Jason Morley is trapped in his own version of a Hollywood thriller.

The plot goes like this:

Morley, a gaurd at Vancouver's pretrial center, is on his annual holiday with his Russian born wife and child.

Leaving them behind in Russia for a longer visit with family he's searched at every stop along the way home. He can't figure out why so much attention is being paid to him. At Vancouver's airporton March 31, he's surrounded by armyed police from the RCMP's National Security Investigations section who heavily take hime down, cuff him and tell him he's to be charged with attempted murder.

His father and sister, there to greet his return, are screamed at and have guns pointed at them.

"I have never had anyone scream at me like that and had a gun pointed at me," said his father, Barry Morley, a successful businessman. "It was pretty bizzare."

Baffled by this unruly welcome home, Morley is taken to the Richmond RCMP detachment where he's interrogatedfor several hours and released with no charges laid against him.

But he's suspended from work without pay, as of March 31, while various investigations into his activities are launched. Even his holiday pay is held back.

Meanwhile, Morley can't make his mortgage payments, can't afford to bring his wife and child back from Russia, and has no medical or dental benefits.

"I'm screwed" he said.

And it all began with a series of imaginative scenarios he wrote involving terrorists taking over the legislature in Victoria and the military's possible response. He did much of his research on the internet. amilitary buff and reservist in the Westminster Regiment, he said he wrote the scenarios thinking the people would be interested.

The article continues on to talk about what he wants to do but I work with this guy at the Regiment. He is coming on course with us and I have known him for the past year. I have seen his stories and that is all they are. ****, people can not even write stories in this country anymore? The regiment supports him, and so do I. When well konwn author's write stories about **** like this they get book deals and people read them for entertainment. A Canadian reservist writes a small series of stories and he gets arrested. Someone better tell us to turn off the creative center of our brains.

Pte. Courson

just the other day i was talkin to my friend whos a Mcpl. in my cadet corp about wut he's gonna do at his CLI adventure camp at Blackdown.
somewhere in the conversation we're talking about him getting to shoot C7's while i (being a twinkie) have to shoot daisy's.
the teacher overheard us and sent us both to the office.
we were just lucky the vice principal's a soft an understanding guy(whom was a former cadet),otherwise we'd have been in deep PC crap.

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Soldier of Fortune

Perhaps Mister Morley needs to get an actual publishing deal instead of passing his tripe around the mess, or putting it on the internet (last pathetic bastion of the truly unpublishable fiction writer). Until he does, he is not an author. He is a scribbler - and depending on what he scribbles, a possible threat to security.

Living in a free country doesn't mean doing whatever the hell you want. It means having respect - for elders, for superiors, and for those institutions and persons you have sworn an oath to serve and protect.

[ 14 June 2001: Message edited by: Michael Dorosh ]

Based on what Infanteer says, the reason they latched on to him in the first place was because an accusation of attempted murder was brought against him. I don't see anything in what's been said so far to demonstrate that he was getting extra-special treatment because he was considered to be the next Tim McVeigh. On what do you base that? Has the RCMP actually gone on record to say that these scenarios (or his Militia service for that matter) were matters of special concern? Of course, if you guys have access to more facts than are posted here, by all means point me to them.

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Originally posted by Bloggins:
All this seems like a lot of speculation, and some of you guys are letting your preconceptions colour how you view the whole event. I can hear the axes grinding from here....

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I agree that there hasn't been a lot of solid info to go on. We still haven't received any kind of explanation as to what exactly the good private had written, or how it was being disseminated.

I'm not saying the RCMP is beyond reproach, nor are they paragons of perfection. But the point has been made rather well that they at least deserve the presumption of competence - until proven otherwise - just as the private in question is innocent until proven guilty.

The RCMP should investigate accusations of terrorist activites but should not jump until they have reason...from another angle... mabey they should...I would almost rather be safe than sorry..but they still should have good enough reason.

In Israel, the police and security forces often assasinates memebers of Palistinian factions suspected of terrorist plottings and actions...they probably/hopefully have good enough reason for their suspicion and that area of the world is so wrought with violence that those actions, however condemning in my mind, can be validated by the people who carry out those attrocities. Canada is NOT near that point yet and I would expect our police and security forces to act accordingly.

What about the wacko teenagers who write stories and set up websites outlining which of their teachers and fellow students they are going to kill?

After Columbine, you can't blame people for being a little edgy. Look what that janitor in Japan did - armed with just a knife.

I can understand that no one wants the police kicking in doors and pointing guns at people and their parents at random. But I am willing to live with certain restrictions on our freedom if it means ascertaining whether or not a "writer" is also a "nutcase" - as was the case with the losers in Columbine - before they have a chance to do anything criminal.

People should understand that times have changed and you now must be careful in what you say and do. If you have thoughts (and I mean fiction) write them down privatly. As soon as it is no longer private, be prepared for the consequences. It is the same as saying the word "bomb" in an airport- you get what you deserve. This is not thought control just prudence.

As for us having an alphebet soup of law enforcement angencies (all having SWAT teams etc) you are just asking for the trouble that we are arguing against.

And lastly, everyone is sreaming about law and order, but it seems only in the case of "real criminals" not the mistreated or the unjustifed (read this case and Latimer).

Ubique