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VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia couple found guilty of terrorism charges have had their verdicts tossed out in a scathing court decision that flays the RCMP for its "egregious" conduct in manipulating naive suspects into carrying out a police-manufactured crime.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce said the Mounties used trickery, deceit and veiled threats to engineer the terrorist acts for which John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were arrested on Canada Day three years ago.
The couple believed they were planting pressure-cooker bombs to kill and maim crowds gathered to celebrate at the B.C. legislature.
"The world has enough terrorists. We do not need the police to create more," Bruce said in a landmark ruling Friday as she characterized the RCMP's methods as "multi-faceted and systematic manipulation."
"There is clearly a need to curtail the actions of police ... to ensure that future undercover investigations do not follow the same path."
Bruce said Mounties involved in a months-long sting launched in early 2013 knowingly exploited Nuttall and Korody's vulnerabilities to induce them to commit an offence.
She described the pair as marginalized, socially isolated, former heroin addicts dependent on methadone and welfare to subsist and said they were "all talk and no action."
Nuttall and Korody were recent converts to Islam. Their trial heard Nuttall say in a recording that he wanted to kill and maim countless people during Canada Day festivities in retaliation for Canada's role in the mistreatment of Muslims in Afghanistan and other countries.
Without the heavy-handed involvement of undercover officers, it would have been impossible for Nuttall and Korody to articulate, craft and execute a terrorist bomb plot, Bruce said.
"Ultimately, their role in carrying out the plan was minuscule compared to what the police had to do," Bruce said. "It was the police who were the leaders of the plot."
Followup to this story: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/27/0355225
Yeah, sometimes the dragon wins. Lucky for us - sometimes the knight in shining armor is worse than the dragon! Lucky for Canadians, anyway.
(Score: 2) by quintessence on Saturday July 30 2016, @12:55PM
Terrorism is, in its broadest sense, the use or threatened use of violence (terror) in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
I can think of nothing that so aptly describes the actions of the Mounties.
And from Canada? You're suppose to be the US's sensible neighbor.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:35PM
Sensible my ass. Trudeau is a toddler behind the wheel of a large automobile. And what about sensible property values in urban areas?
Be smug while you can, syrupnigger, because Canada will be as bad as or worse than the U.S. in only a few years -- although it would be nice if we could offload all of our Mexicans onto you. Opening the floodgates to hordes of filthy undesirables is not without its consequences.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by vux984 on Saturday July 30 2016, @08:20PM
And from Canada? You're suppose to be the US's sensible neighbor.
To be fair, we did throw the verdict out, and are condemning the police activity as a mistake. And in terms of the usual course of justice we did it pretty quickly.
Would America have done the same?
(Score: 2) by quintessence on Sunday July 31 2016, @08:51AM
America conducts witch hunts for recreation. Sure there is much apologizing after the fact, but that is normally after a new target has been found. Hence the US's sensible neighbor.
Condemnation is fine, but the damage has already been done and, much like the US, nothing is in place to prevent further actions from occurring.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday August 01 2016, @08:55AM
This all happened under that Harper wack-job. Basically our version of Bush. Only thing he failed to copy was going full-tilt at starting a war.