PAY FOR MY HOBBY, OR I'LL SUE YOU

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Thursday, 14 April 2011

I have decided to post the first two pages <http://www.steynonline.com/images/stories/warman%20maximum%20disruption.pdf> of Stormfront member Richard Warman's extremely long 2005 speech in Toronto to something called "Anti-Racist Action". I do this because it is a revealing insight into the abuse of both Canada's "human rights" regime and the broader legal system by a strange man who gets his jollies by "pretending" to be an Internet Nazi. He was allowed to proclaim himself Canada's Hatefinder-General and to annex Section 13 as his own personal law to torment his enemies. A Canadian judge has already declared that there is no "acceptable reason" for his online activities. But six years ago Warman justified it thus:

   I've come to the conclusion that I can be most effective by using what I like to describe as a 'maximum disruption' approach... If I think that they've violated the Canadian Human Rights Act, then I'll look at all of the potential targets and file complaints against them starting on a 'worst offender' basis, although sometimes if I just find people to be particularly annoying this may move them up the list a bit...

He calls it "maximum disruption" because he believes in hitting his enemies on as "many of these fronts as possible" according to what will be "the most fun".

Like so many cardboard warriors, Warman is a vain man, and so could not resist publicly declaring that he uses the legal system and his privileged access to it (as a "human rights" "activist") as a form of harassment. As has been frequently said over recent years, the verdict in the "human rights" regime is irrelevant: The process is the punishment. Warman confirmed as much in his speech and then bragged that he inflicted the process on those he found "particularly annoying" and offered him "the most fun".

Since he gave this speech, Warman has gone to great lengths to try to bury it. One cannot blame him. Taken in combination with "Judge" Lustig's rebuke, it's devastating to him. Hence his most recent threat to Free Dominion. He demanded they remove three items from their website: A "hotlinked" photograph of Warman; a few sentences from a National Post column called "Richard Warman and Canada's Phony Racism Industry"; and a scan of the 2005 "Maximum Disruption" speech.

The National Post excerpt is covered by any reasonable definition of "fair use". The "hot link" is too groovy to have yet accumulated much jurisprudence, but I doubt any judge would entertain for a moment that it's actionable. And the speech is, of course, Exhibit A for anybody defending themselves, as Free Dominion are, against Warman's nuisance lawsuits. Given his unwillingness to respond to routine discovery requests, its use is entirely legitimate.

Nevertheless, Free Dominion responded to the threats of Warman's lawyer - Brian Shiller of Toronto - and removed the items. Gee, thanks, said Warman and Shiller, but we're still gonna sue you:

   In response to our notification that the items had been removed, we were informed by Richard Warman's lawyer that he wants over $3500 for legal fees and $5000 in "damages" or he is going to go ahead and file against us, anyway.

I've run across several serial litigants over the years - the late Robert Maxwell, for example. They were usually more circumspect, at least in public, about using the legal system for "fun" against those they found "annoying". And they would certainly have been more self-aware than to whine about how "embarrassing" it all was when they found themselves for once on the receiving end of maximum disruption. I am sorry Mr Warman is incapable of finding "fun" in more conventional ways, and that counsel charges him such huge sums for pursuing his bizarre hobby through Messrs Shiller & Co. But that is no reason for Canada's most prominent online hatemonger to be allowed to use the legal system in frivolous pursuit of personal vendettas. Perhaps Mr Shiller should have taken a bigger retainer or a
 dvised Warman to find a more affordable hobby. But simply because he has an asshole for a client is no reason for the rest of us to pay for him. He is a controversial public figure whose practices have been the subject of a Canadian judicial ruling and a Canadian "Human Rights" Commission "hate speech" investigation. It's entirely legitimate to discuss his disgusting activities in public - and besides it's also - what's the word? - "fun" because he's "particularly annoying". 

As Juvenal almost said, who disrupts the disrupters? So the "maximum disruption" manifesto will stay published here until the Maximum Disrupter slinks off to the maximum obscurity he so richly deserves.


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