Remember how the Canadian lapdog media allowed itself to be used to smear Ernst Zundel for almost a decade while he was prevented from defending himself due to a court order gag? During that decade his name became such "poison" that no media dared to take his side during the 5-year/marathon Human Rights court hearings around the Zundelsite.
The verdict of that kangaroo court disgrace is not yet in, but anybody who knows how our enemies operate knows that it will be talmudically vicious.
One fallout has already been the obscene ruling that "truth is not a defense" - ironically in a case where ***historical truth was the very issue before the Tribunal***! Can it get more grotesque than that?
Why all that judicial sadism? It wasn't just Ernst Zundel. There is a larger scheme.
These parasitic outfits ***need*** that precedent-setting verdict so they can attack additional societal fortresses - such as, let's say, Canadian citizens opposing uncontrolled immigration or, more specifically, Christian churches or even individuals opposing homosexuality. God forbid that someone's tender feelings will get hurt!
Here is what we call "Wetterleuchten" - light flashes on the horizon before the thunderstorm.
The text below is an e-mail exchange between Michael Coren, an CFRB talk show host and Toronto Sun columnist, and Paul Fromm, director of the CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION:
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Michael Coren, (who claims to have been converted to Christianity even though he is of largely Jewish background):
I really would appreciate it if you'd stop sending me your e-mails. So much pain, bitterness and confusion from you. I'll continue to pray that you might find the light and joy of Christ and enjoy life a little more. It must be so hard being so angry all the time. Michael Coren.
Paul Fromm:
Indeed, I DO enjoy life -- great food, good drink, and wonderful friends.
I'm a happy person, despite a number of horrific things that have been done to me; for instance, my firing as an English teacher after 24 years for no greater offence than my political views expressed OUTSIDE the classroom on my own time. You had a minor role in the media gang bang around the time by broadcasting that I had discriminated against Blacks in my classes -- a charge that neither the Board nor the censorship lobby ( the Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith) ever made.
I make no apologies for a certain tone of anger. Our country is being invaded by the government-engineered population flood largely from the Third World. This is the politics of replacement. On the most fundamental level, Canadians should be consulted by referendum on a move that will forever alter our land and who we are. That no such consultation has taken place is a real cause for anger.
While there are possibly multiple motives on the part of the political elite for encouraging this invasion, one key one is that many of these people come from lands where individual rights are foreign concepts. People who are used to the iron boot of a tyrannical government have no problems taking orders and being malleable citizens, producers, consumers, ready to be grateful to the ruling party for whatever economic crumbs are thrown their way.
Another serious cause for anger is the erosion of our individual rights, most obviously freedom of speech, to accommodate this invasion. Now the "feelings" of minorities must trump the rights of people to speak or criticize.
You play the "Christ's love" card with me. I've never been quite able to figure out who you are. Apparently, you were born Jewish but have married a Catholic. Yet, at times you claim to be Christian and at other times Jewish. It doesn't much matter and the confusion isn't worth more than a glass of Glenmorangie to contemplate. However, if you truly are interested in Christians and their rights to PRACTISE their religion, you might have noticed with some discomfiture the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruling declaring certain Biblical passages condemning homosexuality as "hate". I predict that, within a decade, the Bible will be banned in some form. Perhaps, one might still be allowed to read it in one's own home, but to proclaim it publicly will be a crime.
You and others in the media have a responsibility, one almost to a man you have shirked; that is, the responsibility to defend freedom of speech and the press. Since 1996, in an extraordinary grab for power, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has tried to twist Section 13.1 ("telephonic" communication meant to cover telephone hotline answering machines) to apply to the Internet. The test case involved the Zundelsite.
There was virtually NO press coverage, especially early on when mounting public understanding might have caused the political pressure to make the government back off. No, you and your types, sniffed: "It's only Ernst Zundel. He's a neo-Nazi, or at least that's how we've labelled him and he's a German, and these types don't deserve rights."
CAFE had intervenor status during the 5 years of hearings. We support free speech. We've begged Christian groups to get involved, groups like Real Women. They too held back, fearful of the media lash of supporting a "Nazi".
We predicted that, having dispatched Zundel, the censors would next come for the Christians. Despite the fact that the Zundel verdict isn't in yet, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has gone after a Vancouver Christian, John Micka, for his site which is critical of homosexuality and pedophilia. That case opened on June 18 in Vancouver.
CAFE is intervening there too with a brief to defend freedom of speech. Most of you writers and opinionated columnists are purblind idiots. Restrictions on the Internet, should the CHRC prevail, will affect YOU!
Almost every newspaper and magazine in the country is on-line. As CAFE's media expert, Kevin Michael Grace, testified during the Zundel hearing, they will be vunlerable to a legion of complaints. A print column that today might only be assailed under Section 319 "hate propaganda", where truth and discussion of matters in the public interest or sincerely held religious beliefs, are a defence, could be attacked if it's on-line. Truth would be no defence. All that would matter is the hurt feelings of the privileged minority.
If I'm a bit angry, I think I have every right to be. CAFE, the Baker Street irregulars of the free speech movement, shouldn't have to carry the whole burden. Where is Borovoy's Canadian Civil Liberties Association, when the Internet is under attack? Where are supposedly "conservative", "politically incorrect" writers like yourself?
The censorship movement is voracious. Should they get Zundel, that won't be enough. Should they get outspoken Christians , like Scott Brockie and Rev. Ken Campbell, that won't be enough.
I have three times over the past few years been invited by your staff on your show, only to be cancelled, once just an hour before show time, when I'd already travelled out to the boonies of Burlington. You can have whomever you like on your show, of course, but I have found this behaviour odd for a man who cultivates such a "controversial" no-holds barred image.
I now understand why many British politicians, including from what I'm told the late Enoch Powell, always demanded money for press interviews. In providing profitable fodder for the capricious and often dishonest media, one might as well get paid.
Michael Coren:
Thanks so much. Again, so much anger and pain. I shall not answer your arguments because, frankly, I've heard them so many times before and they have no basis in logical thought or reason.
As for your personal troubles, I actually interviewed you on CFRB some years ago, allowing you to give your own version of events.
My own faith? Three Jewish grand-parents, experienced a Christian conversion some seven years ago. Christianity is not a tribe, is not a club, is not a race. Your anger seems to blind you to this.
If you undestood what a relationship with Jesus was all about you wouldn't speak so. I am still Jewish, in that to racists a Jew is to be hated and I shall not run from the venom of such individuals. I am a Jew as was He, as were His original followers.
The point about you is that you claim to have been badly treated. I don't know whether this is true or not. I do know that many, many people have been treated very badly but that they do not turn to foolishness and hatred as an answer.
I see, for example, how ordinary Jewish people and people of colour react to racism, see their nobility and courage and refusal to give in. My father had to live with anti-semites and their efforts most of his life. A cab driver, working six days a week, ten hours a day, never owning a new car and never able to have very much. Still called names and accused of crimes by idiots who see conspiracy everywhere.
I have to go now as my family need me. Disregard me, hate me, mock me. Fine. But for your sake and soul I urge you to reconsider. And I ask you, again, to remove my name from the e-mail list you send out to people. Thanks, MC.
Paul Fromm:
Thanks for the interesting information about your religious antecedents and current faith. Religion is intensely personal and a matter of faith. Ultimately, you believe or you don't. Thus, I'm not going to discuss religion with you.
However, I'm sad that you chose utterly to ignore my comments on the dangers of government control of the Internet. An old media hand told me sadly: "Paul, most journalists in Canada don't care about freedom of speech."
Whether it's ignorance, lack of idealism or the I'm-all-right,-Jack,-I-only-write-about-sports mentality, I can't say. However, as you style yourself as something of a controversialist, I'm genuinely surprised at your refusal to discuss this matter. You of all people should be at the forefront of those seeking to prevent the totalitarians from getting their grubby maulwers on this new liberty-enhancing technology.
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"The point about you is that you claim to have been badly treated. I don't know whether this is true or not. I do know that many, many people have been treated very badly but that they do not turn to foolishness and hatred as an answer."
If you're suggesting that I'm a "hater" or that the views in the -grams you receive are "hate", I emphatically deny that. Wanting open discussion and wide open free speech for anything short of libel or advocacy of a violent crime, hardly seems to me the stuff of hatred.
Urging Canada's traditional, pre-1965 immigration policy AND full public discussion and a national referendum on any new immigration legislation seems to me responsible, moderate and democratic. I'm not calling for lynchings or violence. It's the politically correct who at least tacitly condone of the violence of the ARA and OCAP and who call for ever more repressive measures to silence speech of which they disapprove.
"Hate" is simply a dismissive label of abuse - as "communist" was a generation ago.
Paul Fromm
Thought for the Day:
"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
(Wendell Phillips)