Here I sit on the computer but I don’t really feel like writing a blog of my little experience in court today.
I am mentally drain!!! I just don’t feel like writing or blogging???? < Got to see a doctor >...lol
I’m leaving for the Capital tomorrow.
Lets wait till I get to Fredericton so I can take everything in.
One citizen bought an issue to my attention.
There was good coverage on CFBC and CBC radio but nothing on CHSJ < Irving Company > I wonder why???...lol
Bruce Barlett < Irving reporter for the Telegraph Journal > was in the court room all day long!
I wonder how he’ll cover my trial fpr the Irving Paper in the morning????
Should be interesting???
Stay tuned!!!
6 comments:
Yeah Stay Tuned, Stay Tuned, Stay Tuned, Stay Tuned.
I think the reason you didn't blog about your time in court today is because You Got The Feeling, You are going to lose ?
"Yeah Stay Tuned, Stay Tuned, Stay Tuned, Stay Tuned."
Does this commenter think repeating themselves makes them more serious? Ya sound like a typical yahoo. Just be quiet.
Anyway, on to Charles.
The issue is being touted as one which will define a blogger. It's bigger than that, really. Think of this question, would the cops have tackled JD Irving if he was there snapping pics? The answer? No way. The cops would not have the balls. (Not sure what to say if it was a female copper).
The lives of their families would be ruined as most NBers work for Irving. Think about going into to work knowing your brother had tossed JD to the ground and roughed him up.
They tackled Charles because he's the weakest link.
Now, defending Charles is much like defending the rights of pornographers. (Not that you are one, Charles.) It's messy, but it has to be done.
This trial is more about the police and their mindset. They screwed up, but are could at covering their asses. Ahhh, but here were other cameras around. Maybe they should have tackled all the photographers and stole their film. Then we could say our police took lessons from Venezuelan police while down there trying to get our billion bucks back.
Oh wait, they can't do that. They're stuck here jumping a poor ass blogger.
go charles
Here's How Charles : Just in case you thought the Irving Old Germany as you say, wouldn't cover or report it :
Charged blogger went unnoticed
Bruce Bartlett
Telegraph-Journal
As published on page B3 on November 3, 2006
SAINT JOHN - Charles LeBlanc hopes to make freedom of the press an issue at his trial for obstructing a police officer.
LeBlanc was arrested June 9 at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre when a group of masked protesters attempted to swarm the Atlantica Conference, which was dedicated to improving trade links between Atlantic Canada and the U.S. Northeast.
At the end of the first day of the trial Thursday, where 11 witnesses were called by the prosecution, there was still no direct evidence about LeBlanc's alleged obstruction of the police.
Several witnesses testified that more than 30 protesters, many with bandanas over their faces, stormed the area leading to the meeting hall, shouting slogans and waving signs. No one identified LeBlanc as a member of that group.
Two police officers hired by the organizers to provide security were pushed back against doors leading to the conference rooms before other officers arrived to move the protestors outside.
A one-time prolific letter writer to the Telegraph-Journal, LeBlanc now has a blog on the Internet where he posts his opinions. Although the defence has not yet presented its case, LeBlanc has said he was covering the conference as a journalist to gather material for his blog.
LeBlanc, who has attention deficit disorder, moved around the courtroom Thursday never sitting in the front row near his lawyer, the normal place for defendants.
Shortly after the trial started, Provincial court Judge William McCarroll noticed a man leaving and asked defence lawyer Harold Doherty if his client was still in the room, stating the trial could not continue in his absence, but it was not LeBlanc.
Anthony Bamford, Mayor Norm McFarlane's former executive assistant, was one of the witnesses. He said he was a delegate at the conference and was in the washroom off the hall used by the protesters to swarm the event when they came through.
He heard the yelling and screaming before arriving back at the entrance to see the protesters pushing up against police.
"I was pretty shocked, I can't remember what they were saying," he said.
He estimated it took less than a minute for police reinforcements to arrive and begin to gain control of the situation. Bamford, who knows many members of the Saint John media because of his former job, said he saw journalists arrive at the protest just as police began to push them back, but did not see LeBlanc.
The trial is scheduled to resume Nov. 20 at 9:30 a.m.
"There was someone lying on the ground and one police officer had his knee in his back, but I didn't know who it was," said Bamford.
He later learned that person was LeBlanc, who he knows from having dealt with him many times at the mayor's office.
Terri MacDonald Riedle, president of Revolution Strategies, the company hired to organize the conference, also testified.
Delegates at the three-day conference paid between $275 to $595 to attend and had to wear name tags to gain entry to the various sessions. Members of the media were not charged, but had to register to get a tag allowing them into the conference, she said.
Riedle, who knows LeBlanc, said he did not have a media pass and she did not see him that day.
She was in the registration areas off the hall when the protesters ran through shouting "down with Atlantica" and "you are being watched," she said.
The incident was very upsetting for the people working at the conference, but they quickly cleaned up after the officers got the protesters outside.
Prosecutor Catherine McNally still plans to call the two main police witnesses who arrested LeBlanc. The trial is scheduled to resume Nov. 20 at 9:30 a.m.
I think the above poster is getting Venezuela mixed up with Mexico and Columbia.
Here we go again! Charles has done nothing wrong but even you seem to know that too! Get off this Blog and get a life!
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