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A typical day's press for a now all but entirely discredited Canadian "human rights" racket:

The Toronto Sun's Peter Worthington on the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission:

The CHRC is, arguably, an often bigoted and unnecessary institution.

The Calgary Herald on the Alberta "Human Rights" Commission:

When Rev. Stephen Boissoin takes his case before the Court of Queen's Bench on Sept. 16, the court has a golden opportunity not only to right the wrong done to Boissoin, but also to strike down the law that gives the Alberta Human Rights Commission jurisdiction over matters of free speech.

The Globe & Mail's Margaret Wente on the Ontario "Human Rights" Tribunal:

It has ruled that an individual can be convicted for racism, even when it's totally unconscious... The decision makes for scary reading, because it says someone can be found guilty just for making someone else feel bad...

According to the tribunal, “unconscious” discrimination is no different from “conscious” discrimination. And the onus is on the accused to prove he's innocent... As Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has pointed out, the tribunal has set a standard nobody, however fair-minded, can meet.

"Bigoted and unnecessary." "Strike down the law." "Scary reading." "A standard nobody can meet." The "human rights" regime is a jurisprudential abomination, and shames Canada. Ezra Levant has done more than anyone to re-frame the debate and ensure that the "human rights" commissions wake up to press clippings like the above every morning. To help Ezra keep fighting for freedom and to see off the SLAPP suits, we'll be holding a special Final Sockquidation Day fundraiser starting tonight at midnight.

Oh, and don't forget Lindy Vopnfjord's Shakedown Song.

"Ernst Gauss" (last heard from in these quarters here and here) writes:

You may or may not have noticed, but it seems that the CHRC has decided it would be better if they did not jail Terry Tremaine...for now.

There is no doubt at all that Terry's fate is a direct result of the efforts of you and Mr. Levant. You are quite correct, people who value freedom owe the both of you a debt. In particular Ezra Levant, who fights his battles directly in the maw of the beast. You both deserve to be congratulated, thanked, and supported.

As for you finding the relationship between Ruby/Shiller, Warman, Khurrum, the CJC etc unusual, if you took the time to consider what we evil "white supremacists" have been saying for years, it makes perfect sense. The most important thing for the Tribe (Official Jews, if you prefer) is to retain their cudgel of legal censorship and professional victim status. Who better to advance their interests than Khurrum, a former sock puppet for the CIC, now a Sock Puppet for the CJC?

A month ago Khurrum was a loose cannon, detrimental to their interests. Now he is their weapon, aimed at those who would undermine the "hate" laws they worked so hard to put in place. Look for a flood of behind the scenes lawyering money to mysteriously make an appearance, as has been the case throughout Warman's career.

You might want to consider picking up a book co-written by Canadian Claire Hoy and a former Canadian Mossad agent called "By Way of Deception". I expect you'll survive reading it without turning into a white supremacist. But reading the book may just give you some insight as to why some of us see this issue as just one more battlefield in a larger war.

To paraphrase a well known writer, "not all the Chosen are hot for world dominance, but enough share the goals to make up an impressive support network". You have your ethnic/religious groups you keep your eye on, and I have mine........

Regards,

Ernst Gauss

Khurrum Awan, Zionist Sock Puppet? The must cunning weapon of the International Jewish Conspiracy yet?

You know, it makes a weird kind of sense. And, even if it doesn't, I'm all in favor of promoting it just to make him wonder if that's the reason Elmo keeps giving him funny looks at Canadian Charger board meetings. I mean, given the sinister Jewish dominance of the garment industry, who's most likely to be behind all these socks anyway?

Don't forget tonight, starting at midnight, we'll be doing our bit to raise funds for Ezra's epic battle with The Last Sock in our Socktastic Final Sockquidation Day bonanza.

Meanwhile, the Closet Conservative calls Mr Awan's statement of claim "the longest suicide note ever". 

On Wednesday we'll be having a special fundraiser at SteynOnline. Here's why: 

Longtime readers may still dimly recall the name of Khurrum Awan, the Osgoode Hall law student who, at last year's Steyn/Maclean's "flagrant Islamophobia" show trial in Vancouver, simultaneously played the roles of plaintiff, co-counsel, expert witness, and official representative of the Muslims of British Columbia, despite being a resident of Ontario. If this sounds like some low-budget production at a theatrical fringe festival in which Khurrum plays all seven brides in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (oh, okay, and the brothers, too), you're missing the point: in assuming the plaintiff/counsel/expert/entire-Muslim-population role, Mr Awan was demonstrating the economies of scale that Canada's "human rights" regime brings to fusty concepts like "justice".

Of course, Khurrum wasn't the "plaintiff" in any tiresome legal sense. He was merely the lead sock puppet for Mohammed Elmasry, head honcho of the Canadian Islamic Congress but a man whose public support for Jew-killing makes him a problematic frontman for the cause of a "hate-free" Canada. So Khurrum was sent out into the world as leader singer of the Sock Puppet Five, subsequently the Four Socks, then the Socktown Trio, later Socky and Cher, and finally, as Elmo's sole surviving sock, the celebrity entertainment for the launch of The Canadian Charger.

In the latest development of his solo career, Socky has now decided to sue Ezra Levant. The complaint introduces several novel legal concepts, including psychic defamation - Ezra should have known that the words that appeared in The Toronto Star under Khurrum Awan's name were apparently not by Awan but by some no-name Star sub-editor who'd whimsically decided to introduce them to Khurrum's copy. We also have the bizarre charge that, by explicitly noting that Awan told the truth under oath, Ezra therefore accused him of perjury.

Khurrum Awan may be too stupid even for employment as an identity-group grievance-monger in latterday Trudeaupia. Although the libel notice purports to be the work of Brian Shiller, the semi-literate rambling and pronoun confusion betrays its true author:

During Mr. Awan's media appearances related to the Maclean's case, he was very courteous and respectful with all the media that interviewed me.

Gee, you'd think when you hire a bigshot mouthpiece like Brian Shiller he'd have the gal in the typing pool read through the thing before they mail it out. Whatever the signature at the bottom, the provenance is clear: Mr Shiller is serving as the sock puppet's sock puppet.

Which raises many interesting questions. Mr Shiller is also the lawyer for prominent Internet Nazi Richard Warman and dinner-theatre ethnic comic Warren Kinsella in their own libel suits against Ezra. Evidently, Messrs Shiller are the one-stop shop for all your Levant SLAPP needs. Is Mr Shiller offering a group rate for suits against Ezra? Is he working up to a class-action? Whatever the reason, this is a strange coalition: two men who've respectively been employed and honoured by the Canadian Jewish Congress yoked with the youth president of a Canadian Islamic Congress whose then leader announced on TV his support for terrorism against Jews. In this freakshow alliance, you begin to see the scale of the Canadian Jewish Congress' foolish embrace of the opportunist poseur Warman.

Nonetheless, fighting off nuisance suits that are well-funded costs money. Ezra Levant has been the indispensable man in the battle to restore Canada's lost liberties, and I have been proud to stand with him this last year-and-a-half. So, as we did on Warman Wednesday last year, this week we'll be holding a Khurrum Awadnesday over at the Steyn Store to raise a little dough for Ezra's legal bills. Hope you'll swing by. As I told an audience of cabinet ministers and Tory, Liberal and Bloquiste MPs and Senators a few weeks back, in a sane world a real hero like Ezra would be the one getting fitted for the Order of Canada. Instead, it's all too easy, as Scaramouche posits, to picture a thuggish buffoon like Mr Awan being received at Rideau Hall.

Without Ezra's efforts, Canada's mainstream newspapers would not have picked up on this issue, and declared against the state censorship licensed by Section 13. Without Ezra, the Canadian "Human Rights" Tribunal would not have felt obliged to open up its secret trial of Marc Lemire to the public. Without Ezra, a "human rights" judge would not have rebuked Richard Warman for his Nazi activities, and the Commission would not have begun cutting him loose. Canadians who value freedom owe this man a lot. Ezra has shown real courage at a huge cost to a young family these last couple of years. Let's stand with him. As he says:

To battle stations!

More from Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller, Jay Currie, and Wendy Sullivan.

Deborah Gyapong thinks Kathy English, The Toronto Star's orientational ombudsgal and Head of Journalistic Ethics (Gay T-Shirt Division), may be headed for bigger and better things:

If the Liberals ever get into power, I would not be surprised to hear Kathy English got appointed to head the Canadian Human Rights Commission, replacing Tory appointee Jennifer Lynch.

There's a strange similarity in the earnest, irony-challenged, humorless tone of these two gals...

Indeed. It's amazing how far you can go in Canada by being the gal who says, "That's not funny!" And, with hindsight, Bernie Farber's Queer Tee For The Straight Jew routine would almost make sense as a covert audition of Ms English for the Queen Censor role. Hmm.