Sean! You were talking to David Basi and this is all you can tell us? We'd be pleased to hear ... well, almost anything. Or everything.

Next time, please say Hi from me, I hope he's well, and ... when is his trial date again?

actually, i heard that it was the spiderman that copped to a deal. mr. boringman.

more hearsay, no doubt.

Something has been bothering me. Well, a lot of things are bothering me about this case. But in the immediate sense of right here and now, what bothers me is David Basi assuming that providing testimony to the prosecution meant "to lie to save my own hide"

Call me old-fashioned, but doesn't "providing testimony" mean telling the truth? Under oath?

And ... gee whillickers ... you don't "provide" testimony, do ya? Like its a veggie burger for a quick lunch?

I'm all for David and Bobbie talking and talking and talking ... but we've had enough lies ... and I think David Basi could come through this ordeal looking not so bad, if he were to tell British Columbians all he knows, truthfully.

Dream on, the cops don't spend a couple of years checking things, raid the legislature offices just for something to do. Proven until innocent is the law and rightly so. But who in his right mind goes and gets interviewed to tell the world that he won't lie for anyone. has he no legal counil to tell him to shut up till he gets into teh room with the judge. The courts take a dim view of them who lie and get caught lying, not that I'm saying Basi is lying. we will soon know either way

The Ministry of Finance has seen a wholesale departure of senior staff from the Minister and his aides down about 4 levels since the arrests.

Anyone even remotely involved with BC Rail or a handful of other "suspect" deals is gone.

You can believe that this is all coincidence and that the RCMP has a hidden agenda to persecute Indo-Canadians or you can wait and see.

Innocent,

What senoir staff have been "wholesale departing"? I'm pretty sure every political aide who has worked for the Finance Minister save Mr. Basi is still working for goverrnment... please elaborate.

Do people actually believe that people do not lie in order to protect others? Human nature is human nature and people will do anything and everything to try and survive and save face.

The RCMP, politicians, political insiders, reporters....will do whatever it takes to save their own asses, reputations and careers.

I am, er. ... ah, ... ahem, ... flattered that a heavy duty political operative of Mr Basi's dimensions would mention me. {Actually, I am frightened, as any reasonable person would be.}

I think Pie-in-the-sky has summed it up nicely, that providing testimony normally means telling the truth. That's what I was thinking too. That a Liberal organizer read it as telling lies, ... what can anyone say that could possibly add to that? Oh wait, ... we haven't heard from Steve Hopkins yet.

A few things to note here.

1) The grow-op charge is a completely unrelated case from the rest. The only connection that seemed to David Basi was that he owned the house and was renting out. How does one hold a landlord responsible for the actions of the renters?

2) Asking for testimony is not about lieing or not. The prosecution may ask him for some testimony, but if David has nothing to offer them all he could do would be to lie. You are presuming that the prosecution knows he knows something.

Meanwhile it is two years since the raids on the his offices and we still do not really know what happened or why.

I am wondering at this point if this case will ever see the courts or if it will be stayed

My ears are ringing. Refresh my memory Budd, you name-dropper you. Where did you take your legal degree? Nanaimo Commonwealth U. or North Burnaby Inn Community College?

Hopkins, I don't have a law degree. Neither do you.

Good day Bernard, ... are you representing Barlee, Geoghegan and Associates, the Liberal lobbying bucketshop, or just freelancing today?

Whichever the case may be, based on all your insider sources, whispers, innuendo, gossip, etc., etc., will Dave Basi be testifying for the prosecution or not?

I'll settle (for the moment) for just this crumb of truth. TC reported that the trial date for Basi & Virk would be set in BC Supreme Court on Friday 5 January 2006. Well ... were we eejits to imagine that the trial dates would then actually be published?

5 Jan. came. 5 Jan. passed. And the 6th, the 7th, the 8th, and now it's the 9th of Jan. 2006 ... with nary a hint, not a clue, not a word about that trial date. Am I the only person beginning to feel just a tad outraged at being played the fool again and again, on this matter?

Like, as if there's no public interest needing to be served by letting us know what those RCMP raids were all about?

This is the latest on Basi-Virk trial

Another delay in setting trial date for raid on legislature

Jan, 06 2006 - 3:10 PM

VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - There's been yet another delay in setting a trial date for the men charged in conjunction with the December 2003 police raid on the BC legislature.

Lawyers for David Basi, Aneal Basi and Robert Virk will be back before a BC Supreme Court judge next Thursday [Jan 12] to set a trial date and elect to proceed by either judge alone or judge and jury.

Just a quick note. Steve hopkins of Surrey and his alter ego Sue Halstead of Cumberland are the worst sort of folks to critize. One ends up on a rather nasty site run by Halstead.

Surrey???? Now I'm really insulted. Sue Halstead simply lists the names of teachers who have been disciplined for pedophilia and other forms of abusive, criminal and un-professional behaviour (like contempt of court). She used to be the only one who did so, but now that the BC College of Teachers has been freed from BCTF domination, it lists them too.
The BCTF funded a SLAPP suit (strategic lawsuit against public participation) to attack Sue's freedom of speech and intimidate anyone who dared to criticize them. A decision is still pending in that lawsuit.

AFAIK, Steve Hopkins has no other claim to social prominence besides being married to former Liberal Star Loser Shirley Chan.

Who is Halstead? What is the URL of her site?

Budd:

Are you really attacking Steve on his lack of social prominence? This from a guy who frequently haunts obscure political message boards. You're not living in a glass house, you're living in a glass CITY on this one.

Halstead got herself into a Libel/slander fiasco over POSTING of teachers on her site that had nothing to do with teacher discipline. One teacher got his name on her 'Bad Apple Teacher' page for writing a rebuttle to a letter in the Vancouver Courier by Steve Hopkins. Go figure.
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