The Law is NOT about the TRUTH- CANADA- 2016- there ain't no f**king Law #OneBillionRising- QUOTE from The Lincoln Lawyer: THE LAW... “There is nothing about the law that I cherished anymore. The Law School notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system’s checks and balances, of the search for the truth, had long since been eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizations.
The LAW was NOT about the TRUTH.
It’s about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation.
I didn’t deal in guilt and innocence, because everybody was guilty....of something.
But it didn’t matter...bcause every case I took on was a house built on a foundation of OVERWORKED and UNDERPAID LABOURERS.
They cut corners. They made mistakes. And then they painted over their mistakes with lies.
My job was to peel away the paint and find the cracks.
To work those fingers and tools in2 those cracks and widen them.
To make them so big that either the house fell down...or failing that; the cleient fell through.
Much of society thought of me as the devil, but they were wrong.
I was the a greasy angel. The true road saint. I was needed and wanted by both sides.
I was the oil in the machine.
I allowed the gears to crank and turn.
I helped keep the engine and the system running.
-Michael Connelly – The Lincoln Lawyer
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BEST Quote: (voice of the people) April 26 2016
QUOTE: But there has never been a better time in history to be black in Canada and it’s time we start acting like it.
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Community must confront, change lethal youth violence
RACHELLE M. TURPLE
I was raised in North
Preston and although I’ve been away for some time now and have established
myself in Ontario, Nova Scotia will always be home to me.
I fully respect this is
a sensitive subject and some will find it odd that I’m writing this when I’m so
physically far-removed from the epicentre of the recent tragedies.
But I’m never so far
away from home to not share my honest opinion on the status quo of my home
community and,
ultimately, what I believe it’s
going to take to change it.
With my father, sister
and many other family and friends still residing in North Preston, I have a
selfish and personal interest in the sustainability and safety of the
community.
Some of the people I
love most in the world live “up home” and, unfortunately, I already know how it feels to lose someone to gun violence.
I was 15 in 1992 when we
lost our beloved brother.
He was murdered in a
Toronto nightclub. At the time, I believed those types of tragedies could only
happen in the “big city.” I wish I could still be so naïve.
It’s painful to know my
former home is plagued by the same gun violence that happens here.
When it happens in
Toronto, most times you don’t know the victims personally.
But we’re deeply
disturbed when it happens to someone from the black community in Nova Scotia
because there are fewer degrees of separation between us.
My condolences and
support are extended to each and every family member on all sides of these
incidents.
They are tragically
losing their children to careless acts of violence.
This article is barely a
scratch in the surface of the conversation about work that needs to be done in
this crisis.
The outpouring of
violence is symptomatic of something more insidious working beneath the social
surface in our black communities.
I believe decades of
subjugation and simplistic, bare-bones municipal infrastructure have led us here. We’ve confused having city sewer systems,
city buses and a local police detachment with “progress.”
Working together toward
advancement, development, growth and opportunities for young black Nova
Scotians is progress.
Supporting community
members is progress.
Surviving long enough to
see the positive changes is progress.
Community leadership,
development and political advocacy have to be at the helm of any forward-moving
society, so education, employment and growth can occur.
Security and protection
are also major pillars of society and are integral to progress.
If this lethal violence
continues to escalate, it will result in a generational extinction.
Once the able-bodied
have left the community, or are dead or in jail, North Preston and other black
communities will succumb to complete government control and, inevitably,
gentrification.
We will lose our land.
We will lose our heritage.
If we do not begin to
approach this crisis with a framework of progression, our youth will continue
to stagnate and believe they’ve got nothing to look forward to and, worse,
nothing to lose.
This is largely to blame
for what we see happening now. Our youth are desensitized and apathetic to the
consequences of their actions.
A change of attitude in
the way we parent our children is also needed to turn this around.
We need to re-evaluate
the ways in which we rear and raise our offspring to build a future for them.
We need to re-design our
approaches to discipline and setting healthy boundaries, extracurricular
activities and exposure to mainstream media.
We need to get quiet
with ourselves and be humble to ask the hard questions.
Am I a good parent? Are
my priorities straight? Am I a good example of social responsibility,
self-respect and integrity?
Am I teaching my child
how to show and accept love, care and affection for and from others?
Is my home physically
and emotionally safe? Do I abuse substances that hurt me and, therefore, the
development of my child?
Do I need help? What
could I be doing better? What can I do to improve?
When it comes to family
matters, there will always be challenges. But if we can be the best, healthiest
version of ourselves, it will spill over into our parenting and our children
will benefit from it.
Our communities will
benefit from it. It’s a positive feedback loop.
We need an overhaul
because we cannot afford to lose an entire generation of young black people.
Every time a youth is
murdered, it’s one less person to maintain and build upon our legacy as
indigenous black Canadians.
There is simply no room
in society for violent, antisocial behaviour and deciding to stand up and speak
out against it, regardless of the repercussions, is progress.
I’d rather live in fear
that my convictions and efforts toward progress would get me harmed than be
struck by an unintended bullet.
Get involved. It takes
an entire village to raise a child, but it only takes a passionate effort to
improve the social conditions and to spark progress within the village.
The hardest things to do
and the right things to do are usually the same things.
Trust that I realize
it’s easy for me to say all of this from beyond community borders. But any of you who know me personally also
know that if I was there, I’d be the first to speak up and get involved in
action for improvement. I’d be the first to demonstrate and support leadership
and partnership toward progress.
It’s not lost on me that
I’m writing this article from my cozy bedroom just outside of Toronto, far
removed from the thick of it all.
But there has never been
a better time in history to be black in Canada and it’s time we start acting
like it.
Rachelle M. Turple is a
writer who grew up in North Preston and now lives in Brampton, Ont. She blogs
atBlackLit101.com.
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CHRONICLE HERALD – EDITORIAO 26 April 2016
HOMICIDES IN HALIFAX
Taking on guns-rule
Halifax has a serious violence problem related to guns, young guys and the drug culture.
More serious than in most other Canadian cities. More like many American inner cities, with their cult of guns and their culture of gang-fodder violence. Young men settling scores, chasing status and killing each other with guns.
That message was delivered two years ago in a review by criminologist Don Clairmont of his 2008 report into Halifax violence and public safety.
Looking at how violent crime in the city had changed over six years, he found violence related to conventional crime, swarming and the bar scene (problems that prompted his first report) had declined significantly since 2008.
But gun violence involving young men in the “drug milieu” had risen dramatically. It had pushed homicides and attempted homicides to all-time highs in HRM.
Drug dealing, the report found, had become the rationale for marginalized young men to get guns, the means of paying for them and the subculture in which gun violence is not just about turf and money, but is used to settle personal grievances. The report found these attitudes were “now prevalent in HRM among both whites and blacks in the illicit drug business” and agreed with U.S. studies that “the key is getting at the marginality, the zero-level social status that translates into a violent quest for ‘respect’.”
These concerns are all-too present now as Haligonians cope with a wave of gun violence in the last week: three young men killed and one badly wounded in the course of three shootings — in the West End, on Gottingen Street and in North Preston. Police say three of the men knew each other. One was facing trafficking charges. But investigators have not linked the shootings and have not said there is a connection with drugs.
But there clearly is a connection to a growing and dangerous gun culture in Halifax. So it was important that hundreds of people joined a march Sunday to say they won’t stand for this escalation of violence, to recognize it as a city-wide issue and to commit to working with police to make Halifax safer. There are no quick solutions here, but a key to any progress is a public that stands up to the guns-rule cult by demanding safer streets and by providing information to police that makes safer streets possible.
The 2014 report found gun violence marked Halifax as one of the more dangerous cities in Canada. This was happening in spite of good police programs to disrupt the supply of firearms and to provide rewards, like cameras, for turning in guns. It saw hope in police-community programs to work with vulnerable neighbourhoods to disrupt patterns and attitudes of violence. We need more of those. But people who have information to take guns and gunmen off our streets also need to give it to police.
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