Was on canadagunnutz forum and read this, I thought I'd share it as its so well put 
The first part is the letter in which Richard Fritze wrote from the forum, below it is the original article.
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The Canadian VICTIM MODEL works perfectly: latest evidence is the Banff assaults.
The 2 women assaulted in Banff yesterday [see story below] had everything our government, the courts and the police think they should have had: ability to run, ability to plead and beg, and of course, best of all, luck. Heaven forbid that they could have on their persons a handgun to defend against dangerous predators - that is SO un-Canadian.
Many Canadian politicians of all stripes, and, of course, Canadian Police officials, have long promoted the idiotic policy that the masses, and in particular the vulnerable [women, the elderly, the frail in our society], should simply comply with their assailant's demands. "Don't resist - you'll likely get hurt" is the mantra of these authorities. "Just do whatever your criminal attacker/kidnaper says; leave the rough stuff to the police" is another favourite.
By listening to Canadian "authorities" on this, one might conclude that the law of self-preservation [now there's a REAL law that everyone understands] does not exist in Canada. Or that the right of a citizen to arrest a criminal does not exist [it does; in fact that right is statutorily preserved and codified in the Criminal Code].
Sooner or later, depending on how your luck is running, you will be faced with an ugly choice --- stand up to your desperate, stoned-on-crack attacker or be a statistic of the worst kind: a victim because the law and the authorities insist on it and you foolishly adhered to bad advice.
The faulty "be a victim" thinking is instilled in children at school by guest lecturers from the local police and it gets reported very frequently in the context of the latest armed heist at the corner convenience store. "We don't recommend that you resist" intones the spokesman for the police after the criminal has escaped.
Apparently it is better to be robbed, not be able to make your mortgage payments or feed and clothe your family, plus accept the risk of being hurt or killed by the robber, and hope that the police catch the guy, return the money and give him a stern warning, right?
Banks have guards for their money - one of the few exceptions allowed in Canada for carrying a handgun. Is their money more dear to them than mine is to me?
Our senior politicians travel with armed body guards, paid for by Canadian taxpayers. This is so that the nutcases and/or criminals do not harm them. Why the double standard? Our political leaders' lives are not worth more than the lives of the 2 women in Banff yesterday who faced rape and possibly worse. The level of hypocrisy is astounding.
Allowing sane, trained, ordinary adults with no history of violence to carry the best means for self-defense is contrary to public policy in Canada. Will it take a similar assault, or an even worse outcome, upon the daughter of a Prime Minister or, say, the child of a Supreme Court Judge, before our lawmakers, courts and police wake up to the facts?
Many, upon reflection, are realizing the idiocy of this policy and are taking steps to be able to effectively defend their life, limb and property – just like the banks and the leading politicians do.
Many have come to the conclusion that it is "Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6." After all, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Richard A. Fritze
Barrister
Red Deer, AB
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Women terrorized in vicious Banff attack
Man facing charges has long history of violence
Gwendolyn Richards and Cathy Ellis, Calgary Herald; For The Calgary Herald
Banff, 2:50 a.m. Sunday: Man picks up two women, then drives to the Tunnel Mountain trailhead, where he is accused of assaulting them. One woman escapes; Canmore, 3:15 a.m.: The second victim is driven to Canmore, where she is allegedly assaulted at a construction site.
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Two women heading home after a night out with friends in Banff accepted a ride from a stranger, unleashing a hellish ordeal that could have cost them their lives.
A man with a history of attacking women -- including one in Calgary -- is accused of kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting the two early Sunday morning.
The women, 28 and 34 years old, were doubling on a bicycle. Police say a man in a pickup truck pulled over and offered them a ride around 2:50 a.m.
"They saw a newer truck and the guy seemed friendly. There were (child) car seats in the truck," Banff RCMP Cpl. Mike Stourac said, adding that may have influenced their thinking.
The drive began fine, with the three making small talk. Then the man turned verbally aggressive, Stourac said.
Instead of taking them to their destination, police say the man turned into the Tunnel Mountain trailhead parking lot.
In the space of about an hour, it's alleged he attacked and assaulted both women. Then, after one escaped, he drove the other to Canmore, where a keen-eyed security company owner and one of his employees helped police arrest the suspect.
Randy Kitching, whose security company watches the Spring Creek Mountain Village construction site in Canmore, had heard police were looking for a suspect and vehicle involved in a Banff kidnapping.
Kitching and his employee, Barry Wakeford, saw two people walking into the woods toward the Bow River around 3:15 a.m.
The two men found a truck hidden behind the site office and contacted police.
"When we found the vehicle, we found signs of a struggle and some blood on the side of the vehicle," he said.
That sign of struggle may have come from the alleged attack that unfolded about 30 minutes earlier in Banff, when the two women attempted to escape from the truck in the trailhead parking lot.
"They tried to get out of the vehicle and run up the hill," Stourac said of the two women.
It's alleged the women's attacker tried to run over one of them with the truck, but instead struck a large log. He got out of the vehicle and caught up with them, said Stourac.
"He grabs them and drags them, kicking and screaming, back to the truck."
The women's attacker assaulted them the entire time, Stourac added, pulling their hair, pushing them down.
Then, one of the women managed to escape, running about two blocks and knocking on the door of a home for help, said Stourac.
With police contacted, officers were sent to the trailhead parking lot, but the truck, and the other victim, were gone.
Stourac said he called for a roadblock to track down the dark-coloured, extended cab truck, but the vehicle headed east on Highway 1 toward Canmore just before it could be set up.
"He squeaked by."
Meanwhile, security guards and other RCMP detachments were told to keep an eye out for the pickup, or the suspect and victim.
Less than half an hour after the man had picked up the two women, Kitching and Wakeford spotted two people walking into the woods and investigated further to find the hidden truck.
"We called the RCMP and explained we had the vehicle and individuals on the property somewhere, so they closed in around pretty quickly."
Two officers got to the scene in time to see the suspect and victim walking back out of the woods.
With guns drawn, they arrested the man and took him into custody.
"It was a real unfortunate incident," said Stourac. "I'm glad it was as short as it was. Who knows how it could have ended?"
Police later learned the truck had been stolen from Calgary 24 hours earlier.
Cory Lawrence Bitternose, 38, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, choking to overcome resistance, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats, dangerous driving and possession of stolen property.
Stourac called it a random attack, adding Bitternose was not known to Banff RCMP.
Bitternose has a long criminal history, including several attacks on women dating back more than 15 years.
In 1992, Bitternose pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for an attack two years earlier on a woman in an office building washroom in downtown Calgary after mistaking her for someone else.
The beating was so vicious, a sneaker imprint was left on the face of the victim.
For that, Bitternose was jailed more than five years.
In 2004, Bitternose was sentenced in Regina to serve 30 months in prison -- in addition to the two years he had already spent behind bars -- for the sexual assault, assault and illegal confinement in the beating of a man and that man's girlfriend, and an unrelated assault on another woman.
At the time he was sentenced, Bitternose apologized to his victims and told them he intended to change his ways.
"I hurt some people pretty deeply and I am sorry," he said at the time.
Banff Mayor John Stutz said he was upset by news of Sunday's attack.
"We always like to take care of people who work and live here, and this is a very unfortunate situation," he said.
The incident has echoes of the rape and assault of Julianne Courneya who was left for dead in Banff's Central Park on July 11, 2005.
"I consider these to be very random incidents, but certainly it does have a profound effect on us as a community."
Stourac said people would definitely think back to the summer of 2005 in light of the recent assault, but also said the incidents are random.
Bitternose appeared in Banff provincial court Monday, but his bail hearing was adjourned until next week.
[email protected]
© The Calgary Herald 2008
The first part is the letter in which Richard Fritze wrote from the forum, below it is the original article.
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The Canadian VICTIM MODEL works perfectly: latest evidence is the Banff assaults.
The 2 women assaulted in Banff yesterday [see story below] had everything our government, the courts and the police think they should have had: ability to run, ability to plead and beg, and of course, best of all, luck. Heaven forbid that they could have on their persons a handgun to defend against dangerous predators - that is SO un-Canadian.
Many Canadian politicians of all stripes, and, of course, Canadian Police officials, have long promoted the idiotic policy that the masses, and in particular the vulnerable [women, the elderly, the frail in our society], should simply comply with their assailant's demands. "Don't resist - you'll likely get hurt" is the mantra of these authorities. "Just do whatever your criminal attacker/kidnaper says; leave the rough stuff to the police" is another favourite.
By listening to Canadian "authorities" on this, one might conclude that the law of self-preservation [now there's a REAL law that everyone understands] does not exist in Canada. Or that the right of a citizen to arrest a criminal does not exist [it does; in fact that right is statutorily preserved and codified in the Criminal Code].
Sooner or later, depending on how your luck is running, you will be faced with an ugly choice --- stand up to your desperate, stoned-on-crack attacker or be a statistic of the worst kind: a victim because the law and the authorities insist on it and you foolishly adhered to bad advice.
The faulty "be a victim" thinking is instilled in children at school by guest lecturers from the local police and it gets reported very frequently in the context of the latest armed heist at the corner convenience store. "We don't recommend that you resist" intones the spokesman for the police after the criminal has escaped.
Apparently it is better to be robbed, not be able to make your mortgage payments or feed and clothe your family, plus accept the risk of being hurt or killed by the robber, and hope that the police catch the guy, return the money and give him a stern warning, right?
Banks have guards for their money - one of the few exceptions allowed in Canada for carrying a handgun. Is their money more dear to them than mine is to me?
Our senior politicians travel with armed body guards, paid for by Canadian taxpayers. This is so that the nutcases and/or criminals do not harm them. Why the double standard? Our political leaders' lives are not worth more than the lives of the 2 women in Banff yesterday who faced rape and possibly worse. The level of hypocrisy is astounding.
Allowing sane, trained, ordinary adults with no history of violence to carry the best means for self-defense is contrary to public policy in Canada. Will it take a similar assault, or an even worse outcome, upon the daughter of a Prime Minister or, say, the child of a Supreme Court Judge, before our lawmakers, courts and police wake up to the facts?
Many, upon reflection, are realizing the idiocy of this policy and are taking steps to be able to effectively defend their life, limb and property – just like the banks and the leading politicians do.
Many have come to the conclusion that it is "Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6." After all, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Richard A. Fritze
Barrister
Red Deer, AB
"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Women terrorized in vicious Banff attack
Man facing charges has long history of violence
Gwendolyn Richards and Cathy Ellis, Calgary Herald; For The Calgary Herald
Banff, 2:50 a.m. Sunday: Man picks up two women, then drives to the Tunnel Mountain trailhead, where he is accused of assaulting them. One woman escapes; Canmore, 3:15 a.m.: The second victim is driven to Canmore, where she is allegedly assaulted at a construction site.
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Two women heading home after a night out with friends in Banff accepted a ride from a stranger, unleashing a hellish ordeal that could have cost them their lives.
A man with a history of attacking women -- including one in Calgary -- is accused of kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting the two early Sunday morning.
The women, 28 and 34 years old, were doubling on a bicycle. Police say a man in a pickup truck pulled over and offered them a ride around 2:50 a.m.
"They saw a newer truck and the guy seemed friendly. There were (child) car seats in the truck," Banff RCMP Cpl. Mike Stourac said, adding that may have influenced their thinking.
The drive began fine, with the three making small talk. Then the man turned verbally aggressive, Stourac said.
Instead of taking them to their destination, police say the man turned into the Tunnel Mountain trailhead parking lot.
In the space of about an hour, it's alleged he attacked and assaulted both women. Then, after one escaped, he drove the other to Canmore, where a keen-eyed security company owner and one of his employees helped police arrest the suspect.
Randy Kitching, whose security company watches the Spring Creek Mountain Village construction site in Canmore, had heard police were looking for a suspect and vehicle involved in a Banff kidnapping.
Kitching and his employee, Barry Wakeford, saw two people walking into the woods toward the Bow River around 3:15 a.m.
The two men found a truck hidden behind the site office and contacted police.
"When we found the vehicle, we found signs of a struggle and some blood on the side of the vehicle," he said.
That sign of struggle may have come from the alleged attack that unfolded about 30 minutes earlier in Banff, when the two women attempted to escape from the truck in the trailhead parking lot.
"They tried to get out of the vehicle and run up the hill," Stourac said of the two women.
It's alleged the women's attacker tried to run over one of them with the truck, but instead struck a large log. He got out of the vehicle and caught up with them, said Stourac.
"He grabs them and drags them, kicking and screaming, back to the truck."
The women's attacker assaulted them the entire time, Stourac added, pulling their hair, pushing them down.
Then, one of the women managed to escape, running about two blocks and knocking on the door of a home for help, said Stourac.
With police contacted, officers were sent to the trailhead parking lot, but the truck, and the other victim, were gone.
Stourac said he called for a roadblock to track down the dark-coloured, extended cab truck, but the vehicle headed east on Highway 1 toward Canmore just before it could be set up.
"He squeaked by."
Meanwhile, security guards and other RCMP detachments were told to keep an eye out for the pickup, or the suspect and victim.
Less than half an hour after the man had picked up the two women, Kitching and Wakeford spotted two people walking into the woods and investigated further to find the hidden truck.
"We called the RCMP and explained we had the vehicle and individuals on the property somewhere, so they closed in around pretty quickly."
Two officers got to the scene in time to see the suspect and victim walking back out of the woods.
With guns drawn, they arrested the man and took him into custody.
"It was a real unfortunate incident," said Stourac. "I'm glad it was as short as it was. Who knows how it could have ended?"
Police later learned the truck had been stolen from Calgary 24 hours earlier.
Cory Lawrence Bitternose, 38, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, choking to overcome resistance, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats, dangerous driving and possession of stolen property.
Stourac called it a random attack, adding Bitternose was not known to Banff RCMP.
Bitternose has a long criminal history, including several attacks on women dating back more than 15 years.
In 1992, Bitternose pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for an attack two years earlier on a woman in an office building washroom in downtown Calgary after mistaking her for someone else.
The beating was so vicious, a sneaker imprint was left on the face of the victim.
For that, Bitternose was jailed more than five years.
In 2004, Bitternose was sentenced in Regina to serve 30 months in prison -- in addition to the two years he had already spent behind bars -- for the sexual assault, assault and illegal confinement in the beating of a man and that man's girlfriend, and an unrelated assault on another woman.
At the time he was sentenced, Bitternose apologized to his victims and told them he intended to change his ways.
"I hurt some people pretty deeply and I am sorry," he said at the time.
Banff Mayor John Stutz said he was upset by news of Sunday's attack.
"We always like to take care of people who work and live here, and this is a very unfortunate situation," he said.
The incident has echoes of the rape and assault of Julianne Courneya who was left for dead in Banff's Central Park on July 11, 2005.
"I consider these to be very random incidents, but certainly it does have a profound effect on us as a community."
Stourac said people would definitely think back to the summer of 2005 in light of the recent assault, but also said the incidents are random.
Bitternose appeared in Banff provincial court Monday, but his bail hearing was adjourned until next week.
[email protected]
© The Calgary Herald 2008
