National Post Picks Up CAFE Report on Terry Tremaine's Return to STORMFRONT

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 05 July 2012 03:36

*National Post* Picks Up CAFE Report on Terry Tremaine's Return to STORMFRONT What is it exactly that CAFE does? Among other things, we publicize the cause of those under attack by Canada's thought crimes laws. Yesterday, I sent out an exclusive report -- the indolent media has all but ignored the Terry Tremaine free speech case. He's charged under Sec. 319, the notorious "hate law" of Canada's Criminal Code. This victim of a Richard Warman vendetta was charged under the now all but defunct Sec. 13 (Internet censorship) provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act in 2005. Warman complained about Mr. Tremaine's political views to the University of Saskatchewan. He lost his job and was, therefore, unable to hire a lawyer for his human rights tribunal. Warman then filed complaints under the "hate law" with the Regina Police. He has filed three more complaints seeking to have Mr. Tremaine jailed for "contempt of court" for not having shut down his website, even though his bail conditions in the Sec. 319 charges forbid him to post on his own site --http://nspcanada.nfshost.com ! Last week, Mr. Tremaine won the limited right to go back on Stormfrontwhere he posted over 3,000 articles in 2004-2005 under the moniker *"Mathdoktor99".* He can seek material pertinent to about 50 posts which are alleged to promote hate against no fewer than 11 privileged groups. This material would be toward the defence of truth. I sent this report to you and to about 500 media outlets across Canada. Already the *National Post's* Marni Soupcoff has picked it up as has the *New York Post.* CAFE's goal is to free the Internet in Canada form state censorship. We're part way there. Sec. 13 has been repealed by Bill C-304. All that remains is Senate approval. The next target is Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code. Doug Christie, Terry Tremaine's lawyer, will argue that Sec. 319 does not apply to the Internet. Beyond that, this evil law should be repealed. Expert testimony in the *Lemire *case showed that the law was based on bogus science. Trudeau's Chartrer allows Parliament or a provincial legislature to restrict rights if its does so for a good purpose and doesn't go too far. The Supreme Court was convinced by a narrow 4-3 margin, in 1990, that "hate" had pernicious effects on minorities. The Royal Commission on Hate Propaganda, a body stacked with two Jewish lobbyists and the yet obscure Pierre Elliot Trudeau, duly recommended restrictions on free speech -- the "hate law" -- in their 1965 report. A report presented to by the Royal Commission by Dr. Harry Kaufmann, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, would provide the "scientific" veneer for state censorship. Kaufmann argued that "hate propaganda" made minorities feel afraid, made them doubt themselves, made them not want to be themselves, and, then, made them withdraw from society and, at the extreme end, indulge in self-destructive behaviour. The Supreme Court accepted this account and ruled that Parliament was justified in seeking to restrict "hate propaganda" because of its supposed evil effects. The evidence of neuro-psychologist Dr. Michael Persinger at the *Lemire* Tribunal proved that Kaufmann's account was "highly theoretical" -- as opposed to being grounded in provable fact -- when It was written in 1965. By 1990, it was bad science; with what we know today, it is just plain junk science. The Supreme Court bought the equivalent of "flat earth" science. To be kind, let's just say that science has moved on and there are no ill effects of "aversive language" -- Professor Persinger's more objective, less emotionally charged term for "hate propaganda." Sure, they may be hurt feelings or the anger of heariing one's group criticized, but there are none of the dire effects Kaufmann alleged. Thus, even under the Charter, there is NO justificationfor the "hate law." Of course, I'd have liked to have seen fewer "neo-Nazis" and no defamation of Mr. Tremaine -- "creepy", "a nobody". However, Soupcofffirmly makes the point that Sec. 319 must go: " The trouble starts once the government enters the equation, at the invitation of section 319(2), and sets itself up as the arbiter of whether Tremaine’s ideas are simply too offensive and disagreeable to legally abide. Suddenly, then, to counter this hefty power to subjectively vet a citizen’s speech and decide whether it should land him behind bars for a several years, the government forces itself into the position of having to provide Tremaine a far prettier platform than he’d ever have been able to achieve on his own." *Paul Fromm* *Director* *Canadian Association for Free Expression*. Marni Soupcoff: Tremaine’s platform for neo-Nazi views helpfully provided by Canada’s criminal code Marni Soupcoff <http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/author/soupcoff/> Jul 4, 2012 – 12:06 PM ET Terry Tremaine’s been given permission by the judge hearing his case to visit and post on white supremacist websites in an effort to gather facts for his defense. Tremaine is a Regina neo-Nazi leader who is being charged with wilfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group. He’s not a very sympathetic figure, what with his propensity for seemingly endless anti-Semitic and racist web posts that label blacks “intellectually inferior” and Jews “parasitic,” not to mention his founding of the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party of Canada. But his case — rendered suddenly higher profile with the news that he will be allowed to communicate on racist online forums to help attempt to prove the truth of his inflammatory remarks — could do Canada a service. The former math lecturer — who is usually confined to sharing his creepy Hitler-boosting and white power messages in shadowy (and equally creepy) web sites with no credibility — will now be treated to a highly publicized trial in a respectable courtroom in which he will be able to air his nasty views for all the country to hear and read about in great detail in mainstream newspapers and newscasts. This does not strike me as a positive development. Denying Tremaine the ability to mount a full and effective defense against the crimes with his he is charged would not be any answer to the problem, either. Saskatchewan’s Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Frederick Kovach may be contributing to the airing of racist and anti-Semitic garbage by allowing Tremaine to post messages on neo-Nazi websites, but given that even scummy defendants such as Tremaine enjoy a right to due process, Kovach is right to do so. The real problem lies with section 319(2) of the Criminal Code, which makes “willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group” by “communicating statements, other than in private conversation” an offense punishable by prison time. The Supreme Court ruled in 1990 in the Keegstracase that the provision is constitutional. But the Tremaine case is reminding us that constitutionality doesn’t make a law sensible or desirable. Unless he’s actually inciting people to violence, a man like Tremaine is best left to froth quietly at the mouth in the company of the small group of creeps who agree with him. There is no question that he will say things most people consider hateful and despicable — that is his raison d’etre. However, as Tremaine’s status shows (how many Canadians had heard of him before the charges against him were laid, or before Wednesday’s story about the court order allowing him to surf white supremacist sites?), society has done an awfully good job of simply ignoring and marginalizing his message without the law getting involved. The trouble starts once the government enters the equation, at the invitation of section 319(2), and sets itself up as the arbiter of whether Tremaine’s ideas are simply too offensive and disagreeable to legally abide. Suddenly, then, to counter this hefty power to subjectively vet a citizen’s speech and decide whether it should land him behind bars for a several years, the government forces itself into the position of having to provide Tremaine a far prettier platform than he’d ever have been able to achieve on his own. Tremaine is one of those people you don’t want as a poster boy because of the controversial, nasty and unpopular things he has to say. But Tremaine happens to be the perfect poster boy for the cause of preserving free expression for the same reasons. Turn your nose up at him, or turn away from him, sure. But try to completely silence him with the power of the state and you make him a martyr, afford a perverse legitimacy to his marginal views (handing him a metaphorical megaphone in the process) and stifle free discussion and debate in general. A guy like Terry Tremaine should be a nobody. And he probably would have been if not for the well-intentioned but overreaching arm of our criminal law. *National Post (July 4, 2012)*

 

Canadian Political Prisoner "Mathdoktor99" Returns to Stormfront With Court-Declared

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 03 July 2012 07:58

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp338.net/zqU1Iu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former Canadian Political Prisoner "Mathdoktor99" Returns to Stormfront With Court-Declared Restrictions REGINA. June 28, 2012. "Mathdoktor99" -- Canadian political prisoner Terry Tremaine-- will be back on Stormfront.org but with severe court-imposed conditions, Mr. Tremaine indicated in an interview with CAFE today. In 2004-2005, Mr. Tremaine, then a university lecturer in math and computer studies, was a prolific poster of thoughtful and well documented opinion pieces -- perhaps as many as 3,000 --on the White Nationalist website. In 2005, he became the victim of a seven year vendetta by Richard Warman to both silence and jail him. The former university math lecturer has endured seven years of torment at the hands of chronic complaint filer Richard Warman, who filed complaints against Mr. Tremaine under the now repealed Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and under the notorious "hate law", Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code all because of Mr. Tremaine's political postings on U.S. Stromfont and on his own site -- http://nspcanada.nfshost.com ( http://nspcanada.nfshost.com/ ). In 2005, a threatening letter sent by Mr. Warman to the University of Saskatchewan resulted in Mr. Tremaine's losing his job and being impoverished and unable to hire counsel to defend him at the 2006 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on the Sec. 13 charge. "Mathdoktor99" disappeared from Stormfront in 2008. Spurred by a Richard Warman complaint, Regina Police seized Mr. Tremaine's computer and some books and other things. He was subsequently charged in June, 2008 under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code (Canada's notorious "hate law") and his bail undertaking essentially silenced him politically. Originally, he was forbidden to own a computer or access the Internet in any way. Four more appeals in Court by Mr. Tremaine wrung concessions that he could own a computer and access the Internet but that he might not post on any "White Supremacist" websites. Thus, he has remained effectively silenced politically for over four years. Interestingly, Canada rebukes Red China for silencing dissidents and stripping them of political rights - the right to speak. One dissident, for instance, architect and artist Wei Wei was jailed, as has been Mr. Tremaine, for 81 days and then put under house arrest and denied political rights and the right to speak for a year. He writes: "A year ago tomorrow, I was released from more than two months of secret detention ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/22/ai-weiwei-released-from-detention ). Police told me today that they have lifted my bail conditions. I am happy that the year is up, but also feel sorry about it. I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you don't know how you lost something, how can you protect it? " (The Guardian, June 21, 2012) Outrageous, of course, but Terry Tremaine has been gagged for FOUR years in a so-called democracy with no end in sight! The Canadian media which likes wagging its bony finger to scold Red China -- and rightly so -- has been silent about the silencing of our own dissident thinker Terry Tremaine. Douglas Christie, Mr. Tremaine's lawyer, extracted a concession during a motions hearing, yesterday. The Crown, after a direct order by Judge Frederick Kovach, clarified its indictment. Mr. Tremaine is now charged with 11 counts of wilfully promoting "hate" against privileged groups -- 11 in all (black, browns, Jews, homosexuals, etc.) -- in about 50 postings. While Mr. Tremaine will not be allowed to post his views or comment on others' postings, he will be back on Stormfront to "seek source material," Mr. Christie explained. He will be asking the Stormfront community, having had his submission vetted by the Crown, to supply sources and references, as one of his defences will be truth. Paul Fromm Director Canadian Associstion for Free Expression People wishing to help inform others of the persecution of this Canadian dissident may send donations (by cheque or VISA) to: CAFE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, Canada _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp338.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqgjmwgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Former Canadian Political Prisoner "Mathdoktor99" Returns to Stormfront With Court-De

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 03 July 2012 07:45

* Former Canadian Political Prisoner "Mathdoktor99" Returns to Stormfront With Court-Declared Restrictions REGINA. June 28, 2012. "Mathdoktor99" -- Canadian political prisoner Terry Tremaine-- will be back on Stormfront.org but with severe court-imposed conditions, Mr. Tremaine indicated in an interview with CAFE today. In 2004-2005, Mr. Tremaine, then a university lecturer in math and computer studies, was a prolific poster of thoughtful and well documented opinion pieces -- perhaps as many as 3,000 --on the White Nationalist website. In 2005, he became the victim of a seven year vendetta by Richard Warman to both silence and jail him. The former university math lecturer has endured seven years of torment at the hands of chronic complaint filer Richard Warman, who filed complaints against Mr. Tremaine under the now repealed Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and under the notorious "hate law", Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code all because of Mr. Tremaine's political postings on U.S. Stromfont and on his own site -- http://nspcanada.nfshost.com. In 2005, a threatening letter sent by Mr. Warman to the University of Saskatchewan resulted in Mr. Tremaine's losing his job and being impoverished and unable to hire counsel to defend him at the 2006 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on the Sec. 13 charge. "Mathdoktor99" disappeared from Stormfront in 2008. Spurred by a Richard Warman complaint, Regina Police seized Mr. Tremaine's computer and some books and other things. He was subsequently charged in June, 2008 under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code (Canada's notorious "hate law") and his bail undertaking essentially silenced him politically. Originally, he was forbidden to own a computer or access the Internet in any way. Four more appeals in Court by Mr. Tremaine wrung concessions that he could own a computer and access the Internet but that he might not post on any "White Supremacist" websites. Thus, he has remained effectively silenced politically for over four years. Interestingly, Canada rebukes Red China for silencing dissidents and stripping them of political rights - the right to speak. One dissident, for instance, architect and artist Wei Wei was jailed, as has been Mr. Tremaine, for 81 days and then put under house arrest and denied political rights and the right to speak for a year. He writes: "A year ago tomorrow, I was released from more than two months of secret detention<http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/22/ai-weiwei-released-from-detention>. Police told me today that they have lifted my bail conditions. I am happy that the year is up, but also feel sorry about it. I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you don't know how you lost something, how can you protect it? " (The Guardian, June 21, 2012) Outrageous, of course, but Terry Tremaine has been gagged for FOUR years in a so-called democracy with no end in sight! The Canadian media which likes wagging its bony finger to scold Red China -- and rightly so -- has been silent about the silencing of our own dissident thinker Terry Tremaine. Douglas Christie, Mr. Tremaine's lawyer, extracted a concession during a motions hearing, yesterday. The Crown, after a direct order by Judge Frederick Kovach, clarified its indictment. Mr. Tremaine is now charged with 11 counts of wilfully promoting "hate" against privileged groups -- 11 in all (black, browns, Jews, homosexuals, etc.) -- in about 50 postings. While Mr. Tremaine will not be allowed to post his views or comment on others' postings, he will be back on Stormfront to "seek source material," Mr. Christie explained. He will be asking the Stormfront community, having had his submission vetted by the Crown, to supply sources and references, as one of his defences will be truth. Paul Fromm Director Canadian Associstion for Free Expression People wishing to help inform others of the persecution of this Canadian dissident may send donations (by cheque or VISA) to: CAFE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, Canada *