The former Attorney General, Geoff Plant has a blog!
He has some advice today For Mr. Von DingDong(en).
Dear John,
(I know, Lol, that’s been done before, but bear with me!)
I understand that one of the issues which caused you to leave the BC Liberal caucus and party is your continuing unhappiness about the so-called plea deal in the Basi Virk cases. Apparently you have even hired a lawyer at your own expense to investigate your concerns. I don’t know all of the questions that you want answered. But I am hoping you might answer one of mine….
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So here’s the question. What would you have done?…
In politics and the law, like life, there are rarely any moral absolutes. More often than we would wish, there are just difficult choices among imperfect options. Sometimes the decisions are very, very hard, because there are (with apologies to Yogi Berra) truly pros and cons to both options. This was surely one of those cases.As for me, however, I know what I would have done if I had been presented with that choice in October 2010. I would have chosen guilty pleas and closure. The $6 million, quite frankly, is and was beside the point. It had been spent, and there was no chance of getting it back.
Thanks anyway, Mr. (face)Plant. We know what you would have done. We are counting on Justice being done when we take back our province. We also will be looking for guilty pleas and closure…
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Mr. Face Plant is pathetic, I left this at his joint:
Geoff, you actually passed law school and the bar? You sound more like you studied “communications” or went to spin doctor school. Being involved in appointing your former law partner (and former partner of another mucky-muck in your ministry)kind turns the oh so “special” prosecutor on its head, at least from what it was meant to do, wouldn’t someone with and understanding of the law be appalled, oh that’s right, YOU made the “illegitimate” appointment yourself, if I remember correctly.
The six million pay out to cover the costs of Basi and Virk’s defense, this from a government that insists on recovering overpayments to welfare clients, caused by agency errors is shameful, but compared to the real issues underlying the phoney BC Rail Trial is a small fish, of the red herring variety. The real issue is the use of the six million as essentially a bribe to shut down the trial (after spending at least thirty million on Wild Bill and his crew of substitutes and court costs)to protect the REAL culprits in the real crime, the THEFT of BC Rail from the people of BC (and the lies leading up to the giveaway as well)!
You should keep your mouth shut unless you want to make sense and speak truth….and hopefully you will be speaking about these issues under oath someday along with Gary Collins, Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark and Pat Kinsella, just for starters.
Kim Reply:
March 29th, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Now, we can wait for the SLAPP lawsuit! Great comment koot, I was surprised he had unmoderated comments.
Sure is nice to know where the ethical bar is set in BC. It’s also nice to know that given the choice to do what’s right in respect of BC taxpayers Mr. Plant would have chosen to hide behind a settlement in order to shut the doors on any truth. Shameful
Kim: I want to know how you feel about the cuts that were made to CBC today? Ten percent. Do you agree with John Dyle who said essentially what we’ve been saying the whole time: the CBC had it coming! Check out the article here and let me know. You’ve been as passionate about the CBC as I have if not more and I figure you are likely already on this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/john-doyle/suck-it-up-cbc-you-should-have-seen-this-coming/article2384814/
Good one Koot.
Yes by all means, let’s move on. After all, it was just an entire railroad, Campbell thieved from the province and people. Never mind about the priceless Real Estate that went with the BCR.
I don’t remember where I read. Six million is just a drop in the bucket. The true amount of the farce of a trial, lawyers and so on…it was a hell of a lot more the $6 million.
BC tax payers, were forced to pay Campbell for stealing from us. The BCR is far from the only thing, Campbell thieved from BC and the people.
Logan, personally, I feel the cuts to the cbc are cuts to our culture. I know, the cbc has sucked lately, but they still represent the cross-section of Canadian culture. We need to cut the CPC instead…