PASTOR BOISSOIN’S FREE SPEECH RESTORED IN STINGY ALBERTA DECISION

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 08:09

*Pastor Boissoin’s Free Speech Restored in Stingy Alberta Decision* *Pastor Stephen Boissoin* of Alberta has had his free speech rights restored by the *Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench*. Not only had the pastor been fined for expressing his opposition to homosexuality in a letter-to-the-editor but he’d been gagged and ordered not to criticize homosexuality in any public expression by the Stalinist *Alberta Human Rights Tribunal*. Good as the decision was for the beleaguered Christian pastor, the judge refused to overturn the law that permits such attacks on free expression. “The Christian pastor who was hauled before the *Alberta Human Rights Tribunal (AHRT)* for writing a letter-to-the-editor on homosexuality has been exonerated by a *Court of Queen's Bench* judge who ruled the letter was not a hate crime but legitimate expression allowed under freedom of speech. *Pastor Stephen Boissoin* told *LifeSiteNews.com (LSN*) that he was ‘overjoyed and relieved’ that the lengthy, stressful and expensive seven year legal battle over his letter-to-the-editor has ended in his favor. *Justice Earl C. Wilson* overturned a 2008 ruling by the *Alberta Human Rights Commission* that a letter expressing his views on homosexuality by *Stephen Boissoin* that was published in the *Red Deer Advocate* on June 17, 2002 was likely to expose homosexuals to hatred or contempt. *The* *Alberta Human Rights Commission* had ordered Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public forum, commanded him to pay damages equivalent to $7,000 to complainant and homosexual activist *Dr*. *Darren Lund*, and called for Boissoin to personally apologize to Lund via a public statement in the local newspaper. ‘The language does not go so far as to fall within the prohibited status of hate' or 'contempt,'" Wilson wrote in his decision and said there was nothing in the letter to suggest it was encouraging anyone to discriminate against homosexuals in areas that lie within provincial jurisdiction and are set out in the statutes, such as housing, employment, or access to goods and services. The letter's target audience are people that (Boissoin) believes are apathetic to the inroads made by the <homosexual machine,> ‘ Wilson said. ‘Inferring some sort of call for discriminatory practices prohibited by provincial law is an unreasonable interpretation of the letter's message.’ In his letter Mr. Boissoin called into question new homosexual-rights curricula permeating the province's educational system, in light of the physical, psychological and moral dangers of homosexuality. ‘Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights,’ wrote Boissoin in the letter. The *Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF),* a free-speech advocacy group and intervener in the case, issued a news release <http://www.canadianconstitutionfoundation.ca/article.php/164>saying it was pleased with yesterday's ruling but also cautioned that the legislation which was used against Mr. Boissoin is still in force. ‘I am pleased that the *Human Rights Panel Order* against Reverend Boissoin has been overturned’" stated *John Carpay*, lawyer and Executive Director of the *CCF *. ‘Unfortunately, the law that was used against Reverend Boissoin to subject him to expensive and stressful legal proceedings for more than seven years, is still on the books,’ added Carpay. ‘In spite of today's court ruling, Albertans need to continue to exercise extreme caution when speaking about public policy issues, lest they offend someone who then files a human rights complaint. No citizen is safe from being subjected to a taxpayer-funded prosecution for having spoken or written something that a fellow citizen finds offensive,’ Carpay concluded. “ (*LifeSite News*, December 4, 2009) *Pastor Stephen Boissoin* of Alberta has had his free speech rights restored by the *Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench*. Not only had the pastor been fined for expressing his opposition to homosexuality in a letter-to-the-editor but he’d been gagged and ordered not to criticize homosexuality in any public expression by the Stalinist *Alberta Human Rights Tribunal*. Good as the decision was for the beleaguered Christian pastor, the judge refused to overturn the law that permits such attacks on free expression.** “The Christian pastor who was hauled before the *Alberta Human Rights Tribunal (AHRT)* for writing a letter-to-the-editor on homosexuality has been exonerated by a *Court of Queen's Bench* judge who ruled the letter was not a hate crime but legitimate expression allowed under freedom of speech. *Pastor Stephen Boissoin* told *LifeSiteNews.com (LSN*) that he was ‘overjoyed and relieved’ that the lengthy, stressful and expensive seven year legal battle over his letter-to-the-editor has ended in his favor. *Justice Earl C. Wilson* overturned a 2008 ruling by the *Alberta Human Rights Commission* that a letter expressing his views on homosexuality by *Stephen Boissoin* that was published in the *Red Deer Advocate* on June 17, 2002 was likely to expose homosexuals to hatred or contempt. *The* *Alberta Human Rights Commission* had ordered Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public forum, commanded him to pay damages equivalent to $7,000 to complainant and homosexual activist *Dr*. *Darren Lund*, and called for Boissoin to personally apologize to Lund via a public statement in the local newspaper. ‘The language does not go so far as to fall within the prohibited status of hate' or 'contempt,'" Wilson wrote in his decision and said there was nothing in the letter to suggest it was encouraging anyone to discriminate against homosexuals in areas that lie within provincial jurisdiction and are set out in the statutes, such as housing, employment, or access to goods and services. The letter's target audience are people that (Boissoin) believes are apathetic to the inroads made by the <homosexual machine,> ‘ Wilson said. ‘Inferring some sort of call for discriminatory practices prohibited by provincial law is an unreasonable interpretation of the letter's message.’ In his letter Mr. Boissoin called into question new homosexual-rights curricula permeating the province's educational system, in light of the physical, psychological and moral dangers of homosexuality. ‘Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights,’ wrote Boissoin in the letter. The *Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF),* a free-speech advocacy group and intervener in the case, issued a news release <http://www.canadianconstitutionfoundation.ca/article.php/164>saying it was pleased with yesterday's ruling but also cautioned that the legislation which was used against Mr. Boissoin is still in force. ‘I am pleased that the *Human Rights Panel Order* against Reverend Boissoin has been overturned’" stated *John Carpay*, lawyer and Executive Director of the *CCF *. ‘Unfortunately, the law that was used against Reverend Boissoin to subject him to expensive and stressful legal proceedings for more than seven years, is still on the books,’ added Carpay. ‘In spite of today's court ruling, Albertans need to continue to exercise extreme caution when speaking about public policy issues, lest they offend someone who then files a human rights complaint. No citizen is safe from being subjected to a taxpayer-funded prosecution for having spoken or written something that a fellow citizen finds offensive,’ Carpay concluded. “ (*LifeSite News*, December 4, 2009) *[This article appears in the April, 2010, issue of the Free Speech Monitor. Published monthly, the Free Speech Monitor is available by subscription for $15 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to Free Speech Monitor, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]*

 

WHITE MUMMIES FOUND IN TARIM BASIN -- WEST CHINA

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 29 March 2010 09:59

White Mummies Found in Tarim Basin -- West China Our European ancestors were in West China 4000 years ago. In well preserved desert graves, scientists have found amazing bronze work and cloth in tartan pattern. China may have learned bronze working and horse husbandry skills from these horse-mounted nomadic Europeans.. Disturbingly, by 500 A.D. the bodies in these graves are no longer Caucasoid in appearance. They are Oriental. Did miscegenation (race mixing) obliterate our European ancestors from West China or were they overwhelmed and ethnically cleansed? These aren't obscure archeological or historical questions. North America is being inundated by an Establishment-planned Third World invasion. By 2050, given present White birthrates and immigration lebels, the European founding/settler people of both Canada and the U.S. will have become a minority. The fate of our Tarim Basin European ancestors is a grim dusty warning that we must act SOON. Paul Fromm Director CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE Chinese mummies bring surprises to surface An exhibit in Santa Ana displays 4,000-year-old mummies with European ancestry, found in the arid lands north of Tibet. - 1 - 2<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,880911.story?page=2> - next<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,880911.story?page=2> - | single page<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,2089278,full.story> [image: Chinese mummy] The 3,000-year-old "Beauty of Xiaohe," so nicknamed for her long eyelashes and smooth skin, is featured in a Santa Ana exhibit. (Designer Art Co. Ltd.) By Karen Kaplan March 26, 2010 | 4:14 p.m. - E-mail<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,749802,email.story> - Print<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,417558,print.story> - Share - [image: increase text size] <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,880911.story#>[image: decrease text size] <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,880911.story#>Text Size Industrial development in northwest China has gradually unearthed a surprising past -- a 4,000-year-old civilization of farmers and herders with European, rather than Asian, ancestry. These ancient people eked out a living in the arid lands north of Tibet now known as the Tarim Basin. Chinese construction crews have found mummies nearly every year over the last three decades. Three of the mummies will be on view at Santa Ana's Bowers Museum as part of the exhibition "Secrets of the Silk Road: Mystery Mummies from China," which opens Saturday. Victor H. Mair, a professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania, has been studying the mummies and their culture since the early 1990s, and he edited the catalog for the exhibition. He discussed their significance with The Times. *When were these mummies discovered? * European explorers in the early part of the 20th century noticed some of the mummies, but were not interested in them as worthy of research, so they respectfully reburied the human remains they encountered. As is true with the vast majority of archaeological discoveries elsewhere in China since the founding of the People's Republic, most of the mummies were unearthed in the course of construction projects that have taken place since the late '70s. *Do they look Chinese?* The earliest mummies all have a Europoid or Caucasoid appearance, with blond, reddish and light-blond hair. This is largely true from around 2000 BC down to about the 4th to 5th century AD. *What happened to them?* After that, the mummies soon take on an increasingly Mongoloid appearance, with increasingly darker hair. By around 1000 AD, the Europoid/Caucasoid peoples had been largely displaced or absorbed by peoples coming from the east. *Why are they in such good condition?* The main reason is the special environment of the region. It is extremely dry, very hot in summer, very cold in winter, and many parts of the region have extraordinarily saline soils. All of these factors together prevented putrefaction and promoted desiccation. There was minimal preparation for burial. In some cases, a substance containing animal proteins was smeared on the bodies. Great care was taken to keep the deceased from touching the ground, as this would tend to lead to deterioration of the flesh. But there was nothing artificial, such as treatment with chemicals or removal of the brain and innards, that was done to the Egyptian mummies. *The exhibition features a 3,800-year-old mummy known as "the Beauty of Xiaohe." What's so special about her?* She is, quite simply, the most beautiful mummy from Eastern Central Asia. She has long eyelashes, perfect facial features, smooth skin, and is wearing a jaunty hat. I call her the Marlene Dietrich of the desert. *How were the mummies studied? * A thorough physical examination would be something like an autopsy, but so far the examination of all but one of the mummies has been extremely cursory. One of the mummies, called "the Beauty of Loulan," was examined for body lice, soot and silica in her lungs, and other rather superficial or simple conditions. [She is not part of the exhibition.] There is so much more that should be done to understand better how the mummy people lived and died. The contents of their stomach and intestines should be examined, analysis of the isotopes in their hair should be done, bone anomalies should be described carefully, and so forth. That would tell us how the mummies lived and died, what their health was like, what illnesses they contracted, what they consumed, and even where they were from. *What artifacts were found with the mummies? * Finely woven wool mantles that also functioned as blankets and, in death, shrouds. Wooden statues (some wearing clothing), model phalluses, bracelets, baskets and so forth. Bronze implements are also evident. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,880911.story

 

TOPIC OF GERMAN EXPULSION STILL TABOO

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 29 March 2010 09:58

*Topic of German expulsion still taboo* *March 21, 2010 By Brent Davis, Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff* *WATERLOO — It’s a dark chapter in world history that many know nothing about, that others refuse to acknowledge. It concerns the expulsion of millions of Germans living in Eastern Europe after the Second World War, from such places as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and eastern areas of Germany. It’s estimated that as many as 15 million people may have been forced from their homes, a move in part condoned by the Allied leaders in the Potsdam Agreement, which authorized the return of Germans in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary to Germany. * *Those transfers were to be conducted in “an orderly and humane manner,” according to the agreement signed by British, American and Soviet leaders. It would prove to be anything but. While casualty estimates vary, many historians — including Alfred de Zayas, whose books Nemesis at Potsdam and A Terrible Revenge were among the first English works to chronicle the tragedy — believe that two million Germans died as a result. * *De Zayas, a lawyer and human rights expert who spent 25 years with the United Nations, says it deserves to be recognized alongside such failures of humanity as the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. * *“We would be ashamed of ourselves if we realized the magnitude of the crimes,” said de Zayas, who will speak tonight at the University of Waterloo. * *“The subject matter belongs in the schools,” he said in an interview. “It should be taught in genocide courses, courses that deal with crimes against humanity.” * *And although the Cuban-born de Zayas — now a professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations — said he “broke the taboo” by writing about the expulsion, it’s a topic that still remains off-limits to many. * *“They’ve got a problem with the concept of Germans as victims,” he said. “I don’t have a problem … I came to it because I thought it was an important subject.” He says he’s been asked whether he’s anti-Semitic or a Holocaust denier, and he quickly dismisses those assertions. * *“If I only deal with one category of victims, and deliberately ignore the experience of other victims, I am essentially taking away the human dignity of the other,” he said. “I’m essentially saying my corpses are prettier than your corpses.” De Zayas will speak tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UW’s Arts Lecture Hall. Tickets are $12, and $10 for students and seniors. **[email protected]* <[email protected]>