Richard Warman, Canada's most famous Stormfront member and a plaintiff on every Section 13 complaint to come before the Canadian "Human Rights" Tribunal in the last seven years, appears to have come a cropper. At this rate, even Randy Richmond, the devoted admirer of Mr Warmfront's bicycle, may find The London Free Press no longer willing to print quite so many fawning profiles.

What happened was this: Last summer, shortly after dismissing the Maclean's/Steyn case, the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission announced it was no longer on board with Mr Warmfront's pursuit of his latest no-name Internet loser and would not be appearing with him before the Tribunal. Those of us who want to rid Canada of this racket have a long way to go but it appears we have succeeded in sowing some discord among a hitherto indivisible alliance. Just as the Justice Department and even B'nai Brith were putting some distance between themselves and the blundering hacks of the Commission, the Commission decided to put some clear blue water between itself and its hitherto most favored son, Mr Warmfront.

Now, in an otherwise routine Section 13 case, the Tribunal has decided to do likewise. In his decision, "Judge" Lustig concludes:

[58] In regard to the other remedies sought by Mr. Warman, I have decided not to grant any relief under these provisions for the following reasons.

[59] During his cross-examination, Mr. Warman admitted (after initially denying) that he had participated in communicating messages on Internet Websites similar to the Northern Alliance Website utilizing pseudonyms such as "Pogue Mahone" and "Axetogrind"...

[62] Mr. Warman stated that the communications quoted in the previous two paragraphs did not "cross the line" into hate messaging nor did they provoke hate messages by others. He stated that the inclusion in his postings of possible hate messages from others were inadvertent slips by him in sending messages over the Internet. He further stated that his postings were intended to assist him in his quest for information about persons using the Internet to communicate discriminatory hate messages.

[63] I do not see any acceptable reason for Mr. Warman to have participated on the Stormfront or Vanguard sites, since there appears to be ample easily obtained messages on these sites available without his involvement. Moreover, it is possible that his activity in this regard, could have precipitated further hate messages in response. His explanation for including other hate messages in his postings by mistake seems very weak to me.

[64] Mr. Warman has, with the assistance of the Commission, instituted most of the s. 13 (1) complaints under the Act that have come before the Tribunal. He has been very successful in these cases and has garnered accolades for his work in this regard. The evidence in this case of his participation on Internet sites similar to the Northern Alliance site is both disappointing and disturbing. It diminishes his credibility. For this reason and because the activities of the Respondents have ceased for a lengthy period of time, I will not make any further Orders in this matter.

"Signed by"

Edward Peter Lustig

OTTAWA, Ontario

March 13, 2009

(My emphasis.)

This decision - especially [63] and [64] - is good news for Ezra, Kate, Kathy and the Free Dominion bloggers being legally harrassed by Mr Warmfront, and possibly for Marc Lemire in his constitutional challenge, too. As discussed below, "Pogue Mahone" (the pseudonym Warman uses to post his hate messages) means "Kiss my arse". "Judge" Lustig declined to do so, and Richard Warman's arse did not stand up in court. If nothing else, the CHRT and CHRC understand that it is no longer in their interest to be associated with this weird, self-aggrandizing Stormfront poster. One hopes that Bernie Farber will come to see things the same way.

Meanwhile, a grand way to celebrate the waning of Warman is with your own personal copy of Shakedown.

PS Kathy Shaidle points out the obvious flaw in the logic here: The offending material was removed from the website years ago, but the Canadian "Human Rights" Tribunal has now reposted it all, and in a much more prominent venue. In other words, Canada's biggest disseminator of Internet hate is the Government of Canada.