{"id":84,"date":"2012-09-30T02:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T06:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-09-30T02:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T06:17:56","slug":"a-knapsack-of-conservative-literature-scooped-by-customs-censors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"A Knapsack of Conservative Literature Scooped by Customs Censors"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Knapsack of Conservative Literature Scooped by Customs Censors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Is a speech by former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) about Martin Luther King \u201chate propaganda\u201d? Some eager beaver censor wannabe at Canada Customs or Canada Border Service Agency, as it is now called, seems to think so. Activist Douglas Pearson was one of several Canadians returning from the July 6-7 annual conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens in Nashville, TN on July 8. He flew into Toronto\u2019s Island Airport. His knapsack was ransacked and searched. What did the agent find? A pound of cocaine? A bag of smelly khat leaves, so beloved by Toronto\u2019s drug addled Somali youth? No, nothing so dramatic. The agent found \u201cliterature.\u201d When all was said and done, the snoops haul included: the Frankfurt School, a dvd produced by the Conservative Citizens Foundation; Communism With the Mask Off, a speech delivered in Nurnberg on September 13, 1935 by Dr. Joseph Goebbels; Pre-Emptive Ideology, Occasional Papers of the Citizens\u2019 Foundation, Issue #7; The King Holiday and its Meaning, speech by Senator Jesse Helms, introduction by Samuel Francis; The Citizens Informer, Vol. 45, No. 1 (newspaper published thrice yearly by the Council of Conservative Citizens); The First Freedom, June, 2012, a newspaper; The Alabamian, May-June, 2012, a newsletter published by the Alabama Council of Conservative Citizens and CofCC Board member Leonard Wilson; and the Northwest Observer, Volumes #115 (February, 2012), #116 (March, 2012), and #117 (April, 2012), published by long-time U.S. writer Harold Covington.
\nThis seizure #2012-4952-K27-0013 was made, presumably because the literature was considered \u201chate.\u201d The suspect material then sent off to the \u201cProhibited Importations Unit\u201d at 150 Isabella St. in Ottawa. If the material is deemed to fall under Classification D9-1-15 of the Custom Act \u2013 that is, \u201chate propaganda\u201d \u2013 it will be seized. The victim can appeal through the bureaucracy. If the appeal is unsuccessful, the victim can take the matter to court. CAF\u00c9 has considered this latter course on several occasions, but the cost might be $40,000 to salvage a $5 book. Should there be no appeal, \u201cthe material will be destroyed 90 days after the date of determination.\u201d How are books destroyed? A good supporter of CAF\u00c9 who had a copy of David Duke\u2019s Jewish Supremacism seized some years ago, was told by a Customs officials that they were \u201cburned.\u201d So, our thought police practise book burning in Canada.<\/p>\n

CAF\u00c9 has fought the censorship provisions of the Canada Customs Act for 30 years. Persecutions and Customs censor vigilance wax and wane. In one orgy of censorship madness in the late \u201890s, Paul Fromm had a book bag with some 90 items, including Irish Fairy Tales, seized. He got almost all of the books back in the end. However, the thought policing powers of the Customs Act are an affront to free speech and the seizure of one\u2019s property for \u201cdetermination\u201d is a violation of our rights to property, rights Trudeau\u2019s Charter did not confer on us. Many Canadians have been deceived by this Napoleonic piece of sophistry. Anglo-Saxon law says the citizen has the right to do anything, except what is expressly forbidden by laws. The Napoleonic system says the citizen has only the rights conferred upon him by the State, The Charter\u2019s rights are bogus, all subject to such \u201crestrictions as are demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.\u201d The continual gutting of our free speech rights under the Charter shows how weak it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Knapsack of Conservative Literature Scooped by Customs Censors Is a speech by former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) about Martin Luther King \u201chate propaganda\u201d? Some eager beaver censor wannabe at Canada Customs or Canada Border Service Agency, as it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,22,20,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}