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21st October 2018, 02:11 PM | #1 |
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Canadian ‘Psychic’ Charged With Witchcraft
Canadian ‘Psychic’ Charged With Witchcraft under Section 365 of Canada's criminal code.
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21st October 2018, 02:16 PM | #2 |
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It's a fair cop.
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21st October 2018, 04:17 PM | #3 |
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I would like to see anyone produce evidence that will stand up in court of actual witchcraft being efficacious or even detectable in any way. It's like being charged with "crimes against pixies". Honestly, who takes this seriously??
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21st October 2018, 04:21 PM | #4 |
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21st October 2018, 06:22 PM | #5 |
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21st October 2018, 07:01 PM | #6 |
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Yep, it's a scammer. But charging with witchcraft??
And I can see it's actually ...pretending to practice witchcraft". Why not just charge them with scamming, deception, theft...whatever. Surely there's a thousand and one possibilities in the statutes that will allow them to pin a genuinely supportable charge with bucket-loads of real evidence. But "witchcraft" is a nonsense charge, and thus easily defended. "I agree I'm not a witch, your honour, so cannot be charged with witchcraft. There are no other charges? Thank you for your time." |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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21st October 2018, 07:52 PM | #7 |
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Trial by ordeal removed from the books already?
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21st October 2018, 08:37 PM | #8 |
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The very first paragraph of the article is
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21st October 2018, 08:41 PM | #9 |
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You'd have thought she should have seen this coming......
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21st October 2018, 08:49 PM | #10 |
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From the linked article:
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21st October 2018, 09:38 PM | #11 |
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Ha!
Evidence is easy to establish I suggest a simple low cost test Throw her over Niagara Falls If she lives, she be indeed a witch and should be burnt to death, as is the ancient way of these things!! If she dies, she is innocent and all is well.....And we shall drink and celebrate the life of the pure and cleanly wench!! |
22nd October 2018, 02:02 AM | #12 |
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22nd October 2018, 04:23 AM | #14 |
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22nd October 2018, 05:06 AM | #15 |
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And it's an interesting quirk, that actually practicing witchcraft isn't illegal under that statute. So for all those wanting to see "proof" of witchcraft in court, that's literally what the defendant would have to provide to avoid prosecution under this law. The law itself is asking for exactly the same things you are! |
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22nd October 2018, 10:08 AM | #16 |
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I haven't read the statute in question, but from the linked article, I get the impression that it is pretending to practice witchcraft that is illegal. If that is the case, then a possible defense might be to to claim that the defendant is really a witch.
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22nd October 2018, 10:33 AM | #17 |
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22nd October 2018, 12:00 PM | #18 |
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Now that the charges have been changed to "pretending to practice witchcraft" I am in the "it's a fair cop" school. It's a matter of pure fraud, now.
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23rd October 2018, 05:04 PM | #19 |
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So, do Canadian Psychics get charges with "Commission of Psychiatry" ?
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23rd October 2018, 07:52 PM | #20 |
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It's a silly diversion down an unnecessary path that simply messes up a perfectly straightforward charge of extortion.
Also, I am fully in favour of bringing back hanging...around on street corners. |
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