Richard Warman Intrigue
The Canadian Human Rights Commission really oughta sell tickets for this one, with all the money going back to people who have been unfairly persecuted by Richard Warman - AKA “one of the bravest people” Warren Kinsella knows. (BTW, Kinsella, the Canadian Jewish Congress and other serial censors are strangely silent on this interesting development. We’ll chalk it up to the High Holidays.)
Ezra - speech warrior supreme - has the scoop:
Richard Warman, the hate speech complainant who is personally responsible for all but two section 13 censorship prosecutions this decade, is now being investigated by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for hate speech himself.
Keep in mind that for years, Warman has been posing as a Nazi on white supremacist websites, trying to entrap other Canadians into making racist remarks so he could slam them with a human rights complaint. And for the most part, it’s been working.
But then people - people like Ezra Levant and Kathy Shaidle - began to notice, and began to write about his use of racial slurs on these white supremacist sites. Instead of skulking away after being caught, Warman instead turned around and sued his exposers! Yes, apparently these claims that he had been doing… well, exactly what he’s been doing, actually, were libelous and defamed his “bravest people” character.
It’s been more than a year since Warman filed suit against the Canuck Six (Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Kate McMillan, the Fourniers and Jonathan Kay), and his lawyer hasn’t turned over any of the requested pre-discovery documentation. The reason of course is quite simple: He doesn’t want to case to go to discovery, because he is guilty of every claim made by the Canuck Six. And unlike in the Kangaroo Courts of the Human Rights Commission, truth really is a defense in a defamation suit.
Ezra closes out his post saying that he actually pities Richard Warman. I don’t. Karma’s a bitch, Ricky.
As little use as I have for that prick he also he the right to free speech. A HRC charge against him is just as bad as against you or Ezra. A better way to handle him would be to cause him so much shame for his actions he will not want to be seen in public. Finding something that would do that to one as thick headed as him will be hard.
Comment by Bob Devine — September 24, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
“But then people - people like Ezra Levant and Kathy Shaidle - began to notice, and began to write about his use of racial slurs on these white supremacist sites.”
Seems to be that it was actually Marc Lemire that brought Warman’s actions to light. All levant and others did was comment on what Lemire did.
It was Lemire three years ago who filed the CHRC complaint against Warman. not Levant or Shaidle.
Comment by Tony F — September 24, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
I’m seeing a sad trend progressing in this blog circle, including Free Dominion, Levant, 5FeetofFurry, etc.
Lemire didn’t only file a complaint against Warman and let it fly. He worked diligently, kept adding more and more info to bolster the complaint, he responded to a multitude of motions and issues, tracked down documents, researched, etc.
As an employee working on the periphery of the Commission’s operations, I can state unequivocally that they were not swayed at all by the blog posts. The fact of the matter is that every defense Warman had to the complaint, Mr. Lemire had tracked down and countered it with a ton of existing precendents in recent Warman v. cases. The Commission is moving ahead with the complaint because there is NO way out of it for them.
They gave Warman EVERY chance to try to get it thrown out, but Marc used their past rulings against them as well as Tribunal precendent. He put their backs to the wall, and all they could do was turn around and bend over.
Comment by Fairness Fairy — September 24, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
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