This case should be of concern to you;

Free Dominion has been ordered to cough up the IPs of certain anonymous posters. What is disturbing about this order is that it was given prior to any ruling on the merits of the case. The order will be appealed.

The infuriating part of this fiasco is that as a blog owner, I’ve notified (by telephone and email) internet service providers when I’ve encountered potentially serious threats (the most recent was against a Liberal politician). These incidents should be clear “terms of service” violations, and easily acted upon by the ISP. Well, good luck with that.
I’ve even gone as far as filing a documented report with the RCMP and regional police over a persistent commentor who was making repeated, specific threats towards named individuals. To the best of my knowledge, those too went down a black hole.
I’m beginning to think that my tactics were flawed. Had I forwarded the ip addresses to the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging that the commentor had stated it was “Time to go back to when the women n**ger imports knew their place”, instead of merely threatening named police officers with execution, someone might have actually acted on the complaint.
(On the other hand, given the record of the CHRC, I’d end up standing before the ‘roos as both complainant and defendant, so maybe not.)
So, go here for the details, and how to contribute. If you were planning to donate to SDA this spring, I’ll ask that you send it to Free Dominion instead. The commenting freedom you save may be your own.
Related – “ fighting for real human rights, as opposed to micro-management by Commissar Hall and the other social engineers.”

Call it a hunch. Call it something overheard at lunch at VRWC Headquarters*.
But, let’s just say that there aren’t what I’d call “good odds” on Barbara Hall liking what Randy Hillier has to say on Monday…. developing...

Ezra Levant discusses his new book on the Michael Coren show. (Great job by SDAMatt in putting the Youtube series together.) At Amazon – get it before it’s banned! More, at EzraLevant.com.

No $7,500 for you…

[58] In regard to the other remedies sought by Mr. Warman, I have decided not to grant any relief under these provisions for the following reasons.
[59] During his cross-examination, Mr. Warman admitted (after initially denying) that he had participated in communicating messages on Internet Websites similar to the Northern Alliance Website utilizing pseudonyms such as “Pogue Mahone” and “Axetogrind”.

So.. has anyone got Randy Richmond’s phone number?
More: Richard Warman’s arse
Intrigue! – a now you see it, now you don’t Richard Warman “rebuked” story at the Ottawa Citizen.

Has no business prosecuting David Ahenakew.
Related: National Socialist Party of Canada – so far left they’re “ultra-right”!

For example;

… 536 CBC.ca readers clicked on the link to recommend a comment by ‘sandy411’ in which he/she compared Israel’s assault on Hamas to the Holocaust and added a reference to Israel wanting “pounds of flesh,” like Shylock the Jew.
‘Sandy411’ added: “How many tons of Palestinian women and children will settle your account, Israel?” It was the most popular comment of the day.

Via Mark Steyn who suggests the obvious. “it turns out the Canadian “human rights” secret agents who spend untold hours lurking on unread U.S. “white supremacist” sites in case some hapless loser from Manitoba shows up can find all the hate they want on the taxpayer-funded message boards of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “
Beauty! Hate speech hosted by government, prosecuted by government, and defended by government – a taxpayer-paid triple header!

The Ontario Human Rights Commission petitions to restore muslim women to their proper display of subservience.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission is arguing that a provincial court judge failed to recognize the religious freedoms of a Muslim woman when he ordered her to testify at a sexual assault trial without a veil known as a niqab.
The government agency is asking for special permission to be allowed to intervene at a Superior Court proceeding hearing an appeal of the lower court decision, because of its 45 years of “expertise” in the area of human rights.

(Note that “expertise” is in scare quotes. Heh.)

The commission says it can assist the court in interpreting the Ontario Human Rights code and help explain issues of human rights.
“The Commission’s intention, if it were allowed to intervene, would be to articulate the current state of the law in respect of the duty to accommodate religious beliefs and practices and to explain how Mr. Justice Weisman’s ruling is inconsistent with the current state of the law,” the government agency argues.

Via Andycanuck, who writes – “Isn’t it nice to have a pretend court system and pretend judges wanting to overturn the ruling of a real judge?”

Steve enlightens us about the shiny white person episode.

“Well, now we’ve got a different story, right? Now, it’s no longer a story about the appropriateness of our choosing Kathy to appear on the program. Now it’s a story about a well known Liberal Party operative threatening us (with what? We didn’t know) unless we did what he said.”

This is a fair example of K’s reaction:

H/t to BCF in the Reader Tips.

Cheers,
lance

Teenage internet web-nazis sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for firebombing two Montreal Jewish institutions.
Just kidding! (link fixed)

Under evidence that couldn’t be reported until their guilty plea, investigators say Omar Bulphred and an accomplice were arrested after police heard them on wiretaps talking about abducting a gay man at random to rob him and cut his throat.
Mr. Bulphred, 23, was born in Algeria. He pleaded guilty to three counts of arson and two of uttering threats Thursday morning at the Montreal provincial courthouse.
After 15 minutes’ deliberation, the judge sentenced Mr. Bulphred to seven years in prison. Mr. Bulphred was given 44 months credit for the 22 months he has already served, so the sentence amounts to another 40 months behind bars.
His accomplice Azim Ibragimov, 25, of Kazakh origin, had already pleaded guilty.
Evidence at their bail hearing showed that the two styled themselves as radical Muslim terrorists.

Adscam memo boy reacts – “Look, a shiny white person!”

The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s position on honour killings;

“There are thousands of things that happen in the province of Ontario on a daily basis and we don’t comment on all of them,” she said.
But, I spluttered, women are being murdered.
“As I said, we are a small commission.
“There are many problematic things that happen in our community and we have to make choices because we can’t respond to everything,” [Barabara] Hall said.
So honour killings are merely “problematic”?
Here’s a woman who’s advocated for years on behalf of women’s rights. She found time to crucify Steyn and Maclean’s, but she’s too busy to raise the issue of women who are being murdered over some hideous interpretation of “honour”?

Well, yes! They’re females being murdered by brown males. Hello??
When determining equality as it applies under human rights codes, “female” trumps “male”, but only when there isn’t “brown”. It’s works the same way as “sex” trumps “religion”, but only when there isn’t “muslim”.
You folks in media are kind of slow to catch on.

Mark Steyn testifies before the the legislative hearing on the Ontario Human Rights Commission…

What impressed me most powerfully about the hearing was not Mark’s address but the hatred visible on the faces of the apparatchiks. Imagine a man boldly declaring defiance of their nascent nanny state, backed by thugs. It was never supposed to happen.

The transcript at Post-Darwinist
Meanwhile, over in CHRC land, Jennifer Lynch goes partying in VIenna on the taxpayer’s dime.

G&M;

Brian Storseth, a Conservative MP, has asked the Commons justice committee to review Section 13 of the act, which contains provisions that deal with hate messages. Mr. Storseth also wants the committee to review the mandate of the commission itself.
He told the committee last week that “concerns have been raised regarding the investigative techniques of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the interpretation and application of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.”
Mr. Storseth’s request echoes a similar motion brought by the Conservatives during the previous session of Parliament.

The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights will be debating the CHRC today (Monday Feb.9) from 3:30 – 5:30 Ottawa time. You can catch the webcast at the link.

University.

… than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council sanctions talk radio host Lowell Green for noticing out loud.
You can send Mr. Green a message of support here and a running tally of this year’s victims of the Religion of Peace to the CBSC here.
h/t Maz2

The Human Rights racket has hardly skipped a beat, despite the humiliation suffered at the hands of the Levant and Steyn fiascos. This beauty comes to us courtesy the Saskatchewan HRC.

The essence of the discrimination ruling appears to have occurred at two points near the end of a heated exchange. During that afternoon of June 8, 2006, Pontes was angry that Tataquason had been there for more than an hour, drinking coffee and talking to his wife while she worked. Tataquason testified that Pontes told him; “Can’t you see she’s working? Get out, this isn’t the friendship centre!”
At other points in his testimony, Tataquason instead used the words “friendship inn.” Saskatoon’s Indian and Metis Friendship Centre is ethnically based while the Friendship Inn is not. The distinction was not noted in the ruling by tribunal member Donald Worme.
The other remark came as Tataquason was being escorted out. Tataquason told Pontes he’d “contact the chiefs and complain about the way Mr. Pontes treated First Nations people.”
Pontes told Tataquason to “go ahead and call his chief.”
Tataquason said he was “deeply hurt” by the remarks. It caused him to “trigger” memories of residential schools he has tried to bury since childhood. Tataquason testified that he “spiraled into depression,” leaving him unable to work. The remark is also responsible for his return to drug use, his marriage breakup, his homelessness and his committing petty crimes, Tataquason testified.
His then-common law wife, Roseann Durocher, testified it also caused her to return to substance abuse. She testified she “wholly believes” Pontes evicted Tataquason because of his race.

But there’s more – the tribunal member who handed down the ruling is Donald Worme.

Don’s legal practice has been focused primarily on those issues that impact Aboriginal people individually as well as on issues affecting First Nations governments and entities. He has been active in promoting and protecting both the collective rights of Treaty First Nation people, and defending and advocating the individual legal rights of Aboriginal people in numerous legal and public forums. Social justice issues, primarily restorative justice, for First Nations people and communities remains an important focus on Don’s legal practice.

Pontes has been ordered to pay $7,000 – and he says he ain’t going to.
I agree – “Congratulate John Pontes on being one of the last men with a functioning set of balls in all of Canada:”
The Cataquiddick case looks stronger by the day.

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(Why yes, it might be a hoax. Who cares? Every time you commit the middle name of The One to animation, a lefty gets his aneurysm!)

“It’s payback time for those who ever thought it should have begun.”

The Left knows how to pluck out the thorns in its side. The Sison saga provides a glimpse into how the hard left enforces consensus and how it defends those who impose consensus. Geert Wilders basic problem is that he is spitting in the face of the professed consensus of “progressives”. And like all other “deniers”, Wilders will pay.
You don’t need to agree with Wilders or like him to ask yourself: ‘if they can do this to Wilders, can they do this to me? Am I safe?’
Maybe we were never safe; and maybe the best thing about the Wilders case is how it destroys the complacent assumption that fairness is automatic. The struggle to keep justice untainted by politics is never-ending.

Ezra, on Holland’s national suicide note
You can follow the Wilders persecution at the International Free Press Society.

According to Barrelstrength;

At the request of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice has created a departmental committee to examine section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This is the section which bans hate messages distributed by the Internet. Members include lawyers from various branches of the department of Justice, including constitutional, human rights, criminal and Industry Canada branches.

(Note – still awaiting an official source for this. Will keep you posted.)