Campaign against aid for Africa—which has the opposite effect of the one intended.

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 11 July 2011 05:08

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"White Girl Bleeds A Lot" -- The Jungle Comes to Milwaukee

Written by Paul Fromm

Saturday, 09 July 2011 01:11

*"White Girl Bleeds A Lot" -- The Jungle Comes to Milwaukee* ** *Mil Chief calls looting, beatings in Riverwest barbaric *By Meg Jones of the *Journal Sentinel *July 6, 2011 Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter. "They just said 'Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,' " said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the Fourth of July weekend. Though Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn noted Tuesday that crime is colorblind, he called the Sunday night looting of a convenience store near the park and beatings of a group of people who had gone to the park disturbing, outrageous and barbaric. Police would not go quite as far as others in connecting the events; Flynn said several youths "might" be involved in both. "We're not going to let any group of individuals terrorize or bully any of our neighborhoods," Flynn said. Perry was among several who were injured by a mob they said beat and robbed them and threw full beer bottles while making racial taunts. *The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said. *Store video of the BP station at E. North Ave. and N. Humboldt Blvd. shows the business being ransacked. A clerk at BP confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that he was busy waiting on customers when one or two people held the door open to let others rush in and steal snacks and candy. Not far away, 20 to 25 friends from Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood had gathered at the park shortly before midnight to watch some fireworks set off by a neighbor. In interviews with 11 people who said they were attacked or witnessed the attack, a larger group of youths appeared in another section of the park around midnight and were joined by more young people running up the park's stairs. At some point the group of friends and the group of youths intersected; those interviewed said the attack appeared to be unprovoked. "I saw people dancing and I figured they were just having a good time," said Riverwest resident Jessica Bublitz, 28. Minutes later Bublitz saw a male friend hit in the temple and fall down. Her fiancé told her to run to safety. James Zajackowski, 28, said things suddenly turned chaotic. "Within 30 seconds to a minute, bottles were flying and people started getting punched. I was in shock. I thought, 'Really? Is this really happening?' I was on the ground, people were trying to get into my pockets, I could feel their hands but I held on to my cellphone and my wallet," said Zajackowski, a census worker. Emily Mowrer, 27, was not hurt but saw her friends beaten and punched and full beer bottles thrown at them. Her boyfriend was punched. She saw Perry lying with blood on her face, not moving. She called 911 on her cellphone. "I saw some of my friends on the ground getting beat pretty severely. They got away with one of my friends' bikes. Some people had their wallets stolen," said Mowrer, who owns a house with her boyfriend in Riverwest. "It didn't seem like it was a mugging - it seemed like an attack. Like they weren't after anything - just violence." Andy Lange, 29, a social worker who has lived in Riverwest for 10 years, said one of his friends was hit in the head with a bottle and needed staples to close the wound. Lange said he was struck in the face and didn't even see who hit him. Perry needed three stitches to close a cut above her eye. She said she saw a friend getting kicked and when she walked up to ask what was happening, a man punched her in the face. *"I heard laughing as they were beating everybody up*. They were eating chips like it was a picnic," said Perry, a restaurant cashier. "All I remember is seeing bright lights (after the punch), then my backpack was gone and blood was spurting out of my head." A police spokeswoman on Monday said police received no reports of mobs of people committing crimes in the Riverwest area, only the reports of two armed robberies. At the Tuesday news conference, Flynn attempted to defuse reports that mobs of youth were running through the Riverwest neighborhood attacking citizens. However, he acknowledged that those responsible for the BP store looting and attacks at Kilbourn Reservoir Park had mob-like characteristics. "Clearly we had mob-like behavior in the incidents involving the robberies at Reservoir Park as well as the ransacking of the BP station. . . . Certainly we had elements of mob-like behavior that challenged us on July 3," Flynn said. With an estimated 200,000 people watching the lakefront fireworks, which ended about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, there was heavy traffic in the area as people headed home and police were responding to fights. The BP was overrun shortly before midnight, and minutes later the attacks occurred in the park. Several people seen on the BP station surveillance video may have been involved in the park beatings, Flynn said. Two strong-arm robberies were investigated by police at the park, the first at 11:50 p.m. and the second, involving Perry, at 12:15 a.m. Three males - two 16-year-olds and one 18-year-old - were arrested in the first robbery. No arrests have been made in the attack on Perry. Most of the 11 people who told the* Journal Sentinel* they were attacked or witnessed the attacks on their friends said that police did not take their complaints seriously. They each said police responded to the scene quickly and tended to the injured, but officers did not take statements from them and told them to leave the area. "You've got 20-plus people giving eyewitness accounts. I'm very surprised that they said it wasn't a mob," said Mowrer. Lange said he told an officer about the beatings but noticed the officer didn't write anything down or note his name. Bublitz tried to tell an officer that her three-speed bicycle had been stolen and that one of her friends was hurt but said the officer told her he was looking for evidence. "About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn't listen to us, they wouldn't take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating," Bublitz said. Jesse Garza of the *Journal Sentinel* staff contributed to this report.

 

No Need for Internet Censorship Law -- Sec. 13 of Canadian Human Rights Act

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 07 July 2011 08:21

**** ** ** CHRC says: No Section 13 (Internet censorship) Complaints in 2010!**** *… so what do we need this law for?* ** ** http://blog.freedomsite.org/2011/07/chrc-no-section-13-complaints-in-2010.html **** ** ** ** ** On July 5, 2011, David Gollob the Director of Communications for the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission wrote a letter to the editor of the Langley Advance. In the letter, Mr. Gollob states that “*The Commission did not accept any complaints under section 13 in 2010*.” Mr. Gollobs can be read in its entirety online at: http://www.langleyadvance.com/Rights+Commission+aims+equal+opportunities/5052683/story.html **** ** ** Section 13 <http://www.stopsection13.com/> is the controversial censorship provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which allows fanatical rights enforcers the ability to gag so-called “thought criminals” for life. Along with lifetime gag orders, Kangaroo courts which hear the complaints can also issue heavy fines up to $30,000 in total. So far over 37 Canadians suffer under a permanent lifetime speech ban, which if violated can result in up to five years in jail for contempt of court.**** ** ** Now that yet another year has passed without a single Section 13 complaint being filed to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, why on earth do we need this censorship law on our books<http://www.freedomsite.org/legal/may2011_perfect_storm.html>? **** ** ** In all of 2010, not a single complaint was accepted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission … and amazingly the sky did not fall<http://www.freedomsite.org/legal/may2011_perfect_storm.html>. Jews are not being beaten up on the streets, Nazis have not taken over Parliament, and homosexuals are not being rounded up into camps. Life went on without the iron fist of the state looking over our shoulders and telling us what we can and can not say. Of course if you listen to the human rights maniacs, the physical and psychological security of the Jewish community would be in peril if Section 13 was struck down<http://www.freedomsite.org/legal/may5-08_section13_for_jewish_psychological_security.html> .**** ** ** ** ** After looking at cases such as the Mark Steyn/Macleans Magazine<http://www.macleans.ca/multimedia/pdf/CHRC.pdf>debacle, it is clear that Section 13 has a chilling effect on freedom of expression in Canada<http://blog.freedomsite.org/2010/07/section-13-series-intimidation-and.html>. How many other Canadians would want to be ground through the CHRC’s process – which is clearly meant as a punishment itself<http://blog.freedomsite.org/2010/12/section-13-series-process-is-punishment.html>? In the case of Macleans Magazine, it cost them around $1,000,000 to defend the case, and at the end of it all, Kenneth Whyte, Editor in Chief of Macleans Magazine said that “*There will absolutely be self-censoring, and it will be harder going forward to have clear and full debates on a lot of important issues like race or religion or public policy because of this*.” [Daily Gleaner, Print media will stay relevant because it must: Whyte, January 31, 2009] How many editors and newspapers will allow commentary on controversial issues if they are going to face being labeled as racist or Islamophobes, in conjunction with years of costly litigation, where the tribunal boasts a 98% conviction rate? **** ** ** Mr. Gollob from the CHRC also states in the letter to the editor that “*However, one such complaint, involving Maclean’s magazine, did receive media attention four years ago. That complaint was dismissed by the Commission, as it was found to have no merit. As that case illustrates, the Commission works to ensure that only complaints of real and actual discrimination under the Act are accepted.*”**** ** ** The decision by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to drop the complaint against Macleans Magazine was done to stop the onslaught of negative media the CHRC was receiving. During the time the CHRC was investigating Macleans, hundreds of articles and editorials appeared in the media from coast to coast. The CHRC wanted the daily negative media publicity to stop, so they suddenly found freedom of speech and dismissed the complaint.**** ** ** The truth behind the dismissal of the Macleans complaint is that the Investigator of the case wasn’t so sure it should just be dismissed. The Investigator highlighted that what Mark Steyn wrote could expose Muslims to hatred and contempt.**** ** ** In the March 25 2008 CHRC Investigators report on the Macleans complaint, the Investigator wrote in paragraph 49:**** ** ** *“It is recommended, pursuant to paragraph 44(3)(a) of the Canadian Human Rights Act to request that the Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal institute an inquiry into the complaint if the Commission is of the view that:* * * *• the material does appear to meet some of the hallmarks of hate and is of such a nature that it may likely expose persons of the Muslim faith to hatred and contempt;* * * *• a decision by the Tribunal addressing the fact situation in this case may be in the public interest as it raises new considerations regarding the relationship between section 13 and the right of freedom of the press, as aspect of the Charter guarantee of freedom of expression.”* ** ** The complaint against Macleans Magazine was dropped when it reached the “political level” at the CHRC, but it was obvious that the investigator in the case recommended “in the alternative” that the case go to a tribunal.*** * ** ** The CHRC’s “political level” is staffed by political appointees like the Jet-setting world traveler - Chief Commissioner Jennifer Lynch and Deputy Chief Commissioner David Langtry. They have the role of reviewing the complaint and approving it to be sent onto a hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Unlike the investigator in the Macleans case, the political Kangaroos smelled the political wind, and threw out the case like a hot potato.**** ** ** How many editors and newspapers will allow commentary on controversial issues if they are going to face being labeled as racist or Islamophobes, in conjunction with years of costly litigation, where the tribunal boasts a 100% conviction rate? As Macleans Magazine reports: "*Cases like these foster an atmosphere in which sensible people who know they can't summon the resources to defend themselves will censor themselves. It creates an ever-growing body of very regressive law when it comes to the integrity and freedom of a democratic forum.*" (John Dixon, a two-term former president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association) **** ** ** Self-censorship has always been a goal of the CHRC, which is why they have undertaken costly impact prosecutions on the few that resisted. Making examples of what will happen to those that dare to stand up to the CHRC ensures that few will ever stand up in the future.**** ** ** The complaint against Macleans Magazine was laid by a Muslim group named the Canadian Islamic Congress. The Muslim complaint comes on the heels of CHRC staff drumming up business. On June 29th, 2006, Harvey Goldberg, the senior policy advisor for Section 13 with the CHRC traveled to Toronto to meet with a delegation of Muslims from the *Canadian Arab Foundation*. As a result of that meeting, Mr. Goldberg wrote to Ian Fine, the Director of the CHRC’s oddly named “Knowledge Centre.” **** ** ** In Goldberg’s July 5th, 2006 memo, he states: **** ** ** A couple representatives of the Muslim community expressed concern that the threshold for hate was too high and that much of what they perceived as anti-Islamic comments in the media and elsewhere would not be included in the current definition of hate. I referred them to the [Name redacted by CHRC] article in the Hate on the Internet magazine, copies of which I had distributed.**** ** ** They also questioned whether the Commission would accept complaints dealing with anti-Muslim sentiments. I assured them that the Commission was fully committed to fulfilling its mandate under section 13.**** …**** Overall I think this round of meetings was successful in the continuing process of networking with key stakeholders and of furthering the Commission initiatives in the areas of disability and hate on the Internet.”**** ** ** ** ** It looks like the representatives of the Muslim community were 100% correct with their skepticism of the CHRC. On June 25th 2008, in a highly political decision, the Canadian Human Rights Commission refused to accept the complaint filed by Canadian Islamic Congress against Rogers Media Inc. (Macleans Magazine). **** ** ** The decision by the CHRC stated that: “*Overall, however, the views expressed in the Steyn article, when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature as defined by the Supreme Court in the Taylor decision. Considering the purpose and scope of section 13 (1), and taking into account that an interpretation of s. 13(1) must be consistent with the minimal impairment of free speech, there is no reasonable basis in the evidence to warrant the appointment of a Tribunal. For these reasons, this complaint is dismissed.*” **** ** ** It appears that after some 250 articles in the mainstream press highly critical of the CHRC, the Commission suddenly found freedom of speech.**** ** ** ** ** ** ** *It’s time to scrap Section 13 and get the government out of the thought control and censorship business**.*