Political Prisoner Brad Love Turned Down For Parole & All Outgoing Mail is Stopped
LINDSAY, March 5, 2014 “I have urged political prisoner Brad Love to change his name to WeiGuang Love, profess a fascination for carving off people’s heads and eating their flesh and then plead that his bizarre behaviour is caused by voices speaking to him,” says Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression which has advocated for Mr. Love for over a decade. ” In that case, Canada’s nutty ‘justice’ system wouldn’t be able to get rid of him fast enough or, as they put it, ‘re-integrate him into society.'”
![Photo: Political Prisoner Brad Love Turned Down For Parole & All Outgoing Mail is Stopped
LINDSAY, March 5, 2014 "I have urged political prisoner Brad Love to change his name to WeiGuang Love, profess a fascination for carving off people's heads and eating their flesh and then plead that his bizarre behaviour is caused by voices speaking to him," says Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression which has advocated for Mr. Love for over a decade. " In that case, Canada's nutty 'justice' system wouldn't be able to get rid of him fast enough or, as they put it, 're-integrate him into society.'"
However, Brad isn't the Chinese cannibal and the voices he hears are not from some whacked out deity mumbling to him but his own conscience and passionate concern for the land where he was born.
"I hadn't heard from Mr. Love for over a month," Mr. Fromm reports. "This is unusual as he sends frequent letters. About a week ago, I called his brother and determined that Brad was well and still looking forward to a date being set for his appeal against a draconian 18-month sentence for 'breach of probation' (sending information to several Toronto Jewish groups), where the usual punishment for such a minor infraction is 30 days."
On March 4, Brad Love called CAFE with double disappointing news. For the past month all -- well one or two letters did sneak through -- his outgoing mail to friends and supporters across Canada has been held by the prison authorities. Despite the fact that Peter Lindsay, Mr. Love's lawyer, has provided transcripts and documentation that a North Korean-style bail condition imposed in another matter last May in Alberta, that he not "communicate by post, e-mail or text" to any person, had been modified and no longer applies, and despite the fact that, on February 4 the Crown withdrew a charge of "breach of undertaking" (bail conditions) in this matter, referring to a letter Mr. Love had sent to his own lawyer, the message hasn't apparently reached other wings of the "justice" system. The system reminds one of the legendary dinosaur with a brain in his tail and that it took many minutes for an impulse, say something seen, to travel to the beast's far off brain.
On February 3, the Crown, now presented with the documentation which confirmed what Mr. Love had asserted all along, withdrew the charges. However, the message still hasn't reached the beast's tail-bound brain.
On March 4, Mr. Love was turned down for parole. He was actually due for parole in December -- after serving one third of his sentence. However, because he has the bogus "breach" charge hanging over him, he could not apply. His hearing was March 4. The parole board panel scolded him: "Mr. Love, when did you intend to stop writing letters?" BUT, one almost wants to scream at the slow witted beast, "HE IS NOT FORBIDDEN TO WRITE LETTERS."
As in the old Soviet Union, the "politicos" are always treated the most harshly. If he were Vincent WeiGuang Li, the system wouldn't be able to release Brad fast enough. (The human cannibal was recently granted unescorted day passes and will no longer have to stay in a secure ward -- all this just six years after he beheaded and partially ate Tim McLean, a fellow bus passenger he had never met. Those pesky voices, you know, told him to do so.
On March 4, Peter Lindsay filed for a date for the appeal against Mr. Love's sentence, which is nearly half served.
Much evil is done in the name of "security". We can't send political prisoner Brad Love books -- he's a voracious reader. So, CAFE is sending him Pat Buchanan's book Suicide of a Superpower, chapter by chapter, one a week. The pages are reduced, four to one side of a letter-size piece of paper and printed on both sides of the paper.
On March 5, we received a form from the prison. We won't deign to call this unsigned fill-in the blanks piece of paper a letter. Dated, February 27, it advised that "per the Ministry of Correctional Services Act (R.R.R.O, 1991, Reg. 778,s. 17(1), letters with stickers, significant amount of correction fluid, or attachment(s) adhered with glue ... are not accepted." The original printed was smudged in several places. So, several thin strips of paper with a more legible copy of the smudged line of print had been lightly glued over the original. Apparently, not acceptable.
Are you feeling any safer yet?
A newsy personal letter had accompanied the chapter reprint. It too was returned. The CEEC form further stated: "The CEEC [Central East Correctional Centre] will not separate the contents of any envelope. It is your responsibility to make efforts to prevent this type of unacceptable material to be transmitted through correspondence at CEEC." In other words, the well paid "security department" and snoops are just too damned lazy to hand the unobjectionable letter on to the prisoner.
No we don't expect prisons to be a vacation. Yes, many of the liberties of the inmates are curtailed, but the receipt of mail is not just a human right but it is also important for prisoner morale and, very likely, for reducing frustration and tension in the institution.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/s851x315/1620489_281853698647544_1534193175_n.jpg)
However, Brad isn’t the Chinese cannibal and the voices he hears are not from some whacked out deity mumbling to him but his own conscience and passionate concern for the land where he was born.
“I hadn’t heard from Mr. Love for over a month,” Mr. Fromm reports. “This is unusual as he sends frequent letters. About a week ago, I called his brother and determined that Brad was well and still looking forward to a date being set for his appeal against a draconian 18-month sentence for ‘breach of probation’ (sending information to several Toronto Jewish groups), where the usual punishment for such a minor infraction is 30 days.”
On March 4, Brad Love called CAFE with double disappointing news. For the past month all — well one or two letters did sneak through — his outgoing mail to friends and supporters across Canada has been held by the prison authorities. Despite the fact that Peter Lindsay, Mr. Love’s lawyer, has provided transcripts and documentation that a North Korean-style bail condition imposed in another matter last May in Alberta, that he not “communicate by post, e-mail or text” to any person, had been modified and no longer applies, and despite the fact that, on February 4 the Crown withdrew a charge of “breach of undertaking” (bail conditions) in this matter, referring to a letter Mr. Love had sent to his own lawyer, the message hasn’t apparently reached other wings of the “justice” system. The system reminds one of the legendary dinosaur with a brain in his tail and that it took many minutes for an impulse, say something seen, to travel to the beast’s far off brain.
On February 3, the Crown, now presented with the documentation which confirmed what Mr. Love had asserted all along, withdrew the charges. However, the message still hasn’t reached the beast’s tail-bound brain.
On March 4, Mr. Love was turned down for parole. He was actually due for parole in December — after serving one third of his sentence. However, because he has the bogus “breach” charge hanging over him, he could not apply. His hearing was March 4. The parole board panel scolded him: “Mr. Love, when did you intend to stop writing letters?” BUT, one almost wants to scream at the slow witted beast, “HE IS NOT FORBIDDEN TO WRITE LETTERS.”
As in the old Soviet Union, the “politicos” are always treated the most harshly. If he were Vincent WeiGuang Li, the system wouldn’t be able to release Brad fast enough. (The human cannibal was recently granted unescorted day passes and will no longer have to stay in a secure ward — all this just six years after he beheaded and partially ate Tim McLean, a fellow bus passenger he had never met. Those pesky voices, you know, told him to do so.
On March 4, Peter Lindsay filed for a date for the appeal against Mr. Love’s sentence, which is nearly half served.
Much evil is done in the name of “security”. We can’t send political prisoner Brad Love books — he’s a voracious reader. So, CAFE is sending him Pat Buchanan’s book Suicide of a Superpower, chapter by chapter, one a week. The pages are reduced, four to one side of a letter-size piece of paper and printed on both sides of the paper.
On March 5, we received a form from the prison. We won’t deign to call this unsigned fill-in the blanks piece of paper a letter. Dated, February 27, it advised that “per the Ministry of Correctional Services Act (R.R.R.O, 1991, Reg. 778,s. 17(1), letters with stickers, significant amount of correction fluid, or attachment(s) adhered with glue … are not accepted.” The original printed was smudged in several places. So, several thin strips of paper with a more legible copy of the smudged line of print had been lightly glued over the original. Apparently, not acceptable.
Are you feeling any safer yet?
A newsy personal letter had accompanied the chapter reprint. It too was returned. The CEEC form further stated: “The CEEC [Central East Correctional Centre] will not separate the contents of any envelope. It is your responsibility to make efforts to prevent this type of unacceptable material to be transmitted through correspondence at CEEC.” In other words, the well paid “security department” and snoops are just too damned lazy to hand the unobjectionable letter on to the prisoner.
No we don’t expect prisons to be a vacation. Yes, many of the liberties of the inmates are curtailed, but the receipt of mail is not just a human right but it is also important for prisoner morale and, very likely, for reducing frustration and tension in the institution.
![Photo: Brad Love -- Another Two Weeks in Jail Waiting for the Crown to Get Documents
LINDSAY, January 20, 2014. At mid-afternoon, the court could hear the clanging of chains from behind the door leading down to the cells. Brad Love's distinctive voice could be heard talking to the two burly prison guards in bulletproof vests. The door opened and there was the prisoner in leg chains -- a dangerous letter writer, accused of sending a letter to his lawyer!
Mr. Love, already in prison for five months awaiting an appeal date for a May, 2012 conviction and draconian sentence of 18 months for breach of probation -- sending information packages to four Toronto Jewish groups -- was charged by police on November 28 for writing to his own lawyer.
Bail conditions stemming from a charge last May for sending "scurrilous material" and harassing several media people and politicians in Fort McMurray forbad him to "communicate by post, e-mail or text" with anybody. [Yes, such tyranny was imposed in Canada!] With CAFE's help and legal research, Mr. Love appeared in Court in Fort McMurray, July 11, 2013 and had the bail conditions amended so that he was forbidden to communicate only with the parties involved in the complaint against him -- a significant victory.
The Crown, however, despite Mr. Love's court appearances December 19 and January 2, seems unable to locate the transcript of the order.
Crown prosecutor Lucas O'Neil said: "I understand the issue is whether there was a variation. Since the last court date [thanks to Peter Lindsay, Mr. Love's lawyer in the appeal] we have received a certified copy of the information and it's our belief the condition remains in effect. I can advise that I will review the file and reconsider before we go to trial. I would accept a guilty plea and a three month sentence consecutive with the time already served."
Mr. O'Neil charged that Mr. Love "had been cautioned about the conditions on the recognisance on November 19 by an investigative officer with the OPP. Yet, still he wrote a letter to his lawyer and inside was a second envelope with letters to the Toronto Star and MPs, with a handwritten note asking that these letters be forwarded."
Mr. Love, acting as his own counsel, retorted: "Any mail from prison to my lawyer is privileged under the Charter of Rights and freedoms. On July 11, I was granted an oral amendment of my bail conditions. It is being transcribed as we speak. Eighteen days ago, the Crown told me to breach what they are arguing is my recognisance by contacting my lawyer" to obtain the transcripts from Fort McMurray! Mr. Love urged the judge to dismiss the charge and complained: "I still have no appeal date. This matter has been going on far too long. This charge is holding up my appeal."
Referring to the offer of a guilty plea and three months in prison, Mr. Love rejected the deal: "Three months is a little harsh for a breach, when others get far less for violent acts."
The judge Mr. Justice McDougall said: "There is no such thing as an oral amendment."
Mr. Love said the transcript of the July 11 hearing and amendment was being prepared in Alberta."
The judge then asked the Crown a hitherto unconsidered question that struck a layman as painfully obvious: "Did anyone ever ask if this order was over-reaching?" -- a polite way of saying wildly unjust and unfair."
The Crown seemed flustered: "Mr. Love agreed to it" (in order to obtain his freedom and return to work). I can make some further inquiries."
A frustrated Mr. Love demanded: "I want this settled today. Nothing in the court documents sent from For McMurray deals with the July 11 hearing. This matter is holding up my life. I ask that the charge be withdrawn."
"I cannot do that," said Crown O'Neil. "I will make further inquiries about the oral variation."
So, the matter was put over until February 3.
Speaking to CAFE the next day, Mr. Love described a case where a prisoner was charged with assaulting police. The Crown wanted a 55 day sentence. Yet, for writing a letter to his own lawyer, the Crown was demanding 90 days for Mr. Love. Political dissidents in Canada are always treated more harshly than violent run-of-the-mill criminals.
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Reviewing the previous day in Court, Mr. Love said: "I got them to admit they had opened my mail sent to my lawyer from prison."
He also said that, when he appeared before the judge in Alberta, July 11, the judge agreed that the condition that Mr. Love was not to write, e-mail or text anyone was extreme. The amendment of the bail condition was oral, but "it is now being transcribed into paperwork,. Peter Lindsay has paid for it to be transcribed."
In another development, Mr. Love had complained to the Ontario Ombudsman's office about the opening of his mail to his lawyer. "I received a snarky answer: 'Mr. Love you are under Court order not to write or contact anyone!'" Actually, the original bail conditions only prohibited writing, not phone calls. -- Paul Fromm](https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/p480x480/1601069_266357673530480_90661019_n.jpg)
![Photo: Political Prisoner Brad Love Charged for Writing to His Own Lawyer
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The decade long saga of state persecution of inveterate letter writer Brad Love reached a new low this week, when he was charged with writing a letter to his own lawyer
Brad Love called me from prison this morning and reported that, on November 28, police arrived at the prison in Lindsay where he's being held pending an appeal of the 18-month sentence he was handed for breach of probation.
He was charged with violating an Alberta bail undertaking or condition forbidding him to write, text or e-mail to any person. [Yes, that was a condition for freedom pending trial in Alberta, not North Korea!] In July, Brad went back to Court and had the bail conditions amended so that he could write to anyone, except the parties to whom he was charged with sending "scurrilous" political material.
"The cops are just bullies," Mr. Love told me. "They arrest the free speech guy in jail for writing to his own lawyer about free speech. It's crazy! I told them to check the paper work. I'm allowed to write to my own lawyer" Peter Lindsay, and, indeed, anyone other than certain politicians and media people in Fort McMurray."
Further, Mr. Love reported, a fellow inmate who had sent out some letters for Bad was warned: "You could be getting out of here soon. You'd better have nothing to do with Brad!"
Mr. Love is scheduled to appear in Court in Lindsay on December 12 to answer the "breach" charge.
If you would like to give permission to Brad Love to write to you, call Kevin Nesbit, Deputy Superintendent (Operations) for the prison and give your name and address and our permission for Brad to send you letters. The phone number is 705-328-6000.
You can write to political prisoner Brad Love, one of our "men behind the wire" at:
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Brad Love [557137416]
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C.E.C.C.,
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541 Highway 36,
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Box 4500,
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Lindsay, ON.,
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A date has still not been sent for an appeal against Mr. Love's 2012 conviction and 18-month sentence for breach of probation.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/1460054_248012342031680_492420005_n.jpg)
![Photo: Free Speech Meeting Hears Update on Political Prisoner Brad Love
TORONTO. October 9, 2013. Paul Fromm was the guest speaker at this evening's monthly meeting of the Alternative Forum. In addition to updates on the catastrophic loss by the Free Dominion 4 in a defamation suit launched by Ottawa chronic complainant Richard Warman. Mr. Fromm discussed the continued incarceration of voluminous letter writer Brad Love.
Mr. Love was sentenced, in July 2012, to 18 months in prison for breach of probation and was slapped with a further three year gag order, preventing him from writing to the press or politicians. [Yes, this story is about Canada, not North Korea!] Very close to the end of his probation period under a 2003 "hate law" conviction, Mr. Love send information packages to a number of Jewish groups in regards to Anti-Israeli Apartheid Week in 2009. Mr. Love was the victim of a high impact takedown, ironically, at a Toronto free speech meeting. Eight Metro detectives, handcuffs jangling, burst into the meeting, with a Globe and Mail photographer in tow, to arrest Mr. Love for "breach of probation."
Mr. Fromm explained that Canada's "hate laws" constitute not just an abuse of process, but an abuse BY process. Mr. Love, who works in the Alberta oil patch, was required to fly back to Ontario 10 times for various court appearances in this breach of probation case. Most breach of probation cases result in a small fine or 30 days in jail. Mr. Love spent several thousand dollars on each trip -- airfare, car rental, lost wages -- as well as legal fees. In the end, Judge Kelly Wright did not accept that the Jewish groups had consented to receive Mr. Love's non-threatening negative opinions about Israel in the mail.
The Crown, in her arguments, had made it clear that the political gagging of Mr. Love was her goal: "Mr. Love, in the Crown's submission, in a unique offender," Judge Wright intoned. She indicated that her goal was "to prevent" Mr. Love's "views from hurting other people. We need to protect the public from hateful, scurrilous material." And, so, he must be silenced.
Mr. Fromm noted that violent gangbangers who breach probation orders do little jail time. However, people with dissident political views -- like people who peacefully picket abortuaries in violation of bubble zones or letter writers like Mr. Love -- are buried in jails.
Mr. Fromm explained that Mr. Love had been out on bail since September. The bail was mysteriously revoked by the Crown in July. So, this hardworking, non-violent letter writer has been sitting in the Lindsay Provincial jail for four months, awaiting his appeal which is coming up in November.
Free speech supporters at the meeting eagerly signed a card of support for Political Prisoner Brad Love. This is part of the Canadian Association for Free Expression's political prisoner outreach programme, Mr. Fromm explained.
Why not drop him a line or post card of support. He'll write back:
Brad Love [557137416]
C.E.C.C.,
541 Highway 36,
Box 4500,
Lindsay, ON.,
K9V 4S6](https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/1385754_234830603349854_829788683_n.jpg)
![Photo: From Canadian Political Prisoner, Brad Love
Brad Love, a decade after his conviction under Canada's notorious "hate law" (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) for writing non-threatening letters to public officials criticizing Canada's immigration mess, is still mired in the toils of repression. In July 2012, for sending some information packages to some Toronto Jewish groups, he was sentenced to a further 18 months in prison, plus a further three year gag order from writing letters to the media or politicians. He applied for bail; pending an appeal. In July, 2013, this bail was arbitrarily revoked. So, for the past three months, he's languished in jail, again for nothing more than the non-violent expression of his populist, no nonsense working guy views,.
Brad was employed in a lucrative job in Alberta's tar sands in Fort McMurray. The arbitrary imprisonment punishes him for his views, denies him an income and, ironically, denies the state a hefty junk of his pay in taxes.
Why not drop him a line or post card of support. He'll write back:
Brad Love [557137416]
C.E.C.C.,
541 Highway 36,
Box 4500,
Lindsay, ON.,
K9V 4S6
Here's the latest. Peter Lindsay, my lawyer,. will have my appeal heard in Nov. That's all I know. He is also working on retrieving my $22,000 in cash bail. Otherwise my once productive life is at a standstill.
In Free Seech News, we read of the following:
*** My hometown of Ft. Mac which ain't the bastion of western outspokeness, we were led to believe, radio station Rock 97.9 banned Neil Young, who compared oil sands development to Hiroshima.
*** In France, Bouchra Bagour sent her kid "Jihad" to school wearing a T-shirt emblazened with "I am a bomb". She was fined $2785.00, her brother 5,573.00. The max you can receive in France for such nonsence is 5 years in jail or a $62,694 fine.
*** In Ontario, the OPP showed up at the doors of outspoken cottagers, seniors to do threat assessments on their activities about nearby nuke waste dumping. They label this 'building relationships'. They did not investigate nor interview those who will not do the actual dumping. I call this 'KGB intimidation".
*** In Israel, they named some sort of bird park built on stolen land after Stephen Harper. In the Toronto Star. letter writers, some Jewish, complained of such bird brained hypocrisy. Personally, I'm hoping for a severe outbreak of bird flu!
Here in the Lindsay Jail, 200 illegal immigrant detainees shipped here from the West Detention Center (where Zundel was illegally held), went on a one-day hunger strike to protest being brought to this far from Toronto jail where phone calls and visits are long distance and lawyers hard to access. Of course, the Immigration Lawyers Society jumped in to complain.
Me, I'm from Alberta, and I'm in jail for simply writing about such scum. Can I complain too? As for an actual 'hunger strike'? We eat at 7:30, 11:30 and 4:30 p.m. 9 hours for 3 meals. In their shithole countries, I'd probably wait twice that long in jail for someone to bring me a cup of dirty water. Snivelling, uninvited urchins, all of them!
I received the multi-signed card from you and I read all the books I can get my hands on and the Star comes daily. I wrote their people as well whenever I see them gloating over dismissed fire fighters, gays/gypsies on the Lakeshore and oh yeah, free speech, which they seem to think is only for "journalists".
But hey, foul-mouthed, loud jewish comedienne, Sarah Silverman in toronto for JUST FOR LAUGHS is A-OK in their book.
I'm in the wrong biz.
Take Care,](https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/554064_231460173686897_97355351_n.jpg)