“Cheesehead” Behind Slayings: “You knocked up my ho'”
Dear Immigration Reformer:
It’s been almost six weeks since a Rexdale Seventh Day Adventist Church was the scene of another killing among lawless young blacks. Many in the congregation knew that there were gunmen among them planning the killing of one Amon Beckles. He’d recently witnessed the slaying of his friend Jamal Hemmings. Beckles who was, in cop talk, “known to the police,” had been questioned in the killing of his friend but had been unco-operative. No information for the Man, even if it was a Brother who was slain. Nevertheless, he was a marked man. When he stepped out of the church for a smoke, he was, so to speak, smoked. What had it all been about? Apparently a gangster named Cheesehead believed Hemmings had impregnated his girlfriend while “Cheesehead” was doing time.
The Toronto Sun (December 9, 2005) reports: “Hard-core gangs don’t care what Prime Minister Paul Martin has to say about guns, a Toronto cop says. Ruthless gangsters like ‘Cheesehead,’ allegedly behind the murder of Amon Beckles outside a Rexdale church, aren’t going to put down their pistols because of the PM’s proposed gun laws, the officer said. ‘There are people out there planning and carrying out these murders,’ Det.-Sgt. Doug Quan said of the killing of Beckles and pal Jamal Hemmings, 17. Beckles, 18, was shot dead Nov. 18 outside a Seventh Day Adventist Church, at Martingrove and Albion Rds., while attending a funeral service for Hemmings. Beckles was with Hemmings on Nov. 9 when he was gunned down in a parking lot near Oakwood and Eglinton Aves. … Some cops and area residents claim Hemmings was slain for getting Cheesehead’s girlfriend pregnant while he was in prison. “
Prime Minister Paul Martin’s solution to the wave of black violence – mostly Jamaican immigrants or the children of Jamaican immigrants — is not better immigration control and deportation of the lawless. No, in typical dysfunctional Canadian style, his answer is to confiscate the handguns of law-abiding citizens.
John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail (December 9, 2005) is a loud backer of more immigration. However, he’s one of the few columnists to reflect on the incompatibility of some of the flood of immigrants we’ve been receiving: “The gesture is meaningless. Gang members shoot each other using handguns that were stolen or smuggled into the country from the United States. Taking pistols away from gun collectors won’t save a single life on the street. Tougher sentences for gun-related violence and greater investments in jobs and education for youths in troubled neighbourhoods might, over time, reverse the escalating carnage. But even that won’t strike at the root of the problem. Some young black men, many of them the children of immigrants from violent, lawless societies, and raised in fragile environments (meaning the father is usually absent), have drifted outside the social contract. Yes, we have to work at bringing them back in. But we also have to be more careful with our immigration policies. We can (and should) increase the intake of immigrants to Canada without increasing the risk of importing potential criminals as well. Economic-class immigrants from countries that are particularly violent and impoverished, such as Jamaica, should be carefully screened, to ensure that they have the education, the means and the motivation to integrate successfully into Canadian society. Family-class immigrants and refugees from those societies should be restricted to those who are unlikely to arrive in, or fall into, poverty.”
The dreary round of murders in the black enclaves in North Rexdale, Jane-Finch, East Scarborough and other pockets around Toronto is not the fault of guns. Once again, it’s immigration, stupid – poorly screened immigration. We must ruthlessly demand of every potential newcomer: What do you offer us? If the answer is fractured family structure, poor language skills, no job skills, generations of welfare dependency, crime, court costs, job training, language training, social workers, special multicult programmes, then we should pass these people by. We can do better. If – and it’s a big if – we need immigration at all, we should select the best – those with language and job skills and, most importantly, those who are culturally compatible with us.
Paul Fromm,
Director
CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE
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Hard-core gangs don’t care what Prime Minister Paul Martin has to say about guns, a Toronto cop says.
By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN (Dec 9 2005)
Ruthless gangsters like “Cheesehead,” allegedly behind the murder of Amon Beckles outside a Rexdale church, aren’t going to put down their pistols because of the PM’s proposed gun laws, the officer said.
“There are people out there planning and carrying out these murders,” Det.-Sgt. Doug Quan said of the killing of Beckles and pal Jamal Hemmings, 17.
Beckles, 18, was shot dead Nov. 18 outside a Seventh Day Adventist Church, at Martingrove and Albion Rds., while attending a funeral service for Hemmings.
Beckles was with Hemmings on Nov. 9 when he was gunned down in a parking lot near Oakwood and Eglinton Aves.
Some cops and area residents claim Hemmings was slain for getting Cheesehead’s girlfriend pregnant while he was in prison.
And Beckles allegedly was gunned down for witnessing the murder, they said.
Det. Tim Bates said up to 270 worshippers were inside the church when Beckles was killed.
“Somebody out there saw what happened,” he said.
Those who are afraid of retaliation can be placed in a Witness Protection Program, he said.
Pastor Allan Bowen of the Abundant Life Assembly on Dixon Rd., the Beckles’ family church, said he’s been told gangsters are stocking up on bullet-proof vests and armour-piercing bullets.
Canadian military peacekeepers should be dispatched to target gunmen in troubled Toronto housing projects, he said.