STORMFRONT MEMBER RICHARD WARMAN IS THE ISSUE

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3900/26

Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Sunday, 03 April 2011

Jay Currie often makes sharp points on the free speech fight in Canada - especially when it comes to Richard Warman, Canada's most prominent online Nazi. (I discussed his role as self-appointed Hatefinder-General when I testified to Parliament.) For example, he usefully distilled what Warman did to Section 13 and the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission, transforming the latter from a disinterested remedial body to an activist prosecutorial scourge. In other words, one man singlehandedly changed the nature of a Canadian law and its application. As even Professor Moon, a dreary shill for the state enforcers, has conceded:

   In the absence of Richard Warman, there really is very little happening under Section 13. You take him away, you’ve got nothing.

But the trouble is Warman never does quite get taken away. Having been given the bum's rush by his former patrons at the CHRC, he's embarked on a campaign of frivolous libel suits against any Canadian commentator who declines to give him the bicycle boy treatment. Most recently, he decided to sue Blazing Cat Fur for linking to a "far-right" hate site - ie, SteynOnline.

If that's the criterion, maybe he should sue himself, for not merely linking to but posting on "far-right hate sites". After all, unlike me or any of the hatey-hate hatemongers he's suing, far-right Stormfront hate-group member Richard Warman of far-right hate group Stormfront has been rebuked by a Canadian judge for his far-right double-plus hatey-hateful hate-site postings:

   [59] During his cross-examination, Mr. Warman admitted (after initially denying) that he had participated in communicating messages on Internet Websites similar to the Northern Alliance Website utilizing pseudonyms such as "Pogue Mahone" and "Axetogrind"...

   [63] I do not see any acceptable reason for Mr. Warman to have participated on the Stormfront or Vanguard sites, since there appears to be ample easily obtained messages on these sites available without his involvement. Moreover, it is possible that his activity in this regard, could have precipitated further hate messages in response. His explanation for including other hate messages in his postings by mistake seems very weak to me.

   [64] Mr. Warman has, with the assistance of the Commission, instituted most of the s. 13 (1) complaints under the Act that have come before the Tribunal. He has been very successful in these cases and has garnered accolades for his work in this regard. The evidence in this case of his participation on Internet sites similar to the Northern Alliance site is both disappointing and disturbing. It diminishes his credibility.

This is the reputation Stormfront member Richard Warman is attempting to defend. These suits are going nowhere because they're fraudulent even by the indulgent standards of Canadian and Commonwealth libel law. Nevertheless, they're time-consuming and, for the defendants, counsel's meter is always ticking. Any eventual trial and penalty is the least of it. As with the CHRC, "the process is the punishment". And here's where Jay Currie takes up the story:

   As many of you know, a number of my blogging pals are being sued by a nasty piece of work who goes by the name of Lucie, or Pogue Mahone, or a variety of other aliases,

   The litigation drags on as this creature delays production of evidence and generally takes a lackadaisical attitude towards the litigation he has initiated.

   Oddly, the man has not the slightest chance of winning his suits simply because of the Supreme Court decision in Grant.

   Grant affirmed the notion that responsible communication in the public interest is immune from actions in defamation...

   Lucie is very clear that he decided to use the tactic of “maximum disruption” to silence people whom he found annoying.

I don't think I've seen it put quite like that before. But it's true. Most litigious types (the late Robert Maxwell, for example) are circumspect about their methods, but Warman has boasted in public about using a campaign of "maximum disruption" by legal harrassment to advance a particular ideological agenda. Therefore, almost by definition, his legal harrassment is a matter of public interest and it's legitimate to discuss the methods he uses.

Justice delayed is justice denied, and the thuggish Warman has been delaying and obfuscating long enough. It's time for him to put up, or slink off back to his kinky, furtive, hate-site writings and leave the rest of us alone.


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