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el duderino

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"Greg Carr" <greg...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> Specogna, E
> 1704 Centennary
>
> Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K1
>
> (250) 753-7819
>
> Hmmmmm. Nanaimo has a Hell's Angels clubhouse and their one time club
> president Michael Mickle disappeared never to be heard from again. This
> old fraudster is 81 yrs old and his phone number has an 81 and HA likes to
> use the number 81 and he is currently involved in a scam so I'm going to
> take not much of a leap and say he is HA.
>
>

Come on man, that's fucking ridiculous. Even coming from you.

"not much of a leap" ???!!!


klunk

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lol... translation: fell on his head...


bbb

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there's also a '9' in the number - 8+1=9. Further proof!

Greg Carr

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> el duderino wrote:
>> "Greg Carr" <greg...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>> news:pMICi.117018$rX4.78219@pd7urf2no...
>>
>>> Specogna, E
>>> 1704 Centennary
>>>
>>> Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K1
>>>
>>> (250) 753-7819
>>>
>>> Hmmmmm. Nanaimo has a Hell's Angels clubhouse and their one time club
>>> president Michael Mickle disappeared never to be heard from again. This
>>> old fraudster is 81 yrs old and his phone number has an 81 and HA likes
>>> to use the number 81 and he is currently involved in a scam so I'm going
>>> to take not much of a leap and say he is HA.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Come on man, that's fucking ridiculous. Even coming from you.

I stand by it. If can imagine a full patch telling this family of criminals
join us or we will beat you senseless. What is an 81 yr old con man going to
do? The son is a gambler and that fits the profile of ppl at the lower
echelons of the gang.


>>
>> "not much of a leap" ???!!!
> there's also a '9' in the number - 8+1=9. Further proof!

Totally irrelevant.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Marino
Specogna lives in a nice home in a nice, quiet neighbourhood in the Newton
area of Surrey. He claims to be in the mining industry but the fact is in
his parking lot is a Hyundai 382-APT. and a Ford Ranger Sport P/U 8445-KJ
with drywall and bagged garbage. Since it has been noted in court that he
has never had an honest job it is likely he is working for cash in the
drywall business.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=197269585
is his website. It is interesting to note that his "friends" include open
homosexuals. Oh wait he has taken the Gay Sphinx photo away :-) I wonder why
:-). He claims to be reading his own book so he is either an ego maniac or
has a serious memory problem. His books can be bought through ebay for six
dollars. He has been involved in various frauds and has a few phony mining
operations trying to raise money and he is obviously into claiming race
horses and the track. Yet he doesn't own one. He is obviously in a permenant
cash crunch probably caused by his gambling losses and his legal bills plus
whatever extortion/protection he pays plus the usual bills ppl living a nice
lifestyle have. Hopefully Revenue Canada will audit the whole family.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It
is interesting to note that my original post to van.general on this thread
has disappeared from Google groups. Guess the organized crime brains in HAMC
want the info not to be readily available. As usual I am impressed by your
technical dirty tricks department. In the past they managed to get pics
removed from an RCMP website.
http://groups.google.ca/group/van.general/browse_thread/thread/5c6875c8f4bc6d9/4f58d1f4f9a482e9?lnk=st&q=%22Angels%22+%2B%22RCMP%22+group%3Avan.general&rnum=25&hl=en#4f58d1f4f9a482e9

COLUMN: Penny ante hustler turns to gold stock

By David Baines
Vancouver Sun


Friday, August 31, 2007

CREDIT:
DAVID BAINES

"Gold - the noblest, most precious metal of all," states the introduction on
Valentine Mountain Gold Corp.'s corporate website.

"On Valentine Mountain, near Victoria, B.C., Canada, we have tremendous
amounts of visible gold in quartz veins. Prior exploration by third parties
identified 'quartz vein swarms' and these veins host spectacular visible
gold."

To finance development of the property, the company is proposing to sell 100
million shares at five cents each, for a total of $5 million. As an
inducement, investors who buy $150,000 or more "will receive personal
visible gold samples from the Valentine Mountain gold vein systems."

At some later date, the company will list on the dreadful OTC Bulletin Board
in the United States, when presumably investors will be able to turn their
paper into gold.

For further information, the company's website invites prospective investors
to call Efrem Specogna at a telephone number in Surrey.

This is odd, because 81-year-old Efrem Specogna lives in Nanaimo. The Surrey
number is, in fact, the home of his son, Marino Specogna, a stock promoter
of considerable notoriety.

In the early 1990s, while running a Vancouver Stock Exchange company called
Doromin Resources Ltd., Specogna distributed false assay reports to a broker
in Michigan, who circulated them back to Vancouver.

The stock, which was trading at $1.25, jumped 40 per cent, giving Specogna,
his father Efrem and mother Lucia the opportunity to divest themselves of
more than 30,000 shares at higher-than-normal prices.

The B.C. Securities Commission also found that Specogna, using at least 13
different accounts, dominated trading in the company's shares and employed
various manipulative techniques - including wash trading and high closing -
to artificially boost the share price, and failed to disclose any of these
trades in insider-trading reports.

"The market for Doromin shares was distorted by Marino Specogna and made
into a stage-managed performance," the commission said in a 1996 decision.

Marino was suspended from acting as an officer or director for any B.C.
reporting issuer for 20 years. Efrem was similarly suspended for four years,
and Lucia for one year.

Marino's suspension is still in effect, but it only applies to B.C.
reporting issuers. Valentine Mountain Gold is selling shares under an
exemption from B.C. registration requirements. It is not a reporting issuer
in B.C., and never will be if its shares are traded only on the bulletin
board, which is the plan.

Making the best of his suspension, Specogna wrote a book about his stock
market escapades, entitled A Convicted Stock Manipulator's Guide to
Investing.

"If there has ever been an expert in market manipulation and securities
fraud, it has to be me," he wrote in the book.

Specogna then proceeded to broaden his range of expertise. In addition to
stock fraud, he became an expert in GST fraud.

Federal Crown prosecutors alleged that from 1995 to 2001, he submitted
claims for GST refunds for $17 million worth of goods and services which he
claimed Doromin had spent on its exploration program.

But it was a ruse. Doromin didn't really incur these expenditures. In fact,
the company didn't even legally exist after 1999.

When Canada Revenue Agency investigators intervened, Specogna once again
turned to book publishing. The title was, Become A Winner Claiming
Thoroughbred Race Horses. Promotional material included a testimonial from
"Bobby D. of Las Vegas" who described the book as "amazing!!!"

But within months, he was heading to jail. In December 2005, a B.C. Supreme
Court jury convicted him of obtaining or attempting to obtain $348,258 in
illicit GST refunds. The prosecutor, noting that Specogna "never had what I
would call a straight job," asked for a prison term of 3 1/2 to four years.

In April 2006, Judge Bryan Ralph sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in jail, but
after only six months he was granted full parole. Now he is back hustling
penny stock of the lowest order.

Seed stock is one of the riskiest investments. It is not sold by way of
prospectus, so there is minimal disclosure. There is no requirement to
provide financial statements, so investors may not be able to track what
happens to their money. In many cases, the stock is never listed.

Over the years, I have talked to dozens of seed stock investors who have
been left with worthless certificates, or no certificates at all.

When I called the contact number for Valentine Mountain Gold, Marino
answered the phone. "No, no, it's my father's deal," he insisted. "I'm just
answering the phone for him."

But he has also been involved in lining up the mineral claims, and it is
clear he has bigger role than he is letting on.

Gold may be a noble metal, but Specogna is not.
dba...@png.canwest.com

© Vancouver Sun

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=1a92b657-ece0-43d9-a7bc-110c61010fe2&k=90015
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Specogna, N
7371 147A St

Surrey, BC V3R 0A1

(604) 594-4502

in...@specognaminerals.com

This is the contact number for Valentine Mountain Gold Corporation
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ln1lTHslUncJ:www.kitco.com/pr/2175/article_08302007204955.doc+604-594-4502&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca

250-753-7819 is the contact number of one of the companies that the Specogna
family are involved in. Mr. Baines has reported on Hell's Angels involvement
in the business community before and perhaps there is more to this story.

Specogna, E
1704 Centennary

Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K1

(250) 753-7819

Hmmmmm. Nanaimo has a Hell's Angels clubhouse and their one time club
president Michael Mickle disappeared never to be heard from again. This old
fraudster is 81 yrs old and his phone number has an 81 and HA likes to use
the number 81 and he is currently involved in a scam so I'm going to take
not much of a leap and say he is HA.


Someone posted in van.general recently complaining about the death of
investigative journalism in Canada and this individual and the Vancouver Sun
have broken stories on the Hell's Angelsand their involvement in seemingly
legitimate businesses. When is the last time Adbusters broke an
investigative story involving organized crime? Why should I pay ten dollars
for a glossy mag full of excellent photos I have seen before in the
mainstream media none of which have anything to do with local issues.

Anyways to get back to the main thrust of this thread the BC govt should
crack down on these fraudsters. AG Wally Oppal will be roasting departing
VPD chief Jamie Graham soon. Hope next time he is quoted in the media he
doesn't say he needs more time to research the issue.
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HA
is involved with
extortion, homicide, kidnapping, prostitution, meth and cocaine
dealing, rape, armed robbery and motorcycle theft and child
pornography
as well as phoney currency and witness intimidation and obstruction of
justice. They have been known to bribe and scare law enforcement
officers and judges into doing their bidding. These ppl must be
rooted
out of the Cdn justice system. Two judges have actually done their
job
and declared HAMC a criminal org and the Victoria Times-Colonist is
calling for it to be banned as a terrorist org.

The White Rock chapter Sgt.Of Arms, Villy Roy Lynnerup, recently was
arrested for trying to board an airplane at YVR
with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into the
Downtown courthouse or hold the passengers hostage in exchange for
the
release of Moms Boucher and all imprisoned full patch members. All
the
Hell's Angels, their supporters, associates etc. should be imprisoned
for twenty years
their children put in foster care and their assets seized.

Ppl are trying to get HAMC listed as a terrorist org. If you support this
then write letters to editors of local newspapers and your local MP.
As well John Les the solicitor-general of BC has advocated banning
the wearing of gang colours such as biker patches in bars. Since HA
is
known to frequent the College Place and the Cecil and has links to
various bars in BC that would be an improvement. The gang has a
history of intimidating
bartenders, infiltrating unions involved in the bar industry, beating
and killing strippers and beating customers to death at random for no
reason. Contact your MLA as well as the local media and tell them you
want this implemented sooner rather than later.
VPD is appealing again for info about the homicide of Maria Yvette
Monzon who was shot dead on the westside of Vancouver. She was killed
by HA but the police have never stated that. There is a reward.

Art Hanger the chair of the Justice Committee can be contacted at:
Hill Office
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6 (No postage required.)
Telephone: (613) 947-4487
Fax: (613) 947-4490
EMail: Hang...@parl.gc.ca
Web Site:* www.arthangermp.com/
Preferred Language: English Constituency Offices
2635 - 37th Avenue NE, Suite 140
Calgary, Alberta
T1Y 5Z6
Telephone: (403) 291-0018
Fax: (403) 291-9516

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Who killed Matthew Mark Rheaume of Burnaby?

Who killed Colleen Ryder (Reider?) of Surrey? HA most probably since she
owed money for gambling debts.

el duderino

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So, this is how logic works in your world:

Some guy lives in a town that also has an HA chapter, is 81 years old, and
has the digits '81' in his phone number.
Therefore he's a Hell's Angels member.

Okey-dokey, Greg.

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klunk

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"Greg Carr" <greg...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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>
>
> "bbb" <b...@buggerbuggerbugger.com> wrote in message
> news:46DB97A2...@buggerbuggerbugger.com...
>> el duderino wrote:
>>> "Greg Carr" <greg...@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>>> news:pMICi.117018$rX4.78219@pd7urf2no...
>>>
>>>> Specogna, E
>>>> 1704 Centennary
>>>>
>>>> Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K1
>>>>
>>>> (250) 753-7819
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmmm. Nanaimo has a Hell's Angels clubhouse and their one time club
>>>> president Michael Mickle disappeared never to be heard from again. This
>>>> old fraudster is 81 yrs old and his phone number has an 81 and HA likes
>>>> to use the number 81 and he is currently involved in a scam so I'm
>>>> going to take not much of a leap and say he is HA.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Come on man, that's fucking ridiculous. Even coming from you.
>
> I stand by it.

of course you "stand by it", grog... thinking about it is far too difficult
for you...

> If can imagine a full patch telling this family of criminals join us or we
> will beat you senseless. What is an 81 yr old con man going to do? The son
> is a gambler and that fits the profile of ppl at the lower echelons of the
> gang.
>>>
>>> "not much of a leap" ???!!!
>> there's also a '9' in the number - 8+1=9. Further proof!
>
> Totally irrelevant.

you're right though, all the rest is totally irrelevant, so it was
snipped... the analogy above however, was spot on... ;-)


Mary Jane Middleton

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Specogna Family Of Surrey Are A Bunch Of Crooks And They Are Still
Scamming

Honest Hard Working People. Above statement is false as I have meet
them.
Efrem Specogna is not the type of person to mess with !!!!!!!

http://www.specognaminerals.com/home.html

Specogna Minerals Corp, incorporated in 1979, has been and is an
exploration leader in British Columbia.

Company President, Efrem Specogna, the 1990 winner of the BC Mining
House Prospector of The Year, Spud Huestis Award, has numerous
grassroots discoveries to his credit. The most notable being the
epithermal Specogna Gold Deposit located on the Queen Charlotte
Islands of British Columbia, proven reserves of over 5.0 million
ounces gold. Info on this deposit can be found at this link

With his son, Marino Specogna, Specogna Minerals has initiated
discoveries of the Villalta Gold deposit on Vancouver Island, and
numerous new grassroots discoveries including a recent Ni-Pt-Pd-Sn-Ti
on Vancouver Island.

Current Deposits and Prospects Available for option or sale or option
interest by funding exploration include:

Mo soil anomaly over level topography on Vancouver Island. Work by
Falconbridge in early 1980's. Mo in soil upto 92ppm, two seperate
anomalies measuring each over 500 metres by 500 metres. More info on
Deposits/Projects Links, option or sell 100%.

Ni-Pt-Pd-Sn occurence in new Ni-Pt-Pd discovery area, on Vancouver
Island. Several claim blocks with Ni-Pt-Pd-Sn occurences, including BC
Government Sn values from regional sampling program, and several
sulphide zones identified from 1960's that have not as yet been
assayed for Ni-Pt-Pd. Further info at the Deposits/Projects Option/
Sell Link .

Valentine Mountain, near Victoria BC on Vancouver Island. for
information www.valentinemountain.com

KitKat Platinum-Palladium occurence on Vancouver Island, BC-- Cowichan
Lake, see the link Deposits/Projects Option/Sell Link

Iron Ore Deposit located near Zeballos on Western Vancouver Island.
4.7 million tons of soluble 35.9% Fe average. More details, cross-
sections and maps on the Deposits/Projects Option/Sell Link.

Au-Ag-Zn-Pb occurence on Queen Charlotte Islands, data on the Deposits/
Projects Link.

For further info on these deposits email: in...@specognaminerals.com


Greg Carr

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http://www.slashinvestments.com has archived some of the Specogna posts but
not my original one.

This is bizarre. I just searched the Google Web and one of my posts shows up
on the first page of results. But none of them show up on the groups search.
Ten minutes before several did.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Marino%20Specogna%22&sa=N&tab=gw has
the web result.

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&q=%22Marino%20Specogna%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg
shows none of my posts.

Yet this one shows many of my posts on this criminal.
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22marino+specogna%22&qt_s=Search
and it was taken ten minutes earlier.

Is this censorship by Google at the behest of HAMC?

Is this a hack?

Have I posted so much over the yrs someone at Google is just messing with me
for laughs <G>

The Google computer system just failing because they are too busy with
YouTube to care?

Oddly if I search the name Baines which appears in many of the posts these
all show up.
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Nothing new below:


Friday, August 31, 2007


CREDIT:
DAVID BAINES


© Vancouver Sun


http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=1a92b6...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------­---------------------------------------------------


Specogna, N
7371 147A St


Surrey, BC V3R 0A1


(604) 594-4502


in...@specognaminerals.com


This is the contact number for Valentine Mountain Gold Corporation

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ln1lTHslUncJ:www.kitco.com/pr/217...


Specogna, E
1704 Centennary


Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K1


(250) 753-7819

Marino


Specogna lives in a nice home in a nice, quiet neighbourhood in the
Newton
area of Surrey. He claims to be in the mining industry but the fact is
in
his parking lot is a Hyundai 382-APT. and a Ford Ranger Sport P/U 8445-
KJ
with drywall and bagged garbage. Since it has been noted in court that
he
has never had an honest job it is likely he is working for cash in the
drywall business.


http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&frie...


is his website. It is interesting to note that his "friends" include
open
homosexuals. Oh wait he has taken the Gay Sphinx photo away :-) I
wonder why
:-). He claims to be reading his own book so he is either an ego
maniac or
has a serious memory problem. His books can be bought through ebay for
six
dollars. He has been involved in various frauds and has a few phony
mining
operations trying to raise money and he is obviously into claiming
race
horses and the track. Yet he doesn't own one. He is obviously in a
permenant
cash crunch probably caused by his gambling losses and his legal bills
plus
whatever extortion/protection he pays plus the usual bills ppl living
a nice
lifestyle have. Hopefully Revenue Canada will audit the whole family.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------­----------------------------------------------------
It


is interesting to note that my original post to van.general on this
thread
has disappeared from Google groups. Guess the organized crime brains
in HAMC
want the info not to be readily available. As usual I am impressed by
your
technical dirty tricks department. In the past they managed to get
pics
removed from an RCMP website.

http://groups.google.ca/group/van.general/browse_thread/thread/5c6875...
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Greg Carr

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Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging
over a great part of this congregation. Let every one fly out of Sodom:
"Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the
mountain, lest you be consumed."

==========================================================================

Pensees

* PENSÉES
o SECTION I: THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE
o SECTION II: THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD
o SECTION III: OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER
o SECTION IV: OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF
o SECTION V: JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
o SECTION VI: THE PHILOSOPHERS
o SECTION VII: MORALITY AND DOCTRINE
o SECTION VIII: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
o SECTION IX: PERPETUITY
o SECTION X: TYPOLOGY
o SECTION XI: THE PROPHECIES
o SECTION XII: PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
o SECTION XIII: THE MIRACLES
o SECTION XIV: APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

PENSÉES

by Blaise Pascal

1660

translated by W. F. Trotter

PENSÉES

SECTION I: THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE

1. The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind.--In the
one, the principles are palpable, but removed from ordinary use; so that for
want of habit it is difficult to turn one's mind in that direction: but if
one turns it thither ever so little, one sees the principles fully, and one
must have a quite inaccurate mind who reasons wrong


el duderino

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el duderino

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of the Colony down to the present day the
same old practice prevails in these licensed brothels, and has
never been forbidden or abolished?"

It is to be noted that none of the officials at Hong Kong accused the
Chinese merchants of slander in saying that from 80 to 90 per cent of
the thousands of prostitutes in the Colony were absolute slaves. The
Government was placed in a very awkward position by this challenge on
the part of the Chinese. How could a Government that held slaves in
its licensed brothels forbid Chinese residents holding slaves in their
homes? But the Governor did not propose to be compromised. He wrote to
the Secretary of State at London: "I believe I only anticipate your
instructions, in giving orders that the law, whatever may be the
consequences to the brothel system, should be strictly enforced so as
to secure the freedom of the women." But he reckoned without his host.
The Secretary of State did not stand by the Governor. So far as the
records show, the Governor and Chief Justice stood alone, his entire
Executive Council taking the opposing side. What was to be done?


CHAPTER 11.

THE MAN FOR THE OCCASION.


Consistency demanded that either the brothel system at Hong Kong
should be abolished, or domestic slavery and so-called "adoption"
should be tolerated. No other courses were open. In his perplexity,
the Governor asked his learned Chinese interpreter, Dr. Eitel, to give
him further light as to this domestic slavery and "adoption" prevalent
among the Chinese. This request was granted in a document entitled
"Domestic servitude in relation to slavery." Dr. Eitel's main points
were:


Greg Carr

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by Western civilization. Almost any wicked man, any
tourist who would pay well, man or woman, could enter this place.
The "Watch-dogs" were kept merely to prevent the entrance of mission
workers to rescue slaves, and these "Watch-dogs" were, and always are,
American, or, at least European men, not Chinese.

There were more "Watch-dogs" than those about Sullivan Place, before
the earthquake in San Francisco,--they were to be found in many
parts, always for the one purpose,--to resist interference with the
enforcement of brothel slavery upon Chinese women. American men
undertook this part of the business, because a certain timidity in
the Chinese character when dealing with American women, and a fear of
arousing race-prejudice, unfitted the Chinaman for coping with the
American women,--Miss Culbertson, the pioneer, now sainted, Miss Lake,
Miss Cameron and Miss Davis, who have fought their brave battles for
many years, to deliver the captives from the hand of the spoilers,
often at the risk of life, unaided for the most part, unappreciated
and unsympathized with, by a guiltily ignorant Christian public, and
too often persecuted by corrupt officials. Yet they have never stood
alone, but have always had the presence of their Master, and the
sympathetic co-operation of a few ardent supporters,--Christian women,
lawyers, magistrates, and other officials.

One of the "Watch-dogs" struck Miss Lake on one occasion. On another,
a "Watch-dog" went boldly up to two policemen to whom a fugitive slave
had appealed for help, seized his prey, and without resistance from
the policemen, carried her bodily back to slavery along the public
street, in view of many spectators. At another time several of them
rushed in upon a scene of rescue, overcame the police officer, and
hurled him down stairs, dealt in the same manner with some men in
the rescue party, and then turned upon the missionar


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