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.'”
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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.