American cop tortured after stumbling onto corrupt cops in Canada

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American cop tortured after stumbling onto corrupt cops in Canada

Posted: April 05, 2008  11:30 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh  © 2008 WorldNetDaily

Canada has agreed to implement new policies and procedures to protect
U.S. citizens who may be jailed there, according to the U.S. State
Department. The move, however, falls far short of the corrections sought
by a former U.S. policeman who spent four years in jail there without
having access to U.S. consular services, and he says he is planning to
meet with a member of Congress about the dispute.

A spokesman for the State Department told WND yesterday that there have
been discussions regarding the claims raised by Scott Loper.

"We are aware Mr. Loper was not allowed access to American consular
officials while arrested and detained in Canada. In our discussions with
Canadian officials they have acknowledged that oversight," a spokesman
for the department said.

"Since then they have put into place policies [including] prompt
notification and access whenever Americans are arrested. We believe our
consultations with Canadian officials will help Americans get adequate
notice and access when they're arrested," he continued.

The specific case involving Loper was raised, but the official could not
provide further details on anything stemming from that issue.

WND has reported previously not only on Loper's case, but also on
confirmation from the State Department it was opening an investigation
into the disappearance of Loper's son.

Loper, a former New Jersey police officer, has described stumbling upon
an alleged police-run drug ring in Canada, then his sudden jailing
before he could contact the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, that nation's
federal police department, and the abrupt disappearance of his wife and
son, Edward.

Officials from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs have continue
to decline to respond to WND inquiries about the status of an
investigation into the situation.

The formal hunt for Loper's son, Eddy, now 11, was confirmed in a letter
from Barbara J. Greig, with the International Parental Child Abduction
Unit in the State Department.

"I am writing in response to my telephone conversation with you of
February 22, 2008, regarding your child, Edward Loper, who may still be
alive in Canada. I am the officer responsible for cases in Canada for
the International Parental Child Abduction Unit of the Office Children's
Issues. International parental child abduction is an issue of great
concern to the Department of State. We place the highest priority on
children who have been victimized by parental or State abduction. I have
already opened a case in the name of Edward Loper that will remain open
until you gain access to him or all possible efforts have been
exhausted," she said.

While the hunt for his son is good, and policy changes might help, the
status of his complaint within the State Department remains
unsatisfactory to Loper, and he confirmed to WND he has a meeting
scheduled within the next week with a leader in Congress to discuss
further the situation. Details of that scheduled meeting were not being
released immediately.

He has called on the U.S. government to pursue a complaint
internationally, because of the treaty violations Canada's failure to
notify the U.S. included.

Loper's civil rights lawyer, Scott Shields of Media, Pa., told WND his
client has few options left if the State Department refuses to pursue
his case.

"Otherwise he'd have to go back into Canada and hire Canadian counsel
and sue them there," he said.

His client's case is a "cry out to the State Department to demand some
accountability for [Canada] not notifying our government he was in
custody to begin with. … They've admitted they didn't notify our
government and still don't want to address the issues," he said.

"Our government can file a claim through the International Court of
Justice. We [as individuals] cannot," Shields said.

"But for reasons, not told to me, other than apparently our federal
current administration perhaps doesn't want to upset the Canadian
government, they're not pushing it," he said.

"I don't even know how to classify the inaction on the part of our
government now," said Shields.

Loper's insistence on pursuing the situation through international
courts assigned to handle treaty violations comes because the Bush
administration submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing to
overturn the death penalty of Jose Medellin. He confessed in 1993 to
participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer
Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe
laces, and Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch
as a souvenir of the crime.

But he sought to overturn the conviction claiming he had not been
provided access to consular services.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision recently that the state of
Texas had handled the prosecution properly, but the White House said
that would make no difference in its pursuit of compliance with
international treaties.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president's goal was the
assure that compliance.

"The solicitor general in this case argued on behalf of the United
States that the president has the authority to compel a state to comply
with provisions of a legally ratified treaty – in this case, one between
the United States and a foreign power – regarding a provision of the
International Court of Justice. In their decision …. the Supreme Court
disagreed. … They recognized that there is an international obligation
to comply with treaties, but that the president of the United States
does not have the legal authority to compel a state to take that
action," she said.

Loper told WND he was returned to the U.S. in 2004 after a four-year
prison term for "domestic" charges he believes were trumped up to
silence him after he discovered the alleged cop-run drug ring.

Loper, who had moved to Canada so his wife at the time could be closer
to her family, said the whole situation was unsettling from the
beginning. He was divorced from his original Canadian wife, then married
his second wife, Carolyn.

While moving into a townhome, they were welcomed by a beer-drinking
crowd in the next unit who identified themselves as police officers, one
of whom later warned him that a neighbor on the other side was "under
surveillance" as a possible drug dealer.

Loper's experience as a New Jersey officer alerted him, and he
subsequently watched officers repeatedly sneak into the next-door unit.
He bought some microphones and a tape recorder and installed the mikes
so they would monitor what was going on, discovering that police
officers in the Durham region allegedly were busting drug dealers being
identified by his neighbor, then bringing the drugs to him for sale, he
said.

Before he could take his evidence to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
Canada's federal police unit, he was busted by local police on what he
describes as trumped-up charges, taken to a mental health facility and
detained, he said.

While he was confined, his townhome was ransacked, his tapes confiscated
and his wife and young son disappeared. He recalls a last telephone call
from Carolyn. "I love you but they'll take Eddy away!" were the last
words he heard her say, Loper told WND.

Released from the mental facility after a few days, he found his wife
and son gone, and when he tried to find them, found himself the subject
of a restraining order. He tried to express his love for his wife and
son in a letter to a friend, and authorities determined that was an
attempt at an "indirect communication" and he was sentenced to prison
for four years.

There, he said, officers repeatedly tried to get him to admit that he
was making up the claims about the police officers' drug connections.
"There was a hot water radiator. They would spray me with that to get me
to recant my story, to get me to stop saying it," he said.

He said he's been told stories of his wife now being in a witness
relocation program, or considers the real possibility that she may have
been part of the conspiracy to get rid of him in order to move forward
with another man, possibly a police officer.

Back in the United States, he's remarried and pursuing another line of
work. But he still is demanding justice for what he experienced.

"I was arrested and locked in a filthy cockroach infested solitary
confinement with no light, no heat. I was starved, beaten, tortured with
a scalding shower tapped off a radiator pipe while in a locked cage, and
put into a steel coffin for weeks at a time…

"On numerous occasions as I asked and demanded to see a representative
of the American government … I was laughed at by Canadian prison
authorities…," he said.

"This is a clear violation of my Hague Rights and a violation of
treaties between Canada and the United States going back over 40 years …
It is also a violation of international law," he said.

On a Restore the Republic website, a commentator called Loper's
situation, "absolutely insane."

"Kirralin23," a forum participant, said the situation is appalling.

"For the government to refuse to protect his rights as a U.S. citizen is
equivalent to you or [me] not seeking prosecution of our best friend for
raping our child. How could that individual remain our friend? How can
our government remain cozy with a foreign goverment (sic) which has so
viciously and unjustly attacked one of our citizens."

From "Taquoshi," came: "Canada is becoming more and more of a police
state, from the seizing of firearms, to the enforcement of 'hate crime'
legislation, 'universal' health care and now to the possible false
imprisonment of a U.S. citizen without notifying the embassy and
possibly the concealment of his wife and son. Oh, yeah, we really want
to join together with them as part of a North American Union. Right!"
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