B'Nai Brith's Bill Surkis: 45 Days for Child Porn
by ARTHUR TOPHAM
by ARTHUR TOPHAM
(December 18, 2012)...B'nai Brith's touted moral superiority and
unblemished integrity suffered a serious blow when one of their former
Canadian directors of B'nai Brith Quebec, Bill Surkis, was arrested
and charged on May 29, 2009 with possession of 86 videos containing
close to nine hours of footage showing men engaged in sexual abuse of
under children between the ages of six and fourteen. On top of the
videos were an additional 153 photos also showing children being abused.To add insult to injury Surkis's lawyer Steven Slimovich (no pun intended!) at first attempted to convince the Crown that his client had all this porn on his computer for "The purpose of his viewing the child pornography material [in order] to educate himself on the topic of child pornography" so that afterwards he would be able to "go into schools and give lectures on people abusing people."!
That, I suggest, is the sort of chutzpah one continually confronts whenever this touted "benevolent' front organization gets caught with its pants down.
Of course even the Crown in this instance couldn't pretend to fall for such a scam and they had to prosecute Surkis but given the severity of the charges: all three -- possessing, accessing and distributing of child pornography -- each carrying a maximum penalty
on conviction of 10 years in prison, the final outcome of the trial
which included plea bargaining to drop the "distributing child
pornography" charge was one that showed the powerful influence of the
Jewish lobby when it comes to protecting one of their own.
Out of a total of possibly 30 years imprisonment for the three initial charges what did this former registered lobbyist and Quebec Regional Director of B'nai Brith Canada, board chairman for the Holocaust Memorial Museum and Academic Dean of John Abbott College for 22 years receive as punishment for his crimes?
Why a grand total of 45 days in jail to be served on weekends, the minimum sentencing allowed under the law!
Oy vey is all I can say!...
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
B'nai Brith, ADL, Child Porn, Regina and Arthur Topham
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1695
Out of a total of possibly 30 years imprisonment for the three initial charges what did this former registered lobbyist and Quebec Regional Director of B'nai Brith Canada, board chairman for the Holocaust Memorial Museum and Academic Dean of John Abbott College for 22 years receive as punishment for his crimes?
Why a grand total of 45 days in jail to be served on weekends, the minimum sentencing allowed under the law!
Oy vey is all I can say!...
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
B'nai Brith, ADL, Child Porn, Regina and Arthur Topham
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1695
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