequently bemoans that the “community”, who oddly never attend any of my court appearances. Ever! This sort of worries me. Secrecy can be our enemy. Isn’t it strangely odd that the Crown is proceeding by “indictable” [which allows a longer sentence] on the charge of sending two letters to the “Mayor’s Committee of Halfwits, Dimwits, Transvestites and Homo Humpers” mailed over a year ago and which the RCMP then regarded as prank mail? When was the last time anyone in Canada was charged or convicted of “obscene material”?
As for leaving a message on an Edmonton Indian group’s phoneline calling them “extortionists and church arsonists”, so what?
I mean, if these are crimes, shouldn’t comedian Russell Peters be serving a life sentence by now?
Sixty-five years old and I have to deal with this!
Brad Love
Prisoner #1519809
Letter from Political Prisoner Brad Love – On of the Men Behind the Wire
September 20, 2023
Dear Paul:
I received yours and M’s mail tod along with a jail warning that “religious and cultural material” isn’t allowed.
I attended video court on September 12 and13th. A female judge put me over until September 20. On the 13th another female judge wanted to set a trial date for December of 2024! And she cranked at me to get a real lawyer who could arrange an earlier trial date for me. Say what? Blackmail! So, I put her over although she did set a preliminary hearing date for December 1, 2023.
My trial for my 2020 charges begins Monday, November 20. So, I’ll be shipped back to Fort McMurray on the Friday.
Although I hear good things in here about my appointed lawyer, Gary Smith, I’ve yet to ever meet him or speak with him. Nor do I have any access to my disclosure or the many court notes that I made.
Shipping me here shut me off from all that, which I’ll tell the judge on the 20th when I shall also ask for and “11-B” dismissal of my by now three year old charges. If those charges are dismissed, I will then re-apply for bail on these new charges using Gary Smith who, as you know, was denied access to me during my August 24 bail hearing. This was technically a breach of my ‘defendant rights’ as he well knows but I am wondering what he did about it back then. I also wonder who called him to attend this hearing (via video) and then so casually shut him out of the hearing? As I don’t know his number, it surely wasn’t me as being in an RCMP lockup, my only call permitted was to you.
At my August 24 failed bail hearing, the female Crown hinted at my “rightwing beliefs” while the judge encouraged her and then, 24 hours later, I was crowded into a paddy wagon van for a loud, bumpy trip to Edmonton, my companions were three Indians and two Blacks. I kid you not. People just don’t get it.
This jail is unlike Ontario jails. Guards are on the unit all day. They call you by your first name. It’s clean and roomy, with an exercise room included. I’m in a unit with 60 or so White guys. Guys come and go daily, as they either serve a short sentence or come up with the 200 bucks in bail money which will set them free. [$200 and you can’t come up with that!?]
Meanwhile, look at me. Why do all of my courtroom trials always seem to be with zero audience? Yet, the Crown frequently bemoans that the “community”, who oddly never attend any of my court appearances. Ever! This sort of worries me. Secrecy can be our enemy. Isn’t it strangely odd that the Crown is proceeding by “indictable” [which allows a longer sentence] on the charge of sending two letters to the “Mayor’s Committee of Halfwits, Dimwits, Transvestites and Homo Humpers” mailed over a year ago and which the RCMP then regarded as prank mail? When was the last time anyone in Canada was charged or convicted of “obscene material”?
As for leaving a message on an Edmonton Indian group’s phoneline calling them “extortionists and church arsonists”, so what?
I mean, if these are crimes, shouldn’t comedian Russell Peters be serving a life sentence by now?
Sixty-five years old and I have to deal with this!
Brad Love
Prisoner #1519809