Chaos： 82-year-old man beaten by homeless gang in BC
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Summary
Jim DeMars, an 82-year-old veteran, was attacked by a homeless gang in his area of Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. No one has been charged for the attack, even though the attack happened right by the police station. DeMars is a Legion President and a dedicated member of the community. He stood up to these scumbags on the street who attacked him for trying to get off the sidewalk in his own town.
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I wanted to talk about this story quickly today because I think it puts a fine point on how much
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British Columbia and Canada in general have deteriorated under the lack of leadership of
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people like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and BC Premier David Eby. We are in a pro-criminal
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country and especially a pro-criminal province in British Columbia. The police don't do anything.
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The police would love to do something, but they have the federal government and provincial
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government tying one hand behind their backs and saying that you can't even lock up criminals.
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And the story today is that an 82-year-old veteran who is the branch president for the Legion in his
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area of Penticton was attacked by a homeless gang and the people that basically did it got away with
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it. Nothing's happened, even though this man lives right by the police station. This didn't happen by
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the police station, but they were pretty close. And this is just becoming a daily occurrence.
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So this man, Jim DeMars, 82, I'll just read a little bit of this article from Kelowna now. I'm
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going to link it in the description below. And it says, Jim DeMars, 82, was driving a scooter home
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from the library late Friday. This is the Penticton Public Library. Afternoon when four strange men
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approached him, and this is quoting him, they weren't kids. I would say all four of them were in their
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40s, and they were all obviously street people, he said. I asked to get by them, and they said they
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would move their carts so I can get by if I gave them all my money and my cigarettes. I said, no,
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no, that ain't happening. Then they knocked me off my scooter and the gang tackled me. And he goes on
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to talk about the attack on him and how nothing was done to these guys. What I found most interesting
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is John DeMars, who is absolutely a hero in Canada, a man who is a veteran who, after having
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served in our military, has continued being a Legion president, is involved in his community,
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and frankly, he is also very brave for standing up to these scumbags on the street who attacked
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him for the mere act of trying to get down the sidewalk in his own town. Here's him after the
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attack right here, still looking very active and serving his community. Great man. But the
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interesting comments he made was how it's not just about how I don't want this to happen to other
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people, and this is tragic, blah, blah, blah. I never thought this would happen in my city.
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His comments later on in this article from Kelowna now, again, linked in the description below,
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is him basically just saying that, yeah, this happens all the time, and I'm not shocked,
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and the system does not actually crack down on these people. I want to get back to this point
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where he talks about what's going on. So this is his quote right here. I'll just read it. I don't
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need to show it on screen. He says, what really pisses me off is these people get arrested. They
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get fingerprinted. They get mug shots. They end up in the courtroom, and the judge gives them a slap
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on the wrist. It says, you're free to go. It happens all the time. The judiciary, not only here in
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Penticton, but all across Canada sucks, and he is absolutely right. The thing is that in Canada,
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because of our weak bail laws, we effectively have same-day automatic bail that no matter what
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you're arrested for, even if you are a serial violent offender like we saw earlier, actually last
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month with whatever that guy was, you know, scumbag murderer man who killed a, I think Terry Dunn
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in Surrey, that he was a repeat violent offender and was just released from prison, was just released
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after being arrested for aggravated assault and having a long history of multiple repeat offenses
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for theft. I believe drug dealing, a lot of other sorts of things involved in violent crime and
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other illegal activity, and he was released. And same thing with these guys who attacked
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John DeMars. Even if they were caught, they'd be out same day. They were literally not punished.
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They know that they can make an entire lifestyle out of being on the streets. And a lot of these
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people are addicts. They do need help themselves, but it doesn't help them to keep letting them back
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on the street. But we have this left-wing mentality in Canada, and especially BC, that if you're on the
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street, that if you're a criminal, that you yourself are a victim of the system, that you just haven't
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been given your 30-second chance. And if we give that to you, and we give you a pamphlet saying that
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maybe you should stop using meth, that eventually you'll figure it out and get clean. That's not how
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this works. And you're causing more people to be victimized over time. And so if we can use a story
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like this of John DeMars being attacked by these four, like, basically street gang members,
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I think that we need a change in government in this country. Yes, that is what you expect me to say,
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but it is a very, you know, it needs to have a fine point put on it. David Eby, even though most of our
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criminal laws come from the federal level, has not properly funded the police in BC. There is not
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enough police officers in these cities with high crime to be able to intervene in these scenarios,
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be able to keep these people away from public buildings, you know, like, check people on the
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streets, see what they're up to, remove weapons from them. That's something he could be doing,
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but he hasn't. We even, in fact, have an anti-profiling law in British Columbia that makes
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it so that if you want to arrest somebody or you want to stop and search somebody because they're up
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to no good, if you do that to too many people of certain demographics, then you might be investigated
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as a police officer or a police branch might be investigated because we care more about social
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justice than actual justice. And on the federal level, we not only have same-day automatic bail,
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we have things like Bill C-5, which make it so that if you're a gang member who is caught carrying an
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illegal handgun, that's no longer considered that bad of an offense. You might go to prison for a couple
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months or so, and that's it if you get put in prison at all. At the same time, you have Justin Trudeau
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and the liberals going after law-abiding gun owners, freezing handgun sales, and outright
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banning the ability to buy a handgun even if you have an RPAL and you go through all the hoops
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that you need to to purchase one. You still can't have one, but a gang member can smuggle his heap
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up across the border. These people are not buying handguns at Brett Bass Pro Shop just to let Justin
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Trudeau know. These people are smuggling guns up over the southern border with the U.S., and even if they
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get caught, even if they have obviously committed several crimes in both carrying the gun and
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acquiring it, they aren't charged at all. And again, violent offenders on the streets, we view them
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within their socioeconomic situations, and that's how judges decide whether or not to hold people.
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We have a serious problem on the federal level of needing to appoint better judges, provincially and
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federally. We need a better funded judicial system. In B.C., there was literally a child
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molester, frankly, who was let off because in 18 months they couldn't get him a trial because the
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system is so severely underfunded. But in B.C., we still fund safe supply. We still give people
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free, like a hydromorphone, free meth, free heroin. But we can't properly get in. We can't get enough
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judges. We can't get enough sheriffs to actually make sure we process and prosecute these people.
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It's absolutely insane. So, you know, my usual pitches, but it really does make a difference.
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If you live in British Columbia, I have a link below for the Abbotsford South Riding
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donation link. If you guys can donate anything to that, it really helps us out. If you donate $100,
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you get 75% of it back. In a tax credit, up to $550, you get 50% of your money back. Please donate to
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that. I'm working for Bruce Bandman out in Abbotsford South. We're basically fundraising
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on behalf of everybody. Once we get up to a certain amount of money, we're just going to start
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handing money out to other ridings to make sure we win the entire Fraser Valley, if not starting to
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move money towards Vancouver to make sure that the B.C. Conservatives can win a majority. So do that
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if you can. If you don't live in British Columbia, you know, help your local conservative
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out in your province, make sure that we put pressure on people to appoint good judges. It's
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considered an American issue to care about the Supreme Court and to care about who's on different
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courts. In Canada, we have seen the consequences of just letting the left appoint all the judges. I
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believe Stephen Harper, when he left office in 2015, there was tons of vacancies on the Senate. There
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was tons of vacancies or different courts that could have had vacancies filled. And Stephen Harper
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just didn't do it. And then Justin Trudeau appointed all these soft on crime liberal judges.
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So we need to clean that up. If you guys want to get on my organizing list, it's on my website,
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wyattclaypool.com. Also linked in the description below, although you can probably figure out how to
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type my name into Google. Sign up onto the list. I want to create a list across the country so that
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no matter where you live, if there's a race going on in your area, I can recommend good people who will
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do the right thing on a federal, provincial or municipal level, even in nominations. That's what I'm
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trying to do with that. And then also, again, if you live in BC, consider donating through the
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donation link in the description below. And if you don't live in BC, you can also donate to my
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legal fund. It's the give, send, go link in the description below. We want to make sure these
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situations like John DeMars do not happen again, where we have elderly people being beaten by 40 year
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old just vagrants on the streets and just police aren't around. Because when the police walk by these
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guys, I don't blame them. What can they do to them? They can't hold them for anything. This is
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actually where I'm going to give a compliment to a liberal politician or former liberal politician
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who's now the Mississauga mayor, Carolyn Parrish. She has a great idea with new municipal bylaws
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to hold repeat offenders, repeat thieves in prison under municipal bylaws, basically finding
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workarounds of the federal system to make sure that you can lock these people up for at least a few
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weeks in order for there to be some punishment to committing crimes. Because people react to
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incentives. If you aren't arrested and held in prison for committing a crime, what stops people
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with bad moral compasses from doing whatever they want, knowing if anything, they start to see it as
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a game. You get arrested after stealing several thousand dollars of stuff. You're let out of prison
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in two days. Who cares? If anything, it's a great way of getting a shower between going on another crime
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spree. But anyways, you guys can go check all that stuff out. Subscribe to the channel, like this video,
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do all the normal stuff that you do, and I'll see you guys in my next video.