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Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: The Comic and the Tragic

[This week's Fighting Side of Me was delayed two days due to a power outage
on Tuesday. Also see last week's
show<http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110719/the-fighting-side-of-me-getting-to-the-truth>just
recently posted.]
[image: David Wu]

Paul Fromm:

- Marvels at Philistin (“Crazy”) Paul the Haitian gangster jailed because
he couldn’t shoot straight;
- Wonders about recently resigned Congressman David Wu, accused of forced
sex with a campaign donor’s teen daughter. Wu is undergoing psychiatric
treatment. He e-mailed people with pics of him in a tiger suit;
- Reports from Nanaimo, British Columbia on the inquest into the October,
2009 police shooting of White Nationalist Jeff Hughes. At least a dozen
shots were fired by some officers who raided Hughes’ apartment after a noise
complaint. Hughes was allowed to bleed out for 20 minutes. No one in the
squad of 10 armoured and armed officers dared approach the wounded man as a
fellow officer kept saying, “I don’t see the weapon,” they would later claim
he had. [An unfired flare pistol was later miraculously discovered on his
body.]

http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110728/the-fighting-side-of-me-the-comic-and-the-tragic

Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism -- No Friends of Free Discus

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 04 August 2011 06:45

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Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism -- No Friends
of Free Discussion

The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (NPCCA)
brought down its report, July 7, and, no surprise, this self-selected
committee of anti-anti-Semites predictably found surging anti-Semitism
across Canada and especially on university campuses where many
students are concerned about the plight of the Palestinians. They
complained that there is no coherent collection of statistics on
"anti-Semitism" even among hate squads across Canada.

B’nai Brith’s 2010 Audit of Anti-semitic Incidents, the report
noted, “ detailed 1,306 anti-semitic incidents, representing a 3.3%
increase over the 2009 data. This continues a general upward trend.
There has been a nearly 5-fold increase in the number of anti-semitic
incidents recorded over the past decade.73 The incidence of
anti-semitic incidents in 2010 was the highest on record in the
28-year history of the League’s Audit." Actually, it's a yearly
theme with this Audit, "anti-semitic" incidents are always up.
However, when you get past the drama and dig a bit deeper, for
instance, of the 1135 anti-semitic incidents reported in 2008, just
"1.2% were violent"; that works out to about 13 acts of violence
against Jews that year across this huge Dominion. The vast majority of
the 1135 “incidents” involved graffiti" or the discovery of a
leaflet a complainant felt was critical of Jews.

Nevertheless, to read the NPCCA Report, you'd think the Blackshirts
were back in town with a synagogue burning on every other block. The
conclusions of this committee are laughable. They found what they set
out to find. They deliberately heard no contrary views. CAFE wrote a
lengthy submission in their call for papers and offered to be a
witness when they called witnesses. We were turned down. No surprise.
We stood for free speech and they didn't want to hear that. “The
committee didn't hear from everyone who wanted to testify, selecting
74 witnesses from more than 150 applications. Silva said some groups
that wanted to appear before the committee were comprised of people
who condemned the panel's work from the outset. 'I didn't really want
to give a platform to individuals who had no time for us and so why
should we have time for them?' said [Vice-Chairman and defeated
Liberal MP Mario] Silva." (CBC News, July 7, 2011)

While the committee doesn't directly call for more pro-censorship
legislation, they certainly seem to approve what's there now. " One of
the most contentious issues presented to the Inquiry Panel focused on
the role of criminal and human rights codes in dealing with hate
speech in general and anti-semitism in particular. This matter forms
part of a larger discussion on the extent to which hateful speech can
or should be criminalized. The Inquiry Panel affirms that the Criminal
Code can serve a useful purpose in dealing with extreme manifestations
of anti-semitism.

Some written and oral submissions argued in favour of more aggressive
prosecution of incitement to hatred, especially when advocated on the
Internet. For example, Allan Adel of B’nai Brith argued that
"Canadian legislation should be strengthened to increase effectiveness
in countering hate on the Internet and to close potential loopholes
that could jeopardize successful prosecutions."
More broadly, the Canadian Jewish Congress recommended that the
"existing statutory ‘fence of protection’ both in the both in the
Criminal Code and in human rights legislation be reaffirmed and, where
appropriate, strengthened.”
“The Inquiry Panel notes that the constitutionality of Section 13
will be decided by the Federal Court of Canada in Lemire v. Warman.
Because of this fact, and because opinion was so profoundly split in
the testimony presented to us, the Inquiry Panel declines to make any
specific policy recommendations on this issue."

We note that former Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian
Fantino, wants even less control over [police laying "hate charges."
Julian Fantino, [now a Tory MP] … testified that police should be
‘liberated’ from the requirement of seeking prior approval to
prosecute a hate crime case" The Loser of Caledonia, who harassed
resident dissidents, and refused to enforce court injunctions ordering
radical Indians off private property they illegally occupied seems
particularly interested in political policing.
Lurking in the report, however, is a recommendation to bring in
legislation for further repression: "We recommend that the government
move quickly to ratify and/or enact the various international
instruments dealing with anti-semitism (including international
commitments to combat anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, including
but not limited to, the Berlin Declaration on the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and similar UN resolutions)
and prepare constructive suggestions and resolutions befitting its
role as host for the 2011 conference. "

Further: "The 'Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime,
concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic
nature committed through computer systems,' was signed by Canada in
2005, but has not yet been ratified. The Additional Protocol requires
signatory states to adopt legislation and the necessary measures to
criminalize the distribution and making available to the public racist
or xenophobic material through computer systems, intentionally and
without right. It requires member states to pass legislation that
would cover racist insults and threats. " "Making available to the
public racist or xenophobic material" would require even further
tightening of our police state anti-free speech legislation.
"Xenophobic" is the $10 word for criticism of mass foreign
immigration. It’s galling that our sleazy, unprincipled rascally
politicians would sign such international agreements that would allow
them to gag their own citizens!
Equally worrisome is the Report's support for the wildly far reaching
definition of anti-semitism concocted by "the European Union
Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), which monitors
racism and anti-semitism in EU Member States. It states: "
Anti-semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed
as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of
anti-semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals
and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and
religious facilities. In addition, such manifestations could also
target the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.

The CPCCA supports and adopts the EUMC Working Definition of
Anti-semitism for the purpose of this report and recommends that the
Definition be adopted and promoted by the Government of Canada and law
enforcement agencies. The CPCCA also supports the view, expressed in
the report of Britain’s All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into
Anti-semitism in the UK, that "any remark, insult or act the purpose
or effect of which is to violate a Jewish person’s dignity or create
an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive
environment for him is anti-semitic." This utterly subjective
definition would make any criticism of Israel or Jews problematic as
it might create "an intimidating ... or offensive environment."

To be fair, the Report does seem to agree that mere criticism of
Israel is not anti-semitic, but there is a sneaky "but" included: "Let
it be clear: Criticism of Israel is not anti-semitic, and saying so is
wrong. But singling Israel out for selective condemnation and
opprobrium – let alone denying its right to exist or seeking its
destruction – is discriminatory and hateful." Speaking of its
ultimate right to exist as an exclusive Jewish state, how does one
explain to a Palestinian, Christian or Moslem, that is was alright for
foreigners to swarm into their land and eventually expel them from
large parts of it to set up their own religious state? Here's a
further question, if Jews are entitled to have their own religious
state, why can't the overwhelming Christian Majority of Canada and the
U.S. insist that this be a Christian and European country? These were
perhaps the sort of challenges the committee did not want to hear.

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