A Motion will be heard Friday, May 25th, 2012 at 10:00 at the Law Courts Building asking for an opportunity to allow my proceeding to be heard in a court room against the defendants, Thompson Dorfman Sweatman and Robert William Olson. To do so, I have to ask that the defendants' motion be struck out.
Aikins MacAulay Thorvaldson as counsel for the defendants, TDS and Olson, as provided by the Law Society of Manitoba, made a motion to be heard before a Court of Queen's Bench Master (an administrative-type civil servant of the Province of Manitoba), to kill my claim, apparently for no other reason than a clichéd 'who you gonna believe'-- a nobody from nowhere, with an intellectual disability- - or the combined legal power of two of the city's largest, oldest, and most powerful law firms with the added backing of The Law Society of Manitoba?
Of course they believed that I would be sacrificed in order that there could be harmony in the legal and government community -- so much so that Aikins Law didn't even bother to file an Affidavit as to the reasons my claim should be struck out. They likely thought all they needed to do was show up.
We like to think that we have made great strides in how we treat women: as Canadians we like to think we have distanced ourselves from the atrocities that happen a world away, but have we really?
We like to think that we have made great strides in how we treat women: as Canadians we like to think we have distanced ourselves from the atrocities that happen a world away, but have we really?
Excerpt from the National Best Seller, Half the Sky – Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn:
A reporter was at a border crossing in which thousands of Nepali girls are trafficked into India on their way to the brothels of Kolkata. While at the border post, he began talking with one Indian officer who said he had been dispatched by the intelligence bureau to monitor the bureau to keep an eye on DVDs that were being pirated.
“What about trafficked girls?” the reporter asked. “Are you keeping an eye out for them? There must be a lot.”
"Oh, a lot. But we don’t worry about them. There’s nothing you can do about them.”
"Well, you could arrest the traffickers. Isn’t trafficking girls as important as pirating DVDs?”
The intelligence officer laughed and threw up his hands. “Prostitution is inevitable.” He chucked. “There has always been prostitution in every country. And what’s a young man going to do from the time when he turns eighteen until when he gets married at thirty?”
"Well, is the best solution really to kidnap Nepali girls and imprison them in Indian brothels?”
The officer shrugged, unperturbed. “It’s unfortunate,” he agreed, “These girls are sacrificed so that we can have harmony in society. So that good girls can be safe.”
"But many of the Nepali girls being trafficked are good girls, too.”
"Oh yes, but those are peasant girls. They can’t even read. They’re from the countryside. The good Indian middle-class girls are safe.”
The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail Van Buren
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