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I regret to say that, until I had the misfortune to catch the attention of the "human rights" racketeers myself, I was unfamiliar with the sterling work of Marc Lemire's lawyer, Barbara Kulaszka. But she's awful good. I like the way, apropos the CHRC crowd's zeal for posting on hate websites, she refers to them as "members of Stormfront". Which, of course, they are. Ms Kulaszka identifies Dean Steacy as a "member of Stormfront", and Richard Warman as a "member of Stormfront", and Sgt Stephen Camp as a "member of Stormfront". Perhaps somewhere there's a message thread wherein Richard Warman attempts to entrap Sgt Stephen Camp while he's simultaneously attempting to entrap Dean Steacy. It might be easier to buy these kinky "hate message" crusaders a group membership to some online dating service for the more specialized fetishes.
But, given the minimal traffic at Stormfront, one has to wonder how many of their neo-Nazi white-supremacist members are servants of the Crown's "human rights" apparatus idling away the office hours on a rainy afternoon. Still, unlike "Canadian human rights crusader Richard Warman", "Stormfront member Richard Warman" at least has the merits of being indisputable.
[PS Yes, yes, I know Ms Kulaszka has unsavoury associations - Ernst Zundel et al. But I'm not looking for a date, I'm admiring her pushback against an out-of-control state agency. Almost all previous federal Section 13 defendants were too poor to afford legal counsel. Think about that, by the way. In most civilized legal systems, an accused person unable to hire a lawyer is at least entitled to a public defender. In Canada's "human rights" system, the Crown pays for the prosecution and the defendant has to fend for himself. Which means that most federal Section 13 defendants, being a bunch of losers, were convicted without any proper legal representation. Shame on Canada.
Then Marc Lemire caught their fancy, and, unlike his predecessors, he got a lawyer and an effective one, and they pushed back. If not for their doggedness, we wouldn't know that the CHRC's all but sole plaintiff Richard Warman is a member of Stormfront, and CHRC lead investigator Dean Steacy is a member of Stormfront, and Sgt Stephen Camp is a member of Stormfront. Most of the revelations about the systemic corruption and abuse of process at the CHRC have arisen since the Lemire defence went to work: That's effective lawyering.
Oh, and by the way, justice is supposed to be, like Dean Steacy, blind. If you run a red light and you hit a pedestrian, it makes no difference in law whether the pedestrian's Marc Lemire or Nelson Mandela. Or at least it shouldn't. It's foolish to assume the abuses of the CHRC will always be confined to folks you dislike. "First, they came for the neo-Nazi losers in basements and I did nothing. Then they came for the fundamentalist Christians and homophobes and I did nothing. Then they came for the blowhards like Levant and Steyn and I did nothing..." You really think everything you say about everything you care about can be kept sufficiently bland and innocuous that you'll never attract their attention?]
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