"Robert Pickton book removed from Amazon amid outrage, investigation (with video)
British Columbia is promising a law to prevent offenders profiting from their crimes after a book reportedly written by serial killer Robert Pickton was published, drawing condemnation from the premier and the federal minister of public safety.
METRO VANCOUVER — British Columbia is promising a law to prevent offenders profiting from their crimes after a book reportedly written by serial killer Robert Pickton was published, drawing condemnation from the premier and the federal minister of public safety.
By Monday afternoon, the 144-page book titled "Pickton: In His Own Words" was no longer available through the website of online retailer Amazon.
Outskirts Press, which published the book, issued a statement Monday saying it had asked Amazon remove the book from its website.
"We have a long-standing policy of not working with, nor publishing work by, incarcerated individuals," the statement said.
"Outskirts Press apologizes to the families of the victims for any additional heartache this may have caused."
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told the House of Commons that the Correctional Service of Canada is investigating how the manuscript got out.
"We will be examining all those who have assisted in any way in this odious enterprise," he said during question period.
Citing privacy laws, the Correctional Service of Canada said it cannot provide details on an offender’s file, but "it has been made aware of the book that has been published and understands the content may be offensive to some."
It said in a statement that federal offenders aren’t allowed to profit from recounting their crimes if it is contrary to the goals of an offender’s correctional plan or poses a threat to someone’s safety, including victims, or to the security of a federal institution.
People serving sentences in federal correctional facilities have limited access to computers, but do not have access to the Internet or to email. The service said prisoners are able to communicate with members of the public in writing and are entitled to privileged correspondence.
The Pickton book raised questions about whether there is a need for legislation preventing offenders from profiting from their crimes, something that B.C. Premier Christy Clark promised.
"I am at a loss for words. To think about the pain that he’s prepared to willingly cause all of the families of those people who he murdered," Clark told reporters in Vancouver.
"I have trouble understanding it and I think people will want to know that their government is doing everything it can to want to stop him from profiting from this at the very least."
Solicitor General Mike Morris asked Amazon to stop carrying the book, saying he thinks it’s "despicable" that someone could profit from their crimes.
"There’s no way as long as I’m (solicitor general) that anybody’s going to make a nickel off of Robert Pickton’s file," he said.
There is no confirmation that Pickton actually wrote the book, but a statement from Morris said the province is investigating every means possible to ensure the 66-year-old from Port Coquitlam will not profit in any way.
Pickton is serving a life sentence for the second-degree murders of six women and is being held at Kent maximum security prison near Agassiz, B.C., about 120 kilometres east of Vancouver.
Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.
This isn’t the first time Amazon has come under fire for selling works by notorious Canadian criminals. Last year the company was pressured to pull killer Paul Bernardo’s fictional ebook about the Russian Mafia and al-Qaida.
Criminal lawyer Ari Goldkind said people who have been convicted of a crime have the same right to express themselves as other Canadians.
"They are as entitled to freedom of expression, freedom of creativity to publish a book," Goldkind said. "They’re as free to write as you and me."
However, four provinces — Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia — have laws governing whether an offender can profit from their crimes, such as through book revenues.
"If there’s profit off the recounting of your crimes, it’s a no go," Goldkind said."
This is classic world literature. Greg Hallett & Spymaster expose the history of cons and the cons of history.
King Edward VII's eight main lovers including Lillie Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt & Jennie Jerome Churchill - Churchill was King Edward VII's son and King George VI's uncle - Lord Kitchener & Stalin had the same secret society mentor - Britain was the training ground for foreign revolutionaries, and still is - the British police sabotaged their own investigations -Churchill trained Stalin - Elevation is by way of murder, file theft and paedophilia - Jack The Ripper was an inside job, an occult hit - Kitchener & Baden-Powell were paedophile buddies - Muldoon was trained in Tavistock London & was a double agent PM - Helen Clark was trained in Tavistock St Petersburg, KGB agent, double agent PM, New World Order, arranged marriage - MP's and advisors who are paedophiles. --The World of Truth
Greg Hallett trained in various psychological models in parallel with his architecture degree and training. He travelled widely behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, hitchhiking on planes, making bunks out of airmail bags, to party and report between cities. His contacts in Eastern Europe led to deep penetration of the Soviet State, how it functioned and how it was to colonise the West.
It was these qualifications that led him to buy buildings in Moscow immediately after the Berlin Wall fell. This led to interviews with the KGB and their revelations about the planned sex-communism and deconstruction of Westerners. What they had planned for the West happened in the West. Equally all modern history can be dated back to 1945. What Hitler planned for the world happened to the world over the next sixty years.
Today Greg Hallett is working in England on a historic legal claim against the Flat Lie Royals.. more at his website: http://kingof.uk
"The Berlin Wall monument" near the waterfront in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Canada [ photographed in 2010 ]
Robert William "Willie" Pickton (born October 26, 1949) of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years – the longest sentence available under Canadian law for murder.
Supreme Court of Canada Appeal case was put forth by Gil McKinnon and was dismissed - case was heard by McLachlin C.J. and Binnie, LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella, Charron, Rothstein and Cromwell JJ.
"CBC News reported that Pickton, who was a former multi-millionaire, is suspected in dozens of other murders, but a further 20 murder charges were stayed.
Pickton and his brother, David, operated a drinking club frequented by bikers and prostitutes near their pig farm outside Vancouver, Canada.
At the time of his arrest on February 22, 2002, he was charged with first-degree murder in connection with two of the more than 50 women who had disappeared from the Vancouver area starting in the 1980s.
David Pickton has denied knowledge of his brother's crimes. "
..well I think the RCMP doing any reviewing of said crime is comical...I was under the impression that our boys in uniform were know to frequent this house of horrors...the ol' Piggy's Palace it was " the after hours club"...so this is all lip service but I do believe there will be some karma coming....those women need justice and this half-wit is the fall guy and the pawn they used to do the real dirty work...maybe we should check the bank transactions of the other brother who was the manager of their production company..
"Serial killer Robert Pickton's memoir had a brief shelf life on Amazon's site but quickly gained widespread condemnation.
The 144-page book Pickton: In His Own Words was reportedly written by the man who is serving a life sentence for murdering six women on his Port Coquitlam pig farm between 1997 and 2001. He was initially charged in 2007 with killing 26 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and confessed to an undercover police officer that he had murdered 49 women, but close to 70 were reported missing.
He is said to have passed the handwritten book to a former cellmate, who gave it to a friend — a retired construction worker living in California named Michael Chilldres — who had the book typed up and published, and whose name appears on the cover.
By Monday afternoon the book had been pulled from Amazon.ca's shelves, but The Tri-City News had not received official confirmation from the online retailer that it would remain so, or what specific policies led to that decision. The book was published by Outskirts Press in late January.
"It is deeply disturbing to hear that a book about Robert Pickton's story is being sold," said B.C.'s solicitor general Mike Morris in a statement. "It is not right that a person who has caused so much harm and hurt so many people could profit from his behaviour."
Speaking to media before question period Monday afternoon, Morris said he is in contact with Corrections Canada to determine how Pickton was able to smuggle the manuscript out of prison, adding he'd be looking to see how B.C.'s proceeds of crime legislation could apply to this case.
"There's no way, as long as I'm [Solicitor General], that anybody is going to make a nickel off Robert Pickton's file," Morris said. It's unclear, however, how B.C. legislation would apply in the U.S.
A petition at Change.org urging Amazon to stop selling the book had about 9,000 supporters on Monday morning; that quickly spiked to nearly 41,000 by early afternoon.
"In honour of all the families who were affected by the horrible crimes of this predator, who were denied agency in his 'trial' and how are still going through their healing process, Amazon needs to refuse to sell Pickton: In His Own Words on its website," the petition reads.
The book is said to include Biblical passages and claims Pickton's innocence in the crimes.
"Dave Pickton, brother of serial killer Robert "Willie" Pickton tends to cattle on the former pig farm owned by his brother and where Robert killed 26 women in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia July 29, 2010. Canada's highest court refused to grant a new trial for the serial killer who was convicted of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at the pig farm"
"Robert Pickton watched Corporal Dana Lillies closely yesterday as she told the jury in his first-degree-murder trial about discussions she had with his sister.
Mr. Pickton also glanced regularly at Staff Sergeant Bill Fordy earlier yesterday as the officer told the court about interrogating Mr. Pickton on the day after his arrest.
After two weeks of testimony at his trial, Mr. Pickton was no longer keeping his eyes down at all times.
Appearing more relaxed than in the opening days of the trial, he occasionally stole a glance at the 12 men and women in the jury box who will decide his fate. He listened to testimony and passed notes to his lawyer.
He looked directly at witnesses as they testified.
Cpl. Lillies of the RCMP was one of three police officers to question Mr. Pickton during an 11-hour interrogation on Feb. 23, 2002, the day after he was arrested for murder. At that time, Cpl. Lillies was a constable.
Mr. Pickton made incriminating remarks in the final portion of the interrogation and tried to negotiate a deal with police, offering to plead guilty to two or more murders if police immediately stopped their intensive search of the family's property in Port Coquitlam. The police refused to negotiate with him.
A videotape of the interrogation was played for the jury last week.
Cpl. Lillies told the court yesterday that she met with Mr. Pickton's sister Linda before the interrogation.
She did not say the sister's last name.
Linda told the officer that her brother David was protective of Robert and dominated him. David tells Robert what time to go to bed, Cpl. Lillies recalled Linda saying.
Robert's sister described him as slow, but then went on to say he was not slow, Cpl. Lillies said, and that Robert has mechanical ability and David handles the business.
Cpl. Lillies said she was told Robert "was good at what he does" at the farm.
Cpl. Lillies also recalled Linda saying that Robert quit school at 16 to focus on farming. "[Linda]said he did not do well academically," Cpl. Lillies told the court.
Mr. Pickton sat in the prisoner's box with a transcript of the interrogation on his lap. He looked at the transcript for periods of time while Cpl. Lillies was in the witness box.
But he looked back at her when she told the court about continuing the interrogation even after he asked to return to his cell.
"As long as his human needs are met, we [the police]are the ones who determine where he is situated in the building," the officer said.
Mr. Pickton had been fed, did not need to go to the washroom and did not appear to be falling asleep, she said. "We as police have an obligation to investigate crime and interview the accused," she added.
In response to questioning by defence lawyer Peter Ritchie, Cpl. Lillies said Mr. Pickton told her during the interrogation that he had not eaten. But she asked whether he was hungry and he told her that he was not, she told the court.
Cpl. Lillies recalled that she did not think at that time that he appeared tired. She also did not have any recollection of him yawning.
Earlier, Staff Sgt. Fordy told the court that Mr. Pickton had the right to remain silent during an attempt by police to interrogate him.
"But he does not have the right to go anywhere in the police station," he said.
About 3½hours into the interrogation, Staff Sgt. Fordy accused Mr. Pickton of killing a woman described as a "French girl" who stayed in a van behind the Cobalt Hotel. She was identified in court yesterday as Monique Wood. The hotel is on Main Street, on the edge of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Mr. Pickton can be heard on the videotape adamantly denying killing her, saying he dropped her off at a bus station. Staff Sgt. Fordy insisted she was dead and persisted in pressing him for a confession.
Mr. Pickton continued in his denials. As the exchange heated up, Mr. Pickton said he wanted to go back to his cell. Staff Sgt. Fordy told him that was not going to happen.
The interrogation was interrupted. Staff Sgt. Fordy stepped out of the interview room. He came back minutes later and apologized for mixing up the "French girl" with Sereena Abotsway, a woman that Mr. Pickton was charged with killing.
"I came back and apologized to him," Staff Sgt. Fordy said as Mr. Pickton peered up from his transcript to watch the officer as he testified.
Mr. Pickton can also be heard during the videotaped interview asking to return to his cell when Staff Sgt. Fordy suggested that his brother David could also be "taken down."
Similar to previous instances when Mr. Pickton asked to be allowed to go back to his cell, the police ignored the request and continued the interview.
The officer can be heard suggesting to Mr. Pickton that he should think about who he was prepared to take down with him. "Am I prepared to take down Dave?" Staff Sgt. Fordy said.
"What's Dave got to do with it?" Mr. Pickton replied.
"He's got the same last name as you do," Staff Sgt. Fordy said.
In court yesterday, Mr. Ritchie said that suggesting Mr. Pickton's brother was implicated because he had the same last name was "something you try on a complete idiot."
Staff Sgt. Fordy told the court he was referring to the damage caused by Mr. Pickton to the reputation of the family business.
Staff Sgt. Fordy told Mr. Pickton it was his duty to continue to talk to him, "and that is what I'm going to do."
Mr. Ritchie asked in court whether it was Staff Sgt. Fordy's duty to hold someone in a room against their will for 12 hours. "My duty is to investigate and solve the crime," Staff Sgt. Fordy said."
More here from The GenX Report on Linda Louise Wright sister of the Pickton brothers and Epstein...
In the book, the serial killer said he was innocent and was framed for the killings by Canadian police, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Friday, 8 February, 2002, 07:29 GMT
Pig farm searched for missing women
Police say the search could take several weeks
By Janet Williams in Vancouver
Police from Vancouver, British Columbia, are searching a pig farm as part of an investigation into the disappearance of at least 50 women over the last 20 years.
The women were all sex workers in Vancouver
The officers are searching the farm near Port Coquitlam, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the city, after going there to investigate an alleged firearms offence.
One of the owners of the farm has been arrested.
The police say the new search is a major development in the case of the missing women, who worked in the sex trade in Vancouver.
Major operation
More than 30 police officers spent all day Thursday at the waterlogged, ramshackle farm, fencing off a large section of the site.
They have set up a mobile command centre and say the search of the farm, which covers 11 hectares (27 acres) could take days, if not weeks.
A police spokeswoman confirmed that the search is linked to the disappearance of more than 50 women who worked mainly in the sex-trade on the east side of Vancouver, one of Canada's poorest areas.
She said that the Missing Women Task Force, formed to investigate the disappearances, had spent months reviewing old files.
This had sparked interest in the farm.
Firearms
Members of the task force accompanied Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who visited the premises on Tuesday night with a warrant to search for an illegal firearm.
One of the farm's owners was arrested on firearms charges, but released pending a court appearance later this month.
The Missing Women Task Force then gained their own search warrant, returning to the farm the next day.
Late last year a team of Canadian officers travelled to Seattle, over the border in the United States, to talk to police investigating the killing there of at least 45 women - dating back to 1982.
The Seattle police have recently charged a man, Gary Leon Ridgway, with four of those murders.
However, the Canadian police have found no evidence to link him to the disappearances of women north of the border.
[Replicated text of the early reporting by BBC on this story above]
Notice has been duly given by Greg Hallett in 2007... from the book "Stalin's British Training, Breeding Concubines, Paedophiles at War" as follows:
"8 March 2007
Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
Dear Your Majesty the Queen,
Its worse than we thought.
Official British History is bunkum. The Reverends, Bishops, and Boy Scouts sent out to the colonies turned out to be army colonels who colonised through paedophilia, torture and arms.
The war heroes you most honoured turned out to be homosexual, child-sex, abusing necrophilliacs. Your supposed enemies turned out to be your agents who removed your cousins in opposing monarchies. Your prime ministers turned out to be your nephews and your bankers turned out to be your parents.
Your genealogy is illegitimate and the only consistent breeding line has been secret society spy bankers who used you to declare war whenever you were prepared. Never has a double agent family, like your own, been so completely involved in treachery, and such expansive treachery.
From the close scrutiny of history, which is your
history, I have come to the conclusion that the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas, Windsors, and Mountbattens are illegitimate treasonous double agent families who should be exiled from anything commoners call integrity.
You are the descendants of a long line of anarchists and in the correct light of history you have pirate status.
Meanwhile in May 2022... after making a point of making public his advice that he recommended his 80+ yr old diabetic Dad take the 'vaxx' he tweets:
This Laurentian Elite con-man grifter Maxime Bernier [Quebecer] is still larping around in N.B. right now fundraising etc... he didn't appreciate me posting memes about Greg Hallett and his claim of Kingship so he blocked me on his Twitter.. not surprisingly, all politicians are quite happy to grift and shill for the Crown, as her agents and enrich themselves... they are ALL in service to themselves pimping out their friendly personas in the theatre we call Ottawa's parliament as corporation of Canada representatives of the people -- what a pile of horseshit that is... remember that, please. The next time someone asks for a lockdown let's lock up the right people.
All politicians are agents of the British Crown...
these politicians will all support the scarcity agenda of UN Agenda 2030 SDG Goals... anti-human "Crown Agenda" is the ongoing "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars"... a long running programme... working in lock step with Academia in Canada.
This is the problem with liberty and abundance in Canada... its being crushed by the agenda of SDGs.
