I’d like to introduce you to a jumped-up little jackanape named Richard Warman. Warman was once an investigator for the Canadian Human Rights Commission and his duty was to prowl around and look for people who violated the sinister-sounding Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Generally, this was a lonesome job (since very few Canadians ever decided it was smart to sue their friends and neighbors for saying mean things). That had to have given Warman a horrible case of “Solitaire Elbow” because he decided to drum up some business by suing people himself and, on occasion, investigating his own complaints. Ezra Levant, who has often felt Warman’s tantrums, has the chapter and verse on Warman and his various abuses of the ridiculous law. Rachel Lucas’ post on this is worth reading because her last line is a work of art. Michelle Malkin is all over this as well and has a few links to other folks who are rallying to give Warman a metaphorical steel toed boot to the nards.
Now, though, this wanna-be fascist has screwed up royally. He’s stepped outside the safe confines of his precious CHRC and has entered the civil court by suing Levant, and several bloggers and web publishers including Kathy Shaidle and Kate MacMillan. This is likely to be a huge humiliating mistake for Warman as Levant is primed for the fight and the conservative blogosphere is eager to protect the freedom of speech while at the same time publicly undressing a leftist twerp.
There is a lot you can do to help, starting with hitting the tip jar at any of the sites I’ve linked. You can also spread the word to your friends. Warman is doing nothing less than attempting to throttle free speech in Canada. The more people who know about this, the faster the Canadian government can trash the entire CHRC and bury the notion that free speech is anything less than an essential and inviolable right.
And if you’re a blogger, it’d be nice if you gave some of the folks I linked some of your link love. They could use the traffic and the potential donations those visits will bring. Kathy Shaidle estimates that it’ll take about $30,000 to fight Warman’s extortionate lawsuit. Levant’s looking at about $100,000, but he’s going to hire the best lawyer he can possibly get and jam this lawsuit sideways up Warman’s perpetually puckered caboose.
Lastly, if you have a hookup to a good lawyer in the Great White North who like to trade some pro bono work for some very good press, send them over to any of the affected bloggers.
Thanks for your support!
Here are a few…
http://photobucket.com/images/richard%2520warman/
Look for the video too.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 04/11/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
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“From Toronto” I like em,
They are desperate it’s like the battle of the bulge with the evil Nazi’s at their last gasp throwing whatever they have left at the free speechers, hoping they can break us.
Send in Monty to direct the counter attack! Send the fascists reeling shattered, back to Berlin.
Buy victory bonds!
Not the greatest, but hey…the point comes across.
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dinosaur,
Thank you. They are mostly mine but not all.
http://www.richardwarman.com has most of them on display.
The challenge is in what concept to go with. In Canada, Communism is alive and well (always has been) and it doesn’t set people off the way it did in McCarthy’s day in the U.S. I would guess today’s Canadian under 30 knows far more about Alice in Wonderland than what the USSR was (its’ probably the same in the U.S. too).
Nonetheless, Communism is what this is all about. We are in fact moving very quickly to a Glavlit system. I am sorry to tell you, my friends the Americans, but so are you. Everything that is going on with your hate legislations is where we were just a few years ago. I sometimes think Canada is the U.S.’s personal laboratory. And the freaks they have doing the experiments now should terrify every U.S. citizen who thinks freedom is worth more than dog shit.
Thanks again.
It is much harder than it looks. You should give it a try and see. How would you approach it? What metaphor or analogy comes to mind? Your dealing with a pretty confused public here and a great majority, incredibly, don’t have the slightest clue what is happening to them. We have the most malleable, compliant, ignorant, and cooperative herd of sheep in the history of modern society. It’s just great if you are a wolf but really sucks otherwise. How do you communicate to that?
It makes me think of the H.G. Wells 1960 movie Time Machine. Canadians are the ones who answer the call of the Morlocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.....60_film%29
Do you know anyting about nazism in canada???? Do you know that they are building concentration camps for jews and homosexuals in the Yukon???? Did you know that they have a few tanks????????? Richard Warman is all that is between us and another nazis germany in canada. How dare you speak of free speech. These nazis dont care about free speech. We love you Richard. Keep up the good work. You are saving Canada.
One sure way Canada could increase the amount of free speech it has would be to deport Richard Warman.