This is a video of a Polish man, a new immigrant to Canada, being murdered in Vancouver International Airport, witha Taser, by the RCMP, after he was distraight, because he couldn't find his mother, who was supposed to wait for him at the airport, but was sent home, after officials told her, her son never arrived. He spend almost 10 hours at the airport, at which point he became distraught, and started acting up, threw a computer from a table. That is when the police officer approached him and asked him to calm down, in English. Dziekanski couldn't respond, as he didn't speak English. So they police tasered him, not once, but twice, the second time while whaling on him as he was already on the ground. As a result, this man is now dead, a victim of senseless police brutality. The Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian-Candaian communities are very concerned about this. It is viewed as a racist crime by police, as one of the officers yelled: "He only speaks Russian!", before the second taser jolt". I will say no more, just watch the video.
Her airport customs experience was also 'very stressing'
Noush Eslaamy, 28, came to Canada via the Vancouver airport in 2005. Her wait to clear customs after a 24-hour trip from Iran was so long, her uncle feared she had been kidnapped. Gerry Kahrmann, The Province Worried uncle waited hours in same area as victim's mother Susan Lazaruk, The Province Published: Sunday, November 18, 2007 A young woman who immigrated to Canada said she experienced the same frustrating delays and misinformation at the Vancouver airport as Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
Noush Eslaamy, 28, immigrated from Iran in September 2004. With limited English skills, Eslaamy said she was confused by the process of clearing customs. But besides three or four customs inspections agents, there were no employees available to help.
"When I came there, the number [being served] was 28 and my number was 800-something," she said from Langley, where she lives with her uncle.
View Larger Image Noush Eslaamy, 28, came to Canada via the Vancouver airport in 2005. Her wait to clear customs after a 24-hour trip from Iran was so long, her uncle feared she had been kidnapped. Gerry Kahrmann, The Province
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"I was sleepy, I was so hungry and I was cold and I was thirsty," she said.
"It was a different country, a different language, everything was so different and it was very stressing."
Meanwhile, her uncle, Maj Wahage, was waiting patiently in the international arrivals lounge, the same public area where Dziekanski's mother, Zofia Cisow-ski, waited and worried for hours.
Wahage said the only information he could get about his niece was by a telephone hotline near the immigration office, which was closed that day, a Sunday.
He said the operator, whose tone he described as aggressive and unhelpful, told him it typically takes two to four hours to clear customs.
"She was very aggressive, really, really unhelpful, not polite, and she gave me misleading information."
Wahage eventually reported his niece missing to a customs office, worrying she had been kidnapped.
An officer offered to check the waiting room, where he found Eslaamy still waiting for her turn, a small act of kindness for which Wahage remains grateful.
"He was a great guy, a great man, very helpful," he said. "I told him I would never forget him."
Finally, more than seven hours after Eslaamy arrived, she left with her uncle.
The Canadian Border Services Agency has not explained why it took Dziekanski 10 hours to clear customs.
Iran censures Canada on human rights Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:58:00
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini has condemned the violation of human rights against immigrants by the Canadian police.
Hosseini condemned heinous acts of terror pointing to the murders of Iranian expatriate Keyvan Tabesh and the Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
He said this behaviour was an indication of organized actions by Canadian government bodies against immigrants, and were aimed at the spread of racism and xenophobia.
The foreign ministry spokesman called on the Canadian government for further investigation into the hostile conduct of the Canadian police urging it to adopt a transparent policy toward the issue of human rights.
The murder of Robert Dziekanski raised questions in Canada about the safety of Taser guns, which immobilize people with a 50,000-volt electrical charge.
Sixteen Canadians are reported to have died in the past five years in Taser incidents.
Robert Dziekanski had flown to Canada to live with his mother [EPA]
Canada has ordered an inquiry into the use of Tasers after footage emerged showing police using the stun gun on an unarmed man who died shortly afterwards.
A video broadcast on local and US television showed Robert Dziekanski shouting in pain after he was hit by 50,000 volt blasts at Vancouver airport a month ago.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said officers fired Taser shots at Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant, after he became abusive.
Rob Reynolds reports on the Taser incident
"I've asked for a review relating to the use of Tasers. ... This is a tragic and grievous incident. We want to find out answers that can prevent these things from happening in the future," Stockwell Day, the public security minister, told the Canadian parliament.
Many Canadians were shocked by the images of Dziekanski writhing on the floor moments before he died.
Some people complained to radio and TV shows that police acted too quickly to stun a man who did not appear to be threatening them.
Dale Carr, a spokesman for the RCMP, urged the public to withhold their judgment of what they see on the video until the police can explain their conduct while testifying under oath at a coroner's inquest.
He said an investigation by a homicide team will take another 30 to 45 days.
"The inquest will be the venue in which the contents of the video and the actions of police will be scrutinised," he said in a statement.
Penny Priddy, a politician from the opposition New Democratic Party said, "The screams of a dying man echo throughout the country" and that Canadians wanted answers before more lives were lost.
"Is it standard operating procedure for the RCMP to use Tasers when there is no obvious physical threat?" she asked Day in parliament.
'Unsuitable reaction'
Piotr Ogrodzinski, Poland's ambassador to Canada, said the video had deeply upset him and said Warsaw wanted to learn all it could about an investigation into the case.
"The reaction of the RCMP officers was unsuitable to the situation. What I've seen was that Mr. Dziekanski [was] a person who was agitated, frustrated, I think terrified, but not aggressive. He was not making a gesture that he intended to fight anybody," Ogrodzinski told Reuters.
"He didn't know what to to do. In fact, he was in search [of] help. That is why it is a really very sad and deeply moving film to watch."
Dziekanski flew to Canada to live with his mother in the western Canadian city of Kamloops in British Columbia. She had told him to wait for her at the baggage area.
But this meant he never passed through the customs section to enter the main part of Vancouver's airport, where she was waiting.
Aftermath of Dziekanski tragedy has touched raw nerve in public Alan Ferguson , The Province Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 It's a long time since I've known so many people so genuinely angry as they are over the death of Robert Dziekanski.
I'm talking about people who aren't normally in the habit of whipping themselves into a fever pitch over a perceived injustice.
This goes deeper. It touches a raw nerve in the collective consciousness. And it has left many folks wondering about the people they appoint to act on their behalf.
Sure, plenty of tears have been shed. Understandably so.
The Polish immigrant's very public death at Vancouver airport can't be watched without gut-wrenching pain.
And even though Paul Pritchard's amateur video is only part of the story, it hasn't stopped some people from deciding who are the villains.
What we're hearing about now -- police cruisers pelted with eggs, officers afraid for their safety -- does us no credit. But the rare, deep-seated anger is aimed, not at particular individuals, but at a sequence of events ordinary people find incomprehensible.
They're not interested in a witchhunt based on hysterical assumptions about trigger-happy cops. They'll wait for the facts, provided they are not too long coming.
But what they do want is to be told that the fatal flaws in the "system" that failed Dziekanski are being dealt with in an immediate, meaningful way. And, quite frankly, they're seeing precious little evidence of that.
As the weeks roll by, what they're mostly witnessing is a mind-boggling lack of initiative.
It's worse. People in positions of power scurry into hiding, seeking either to divert attention from themselves, or else to clam up, further feeding public unease.
Police pile one investigation on top of another, as if adding manpower alone will confirm their good intentions. Someone should tell them no one is fooled any more by the charade of police investigating police.
But the real problem -- what's at the root of the growing anguish in the community -- is the absence of authoritative leadership.
A prime example is Stockwell Day, federal minister of public safety. Hasn't it dawned on him that the Dziekanski affair is a humiliating embarrassment for Canada? Yet all he's done is waffle on about Tasers.
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion hadn't even bothered to watch the video the rest of the world is talking about.
Hundreds of people were involved in this tragedy in one way or another -- RCMP, customs agents, immigration officials, security guards and others.
They should be made to stand up and be counted. Instead, we're watching them duck for cover.
It's the continuing official indifference to the damaging global consequences of those fatal hours at Vancouver airport that Canadians everywhere find so profoundly disturbing.
And it's why they're angry at the shuffling hesitancy to explain them.
. launches public inquiry into Dziekanski death CanWest News Service Published: Monday, November 19, 2007 On the same day the premier of British Columbia apologized to the family and friends of a Polish immigrant killed after he was hit with a Taser by RCMP at Vancouver International Airport, the provincial government also promised a full public inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski and the policy governing the use of stun guns by police in that province.
"There are a number of processes that have been launched to date, and we are confident they will be thorough. But it is equally important that we establish an open and integrative review," B.C. Solicitor General John Les said Monday. "Public safety and confidence demands a comprehensive and independent look at all of these issues. If B.C. and Canada are to welcome the world to our doorstep, we need to learn from this tragedy and do better."
Robert Dziekanski, a 40-year-old Polish immigrant who had just taken his first international flight, died shortly after being tasered by RCMP officers. The event was filmed by a bystander at the airport and the videotape has been broadcast around the world.
It's not anything that anyone would have ever expected to happen in the province and I'm sure the RCMP would be glad to apologize," B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said in Vancouver. "So I'm glad to apologize on behalf of people in British Columbia for what took place."
Campbell called the incident a "human tragedy" and said his heart goes out to Dziekanski's mother, family and friends. He said he hopes to speak with Dziekanski's mother, who lives in B.C., within the next couple of days.
An independent commissioner of inquiry will be identified in the near future, and formal terms of reference will be drafted at that time. But Les said that the scope of the public inquiry would include the following:
-- reviewing policies surrounding the use of Tasers and recommending any necessary changes;
-- reviewing the incident involving Dziekanski, including the actions of the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency and immigration processes and Vancouver airport;
-- recommending how the handling of foreign passengers coming to B.C. through Vancouver airport can be improved.
The commissioner also will determine the appropriate time to conduct the remainder of the inquiry, taking into account the fact a homicide investigation already is underway.
A coroner's inquest also is expected to begin in the spring.
"This incident has British Columbians, Canadians and people all over the world seeking answers," said Les. "By calling a full public inquiry, we want everyone to know that all the facts will be put on the table, we will take action based on those facts and we will learn from this tragedy."
Dziekanski's death could have international repercussions on how the weapon is used, according to an Australian expert on policing and mental health.
"I think many police policy-makers will be looking very carefully at [the inquiry] and awaiting the outcome," said Duncan Chappell, acting director of the Institute of Criminology at Australia's University of Sydney.
Chappell was in Halifax Monday as a keynote speaker at a conference on policing and mental health. Chappell said Tasers are just beginning to be introduced in Australia.
"I think events that have occurred like the one particularly in Vancouver will probably give pause for thought," Chappell said.
Dziekanski's death and the subsequent shocking video showing him writhing in pain, continued to draw reaction from advocates, academics, ambassadors and politicians.
During question period in the House of Commons Monday, MPs sparred over the circumstances of Dziekanski's death and the use of Tasers. Jack Layton, the federal NDP leader, demanded to know whether the RCMP had been asked to stop using Tasers pending a full investigation of Dziekanski's death.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper replied the government doesn't interfere in the operational aspects of the RCMP and said a number of inquiries are underway.
Layton criticized the Conservative government for a lack of policy governing the use of Tasers. "One thing is very clear, at least there should be a retraining program put in place immediately to make sure this doesn't happen again. Why won't the prime minister support such a simple proposition?"
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day deflected criticism, calling on the Liberals to exercise patience as the government pursued its inquiries. "We share the concern about what happened to this particular individual," Day said. "It's one of the reasons that we've asked for answers. It's one of the reasons there are at least three independent reviews going on right now in terms of what took place."
Meanwhile David Preston, the Canadian ambassador to Poland, was questioned by Polish authorities Monday, who wanted to know what Canada intends to do about the death, according to CBC News. Preston told the authorities that for the time being he had very little to tell them while investigations were ongoing.
Karen Geldart, a Moncton, N.B., realtor and sister of Kevin Geldart, a Moncton man who died after being tasered in 2005, said the federal government needs to conduct a thorough investigation into the use of the weapon.
"I know a lot of people are upset with the actions of the RCMP, but I just want people to know that this is not limited to the situation with Mr. Dziekanski," Geldart said.
She said her brother, who was tasered multiple times on his torso and three times on his head, was also described as violent and combative before more than a dozen witnesses testified differently at an inquest into Kevin Geldart's death. "It was quite eerie for me to hear the same words used to describe Mr. Dziekanski," Geldart said.
Ken Adams, a professor of public policy at the University of Central Florida, opined Dziekanski's death and subsequent inquiries won't carry much weight in the United States.
"My sense is that at least as far as the U.S. is considered, it's not going to make much impact," Adams said during a telephone interview. With graduate student Victoria Dennison, Adams recently co-authored a paper titled What we don't know about police use of Tasers. The paper was published in Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management.
Vancouver Sun, with files from Charles Mandel, CanWest News Service
By Naomi Klein November 21, 2007 The world saw a video last week of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers using a Taser against a Polish man in the Vancouver International Airport in October. The man, Robert Dziekanski, died soon after the attack. In recent days, more details have come out about him. It turns out that the 40-year-old didn't just die after being shocked -- his life was marked by shock as well.Dziekanski was a young adult in 1989, when Poland began a grand experiment called "shock therapy" for the nation. The promise was that if the communist country accepted a series of brutal economic measures, the reward would be a "normal European country" like France or Germany. The pain would be short, the reward great.So Poland's government eliminated price controls overnight, slashed subsidies, privatized industries. But for young workers such as Dziekanski, "normal" never arrived. Today, roughly 40% of young Polish workers are unemployed. Dziekanski was among them. He had worked as a typesetter and a miner, but for the last few years, he had been unemployed and had had run-ins with the law. Like so many Poles of his generation, Dziekanski went looking for work in one of those "normal" countries that Poland was supposed to become but never did. Two million Poles have joined this mass exodus during the last three years alone. Dziekanski's cohorts have gone to work as bartenders in London, doormen in Dublin, plumbers in France. Last month, he chose to follow his mother to British Columbia, Canada, which is in a pre-Olympics construction boom. "After seven years of waiting, [Dziekanski] arrived to his utopia, Vancouver," said the Polish consul general, Maciej Krych. "Ten hours later, he was dead."Much of the outrage sparked by the video, which was made by another passenger at the airport, has focused on the controversial use of Tasers, already implicated in 17 deaths in Canada and many more in the United States. But what happened in Vancouver was about more than a weapon. It was also about an increasingly brutal side of the global economy -- about the reality that many victims of various forms of economic "shock therapy" face at our borders. Rapid economic transformations like Poland's have created enormous wealth -- in new investment opportunities; currency trading; in leaner, meaner companies able to comb the globe for the cheapest location to manufacture. But from Mexico to China to Poland, they also have created tens of millions of discarded people, the people who lose their jobs when factories close or lose their land when export zones open.Understandably, many of these people often choose to move: from countryside to city, from country to country. As Dziekanski appeared to be doing, they go in search of that elusive "normal." But there isn't enough normal to go around, or so we are told. And so, as migrants move, they are often met with other shocks. A treacherous electrified fence on Spain's southern border, or a Taser gun on the U.S.-Mexican border. Canada, which used to be known around the world for its openness to refugees, is militarizing its borders, with lines between immigrant and terrorist blurring fast.Dziekanski's inhuman treatment at the hands of the Canadian police must be seen in this context. The police were called when Dziekanski, lost and disoriented, began shouting in Polish, at one point throwing a chair. Faced with a foreigner like Dziekanski, who spoke no English, why talk when you can shock? It strikes me that the same brutal, short-cut logic guided Poland's economic transition to capitalism: Why take the gradual route, which required debate and consent, when "shock therapy" promised an instant, if painful, cure?I realize that I am talking about very different kinds of shocks here, but they do interconnect in a cycle I call "the shock doctrine." First comes the shock of a national crisis, making countries desperate for any cure and willing to sacrifice democracy in the process. In Poland in 1989, that first shock was the sudden end of communism and the economic meltdown. Then comes the economic shock therapy, the undemocratic process pushed through in the window of crisis that jolts an economy into growth but blasts so many people out of the picture. Then, in far too many cases, there is the third shock, the one that disciplines and deals with the discarded people: the desperate, the migrants, those driven mad by the system.Each shock has the potential to kill, some more suddenly than others. Naomi Klein is the author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
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Mother of man killed by Taser frustrated and furious Ian Mulgrew, CanWest News ServicePublished: Friday, October 26, 2007 VANCOUVER -- Maria Cisowski could not contain her grief or her anger when she spoke to the media Thursday about the death of her 40-year-old son at the Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 14. With her lawyer Walter Kosteckyj at her side, the distraught 61-year-old woman said she doesn't understand why no one at the airport was available to help her son, Robert Dziekanski, who died minutes after being Tasered by police, nearly 10 hours after he arrived as a hopeful immigrant from Poland. "This is the most difficult time of my life," she sobbed quietly.
Maria Cisowski sits behind a photograph of her son Robert Dziekanski during a press conference at the Polish Hall in Vancouver. Robert Dziekanski died after being in police custody and being tasered at YVR. Please see story by Mulgrew Ward Perrin/Vancouver Sun
"I had been waiting for seven years for him. I had been saving for seven years." She fell silent for a moment, her eyes falling on his picture in front of her at the news conference in Vancouver's Polish Hall. "Now I lost my son. I loved him so much," she said. Her lawyer pointedly blamed the RCMP, immigration authorities, and the airport's communication systems, which he said are inadequate and kept mother and son from uniting for five hours. Staff don't have the capacity to communicate between different areas of the airport, nor to page the public in a secure area, he said. "The initial report provided by the RCMP spokesman was erroneous when he suggested he had recently arrived and just come in," said Mr. Kosteckyj. "In fact, he had been in Canada, in our country, for nearly 10 hours." The death remains under police investigation. Mr. Dziekanski had caught a plane from Poland to Frankfurt and then boarded a connecting flight to Vancouver, said Mr. Kosteckyj. He cleared customs and waited in the secure area for his mother. She arrived from Kamloops, but was never able to locate him. Although she went to several people for aid, no one could help her. Mr. Kosteckyj said broadcasts over the airport PA system are not heard in the secure area where Mr. Dziekanski was waiting, so he never heard his mother's pleas. "In that beautiful edifice that we are all so proud of, he got completely lost," said Mr. Kosteckyj. "He was lost to our authorities and received little or no help. "(The mother and son) were within 150 to 200 feet of each other for not less than five hours. During that course of time, his mother sought help from Canadian Immigration. But there was apparently no way for her to effectively get a message to him." Mr. Dziekanski apparently spent the hours sitting on a bench, until he became frustrated and acted out at about 1:30 a.m. local time. Responding RCMP officers say they shocked Mr. Dziekanski twice with a Taser after the Polish-speaking man refused English commands to calm down. He died four minutes later. The RCMP are awaiting a toxicology report to determine whether there were drugs in Mr. Dziekanski's system. A preliminary autopsy showed there were no signs of trauma, disease or any other obvious cause of death. Mr. Dziekanski was sponsored by his mother to come to Canada, Mr. Kosteckyj said, and passed the necessary health checks before being issued the required documentation to come. "He came as a landed immigrant, so he went through full medical screens and checks, so he didn't just walk in the door." When asked if Ottawa had extended official condolences, Maciej Krych, consul-general of Poland in Vancouver, responded coldly, "So far, no."
Pierwsza historyczna wzmianka o Pieszycach pochodzi z II poł. XIII w. W dokumencie biskup wrocławski Tomasz I (1232-1268) oddziela kaplicę w Pieszycach od parafii w Dzierżoniowie. Jednocześnie utworzył nową parafię pw. św. Jakuba w Pieszycach. Miejscowość ta do 1945 roku rozwija się dzięki budowie manufaktur produkującym tkaniny. Dzięki rewolucji przemysłowej, która dotarła również na Śląsk, Pieszyce stają się ważnym ośrodkiem tkackim. W 1945 r. następuje zmiana granic państwa Polskiego, co powoduje włączenie zachodnich ziem niemieckich łącznie z Pieszycami do Polski. Dzięki staraniom ks. Leona Izdebskiego ówczesnego proboszcza powstaje nowa parafia pod wezwaniem św. Antoniego z Padwy, któremu to również poświęcono poewangelicki kościół parafialny. Został on uroczyście konsekrowany 22 września 1946 r. przez kanclerza kurii wrocławskiej ks. Alojzego Przybyłę, było to spowodowane brakiem biskupa we Wrocławiu. Kościół parafialny wybudowany został w latach 1871-1875. Powstał na terenie należącej do fabrykanckiej rodziny Zwanzigerów. Wykonany w stylu neogotyckim na planie krzyża łacińskiego, trójnawowy z transeptem. Autorem projektu był inspektor budowlany Stephani z Dzierżoniowa. Wnętrze w układzie halowym z oddzielonym prezbiterium. Kościół prześwietlony jest wieloma witrażami. Świątynia w swym wnętrzu ukazuje piękno i kunszt stylu gotyckiego. Na uwagę zasługuje neogotycka kamienna ambona z wysokim, strzelistym, drewnianym baldachimem, oraz ławki i empory obiegające całe wnętrze kościoła. Na emporze organowej znajdują się organy neogotyckie, 40-głosowe z 1927 r. W obu skrzydłach transeptu znajdują się dwa barokowe ołtarze boczne. Wykonane z drewna, polichromowane, złocone z dwukondygnacyjnymi nastawami. Do 1939 r. znajdowały się one w kościele św. Jakuba skąd przewiezione zostały do Wambierzyc w celu renowacji. Sprowadzone zostały dopiero w latach 1948-1949. W tym okresie zbudowano ołtarz w stylu neobarokowym, w którym został umieszczony obraz, przedstawiający św. Antoniego z Padwy. Namalowany przez malarza Borna z Wambierzyc. On też wykonał obraz Serca Jezusa w ołtarzu bocznym. Poświęcenia odnowionych ołtarzy dokonał Administrator Apostolski Dolnego Śląska ks. Karol Milik. W latach 1958-1966 przeprowadzono prace remontowe. Odnowiono ławki zainstalowano nowe oświetlenie. Ważnym wydarzeniem w życiu parafian i całej miejscowości było nadanie przez władze Pieszycom praw miejskich, miało to miejsce 22 VII 1962 roku. Przełom lat 60 i 70 to kolejne zmiany wnętrza kościoła. Odświeżono i odmalowano ściany, pod troskliwym kierownictwem mistrza W. Hnatiuka położona została nowa posadzka. Dostosowano również prezbiterium do wskazań Soboru Watykańskiego II. Ustawiono nowy posoborowy ołtarz, lektorium oraz świecznik paschalny, który wykonał mistrz K. Michalski. Lata 1982-1993 to remont generalny wieży kościelnej jak i małej sygnaturki na skrzyżowaniu naw kościelnych. W 1995 r. wymieniono część północną dachu kościoła. Dalszy remont dachu to lata 2001-2005 r., kiedy to usunięto starą warstwę łupka a nałożono blachę miedzianą. Rok 1997 przynosi wielką radość parafii i całemu miastu. Magistrat miejski ufundował elektroniczne dzwony jak również zainstalowano zegar z kurantem. Dzięki tym zmianom w całych Pieszycach możemy się cieszyć pięknymi dźwiękami płynącymi z wieży kościoła. Rok 2000 przynosi dwa wielkie wydarzenia. Pierwsze to dwa tysiące lat Chrześcijaństwa, a drugie to Milenium Biskupstwa Wrocławskiego. Z tej okazji ks. Kardynał Henryk Gulbinowicz podarował parafii relikwie św. Antoniego z Padwy. Również w tym roku dzięki staraniom parafii i Urzędu Miasta dokonano iluminacji kościoła. Lata 2001-2006 to okres prac renowacyjno - konserwatorskich wewnątrz i zewnątrz świątyni. Odnowiono ławki, znajdujące się po lewej stronie, kilka witraży oraz dokonano renowacji i konserwacji wszystkich drzwi, znajdujących się w kościele. Założono nowe nagłośnienie wewnątrz i na zewnątrz kościoła. Ponadto wybrukowano plac kościelny, rozpoczęto odnawianie piaskowcowych elementów dekoracyjnych portali i fasad kościoła: sterczyn, maswerków, kwiatonów.
Dziękujemy wszystkim ofiarodawcom za modlitwę i ofiarę składaną na remont naszej świątyni. Dziękujemy tak instytucjom, jak i osobom prywatnym. Niech dobry Bóg ma Was w Swojej opiece za Wasze otwarte serca Święty Antoni Padewski nie pochodził z Padwy - z Włoch, lecz był Portugalczykiem. Urodził się w Lizbonie 15 sierpnia 1195 roku w Święto Wniebowzięcia NMP. Otrzymał na chrzcie imię Ferdynand. Ojciec Ferdynanda Marcin Vicencio de Bulhoes (Buglioni) był rycerzem króla Alfonsa II Portugalskiego. Matka Maria Teresa Taveira pochodziła również ze szlacheckiego rodu. Rodzice dawali mu od najmłodszych lat bardzo dobry przykład. Uczył się w Lizbonie w szkole przykatedralnej. Jako syn rycerza zdobywał także sztukę jazdy konnej, szermierki, polowania. Kiedyś oświadczył ojcu, który chciał by został rycerzem tak jak on. "Pragnę być rycerzem Chrystusa, giermkiem Matki Bożej, obrońcą ubogich i Ewangelii". Dzięki interwencji matki otrzymał błogosławieństwo ojca. Ojciec powiedział: "Nie sprzeciwiam się twojemu wyborowi, a w twojej stanowczej decyzji dostrzegam dumę rodu Buglione. Będziesz godny naszej rodziny i chociaż zawiodłeś moje nadzieje, nie mogę sprzeciwiać się woli Boga. Błogosławię ci, mój synu. Idź w pokoju". W 1210 roku mając 15 lat Ferdynand wstępuje do klasztoru San Vicenzo de Fora Kanoników Regularnych Św. Augustyna w Lizbonie. Po dwóch latach przenosi się do klasztoru w Coimbrze. W 1219 otrzymuje święcenia kapłańskie. W 1220 Ferdynand jest świadkiem pogrzebu pięciu franciszkanów zamordowanych przez mahometan w Maroko. Chcąc naśladować ideał życia św. Franciszka z Asyżu oraz poświęcić się pracy misyjnej tak jak bracia, którzy zginęli w Maroko wstępuje do wspólnoty św. Franciszka w Olivanez - tam zmienia imię na Antoni. Uzyskuje zgodę przełożonych na misyjną podróż do Maroka. Jednak Bóg chce inaczej. Śmiertelnie zachorował tam i dlatego musi wracać do Portugalii. Gwałtowna burza jednak zapędziła statek na Sycylię. Właśnie tam w pobliżu Messyny w klasztorze franciszkańskim Antoni odzyskuje zdrowie. W 1221 udaje się do Asyżu i tam spotyka św. Franciszka. W tym czasie odbywała się kapituła zakonu, która przydzieliła Antoniego do prowincji Romania do klasztoru Montepaolo w pobliżu Forli. Tam wykorzystywał czas na pogłębienie życia duchowego, studium Pisma Świętego oraz pełnił posługę duszpasterską i kaznodziejską. Sława jego kazań dotarła do brata Eliasza, następcy św. Franciszka, który mianuje go generalnym kaznodzieją zakonu. Niezwykły dar kaznodziejski gromadziły przy nim liczne tłumy, które widziały także cuda, które Bóg działa przez ręce Antoniego. W 1225 - 1227 głosił kazania we Francji, zwalczał szerzące się herezje katarów. Kiedy powrócił do Italii zostaje wybrany na kapitule generalnej prowincjałem Emilii i Mediolanu. W 1228 roku udaje się do Rzymu w sprawach prowincji - tam papież Grzegorz IX, który słyszał o talencie kaznodziejskim Antoniego polecił mu przeprowadzenie rekolekcji dla niego i kolegium kardynalskiego. Wywarły tak silne wrażenie, że Ojciec Święty nazwał go "Arką Testamentu". Polecił Antoniemu, by wygłaszał kazania w Rzymie do przybywających pielgrzymów. W 1230 roku na kapitule generalnej św. Antoni zrzekł się urzędu prowincjała i udaje się do Padwy. Umiera 13 czerwca 1231 roku mając zaledwie 36 lat. Pochowano go w Padwie. 30 maja 1232 roku papież Grzegorz IX zaliczył go w poczet Świętych. O szybkiej kanonizacji zadecydowały liczne cuda i łaski jakie wierni otrzymali za wstawiennictwem św. Antoniego. św. Antoni posiadał dar uzdrawiania, bilokacji, czytania w ludzkich sumieniach. I dzisiaj zdarzają się cuda - trzeba tylko wierzyć i prosić o wstawiennictwo świętego Antoniego - jeżeli będzie to zgodne z wolą Bożą - to Bóg uczyni znak. Obecnie na miejscu grobu św. Antoniego w Padwie wznosi się potężna bazylika. W 1946 papież Pius XII ogłosił św. Antoniego Doktorem Kościoła. Święty Antoni jest patronem żniw, par narzeczeńskich, sierot i dzieci, patronem zagubionych rzeczy, więźniów. Odbywające się nabożeństwa ku czci św. Antoniego we wtorki są związane z dniem śmierci św. Antoniego 17 czerwca 1231.
MODLITWA DO ŚW. ANTONIEGO: O przeczysta lilio niewinności, drogi klejnocie ubóstwa, jasna gwiazdo świętości, chwalebny święty Antoni, który miałeś szczęście piastować na rękach Boskie Dzieciątko; oto ja pełen nędzy wszelakiej, uciekam się do Ciebie, błagając, byś mnie wziął w swoją opiekę i wyprosił mi łaskę, o którą Cię proszę... Wierząc w Twoją opiekę błagam Cię, święty Antoni, racz mi wyprosić u Boga łaskę szczególnego żalu za grzechy i łaskę miłowania Boga nade wszystko. Ufam, że za Twoją przyczyną zwyciężę wszystkich nieprzyjaciół swej duszy i będę służył Bogu, Ojcu najlepszemu przez całe swe życie, by potem z Tobą kochać i wielbić Go na wieki wieków. Amen. sluchaj hymn polski
He spent 10 hours frustrated by airport bureaucracy. Just 24 seconds later, police shot him with tasers
his home town in Poland so beatiful place why did you leave. I know it was you Mother and she did love You. Love Is Forever Polish man who killed by Airport Security Vancouver.
October 26, 2007
VANCOUVER -- Dazed and confused after more than 15 hours of travel, unable to communicate in English and scared because he couldn't find his mother, Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was jolted by a taser just 24 seconds after being confronted by police in Vancouver International Airport.
That allegation was made yesterday by a lawyer for Mr. Dziekanski's family who says video evidence will show that the RCMP took him down with a taser jolt moments after approaching him.
"I've been in touch with witnesses. I have viewed a video, which was taken by a bystander, which is not going to be released until at least the time of the inquest. From my observation, the interaction between the police and this individual, who didn't appear to me to be posing a danger to anybody at the time ... was 24 seconds, roughly, before he was tasered," Walter Kosteckyj said.
The Vancouver lawyer said the surveillance videos from the airport also won't likely be released until an inquest is held.
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The radio log does not indicate when police first approached Mr. Dziekanski, just that he was down two minutes after they arrived - and that by 1:32 he had lost consciousness.
CTV reported there was a 12-minute delay before medical help arrived. Mr. Dziekanski died shortly after being tasered - only 10 hours after arriving in the country that was to be his new home.
Asked to describe what he saw on the video, Mr. Kosteckyj replied: "I would describe it as something that will be shown to police academies around North America as not the way to intervene in this kind of situation."
Police have described a much more measured response in which officers gave a wildly agitated Mr. Dziekanski two jolts from a taser just to subdue him long enough to put handcuffs on him. The RCMP say they too have videos, but they can't be released because an investigation is under way.
Mr. Dziekanski died not far from dramatic Coast Salish totemic "welcome figures" that had greeted him at the entrance to the Arrivals Hall several hours earlier.
Mr. Kosteckyj described how a journey to a new life devolved into a nightmarish scenario, in which Mr. Dziekanski was left wandering helpless and alone in a busy airport while his mother, Zofia Cisowski, was searching for him nearby.
The waiting mother and increasingly frantic son were separated by glass walls and what appears to be impenetrable airport bureaucracy that somehow failed to help them connect.
"Unbelievably, these people were probably no more than 150 to 200 feet apart for at least five hours, and she was unable to get any message to him. And no one on the other side [of the glass walls] thought to interview him or come outside or vice versa," Mr. Kosteckyj said.
He said he could not explain why no one was able to come to the assistance of Mr. Dziekanski in an airport that handles 17 million visitors a year.
"For all the high-tech stuff they have at the airport, and all the security they have, somehow a guy can sit or be in that baggage area, that immigration area, for a period of nine hours ... without anyone really taking much notice of him - as unbelievable as that sounds," Mr. Kosteckyj said.
He said Mr. Dziekanski's journey to Canada began in Poland about 3 a.m., when he left his home town of Pieszyce to get to an airport for his first airplane flight. The 40-year-old construction worker, who had never left Poland before, was immigrating to Canada to join his mother, 61, who lives in Kamloops, about a five-hour drive from Vancouver.
They had arranged to meet at the baggage carousel in the international terminal at YVR. What neither of them seemed to know, however, was that the baggage area is inside a secure area just past Canada Customs and Immigration. There is no line of sight into the Arrivals Hall from the public waiting area, except for a short distance through sliding glass doors.
Mr. Dziekanski arrived at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14.
"He made his way to primary customs in the ordinary fashion ... he went through there in the normal time frame ... he then proceeded through and was directed to secondary customs, which is normal for someone who doesn't speak English and is immigrating to the country," Mr. Kosteckyj said. His papers were in order and he proceeded without difficulty.
But what happened after that was far from normal. For nearly 10 hours, Mr. Dziekanski stayed in the Arrivals Hall, growing increasingly frustrated and eventually becoming frantic.
Outside, in the public area, his mother spent nearly six hours pacing the corridors and, in broken English, asking airport officials for help in locating her son.
Mr. Kosteckyj said she visited one booth in international arrivals "at least three to four times and conveyed to them that she was concerned about her son being in the area and she wanted to get a message to him and how could she do that? They wrote her name down and said that they would make inquiries."
At about 10 p.m., she was told he wasn't there. She made the long drive home, only to find a phone message waiting, saying her son had been found.
"She called back to immigration when she got in, which would have been around 2 a.m., and spoke to someone there and was advised that her son was somewhere in the area and was fine. And she advised, you know, 'Please take care of him because he can't speak English and I'll get there as soon as I can.' And of course he had died, been killed really, some time on or about 1 or 1:30," Mr. Kosteckyj said.
At a news conference, Ms. Cisowski said she had dreamed of opening a small business in Kamloops with her son. "I've lost my only family," she said. "I studied English during the day and at night I saved money to get my son to Canada."
Mr. Dziekanski arrived with three bags, two of which were filled with geography
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MODLITWA DO ŚW. ANTONIEGO: O przeczysta lilio niewinności, drogi klejnocie ubóstwa, jasna gwiazdo świętości, chwalebny święty Antoni, który miałeś szczęście piastować na rękach Boskie Dzieciątko; oto ja pełen nędzy wszelakiej, uciekam się do Ciebie, błagając, byś mnie wziął w swoją opiekę i wyprosił mi łaskę, o którą Cię proszę... Wierząc w Twoją opiekę błagam Cię, święty Antoni, racz mi wyprosić u Boga łaskę szczególnego żalu za grzechy i łaskę miłowania Boga nade wszystko. Ufam, że za Twoją przyczyną zwyciężę wszystkich nieprzyjaciół swej duszy i będę służył Bogu, Ojcu najlepszemu przez całe swe życie, by potem z Tobą kochać i wielbić Go na wieki wieków. Amen. A man who witnessed a Taser incident at Vancouver International Airport last Sunday said security at the facility and RCMP are to blame for the death of a distraught man in the terminal who didn't understand English.
Lorne Meltzer insists the RCMP were too hasty to use the Taser. (CBC) Lorne Meltzer, a corporate valet, told CBC News Thursday he was at the airport picking up a client just before 1:30 a.m. Sunday and found himself facing Robert Dziekanski.
He said he tried to calm an agitated Dziekanski, 40, in the public arrivals area and unwittingly let the Polish immigrant back into the secure international arrivals area, using his pass to open the one-way doors.
Meltzer has a security pass to the secure international arrivals area, as a personal assistant to a Vancouver businessman who often has clients fly into town.
"I think the responsible parties are the Vancouver Airport and the RCMP for not having other negotiating tactics once he's at the heightened state," said Meltzer, who was the person who called in RCMP.
He said he clearly warned them the man didn't speak English.
Meltzer claimed the officers gave Dziekanski two commands in English and within seconds Tasered him after he held a stapler in an apparent threatening manner.
Robert Dziekanski, seen in this picture taken in Poland, was a construction worker in his home country. (Global) "He [Dziekanski] raised the stapler in the air and they [RCMP] said, 'Put your hands on the desk,' in English," Meltzer said.
Meltzer said the RCMP were too hasty to use the Taser and he refutes the police claim that the area was too crowded to use pepper spray, because "it was empty."
Dziekanski was Tasered by RCMP and later died. Police and a witness conflict in the number of jolts the man is alleged to have received.
RCMP insist that the man was zapped two times, but Sima Ashrafinia, who was at the airport and recorded the incident on her cellphone, told CBC News on Monday that RCMP officers stunned Dziekanski four times.
An autopsy by the B.C. Coroner's Service on Tuesday did not find the cause of death, citing no trauma or disease was found.
