rbgnwa45
08-14-2010, 10:21 AM
I was charged for legally buying two cartons of aboriginal cigarettes in Ontario, totaling $650 + accumulating interest. I was not given a fair trial and I'm trying to fight the charge. I've been mailed appeal documents. It's enforced by the tobacco act and I believe it to be unmoral and right-infringing. It's legal to sell but not to purchase. I need an opinion on what I'm going to send as my appeal:
I don't agree with the charge because of the following reasons:
The government shouldn't allow the sale while not allowing the purchase. Could you imagine what it’d be like to be able to legally sell cocaine but not purchase it? The government cannot infringe on aboriginal rights, therefore the government is trying to get their tax money by going after the people who purchase aboriginal tobacco and with ridiculous charges. It’s not my fault that the government cannot force aboriginals to pay taxes. Once a tax becomes rightly un-payable the crime is upon the aboriginals, not the people who purchase aboriginal tobacco. I’m not the one who didn’t tax my purchase nor was I given the ability to do so. If the government agreed to the rights of aboriginal tobacco sales than they wouldn’t charge the people who purchase it because aboriginals will loose money after a purchaser is charged and never returns. The government is obviously half-way to agreeing with aboriginal rights and that is unmoral. The fact is the government cannot do anything about un-payable aboriginal taxes so they get their money elsewhere, from people who aren’t guilty of doing the bigger “crime”. The only reason there is a tobacco act is because the government wants no trial to prove innocence so they can regain all of the taxes they’ve lost on aboriginal tobacco sales. If I were charged with possession of contraband of any other kind, I would be given the ability to appeal my charge in a court of law. The tobacco act is unmoral because it’s a difference of biased opinion, one that infringes the rights of many who are and aren’t aboriginal.
I came out of the store with a coffee and a non-clear bag. The cigarettes were not visible. The store also sells many things other than cigarettes, therefore the police had no right to pull me over under a suspicion made by a tobacco enforcer. If the store sells things other than cigarettes than the suspicion that I purchased cigarettes isn't reasonable. I was not given proof of purchase.
I wasn't informed that I could refuse a search, therefore my rights were violated. I asked many questions pertaining to my charge that weren’t answered by the present tobacco enforcers nor the police officers, therefore my rights were violated.
I wasn't aware that I was doing something illegal, therefore I'm protected under mens rea, which I stated before given the charge. I was told that it wasn’t upon the attending officers to prove that I was innocent, although they cannot prove a guilty conscience on my part, therefore they’ve unreasonably tried to prove without evidence that I am guilty and that is unmoral.
I am innocent until proven guilty by a court of law but I wasn’t appointed a trial.
The entire half of my family on my mothers’ side are non-status Algonquin aboriginals and my grandparents own green cards.
Why is there an accumulating interest on my charge? That’s bonkers and I refuse to pay it. Under what obligation and moral law am I to pay interest on my own charge? This isn’t a loan! I’m unemployed so how do you expect me to pay $650 with accumulating interest?
Why were my two cartons of cigarettes confiscated for not paying undue taxes when I was charged and expected to pay x130 the amount in taxes? If I pay x130 the amount in taxes than those two cartons are x130 less illegal or are there hidden fee’s such as the tobacco enforcers salary?
It would be more cost-effective to shut down all aboriginal tobacco-sale stores but instead the government created an act that infringes on my and many peoples’ rights.
I want the tobacco act changed and my two cartons of cigarettes returned (totaling $36). I refuse to be part of a government loop-hole that doesn’t recognize their own wrong-doing nor the aboriginals before recognizing innocence upon those who aren’t aboriginal. Your fight is with yourself and the infringed aboriginal rights, not me or anyone who legally purchased aboriginal tobacco. The government has the ability to force people to pay due taxes, which in my case was approximately $5. I don’t detest paying taxes to the province and I wasn’t given the ability to do so. How do you know I wasn’t going to pay the taxes on my purchase? I want proof.
You will only ever receive $5 from me but since you owe me two cartons of cigarettes you can pay me $31.
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What do you think? :huh
I don't agree with the charge because of the following reasons:
The government shouldn't allow the sale while not allowing the purchase. Could you imagine what it’d be like to be able to legally sell cocaine but not purchase it? The government cannot infringe on aboriginal rights, therefore the government is trying to get their tax money by going after the people who purchase aboriginal tobacco and with ridiculous charges. It’s not my fault that the government cannot force aboriginals to pay taxes. Once a tax becomes rightly un-payable the crime is upon the aboriginals, not the people who purchase aboriginal tobacco. I’m not the one who didn’t tax my purchase nor was I given the ability to do so. If the government agreed to the rights of aboriginal tobacco sales than they wouldn’t charge the people who purchase it because aboriginals will loose money after a purchaser is charged and never returns. The government is obviously half-way to agreeing with aboriginal rights and that is unmoral. The fact is the government cannot do anything about un-payable aboriginal taxes so they get their money elsewhere, from people who aren’t guilty of doing the bigger “crime”. The only reason there is a tobacco act is because the government wants no trial to prove innocence so they can regain all of the taxes they’ve lost on aboriginal tobacco sales. If I were charged with possession of contraband of any other kind, I would be given the ability to appeal my charge in a court of law. The tobacco act is unmoral because it’s a difference of biased opinion, one that infringes the rights of many who are and aren’t aboriginal.
I came out of the store with a coffee and a non-clear bag. The cigarettes were not visible. The store also sells many things other than cigarettes, therefore the police had no right to pull me over under a suspicion made by a tobacco enforcer. If the store sells things other than cigarettes than the suspicion that I purchased cigarettes isn't reasonable. I was not given proof of purchase.
I wasn't informed that I could refuse a search, therefore my rights were violated. I asked many questions pertaining to my charge that weren’t answered by the present tobacco enforcers nor the police officers, therefore my rights were violated.
I wasn't aware that I was doing something illegal, therefore I'm protected under mens rea, which I stated before given the charge. I was told that it wasn’t upon the attending officers to prove that I was innocent, although they cannot prove a guilty conscience on my part, therefore they’ve unreasonably tried to prove without evidence that I am guilty and that is unmoral.
I am innocent until proven guilty by a court of law but I wasn’t appointed a trial.
The entire half of my family on my mothers’ side are non-status Algonquin aboriginals and my grandparents own green cards.
Why is there an accumulating interest on my charge? That’s bonkers and I refuse to pay it. Under what obligation and moral law am I to pay interest on my own charge? This isn’t a loan! I’m unemployed so how do you expect me to pay $650 with accumulating interest?
Why were my two cartons of cigarettes confiscated for not paying undue taxes when I was charged and expected to pay x130 the amount in taxes? If I pay x130 the amount in taxes than those two cartons are x130 less illegal or are there hidden fee’s such as the tobacco enforcers salary?
It would be more cost-effective to shut down all aboriginal tobacco-sale stores but instead the government created an act that infringes on my and many peoples’ rights.
I want the tobacco act changed and my two cartons of cigarettes returned (totaling $36). I refuse to be part of a government loop-hole that doesn’t recognize their own wrong-doing nor the aboriginals before recognizing innocence upon those who aren’t aboriginal. Your fight is with yourself and the infringed aboriginal rights, not me or anyone who legally purchased aboriginal tobacco. The government has the ability to force people to pay due taxes, which in my case was approximately $5. I don’t detest paying taxes to the province and I wasn’t given the ability to do so. How do you know I wasn’t going to pay the taxes on my purchase? I want proof.
You will only ever receive $5 from me but since you owe me two cartons of cigarettes you can pay me $31.
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What do you think? :huh