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Fromm & Whatcott Visit Political Prisoner Brad Love
“The real Canada is not what newspapers tell their readers about,” Mr. Love told his visitors. Free speech is fine, they say, if you speak your mind in the Ukraine. Look at the favourable publicity for all those protests in the Ukraine. But not here. If you criticize immigration or Jewish groups, they give you the Brad Love treatment,” he explained.
Political Prisoner Brad Love to Be Freed, June 15 — Still Not Allowed to Send Mail From Prison
Free Speech Meeting in Toronto, 2009.
Canadian Association for Free Expression
Box 332,
Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3
Ph: 905-566-4455; FAX: 905-566-4820
Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director
April 10, 2014
Malcolm Ross attended the second day of the trial as an observer. Paul Fromm in foreground
Happiness
Happiness may seem a strange topic for me to raise in my report to you. However, on January 27, I was standing in the lobby of the Courthouse in St. John, waiting for John Hughes, lawyer for the McCorkill Estate, and CAFÉ’s lawyer Andy Lodge. The hearing in regards to efforts by powerful forces to hijack the McCorkill will’s bequest to the National Alliance as “contrary to public policy” was over and the decision in the hands of the judge. We were in the middle of a media scrum. With me was former teacher Malcolm Ross and his brother. I saw the lawyers for the four parties seeking to overturn the will walk by.
I wondered whether they were happy. I wondered this because beside me stood a man who deep down is serene and happy. Twenty years ago, Malcolm Ross was removed from the classroom in Moncton because of his political and religious views published in books, booklets and letter-to-the-editor on his own time. A “human rights” (they do not include free speech) tribunal had ruled that Mr. Ross’s very presence, as a conservative, anti-Zionist Christian, created a “poisoned” environment. The person complaining against him was the daughter of a prominent Atlantic Jew. She claimed some students had made anti-Semitic comments to her. Now, she did not attend the school where Malcolm Ross taught. He had not taught her. She had never met him, Nor had he taught the students who allegedly made comments to her.
Neither reason nor common sense mattered. Mr. Ross had poisoned the environment and he was out. The case, argued by Doug Christie, went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supremos even back then were hard core Christian haters. Sure, they agreed, Mr. Ross had the right to his religious views, just not the right to express them and hope to keep his job. The same nine Cultural Marxists would, a decade or so later, dream up the obligation of “reasonable accommodation.” If some Sikh wants to pack his dagger to go to school, despite a zero weapons policy, we must make reasonable accommodations for his peculiarities. But, in this environment of inclusiveness and “reasonable accommodation” there was no room for a Malcolm Ross. All the while, Mr. Ross was reviled in a host of news stories and was even the object of semi-obscene cartoons that mocked his Christian faith.
So, Malcolm Ross, with a young family, was out of a job. It would be understandable if he were bitter or angry. But, he picked himself up, did other work and persevered. His deep Christian faith and belief that what he had written was true and right make him a serene and happy man. Not jumping up and down happy as a person who has just scored a big win in a lottery might be, but profoundly secure and happy.
I too felt elated that what CAFÉ had done with our very costly intervention and the powerful factum (brief) and presentation of our lawyer Andy Lodge would have a good effect. We had come to preserve a man’s right to pass on his estate to a group whose views might be unpopular or politically incorrect. I wondered how the lawyers on the other side felt. On one level, happy, I suppose because they could pocket fat fees from their well-funded backers. But how could they feel about trying to hijack a will and replace a man’s wishes with the politically correct whims of the moment?
The Year Ahead
We are already deep into the McCorkill case. This case MUST be won or meddlers and troublemakers may try to hijack a bequest to any group. We have made a strong case and await the judge’s decision.
CAFÉ continues to publicize Brad Love’s 11-year ordeal and efforts to continue to gag him. I have had articles published in a number of papers about his plight. Canada continues to back and publicize Terry Tremaine’s 10 year battle against Sec. 13 “human rights” (Internet censorship) and Sec. 319 (“hate law”) charges. The Sec. 319 charges were stayed in 2012, thanks to Doug Christie’s heroic efforts. On May 28/29, the last episode in his case will be his appeal against his sentence in a “contempt of court” charge brought against him, as were all the others, by Richard Warman.
And, of course, there is Arthur Topham. As of March 13, he faces a full blown trial on “hate charges” for comments, some of them satirical, on his website Radicalpress.com. He is also threatened with horrific bail conditions, including having to shut down his Radicalpress.com website and to post NOTHING on the Internet. CAFÉ will be helping and advising him at the hearing date, April 9 in Quesnel, British Columbia. The date for the trial has not yet been set.
One of our biggest challenges is to alert more people to the free speech cause – to turn them on to freedom and to make them aware of the very real threats to free speech and free thought in Canada. We have already held meetings in five provinces – New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and B.C. this year. Our publicly advertised meeting in St. John attracted a number of new people to the cause.
We are proud of the CAFÉ website that we were able to construct because of your generosity – http://cafe.nfshost.com.
Your Support Pledge
And the well deserved praise “generosity” brings me to my request that you continue to support CAFÉ. None, and I mean none, of this activity is possible without the resources, without your financial support. We had initially budgeted $10,000 for the McCorkill will intervention. The costs have ballooned and now top $30,000. Many years ago, when I was much younger, a pompous old man wagged a finger at me and pronounced: “If it’s about freedom, it should be free.” What a fool!
Those seeking to crush free speech spend large sums of their money and the public money to pursue their goal. Similarly, defending freedom has serious costs – people’s energy, people’s time, people’s courage and, yes, the funding to make the activities possible.
I know, as in the past, I can count on your support and generosity. Please use the enclosed coupon and post paid envelope.
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Paul Fromm
Director
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Political Prisoner Brad Love Turned Down For Parole & All Outgoing Mail is Stopped
Small Victory: Political Prisoner Brad Love Can Now Write His Lawyer
Appearing before Mr. Justice Chester this morning, Crown Attorney Jennifer Broderick withdrew a charge of breach of undertaking (bail) against Mr. Love.
The charge should never have been laid. Last May, Mr. Love was charged with several counts of sending “scurrilous” material through the mail and harassment of several Fort McMurray media people and politicians, He had sent them non-threatening political literature and had phoned them. In hypersensitive, politically correct Canada, recipients of critical or — that empty all pervasive term of negativity — “inappropriate” material, instead of tossing it in the garbage, call the political police.
Mr. Love’s initial bail conditions might have been forged in North Korea. Mr. Love, already in prison for five months awaiting an appeal date for a May, 2012 conviction and draconian sentence of 18 months for breach of probation — sending information packages to four Toronto Jewish groups — was charged by police on November 28 for writing to his own lawyer, Peter Lindsay.
The scandal is that the Crown studiously ignored and clearly did not adequately investigate Mr. Love’s honest assurances from the beginning that the condtions had been varied. Also, several Ontario Crowns seemed to see no problem in conditions that might even make Kim Jong On blush — no written communication with anyone!
And still Canada’s preachy and pompous Foreign Minister John Baird will lecture Russian Premier Vladimir Poutin about Canada’s commitment to free speech while denouncing Russia’s anti-homosexual propaganda law, more limited but not unlike Canada’s “anti-hate propaganda” law, under which Mr. Love was originally charged back in 2003.
You can write to political prisoner Brad Love, one of our “men behind the wire” at:
Brad Love [557137416]
C.E.C.C.,
541 Highway 36,
Box 4500,
Lindsay, ON.,
K9V 4S6
CANADA
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AFP Radio: Paul Fromm Discusses the Bizarre Case of Canadian Political Prisoner Brad Love
AFP Radio: Paul Fromm Discusses the Bizarre Case of Canadian Political Prisoner Brad Love
Dave Gahary
AFP Radio
January 18, 2014
Dave Gahary interviews Paul Fromm, the director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, who discusses the bizarre case of Canadian Brad Love, who is imprisoned for, believe it or not, writing letters.
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http://www.dailystormer.com/afp-radio-paul-fromm-discusses-the-bizarre-case-of-canadian-political-prisoner-brad-love/
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Brad Love Back in Court, January 20, Charged For Writing to His Lawyer
Lindsay, ON. January 2, 2014. Brad Love warned his supporters: “Because I am self-represented, they’ll put me last.” And today, they did. The Lindsay Provincial Court parking lot was all but empty on this frigid January afternoon, when the Love case was finally dealt with just before 5:00. The result? Because the Crown, who had two weeks to do so, had failed to obtain the transcript of a July 11 hearing in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Brad Love was sent back to the cells until January 20 by Provincial Judge Lisa Cameron.
Mr. Love has been in jail since late July pending his appeal of an 18-month sentence,, imposed in July, 2012, for “breach of probation” for having sent information packages to several Toronto Jewish groups. He testified he had received permission. He was under a North Korean-style gag order imposed by a Judge Hogg (no joke) in 2006 forbidding him to write to ANYBODY, without their consent.
In May, 2013, while working in Fort McMurray, Mr. Love was charged with sending “scurrilous material” through the mail and harassment of several local media people and politicians. His initial bail conditions forbad him to “communicate by post, e-mail or text” with anybody. [Yes, such tyranny was imposed in Canada!] With CAFE’s help and legal research, Mr. Love appeared in Court in Fort McMurray, July 11, 2013 and had the bail conditions amended so that he was forbidden to communicate only with the parties involved in the complaint against him — a significant victory.
Then, suddenly, On November 28, he was visited in the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay and charged by the Ontario Provincial Police with “breach of undertaking” (breach of bail conditions) for having written a letter to his own lawyer, Toronto attorney Peter Lindsay!
In his first Court appearance, December 19, he presented his amended bail conditions and argued that he had, in fact, not broken the law. The Crown — and the Crowns in charge are constantly changing, the Love file passed from one to another — wanted the July 11 transcript from the Alberta Court. So, the case was adjourned to January 2.
When Mr. Love was first called late this morning, the Crown, a Miss Repka, admitted, “we have been unable to locate the brief.” When challenged on this, she said: ‘I don’t have the brief with me, Unfortunately, the time fell over the holidays.”
A frustrated Mr. Love, who is not allowed to keep his legal papers in his cell, argued: “Two weeks ago, the Crown said it would order the transcript from Alberta. They don’t have it. I ask that the charge be withdrawn. This charge is holding up both my appeal and my parole. I think it’s unfair. I do have the recognisance order and this charge should be dropped.”
Court officials were overheard to say: “The Crown in Alberta said they didn’t have the time to check right now, but if they do find the time, they’ll get back to us.”
The judge refused to dismiss the charges but ordered staff to call the Alberta Court’s clerk’s office over the lunch hour.
Late in the afternoon, despite efforts by the Crown and Brad Love’s appointed duty counsel, the Crown told the Court: “We spoke with the Court in Fort McMurray and we still have not been able to find if the variation was made.”
So, the slow, incompetent legal system, unable to get the transcript to confirm the bail conditions in Mr. Love’s pocket, blithely remanded the case until January 20.
In the meantime. Peter Lindsay,. Mr. Love’s lawyer in the “breach of parole” appeal, has ordered and obtained the transcript and sent it to the Crown in Lindsay.
Breach of bail is not usually taken very seriously by Ontario Courts. In one of the numerous cases that preceded Mr. Love, a man who was out on bail for a fight with his common law partner (she too had been charged in the fight) was sentenced to a $250 fine. He had been ordered not to have any contact with her. Police had visited his house and found her there visiting! That was “breach of undertaking.” He was also charged with possession of marijuana, a marijuana plant having been found growing in the man’s abode when he foolishly let the police in. That was good for another $250 fine.
But for Brad Love, it was back to the cells. As in the old Soviet Union, political dissidents are treated far more harshly than common criminals or dopers.
Photo: Brad Love Back in Court, January 20, Charged For Writing to His Lawyer Lindsay, ON. January 2, 2014. Brad Love warned his supporters: “Because I am self-represented, they’ll put me last.” And today, they did. The Lindsay Provincial Court parking lot was all but empty on this frigid January afternoon, when the Love case was finally dealt with just before 5:00. The result? Because the Crown, who had two weeks to do so, had failed to obtain the transcript of a July 11 hearing in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Brad Love was sent back to the cells until January 20 by Provincial Judge Lisa Cameron. Mr. Love has been in jail since late July pending his appeal of an 18-month sentence,, imposed in July, 2012, for “breach of probation” for having sent information packages to several Toronto Jewish groups. He testified he had received permission. He was under a North Korean-style gag order imposed by a Judge Hogg (no joke) in 2006 forbidding him to write to ANYBODY, without their consent. In May, 2013, while working in Fort McMurray, Mr. Love was charged with sending “scurrilous material” through the mail and harassment of several local media people and politicians. His initial bail conditions forbad him to “communicate by post, e-mail or text” with anybody. [Yes, such tyranny was imposed in Canada!] With CAFE’s help and legal research, Mr. Love appeared in Court in Fort McMurray, July 11, 2013 and had the bail conditions amended so that he was forbidden to communicate only with the parties involved in the complaint against him — a significant victory. Then, suddenly, On November 28, he was visited in the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay and charged by the Ontario Provincial Police with “breach of undertaking” (breach of bail conditions) for having written a letter to his own lawyer, Toronto attorney Peter Lindsay! In his first Court appearance, December 19, he presented his amended bail conditions and argued that he had, in fact, not broken the law. The Crown — and the Crowns in charge are constantly changing, the Love file passed from one to another — wanted the July 11 transcript from the Alberta Court. So, the case was adjourned to January 2. When Mr. Love was first called late this morning, the Crown, a Miss Repka, admitted, “we have been unable to locate the brief.” When challenged on this, she said: ‘I don’t have the brief with me, Unfortunately, the time fell over the holidays.” A frustrated Mr. Love, who is not allowed to keep his legal papers in his cell, argued: “Two weeks ago, the Crown said it would order the transcript from Alberta. They don’t have it. I ask that the charge be withdrawn. This charge is holding up both my appeal and my parole. I think it’s unfair. I do have the recognisance order and this charge should be dropped.” Court officials were overheard to say: “The Crown in Alberta said they didn’t have the time to check right now, but if they do find the time, they’ll get back to us.” The judge refused to dismiss the charges but ordered staff to call the Alberta Court’s clerk’s office over the lunch hour. Late in the afternoon, despite efforts by the Crown and Brad Love’s appointed duty counsel, the Crown told the Court: “We spoke with the Court in Fort McMurray and we still have not been able to find if the variation was made.” So, the slow, incompetent legal system, unable to get the transcript to confirm the bail conditions in Mr. Love’s pocket, blithely remanded the case until January 20. In the meantime. Peter Lindsay,. Mr. Love’s lawyer in the “breach of parole” appeal, has ordered and obtained the transcript and sent it to the Crown in Lindsay. Breach of bail is not usually taken very seriously by Ontario Courts. In one of the numerous cases that preceded Mr. Love, a man who was out on bail for a fight with his common law partner (she too had been charged in the fight) was sentenced to a $250 fine. He had been ordered not to have any contact with her. Police had visited his house and found her there visiting! That was “breach of undertaking.” He was also charged with possession of marijuana, a marijuana plant having been found growing in the man’s abode when he foolishly let the police in. That was good for another $250 fine. But for Brad Love, it was back to the cells. As in the old Soviet Union, political dissidents are treated far more harshly than common criminals or dopers. On the way out of Court, I asked Crown Attorney Repka how I might explain to an American audience (I have covered this case for the American Free Press) how a man can be charged with writing a letter to his own lawyer. She looked scared and said quickly, “I am not seized with this case. Another Crown is prosecuting it.” Apparently knowing nothing about the file, she felt unable to explain how it was possible to charge a man for writing a letter to his own lawyer, who was willing to receive such communication. — Paul Fromm
On the way out of Court, I asked Crown Attorney Repka how I might explain to an American audience (I have covered this case for the American Free Press) how a man can be charged with writing a letter to his own lawyer. She looked scared and said quickly, “I am not seized with this case. Another Crown is prosecuting it.” Apparently knowing nothing about the file, she felt unable to explain how it was possible to charge a man for writing a letter to his own lawyer, who was willing to receive such communication. — Paul Fromm
Political Prisoner Brad Love Charged for Writing to His Own Lawyer
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Brad Love [557137416]
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C.E.C.C.,
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541 Highway 36,
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Box 4500,
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Lindsay, ON.,
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K9V 4S6
A date has still not been sent for an appeal against Mr. Love’s 2012 conviction and 18-month sentence for breach of probation.