Thankful for your prayers for me, my family, and church. The contempt charge that sent me to jail has completely been dropped!
Tim's not a firebrand like Pastor "Get Out Nazi!" Artur, he's more laidback and soft-spoken...and I imagine more of a "turn the other cheek" type. That said, I hope he sues the everloving shit out of the gov for false arrest, false imprisonment and emotional damages suffered by him and his family.
"We would have convicted you, but we were so incompetent in our rush to arrest you we forgot to actually serve you the order that would lead to your arrest."
It's like the dirty cop that arrests a guy for having a bag of meth... and forgets to plant the meth on him.
I bet they already knew how it would play out, didn't bother serving it and relied on the arrest plus media denigration to do the actual damage. This "apology" and the inevitable lack of correction/retraction has done the damage.
This is also a possibility. I assumed more malicious intent, but it's certainly possible they knew the case wouldn't go anywhere, but they wanted to get the political utility of the public arrest.
https://twitter.com/tim__stephens/status/1398352963408592896
Tim's not a firebrand like Pastor "Get Out Nazi!" Artur, he's more laidback and soft-spoken...and I imagine more of a "turn the other cheek" type. That said, I hope he sues the everloving shit out of the gov for false arrest, false imprisonment and emotional damages suffered by him and his family.
"We would have convicted you, but we were so incompetent in our rush to arrest you we forgot to actually serve you the order that would lead to your arrest."
It's like the dirty cop that arrests a guy for having a bag of meth... and forgets to plant the meth on him.
I bet they already knew how it would play out, didn't bother serving it and relied on the arrest plus media denigration to do the actual damage. This "apology" and the inevitable lack of correction/retraction has done the damage.
This is also a possibility. I assumed more malicious intent, but it's certainly possible they knew the case wouldn't go anywhere, but they wanted to get the political utility of the public arrest.
Alberta needs a swinging judge to take care of all these tyrants.