Tolerant and Compassionate Canada

[RWGR]

Prominent gay activist Ryan Taavel was beaten to death outside a gay club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, early Tuesday and police said they had a suspect in custody.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...#ixzz1sLaSan6O

[stupefied]

Another victim of our justice system.

[Soundbear]

RWGR has blown it again, not knowing the whole story.

[Soundbear]

Can someone post that shot of the Marines for us.

[stupefied]

Not sure how the marines fit in but here's some info on the accused in this case...

Court documents paint the man charged with murdering a well-known member of Halifax’s gay community early Tuesday as troubled and delusional with a lengthy record of run-ins with the law.

Andre Noel Denny, 32, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1997, a paranoid subtype, coupled with a substance abuse problem, Nova Scotia Supreme Court documents show.

In September 2009, court papers reveal he’d been charged with causing "unnecessary injury" to a dog, possession of stolen property (the dog), uttering a death threat to his neighbours and breach of probation.

The charges stemmed from incidents at Eskasoni on Sept. 1 and 2 of that year.

Denny’s court testimony in relation to those charges was often “sprinkled with delusions,” a judge wrote in court papers in October 2009.

He was also Tasered by police when he was arrested after a seven-hour standoff at Membertou in 2011, a media report shows. At that time he was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a woman, uttering threats and unlawfully confining her.

The extent of Denny’s mental illness was outlined in court proceedings related to the September 2009 crimes at Eskasoni.

One physician found him to be "grossly psychotic" with a "his-tory of aggressiveness," court documents said. The court also heard he’d had a history of using "street drugs" and prescription medication.

A psychiatrist later found his condition had improved after treatment at the East Coast Forensic Hospital in Dartmouth. By the late fall of 2009, it was determined he was fit to stand trial but was found not criminally responsible.

In Sydney provincial court, Judge Peter Ross described a gruesome threat Denny had made to his Eskasoni neighbours. Denny had been living next to them in a trailer for about a month. "He said he was going to ‘slice everyone’s throat’ when they were sleeping," Ross said in finding Denny not criminally responsible.

Denny also stole a three-month-old pit bull puppy and slit its throat. The dog was so badly injured that it had to be euthanized, court documents show.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/8...n-ins-with-law

[Roll The Bones]

RWGR has blown it again, not knowing the whole story.

"the whole story" never was buzzard's strong point, was it

[Roll The Bones]

soundy is right - this thread has nothing to do with tolerance, intolerance etc - it has to do with a man who was murdered by an unstable person who should not have been out on the streets... this is a tragedy in the truest sense...

yet that sick buzzard uses this tragedy - a man's death - to flog his indifference toward our country by trying to paint us all with the same brush...

unfortunate for the vulture, he's not even close... read on...

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/20...tivists-family

"The owner of a Halifax gay bar has set up a fund for the family of slain activist Raymond Taavel and two more vigils will be held in his honour.

Taavel, 49, was beaten to death early Tuesday morning, allegedly at the hands of a man who was supposed to be in a mental-health corrections facility at the time.

The news has sent shockwaves throughout the city's gay community and sparked a provincial review of the circumstances under which his alleged killer, 23-year-old Andre Denny, was given an unescorted pass from the East Coast Forensic Hospital in Burnside, N.S.

The pass, issued Monday night, was supposed to be for one hour, but Denny didn't return.

Doug Melanson, the owner of Menz & Mollyz, where Taavel was a regular and spent his last night playing songs on the jukebox, has set up a fund to help Taavel's mother and brother in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., deal with funeral and other final expenses.

Taavel grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, but moved to Halifax in the early '90s."

[Huggy85]

You guys are killin' the poor birdbrain!

[Anapeg]

Buzzard Beak is making the point that this could never happen in the U. S. of A because they are a tolerant, well balanced group of, dare I say, individuals? Nothing even close to our murderous race.

[NewCasa]

What a foolish thread. Need we bring up all the black people burned, hung and tortured by you Americans, both before and after slavery was abolished? Need we bring up the fact that those very slaves sought and found comfort and freedom in Canada?

You really need to watch the hypocrisy RWGR.

Would you like to get into the persecution of gay people in the US as well? You guys are pathetic. Especially people like you who think they have any right at all to call others on incidents such as this. It's very sad what happened, but in Canada this is an exception. In the US it's much less so.