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TORONTO
POLICE FAIL TO ENFORCE LAWS
BREACHED BY HOMOSEXUALS
Homosexual
activists believe they don't have to follow the same rules as the
rest of us. The Toronto Police Force by their actions appear to
agree with them.
The "Gay"
Pride Parades are a case in point. Among the many transgressions
at the 1999 Gay Parade in Toronto, for example, was that of a completely
naked woman who cavorted with abandon in the parade while the Toronto
police deliberately looked the other way. Although toplessness may
no longer be a criminal offence, the total public nudity exhibited
by this woman was clearly a violation of the Criminal Code.
Section 173
of the Criminal Code prohibits indecent exposure, S.174 prohibits
nudity in a public place and S. 175 prohibits indecent exhibitions
in a public place. Despite the blatant violations of these provisions,
no charges were laid against this woman or, for that matter, against
the completely nude males marching in the same parade. Those nude
men were members of the homosexual organization Totally Nude Torontonians
(TNT).
As a result
of the failure by Toronto Police to enforce the law in respect to
the Gay Parade, REAL Women of Canada on June 15, 2000, wrote to
Julian Fantino, the then recently-appointed Toronto Police Chief,
as follows:
…
the Gay Pride Parade appears to be treated by the Metropolitan
Toronto Police as a special parade to which the ordinary rules
of law do not apply.
This failure
to impartially uphold the law and to openly tolerate its infraction,
apparently was a political decision made by your predecessors.
This conclusion is based on a press release dated May 22, 1998,
by David R. Clark, Chair, Pride Toronto '98 which stated:
In the
past, not wanting to harm relations with the broader gay community,
the police have chosen not to intervene on their own initiative
and make arrests of fully naked people within the Pride parade
route or street festival site.
This
is deeply offensive to our organization, … No one in society
should be above the law and especially those who are seemingly
attempting to shock and titillate others by their actions contrary
to the provisions of the Criminal Code.
In this
connection, it is not sufficient to state that if one does not
like the actions of the participants of the parade, that one should
stay away.
That is
not the point. The streets of Toronto are open to all and the
behaviour of each individual on our streets should be, at the
very least, within the provisions of the Criminal Code.
We urgently
request that your department impartially uphold the law and that
no group or individuals in Toronto be accorded special protection
and privileges at the upcoming Gay Pride Parade.
Police Chief
Fantino did not reply to our letter. Moreover, at the Gay Pride
Parade 2000, police again refused to lay charges, notwithstanding
the fact that men from the TNT organization marched completely naked
in the parade, or, at best, covered their genitals with scraps of
leather or aluminum foil.
Consequently,
REAL Women wrote again to Police Chief Fantino on October 25, 2000,
stating:
…it
would appear that your department totally ignored our concerns
in regard to the June 2000 Gay Pride Parade. …
Under
the circumstances, one must reasonably conclude that the Toronto
police are being deliberately selective in their use of the Criminal
Code, which appears to be applied according to the group identity
of those involved. This failure to impartially uphold the law
gravely undermines the credibility of the police force in Toronto.
…
we should point out that our women's organization is not insensitive
to the requirement that the Toronto police should be open to all
members of society, including the homosexual community. However,
no individual or community should be exempt from the law and receive
special privileges and protection.
Accordingly,
we formally request once again that the Metropolitan Toronto Police
impartially uphold the law during Gay Pride Day Parades and at
other times.
Police Chief
Fantino did not reply to this letter either.
Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino
Surprisingly, Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino is detested by
homosexual activists. They don't trust him. This distrust is based
on the fact that Mr. Fantino, while serving as Police Chief in London,
Ontario in 1994, broke a kiddie porn ring there. The police investigation,
named Project Guardian, led to the laying of some 300 charges against
eighteen men who pleaded guilty to the charges and received sentences
ranging from 15 years to probation.
Homosexual
activists, of course, view Project Guardian as a thinly-veiled attempt
to persecute homosexuals - never, of course, admitting that homosexuals
themselves have broken the law and therefore, should be treated
the same as everyone else by being made responsible for their unlawful
actions.
In the same
year as Project Guardian (1994), Mr. Fantino applied for the position
of Chief of Police in Toronto. However, homosexual activists were
influential in preventing him from obtaining the appointment at
that time. These activists, however, were caught unawares by Mr.
Fantino's application for the same position in 2000, owing to the
fact that the Toronto Police Services Board had kept his application
under wraps until the appointment was approved.
Police Chief's
Compromises
Since his appointment as Police Chief in Toronto, Mr. Fantino has
bent over backwards to appease the homosexual community, stating
that he wanted to "tone down the rhetoric" and "to
make peace between all the partners." "Making peace"
with the homosexual community has included Police Chief Fantino
and his senior officers meeting with homosexual activists in a gay
bar to "socialize" with them. He was also a guest of honour
at a dinner held on March 13, 2000 hosted by The Fraternity, a homosexual
professional and social club. At this dinner, Chief Fantino again
spoke about his "respect" for the gay and lesbian business
community and his intentions to host a social at police headquarters
during "Pride" week, which, in fact, he did. To his credit,
however, Chief Fantino, unlike Vancouver's Chief of Police, did
not march in the 2000 Gay Parade. Mr. Fantino did say, however:
I didn't
always understand the significance of a Pride parade. I have been
educated about historical events and now I understand why the
parade is important.
(Xtra, March 23, 2000)
On June 14,
2000, Mr. Fantino met with representatives from the Coalition for
Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario (CLGRO) at police headquarters.
During the hour-long meeting, according to the July 27, 2000, issue
of Xtra, Mr. Fantino stated he wanted "the trust of the homosexual
community." Included in the CLGRO group was one of the men
who fought Mr. Fantino on Project Guardian. According to Xtra, however,
Mr. Fantino defended the investigation and offered no apologies
for it during this meeting.
Police Investigations
of Lesbian Bathhouse
On September 15, 2000, the Toronto police carried out an unannounced
90-minute inspection of the Pussy Palace bathhouse during which
300 partying lesbian patrons in various costumes and stages of undress
stood around. The police were responding to complaints of sex acts,
drug use and physical violence occurring in the licensed areas of
this bathhouse. The homosexual/lesbian community was enraged that
the police would inspect their premises, searching for breaches
of the Ontario Liquor Control Act. (Under the Ontario Liquor Control
Act, it is illegal to engage in sex acts, etc., in areas where alcohol
is being served, although, in unlicensed bathhouses, apparently
anything goes.)
The police
found no indecent sex acts, etc., being performed at the lesbian
bathhouse, but did lay six charges under the Liquor Control Act
for permitting disorderly conduct, failure to provide security and
serving liquor outside licensed hours.
The homosexual
/lesbian community predictably claimed these charges were "harassment,"
and constituted a "misuse" of police resources. They protested,
held press conferences and raised money to cover their legal costs.
They equated the police investigation at the Pussy Palace with the
raid of a Toronto male bathhouse the previous year. The charges
in that case, however, were withdrawn. The lawyer for the lesbian
bathhouse operation is now requesting that the Crown "stay"
(put a hold on) the charges or withdraw them entirely on the grounds
that the police investigation violated his clients' "constitutional
rights" - rights which apparently are not bestowed on other
people who violate the Liquor Control Act.
Police Liaison
Committee
Despite this lesbian bathhouse investigation, the homosexual activists
have recently agreed to form a liaison committee with the Toronto
police. There are already five other liaison committees in Toronto
representing Chinese, French, South and West Asian, Aboriginal and
Black groups. The liaison committee is to be comprised of four or
five police representatives and eight to ten representatives from
the homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, including
those who have undergone sex changes and those who "feel"
they are the wrong sex. Details about the committee have yet to
be settled as the homosexual activists are rankled that the police
insist that members of the Committee should not have criminal records.
Homosexuals, of course, believe that they are entitled to special
rules and exemptions and so, surely, the a little matter of having
a past criminal record should not be an issue regarding membership
on the Police Liaison Committee.
Ordinary citizens
are entitled to the basic right of having their laws impartially
upheld and respected by a police force whose sworn duty it is to
do so. We must demand nothing less.
Please write
to Toronto Police Chief Fantino and request that the Toronto Police
Department respect the law by impartially enforcing the Criminal
Code and cease providing protection to the special interest groups
of homosexuals/lesbians.
It is important
that Police Chief Fantino receive letters not only from Toronto
itself, but also from other areas of the province and Canada. The
eyes of Canada are on the Toronto Police Department. If the Toronto
Police do not properly enforce the law, then no other Police Chief
in Canada will dare to do so.
Chief Fantino's
address is as follows:
Mr. Julian
Fantino, Chief of Police
Metropolitan Toronto Police
40 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2J3
Tel: 416.808.2222
Fax: 416.808.8002
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