CORY'S RANT： The ongoing persecution of Tamara Lich.
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Summary
Tamara Leach has been free on bail since March 7th, but the Crown wants her back in jail. They claim she violated her bail conditions and is a danger to herself and the public. Is she guilty of something? Or is she innocent?
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I've been listening to the coverage of the latest courtroom crap that they're putting Tamara Leach
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through in Alberta, and it's just nuts. The government's actions against the trucker,
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trucker's convoy organizer, Tamara Leach, they've morphed into an outright vendetta,
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and it's repugnant to watch. Crown Prosecutor Moise Karimji sounded obsessive as he demanded
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Leach be tossed back into jail for the most flimsy of perceived bail violations. So the
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court exchanges between the prosecutor and Justice Kevin Phillips were fiery to listen to.
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The judge repeatedly had to admonish the prosecutor, saying he was surprised by,
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couldn't Jim, geez, this guy's name is something else, by the prosecutor's decorum,
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and asked him to contemplate that. And the prosecutor was furious, and he asked the
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justice to recuse himself from the case, stating he was considering a mistrial application due to
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the judge's comments. This is just a bail hearing, guys. So what high crime did Tamara Leach commit in
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order to bring about such an effort to revoke her bail? Well, Leach is receiving an award from the
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Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. It's called the George Jonas Freedom Award. She didn't
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demand the award or apply for it. It was granted to her by the JCCF. They give one out to people every
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year who they felt were worthy of recognition for their efforts to promote freedom. The alleged crime
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isn't that Leach is receiving the award, but she dared to respond to the email informing her of it,
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saying that she'd be honored to accept it. That's it. Nothing more. They're framing that as being
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apparently promoting the convoy. It's insane, and they want to throw her back in jail. Now, Leach's been
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free on bail since March 7th. She spent weeks in jail already, way too long, and the Crown fought her
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release on bail tooth and nail. They wanted her to remain incarcerated for months. Leach has had the
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ability, or I mean, has abided diligently by her bail conditions for all of those months.
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She's not been traveling, she hasn't been talking to any of the press, and she hasn't been doing any
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social media. It's telling that the worst alleged violation the Crown could find to her bail conditions
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was an affirmative response to an award she was being offered. Leach didn't commit to traveling to
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accept the award, by the way, and she wasn't celebrating or posting about it in social media.
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All she did was accept it and say she was honored in an email. Due to this, the Crown's willing to tie up
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it's a harmless woman to languish in jail for an indeterminate period. Bail should only be denied
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if the person charged with a crime is deemed to be high risk to re-offend or flee. Now, Leach has
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been out for months. She's clearly not made any efforts to flee the country, and it's unlikely she's
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going to. She's got family here. She's got children here. She has a spotless criminal record as well.
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She's been a law-abiding citizen for decades. It's not as if she has a propensity for committing crimes.
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She isn't a chronic protester or activist. She simply started a fundraiser for a protest
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and got swept up in what turned out to be one of the biggest public protests in Canadian history.
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Aside from being involved in a registered federal political party, her record of public actions
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is actually pretty thin. Not that chronic protesting or activism are crimes anyway.
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As for re-offending, Howard, what could she do? It's not as if hundreds of semi-trucks and thousands
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of protesters are idling outside of Ottawa, ready to seize Parliament Hill and erect bouncy
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castles again as soon as Leach gives the word. The protests are gone. It's done. There's no sign
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they're going to be returning anytime soon. If the government did decide to reinstate a bunch
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of pandemic restrictions, I expect the protests would return, but they would do so with or without
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Leach. She was really only one person among thousands. The crime Leach committed was to
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embarrass the government. The state vendetta against her today is based on nothing but spite
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and vindictiveness. Leach is a symbol of reason and activism that the government loathes.
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She isn't a crazed, screaming extremist with a criminal history. She's a mother who felt she
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needed to peacefully stand up against a government overreaching its authority. Her very existence
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puts lie to the absurd reactions of the government to the convoy protests, and they despise her for
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that. Leach is innocent until proven guilty, and she should be granted every possible freedom
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until if and when she is convicted of something. I mean, in 2019, it hit the news that 326 people
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in Toronto alone who had been charged with firearm offenses had been released on bail.
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In Alberta, I wrote on that just recently. It's a column on the Western Standard.
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There was three young mothers in the last year who have been killed by offenders who have been
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released despite having violent histories and convictions. Yet here we are spending all of this
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time and resources trying to lock up Tamara Leach. The motivation for the vendetta against Leach is
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political. It has nothing to do with public safety or law. In a year of national embarrassments,
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this is yet another one. The continued harassment of Leach from the Crown prosecutor is inspired,
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of course, by a petty, small prime minister who wants to quell any consideration of protests against
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his government in the future. It's exposing the corrupt and broken nature of Canada's politicized
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justice system. If Leach is locked up again, the time to protest will return. And this time it'll be
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outside the course houses of Canada. We can't allow this gross persecution to continue or to succeed.