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Ezra Levant has a couple of good articles up on his blog. The first is the inauguration of a new feature on his site that will hopefully become a regular thing: the CHRC bigoted comment of the day.

It sounds like a joke, but it really isn’t. In their ongoing investigations, members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission have written all manner of racist, misogynistic, and hateful things on various web forums. Certain employees of the CHRC are even registered members of Stormfront, a white supremacist organization.

The italicized text below is the words of Richard Warman, the man who has filed almost every Section 13 complaint on record.

I think Louis has hit the nail on the head. but why couldn’t we get Whiteville off the ground? I think it was a good idea and held somepromise for those of us who want to be among our own kind - but isnt Alberta too cold in the winter???

Did you get that? The conversation is about visible minorities. A Stormfront member calls them a “mud flood”, and laments the disappearance of “White nation”.

Warman agrees, and goes further — calling for a whites-only city, which he names Whiteville. He suggests transforming Louis’s comments from passive racist complaining into action. He thinks it would be a good idea for “those of us” who don’t like minorities. And that leads to a whole stream of comments discussing the merits of creating an Apartheid city in Canada. The site was racist before Warman’s post. But he helped shape their discussion, he focussed it, he encouraged it, he added to it, and he suggested action, not mere words.

In other words, he spread hate.

You can read the whole thing right here.

Were Warman a cop, his actions would be called entrapment. And while Warman is not an employee of the CHRC anymore, he was at one point — and, at any rate, this same illegal technique of entrapment is used by other CHRC investigators.

Ezra also brings news that the operators of Free Dominion — Connie and Mike Fournier, two of the defendants in Richard Warman’s lawsuit against several prominent Canadian conservative website operators — have filed their statement of defence against Warman’s claim.

You can see a copy of that defence here.

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The Free Dominion defence is a fascinating read. It’s obviously a document written for the court of law, but it’s also a powerful weapon in the court of public opinion. It’s quite readable — not too leaden with legalese — and it tells a hell of a story. As I predicted when Warman first sued us, we might well be the nominal defendants in this case, but it’s Warman who’s really going to be on trial.

I don’t propose to go through the entire defence here; I really do recommend that you read it.

It is worth a read, O Reader. The document is very solid, and every bit as accessible as Ezra notes. What is more, it is one statement only — Ezra himself, Kate MacMillan, and Kathy Shaidle have yet to file their respective statements.

Warman is, I suspect, going to get his ass kicked around the courthouse — repeatedly. He’s used to playing by CHRC rules, and it’s doubtful, especially against such an array of skilled orators and debaters, that he will last long in a proper courtroom.

Update: Welcome, Steynians!

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That’s right — any Mark Steyn merchandise or books purchased today will mean money donated to the legal defence funds of Canadian bloggers Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Kate MacMillan, Mark and Connie of Free Dominion, and National Post columnist Johnathan Kay against the lawsuit filed by Richard Warman. These men and women have been vocal, vital advocates in the cause of freedom of expression rights in Canada, and both need and deserve our support, O Reader.

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BCF dropped me a note this morning to announce that this rather hilarious graphic:

…is now available as a t-shirt. Proceeds from any sales will be donated to the defense funds of Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Kate MacMillan, Johnathan Kay, and the operators of Free Dominion.

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Richard Warman has sued several conservative bloggers and website operators, including Ezra Levant (ezralevant.com), Kate MacMillan (smalldeadanimals.com), Kathy Shaidle (fivefeetoffury.com), and Free Dominion (freedominion.ca). The intent and aim of the lawsuit appears to be an attempt to muzzle and censor, en masse, the conservative blogosphere.

Warman’s goal is breathtaking in its chutzpah: he wants to muzzle the Canadian conservative internet. It’s not just his goal — it’s the goal of the CHRC itself, and its friends at the Canadian Jewish Congress, who have stated their goal is to “tame” the Internet — or at least those voices they disagree with. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the CJC was bankrolling Warman’s lawsuit — they’ve done joint legal work together before, and Warman’s number one defender is on the CJC’s legal committee. The CJC hates conservatives, and this would be a way for them to do damage to the conservative blogosphere without taking the political flak for it.

Ezra has a list of ways that one can help out in fighting this latest assault on freedom of speech and conservative opinion, and it basically involves two things: financial contributions and spreading the word. Obviously, fighting a legal battle is a costly ordeal, and Ezra et. al. could use all the donations they can get, either directly or through purchase of various bits of merchandise that they offer. Equally, though, the Reader is encouraged to keep spreading the word about the travesty that are the human rights commissions in Canada, and is likewise encouraged to contact his or her Member of Parliament ( always in a civil tone, and not to a level — quantity, that is — that might be deemed as spamming) to voice concerns about, and objections to, the abuses of the HRCs.

This is a winnable fight. But war is always costly.

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