Warren Kinsella: One Trick Pony
September 3rd, 2008Well, two tricks, if you consider his serial SLAPP-suiting.
Mostly though, he can’t make a decent political comment and always falls back on… dinosaurs.
Well, two tricks, if you consider his serial SLAPP-suiting.
Mostly though, he can’t make a decent political comment and always falls back on… dinosaurs.
Serial SLAPP-suiter Warren Kinsella is thoroughly annoyed by the fact that the people he’s SLAPPing are getting financial support to fight him. Hmmmm… could he be worried that they might win?
Ezra Levant gets some emails of support from people affiliated directly with Warren “I’ll sue anybody!” Kinsella:
But if you think getting a donation for my legal defence fund from the CJC is weird, how about this: I received a letter of support from someone who works at Daisy Consulting Group — Kinsella’s own lobby firm! It was a brief note, but it was a note of support, sent from the company e-mail, with the corporate signature block on it.
I couldn’t believe it. My first reaction was that it might be some sort of trick, but that was just me thinking like, well, Kinsella. It was sincere — and I appreciated it.
I won’t catalogue everyone who wrote to me today. Suffice it to say that, from the Liberal Party of Canada, to McMillan Binch, to the Canadian Jewish Congress to Kinsella’s own staff, I have a lot of suprising new allies now that Kinsella is threatening me.
Kinsella writes:
I’ve got the forum, too. In Ottawa, in June. Proceeds split and going to the litigants on our respective sides.
Let’s go, tough guy.
Warren honey, I’ve got some bad news for you… the moment Martin pushed Chretien out of office, you ceased to exist. No one knows nor cares who you are anymore. It would be like Donny Whalberg offering to debate Steyn. Steyn wanted to debate the Sock Puppets, and Elmasry, because they are plaintiffs in a case that affects not only him, but all of Canada. Now you want in on the action?
Who are you again?
Warren Kinsella links to this virtually incomprehensible, altogether self-negating post at Agoravox.
The right to free speech comes with responsibility, just like driving a motor vehicle. Use your vehicle in an irresponsible fashion, and you will lose the privilege of driving it. The same is true of free speech: This right must be exercised with great care and responsibility because speech has a huge potential for fender-benders and complete write-offs.
So is it a right, or a privilege? Let me clear that up for you, Werner: it’s a right. I don’t need a license to exercise it. I don’t have to carry insurance.
And Werner, apparently, never heard of Michelle Malkin before she joined the fray on this issue:
Now, one of the site founders is crying foul because Warman has launched even more lawsuits, as has Warren Kinsella, if she is to be believed. Whether the extent of this latest round of blogosphere litigation is accurate or not, it was enough for US blogger Michelle Malkin to sound the alarm and warn against a massive attack on the Canadian (conservative) blogosphere.
Malkin, of course, is blowing this all out of proportion. It is doubtful that she ever actually looked at the stuff some of those bloggers have written about Warman. For if she did, she would understand why he feels the need to drag them before a judge and jury - Malkin herself would doubtless sue anyone who said just half those things about her.
If he had heard of her before, he would have known that she is regularly called a whore, when her sole crime is being a Filippina (not to mention the amount of times she has to hear revolting references to “ping pong balls”). She’s been told, live on television by Geraldo Rivera that he would spit on her. She had to move house, because she and her family were being harassed.
Does she really sound like the kind of woman who goes running to a Kangaroo Court to solve her problems?
Kinsella is bored of the issue now. Well, bully for him. That probably means he knows - like Syed Soharwardy - that he’s on the wrong side of the debate, and just wants it to go away.
Or it means that the very rights that generations of people have fought and died for mean nothing to him.
Enjoy your vacation Warren. Sounds like you really need it.
…he leadeth me past the gaping maw of the of the Beast Kinsella and through the labyrinth of the Human Rights Commission…
Last night I dreamed I was finally served with a complaint to the Commission. In response, I merely wrote “FUCK YOU” on the forms (are there forms?) and sent it back.
I suppose it’s only a matter of time, isn’t it?
*Swiped from an email from Blazing Cat Fur
National Post frees itself from the dead weight of Warren Kinsella, and within days, my good buddy Kathy is writing for them.
Works for me.

The National Post has actually found a way to be even better for us conservatives: Warren Kinsella “quit”. Yes, I put “quit” in scare quotes because, well, really. If anything it might have been constructive dismissal, where an employer downsizes a problem employee to the point where that employee finally quits. In this case, Kinsella hasn’t been seen in print much these days, only on the web edition of the Post.
No mention on whether or not he kept a red stapler…
Bloggers now have a legal defense fund against baseless suits from bored lawyers.
Thank you, Ezra. You are an inspiration. How it would be possible to lump you into the same profession as the likes of the Osgoode Four, Kinsella or Cherniak I do not know. We lucked out with you!
By the way, Warren: Saying “fuck you” to someone is still legal in this country, even if that person’s feelings get hurt. No need to have me served over it.