Whatcott Winds Up Free Speech Tour
EDMONTON. November 16, 2014. Author and evangelist Bill Whatcott wrapped up a weekend speaking tour sponsored by the Canadian Association for Free Expression here today. The tour took Mr. Whatcott to Vancouver and Edmonton. His topic was “The War on Christianity: Can Traditional Christians Still Witness to the Truth in Politically Correct Canada?”
The veteran of several dozen arrests for counselling people outside Toronto abortuaries but within the prohibited gag zone or “bubble” zone, Mr. Whatcott reflected on the “double standard” of Canada’s justice system. He recalled one inmate who had received 30 days for numerous counts of shoplifting and Mr. Whatcott getting the same sentence for protesting outside an abortion clinic.
He described being jailed in Toronto’s notorious Don Jail. Political prisoners “were always treated more harshly.” At one point, he was put in cells with delusional or violent people. At another time, he was denied socks or blankets. When he got free speech supporters to call the prison and protest, the authorities told the prisoners on his range that they were losing their television privileges because of Whatcott. A prisoner punched him in the face. “They were clearly trying to make prison so terrible and dangerous to me that I would stop protesting,” he explained.
At one rally of pro-life supporters at Toronto’s Queen’s Park in the late 1990s, about 30 members of the violent Anti-racist Action attacked the Christians with baseball bats and clubs with spikes in them. The police fought the goons off and arrested several. However, while peaceful pro-life picketers were repeatedly charged, the charges against the ARA thugs were dropped by Crown Attorney Michael Leshner, a well known homosexual, who was among the first in Ontario to “marry” another man.
Somewhat later, Mr. Whatcott, then working as a nurse, cared for one of the ARA goons who admitted that he knew little about “racism” or “pro-life” but really just like to beat people up and hurt them. The goon was also a regular in the OCAP (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) rent–a-mob which regularly staged violent protests.
Mr. Whatcott had also been a supporter of Jim Harding, a Lutheran layman charged under Canada’s notorious “hate law” — Sec. 318 of the Criminal Code — for distributing flyers highly critical of Moslems and their being granted a prayer room at Weston Collegiate Institute. Radical Somali Moslems showed up outside the court and threatened Mr. Harding with death. “There is a double standard,” Mr. Whatcott emphasized. “The Somalis were not charged for threatening death but Mr. Harding was charged and eventually convicted for expressing his opinion.”
Mr. Whatcott was promoting his new autobiography, Born in a Graveyard: One man’s transformation from a violent, drug-addicted criminal into Canada’s most outspoken family values activist. The book sold briskly at both meetings.
You can order a copy of Born in a Graveyard: {$25 plus $10 postage} from C-FAR Books, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, Canada.