"Want some money from government? As I've told you before, just set up an "anti-racism" group. Funds will be forthcoming.
Chances are, too, that no one will check up on what you are doing with the money.
Having given Canada the gift of large multiculturalism, the politicians seek support for their dotty policies. That's why they fund these groups and ask few questions.
On Wednesday, this space described the antics of Alan Dutton's Canadian Anti-Racism and Research Society (CAERS).
It operates out of BC and has been funded by the feds and the province, even though it has not been a legally registered society since Sept. 2, 1994 and therefore does not warrant large-scale official funding.
Recently, the scummy Anti Racist Action group (ARA) got $8,000 from Metropolitan Toronto Council and another $8,000 from the Trillium Foundation. CAERS acted as certified "trustee" for those grants. But because it was not incorporated, it could not legally do that.
Purpose of the grants was to finance ARA in holding a two-day conference called "Youth Against Hate" . . . Hate is another password for getting bucks out of the gullible and it seems to be of no consequence that the ARA folks are themselves good haters."
Now why was Ernst interested in this tax-funded granting of money that
was to underwrite the conference, and why am I telling you this?
For two reasons: 1) Ernst knows with virtual certainty that ARA agitated
against him until his house was torched in May of last year and, 2) not
too incidentally, because he knew that Sabina Citron, past president of
the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association and Karen Mock of B'nai Brith
were going to be conference speakers, along with a motley crew of self-confessed
Marxist professors and activists from Canada and the USA.
Writes Ernst:
". . . This is politically one of the more astounding developments of the events of this past year in that the Holocaust Promotion Lobby has openly sided with an absolutely vile and atrocious street gang called the ARA, whose members have been frequently arrested and been involved in serious, violent attacks against people in the subways and streets etc.
It seems near suicidal on their part that they would risk an alliance like that! Why are they doing it? A penny for your thoughts. I, for one, believe that they are either very desperate or arrogantly certain of their power, feeling themselves virtually 'untouchable. . . '"
Doug Collins describes the ARA, in part citing a Toronto Sun columnist:
"ARA is a neo-Bolshevik bunch with a proclivity to street fighting. It operates for the most part "underground," provides no address except a box number, and denies the media access to its meetings.
Columnist Christie Blatchford of the Toronto Sun has described the organization this way:
'ARA became most infamous for its 1993 trashing of a Heritage Front leader's house in which a crowd about 300 smashed windows and doors, and threw eggs, paint bombs and rocks. . .
In March, to cheers from the ARA, something calling itself the Anti-Fascist League intimidated the owner of an Edmonton hotel into denying (a right-wing group) a room and a meeting place.
In December, ARA toughs broke into a private . . . dinner meeting in Toronto. They assaulted an old lady, spat on the owner and other people and trashed the restaurant. By the time the police arrived they had disappeared. . . "
Before the grant was approved, Fromm (a Toronto activist) informed Toronto Metro Council that ARA is "terrorist and violent."
The council was not persuaded that ARA was a menace. . . ARA had to be okay, one supposes, because it trumpets that it is anti-racist."
Ernst continues: "I decided it was time for action when I heard
that the Metro Council and other agencies such as the Trillium Foundation
had been doling out a grant apiece to these Marxist ideologues and thugs.
Armed with my own research assembled by people friendly with some of those
eight courageous Metro-Councillors who had voted against the grant-as opposed
to the 22 who did the bidding of the Hidden Hand that uses these street
gangs the way Stalin used the mob to finish off the middle class of Russia-I
sent out a press release, then went to the headquarters of the Metro Toronto
Police to turn over my research files and called a press conference.
My goal was to try to put a stop to this irresponsible nonsense.
At first, I was given the proverbial brush-off at the 51 Division Police
Headquarters-which, incidentally, has never solved the pipe bombing of my
headquarters in 1984, the arson of the Zçndel-Haus May 7, 1995 and
the parcel bomb that was sent to me a week later, meant to kill me and whoever
would have happened to be near me!-so I went to Central Police Headquarters.
There, too, I was treated with a certain disdain, until I became vehement
and insisted that I was a taxpayer, long-term resident and businessman reporting
what could be a serious crime of potential municipal corruption etc..
That changed the atmosphere somewhat!
Since I had made sure that I had brought photographers and witnesses along,
who happily snapped pictures for posterity, I was thereupon ushered into
a room where my 30-page file was taken and particulars noted down by a Police
Fraud Investigator.
This man acted matter-of-fact. They had 70-80 other fraud investigations
ahead of this one, he told me. He invited me not to expect any miracles.
In a previous conversation with a seasoned reporter for the Toronto Sun,
who has done a lot of digging on his own into such cases, I had been told
that unless one could deliver to the police a virtually airtight case-i.e.,
bring the culprit in in handcuffs yourself!-you could not get a Fraud Investigation
case going, much less a conviction in court.
And he was right. That is the way it has turned out-at least for the time
being.
The policeman in charge of the preliminary investigation called me a few
times in a perfunctory way. I submitted more material he requested. In the
end, he informed me that he felt after consulting with somebody at the Metro
Council (he did not tell me who this person was) no further investigation
was necessary.
That was that for the local police. Did I expect any miracles?
Not that this story is yet over! There is a most intriguing provincial and
even federal element to this case, and it is this, according to Doug Collins,
buttressed by the research that I have done:
It turns out that the ARA could not apply directly for the funds because
it is not incorporated and could not pretend to be. It is nothing more than
a shadowy left-wing organization. Therefore, it was in need of a sponsor.
This sponsor materialized in the person of one Alan Dutton.
Writes Collins from the West Coast:
"Allan Dutton has been getting funds from governments and foundations for what turns out to be his non-existent "anti-racist" organization.
Non-existent, that is, in that it is not a legally incorporated body, which it was represented as being and which it should have been to receive the money. Dutton is executive director of the pompously named Canadian Anti-Racist Education and Research Society (CAERS). CAERS is much loved by the media, as is Holy Alan himself, a dedicated Marxist to whom they run the minute anything "racist" crops up. . .
The group has had a lot of money from the BC government and other sources. In the 1994-95 financial year, for instance, CAERS got at least $100,000 from the BC government."
Similarly, Toronto Sun reporter Bill Dunphy wrote:
"A West Coast anti-racist group received more than $120,000 from the federal government despite ceasing to legally exist nearly two years ago . . . CAERS had collected money from a wide variety of sources, and the $120,000 came from the federal secretary of state and the attorney general's ministry.
The grants from the secretary of state's heritage department included $55,000 in 1994, $34,000 in 1995 and $31,000 this year."
So what do you have here? A Marxist and his cronies feeding at the public
trough quasi-illegally.
Legally, there is no such thing as CAERS. It is not registered.
As Collins points out, "Registered societies receiving official grants
have to file financial returns so that a check exists on how the money is
spent. But for all the donors knew in this case, the money could have been
spent on parties."
Ernst has gotten the ball rolling in that he delivered the same file he
had given Metro Toronto Police also to the Minister of Municipal Affairs,
asking for a public enquiry. He agrees with Doug Collins who says:
"As I've pointed out before, the magic word for coaxing funds out of government is "anti-racism." And Dutton has been on the "anti-racist" bandwagon for years. He used to run the BC Organization to fight racism but must have decided that "Education and Research" had a better ring to it."
Others on the West Coast will pursue the matter there. At the Zçndel-Haus,
Ernst is working on a few in-depth interviews on this matter and other scandals.
He wrote:
"I have a feeling that this reckless handling of a grant being handed over to a violent and vile street mob will have political repercussions for years to come and may reveal more about that shady bunch of crooks who use and manipulate these groups as their "useful idiots" and unsavory hit squads than the parties involved may wish."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
(William Proxmire)