Oshawa Becoming A Police State

By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” Always Remember That The cosmic blueprint of your life was written in code across the sky at the moment you were born. Decode Your Life By Living It Without Regret or Sorrow. - ONE DAY AT A TIME - By definition: Police State - A police state is a state with authority which uses the police, especially secret police, to maintain and enforce political power, even through violent or arbitrary means if necessary. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism or other harsh means of social control. On Monday, Oshawa council voted to extend the city’s contract with a downtown security firm. Logixx Security Inc. will keep dedicated patrol teams in the downtown core for another year, which will be worth about $893,000 for 2023. Logixx will also continue its corporate security services and parking garage patrols at City Hall, which will be worth about $1,534,500 for 2023. With HST and a tax rebate taken into account, the contract is worth a total of $2,467,245 for the calendar year. In Oshawa, we have Police to deal with the criminal code infractions. By-law to deal with by-law infractions. Logixx to deal with security? How many million are we spending? The police comes out of our taxes. By law comes out of our taxes. 2 million to Logixx, at least 2 million to by-law and through our taxes I am sure we contribute another 2 million. This is 8 million dollars to control the masses. If this is not police state mentality. I do not know what is. It is rumored that the mayor has a body guard. Really!!! Never in the history of Oshawa. Have we had this problem. I strongly believe that the people have had enough of being treated as second class citizens. City elect have proven to do little if anything when it comes to citizens coming forth with concerns. Look at the welcoming citizens get when they visit City hall. Three security guards at the entrance. Citizens can’t access the city elevator. Citizens are forced to deal with Service Oshawa in a very stand offish customer service approach. You express the least dis-satisfaction and security is called and you are asked to leave the building or face ‘trespass’. Really. The City has clearly failed in dealing with the homeless situation and the drug trade. This infuriating many local citizens. The City of Oshawa has no leadership. We are being led that by his own admission our mayor was illiterate until his late 30’s. A former homeless and drug addict. This is what is suppose to be making multi million dollar decision on our behalf. Clearly, lacks the intellectual properties to perform his duties. Even by Mayor Carter’s own public record admissions. Of course people are going to get upset. City of Oshawa by-laws have become so restrictive. That any by-law officer can approach you and write you up on a series of non public known citations. God forbid if you happen to share a sandwich with a homeless person. That will get you a $250 ticket. By-laws are supposed to make our lives easier... The City of Oshawa uses them to control and restrict access. This is wrong. The Mayor may be under threat due to his arrogance and lack of doing something positive for the people of Oshawa. Unfortunately, only 18% of the population voted and made the mistake of voting him back in. The 82% are to blame for lack of involvement as many have speculated that the 18% that turned out. 10% were die hard conservative party card holders. Oshawa has become a police state. Try to challenge it and you will face a ‘trespass order’. An order that is used to enforce restriction to public building and facilities... as trespass orders originally designed for private property matters and must show some sort of fear of threat to harm by an individual. REMEMBER ALWAYS Hope for the Best. PREPARE FOR the worst.