DOUTEUR EST L'AMI DE MONSIEUR MARCEL DUCHAMP

DOUTEUR EST L'AMI DE MONSIEUR HENRY DICKSON ET DE MONSIEUR MARCEL DUCHAMP ET L'AMI DE DAME MUSE ET DES MUTANTS GÉLATINEUX LGBTQ OGM ET DE MADEMOISELLE TAYTWEET DE MICROSOFT - SECONDE TENTATIVE OFFICIELLE D'Ai - INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE - ET DE MONSIEUR ADOLF HITLER, CÉLÈBRE ARTISTE CONCEPTUEL AUTRICHIEN ALLEMAND CITOYEN DU MONDE CÉLÈBRE MONDIALEMENT CONNU - IL EST DANS LE DICTIONNAIRE - SON OEUVRE A ÉTÉ QUELQUE PEU CRITIQUÉE MAIS ON NE PEUT PLAIRE À TOUT LE MONDE ET PERSONNE N'EST PARFAIT ! VOILÀ!

DOUTEUR EST L'AMI DU PROFESSEUR BULLE QUI EST L'AMI DE DOUTEUR

DOUTEUR EST L'AMI DU PROFESSEUR BULLE QUI EST L'AMI DE DOUTEUR
DOUTEUR - DE LA FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DU DOUTE EST AMI DU PROFESSEUR BULLE - DE L'INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONISTE CONSPIRATIONNISTE - DES THÉORICIENS DU COMPLOT ET DES CONSPIRATIONS ET DES COMPLOTISTES ET CONSIRATIONISTES - AMI DES THÉORICIENS DU NON COMPLOT ET DES THÉORICIENS DE L'EXPLICATION ET DE L'UNION DES JOVIALISTES ET INTELLECTUELS ORGANIQUES - AUTISTE ASPERGER GEEK RELATIVISTE CULTUREL PYRRHONIEN NÉGATIONNISTE RÉVISIONNISTE SCEPTIQUE IRONIQUE SARCASTIQUE - DÉCONSTRUCTEUR DERRIDADIEN - AMI DES COLLECTIONNEURS DE BOMBES ATOMIQUES - AMI DES PARTICULES ÉLÉMENTAIRES ET FONDAMENTALES ET AMI DE L'ATOME CAR LA FUSION OU LA FISSION NUCLÉAIRE SONT VOS AMIS

UN JOUR LES MUTANTS GOUVERNERONT LE MONDE - CE NE SERA PROBABLEMENT PAS PIRE QU'EN CE MOMENT

UN JOUR LES MUTANTS GOUVERNERONT LE MONDE - CE NE SERA PROBABLEMENT PAS PIRE QU'EN CE MOMENT
LES MUTANTS EXTERMINERONT OU NON LES HUMAINS - ET NOUS TRAITERONS PROBABLEMENT AUSSI BIEN QU'ON SE TRAITE NOUS-MÊMES ENTRE NOUS - ET PROBABLEMENT AUSSI BIEN QUE L'ON TRAITE LA NATURE ET TOUT CE QUI VIT

dimanche 31 octobre 2010

4804. UN T-SHIRT CONTRE LES IMBÉCILES DU TEA PARTY EST-CE SUFFISANT?


Photo. http://shop.comedycentral.com/The-Daily-Show-Rally-to-Restore/M/B00450RHHK.htm

COMEDY CENTRAL SHOP

http://shop.comedycentral.com/The-Daily-Show-Rally-to-Restore/M/B00450RHHK.htm

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Rally to restore sanity.

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

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March to keep fear alive

http://www.keepfearalive.com/

4803. CLOTHILDE - LA CHANSON BÊTE ET MÉCHANTE

CLOTHILDE - LA CHANSON BÊTE ET MÉCHANTE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBYSdvm6lc&feature=related

Quand j'avais douze ans j'aimais beaucoup mon frère
L'était épatant, l'avait un œil de verre
Qu'il aurait sûrement gardé sa vie entière
Si je ne l'avais pas vendu aux enchères

Si vous trouvez pire (hin hin)
Plus bête et méchant (hin hin)
Courez vite m'écrire (hin hin)
Vous êtes les gagnants (hin hin)
Gnan gnan

Ma sœur était une bonne cuisinière
Elle faisait des mille-feuilles et des éclairs
Un jour j'y ai mis quelques morceaux de verre
C'était si marrant d'les voir s'rouler par terre

Si vous trouvez pire (hin hin)
Plus bête et méchant (hin hin)
Courez vite m'écrire (hin hin)
Vous êtes les gagnants (hin hin)
Gnan gnan

Mon cousin était gardien d'un cimetière
Une nuit pour l'effrayer j'ai mis un drap vert
Il me vit soudain surgir en pleine lumière
Et le lendemain c'est lui qu'on mit en terre

Si vous trouvez pire (hin hin)
Plus bête et méchant (hin hin)
Courez vite m'écrire (hin hin)
Vous êtes les gagnants (hin hin)
Gnan gnan

Mon oncle Gontran était un milliardaire
Qui m'donnait d'l'argent à ne pas savoir qu'en faire
Il m'en fallait tellement pour me satisfaire
Qu'il mange maintenant à la soupe populaire

Si vous trouvez pire (hin hin)
Plus bête et méchant (hin hin)
Courez vite m'écrire (hin hin)
Vous êtes les gagnants (hin hin)
Gnan gnan

Si vous trouvez pire (hin hin)
Plus bête et méchant (hin hin)
Courez vite m'écrire (hin hin)
Vous êtes les gagnants (hin hin)
Gnan gnan

4802. MALHEUREUSEMENT, ON NE PEUT EN DIRE AUTANT À L'ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE.

LOFT. CLOTILDE EST INDIGNÉE DU COMPORTEMENT DE CERTAINS LOFTEURS.


MAURICIE

PARC DE L'ÎLE MELVILLE

DE MOINS EN MOINS D'ACTES INDÉCENTS

27 octobre 2010
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/mauricie/2010/10/27/004-parc_Melville_indecence.shtml

Les visiteurs qui s'adonnent à des actes indécents au parc de l'île Melville, à Shawinigan, sont beaucoup moins nombreux.

Le maire de Shawinigan, Michel Angers, et le directeur régional de la Sûreté du Québec, André Magny, ont confirmé mercredi que les moyens mis de l'avant pour enrayer les actes indécents entraînent les résultats espérés.

Ainsi, 14 personnes ont été arrêtées depuis avril, soit depuis le début de cette opération. Celle-ci a été marquée par la présence accrue de policiers et par l'installation de caméras de surveillance et de panneaux indiquant aux utilisateurs du parc de dénoncer les visiteurs indésirables.

Il y a eu, en tout, une quarantaine d'opérations policières durant la même période. Les 14 arrestations ont toutes eu lieu durant les 10 premières opérations policières.

Neuf hommes dont les âges varient de 33 à 77 ans ont plaidé coupables, notamment à des accusations d'agressions sexuelles.

Les autorités ne veulent pas dire combien de caméras de surveillance ont été installées dans le parc.

« Ça valait le coût. Ça a coûté moins de 5000 $ pour la mise en place de plusieurs caméras », souligne le maire Michel Angers.

Les visiteurs indésirables toujours présents

Cependant, des visiteurs indésirables entreraient encore par des endroits non surveillés.

La directrice du parc, Marie-Louise Tardif, remarque tout de même une grande amélioration. Elle affirme que les familles qui fréquentent le parc sont de moins en moins exposées à des scènes disgracieuses.

Ce qui importe, selon elle, c'est que la surveillance se poursuive tout au long de l'année « que ces gens-là ne connaissent pas les saisons », dit-elle.

La police a l'intention de poursuivre ses opérations pour tenter d'enrayer ces actes indécents qui existent au parc depuis au moins 40 ans.


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4801. ZOUZOU - DEMAIN

4800. LA MONARCHIE EXPLIQUÉE AVEC SIMPLICITÉ ET ÉLÉGANCE

Image. Hervé Philippe

http://exilinterieur.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

4799. LE COMBAT DE MONSIEUR LE PREMIER MINISTRE CONTRE LE DESTIN. ROUND NUMÉRO 1.


POLITIQUE

JEAN CHAREST IMPOPULAIRE DANS SA CIRCONSCRIPTION

27 octobre 2010
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/estrie/2010/10/27/002-Charest_popularite_Sherbrooke.shtml

Les résultats d'un sondage téléphonique effectué du 19 au 25 octobre par la firme Segma recherche ont été publiés jeudi dans le quotidien La Tribune.

Ce sondage place le premier ministre du Québec, Jean Charest, au rang le plus bas dans sa circonscription, Sherbrooke.

Ainsi, le taux de satisfaction des électeurs envers Jean Charest atteint 35 %.

Des 503 personnes sondées, 70 % disent ne pas avoir confiance en Jean Charest, et 3 répondants sur 4 (76 %) se disent favorables à la mise sur pied d'une enquête publique dans le domaine de la construction.

Le sondage a été mené auprès de 503 répondants. La marge d'erreur est de 4,4 %.

Jean Charest représente la circonscription de Sherbrooke à l'Assemblée nationale depuis novembre 1998.

De 1984 à 1998, il a été député fédéral de Sherbrooke pour le Parti progressiste-conservateur.


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Image. Chapleau. La Presse.

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http://exilinterieur.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

Exil intérieur

Que vous arriviez ici par hasard ou parce qu'on vous en a indiqué le lien, soyez le bienvenu. Vous n'y trouverez cependant rien de croustillant, de spectaculaire ou quoi que ce soit qui ait un lien avec la mode ou même l'actualité criante...

4798. COMMENTAIRES DU PEUPLE. MONSIEUR JOHN JAMES CHAREST ACTUEL LOCATAIRE DU PARLEMENT DU QUÉBEC

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Je n'aurais jamais pu faire un si bon résumé de cet homme.

Je dirais que ce qui explique tout cela c'est que son agenda n'est pas l'économie du Québec ou le redressement des finances publics. C'est d'être le chien de garde des fédéralistes du Canada au Québec.

Il ne fait rien , il gagne du temps et met tout en place pour que le Québec soit dans le trou au point qu'il ne pourra jamais rien faire.

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Jean Charest n'a pas à s'inquiéter pour les prochaines élections.

Car, comme lors de sa dernière élection, la machine libérale va se mettre en marche. Elle va aller chercher les gens inaptes à voter dans les centres (alzheimer et autres....). Elle va les amener au bureau de scrutin et s'assurer qu'elle vote libéral.

C'est la raison de sa derniere réélection qui, rappellez vous, fut fait de justesse.

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Il récolte ce qu'il a semé...

Il n'écoute guère le peuple Québécois, va à l'encontre de ses besoins, cache trop de trucs, dont son deuxième salaire, premier pour un Premier Ministre du Québec.

Il prend des décisions douteuses dont le Métro de Montréal qui va coûter plus cher que prévu sans compter le retard. L'îlot Voyageur, c'est 400 millions de perte...

La Caisse de dépôt, 44 milliards dans le trou et ne veut donner aucun détails et dit oui a des bonus farfelus !

Trop de doutes, dont la Commission Bastarache dont il est le président, il nomme le juge, les avocats, les personnes qui seront témoins... bref ! Rien de transparent !

Son entêtement de ne vouloir une enquête publique sur la construction et le Parti Libéral du Québec dont 80% de la population exige depuis des mois et des mois !

Il est arrogant, indiscipliné et nous dit de se serrer la ceinture, mais fait des dépenses folles avec nos impôts, voilà quelques raisons, car il y en n'a plusieurs autres, pourquoi Jean Charest doit quitter son poste et d'éclencher des élections générales.

Question de diginité et de démocrasie ! [Beaucoup demander à un politicien!]

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POLITIQUE

JEAN CHAREST IMPOPULAIRE DANS SA CIRCONSCRIPTION

27 octobre 2010
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/estrie/2010/10/27/002-Charest_popularite_Sherbrooke.shtml

4797. UN DESSIN VAUT 1000 MOTS. OU AU MOINS 999 !


Image. Michel Lavigne

https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/content/group/2f277a37-f87f-4b03-801e-99c421442ba7/SLI-08/website/SLI-08_activites.htm

4796. 400e ANNIVERSAIRE DE DU QUÉBEC. (DE LA VILLE? DE LA PROVINCE? DE L’EX-PAYS DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE ?)


Image. Côté. Le Soleil

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https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/content/group/2f277a37-f87f-4b03-801e-99c421442ba7/SLI-08/website/SLI-08_activites.htm

Français, cours du soir. University of Virginia, été 2008

Illustration de la complexité de la situation québécoise avec cette caricature parue dans un journal québécois, Le Soleil, au début du mois de juillet 2008 :

Les personnes représentées sont, de gauche à droite :

1- Régis Lebaume, maire de la ville de Québec 2- Pauline Marois, chef du Parti Québécois (indépendantiste) 3- Jean Charest, premier ministre du Québec, chef du parti libéral du Québec (donc pro-canadien) 4- Stephen Harper, premier ministre du Canada, Parti conservateur canadien 5- Stéphane Dion, chef du parti libéral du Canada, donc de l'opposition à Stephen Harper (il est québécois et pro-canadien) Le dernier, et bien, c'est un 6- Amérindien... c'est pas Max Gros-Louis (le représentants de tous les Amérindiens du Canada), est-ce un stéréotype sans identité????

4795. CHRISTINE DELAROCHE - DES TIGRES ET DES MINETS

vendredi 29 octobre 2010

4794. LU

Le chemin le plus court pour atteindre le coeur d'un homme est de lui transpercer la poitrine.

Roseanne Barr.

p. 88. Sex & Sensibility. Liza Donnely.

L'amour, le désir et les hommes croqués par les dessinatrices du New Yorker. Éd. Michel Lafon

mercredi 27 octobre 2010

4791. SERGE GAINSBOURG.+ JANE BIRKIN - BALLADE DE MELODY NELSON

4790. QU'IMPORTE LE FLACON POURVU QU'ON AIT L'IVRESSE

MUSSET AVAIT TORT. LE FLACON ET LA BOUTEILLE OU LE TONNEAU COMPTE.












The internet is a buzz with rumors on the latest “viral” video of Dan Aykroyd showing us his new Crystal Head Vodka in a gorgeous glass skull. Rumors include this being a video for the new Ghostbusters or some Indiana Jones… but i guess lesson to be learned here is ~ just because it’s going viral, doesn’t mean it’s not real!

I actually bought a few bottles today ~ lots of pics on the next page! Not the smooooothest thing i’ve tasted, but it’s not bad, and i’m totally in love with the glass skull bottle made by Bruni Glass in Milan, Italy. Apparently it is made by Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd, out of Newfoundland water triple crystal filtered through herkimer diamonds (aka double-terminated quartz crystals)! Really the story is just great though, and the video and bottle make the experience priceless ~ here are excerpts from the box: “In reverence of those enlightened after touching any of the thirteen crystal heads unearthed around our globe we offer this pure spirit”… “One of the most compelling archeological mysteries is the story of the 13 Crystal Heads. These heads are believed to be between 5,000 and 35,000 years old and were carved over a period of several hundred years but without any tool marks. In fact their very construction defies the laws of physics and common logic. They are believed to offer spiritual power to those who hold or possess them.”

See the pictures of the real thing and the video on the next page!

UPDATE: Dan did some crazy internet researching for us and here are some fun facts: Dan Aykroyd is not only an actor, but co-founder of the House of Blues, part owner of Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd (which distributes Patron in Canada), and is building his own winery, Dan Aykroyd Wines (which uses 100% snob free grapes!). There is a great interview with him on delish before the vodka release where he exposes how serious he is about wine, Crystal Skulls, UFOs, and “pure spirit from Newfoundland glacial pool water, and peaches and cream corn mash”!

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CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA

http://www.crystalskulls.com/crystal-head-vodka.html

Dan Aykroyd mixes two passions

Crystal Skulls & Spirits

Crystal Head Vodka (erroneously called Crystal Skull Vodka)

launched in selected markets as of October 2008

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Dan Aykroyd has enjoyed a three decades long career in the entertainment business. An Emmy-award winner and Grammy and Oscar nominee, Dan Akroyd has accomplished what many can only dream of in Hollywood and beyond.

In total, the films with which Dan Aykroyd has had principal associations have grossed close to one billion dollars worldwide box office. These include such blockbusters as LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, BLUES BROTHERS, SPIES LIKE US, DRAGNET, GHOSTBUSTERS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, CONEHEADS, NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (VALKENVANIA) and BLUES BROTHERS II. see full profile

In an interview with Dan Aykroyd, he states:

Regarding Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: "I didn’t realize the Indiana Jones movie was about the crystal skull legends, which I have followed for 13 years. We designed a skull-shaped bottle from Bruni glass, an art piece which I think everyone will want. [The vodka] is a pure spirit from Newfoundland glacial pool water, and peaches and cream corn mash. We’re releasing it in October and calling it the 'Crystal Head Vodka'.”

In the video on the official website of Crystal Head Vodka, Dan Akroyd talks about the crystal skulls as follows:

"Scientists estimate that it took between 300-500 years to carve one of these skulls from a single piece of quartz."

"Navajo believe that the crystal skulls were bestowed on their people as a gift from higher beings not of this Earth as a means of cataloguing sacred cultural knowledge from the past, assessing the present, and foretelling the future."

"Contrary to the common perception of a skull as representing death, the people from these cultures - the Aztec, Mayan and North American First Nations, for whom these artifacts possess sacred and mystical properties - associate the crystal heads with a life-affirming symbology. In ancient tellings, the heads are living and sentient, sources of knowledge, insight and power."

"The Mexican 'Day of the Dead' is an example of how, in Latin America, the skeleton is celebrated as an icon representing life beyond our corporeal existence."

Crystal Head Vodka is presently only available in select areas, however, due the successful launch that has seen it already sold out in many markets, production is sure to expand to meet national and international demand for this unique premium vodka.

You could spend hours trying to find Crystal Head Vodka in your city, but unfortunately because this is a specialty product, you can only buy Crystal Head Vodka in very few places. So we provided this courtesy link so you can buy Crystal Head Vodka online at a reasonable price - that includes shipping to your home.

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TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 08, 2008 (MARKET WIRE)

Acting legend Dan Aykroyd has joined creative forces with American landscape artist and sculptor John Alexander to launch Crystal Head Vodka. In a tribute to the 13 Crystal Skulls found in various locations around the world Crystal Head Vodka is the purest spirit possible.

"Unlike most vodkas in today's marketplace that use additives, glycol, citrus and sugar to improve smoothness and flavor, Crystal Head Vodka is a pure spirit with no additives. It is quadrupled distilled and filtered three times through charcoal followed by triple filtration over Herkimer crystals from one of the planets rarest deposits of close concentrated semi-precious stones" said Aykroyd. The vodka is distilled by the Newfoundland Liquor Corporation and uses water sourced from the Province's deep aquifer glacial pools located over a thousand miles away from major sources of continental pollution.

Aykroyd is working with a leading US importer, The Infinium Spirits division of Wilson Daniels to market Crystal Head Vodka in the US. Crystal Head Vodka, which will be available initially in California, Texas, Nevada, Louisiana and Florida will retail for $49.95 per 750 ml bottle.

In Canada, Crystal Head Vodka is available in Newfoundland will be available in Alberta and New Brunswick in coming weeks.

According to Dan Aykroyd, "Purity is what separates exceptional vodka from merely good vodka. Crystal Head Vodka is truly in its own class in terms of purity and taste. Initial tasting reaction to the beverage has been extremely positive as people are enjoying exactly what we set out to achieve, a creamy under flavor without overcharged slipperiness," says Aykroyd.

To contain Crystal Head Vodka, Dan commissioned his friend, internationally known American landscape painter and portrait artist John Alexander to design and create an anatomically correct rendering of a human skull. Alexander's design is manufactured by master artisans in Milano's Bruni Glass Company.

"I have painted skulls for years in my work. I've been to the Mexican Day of The Dead festivals many times and have always been intrigued by the 13 Crystal Skulls. These artifacts discovered all over the planet, so the legend goes, were each carved from a single quartz crystal. There are seven in man's possession and several bear no discernible tools marks. Technicians at Hewlett Packard concluded most should not exist as they were cut totally against the grain of the original crystal. The Aztec, Mayan and Navajo cultures record evidence that there are enlightening and healing powers associated with these skulls. We thought it would be worthwhile and fun to develop a pure spirit to commemorate the legend and its positive meaning", said Alexander.

Aykroyd's interests in spirits and brand promotion originated with his co-founding of House of Blues Entertainment Inc. now a division of the world's largest concert company, Live Nation Inc. Aykroyd also acts with J.P. Dejoria as the importer to Canada for the Patron Spirits Company line of products (www.patronspirits.com). He is also the licensor to Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd., in Niagara, Ontario, Canada for the Aykroyd Cabernet Merlot, Chardonnay, and the award winning Sauvignon Blanc and Shiraz and Vidal Ice Wine beverages.

John Alexander, designer of the Head, continues to exhibit internationally and produce master works from his studio in Long Island.

For more information about Crystal Head Vodka, please visit www.crystalheadvodka.com

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CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA

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Give A Great Gift Of Crystal Head Vodka

Crystal Head Vodka is a pure spirit with no additives. It is quadruple distilled and filtered three times through charcoal followed by triple filtered through Herkimer crystals. The box it comes in says “In reverence of those enlightened after touching any of the thirteen crystal heads unearthed around our globe we offer the pure spirit.” A special gift. For U.S. Delivery Only.

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4789. Francis Blanche. Brigitte Bardot - KOLOSSALE FINESSE

4788. IVAN HENRY ET LA MACHINE À SAUCISSE JUDICIAIRE ET LÉGALE




A photograph in Ivan Henry’s appeal court file shows him in a police lineup in 1982 being restrained by three police officers, one of whom has him in a headlock, while other men in the lineup are laughing.

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This 1982 Vancouver police lineup photo, with an officer holding Ivan Henry in a choke hold, was submitted to the B.C. Court of Appeal, which has overturned his convictions. (CBC)


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This is the police line-up that used to identify Ivan Henry as the culprit responsible for a string of violent sexual assaults in Vancouver in the early 1980's. Police officers are physically restraining Mr. Henry and his lawyers argue that this unfairly pointed to him as the number one suspect in the case, prompting victims to point to him as the man who attacked them. —Handout. Globe and Mail.

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CANADA


COLOMBIE-BRITANNIQUE


VANCOUVER


ACQUITTÉ APRÈS 26 ANS EN PRISON

27 octobre 2010
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/colombie-britannique/2010/10/27/002-Ivan-Henry-acquitte.shtml

La Cour d'appel de la Colombie-Britannique a acquitté Ivan Henry des 10 chefs d'accusations de nature sexuelles pour lesquels il a été emprisonné pendant 26 ans. Le jugement a été rendu mercredi matin à Vancouver.

En 1983, l'homme de 63 ans avait été reconnu coupable de trois chefs d'accusation pour des viols sur des femmes entre mai 1981 et juin 1982 dans trois quartiers de Vancouver, et de sept autres chefs d'accusations de nature sexuelle.

Il a toujours clamé son innocence.

Selon les juges de la Cour d'appel, plusieurs erreurs ont été commises lors du procès.

Par exemple, la Couronne a admis que des preuves n'avaient pas été divulguées à l'accusé, qui se représentait seul. Le juge de première instance aurait aussi erré dans ses instructions aux jurés.

Devant la presse, M. Henry a remercié ses avocats et les juges de la Cour d'appel. Il a aussi exprimé sa reconnaissance aux membres de sa famille. Il a expliqué que ceux-ci l'aident à apprivoiser les changements qui sont intervenus dans la société pendant les années, près de trois décennies, pendant lesquelles il a été en prison.

« Je crois en l'honnêteté »,

a mentionné le sexagénaire qui a ajouté ne pas ressentir de frustrations malgré la situation qu'il a vécue.

M. Henry a indiqué qu'il préfère passer du temps avec les membres de sa famille plutôt que de ressasser le passé.

L'homme de Vancouver a été libéré sous certaines conditions l'an passé. La Couronne avait alors demandé à la Cour d'appel de la province de rouvrir l'affaire.

Radio-Canada.ca avec Presse canadienne

COMMENTAIRE

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26 ans de compensation financiere et de dédommagement moraux... combien de millions?

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B.C. MAN ACQUITTED ON DECADES-OLD RAPE CONVICTIONS

October 27, 2010
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/10/27/bc-ivan-henry-ruling.html

Ivan Henry has been acquitted of all 10 sex-related charges that sent him to prison for 26 years, the B.C. Court of Appeal said Wednesday morning in Vancouver.

The 63-year-old Vancouver man was convicted in 1983 of three counts of rape and seven other sexual offences but maintained his innocence throughout his more than two decades in prison, before he was released on bail last year.

"This is kind of overwhelming," said Henry as he stood on the steps of the courthouse surrounded by his two daughters and legal team after the ruling was announced.

"I would have to thank my family, because [if] it wouldn't have been for my family, I don't think that I would have made it," he said.

SURPRISINGLY HAPPY

Henry's cheerful demeanor surprised many on hand for the ruling, but he said he was not angry or bitter.

"It would not heal me if I was angry," he said. "That wouldn't do any good. I would just walk around then start drinking or whatever. No, I can't do that."

He has yet to decide yet if he plans to seek compensation for his wrongful conviction. Instead, his immediate plans included getting his teeth fixed and spending time with his family and his new dog, he said.

"I've got grandkids that I'm so proud of, and I got a little dog that I look after, and he's my friend," he said.

Henry was freed last year when a special prosecutor concluded there may have been a miscarriage of justice in his case, and a police investigation pointed to a different suspect in the attacks.

He said adjusting to life after 26 years in prison was difficult at first.

"It was really hard to get out, eh, you know," he said. "There was a lot of things that bothered me when I first got out, eh. Specifically … everybody, so many people, so many cars, so many … just everything .… It was really hard on me, because I come from 1982 and we didn't have the same amount of people and stuff.

"I'd still like to say to people that are still incarcerated, don't give up," he said.

"All I care about is justice prevailed today," said his daughter Tanya Olivares.

"This has been a sentence for my dad but also to my sister and I. It's 29 years of knowing nothing else."

IMPRISONED IN 1983

Henry's convictions related to the rapes of several women that occurred between May 1981 and June 1982 in three Vancouver neighbourhoods.

On Wednesday the appeal court ruling quashed all the convictions and granted him an acquittal on all 10 counts.

The appeal court said the trial judge erred by instructing jurors they could find Henry guilty because of his reluctance to participate in a police lineup in 1982 and that the instructions on the proper identification of a perpetrator were inadequate. Henry represented himself at the original trial.

It also ruled the charges should have been divided into separate trials and a mistrial should have been declared when the Crown abandoned an application for jury instruction.

The court ruled any of the errors would require a new trial if considered alone but that evidence against Henry as a whole was incapable of proving the element of identification on any of the 10 counts, and thus the verdicts were unreasonable.

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IN HIS WORDS

Read a transcript of Ivan Henry's reaction to his acquittal

TRANSCRIPT: IVAN HENRY REACTS TO ACQUITTAL

27 oct. 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/10/27/ivan-henry-acquittal-transcript.html


"I have to thank my family, because [if] it wouldn't have been for my family, I don't think that I would have made it. In the psychological terms, you know, because it was really hard to get out, eh? You know, there was a lot of things that bothered me when I first got out, eh? Specifically, the — everybody, so many people, so many cars, so many — just everything, so much bulk in cafes and everything. It was really hard on me because I come from [19]82 and we didn't have the same amount of people and stuff.

"The world changed big-time, right? And of course it's still going to take a couple of days to realize all this stuff. Because this is kind of overwhelming, if that's the right term, right? I'd like to get my teeth fixed, I'd like to get everything done, you know, and try to work from there, you know — and with a great family, how can you not win?

"I thank [you] all, all across the country and all Canada, you know, because we do live in a wonderful, wonderful country. I believed [I would be cleared] from the very, very beginning — I thought it was a joke, in a sense. And as the joke kind of went away, I don't know, I had a great belief in God and in people, honesty. I believe in honesty, a lot of it, and maybe that's why, right? Because there's not much — well, we all got to believe in honesty, in some sense, that something will always work right, if you just wait for it, right? ....

"[The acquittal] wouldn't heal me if I was angry. That wouldn't do any good. I would just walk around and then start drinking or whatever. No, I can't do that. I've got grandkids that I'm so proud of and I got a little dog that I look after, and he's my friend...

"It's just the way it is, right? And I'd like to say to people that are still incarcerated, 'Don't give up. You know, keep plugging ahead and work to ... get out and to learn what society is all about. It's not all a dirty world, eh?' You know, we're all here to try to help each other and maybe, that way we can — I don't know — become better with each other, right, and try to live together. Because it's only one world and that's about it. And I don't know what else I got to say."

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B.C. MAN WRONGLY CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS


ROBERT MATAS

Oct. 27, 2010
Vancouver
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-man-wrongly-convicted-of-sexual-assaults/article1774830/

The B.C. Appeal Court has ruled that Regina-born Ivan Henry was wrongfully convicted of a string of sexual assaults in Vancouver 27 years ago and has been in prison since then for crimes he did not commit.

Mr. Henry, 64, joins a growing list of men who have been wrongfully convicted in Canada that includes David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin, Donald Marshall and, most recently William Mullins-Johnson.

Mr. Henry's case stands out in the annals of injustice in Canada for the length of time he served in prison before he was absolved of the crimes. His two daughters were seven and nine when he was incarcerated. He now has three grandchildren.

The B.C. Court of Appeal decided he should be acquitted on all charges.

“The verdicts [on all charges] were unreasonable,” a three-member panel of the appeal court stated in a 39- page ruling released Wednesday. “Legal errors were made at the trial and the appeal must be allowed.”

The evidence was incapable of proving identification of Mr. Henry as the perpetrator on any of the charges, the appeal court judges concluded.

Also, the trial judge made a number of errors, including when he instructed jurors that they could infer consciousness of guilt from Mr. Henry's resistance to participate in a police line-up, they decided.

Further, the appeal court stated the trial judge erred in failing to separate the counts and, at one point, to declare a mistrial.

“Any of these errors standing alone, would require this court to order a new trial,” the appeal court judges stated.

Mr. Henry was in a holding cell when he heard about the court ruling. He was released from custody last year while the court considered his appeal but was required to return to jail Wednesday morning, in case the court ruled against him. He was not in court when the ruling was distributed to the lawyers.

He was released from custody less than an hour later. In remarks on the courthouse steps, he was gracious to ”the good judges [who] propelled this into acquittal” and insisted he was not angry about spending almost three decades in prison for crimes he did not commit.

“That would not do me any good,” he said. “Walking around, maybe start drinking or whatever. I cannot do that. I got grandkids that I’m so proud of. I got a little dog I look after. He is my friend. It is just the way it is.”

He said he believed he lived in “a wonderful, wonderful country.”

Mr. Henry also offered a message to those still in prison who may be innocent. “Keep plugging ahead and work to get out and learn what society is all about. It is not all a dirty world. We all here to try to help each other and maybe that way, we can, I don’t know, become better with each other and try to live together. It is only one world,” Mr. Henry said.

Mr. Henry was convicted in 1983 of three counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault in attacks on eight women between May, 1981 and June 1982 in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. He was subsequently declared a dangerous offender, which means that he could be held in custody indefinitely.

Mr. Henry made more than 50 applications over the years, trying to have his case reconsidered. It was only after evidence surfaced in 2006, during an investigation related to serial killer Robert Pickton, that he found others who believed in his innocence. It took another four years for the court to decide whether to overturn his conviction.

Mr. Henry protested his innocence from the day of his arrest on July 29, 1982 at One Hundred Mile House in the B.C. Interior. “They approached me with a gun in hand, telling me I was under arrest for rape, unlawful confinement and kidnapping,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “I thought, I don’t know, what can I say. The gun is there. I cannot do much about it. I cannot just peel away in my car.”

Mr. Henry was interviewed at a coffee shop in North Vancouver, on the day before he was to hear the court ruling. He was accompanied by two lawyers, who interrupted occasionally to redirect his responses to some questions and divert him from talking about the details of his case or his previous criminal record.

Munching on a slice of pumpkin cheesecake, he was prepared to talk about his experiences while incarcerated. But his replies were often rambling, disjointed and difficult to follow.

He recalled the Mounties showed him the charges against him once they had taken him back to the station. They asked him if he knew serial killer Clifford Olson. “I said, yeah, he was my next door neighbour in jail,” Mr. Henry said before one of his lawyers cut him off and reminded him of what he wanted to stay away from during the interview.

Asked about when he was in jail before this incident, one of his lawyers intervened again. “I want to stay away from the past. The past was not very good to me. . . I was in jail before, for lots of stuff,” Mr. Henry said.

He had a significant criminal record beginning with property crimes, that dates back to before being arrested for sexual assaults in Vancouver. He was convicted of attempted rape involving a threat of violence in 1977 in Winnipeg. He was sentenced to five years. He was on mandatory supervision for the attempted rape conviction when he was arrested in July, 1982.

Mr. Henry said he did not initially take the charges seriously. He thought the authorities would realize they made a mistake. It took several months before he accepted that he was really in trouble.

He represented himself at his trial and questioned the victims aggressively, according to media reports. He did not trust any lawyer to represent him, he said in the interview. But despite taking charge of his defence, he felt he did not receive a fair trial. “[The judge] figured I was a sharp shooter, a talker. The record indicated I had no concern for anybody, that I was just a villain,” Mr. Henry said.

However he did not blame the judge for what he saw as unfairness. Mr. Henry said he does not want to blame anyone. “What for? I am not going to heal that way,” he said.

As the years passed, his biggest fear was that he would die before he would be released from prison. He never believed he would really remain in prison for the rest of his life, he said. He offered a wager of $5,000 to the guards, betting that he would be released, he said.

Religion and letter-writing to more than a dozen people, including a priest, sustained him while he was in prison, he also said. “It is tough to maintain stability without anybody giving you a little push,” Mr. Henry said.

He refused to participate in rehabilitation programs, professing his innocence. The court has heard that he worked most of the time while in prison as a cook and he mostly kept to himself. The Parole Board described his behaviour as “non problematic.”

Psychiatric and psychological assessments in recent years have reported that he suffers from personality disorders that leave him seriously dysfunctional in interpersonal relationships and in society, the court was told. However Mr. Henry does not have a major psychotic illness.

The prosecution in 1982 relied mostly on eyewitnesses and voice identification evidence from the victims. In re-opening the case last year, the court found that the prosecution failed to disclose 27 oral and written victims’ statements to police and failed to tell him about forensic and police reports indicating biological material that could have been subject to testing that may have returned results excluding him.

Among the issues raised during the review of his case was a photograph of Mr. Henry in a police lineup in 1982. A police officer had him in a headlock; other men in the lineup appeared to be laughing. Some of his alleged victims identified him during the line-up.

The recently-identified suspect lived in the area of the offences and was believed to resemble Mr. Henry in appearance. Also, the suspect had been convicted of three sexual assaults in the same neighbourhood. A publication ban prohibits the identification of the suspect.

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HenryCOURT OF APPEAL FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA
(24 pages)

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00969/Regina_v_Henry_Judg_969861a.pdf

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MAN WHO SPENT ALMOST 27 YEARS IN PRISON APPEARS CLOSE TO VINDICATION

Rod Mickleburgh

Jun. 21, 2010
Globe and Mail
Vancouver
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/man-who-spent-almost-27-years-in-prison-appears-close-to-vindication/article1612226/

For decades, Ivan Henry was variously scorned, ignored and rejected as he fought desperately from behind bars for someone to listen to his cry of innocence.

Now, more than 25 years after his conviction of a string of violent sexual assaults against eight Vancouver women in the early 1980s, Mr. Henry, 63, appears close to vindication and the prospect of spending his remaining years free at last of incarceration and the stain of guilt.

“It seems to me that [his] appeal has to be allowed,” B.C. Court of Appeal Mr. Justice Richard Low declared Monday, as an unusual hearing into Mr. Henry’s case began.

The only remaining issue to be decided by the court, added Judge Low, is whether Mr. Henry should be tried again or receive an outright acquittal.

If he is acquitted, his nearly 27 years in jail would be one of the longest prison stretches in Canadian history by someone who was innocent.

“That is 27 years too long,” his lawyer David Layton told the court. “This case is an almost perfect paradigm of an unsafe conviction.”

There were “serious deficiencies” in the trial judge’s charge to the jury, the Crown failed to disclose crucial information and Mr. Henry decided to act as his own lawyer, which, “to say the least, he was ill-prepared to do,” Mr. Layton said. “It was … a perfect storm of weakness, flaws, mistakes and deficiencies.”

As he listed the trial’s alleged shortcomings in withering detail, Mr. Henry’s daughters listened from the front row, often shaking their heads in dismay. A box of tissues was beside them.

Mr. Henry has been free on bail for the past 18 months, living with his daughter in North Vancouver, while undergoing psychiatric counselling and obeying a curfew imposed on him by the court.

The chances of a new trial succeeding are slim, given that the main evidence against him was his identification by some of the victims from a bizarre police line-up photo, derided by Mr. Layton as “egregiously flawed.”

The photo shows half a dozen, mostly smiling stand-ins and Mr. Henry, grimacing from a headlock and other restraints from several police officers who are forcing him into the lineup.

“This made it clear [to the victims] that he was the police suspect … and a pretty strong suspect,” said Mr. Layton, who noted nonetheless that three of the victims did not identify anyone in the lineup and one identified a stand-in. “Any competent defence lawyer would have made a big deal out of the line-up.”

Upon his conviction in 1983, Mr. Henry was declared a dangerous sexual offender. Because he showed no remorse, insisted on his innocence and at times exhibited unusual behaviour, his many bids for parole were rejected.

Mr. Henry’s case was reopened in 2006, after the Crown learned of new information pointing to another suspect. He was finally granted leave last year to appeal, despite the passage of time. The Crown did not contest the application.

Before new evidence surfaced, however, Mr. Henry got nowhere trying to have his case reviewed. Still acting as his own lawyer, he filed an initial appeal back in the 1980’s, but it was never acted upon.

Over the years, he kept up a constant barrage of files and petitions, seeking medical records, DNA evidence and police records that might prove his innocence. In 2000, the B.C. Supreme Court dismissed his applications as “frivolous and inappropriate.”

The Appeal Court hearing continues today.

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HENRY APPEAL TARGETS 1983 JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR

ROBERT MATAS

Feb. 21, 2009
Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/henry-appeal-targets-1983-judge-and-prosecutor/article7793/

Ivan Henry says he was convicted of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault 26 years ago based on a litany of errors by the trial judge and prosecutor.

In a notice of appeal in a highly unusual case, Mr. Henry alleges he was wrongfully convicted and says the prosecutor failed to tell him about forensic and police reports that indicated biological material from alleged victims could have been subjected to testing capable of excluding him.

The prosecutor did not show Mr. Henry, who represented himself, 27 oral and written statements made by alleged victims. The prosecutor also did not tell him about information relating to other police suspects. One of the suspects lived in the area where the crimes were committed, resembled Mr. Henry in appearance and was convicted of three sexual assaults in the same neighbourhood.

Mr. Henry has been in custody since July 29, 1982, after his arrest for a string of 10 attacks against eight women in Vancouver. He was convicted and declared a dangerous offender in 1983. Appeals in 1984 and 1997 were unsuccessful.

However, the B.C. Court of Appeal in January decided to re-open the case, 10 months after a special prosecutor, Len Doust, concluded that Mr. Henry's conviction may have been a miscarriage of justice.

At his trial, Mr. Henry testified on his own behalf, denying he had committed the crimes. The prosecution relied mostly on eyewitness and voice-identification evidence from the victims.

In his notice of appeal, Mr. Henry states that his submissions will be entirely based on grounds involving questions of law. The alleged errors made by the trial judge included telling the jury that it could use Mr. Henry's refusal to co-operate in a police lineup as evidence of guilt and failing to instruct the jury to disregard evidence indicating he was a police suspect in similar sexual assaults in the same area and around the same time.

Mr. Henry has asked the appeal court to set aside his convictions and formally state that he has been acquitted on all counts. Alternately, he has asked for a new trial.

A date has not yet been set for the appeal. Mr. Henry is expected to apply for bail in a few weeks, his lawyer David Layton said yesterday.

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IVAN HENRY'S 1982 POLICE LINEUP PHOTO RELEASED

Neal Hall,

Jan. 15, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Ivan+Henry+1982+police+lineup+photo+released/1185248/story.html
A photograph in Ivan Henry’s appeal court file shows him in a police lineup in 1982 being restrained by three police officers, one of whom has him in a headlock, while other men in the lineup are laughing.

But it was no laughing matter for Henry, now 62, who complained for more than two decades that he was wrongly convicted.

Henry’s 1983 trial ended with him convicted of 10 charges involving eight women.

After serving 26 years, he managed this week to convince three judges of the B.C. Court of Appeal to hear his appeal.

Court documents released Thursday to The Vancouver Sun indicate at least two of his alleged victims witnessed him being restrained by police in the lineup, drawing their attention to him.

They later testified against him.

One of them told his trial: “There was one person in particular that was being held by three police officers as he seemed to be either unable to stand on his own or was struggling somehow and so he was being restrained.”

The woman testified she was “pretty sure” her assailant was “the one that was being held by police — No. 12.”

Henry wore the number 12 around his neck in the lineup, which was held when he was first arrested.

In a summary of witness testimony contained in the appeal court file, another of Henry’s alleged victims testified she was told the men in the lineup were going to repeat something said during the sex attacks, “but we didn’t get a chance to really hear their voice.”

Another woman testified she did hear Henry speak in the police lineup and recalled:

“There is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Henry’s voice is the voice of the man who attacked me.”

The day of the lineup, Henry was also interrogated and then released from custody by Vancouver police. He was not charged at the time.

He was arrested again in 100 Mile House on July 29, 1982 and has been in custody ever since. He was initially charged with a 19-count indictment, later reduced at trial to 10 charges involving eight women.

For years, Henry has complained that he was an innocent man and he has made a total of 55 applications trying to get the appeal court to reconsider his case.

The B.C. Court of Appeal repeatedly dismissed his applications as frivolous — until this week.

The appeal court file, made available to The Sun following an application to the chief justice, includes rambling, disjointed, handwritten correspondence from Henry with the appeal court dated Nov. 10, 1983, after he was found guilty but before he was declared a dangerous offender, which carries an open-ended sentence.

Henry said in the document that he was “dragged” into the police lineup, his hands were forced behind his back and “a picture was snapped of me.”

He said in the affidavit to the court that he left town the next day and was babysitting his children at the time one of the alleged offences occurred.

He added: “I have not done any charge set out in indictment CC821614, nor do I know any of the women, period.”

Henry’s appeal is expected to be heard later this year. His lawyer, Cameron Ward, said he expects to apply soon to have his client released on bail.

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TRIAL JUDGE DEFENDS IVAN HENRY’S CONVICTION

Ian Mulgrew

Jan. 15, 2009
Canwest News Service
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Trial+judge+defends+Ivan+Henry+conviction/1193975/story.html

The judge who presided over the 1983 sex-crimes trial of Ivan Henry reopened by the Court of Appeal has fired back in his blog at critics who have questioned the fairness of the trial.

Retired B.C. Supreme Court justice John Bouck says he did everything possible to ensure Henry got a fair trial and he continues to believe justice was done in spite of last week’s announcement that another man may be responsible for Henry’s crimes.

The B.C. Court of Appeal last week reopened Henry’s case because of evidence that he was not the man responsible for a series of sex crimes in the 1980s.

After a jury convicted Henry, Justice Bouck declared him a dangerous offender and ordered him imprisoned indefinitely.

Prosecutors have now declared a miscarriage of justice may have occurred and Justice Bouck felt he had to speak out.

“I am handicapped with respect to some of the particulars since I do not have a copy of the trial transcript or the investigators’ report,” he began on his Sunday posting on bouckslawblog.typepad.com

“Before the 1983 trial commenced, Mr. Henry’s lawyer advised me that Mr. Henry did not want his representation. He wanted to defend himself. In open court and in the absence of the jury Mr. Henry confirmed his position. I urged him not to proceed without legal advice. He insisted that he wanted to go ahead without a lawyer.”

In its unprecedented ruling, the Court of Appeal cited the special prosecutor’s concerns that Justice Bouck had failed to give Henry as much aid during the trial as he should have.

“I did my best to help him but with little success,” Justice Bouck said in his posting.

“The gist of the prosecution’s case was Mr. Henry’s alleged modus operandi. All of the rapes occurred near his residence. The Crown alleged that around 2:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. he jimmied open ground floor sliding glass doors where the single women complainants lived and sexually assaulted them. When the time came for his defence he did not call any witnesses and declined to take the witness stand in his own defence.”

Justice Bouck said also that Henry put into evidence a picture of his police lineup that put him in a bad light even though he was told not to do so.

As well, the justice says in his Internet posting, that Henry was on parole for two earlier rapes he committed in Saskatchewan at the time he committed the 1983 offences.

Justice Bouck today asks why Henry’s wife, who is now dead, didn’t testify on his behalf at the trial. And he maintained that while he was serving time for the Saskatchewan offences, Henry learned how to install sliding glass doors.

“The Attorney-General criticized my handling of the case,” Justice Bouck said. “I admit that Mr. Henry did not get a perfect trial or a perfect dangerous offender hearing. Nobody does.

“Trials are conducted and decided by imperfect human beings applying imperfect laws. The most the criminal justice system can offer is a fair trial. Mr. Henry got both a fair trial and a fair dangerous offender hearing.”

Justice Bouck insists that if Henry did not receive a fair trial, it is his own fault.

“According to media reports, Mr. Henry asked for legal help in pursuing his appeals but never got it,” Bouck said.

“If that is true, it is a condemnation of the Attorney-General’s Legal Aid system which lawyers and judges constantly criticize. The Attorney-General’s investigators did not bother to interview me before they condemned me publicly nor did they send me a copy of their report.”

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ON MEMORY: EYEWITNESS ERRORS COSTLY


http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Memory+Eyewitness+errors+costly/2368643/story.html
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B.C. MAN ACQUITTED OF RAPES AFTER 26 YEARS IN JAIL


By Petti Fong
With files from Canadian Press.

0ct. 27 2010
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/881841--b-c-man-acquitted-of-rapes-after-26-years-in-jail?bn=1

VANCOUVER – A relieved and “happier than ever” Ivan Henry, who was acquitted Wednesday after spending 26 years in jail, says his first plans for freedom is seeing his grandson's soccer game.

Henry told his daughter Wednesday after hearing BC's highest court have ordered him released that he wants to watch a soccer game and go out for dinner.

A three panel of judges on the B.C. Court of Appeal quashed the convictions and acquitted Henry on all counts Wednesday as the now elderly and frail man and his daughters, who have been fighting for years to overturn the convictions, applauded the new ruling.

Henry’s sentence is believed to be the longest anyone in Canada has spent behind bars for a crime in which they were subsequently acquitted.

He said he's not angry after years of trying to get himself exonerated for crimes he didn't commit.

“It wouldn't heal me if I was angry,” a jubilant Ivan Henry said Wednesday as he hugged his two daughters outside court.

“I've got grandkids that I'm so proud of. I've got a little dog that I look after, and he's my friend.”
“I'd like to say to people who are still incarcerated, `Don't give up. Keep plugging ahead and work to get out and to learn what society's all about. It's not all a dirty world. We're all here to try and help each other.'”

Henry was convicted in 1983 of 10 counts of rape and indecent assault of eight women. The victims were alone at night when their assailant gained access to their basement or ground level suites. The offences included five counts of indecent assault, two counts of attempted rape and three counts of rape.

Henry was convicted by a jury and later declared a dangerous offender by a trial judge, which imposed on him an indeterminate sentence.

Henry, who represented himself in the initial court proceedings, filed appeals but none of them were successful until this latest one, which was heard earlier this year in Vancouver.

His appeal was based on a number of grounds including what was referred to in court as “consciousness of guilt.”

After Henry’s arrest in 1982, he refused to participate in a physical line-up. Police officers forced him into the line-up and one officer held him in a headlock as seen in a photograph that was entered as evidence in his appeal.

While in a headlock, Henry struggled and shouted and was restrained. One uniformed constable put his arm around Henry’s neck and forced his head up. His photograph was used in a photographic line-up and seen by some of the witnesses.

Another police investigation reopened doubts about Henry’s guilt following a 2002 operation called “Project Smallman.” Vancouver police re-investigated 25 unsolved sexual assaults committed from April 1983 to July 1988, a period when Henry was already in prison.

DNA evidence obtained during “Project Smallman” led to the arrest and conviction of another man identified only as DM because his identity is protected under a publication ban.

Crown prosecutors noted similarities between the Henry case and the “Project Smallman” findings and brought those similarities to the attention of B.C.’s criminal justice branch which appointed an independent lawyer to reinvestigate a potential miscarriage of justice in Henry’s conviction.

The courts ordered that an appeal be re-opened and a 12-day trial was held last June.

In ordering Henry’s conviction quashed, the B.C. Court of Appeal Wednesday found that the trial judge had made several errors including the judge’s instruction that Henry’s photo resisting participation in the police line-up could be used as evidence of “consciousness of guilt.”

While the court of appeal judges said the evidence from Project Small does not “exonerate” Henry, it is evidence capable of raising reasonable doubt that should have been enough to lead to his acquittal at the initial trial.

Henry was released from prison two years ago pending his appeal and has been living in North Vancouver with one of his two daughters. Tanya Olivares, 38 and her younger sister Kari Henry, 35, who were children at the time their father went to jail, have been fighting for their father’s appeal.

They are expected to talk later Wednesday about the family’s ordeal and whether Henry, who is now 64 and in ill health, will seek financial compensation for the time he spent in prison.

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WRONGFULLY CONVICTED RAPIST ACQUITTED 26 YEARS LATER


By QMI Agency

October 27, 2010
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/10/27/15850126.html

After 26 years behind bars for a series of rapes he didn't commit, 63-year-old Ivan Henry was acquitted of all charges Wednesday.

Speaking to journalists outside the courthouse, Henry said he holds no resentment about his wrongful conviction.

“I'm not angry. What good would that do?” he said. “It wouldn't heal me if I was angry.”

Henry was convicted in 1983 of three counts of rape — now called sexual assault under the Criminal Code— two counts of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault in attacks on eight women between May 1981 and June 1982 in Vancouver.

He was declared a dangerous offender, and had it not been for this most recent appeal, he could have remained in jail indefinitely.

But an appeal was granted after Crown prosecutors noticed similarities between Henry's case and an ongoing investigation.

Police have since identified another suspect in the assaults, but a publication ban prohibits the identification of the suspect.

Known only as DM, he lives near the crime scenes and has been convicted of three sexual assaults in the same neighbourhood.

Henry has always maintained his innocence. He filed 55 applications to the court seeking an appeal because he claimed he was wrongfully convicted.

The three-judge panel in the B.C. Court of Appeal said Henry was convicted based on a victim's description that didn't meet the necessary standards.

The panel also said the trial judge erred in instructing the jury they could infer Henry knew he was guilty because he hesitated to participate in a police lineup in 1982.

When Henry refused to enter the police lineup, an officer put him in a headlock and twisted his face towards the camera.

Some victims then used this photograph to identify him.

The new suspect reportedly resembles Henry.

Furthermore, the charges should have been divided into separate trials, the judges said.

“Any of these errors standing alone would require this court to order a new trial,” reads the ruling.

Standing outside the courthouse, Henry's lawyers lauded the ruling.

"There was no basis for a conviction in 1983 and there's no grounds today,"

one of the lawyers said.

Henry's two daughters were also outside the courthouse Wednesday to celebrate their father's victory. They were three and nine when their father went to jail.

“Justice prevailed today and we're just going to move ahead,”

said his daughter Tanya Olivares.

“This has been a sentence for my dad, but it's also been a sentence for us right down to our children.”

Henry said he can't wait to spend time with his daughters, his three grandchildren and his dog.

His wife died while he was still in custody, and Wednesday's ruling comes on the 20th anniversary of her death.

Henry, who was released from prison last year, said he was having difficulty adjusting to life on the outside.

“The world has changed big time. It's kind of overwhelming,” he said.

But he kept a brave face, praising his family, the country and God.

“It's not all a dirty world. We're all here to help each other,” he said.

Henry is one of many men who have been wrongfully convicted in Canada, including David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin, Donald Marshall and William Mullins-Johnson.

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B.C. MAN WHO SPENT 27 YEARS IN PRISON AS SERIAL RAPIST ACQUITTED ON ALL COUNTS

By Neal Hall,

Oct. 27 2010
VANCOUVER SUN
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/spent+years+prison+serial+rapist+acquitted+counts/3734673/story.html

VANCOUVER - A 64-year-old man who served 27 years for sex crimes he said he didn't commit has been acquitted on all counts.

Ivan Henry was convicted in 1983 of 10 charges of rape and indecent assault involving eight women. After filing 55 applications to the court seeking an appeal, claiming he was wrongly convicted, he was granted an unprecedented appeal last June, when his legal team argued he should be acquitted and set free in light of new police investigation involving similar crimes.

A three-judge panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the trial judge made three errors in his instruction to the jury.

"The evidence as a whole was incapable of proving the element of identification on any of the 10 counts and the verdicts were unreasonable," Appeal Court Justice Richard Low wrote in the unanimous decision, with Justices Risa Levine and David Tysoe agreeing.

"The appropriate remedy under second. 686(2)(a) of the Criminal Code is acquittal on each count," the ruling said. "I would allow the appeal, quash the convictions and enter an acquittal on each count."

Henry likely would seek financial compensation from the B.C. government for wrongful conviction.

David Milgaard, who spent almost 23 years in prison for the 1969 sex murder of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller, was awarded $10 million after a DNA test confirmed what he had claimed for years - he wasn't the killer.

One of Henry's lawyers, David Layton, said outside court that Henry holds the record in Canada of the longest-serving man who was acquitted.

He said Henry wants to enjoy his first day of freedom with his family before discussing compensation with his lawyers, which include Marilyn Sandford and Cameron Ward.

Layton said the appeal court cannot declare innocence but came close to exonerating him by saying the evidence was "polluted" and should not have resulted in a conviction in 1983.

His daughters told reporters that they are thrilled that justice finally prevailed after almost three decades.

Henry was released on bail last June 2009, and has been on bail under electronic monitoring under very restrictive conditions.

He has been living with his daughter in North Vancouver but had to surrender himself to custody this morning, pending the appeal court decision.

Minutes after the court ruling, Henry came outside court and hugged his daughters with tears welling in his eyes.

"I certainly have to thank my good lawyers," he told reporters.

"And I have to thanks the good judges, because it was them who propelled this into acquittal.

"And I have to thank my family because if it wouldn't have been for my family, I don't think I would have made it," Henry said.

"It was really hard to get out."

He said he still is adjusting to life outside prison, saying the world has changed since 1982.

"So many people, so many cars," he said.

"I come from '82, we didn't have the same amount of people and stuff, eh," he explained. "The world changed, big time, right."

Henry said he was "not at all" angry that it took so long to get released.

"It wouldn't heal me if I was angry," he said. "That wouldn't do any good. I'd just walk around and start drinkin'," he added.

"I've got (three) grandkids I'm so proud of."

He said he would like to send a message of "don't give up" to others in prison like him.

He recalled thinking when he was first convicted it was a cruel joke but always believed he would overturn his conviction.

Asked if he wished he would have had a lawyer at trial rather than representing himself, he smiled and said; "That's like a boat without oars, eh."

He then walked off with his daughters, who planned to go out to dinner with their dad to celebrate..

Henry was convicted solely on identification by the victims.

The appeal court found the identification was weak and the trial judge erred by instructing the jurors that they could infer consciousness of guilt from the resistance of Ivan to participation in the line-up conducted by police on May 12, 1982.

The appeal court also found the trial judge's instruction on the element of identification was inadequate.

And, the ruling said, "There should have been severance of the counts and a mistrial when the Crown abandoned its application for jury instruction on count-to-count similar fact evidence," the appeal court panel decided.

Henry was convicted in 1983 of raping and indecently assaulting eight Vancouver women. He was declared a dangerous offender and sentenced to an indefinite prison term.

Now 63, Henry has claimed for years he was wrongly convicted. His protests fell on deaf ears.

He filed dozens of court application to try to reopen his case, at times asking officials to compare the forensic evidence from the crime scene to his own blood type.

His applications, made without the aid of a lawyer, were dismissed as frivolous.

Unfortunately, the physical evidence from crime scene that may have contained DNA to help exonerate him was not kept by police or the Crown. It was destroyed.

Henry's appeal offered a shocking piece of evidence used to convict him - a 1982 photograph showed Henry in a headlock by a police officer during a lineup, held to see if rape victims could identify their attacker.

The lineup was made up of police officers in civilian clothes. Most were smiling.

The only one not happy in the photo was Henry, who yelled and struggled as he was brought in for the police lineup.

"If this had been disclosed, it would have been a gold mine for a defence lawyer," Appeal Court Justice Richard Low said of the photo during Henry's appeal hearing in June, when the court reserved judgment.

The Crown now admits that the identification process used by the police completely undermined the value of the victims' identification of Henry as the assailant.

The Crown's conviction was based almost solely on identification.

Many of the women victims could not provide enough detail to identify Henry as the rapist until the police lineup.

Some of the victims identified Henry only by his voice, which was heard during the police line-up.

The day of the lineup, Henry was interrogated and released from custody by Vancouver police. He was not charged. He was arrested again in 100 Mile House on July 29, 1982 and was initially charged with a 19-count indictment, later reduced at trial to 10 charges involving eight women.

Henry complained for years that he was an innocent man. He made a total of 55 applications trying to get the appeal court to reconsider his case.

The appeal court considered him properly convicted. It changed its mind in January 2009, when Henry was granted an appeal.

The reversal partly stemmed from a Vancouver police department review of old sex cases spurred by the Robert (Willie) Pickton murders.

The investigation, dubbed Project Small Man, led to the 2006 appointment of special prosecutor Len Doust, who was asked to find out if a miscarriage of justice might had occurred.

His report in 2008 led to the unprecedented order that Henry's appeal be reopened.

Henry's apparent wrongful conviction might not have come to light if it hadn't been for the sharp memory of a veteran Crown prosecutor, Jean Connor, who was reading a memo about an accused serial rapist that rang a bell four years ago.

Connor recalled in an interview last year that she was surprised how similar the facts in the memo were to the ones she remembered from a sex case more than two decades earlier.

She took the document and walked down the hall to the office of her colleague, Mike Luchenko, who had prosecuted the Henry case in 1983.

She read out details of the crimes contained in the memo, then asked: "Who's that?"

"Ivan Henry," Luchenko replied.

Connor told him it was another man facing similar charges involving more than 20 women.

Connor said she and Luchenko then went to their boss at the time, Mike Hicks, now a judge, and told him about the similarities in the cases.

That meeting led to then attorney-general Wally Opal appointing Doust to review the Henry case as a possible miscarriage of justice.

Henry's daughters, Tanya Olivares, 37, a North Vancouver mother of two, and Kari Henry, 35, were optimistic their father would be exonerated after a 27-year battle to clear his name.

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Photo http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Ivan+Henry+1982+police+lineup+photo+released/1185248/story.html
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Photo http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Ivan+Henry+1982+police+lineup+photo+released/1185248/story.html
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Photo http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-man-wrongly-convicted-of-sexual-assaults/article1774830/

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Photo http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/10/27/bc-ivan-henry-ruling.html

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Photo http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/881841--b-c-man-acquitted-of-rapes-after-26-years-in-jail?bn=1

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Image. Alconis

http://www.birdsdessines.fr/bd/fin_du_monde.png

http://www.birdsdessines.fr/2009/04/23/fin-du-monde/

http://www.birdsdessines.fr/author/alconis/

4786. JEAN YANNE - ALLELUHIA . FILM: TOUT LE MONDE IL EST BEAU, TOUT LE MONDE IL EST GENTIL

lundi 25 octobre 2010

4785. LES JOIES DE LA SCIENCE


Photo. http://forum.webnetters.org/discussion-generale/cigarette-cafeine-5954.html

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/surgestix.shtml

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4784. BORIS VIAN - LA JAVA DES BOMBES ATOMIQUES

4783. PHYSIQUE AMUSANTE. LA BOMBE ATOMIQUE RUSSE


Photo. Réplique de la Tsar Bomba dans un musée

http://www.julg7.com/blog/2009/02/16/tsar-bomba-la-bombe-reine/

JulG7 – Le blog

Les pieds sur terre, la tête dans les nuages…

TSAR BOMBA

Tsar Bomba », la reine des bombes, est la bombe H la plus puissance jamais conçue

Par rapport à la bombe Atomique (la bombe A) basée sur le principe de la fission nucléaire, la bombe à Hydrogène (bombe H) tire son énergie de la fusion de noyaux légers.

En comparaison, les bombes d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki (300 000 morts) avaient une puissance de « seulement » 0,013 et 0,020 mégatonnes,

tandis que la Tsar bomba possède une puissance 100 mégatonnes (soit 7000 fois plus puissante).

Cette bombe de 27 tonnes produit une boule de feu de 7km de diamètre et décape totalement la surface d’impact sur un diamètre de 70 km, il est probable que le souffle produirait encore des effets à plus de 1000 km de ce point.

Le test de la plus grosse explosion fut soviétique : 57 mégatonnes.

Le troisième étage de la bombe, destiné à atteindre 100 mégatonnes ne fut pas utilisé pour ce test.

Cela aurait engendré une augmentation de 25 % des retombées radioactives mondiales depuis l’invention de la bombe atomique.

L’onde de choc sonore a fait 3 fois le tour de la Terre et l’éclair de l’explosion était visible à plus de 1000km

[Il y a même quelques films présentant la magnifique explosion de 47 secondes. Vive la science!]

4782. PHILIPPE KATERINE - LE POULET N°728120

4781. OFFICER BUBBLES


SI UNE DE TES BULLES DE SAVON ME TOUCHE,
TU SERAS ARRÊTÉE POUR ASSAUT!

[Nous pouvons voir une terrible agression de la part d’une jeune femme blonde – on les sait capable de tout- contre un policier. Qui nous en protègera? L’arme du crime, des bulles de savon. On ne le sait pas assez que le savon est cancérigène et il vaut mieux ne pas se laver. Cette conspiratrice sera finalement arrêtée.]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEc

"OFFICER BUBBLES"- FROM BUBBLES TO BOOKINGS ?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP_LB_ZhcTA&feature=channel

BURSTING 'OFFICER BUBBLES'

[À 3.58 min. On peut une autre jolie blonde au gilet mauve se faire accrocher par un policier suivie d’une prise d’étranglement avant de la jeter à terre en pleine face. Lui par-dessus elle. Loi de la physique. L’agent avec son gilet pare-balle et équipement devait peser le double de son poids et la dépasser d’une bonne tête. Les os de la dangereuse terroriste (elle était là donc c’était une preuve suffisante qu’elle avait l’intention de terroriser les gens en faisant des poèmes comme l’autre fille en lançant des bulles). (ou c’est une conspiratrice qui prenait l’air au lieu de comploter dans son sous-sol, elle pouvait donc facilement devenir contagieuse.) Il est bon que la foule ou l’individu inutile, interchangeable et sans importance comprenne quelle est sa place dans la vie. Si des parent attentionnées et des professeurs dévoués – incapables d’enseigner le français mais en éducation transversale très habiles à montrer la soumission - ne sont plus capable de se faire obéir, craindre ce qu'on appelle: montrer l'autorité ! Il faudra bien que l’employeur se dévoue, il a des décennies pour ce faire. Si l'employeur désespère à son tour, il restera la force du syndicat de la police. On peu voir une centaine de policier armés – la plupart ayant enlevé l’étiquette d’identification au cas où ça se passe mal, on ne sait jamais- dans un quartier paisible en train de démontrer aux habitants le sens de la vie. Ils ont des lunettes de fumée pour leur donner un air mafieux qui, comme on sait, impose le respect.]

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THE WHOLE "OFFICER BUBBLES" STORY : TORONTO NEIGHBORHOOD RESPONDS TO G20 POLICING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwXOKZh4Os&feature=channel

[On peut voir un policier donnant des coups de bâtons à des gens assis par terre puis les aspergeant avec sa bonbonne de gaz contre les ours. Ah! L’abus de pouvoir et l’usage exagéré de la force, quel plaisir!]

[On conseilla aux manifestants d’écrire le numéro de téléphone de leur avocat sur le bras au cas où dans l’énervement ils l’oublieraient. Mais la police avait reçu l’ordre d’arrêter toutes les personnes ayant un numéro sur le bras comme faisant parti d’un complot. Et quand une avocate se plaignit on l’arrêta aussi.]

[L’avantage d’arrêter une jeune femme est qu’elle est petite et plus faible. Le colonel Russel Williams comprit très vite tout le plaisir qu’on peut en tirer. ]

[La peur n’atteint sa pleine efficacité que lorsqu’elle est transmise sans logique ni raison ni cause. Avec spontanéité. Abruptement. Ce qui est d’autant plus terrifiant. Mais on peut la laisser mijoter, entrevoir, préparer l'esprit à sa présence. Contrairement à bien des sensations et émotions, on n'arrive jamais vraiment à s'y habituer. Et elle n'ennuie jamais. Et si elle vient d'un fonctionnaire supposé serviteur de la loi préposée à la faire respecter: c'est encore mieux. Un policier doit imposer le respect. Et les gens simples ne repectent que ce qu'ils craignent. L’Histoire démontre que la terreur est un bon moyen de gouvernement. Le plus simple. Le plus facilement accessible à la conscience. Si bon et si efficace qu'après des milliers d'années d'usage dans toutes les parties du monde, on l'utilise encore prioritairement de nos jours. Malheureusement, les occidentaux surtout de milieu aisés ont rarement l’occasion de la voir s’appliquer à eux. Ils en tireraient probablement des leçons profitables.]

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22 OCTOBRE 2010
SUR LE WEB
Vincent Grou

http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/surLeWeb/index.shtml

Tout récemment, un policier de Toronto a demandé à Google de connaître l'identité de commentateurs anonymes sur YouTube. (Il) apparaît dans une vidéo qui s'est répandue de façon virale sur la toile.

On le voit, pendant les manifestations entourant le sommet du G20, menacer d'arrêter une jeune manifestante qui envoie des bulles de savon dans sa direction.
Des internautes lui ont alors donné le sobriquet « Officer Bubbles ».

[Ses amis du poste doivent se moquer de lui ce qu’il doit trouver injuste et traumatisant. Mais il ne peut pas se défouler sur eux. Ce qui est triste. La vie est injuste. ]

[Et les «Droits de l’Homme». Ben! Et la «liberté». Heu! On va faire un poème quand on aura le temps.]


[Et le droits de la Femme! Elle en a déjà assez comme ça!]

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Image. Inventée par Dominique Jolin

http://www.tiji.fr/var/cache/texttoimage/imageobject/f/8/6/f86dd0516cd1542ccbf3b7a9c41870f0/Les_bulles_de_savon_c_est_rigolo.png

http://www.tiji.fr/Tout-Tiji/Ti-heros/Toupie-et-Binou/Images/On-s-amuse!/Les-bulles-de-savon-c-est-rigolo!

http://www.toupieetbinou.com/

http://www.spectra-animation.ca/

http://www.dominiqueetcompagnie.com/catalogue.asp

On s'amuse! : Les bulles de savon c'est rigolo!

Toupie et Binou s'amusent à faire des bulles de savon