Did Gabriel Wortman intend to mass murder bus riders, if he had made it into the city ?

trying to kill a child just for standing too close to your clinic is a RED ALARM example of ’Leakage’ from a potential ‘Injustice Collector’ mass killer says Mary Ellen O’Toole

Matt M is an industrial salesman in Burnside now, but back then he was just a kid when Gabriel Wortman began to beat him to death, a total stranger, simply because Matt from the North End and the working class-oriented bus stop he was waiting at were “too close” to Wortman’s brand new toney denture clinic.

‘Toney’ only in Wortman’s ego-swollen brain.

Because long time residents of Dartmouth - and I count myself one - have always seen both sides of Portland Street along the 150 metres stretch between Maitland and Canal as the least attractive part of the 6000 metre long street.

‘Tawdry’, and ‘sad’, and ‘see better days’ is the words we would use - both to describe most of the older buildings in that stretch and Wortman’s newly owned clinic , particularly back in 2001.

Wortman never proffered proof that Matt had damaged his clinic or attempted a break-in : it was Gabriel who was charged with criminal assault, not Matt for property damage.

I could easily have been Matt, as I have waited for a  Dartmouth North-bound bus at that stop many a time.

It is almost impossible to wait there and not be “too close” to Wortman property. The clinic has zero setback from the side walk, the bus stop sign must go where a utility pole is available and a driveway not blocked.

I surmise that the real reason for this “disproportional outburst of extreme violence for such a trivial imagined slight”, to paraphrase Mary Ellen O’Toole, the world’s leading profiler of mass killers, is that Gabriel Wortman hated buses all his life with a passion, a passion only an ‘injustice collector’ could  really grow & fester.

Because you have heard GW grew up in Riverview, and you have driven through downtown Riverview, you think you understand his milieu.

 But like Halifax, the City of Riverview includes a lot of countryside and Gabe’s rural home was 5 miles from the downtown high school : it was a long school bus everyday  —— or a set of wheels.

His distain for buses all began when GW was forced to take a bus to school everyday when he was too young to drive. As lifelong injustice collector and a guy who tried to avoid social exchanges with others at all costs unless it was to his benefit, the cheek to jowl school buses were pure hell .

Oh, the endless imagined slights he must of endured : the usual male response to a casual sick male putdown is to just sling an even darker aspersion back, but young Gabe could never ever let even the most casual of taunts go.

He grew to despise all buses, with their annoying collectivity all herded together, and admired only those with their own individual wheels.

 The very minute Gabe could get his beginner’s license, he refused to take the bus to school anymore and drove his off-road dirt bike, on the road, all the way to school, everyday and in all kinds of weather.

A behavior so unique that it became the only thing most of his classmates remembered about him 35 years later.

His huge collection of cars and motorized bikes and motorized boats has now become infamous : not for Gabriel the 21st century’s trendy adult bicycle. He avidly disdained shanks’ mare or pedalling a bike : he was always the master and the motor was always his slave.

Above all, it allowed him to move about totally alone , away from the world and its annoying people, alone with his brooding evil thoughts of  “The Day Of Final Revenge” ...

Wortman Timeline : for a white millionaire “unknown to the police”, he was awfully KNOWN to police & authorities

RCMP BRASS say Wortman ‘not known’ to Authorities : we beg to differ

I’m beginning to think that “known to police” is just a dogwhistle word for “darkie”.

Despite what the top brass of the RCMP in their lonely log cabin on the 14th floor of Mountie HQ told us, GW was actually very well known to the people who hand out summons.

I will try to put in order, what we know to date :

In 1997, according to the sometimes reliable REBEL NEWS referencing a public records database, GW is convicted of speeding in a Truro court.

In the period between 1996 and 2001, while Gabriel and his first wife Corinna Kincaid lived at 26 Pine Street Dartmouth, a Dartmouth resident & reliable member of the various Wortman forums on Facebook reports he was well known to neighbours as a guy who was consistently mean to children walking past his home, assaulting several physically, one assault, at least, she knew was serious.

His front steps have zero setback to the sidewalk, meaning I or you would find it very hard to walk along that public sidewalk, which I have done many times, without being “too close” to GW’s front door.

Oct 29 2001, from the complete court documentation put on line by the HALIFAX EXAMINER, amplified by child’s recollections to Toronto Star and others in 2020, GW, now living down the hill form Pine at Portland St, beats the living daylights out of a child, for walking “too close” to his front door, another door with zero setback from the public sidewalk.

The child’s life is saved when neighbour starts in with the yelling and the waving of the cellphone camera. Charged with criminal assault facing jail time - the millionaire ends up paying $50 fine.

In same time period the TORONTO STAR reports the kid says he was contracted by his assailant after the police began their investigation and offered a bribe to withdraw his complaint.

In April 2004, according to HRM council public records, GW is charged with unsightly and dangerous premises after he refuses to render safe the building next to his clinic that burned under mysterious circumstances.: the matter ends up before the whole of HRM council.

Later,  according to FRANK MAGAZINE, GW has a protracted row with most of the departments in  City Hall, over his clinic’s signage.

Summer 2004, according to Globe & Mail et al, GW threatens to kill neighbour John Hudson with his guns if John steps on his GW & LB matrimonial joint property to assist LB with her luggage.

 Not sure if this made it to the level of an official complaint or remained something that traditional “community policing” might have picked up. RCMP operate on a “strangers talking to strangers after the barn door has been bolted“ style instead.

June 3 2010 RCMP investigate report from retired RCMP uncle of GW that GW threatened to kill his ma and pa with his illegal stash of guns, this from Truro police all points bulletin , below.

November 2010 GW gets a summary conviction from a HRM police member, this from the Truro police report, below.

May 2011 Truro police receive a tip they consider reliable and send out a very rare all-points bulletin to all NS police that GW had gone squirrelly, had a load of illegal guns and was aiming to ‘kill a cop’ because of his anger over how a burglary was handled by the police.

Possibly referencing FRANK MAGAZINE  audio conversation with GW’s father Paul, about a burglar stopped at the Portland street clinic by GW pointing an (non-registered/illegal) shotgun at the thief. One of the policemen investigating was not happy with this. (The others had no problems ?)

Surely an interaction when police come to aid a resident instead of arresting them counts as that resident being “known to police’ - but apparently not : its just a usefully vague way to dogwhistle the words  darky or native , I swear to God.

Did the coppers do due diligence and check whether homeowner had a license for the shotgun he was pointing with inappropriate force at the burglar ? Don’t know, they won’t tell.

2013,  CBC says RCMP investigate 2013 report from Portapique neighbour Brenda Forbes that GW tried to kill his girlfriend in front of three witnesses and then told them to do nothing or he’d uses his guns on them.

Feb 12 2020 : FRANK MAGAZINE details that GW is extremely upset an unmarked police car is near his Dartmouth garage (where he keeps his ‘restored’ RCMP cruisers) - a major incident is narrowly averted when a senior police boss calls off the ever-increasing number of cops on the scene.

Feb 12 2020,  same day, hours later :  FRANK Magazine & CBC reports GW charged by RCMP with speeding on Portapique Beach Road... *

*though Paul Palango recently told Rick Howe Show June 11th,  it happened on a Saturday evening  (February 15th ? , at RCMP shift change, 5:58  pm, for going 5 miles over the speed limit ) and thus had the distinct feel of not being a real speeding ticket.

Keep those TIPS coming in : to me, to FRANK MAGAZINE, to the RCMP,  to the CBC, to whatever outlet that best suits your ideological bent...

Gabriel Wortman, beating a CCC 266-A rap down to 266-B and going on to killing 23 people

Tabloid Headline :

”Hulking brute assaults child and the Justice System sees .... PINK“

The first constable made the right call. The Justice System after that ? Not so fucking much...

Was it worth it for a white millionaire to hire the most expensive criminal lawyer in province of Nova Scotia ?

You betcha :  you beat the rap down from a indictable conviction and five years jail time to a $50 fine  —-and you get to go on to kill 23 in a blaze of infamy.

And might it have been worth it for the province, in turn, to have hired Mary Ellen O’Toole,  the world’s best profiler of “Injustice Collectors” with Red-Alert “leakage” incidents ?

Definitely : 23 not-dead, no blaze of infamy.

On October 29 2001, hulking six foot two Gabriel Wortman ran out of his home at 193 Portland Street Dartmouth to beat the living crap of a kid we will call Matt M standing at a bus stop, waiting for a bus.

He was only prevented from killing him when someone across the street, probably with their cell phone camera out, yelled out - “stop, he’s only a kid !” Gabe bolted.

Exactly two months after the kid was interviewed by police while in hospital recovering from his wounds, (December 29th 2001) Wortman was formally charged with criminal assault punishable by five years in prison, section 266-A.

At some point GW is alleged by the victim to have contacted him, offering him a bribe to drop his complaint.

GW’s only explanation for beating the kid near to death ? The kid said Wortman yelled “ you’re too close to my building” before he began punching and kicking him.

Now I have also waited at the very same bus stop many times and let me tell you brothers and sisters, it is impossible to stand at the bus stop sidewalk and not be “too” close to Wortman’s clinic : its just the way the sidewalk, the utility pole and clinic are built. The clinic has zero, none, zip, setback from the sidewalk.

The was no break-in at the clinic and nothing broken or stolen, by Wortman’s own account.

To beat the living shit out of an innocent kid waiting for a bus at a bus stop next to your shop, just because you are outraged that Halifax Transit dared build a bus stop, with all its working class passengers, right in front of your toney business, is way out of proportion for such an imagined slight.

Yes, I am paraphrasing Mary Ellen O‘Toole, as she is the world’s expert on these sort of situations, but she has repeatedly made her criteria crystal clear in every article and interview.

The world is full of “Injustice Collectors” : people who just won’t let an imagined slight go and blow out their reaction to it all out of proportion.

We all do this, to some extent ; but most of us, do indeed let it go after we cool down.

Others don’t, they seethe inwardly till the day they die. They feel like killing all of their many slighters, but they never do.

Others, a few others, do give off warning signs that they might some day revenge themselves on the world for all their imagined slights.

Their inner rage “leaks” out : they openly talk of killing people or they do a violent act that is WAY out of proportion for the imagined injury that provoked it.

 In fact, in general, mass killers, are super-leakers : they leak like a nuclear reactor. They aren’t always ignored either : it is just that their actions are treated as trivial, so that they get to go on to kill massively.

Decades later than 2001, we do know that Gabriel Wortman openly and repeatedly talked about killing people he imagined had slighted him but way back in 2001 we have a clear example of a totally disproportionate violent response to a slight imagined slight — if only a few people had listened.

The HRM police constable who first charged Wortman, after interviewing everyone, clearly thought that the violence was way out of proportion to the imagined slight.

Constable Laurie Cuvelier, son of  legendary NS Sports Hall of Famer Jim Cuvelier, charged Wortman with the serious indictable offence of assault, liable to up to five years jail time : Section 266 (A) of the Criminal Code of Canada - the first court date set for January 10th 2002.

No more professional medical license, no more comfortable millionaire’s lifestyle.

But a current millionaire’s income allows you to hire the most expensive criminal lawyer in the province, a guy named Pink.

The phone wires must have burned red hot that holiday weekend. But you don’t get to earn the big bucks by taking a nine to five attitude, do you ?

Because on January 3rd 2002, Cuvelier’s original printed out charge sheet for the first court appearance was hastily overwritten, by hand , at the last moment, by Constable Ronald Josey before JP Judith Gaul. The charge was scribbled down to 266 (b).

(Josey had ten years seniority on Cuvelier.)

Them darn red hot burning phone lines.

I don’t mean to imply that the senior police and senior prosecutors saw Red. I think they saw Pink.

Anyway, from five years jail time to $50 chump change. Just like that.

And so it was that on  January 11th 2002, after Crown Prosecutor Barrett reviewed all the proceedings to date , he carefully weighed the evidence from Cuvelier that Wortman’s violence was extraordinary and well out of proportion to the slight he imagined ....against the trouble and expense of defending that charge against the full force of Pink and...

...agreed to stay with reducing the charge down to a $50 fine : a Section 266 (B) summary conviction offence, saving Wortman from losing his professional license.

To put it in Jim Cuvelier’s baseball vernacular : Pink won, Cuvelier nothing.

*Barrett on the court process sheet online, in all probability means acting Crown Prosecutor David G Barrett, a former Mountie, former CSIS guy, counsel to the NS retired Mounties association. An highly experienced, well-connected guy.

That darn Mountie-Wortman connection again....

While this was decided at January 2002 court appearance, the actual trial date, all for a $50 fine, was set for October 2002 - ten long months later.

Any sensible person, with a sensible pocket book, would have cut their losses then and there and pleaded guilty, paid their fine and discharged their very expensive lawyer.

But Gabe was very stubborn - as all the people who knew him agreed - and kept paying Pink and only pleaded guilty minutes before the summary conviction trial was set to begin.

If Gabe was colored (you pick a color, any color) rather than white, if he had been poor rather than a millionaire, would he have been sent down for such as extraordinary violent act out of all proportion to his imagined slight ?

If all the legal system individuals involved in this 2001 had been more aware of “Injustice Collectors” and “Leakage” of violent acts out of all proportion to imagined slights, might they have acted differently ?

Might any of them make peace with their God and offer up a heartfelt Mea Culpa ?

I suspect instead, today, they will just sigh inwardly and reflect “what’s done is done, there is no use crying over spilled milk, or spilled blood or 24 dead...”

My conscience is not so easily stayed : my reason for writing these blog posts on Wortman is my hope that there won’t be an inevitable next time ; that we will all learn to recognize the Red Alert warning signs of Leakage violence from Injustice Collectors, the people behind 90% of all forms of mass killings.

A public inquiry must focus on the warning signals , the Leakage, of Gabriel Wortman that were ignored.

 Forget the f-ups on the day from the RCMP : most victims were already dead by the time the mounties first arrived.

Focus instead on this little discussed incident from two decades before, when the justice system’s decision let a mass murderer get away with his first act of overt extreme violence, fuelled his ego and allowed him to go on to bigger and worser things....

Little hard evidence that idle science spurs innovation

Little HARD evidence innovations flows from idle science

When scientists are young, producing published articles, they demand hard evidence and plenty of it.

But when eminent and in their dotage, they bypass missing hard evidence when it suits their special pleading.

Never more so when they argue before governments, businesses and the public that almost all inventions now and in the past are/were the fruits of pure idle science, not of the labours of inventors and tinkers.

They make a two forked argument here - rather like the pitch of the Devil.

Fork one of their false claims is when they say there is no place for the amateur of science, who does it merely for the love of discovery - better leave the heavy lifting to paid professionals  —- rather like themselves.

Fork two of their fake argument is that the world advances best when scientists like themselves don’t work for money, for industry, upon applications dreamed up by grantors, but rather idly tinker about, with applications and technological innovation the inevitable fruit of the idle play of the free mind.

Translation —- for this cant very much needs translation  —they want the public taxpayer to fund them as latter-day aristocrats of science, Gentlemen of Science, not to hire them as mere scientific employees.

Their lab coats must be white collar, not blue collar.

But while the origins of some inventions and innovations can be traced to the work of academic scientists involved in experiments without immediate application, the university press release trumpeting their success never fails to see those immediate applications. (Insert here the magical thinking word : cure for cancer.)

However most innovations have come from non-academic scientists, indeed from non-scientists.

And here I am hoisting scientists on their own petard : for with one voice, they claim a scientist needs at least a PhD, if not a permanent university position, to qualify for that term.

So the inventive entrepreneur with a BSc (Hons) in organic chemistry still doesn’t quality as a scientist.

Inventors intent on inventing the wholly new and tinkers intend on merely improving the existing are and have always been the lifeblood of innovation.

In turn - and here’s real irony for you Alanis -  those innovations by non-scientists have led to most of the discoveries made in pure idle science.

Inventors and tinkers and engineers and profit-driven capitalists have constantly improved our tools of measuring and observing throughout the centuries and enabled pure scientists to see deeper further clearer to make visible the new worlds they discover.

Frankly all this foolish efforts by scientists to up their collective social status to the stratosphere goes back to the Reform Act of 1832 : the old land-based aristocracy faded and since 1832, well to do families seeking  to maintain permanent wealth and comfort for themselves and their kids prefer to invest most all of their money in very expensive education.

Because money is still in short supply  ——as is genius.

The kids of the well to do rarely feel the hunger needed to become the geniuses produced by toil and effort, so parents load them up instead with professional qualifications and post docs, after an early life of extra tutoring, education trips and toys, best schools and universities.

This only works if the best jobs demand paper qualifications over raw genius.

So the dutiful swot kids of the well to do become competent profs, while the genius kids of the poor become inventors and entrepreneurs.

The merely competent always fear the raw genius, hence the ceaseless campaign to up the social standing of idle aristocratic science while putting down the real innovations of inventors & tinkers geniuses and the sheer boring hard work of thousands of competent engineers and technicians.

Sad, because the real truth is they all need each other - they all fed off the inspiration thrown up by all the others’ new ideas and new innovations....

Justin Trudeau et al : how would we ever try mass killer Gabriel Wortman without mentioning his name ?

Gabriel also liked to wear disguises

Our prime minister is more famous for blacking-up than hitting the books, so we shouldn’t really be surprised when he said the first political correct idiocy that popped into his dead : “lets never mention GW’s name ever again”.

Luckily for Mr Trudeau , GW was shot dead so there was no preliminary hearing, trial, sentencing, appeals etc.

But there will be a public inquiry and Gabriel Wortman’s name will have to be mentioned, as evidence is formally submitted, time and again.

Judges are not Justins : they will not allow endless “Mr Xs” to be entered into evidence to appease the “think nothing but kind thoughts” brigade.

Mass killers have such massive egos that they won’t give a tinker’s darn about GW’s real name - they will only notice if his methods were novel.

Well one of them was : and its the one the “think only kind thoughts” have voluntarily brought up time and again...

“LEAKAGE” should be the focus of Gabriel Wortman Inquiry

Mary Ellen O’Toole coined the terminology

Anyone who ever spent more than a few hours with Gabriel Wortman soon realized he was an “Injustice Collector” : ie, he tended to blow imagined slights WAY out of proportion, combined with an inability to ever let them go.

Heck even a young couple who only spent a few hours with GW on an initial denture appointment came away with that sense.

A lot of us are “injustice collectors” to some degree : but we don’t all go out and commit horrible spree killings to avenge a lifetime of imagined slights.

We usually successful mask our inner wish to throttle those who we think have wronged us.

But some can’t : at first, the mask only slips when drunk and away from work —- but later —- some even unmask even to total strangers, while sober and in a formal work situation.

GW is a textbook example of doing both.

“Leakage” this is called in the medical scientific police circles that investigate this condition.

Noticing “leakage” of violent thoughts from “injustice collectors” is the best way we the public can help end the 90% of mass shootings that stem from them.

Yep, 90%.

We have to learn to take “leakage” seriously - and so do doctors, colleagues, police, judges.

If the only real outcome of a Wortman Inquiry is that we all really take in the full meaning of the term “leakage”, and act accordingly :  it will be worth it - and that will be a suitable legacy to the 23 innocent lives lost....

The Afghanistanism of Canada’s George Floyd protests

Decades ago, before the reality of Afghanistan became the Canadian reality for many grieving families, many editorial writers were taunted for only writing Afghanistanisms.

These sort of editorial writers were a fiery lot, admittedly weak on hitting short range targets, but a dead cert on the long range target. Famous for railing about police corruption in far off, almost imaginary, Afghanistan while ignoring the blatant actions of the local bent police chief.

Cowards, in less polite language.

Afghanistanism editorialists : on foot

I often thought about them over the decades whenever I would be publicly invited to join some rally to express local outrage over American actions in some far off country.

Invariably these would involve a quick circle around Halifax‘s conveniently tiny traditional downtown and then lots of fiery ‘long distance’ speeches at Halifax’s Grand Parade, before hitting the nearby trendy restaurants and smoke shops.

I often wondered why they didn’t protest in front of the local (Eastern Passage) capitalist plant profiting over America’s Cold War posturing by making sonic buoys.

But that would require a long inconvenient bus trip out and back from the Passage — I often felt that many of our university-based CFAs thought the world was flat and its boundaries matches those of Halifax Peninsular.

Our local George Floyd protests might have a little more bite, if they usefully contrasted the police reaction to poor, local blacks suspected of illegal guns, to that of rich white millionaires like Gabriel Wortman suspected of illegal guns.

 And make their case even more TV-worthy by marching back and front of GW’s Dartmouth denturist shop. Oh, yes, that would involve leaving the safe boundaries of Halifax Penisular again, won’t it ?

And it would involve the protesters, mostly members of the “think nothing but kind thoughts” brigade, having to mention the unmentionable Gabriel Wortman in public.

So any protest with real teeth is out - back to the safe old ‘warm milk and biscuits’ bromides of Afghanistanisms again.

The more things change, the more they remain the same....

KRIST Almighty ! The NIRVANA of flannel fascism to TRUMP peaceful protest

Like TRUMP, the USTASE hated almost everybody

Abstract : FLANNEL FASCISM, I’m agin it...

Krist man ! I thought all those horrible decades of Croatian fascism, of USTASE and Ante Pavelic, of genocidal practices that aimed to outbid Hitler himself, were well behind us.

Ante Pavelic, like Donald Trump, won power by promising to rid the streets  all ‘foreign scum’ through violence.

But neither are examples we should ever praise on Facebook.

Flannel Fascism is an alternative, alright : an alternative to reality, to decency and to common sense.

Krist buddy : past time to repent your foolish ideas...

wortman BY-STANDERS need a good excuse & we have a doozy !

BYSTANDERS R US

And God knows, there are enough Wortman bystanders about.

They are crawling - and crawling is the operative word - out of the woodwork.

Here’s that all-purpose excuse they need to have memorized, before fronting the media or RCMP :

“I was afraid I was going to be killed.”

 Isn’t it just the perfect  & perfectly nice, safe, generic, excuse for doing nothing and saying nothing?

 And yes, technically, every Canadian not in a coma between  the age of 9 and 99 could kill someone -  so it covers almost ever situation when you wish to avoid stopping something or calling the cops.

“Yes, officer, I did see my neighbour stagger down the steps to her car, but I was more afraid she might kill me than worry than she might kill a little kid on a bike —- I know, let’s hold a candlelight vigil and think kind thoughts.”

Avid readers of my blog know what I think of bystanders back in September 1st 1939 : they included almost the entire world.

Which reminds me : it is strictly lack of money, not a disregard for the majority of the voters, that causes governments to give out medals only to heroes, not cowards.

There are always too few heroes —- and way too many cowards....

rich white guys with illegal gats hire rich white layer JORDAN DONICH to beat the rap

SMART, HARD-WORKING, RICH

Some people have questioned  my blog posts that it is police fears of facing an expensive ‘gun’ lawyer hired by a rich guy that really keeps them from applying for a search warrant for suspected illegal weapons inside big fancy homes.

A simple enough code of conduct, really : first google home of prospective search warrant subject : if big and fancy, back off - make up some excuse, any excuse —- just back off.

Here’s why :

Meet JORDAN DONICH  ——- a search warrant seeking police person’s worst nightmare.

His Toronto website boasts of all the incredible gun raps his clients have beat thanks to his expensive-by-the-hour advice.

Gun raps, the beating of, is his firm’s speciality he boasts.

He pays extra special attention to “police protocol in executing search warrants”.

Translation : the guy has 6 AR-15s and 800 rounds of ammo, he’s been threatening to off his ex and her family, but a t wasn’t crossed and and i dotted, so he’s off scott free.

If Canada’s NEGRO and RED SKINS had the average incomes of native-born ANGLO-SAXON protestant Canadians, they too could start beating all those vehicle stopped, searched, seized incidents we read about in the newspapers.

But on average, they definitely don’t : so they don’t.

what if it was GEORGE FLOYD & not GABRIEL WORTMAN packing illegal heat ‘tween Portapique & Dartmouth, looking to kill a cop ?

NS cops & mounties would have skipped the ‘death by knee’

Canadian police probably wouldn’t have had their knee weight on George’s neck for eternal minutes till he died, even if he was definitely packing illegal heat and talking of killing a cop ——instead of merely being a suspect in passing fake $20 bills.

But I feel both HRM police and RCM police would have found a some sort of a traffic violation excuse to stop George Floyd’s car and search for the illegal gat.

Cause he was a poor black guy —- not a rich white millionaire who looks like he votes Tory and owns an expensive lawyer.

We have two sets of gun registration laws in Canada  : not on the statute books but down at the patrol house : informal rules.

One is for middle aged well off Protestant-looking white guys with big homes ; and the rule is never even try to see a judge for a search warrant, cause the anti-gun control lobby will yell at the minister for ‘fishing expeditions’.

The other is for young, poor minorities : blacks, aboriginals, immigrants of every sort of color : stop them for a busted tail light (or something) and then F- the search warrant shit, search and seize : the anti-gun control lobby will praising you for cleaning up the streets...

informal three party agreement : go slow on any Wortman inquiry

rare ALL-PARTY agreement on Wortman inquiry

In 2001, Gabriel Wortman pleaded guilty to a violent assault on a child and agreed - on Scout’s Honour - not to own any guns for a while.

I say on Scout’s Honour because the police did not check to see if he indeed had any.

(Hint : he did, illegal ones he had smuggled in from the US.)

On and on it went, time after time ; reports of violence and illegal stashes of guns involving the rich white millionaire and police avoiding judges and search warrants like the plague.

All police forces - and political parties of all stripes - fear the anti-gun control lobby that is led mostly, but by no means exclusively, by Tory party supporters.

The WASP-led lobby has a simple philosophy:

Stopping black & aboriginal kids for a busted taillight and ‘discovering’ guns and dope - great !

“Un-called for” “fishing expeditions” to search homes of rich white guys, based upon reports of illegal or improperly stored guns -  a conspiracy by latte-loving enviro fems. Etc.

The Grits & the Cons shared power in Ottawa between 2001 and 2020, at times with minority support from the N-Dippers.

In Nova Scotia, the Cons, Grits and N-Dippers all led the government during those years.

Any public inquiry is bound to appropriate blame, with specific years attached.

Years voters can assign to each of the three parties in power at the time.

So : we get muted, muted as in rare and barely heard - muted & timid calls for a public inquiry, eventually (just before the Second Coming) , from all six party leaders at both levels of government.

All aid - all aid short of help - for the victims’ families : passing the puck, saying as little as possible.

Folks, lay off blaming just the RCMP for this disaster : ditto the Grits : slash a few back handers hard at the Con & Dipper forwards for a change.

They deserve it....

Gabriel Wortman’s 33 years of NON-violence : what changed in 2001 ?

The VIOLENCE begins

Many, many people have publicly given their recollections of Gabriel Wortman, dating back in some cases to him as a six year old and extending up to 2001.

And in all of those 33 years, there is no recollection of any violence, and no police reports of violence have come forth to date.

It is only in the last 18 years of his life, since 2001, that we get reports  of violence from Gabe coming in thick and fast.

So what changed ?

And I should hasten to add, not all those early reports were totally favourable to Gabriel - a few viewed him distastefully - labelling him UNB’s Asshole of the Year.

But even they, New Brunswick’s most hostile Wortman critics, never ever saw any signs of violence.

Far from it, they saw at worst a sort of cold stand-offishness from him.

So again, what changed in 2001 ?

I have suggested that  year marked a pivot from GW being an employee to becoming a boss ; with the money and power to do what he really wanted - not longer needing as much to curb his real feelings.

His female relationships also changed : prior to this date, his friends who were women and his girlfriends never ever reported any violence from him, —- even when they departed and he wanted them to stay. His first wife, Corinna Kincaid does not seem to come up on police records of domestic violence.

Lisa Banfield, who emerged in his life around 2000-2001, might have been the one person in Gabriel’s world that he loved more than his guns, motorbikes and Portapique home.

Perhaps the thought of her leaving or not loving him seems to tear apart his fragile sense of self-worth and he lashed out at her and the world - hard.

But this remains only speculation ——— so as always : what do you think ?

Can you offer up other theories as to why there are no reports of violence before 2001 and plenty afterwards ?

Wortman Hockey ! Enjoy fed & provincial Liberals passing the puck on public inquiry plea from anguished victim families

“PASSING THE PUCK” : fed-prov sport of Canadian politicians

Missing your usual NHL play-off fix ?

You can still enjoy a sort of play-off, and definitely a game, for endless weeks and months.

Its between two great teams, the Ottawa Liberals and the Halifax Grits : just sit back and watch as the two skillfully stick-handle “passing the puck” back and forth on pleas from anguished Gabriel Wortman victims for a public inquiry.

Its the game called Constitutional Hockey and both teams are hoping you the voters know very little about it.

Because, both in the text of our constitutional law, as well as in actual practise, very little in Canadian Constitution assigns actions exclusively 100% to either level of government.

At the narrowest, both levels of governments could hold inquires on the federal AND provincial issues arising from the two decades of failures to search warrant Wortman’s illegal stash of American guns...

Did a funeral home cremates Gabriel Wortman, despite his last wishes ?

cremation of the GOTTERDAMERUNG killer

Most people do not realize that putting their detailed funeral wishes in a will, even pre-paying for it , legally cuts no ice.

Your dear, dear friend the executor is free to ignore all of your funeral wishes.

I mention all this, because you may recall that in Gabriel Wortman’s May 2011 will, he specifically directed : do not embalm or cremate me, bury me in a Hudson’s bay blanket in a concrete vault in the Portapique cemetery next to my home there.

But apparently this was all ignored.

A post appeared briefly on Facebook forum about GW, saying “he was cremated.” (Apparently by Walkers Funeral Home in Dartmouth. where Gabriel Wortman had once worked).

The person referenced as making the statement told me December 4 2020 that their Facebook account was hacked and they were never a funeral director at Walkers. So no evidence that Walkers did cremate Gabriel Wortman.

While Lisa Banfield was stated as the executor in the 2011 will, with her own sister as witness, Lisa is perfectly within her rights to refuse to do the job, after GW’s death.

Which may be why the NS office of the Public Trustee seems to be handling his estate.

That office may have decided on cremation.

Legally they are allowed to ——- but only if Gabe hadn’t already paid in full for a plot at Portapique —— as executors have a high duty not to waste the estate’s money on one type of funeral when another is already paid for.

Possibly only the directors of the Portapique Cemetery Incorporated will be able to set us straight on that last point : NS Registry of Joint Stock Companies suggest they are the Ryan and Davison families of Portapique, now scattered to near-by communities.

If GW had paid for a plot and was then the estate was refused a burial there because it turned out he was a mass murderer (or gay or some such thing), we could have our very own Guibord Case on our hands here in Nova Scotia....