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Fighting for Justice over
Clearwater Abbey!
Reverend Brother Michael J.
Baldasaro & Reverend Brother Walter A. Tucker (Right), blanketing Guelph Provincial Court
in 1986. All charges of trespassing on Church Lands at Clearwater Abbey are
dismissed by Judge Bruce Payne at Guelph,
Ontario.
The Federal Crown Prosecutor
previously dropped all cultivation of Marijuana charges, over our
objections, because they did not want our claims to go before a jury.
We were illegally removed from Clearwater Abbey by 30 S.W.A.T.
Ontario Provincial Police who refused to let us put on our clothes. Her
Majesty's minions then chained
us, wrapped us in orange plastic blankets, threw us into the back of a paddy
wagon, dragged us away to a jail cell and then to court where we were
forced to appear before a Justice of the Peace for a bail hearing, clad
only in prison blankets. In the end, Judge Bruce Payne dismissed the
bogus charges, once again over our objections, because the Prosecution
refused to give us the full disclosure they undertook to do under Judge
Payne's previous Orders.
The Churches claim of right
to the Abbey was heard and dismissed by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the
Spring of 1997, 11 years later. An application for Leave to Appeal is
pending before the Supreme Court of Canada.
We shall never quit fighting for our rights and freedoms!
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