Brad Love -- The Abuse By Process Continues

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 09 December 2011 05:17

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://ymlp240.net/zPER2p -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brad Love -- The Abuse By Process Continues Former political prisoner Brad Love's battering by the Canadian judicial system continues. Back in 2003, he was convicted under Canada's notorious "hate" law (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) for writing letters to over 20 politicians, MPs, MPPs, and other elected officials What a land of wimps and tender souls we've become. Imagine elected officials "ratting" Brad out -- he, he, he wrote me an offensive, "inappropriate" letter. Time was it was considered not just a right but a duty for a citizen to bring his views to the attention of his ELECTED officials. .As these were private letters, they almost certainly didn't come under Sec. 319 which excludes private communication -- an argument never made by Brad's lawyer. None of these letters was hateful or threatening. They did express strong opinions in opposition to Canada's open door immigration policy to the Third World and to out immigrant-sucky affirmative action policies and policing. Nevertheless, Brad was handed the stiffest sentence ever under Sec. 319 -- 18 months in prison. On his release, he was saddled with several probation conditions, one of which was that he could not write to any of the 20 officials that were subject of the original complaint. Fine, he wrote letters to other elected officials. It wasn't long before the police again came calling. Having been held for nearly a month -- he was unable to get bail (not being a Jamaican gunman or drug dealer, Brad, the letter writer, was seen as REAL threat to public safety) -- Brad ill-advisedly pleaded guilty in return for time served. In the end, he was saddled with conditions that would make the Red Chinese blush. He was not allowed to write to ANY public officials. Eventually, this gag was tightened so that he could not write to ANYONE without their permission. Thus, even a written complaint to VISA about an improper charge could land him back in jail. Brad quit Ontario for a good job in the oil patch. However, early in 2008, he allegedly wrote a number of letters to the York University Student Union, B'nai Brith, and the Canadian Jewish Congress mocking them over the issue of Stop Israeli Apartheid Week. This time, eight detectives stormed into an Alternative Forum to slap Brad in handcuffs just after he had given a talk on free speech. The Globe photographer came along and Brad hit page 2 the next day being arrested for "hate speech." The charge was "breach of undertaking" or probation. When he was finally sprung from jail, he had had to put up $22,000 cash bond of his own plus the surety pledge of about $110,000, the value of his sister-in-law's house. His lawyer has known hardened gunmen get out on bail on charges of attempted murder for a fraction of this fortune. However, in politically correct Canada, dissident letter writers, not gunmen and drug dealers, are the real criminals. Brad has been back to Ontario at least half a dozen times for pro forma appearances and the slow-moving trial on the "breach of undertaking" charges. Each trip costs him at least $4,000 -- a day or two's lawyer's fees, $1,000 airfare, car rental, and accommodations. Brad was back in Toronto, November 24-25, for what he had hoped would be final summations and a resolution to the case. Not so. No sooner had court commenced than it adjourned the first day until noon. Then, there was an hour or so of hearing and then lunch. Needless to say, not much got done. The Crown now wants to connect the alleged 2008 letters with Brad's original offence, as if to suggest that he's incorrigible (about expressing himself?) Brad headed back to Alberta about $4,000 poorer, but he'll be back March 13 and 14 for the continuation of a process that will by then be four years old! "The trial process," he says, "is punishing me. They are trying to break me." Thus, it's not the verdict or sentence, it's the grinding time and resource wasting process or the abuse BY this process that is unleashed on political dissidents in this nation that likes to wag its smug finger at countries like Syria and Iran and Red China and complain of their treatment of dissidents. No, these lands are no prizes, but they make no claim to civilized virtue. Canada does and its treatment of politically incorrect thought is appalling. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp240.net/u.php?id=gmjhqsqgsgbbqguhy Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Brad Love -- The Abuse By Process Continues

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 09 December 2011 05:12

*Brad Love -- The Abuse By Process Continues* Former political prisoner Brad Love's battering by the Canadian judicial system continues. Back in 2003, he was convicted under Canada's notorious "hate" law (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) for writing letters to over 20 politicians, MPs, MPPs, and other elected officials What a land of wimps and tender souls we've become. Imagine elected officials "ratting" Brad out -- he, he, he wrote me an offensive, "inappropriate" letter. Time was it was considered not just a right but a duty for a citizen to bring his views to the attention of his ELECTED officials. .As these were private letters, they almost certainly didn't come under Sec. 319 which excludes private communication -- an argument never made by Brad's lawyer. None of these letters was hateful or threatening. They did express strong opinions in opposition to Canada's open door immigration policy to the Third World and to out immigrant-sucky affirmative action policies and policing. Nevertheless, Brad was handed the stiffest sentence ever under Sec. 319 -- 18 months in prison. On his release, he was saddled with several probation conditions, one of which was that he could not write to any of the 20 officials that were subject of the original complaint. Fine, he wrote letters to other elected officials. It wasn't long before the police again came calling. Having been held for nearly a month -- he was unable to get bail (not being a Jamaican gunman or drug dealer, Brad, the letter writer, was seen as REAL threat to public safety) -- Brad ill-advisedly pleaded guilty in return for time served. In the end, he was saddled with conditions that would make the Red Chinese blush. He was not allowed to write to ANY public officials. Eventually, this gag was tightened so that he could not write to ANYONE without their permission. Thus, even a written complaint to VISA about an improper charge could land him back in jail. Brad quit Ontario for a good job in the oil patch. However, early in 2008, he allegedly wrote a number of letters to the York University Student Union, B'nai Brith, and the Canadian Jewish Congress mocking them over the issue of Stop Israeli Apartheid Week. This time, eight detectives stormed into an Alternative Forum to slap Brad in handcuffs just after he had given a talk on free speech. The *Globe *photographer came along and Brad hit page 2 the next day being arrested for "hate speech." The charge was "breach of undertaking" or probation. When he was finally sprung from jail, he had had to put up $22,000 cash bond of his own plus the surety pledge of about $110,000, the value of his sister-in-law's house. His lawyer has known hardened gunmen get out on bail on charges of attempted murder for a fraction of this fortune. However, in politically correct Canada, dissident letter writers, not gunmen and drug dealers, are the real criminals. Brad has been back to Ontario at least half a dozen times for *pro forma*appearances and the slow-moving trial on the "breach of undertaking" charges. Each trip costs him at least $4,000 -- a day or two's lawyer's fees, $1,000 airfare, car rental, and accommodations. Brad was back in Toronto, November 24-25, for what he had hoped would be final summations and a resolution to the case. Not so. No sooner had court commenced than it adjourned the first day until noon. Then, there was an hour or so of hearing and then lunch. Needless to say, not much got done. The Crown now wants to connect the alleged 2008 letters with Brad's original offence, as if to suggest that he's incorrigible (about expressing himself?) Brad headed back to Alberta about $4,000 poorer, but he'll be back March 13 and 14 for the continuation of a process that will by then be four years old! "The trial process," he says, "is punishing me. They are trying to break me." Thus, it's not the verdict or sentence, it's the grinding time and resource wasting process or the abuse BY this process that is unleashed on political dissidents in this nation that likes to wag its smug finger at countries like Syria and Iran and Red China and complain of their treatment of dissidents. No, these lands are no prizes, but they make no claim to civilized virtue. Canada does and its treatment of politically incorrect thought is appalling. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

 

Support the Marc Lemire Appeal -- the Best Chance to Defeat Internet Censorship

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 08 December 2011 05:11

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://ymlp332.net/zCwib6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support the Marc Lemire Appeal -- the Best Chance to Defeat Internet Censorship This is our best chance to defeat censorship! I really need your help to continue the fight http://blog.freedomsite.org/2011/12/support-marc-lemire-appeal-best-chance.html Dear Friends; Fighting the fanatics at the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission and defending freedom of speech for ALL Canadians is not an easy task. The Canadian Human Rights Commission has endless money to keep their censorship franchise running. I have beaten the CHRC at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal; and with your help, we will beat them once and for all at the Federal Court of Canada as well! For the December hearing, I am planning a massive information campaign, which will wake up thousands of Canadians. With your financial support, I am going to produce a series of Internet videos which will explain what the fight for freedom is all about, and how censorship affects us all. Both of my websites – The Freedomsite.org ( http://www.freedomsite.org/ ) and StopSection13.com ( http://www.stopsection13.com/ ) will be updated with documents from the hearing. During the hearing I am going to blog the entire event live on the Internet through both my websites and host a special Twitter site about the hearing. (Twitter: marc_lemire ( http://www.twitter.com/marc_lemire ) and #Section13 ( http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23section13 )) In order to be able to effectively coordinate the defence team, I have rented an office space within minutes from the downtown Toronto court house (We have dubbed it the Freedom War-Room), which will allow Barbara Kulaszka, myself and the other lawyers working for freedom, the ability to work in a secure and professional environment where we can do on the spot research, printing and preparation for the hearing. This invaluable room will be equipped with special secure computers, printers, a fax machine and Internet access. It’s hard to believe the massive amount of work that goes into these hearings, but with a shoestring budget we have been able to constantly counter the millions spent by our opponents … and WIN. A major national newspaper is planning to cover my hearing in a big way. They have begun preparing for the hearing – a month in advance (!) and want to run a series of articles on the players involved in the fight for freedom, along with daily front page coverage. A TV network in Toronto is also very interested in covering the event, and I suspect that a good part of their coverage during my hearing will be about my case. The "Human Rights" juggernaut has an unlimited amount of time and money to harass political dissidents. As an example; just to file the appeal against me, the CHRC spent close to $85,000 … and since that time I estimate another $85,000. That’s a total of $170,000 … and that is just one of the five tax-payer funded interveners that I have to face at the Federal Court. We can’t outspend them, but we WILL outwork them! My courageous lawyer Barbara Kulaszka and I have demonstrated what two dedicated freedom fighters can accomplish against overwhelming odds. We have single-handedly and doggedly fought the system and exposed the corrupt underbelly of the "Human Rights" Commission's racket. Nothing ever comes easy when you are fighting such fanatical censors. This case is a seminal one, where the outcome will have serious implications on our right to think and speak freely in this country for generations to come. All Canadians will benefit when we manage to get this shameful law expunged from our legal books. I cannot carry on this important fight alone. Your donations literally equal the survival of this case. I really need your help to continue. This is one of those times! I currently have a large amount of bills and expenses to fight this case, and really need your help to continue. We are on the verge of beating the CHRC for good! Yours in freedom! Marc Lemire >> Donate online here ( http://www.stopsection13.com/support.html ) _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp332.net/u.php?id=gmjhqsqgsgbbqguhq Powered by YourMailingListProvider