Again I am postponing the continuation of my series "Gang-Rape of Truth in Toronto's Courtroom" to bring you very glad tidings.
Below is a press release from the Council on Public Affairs - the Presslers won their law suit against the defamation and lies spread by notorious Canadian Communist candidate, David Lethbridge, who has beset the Canadian patriot movement with endless harassment and scurrilities.
It seems that B'nai Brith, in the past, has raised money for this Communist. There was a write-up to that effect in the Canadian Jewish Western Bulletin, Dec. 5, 1997.
It mentions that checks for Lethbridge's defense, made out to the "Zikaron Society, c/o B'nai Brith, 1260 Home Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 1R5" are tax deductible.
According to the tax authorities, this is not quite kosher to do. An investigation is said to be underway.
At any rate, here is the Press Release showing that Lethbridge lost this round:
May 20, 1998
For Immediate Release
Presslers win defamation suit against David Lethbridge and CHBC-TV
Claus and Eileen Pressler of Salmon Arm, British Columbia, have won a major defamation case against self-described anti-racist activist David Lethbridge and CHBC-TV of Kelowna, B.C.
Eileen Pressler is head of the Council on Public Affairs, an organization which has fought for the right of free speech in Canada.
Mr. Justice Owen-Flood of the B.C. Supreme Court awarded Claus Pressler $60,000 in damages. Eileen Pressler was awarded damages of $11,500.
The case involved a TV broadcast aired in October of 1993 by CHBC-TV in which reporter Blaine Gaffney and Lethbridge repeated rumors that the Presslers were building a paramilitary compound on their retirement property, complete with extensive security measures, guarded perimeter fences, underground bunkers, separate telecommunication and electrical systems and a barn with numerous rooms and spiral staircase.
At trial was shown that the Presslers were building a retirement home and that the rumors were completely false. Several of their neighbors testified on behalf of the Presslers at trial.
CHBC-TV and Lethbridge made no attempt at trial to prove that the allegations made in the broadcast were true. Both attempted to justify the broadcast on the grounds that the Council on Public Affairs had defended the right to free speech of people such as German-Canadian Ernst Zundel and Alberta Teacher Jim Keegstra.
Eileen Pressler said that she was elated with the news. "Not only is it a great victory for us, but it's also a great victory for freedom of speech and freedom-loving Canadians everywhere," she said. "So-called anti-racist groups in Canada have for years freely vilified anyone in this country who stands up for freedom of speech. This decision sends a message to those who fight to maintain the freedoms Canadians fought for in World War II can do so without having their reputations and lives destroyed by lies and falsehoods."
Lethbridge is a well-known anti-racist who has been active in shutting down the meetings of any groups or individuals whose views he disagrees with. He ran as the candidate for the Communist Party of Canada in the last federal election.
The Presslers were ably represented by well-known lawyers, Mr. Douglas Christie of Victoria and Ms. Barbara Kulaszka from Ontario."
Thought for the Day:
"Where have all the skinheads gone?"
(Cartoon sent to me by a Zundelsite supporter showing a policeman tearing his hair while opening a box labeled 'ZOG Intelligence Division" with a wrench)