Reasonable Grounds for the Irrational

Today more than ever, the relevance of this work is apparent. The cultural, and political, concept of 'public welfare' has served as a justification of almost all social systems throughout history - and all tyrannies as well. When 'public safety' becomes a blanket excuse, and legal justification, to violate our fundamental rights and freedoms...then anything goes. The legal concept of 'reasonable grounds' (which is based on the concept of 'public welfare') is but one of the methods employed by the state to invalidate our civil liberties.

What's a crime? What is a right? What is a duty?

It is answers to these basic questions, and more, that the author explores within his debut work. Inside, the book offers a rare glimpse into the devastating effects that unchecked and uncontrolled authority can have on a typical family, but more so it offers a description and analysis of the legal concepts and processes that allow it happen.

This work centers on an eight year criminal investigation of a Canadian soldier who was put on trial as a threat to public safety. As a direct result of the Canadian government's prosecution of the author, he became immersed for years with a legal concept that served to invalidate all of the fundamental freedoms built into Canada's constitutional charter, and which also threatened to imprison him for years. This same legal concept applies to any other commonwealth country in the world that has some form of entrenched rights built into a constitution, and with the same effects. This book offers a unique insight into the legal concepts of "reasonable grounds" and "public safety" and what they have morphed onto.

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