He's being held at the provincial reformatory called Maplehurst in Milton and faces a trial date in March. The Crown is opposing bail for this non-violent man. What did Mr. Love do: stage a drive-by shooting in the Jamaican gang territory? join Vietnamese in running a multi-million dollar marijuana grow-up? None of these things! He's back in prison for "breach of probation"  for writing 10 letters to his local newspaper, The Etobicoke Guardian. The letters, sent between January 9 and October, 2005,  were actually copies of other newspaper articles with Brad Love's comments on them. That the Etobicoke Guardian kept the envelopes used by Mr. Love strongly suggests that the paper acted in cahoots with the police.

One letter contained a copy of a National Post article on Black crime in Toronto to which Brad had added the comments: "100% of this is immigration" and "So what is a hate crime?" Another incident involved sending a copy of The Canadian Immigration Hotline. The charge states that this "flyer addresses recent gun violence in Toronto and goes to great lengths to link violent crime to Blacks. The article blames immigrants for the increase in violence. By sending material of this nature in the mail, the accused violated his probation order" by which he was "not to communicate ... or disseminate material in the nature of that which is the subject matter of these convictions; that is, scurrilous or hateful messages." So, apparently, Ontario's political police who have a major hate on for Brad Love believe that factual statements about Black immigrant crime in Toronto are "scurrilous or hateful."

Another mailing contained a Toronto Star article of July 22 dealing with Canadian immigration problems and the potential for terrorism and featuring photos of Anne McLellan, Toronto Police Chief William Blair and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe. Brad's handwritten comments: "These ass-slurppers are the reason for the problem" and "Yes, and it's all thanks to immigration Canada." Not nice, perhaps, but criminal? The police charge notes that the material arrived in an envelope with "Remaining silent about Black crime is a crime!" written on the outside. The Etobicoke Guardian must have a wonderful filing system and plenty of staff to do it, if they can even file incoming envelopes.

Another item that riled that thought police was a copy of  CFIRCGRAM I sent out earlier this year using a Toronto Police Service Press release about their search for a missing retarded, Vietnamese immigrant. My comment was: What was this person, obviously a major expense to the taxpayer, doing in Canada is the first place. The material passed on by Brad, says the charge, “was a sarcastic and insensitive account of the search by the Toronto Police Service for a missing Vietnamese immigrant who happens to be mentally and physically challenged. The piece also included the original press release from 51 Division dated May 27, 2005.”

It’s important that we support Brad Love. Write to the Attorney General of Ontario and protest the jailing of a man for nothing more than sounding off to his local newspaper. Brad Love had previously been sentenced to 18 months for writing letters to MPs and chief of police. Unwisely, he’d been persuaded to plead guilty to charges under Canada’s notorious Sec. 319 “anti-hate” law and received the stiffest sentence in Canadina history under this repressive measure. Earlier this year, he served 41 days in jail – denied bail – for having written letters to MPPs about immigration abuses. These letters, it was alleged, were sa breach of his probation. He was then hit with a further probation condition: he was not to contact any elected official – federal, provincial or municipal – for the next three years. Essentially, he’s been stripped of his rights as a citizen.\n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it \" target\u003d\"_blank\" onclick\u003d\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it