The Hell's Angels Clubhouse "Charter Violation" Easily Solved

HA East End Vancouver Clubhouse, seized as of 2005

The British Columbia Hell's Angels are bringing forth a challenge in court against the BC government, as to the provinces's right to confiscate the already seized three clubhouses. 

They are claiming they are not a criminal organization, so they have rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that would make the government have to pay to investigate the properties, rather than not having to if the property belonged to a criminal organization. 

This seems like a cheap trick to deter the Crown and the province from continuing the investigation, or a quick out for possible crooked police, judges and politicians.

However, BC politicians like the mayor of Surrey, Dianne Watts, certainly raise the bar for politicians who are good people and uncorrupt, and who stand against organized crime syndicates, like the Hell's Angels, so it is not likely this travesty will fly.

Why is this a travesty? All the government has to do is prove the owners of the property were involved in criminal activity, and as you can see from the picture on this article, the East End clubhouse was full of cocaine, guns and contraband, when the property was seized as of 2005.

That was easy.



References:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hells-angels-call-b-c-clubhouse-seizures-charter-violation-1.1931393

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Photos+Police+raid+Hells+Angels+East+clubhouse/7896229/story.html