[We now have a NEW POST taking us up to February 1, 2015. This post will be retired from service.]
THE AUTUMN 2014 UPDATE
Dear Donors,
Together, we reached our goal of $100,000 to pay the November 1 legal bill 11 days ahead of schedule!
Thank you Canadian donors from coast to coast and our friends from around the world for your generosity, support and determination — and especially for not being afraid.
The name of our non-profit corporation is the “Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty.”
We were very deliberate in including in our name the word “sovereignty”, which forms a cornerstone of our Claims against the Government of Canada.
Canada and dozens of other countries throughout the world gave into a bully because their “leaders” were afraid of harm caused by a trading “partner” — and they gave their sovereignties away.
Help us convince by example the Leaders and Governments of all countries worldwide that they should return their sovereignties back to their Peoples.
Please continue to support our lawsuit.
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller)
— Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen, and the ADCS-ADSC team
Chers donateurs,
Ensemble, nous avons atteint notre but d’amasser 100 000 $ pour payer notre facture légale du 1er novembre 11 jours d’avance !
Un gros merci à vous, donateurs canadiens, et à nos amis de tous les coins du monde pour votre grande générosité, soutien et détermination. Et surtout pour votre courage.
Le nom de notre organisme sans but lucratif est « l’Alliance pour la défense de la souveraineté canadienne ».
Nous avons choisi délibérément le mot « souveraineté » puisqu’il constitue la base fondamentale de nos revendications envers le gouvernement du Canada.
Le Canada et des dizaines d’autres pays se sont pliés devant l’intimidation des États-Unis parce que leurs « leaders » ont eu peur des menaces de notre « partenaire » commercial. Ils ont donc vendu leur souveraineté à rabais.
Aidez-nous à convaincre les dirigeants et les gouvernements de tous ces pays qu’ils se doivent de remettre leur souveraineté à leurs peuples.
S’il vous plaît, continuez à soutenir notre cause.
« Seuls, nous pouvons faire si peu. Ensemble, nous pouvons faire beaucoup. » (Helen Keller)
— Ginny, Gwen et toute l’équipe de l’ADCS-ADSC
DONATE to www.adcs-adsc.ca (ADSC en français).
Once people find out what this government has done behind their backs and has done to Canadian people, I doubt you will find someone who is not angry. They should be hung like in the old days for treason. This country and it’s system are against the people and a full blown dictatorship. this is very clear. If only, we could get enough people to stop talking about it and doing something to fix it. I have learned so much in the past year it is amazing. I see Canada and our system is terribly flawed, but I also see people sitting and thinking they can do nothing about it. You can….angry or not, you can!
@Dash, thank you for explaining further.
Here’s a brief synopsis of this debate:
Stephen wants angry plaintiffs.
Dash thinks angry plaintiffs could be harmful.
Many agree anger can be constructive.
Calgary and I have made it clear both angry and non-angry plaintiffs are welcome.
Can we move beyond the anger debate and refocus on the fact we need money and plaintiffs to move ahead?
Amen, Blaze. I recently realized that one day of the month that I am certain to smile now is the day I mail my ADCS cheque to Stephen Kish. The other is the day he kindly posts that “the twig has arrived”. As soon as ADCS puts out its next press release I’m going to make yet another attempt to get our local newspaper to print it. I thought I’d convinced them with the last one but not so. I don’t want anymore elderly persons to experience what your friend is going through. OMG moments I fear will lead to serious health impacts, possibly even deaths. Angry? Moi? You betcha!
Re:
“…… refocus on the fact we need money and plaintiffs to move ahead…”
Moving ahead with this legal challenge is the remedy and only lasting recourse. To move ahead, we need the rest of the funds needed for the able legal specialist who knows how best to proceed with this legal challenge.
We must ‘keep our eyes on the prize’.
And continue with our other complementary efforts.
Gotta love Rocco’s attitude, when asked why he brings forward so many challenges, Galati said: “I’m a lawyer.” “That’s what I do, I don’t make f-king pizzas.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/1416128/its-unconstitutional-lawyer-rocco-galati-targets-conservative-citizenship-law/
I am not just angry. I’m seethingly angry at the Canadian government and their traitorous members. As far as I’m concerned, the death penalty for treason should be brought back. This is not just a taxation issue, this is economic sanctions (financial war) instigated on the rest of the world by the United States. During war time; the punishment for treason/sedition was DEATH. And what the Conservative government did in allowing a foreign extra-territorial legislation to take precedence over Canadian Law was seditious and traitorous. The only damned way I’d be satisfied of the restitution for this traitorous betrayal of Canada by the Conservative government is to see every damned Conservative who voted for this piece of legislation dancing at the end of a rope.
To understand this: Here is the statutory Canadian Criminal Code Definition of “High Treason”.
(1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada, (a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her; (b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or.
levies war against Canada could also include the definition of coercive legislation which defines FATCA a foreign law undermining the sovereignty of Canada.
In suborning Canada’s laws, Harper and his Conservatives have contravened the Canadian Criminal Code in allowing US legislation to override established Canadian law and should actually be accused of High Treason.
The Animal, I won’t go that far. I clearly hear your anger. We will have your family in mind (with one of your children as wrongly entrapped as mine into US citizenship your family and mine won’t acknowledge) in our Challenge of this government’s actions regarding the implementation of the FATCA IGA in Canada. Never, never should the Harper government MPs have allowed foreign law precedence over Canadian law.
Although the Conservative Harper “team members” need to be accountable, we know they won’t be. Conservative MPs did NOT communicate with their constituents and still don’t — all we got and get is the party line. Robots, they voted as they were told to vote — I want no government representatives, no matter their stripes, who won’t vote with their conscience and their morals. Surely, there must be a few in that “team” who have some individual integrity. They need to be voted out of office for their breach of duty to protect ALL people of this country before their form of just another “bail-out” of the banks.
May your wife soon have her Canadian citizenship!!
@Calgary: I don’t think we saw one single instance of integrity from the Cons from the time the IGA was announced.
Flaherty initially showed some chutzpah, integrity and honesty. Then he sold us out, resigned and died.
After the disastrous results for the Cons in the recent Ontario election, the Jim Wilson, the Interim leader said:
“We have to go back to earning the trust of the people of Ontario, and let’s not be attacking people,” he said.
“We’ve been attacking people for a decade. In my heart, and in my caucus colleague’s hearts, we’re not that type of people. We like everybody.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/1427415/mpp-jim-wilson-selected-interim-leader-of-ontario-tories/
The Ontario Cons “like everybody?” Well, they sure had a strange way of showing it. So do the fed Cons.
Harper and crew could take a lesson from Jim Wilson’s new found love fest for voters.
The Harper Cons are at war with environmentalists, scientists, hookers, veterans, seniors, disabled Canadians, aboriginals, women, minorities, civil servants, immigrants, refugees, judges, the Supreme Court and us. I am certain I left out some.
Yet, the NDP and Libs need to get their act together if they have any hope of defeating Harper Cons next years.
On a positive note, a year ago Harper predicted a hat trick in Ontario for him, Rob Ford and Tim Hudak.
Hmmm. How did that work out? Sort of like Brazil in the World Cup.
Until we can toss the Cons out, we need to remain focused on the Challenge.
I’m not convinced Libs will change either the IGA or the Act if they are elected, but maybe they would not fight us as hard in the courts. I think the NDP and Greens would keep the IGA, but amend the Act to exclude Canadian citizens and possibly residents and to ensure Canadian law prevails over a foreign government, but neither of them has much possibility of forming the government. Maybe the best we could hope for is a Liberal minority with the NDP and Greens insisting on an amendment.
Any of those options will take a long time. So, we need to stay the course with the Challenge..
Push politicians for proportional representation, work towards an actual democracy. End party politics.
http://www.fairvote.ca/
http://democracywatch.ca/campaigns/voter-rights-campaign/
http://democracywatch.ca/campaigns/government-ethics-campaign/
http://www.1calgaryvote.com/
http://www.springtidecollective.ca/
http://www.infowars.com/pentagon-correspondent-for-the-new-york-times-refers-to-american-citizens-as-children/
http://www.infowars.com/obama-calls-gop-lawsuit-over-executive-overreach-a-political-stunt/
http://www.infowars.com/obama-calls-gop-lawsuit-over-executive-overreach-a-political-stunt/
http://www.infowars.com/pentagon-correspondent-for-the-new-york-times-refers-to-american-citizens-as-children/
I have just gotten an email from Sid who thinks, again, she is blacklisted from Isaac Brock. I don’t know why — there is a comment from Sid right above this one that perhaps Sid cannot see.
Here is what was relayed to me —
So, are these the Canadian real tax evader variety? Or are these calls for innocent second-class Canadians — you know, the *US Person* kind who are NOT evading taxes?
@calgary411,
Could this have something to do with the Canada Revenue Agency’s snitch line for ratting out Canadian resident tax payers who funnel large amounts of money offshore to dodge taxes?
I doubt this has anything to do with US Persons.
CRA has a program called The Offshore Tax Informant Program. The tax cheater must owe more than $100,000 to the federal government, not including interest or penalties for a snitch to collect a reward. The unpaid taxes must arise from accounts or assets held outside Canada.
We have enough real things to worry about. I don’t think we need to worry about this one.
@ Sid
Sometimes it can appear your comment has not been posted but it is actually there. Reset your browser, empty its cache and then open Brock again. Chances are you will find it. The moderators only remove spam which slips by the filters. (It’s not easy to keep up with those I’m sure.) To get to the latest comments on any thread click on the blue comments link just below the title. If that isn’t available then delete everything past the title in the “http” line and reload the page. Your comments are all valued at Brock.
OMG,
I tend to agree with you — it most likely is in response to Canada’s “Offshore Tax Informant Program”
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/leads/
http://o.canada.com/business/tax-cheats-whistleblower-hotline-up-and-running
Interesting though that the above IS in the news and that we are painted with any label of “tax evader” in perception — unless our Canadian media really tells our story as it needs to be told.
@ Sid,
Found your missing comments. Your earlier comment this morning had gone onto the thread with no problems apparently. But the missing comments had been trapped by the spam filter. No clue why — it does that sometimes, so we check the spam periodically before deleting it. Sorry about that and thanks for sharing the links.
Em’s suggestion, two comments above, about clearing the cache, is a good suggestion too. Sometimes a browser problem is why someone can’t see a comment/s.
The second link of the links Sid provides well describes where we’re at:
Holy Hannah!
@omgheestillanamerican @@calgary411
Basically its a snitch line for people who think that person is a tax evader… u know… disgrunted ex-spouse… pissed off neighbour… a whole bunch of other things. Let’s get real here… if u are going to cheat on your taxes… u going to tell the world or keep it to yourself? U think I am going to run around and announce I am a US person? Heck no.. U are lucky if I even admit I know anything… deny… deny.. deny…
@George,
I’m late to the party, but wanted to say how brave I think you are to be talking about your health issues as affected by FATCA and your alcohol problems in particular – just a half a bottle per night you say? Was that a 750 ml bottle or a 1.5 litre?
I’m reminded of a ’12-step’ parody I cobbled a year ago or so. I couldn’t find it on Brock, but found it over on Victoria’s blog where she had reused it in one of her posts.
The 12 Steps of Americans Abroad Anonymous
1: We admitted we were powerless over America–that our lives had become unmanageable.
2: Came to believe that a Power (IRS) greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of IRS as we understood Him.
4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and all our foreign bank accounts.
5: Admitted to IRS, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6: Were entirely ready to have IRS remove all these defects of character, along with our life savings.
7: Humbly asked IRS to remove our shortcomings, in addition to the contents of our “offshore” accounts.
8: Made a list of all homelanders we had harmed, and became willing to make amends (i.e pay for services we never use) to them all.
9: Made direct amends to such homelanders wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10: Continued to take personal inventory (i.e. FBARS) and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with IRS, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other Americans Abroad, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
More proof that this Progressive Conservative government is promoting tyranny and should at the very least be removed from office. Is there such a thing as a “no-confidence” vote in the capability of this government to lead effectively?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-eyes-new-powers-to-share-personal-information/article19582668/
C-24 should be included in the Charter Challenge as it affects ALL of us and violates all of our human rights.
@The_Animal
Lawsuit is in progress already for this. Our lawsuit can not be lumped together… 2 separate bills… 2 separate issues. But if the lawyer, Rocco Galati is willing to toss his hat in to help out… I am sure he will be welcomed… the more lawsuits the better to challenge this poor excuse of a gov’t who seems to think that they can hide crap in things & we won’t notice or protest. Since the omnibus of bs passed… it has opened my eyes to the fact… its sad to say… can’t even trust our gov’t to rep us… they seem to think we live in a communist country & they can willy-nilly do what they want to do…. and we will do nothing… they are sadly mistaken… its time for the people of canada get their backbone up & tell the PM Circus… move on… we need someone who will rep the good of Canada and their people…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rocco-galati-launches-lawsuit-over-citizenship-act-changes-1.2687221
It seems obvious to me that Bill C-24 certainly can / does relate to the implementation of the U.S. FATCA IGA in Bill C-31 and could open the door to easier access to OUR immigration files and the march toward other effective government hand-over of information to foreign governments. Or am I to believe it will only be used in specific “terrorist” cases? Blank cheque is an apt description.
@calgary411,
“Cabinet will also now be permitted to allow the “disclosure of information to verify the citizenship status or identity of any person” to enforce any Canadian law “or law of another country.”
This was the alarm bell that jumped out at me when I read this article before I e-mailed the link to you. And I see you saw exactly what I saw in the article. The “verified or not” part of that bill makes me wonder if we could also be thrown to the wolves as well. If we refuse to state our citizenship and make waves. Could we under C-24 have our files (immigration – if our immigration process is underway or are dual citizens) shuffled off to the IRS for further scrutiny.
It is a scary feeling.