CANADIANS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH? HERE? YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?

CANADIANS! WAKE UP AND SEE 
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO US! 

WHAT IS AND HAS BEEN DONE TO US! 

EVEN WORSE, WHAT WE ARE BECOMING. 

RECLAIM OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH 

WHILE YOU REMEMBER SUCH A THING 

HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CANADIAN RIGHT 
TO BE CHERISHED.

NOW IT IS GOING, GOING,
~ ALMOST GONE. 

The following is a letter sent to Arthur Topham who was defending freedom of the press in the Supreme Court of Canada for daring to "cross the line". Then follows a recent newspaper article regarding the author. In this article you will read how the media shapes our ways of perceiving truths. 

January 5, 2008
Edmonton, Alberta

Mr. Topham,

RE:    KILLING THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY:The Battle for Control and Censorship of Canada’s Internet by the B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress

http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=628

“I don’t know where to start, Mr. Topham.  Your submission to the CHRC concerning the frivolous and vexatious charges against you by Abrams and his ilk almost brought me to tears.  Now I am incensed and extremely mad and disgusted and I want to help you.  I only wish I were 25 years younger so that I could defend you.  My cheque payable to you for $100.00 is enclosed.  I hope it will help in some way.

I was born 711/2 years ago in Edmonton, had my public schooling here and then went to the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, for my post graduate degrees in Arts and in Law.  They were the BEST five years of my life; I had the finest professors and went to classes with some of the finest Saskatchewanites in the world.  I graduated in 1963 and now I am retired, but I CEASE to be retired from life, from persevering, from writing, from criticizing and from asking questions.  

Why am I so grateful for those years at the U of S?  Because my professors taught me to THINK RATIONALLY (even though I tend to be an emotional person), they taught me debating skills and to critically examine issues from many perspectives.  I already knew how to criticize constructively and how to advance positive arguments and theses; they simply reinforced them for me.  And I will forever be grateful to those years at my alma mater.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, before his untimely death:

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

I have never seen things as bad as they are now in Canada and, indeed, in the USA and elsewhere on this insane planet.  Not only have we become complacent, apathetic and silent, we have become silenced by sinister forces working surreptitiously to bring about our virtual downfall, to silence us from speaking out and speaking the truth about matters that concern all of us.  

We have become afraid of our shadows.  

We cannot speak out against iniquities for FEAR that the CHRC and their provincial counterparts will swoop down upon us, dig their talons into us and silence us forever.  

These commissions wield more power than our elected representatives.  

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION ALL OF THESE INIQUITOUS COMMISSIONS SHOULD BE ABOLISHED FORTHWITH!

The worst part about all of this nonsense is that even my friends and colleagues will not openly discuss these matters with me because of fear that the “walls have ears.”  Those that will I can count on two fingers.  Otherwise, if they don’t walk away they simply say that we don’t want to discuss it ~ a form of burying your head in the sand.  And that infuriates me!  But you know the old expression:  “You can lead a horse to water but….”

I see now that even Zundel’s young German female lawyer is being raked over the coals in Germany because she defended him at his trial.  She stands to lose her license as a lawyer and this is a crying, bloody shame.

John Bryant offered these words many years ago:

“The reason men are silenced is not because they speak falsely, but because they speak the truth.  This is because if men speak falsehoods, their own words can be used against them; while if they speak truly, there is nothing which can be used against them ~ except force.”

For years now I have been reading about how Abrams and his cohorts have silenced people by bringing forth unproven allegations of hate to the CHRC.  I have seen, as you so succinctly pointed out, how the CHRC convicted every Respondent and how that Commission uses its office to spy surreptitiously on an unwary public.  

Our inalienable right to speak the truth, offer opinions and observations are being eroded inch by inch not only by these Commissions but through the complicity of people like Abrams.  You have done much more research into these matters than I, but from what I have read and observed you ARE telling the truth and as Voltaire once said:  “I MAY DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT.”  And at this point, Mr. Topham, I am one of your defenders and will assist you in any way possible!

This nation is no longer a democracy where the will of the majority prevails, but a dictatorship by the unconscionable will of the MINORITIES!  It was just last year that the Muslims in Ontario tried, unsuccessfully, to have Sharia law form part of the laws of our land.  

I thanked the legislature of Ontario for denying this outrageous request.  

We have had to BOW to the minorities for many years and I blame this all on Trudeau and his cronies but, more importantly, I blame the Canadian public generally for allowing this to happen.  At one time, Mr. Topham, on a scale of 1 to 10, I was an 8 on being a relatively proud Canadian.  

Today I am an Albertan (who also happens to be a Separatist) and about a -1 on being a Canadian.  There is no more mettle in Canadians any longer, but you have certainly shown it and you are worthy of being supported.  I wonder if I should weep for Canada?

“Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie ~
But rather mourn the apathetic throng ~
The cowed and the meek -
Who see the world’s greatest anguish and its wrong
And dare not speak.”

RALPH CHAPLIN
1887-1961

Please keep me informed and do NOT relent for I will stand beside you!

Yours truly,

AL ROMANCHUK

IN CANADA, AL ROMANCHUK "CROSSED THE LINE" 

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/in-canada-al-romanchuk-crossed-line.html

Editor's Note: The populist, anti-usury Social Credit party of Canada is campaigning against an onerous sales tax known as "HST." One of the campaigners, Al Romanchuk, has had to resign after daring to speak favorably about former prisoner of conscience Ernst Zundel.

This is another indication of how farcial and infantilized is our public discourse in the vaunted western "democracies." As soon as anyone contradicts, in the least detail, the smallest portion of one of the System's quasi-religious hypnotic beliefs, they have to go, whether they question the tale of mass executions in gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau, or the story of how the Pentagon was damaged and World Trade Center Building 7 fell on Sept. 11, 2001. 

To doubt any aspect of these official accounts is to invite opprobrium, shunning, fines, even prison. Need we state the obvious? Only frauds frightened out of their wits by skeptics need to employ such enforcement tactics.

In the case at hand, all Mr. Romanchuk did was praise a heretic; that was enough to cause him to be ostracized and shunned by the witch-hunters. 

litical scientist Doug McArthur of Simon Fraser University dutifully reiterated the fundamental conformist principle (in case we forgot): "Basically, what they've got to do is, as soon as somebody crosses the line, you've got to cut them loose."

Yassuh, boss. May I ask a question? Who's next? What constitutes "crossing the line"? 

What happens to a society that stigmatizes and shuns doubters, dissenters and heretics? 

What if there were a Diogenes among them? 

Isn't this a loss to dialogue and democracy? 

Does any of this matter, or is the only issue that of absolute obedience to the Zionist thought police?

Note the cheap shot accusation leveled at Ernst in the Canadian Press report (below): "inciting hatred." 

Has any Zionist ever been prosecuted in Canada for "inciting hatred" of Germans? 

Telling the truth about the rabbis constitutes hatred, according to the halacha of rabbinic Judaism (memo to rabbis: I dare you to challenge me to produce the relevant citations); ergo it is "hatred" in the eyes of the Canadian media for Zundel to offer his version of the truth about Auschwitz.

We in the West are undoubtedly ruled by the rabbinic mentality, even as media-celebrated atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens make a lot of noise mostly about Christian influence. Christianity, and guys like Al Romanchuk, are easy targets for cowards.

Richard Dawkins was a student and graduate of the Frankfurt School of thought. As I result I have known from the beginning of his recent rise to in-your-face-atheism so prevalent today that he operates with and for forces that are less than spiritual in nature. Might I also add, just for fun, that the modern populist atheist movement is funded by the Chabad Lubavitch to a great extent hence their well advertised attacks against Christianity during the Christmas Season. Both groups wish the complete abolition of Christ in our society because Christianity is the moral background of the West. And that, folks, is part of what the Frankfurt School was all about.

~ Michael Hoffman, Sept. 28, 2010, www.RevisionistHistory.org

Resignation saves face for B.C. HST foes

Canvasser quits after defending 
Holocaust denier Zundel

The Canadian Press 
September 27, 2010

Anti-HST ("harmonized sales tax") movement organizers in B.C. say they can't be held responsible for checking everyone who lends their support, including people with potentially extreme political views. 

The Fight HST group got an embarrassing lesson over the weekend in the risks associated with grassroots campaigns after a local canvasser resigned for comments defending Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel of Toronto.

EMBARRASSING LESSON? The depths of this lesson are extreme, so extreme few even know they have been taught. This is a CANADIAN lesson in criminal behaviour, not just the HST group!

Al Romanchuk, listed as a lead canvasser in Kelowna for Fight HST's plans to launch political recall campaigns, stepped down after an interview with the Vancouver Sun. 'We don't ask people's political affiliations. That's why this organization has been so successful.'B.C. Fight HST organizer Chris Delaney. 

"My friend Ernst the bastards crucified him," Romanchuk told the newspaper. "The guy can't speak his mind in a democracy. What kind of country is this that you can't speak your mind?"

Zundel was extradited from Canada in 2005 and served five years in a German prison. He was convicted on 14 counts of inciting hatred for years of anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a website devoted to denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in Germany.

Fight HST organizer Chris Delaney said he spoke with Romanchuk over the weekend, and Romanchuk offered his resignation on his own."We contacted him about it, we didn't have to tell him [to step down], he decided to leave," Delaney said in an interview Monday.

"We try and check people out, but you can't know everything about them. We don't ask people's political affiliations. That's why this organization has been so successful. We've got 7,000 volunteers and every now and again you're going to get somebody that's a little bit out there." 

Romanchuk was not available for comment.

The anti-HST movement, led by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm, has been fueled by anger across the province over the Liberal government's decision to implement the harmonized sales tax, which took effect on July 1.

The province announced the tax change shortly after last spring's provincial election campaign, during which the Liberal Party said it wasn't contemplating a move to the HST.

They gathered the signatures of more than half a million people earlier this year, which prompted the government to call a referendum for September 2011.

Until then, opponents of the HST are planning to use unique provincial legislation to recall MLAs beginning in the new year. The signatures of 40 per cent of registered voters in a single riding can force a by-election.

Romanchuk was listed on the Fight HST website as the lead canvasser for Kelowna -Lake Country. 

Vander Zalm said he didn't know Romanchuk and said it was a local matter.

Political scientist Doug McArthur of Simon Fraser University said this type of controversy is a risk for any grassroots movement that casts such a wide net for local supporters.

In this case, he said it appears the Fight HST leadership handled it as well as it could by quickly cutting ties with Romanchuk.

"Basically, what they've got to do is, as soon as somebody crosses the line, you've got to cut them loose," McArthur said.

McArthur said Romanchuk's comments likely wouldn't hurt the anti-HST movement, unless controversy surfaces among other supporters. The NDP, which has sometimes aligned itself with the anti-HST campaign, said Vander Zalm and his group appear to have handled the issue appropriately. 

"First off, there's no place for these types of comments in Canadian political discourse, they're just right out there on the fringe," said the party's public safety critic, Mike Farnworth. 

"But I think what it also says is, whenever grassroots movements start, particularly on issues that ignite people right across the political spectrum, you get the mainstream range but then you also quite often end up getting people on the fringes."