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A year ago, when the Canadian "human rights" racket thrust itself into my life, it was a united front - the "human rights" apparatchiks; their political masters; the CJC and other Jewish lobby groups chastising footling wannabe stormtroopers in their parents' basements; and the principal (if not sole) beneficiary of Section 13, Richard ("I'm not a Nazi, I just play one on the Internet") Warman.
Since deciding to clobber me and Ezra Levant, alas, the "human rights" party has gotten all fractious: the lobby groups have scoffed that the CHRC is full of talentless mediocrities not up to the job; the CHRC and Richard (Lucy) Warman have wound up in court, and for once on opposite sides; and now the Department of Justice is putting some clear blue water between itself and the CHRC and Warman. Faced with a choice between losing his "hate speech" law or dumping his buddies at the "human rights" commission, DoJ lawyer Simon Fothergill chose the latter course. As Ezra observes:
He told Hadjis that if Hadjis had doubts about the case because of the CHRC's bad behaviour that Hadjis should throw out the case because of that abuse of process. Uphold the law -- but rule that the CHRC was so abusive and unfair, that Lemire is free to go.
Fothergill could sense he was losing. Better to throw Jennifer Lynch's rotten crew overboard, than to have the whole ship sink.
Incredibly, Fothergill helpfully listed six examples of the CHRC's corruption for Hadjis to consider:
1. Richard Warman, the former CHRC employee who was the complainant against Lemire, had actually trained the CHRC investigator who went after Lemire -- a clear conflict of interest.
2. The CHRC failed to provide proper disclosure to Lemire.
3. Warman initially blamed Lemire for the bigoted online post attacking Sen. Anne Cools -- but quickly dropped that part of the complaint when Lemire asserted that Warman himself wrote it.
4. The CHRC's recent cases have been prosecuted by one man -- Warman -- and that hardly fits the CHRC's mandate for "remedial" justice.
5. The inconsistent application of the law; and
6. Warman himself didn't even bother to attend most of the hearing that bore his name.
Hell, Fothergill could have been reading from one of my blog entries.
The CJC-DoJ-CHRC-Warman axis functioned perfectly for years, but once they're the ones under scrutiny, it's every man for himself. Jay Currie adds:
These people are running scared. They know that they no longer have any political support. They know that the new CPC government is going to have to throw a bone to the base and s. 13 is meaty enough but does not hurt the CPC. They know that, as a result of the stupidity of the Steyn affair and the persecution of Ezra for the ‘toons, Canada’s media has awakened to the real threat s. 13 poses. They know that Warman’s tactics have brought the CHRC into disrepute (as so effectively outlined by Fothergill).
Most of all the Warman/Jackal camp realizes that, for the first time, a smart, well connected group of Canadians are willing to stand up for freedom of speech. Which scares the Hell out of them.
Ezra and Kate and Kathy and Free Dominion and the National Post don’t live in their mothers’ basements. While the Lying Jackal tries mightily to use the guilt by association smears, that stopped working when PEN and MSM signed on to protect Canadian’s right to speak freely from these self-appointed censors working through an out of control, procedureless, Commission.
But hell hath no fury like a Warman scorned. So his little buddy has now hit Ezra with another lawsuit. Curiously, for a man who advertises himself as Canadian politics' Number One Ass-Kicker, he seems to have the most sensitive little tush in the western hemisphere when it comes to his own delicate feelings. If you can, swing by Ezra's place and chip in a few bucks for his legal defence fund. He's fighting for a great cause, and you'll thank him for it when Warman's Law, the ahistorical nitwit Jennifer Lynch, QC, and the rest of the thought police are consigned to the trash can of history.
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