The tyranny of the bureaucracy and the weaponization of codes of conduct
Mike Ramsay is another victim of the weaponization of disciplinary hearings against those accused of heresy Author of the article: Michael Higgins Published Aug 28, 2023 • Last updated Aug 28, 2023 • 5 minute read 456 Comments
Mike Ramsay
Nineteen months ago, Mike Ramsay — a school trustee and former police officer who also happens to be Black — was in a board meeting when he came to the defence of a teacher he had never met.
The cost to him so far: being called a white supremacist; being shunned; being censured by his school board; being banned from meetings; enduring a lengthy court battle; and, last month, facing the threat of another disciplinary hearing.
Ramsay is another victim of the weaponization of disciplinary hearings against those accused of heresy, of not toeing the party line on gender identity or racial politics, or for simply objecting to what is being taught to children in schools. Or for tweeting something some people find objectionable.
The most high-profile victim of the tyranny of the bureaucracy is Jordan Peterson, who recently lost a court battle against the College of Psychologists of Ontario. Peterson has been ordered by the college to undergo “coaching” for some tweets that the college found to be unbecoming a psychologist.
Incredibly, in Peterson’s case, he hasn’t been found guilty of anything, there’s been no disciplinary hearing, it is simply punishment by fiat.
This weaponization of codes of conduct is happening across Canada and is felt by many people who do not enjoy Peterson’s high profile.
Nurse Amy Hamm is facing disciplinary action for believing in biology and liking a “I (heart) J.K. Rowling” billboard.
Chanel Pfahl, then a teacher in Barrie, Ont., faced action because of a Facebook post that opposed indoctrinating children with critical race theory.
Jim McMurtry, a teacher of 40 years with a master’s degree in the history of education, was fired by the Abbotsford School District for pointing out that most children in Indian residential schools died from tuberculosis and other diseases.
For Mike Ramsay, his troubles came out of the blue during a meeting of Ontario’s Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) in January 2022.
Carolyn Burjoski, an English teacher with 20 years’ experience, was giving a presentation regarding her concerns about some of the reading material in elementary school libraries. Some books were being culled — like Dr. Seuss — while new books on diversity were being added.
She highlighted two new books, “Rick” by Alex Gina, where a young boy is encouraged to question his sexuality and eventually declares he is asexual, and “The Other Boy” by M.G. Hennessy, where a female teen later identifies as a boy.
“Some of the books make it seem simple, even cool, to take puberty blockers and opposite sex hormones,” she told the board. But elementary students are just children. “Let them grow up in their own time and stop pressuring them to be sexual so soon,” she said.
She was eventually shut down by then-chairmen Scott Piatkowski over concerns she was breaching Ontario’s human rights code. Ramsay tried to defend Burjoski and wanted her presentation to continue but was overruled by a 5-4 vote.
A month later, Ramsay faced a code of conduct complaint. The actual complaint and the WRDSB’s actions would have remained secret because of a confidentiality clause, but once Ramsay launched a legal action the documents became public.
What was he accused of? “He disagrees with actions being taken by the WRDSB,” according to the complaint, and was not upholding decisions made by the board.
His Twitter account was scoured. He was accused of retweeting a newspaper article, written by a colleague, that was critical of the board. He retweeted someone who called the WRDSB a “farce,” and in another tweet indicated that he agreed with a comment about the “woke war on critics.” He was guilty, according to the complaint, of tweeting or retweeting comments that “amplify harm” and “sow doubt.”
He was accused of signing a petition that urged Ontario’s educational authorities to keep woke politics and policies out of schools. He didn’t write the petition, he just signed it, and for that has faced persecution.
“Their interpretation of what constitutes a breach (of the code of conduct) in my mind is anything they don’t like that I’m saying. That’s the only criteria I think they’re using,” Ramsay said in an interview.
“The primary focus nowadays right across our province, and in fact across our country, is to be teaching kids that one group based on their colour are the oppressors; and one group based on their racial background or colour are the oppressed. I don’t agree with that. I don’t believe that is a way forward and it runs contrary to the dream espoused by Martin Luther King. We have a group on the radical left who want to fight battles that have already been won.”
In July 2022, he was informed that he had breached of the board’s code of conduct by refusing to accept the decisions of the chair and the board, by accusing fellow trustees of unlawful conduct and by disclosing confidential information. He was censured and banned from meetings until September. He has launched a judicial review of that finding and is awaiting a decision.
Ramsay has been elected nine times as a trustee and has served continually since 2000. His aim is to “bring the parent voice to the board table, to bring the concerns of parents.” The code of conduct, he said, “is being used as a weapon to shut down dissenting voices. (And) that’s right across Canada. It’s part of this identity politics that in my mind is pretty dangerous.”
“There is a severe cost” to fighting, Ramsay said. “You get shunned. You know how ridiculous it got? I’m Black, but I was called a white supremacist.”
Ramsay said he was often reminded of the words of a Crown prosecutor: if you knew what something was going to cost in advance, maybe you would negotiate the price.
Ramsay has an outlook on some matters that is now considered old fashioned and subject not just to ridicule, but to disciplinary action: he believes in a democratic society where people should be able to voice dissenting opinions; he believes children should be taught about history — the good and the bad; and he believes parents should have a voice at school board meetings.
While being shunned by some, he has also had many people approach him offering support. Last year, as his troubles began, a stranger reached out offering kindness and compassion.
That stranger was Richard Bilkszto, a principal with the Toronto District School Board who was facing his own ordeal. Bilkszto had opposed some racial teachings during a diversity, equity and inclusion training session and ended up being bullied and facing an insinuation that he was a white supremacist, according to a lawsuit.
Bilkszto said, “I have an idea what you’re going through. You have my support,” according to Ramsay. The pair established a telephone and online relationship and in May, Ramsay and Bilkszto met for lunch. It was their first and last meeting. Last month, Richard Bilkszto killed himself.
FREEDOM RALLIES, MARCHES & MEETINGS IN THE OKANAGAN, September 9-16
Penticton 4 Freedom Weekly Newsletter
WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE:
– Rallies and local events
– Sign Making events
– 1MillionMarch4Children.com
– Geo Talk
– Petition in Support of Natural Health Products
– Stolen Water – Waging War on Water Rights and BC Food Security
– Druthers Online or pickup at our Rallies.
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FAMILY FREEDOM EVENTS – Penticton4Freedom – every Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
COMING UP THIS SUNDAY
Thank you to all the AMAZING folks that keep FREEDOM alive. Mary Lou is away for a few weeks and is so happy others have stepped in to keep our Sunday’s a Freedom Day. ~ Thank you!!!
Thank you, Mike, for hosting this rally ~ We APPRECIATE YOU!!
Now being held at Lakawanna Park during the summer months This will be the final park rally then we will return to Warren and Main.
Laureen’s table with important information and a petition to end BCs Bill 36.
Elsie’s table with Druthers newspapers, Vaccine Choice Canada handouts and more, for parents and curious others.
Local speakers always, and Surprise Guest Speakers frequently!
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Please arrive early (12:30) to help set up the stage and the tables, and to invite passers-by to join us.
Miss a week and you miss a lot!Fighting for freedom is more fun with friends. Bring a few. Suggest a topic or a speaker, and we’ll be happy to find someone to share their knowledge with us.——————————- o0o————————————- OTHERS’ EVENTS · Kelowna CLEAR Rallies – 1st Saturday of each month at noon – Stuart Park, Kelowna · Oliver Rally – in front of city hall – Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. · Local A4C – Every Tuesday at Noon Protesting with Purpose: Richard Cannings 301 Main Street Penticton · Check online for school board meetings and city council meetings in your area. They’ve been changing dates lately. ——————————————- o0o————————————————-EVENTS -While visiting other rallies in my travels, I noticed that everyone’s attendance is still down, but the most effective rallies are those with a lot of signs. Vernon, for example, has more signs than people holding them, all lined up along the sidewalk. So… WE’RE HAVING A COUPLE OF SIGN-MAKING PARTIES!! Thank you to Derrie Selles for opening her studio to us for these events and to Derrie, and Bob and Geraldine for sign supplies for the events. Bring your own water or other beverages, and snacks to share. Please make 4 or 5 signs each so we have a supply to hand out to late-comer volunteers, students, and parents, on-site. LOCATION: Art Up Studios, 94 Ellis Street, Penticton. 250-462-8783 Thursday, September 14 at 3:30 p.m.Monday, September 18 at 6 p.m. SIGN IDEAS (Whether you come to the party or make them on your own, here are some ideas. Just a few powerful words, straight to the point: ARSON FIRES ARE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE DO NOT COMPLY (WE WILL NOT) (WITH UNREASONABLE ORDERS) GOVERNMENT ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS QUESTION AUTHORITY SAY NO TO JABS FOR JOBS STOP THE POISONOUS CHEM TRAILS MASKS = OXYGEN BARRIERS. BREATHE FREE! PROMOTE PEACE and LOVE (Peace sign and a heart) GOVT. LEGALIZES FENTANYL, BANS COVID CURES (??? Scattered on the sign) NO MORE MANDATES. NEVER AGAIN. And for the September 20 1MillionMarch4Children event and our rallies: SAY NO TO SEX ED IN SCHOOLS GIVE PARENTS BACK THEIR RIGHTS LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE STOP INDOCTRINATION OF CHILDRENBAN SOGI 123 IN SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES ——————————- o0o————————————-September 20, 20231MillionMarch4Children.com – September 20 – Action CountdownMore info to follow.
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Petition in Support of Natural Health Products
The Federal Conservative Party of Canada has issued a petition in support of Natural Health Products. They have taken a strong stance against Health Canada, whose clear purpose is to bankrupt the NHP industry and eliminate all the ‘alternative” Natural Medicine Practitioners who rely on NHP’s. Please consider signing and sharing widely:
WORTH A LOOK Stolen Water – Waging War on Water Rights and BC Food Securityhttps://rumble.com/v3eu2r3-stolen-water-waging-war-on-water-rights-and-bc-food-security.html——————————- o0o————————————- Are you on their list?Freedom Risingis a successful Canada-wide initiative where leaders across the country have met for the past two years to strengthen the efforts of individuals, organizations, independent media, and citizen journalists. As a result, hundreds of individuals and groups work together more collaboratively and effectively. We are excited to announce that BC Rising has been created for leaders to facilitate a similar type of momentum right here in our beloved province of British Columbia. BC Rising will strive to embrace the efforts and values of the nationwide Freedom Rising, with the intention to build connections across the province of BC and to focus on issues and initiatives specific to BC. Sign up and be INFORMED!! Website: www.bcrising.cawww.freedomrising.info——————————- o0o————————————-
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Monika Schaefer Visited by the B.C. Political Police – the “Hate Squad”
8 September 2023
by Monika Schaefer
The following is the message that I sent out via email late in the evening of the 1st of September, 2023 (for those who have already read this message, please scroll down for my follow-up email to the RCMP “hate squad”).
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Friends,
Today I received a visit from the BC Hate Crimes unit [Major Crimes Section] of the RCMP. Two officers drove all the way to my home near McBride BC from the lower mainland, Vancouver area, to come and talk to me. They have received a “complaint”, anonymous of course, about me. The complaint is about the contents of the Truth and Justice for Germans website, that it incites HATE. These two men spent two days travelling (one day here, one day back) to follow up on this complaint. Imagine that. Do you think they might spend their time and money more wisely? Like maybe go after pedophiles or something?
We spent 2-and-a-half hours talking, just outside my door. I think they received quite an education from me. I hope I gave them food for thought, like that perhaps they should seek a career change. An acquaintance happened by at one point, and this was really good, as he contributed very nicely to our conversation, raising some excellent points, for example invoking George Orwell. This acquaintance was unable to stay long, but I was glad for having him witness at least part of the interaction.
One of their purposes was to inform me about the new law in Canada about “holocaust denial”. Do those blots of toner on paper mean that suddenly I will think and say the holocaust did happen after all? Very funny.
I won’t go into detail with this short message to you all, but felt I needed to get the word out that this has happened.
sincerely, Monika Schaefer
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Two days later I followed up with the Hate Crimes unit and sent them an email.
Hello Elvis Musinovic and Greg Keall,
I hope you had a good drive back to the lower mainland, with lots of time to reflect on our 2 & ½ hour conversation on Friday, September 1st. I would like to follow up on a couple of points, related to your statement that this is Canada and these things don’t happen that way here, after I told you about the way “speech crimes” are handled in Germany, and also after I mentioned the new Florida law criminalizing pamphleteering.
To the first instance of “this is Canada…”, you’ll remember that I was telling you about the prohibition of evidence in our trial, and then I told you what the judge said at the end of Ernst Zündel’s trial in Germany in 2007. Just to remind you, the judge said to Herr Zündel, “It does not matter if the holocaust happened or not, the only thing that matters here is that it is against the law to dispute it and you broke the law.”
You assured me that this was Canada implying that wouldn’t happen here. I neglected in that moment to tell you what the Canadian judge said to Ernst Zündel at the end of his 1988 trial in Toronto, so I will tell you that now. The judge’s words had essentially the same meaning as the German judge’s words, only expressed slightly differently. The Canadian judge told the court that truth was no defence! Now I do not know the precise words that he used; it may have been closer to this: “Truth shall be no means of defence in this case.”
This is indeed Canada. And that was decades ago. Things have deteriorated since then, in terms of what we are allowed to say and not allowed to say. Political correctness has run amok.
To the second instance of “this is Canada, that does not happen here”, we were talking about the Florida laws criminalizing pamphleteering. There really is not much difference between the Florida situation and BC’s Hate Crime squad making a trip to see me, dedicating 2 officers for 2 days to this task, for an anonymous complaint about a website. Pamphlets in the one case, a website in the other case. Even just the existence of a “Hate Crime” division is extremely Orwellian.
To underline my point, these sources of information, whether pamphlets in Florida or websites in Canada, these sources of information, i.e. words, are being criminalized without anyone disputing the facts that are presented. The makers and enforcers of those blots of toner on paper, also known as “laws”, talk about “inciting hate”, in other words, emotions. Hurting someone’s feelings.
The purpose of our Truth and Justice for Germans website is to enlighten the reader and to tell the truth about Germany, after Germany has been much maligned for decades by the use of atrocity propaganda, admitted to be lies by the British Chief of ‘Black propaganda’ Sefton Delmer. Here is what Delmer said after the German surrender, in 1945, in conversation with German professor of international law, Dr. Friedrich Grimm:
“Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we’re only really beginning with it now! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. It will never be final.
“Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again – those indestructible weeds of historical truth.”
I would encourage you to read and reread that quote many times, to fully grasp what is being said there. It is a clear admission of lies. “Atrocity propaganda is how we won…. we will continue… we will escalate….” and then that final statement is really quite astonishing in its revelation, “Re-education needs careful tending..” (like with endless Hollywood films, and mandatory holocaust education). “Even one moment of negligence…” (like if we don’t crack down on people who are starting to figure things out), “…and the weeds crop up again – those indestructible weeds of historical truth.”
Indeed, the truth is indestructible. No amount of toner on paper will change the facts about what actually happened or did not happen during WW2. You can jail the entire population of Canada over this if you want, and that would still not change the facts about what happened in the past. The truth is the truth is the truth, and ultimately, the truth always wins. I am happy to be on the winning side.
Jordan Peterson: Canada is trampling on my God-given right to free speech
Canada’s idiotic pandering and cowardly insistence on group rights set us up for dominance by the meta-Marxists Author of the article: Jordan Peterson, The Telegraph Published Sep 02, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 10 minute read 1538 Comments
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Photo by The Canadian Press
As a professional, practicing clinical psychologist, I never thought I would fall foul of Canada’s increasingly censorial state. Yet, like so many others — including teachers, nurses, and other professionals — that is precisely what has happened. In my case, a court has upheld an order from the College of Psychologists of Ontario that I undergo social media training or lose my licence to practice a profession I have served for most of my adult life.
Their reason? Because of a handful of tweets on my social media, apparently. Yes: I am at risk of losing my licence to practice as a mental health professional because of the complaints of a tiny number of people about the utterly unproven “harm” done by my political opinions.
These complainers — most of whom did not even live in Canada, none of whom were my clients or even knew any of them, nor had any contact whatsoever with the persons hypothetically harmed by my views — submitted complaints to the College of Psychologists of Ontario about what I had said using a handy online form. That supposedly august body had the option not to pursue these complaints, but seemingly decided some months ago that my behaviour did not meet with their approval. I had to agree to their demands to undergo training with one of their self-declared “social media experts” — sessions of indeterminate length, cost and content — and it seems that if I did not I would be dragged in front of a formal disciplinary hearing and, if it concurred in the judgment of wrongdoing, stripped of my licence.
The right of the College to do so has now been upheld by a provincial court, despite their apparent admission that it could infringe on my fundamental rights.
My transgressions? Two tweets criticising Justin Trudeau; one criticising his former chief of staff, who resigned in the aftermath of scandal some years ago; one ironically commenting on the identity of a city councillor in Ottawa, who in my view acted in a particularly unforgivable manner during the famous trucker convoy protest; and one objecting to the actions of the physicians performing mastectomies on perfectly healthy women — often minors — alongside a criticism of a famous actress who received such “treatment” and then advertised its benefits to her unwitting fans. In conjunction, the entire transcript of a podcast I did with Joe Rogan where I expressed doubts, fully justified in my view, about the validity of the idiotic models that economists stack carelessly upon the doom-mongering climate predictions used by eco-zealots and wannabe tyrants to justify extreme policies which will harm millions. Finally, there was a tweet that apparently hurt the feelings of a plus-sized model (according to complainants she did not know) parading herself on the cover of a magazine hypothetically devoted to the celebration of athleticism and health.
Every single opinion was a political or psychological statement; every one devoid of genuinely documentable “harm” — except perhaps to the tender sensibility of certain Canadian moralists in whose mouths butter wouldn’t melt, in a country of fatal niceness and complacency.
Politicization of regulated professions
For context, there are many “regulated professions” in Western countries, including Canada; professions whose conduct is held to be crucial to the public interest, and whose practitioners must therefore uphold certain standards to protect the public. That idea worked for years. In Canada, as elsewhere, these professional colleges, with authority delegated from the government, limited their actions to situations of obvious professional misconduct.
In the last few years, however, such bodies – with their wide and untrammeled potential regulatory and punitive ability – have been weaponised by the same ideological radicals of the Left that have infiltrated and undermined higher education, media, judiciary, law, science and government. Any radical anywhere can submit the kind of complaint that can bring a professional’s life to a halt, and can increasingly rely on these captured colleges and other professional regulatory bodies to uphold and pursue their vexatious, vengeful, petty, spiteful and ideological motivated “complaints.” And this is regardless of how much good the target of their complaint has done — independent of the training, reputation or standing of the target, and accompanied by the deep pockets and infinite amount of time available for the accusers and adversaries, abetted by the resources of the government itself.
Suffice it to say: I appealed the decision of my professional college. But the court has rejected my appeal, ruling that although I had my Charter rights — my constitutional right to freedom of speech — the professional regulatory body essentially has indefinite sway over the determination of what limits they felt fit to impose in their professional context, in whatever retroactive manner they felt fit to impose them. This is a court, by the way, headed by appointees from the very administration I was criticising (and which has been criticised very recently and independently from me for the inappropriate relationships it has established with the judiciary).
Canadians now need to wake up to the fact that the right to freedom of speech in Canada is subject to limitations placed by any level of government, for any reason.
I know perfectly well that many professionals in Canada are cowed to the point where they are forced to lie; they tell me so repeatedly in private. And when professionals have to lie, they can no longer do their job properly, and the public suffers. I know, too, that this is increasingly true across the West. Hence the increasing international interest in the dangerous social experiment taking place in Canada, as we ride the forefront of the wave of woke lunacy threatening to swamp the entire Western world.
The decline and fall of Canada
Why does the situation appear particularly grim, here in Maple Leaf Country? We were, for most of my country’s history, miraculously and thankfully dull: our constitution, ensconced safely under British authority until 1982, enshrined “peace, order and good government” as the most basic principles of our dominion. This was not the clarion call ringing out to rally our good friends south of the border, who aimed at the much more dramatic and libertarian “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It was good enough, however, to produce a reliable, safe, secure and free state, conservative in the classic small-c sense, with institutions both predictable and honest, and an economy both productive and generous.
That all started to change in the 1980s. Our dashing prime minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau — father of the current Prime Minister, our current clown prince — was searching desperately for a legacy and for a solution to the chronic problem posed by the Quebec separatists, who were genuinely threatening the integrity of the country. Quebec was the last feudal country in the West: extremely traditional and dominated by a very small, tight, essentially hereditary elite right until the end of the 1950s. Quebec dumped all that in a few short years in a fit of 1960s freedom, also dropping its birth and marriage rate with exceptional rapidity (both are now among the lowest in the world) and abandoning the Catholic church in favour of a crude nationalism and a more-or-less socialist utopia favoured by those who pushed to also tear apart the country.
Trudeau senior, constitutionally displeased with the fundamental derivation of Canada from Britain, seized upon this opportunity to make his mark in history, and began to agitate to “bring the constitution home.” He did so, rewriting our primary legal agreement, and appending to it his much-vaunted Charter of Rights and Freedoms, paraded before Canadians as the ultimate guarantee of the freedoms we had enjoyed anyway under the much more reliable aegis of British Common Law. But Quebec put up its middle finger, refusing to become a signatory to the new agreement – even after Trudeau’s government abandoned both its spine and its principles to include a poison pill in the very Charter that hypothetically protected our citizens: the clause in Section 33 of that document, indicating that those very constitutional rights can be abridged more or less at will by any government in Canada, federal or provincial, if inclined to do so.
The Canadian government, in its own documentation, notes with unconsciously ironic understatement that “Section 33 is unique among the constitutions of countries with constitutional democracies.” It is unique because it essentially guts the Charter – and it was designed to do so, to appease the very Quebec that it never did appease and which has never in the 40 years subsequent to the “repatriation” formally signed on to the agreement.
And that is not all. Canada was a very early adopter of the idea of “group rights.” The Quebecois, again, began to obsess about the potential threat posed by English Canada (really, the English West, led by the culturally-dominant Americans) to the language and culture of their province. They had some reason for this: the ascendant US was and is a cultural force to be reckoned with, and even English Canadians were uneasy about the elephant to the south, capable of rolling over at any time, careless of its much smaller northern neighbour, and simultaneously much noisier and more effectively theatrical. To keep the country together, Canada began to prioritise the rights of its so-called founding peoples (the British, the French and the original inhabitants of this land, the native Canadians) and to insist that the groups they composed had rights equivalent to or superseding those of individual citizens. This was a very bad idea then, and it has become a worse idea in the subsequent decades. Canada parades itself as a “multicultural” society, pretending that a brainless tolerance — really, a spineless niceness — constitutes the way forward to peace and tranquility, forgetting entirely that too much multiculturalism often stokes unrest.
This bad situation is made worse by the naïve virtue-signalling of, ironically enough, Pierre Trudeau’s son: an unqualified part-time drama teacher who in a recent poll was found to be the country’s least-popular prime minister of the past 55 years. It was that same Justin Trudeau who famously proclaimed that “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada” in 2015, insisting that the country has little uniting it except its embrace of cultural diversity and its putative values of openness and respect.
But what is a country without a central identity? Aimless, and therefore both anxious and hopeless; worse, prone to domination by the fractionated ideas that will fight necessarily for central place in the absence of the centre that must by one means or another be established. That is the shadow-side of the naïve “multiculturalism” that has doomed the world to continuous fractionalism and all its accompanying horrors.
Canada’s idiotic pandering and cowardly insistence on group rights set us up for dominance by the meta-Marxists who insist that the collective take priority over the individual. Canada’s inclusion of the notwithstanding clause to unsuccessfully satisfy separatists gutted the protection of the rights that might otherwise have protected the individual against group-think. Justin Trudeau’s insistence that Canada has no central identity has allowed the ideologically-possessed fools who know nothing of the great British Common Law tradition and who have contempt for the Western tradition to make their postmodern ideas the central axis around which this once-reliable country now by law is required to rotate.
In principle, Canadians enjoy the right to free speech, but the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is severely and fatally limited by the notwithstanding clause, and leaves our rights endangered.
I have been expressing my Charter Rights — though really I view them as God-given, and rooted more in British Common Law — by writing, lecturing, and using social media. Consequently, I have run afoul of the petty authorities in Canada, including at my former place of employment, the University of Toronto, where my opposition to an infamous bill, C-16, made it impossible for me, eventually, to continue as a professor at that cowardly institution, though it also brought my opinions and work to broad public attention. Since then, I have continued to voice my opposition to the current administration in Ottawa, and the destructive ideological idiocy that is threatening my country and the West itself.
As such, I will fight this idiocy all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. I have instructed my lawyers, in the aftermath of the rejection of my appeal, to inform the College that I will not comply with their forced re-education mandate, and to proceed with the disciplinary hearing they have promised will occur. In the past, such hearings have been videotaped and made public. I doubt the College will have the stomach to do the same in my case, although I will make every effort, reasonable and unreasonable, to ensure that every element of these proceedings is open to widespread international scrutiny. I have already posted the relevant documents online, as I am perfectly happy to have everything that I have done assessed in full.
But I know few people are in a position to conduct such a fight: I have the resources necessary to wage a multi-year court battle, ruinously expensive (tens of thousands of dollars a month) though it is. I also have the means of communication at hand to publicise exactly what is going on. I do so on the behalf of those who are unable to do so.
Regardless of the outcome, I have made arrangements with other jurisdictions — Canadian and elsewhere — to re-establish my licence, in a heartbeat, if the authorities in Ontario succeed in purloining it from me.
I’ll leave it to readers to think through what that would mean for free speech in Canada – and, for that matter, in the rest of the increasingly benighted Western world.
PAUL FROMM – VETERAN CANADIAN NATIONALIST INTERVIEWED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IJfkFTAU8Veteran Canadian Nationalist and Canadian Association for Free Expression director talks to NAB’s Nathan “Stanley” Sykes and Australia First’s Jim Saleam.In a free-range discussion, Paul talks about life under two Trudeaus; being banned from Twitter and America; the mysteries of Kennewick Man; the collapse of Western Society; and the lie about Native oppression
As the morning wore on yesterday in Courtroom Five at the Ottawa Court Building, anticipation and excitement about what might transpire was tamped down by hours of legal housekeeping, most of it brought forward by Crown Tim Radcliffe. He seemed to be struggling with his video evidence and as he did, I spent time studying the mini-community that was taking shape in the gallery.
Behind the Crown on one side, most of legacy media plus professional types focussed on various electronic devices, including phones and laptops. Across the aisle, behind the defense tables many casually attired folks who seemed to have come a long way to support Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. During breaks, everyone was cordial but there wasn’t much mixing. Indy media stuck to themselves and the legacy media types stayed in their own lane. It was clear to see we would be covering the case in different ways. Imagine this happening even five years ago. Unthinkable.
Media, including our documentary crew waiting outside the courthouse.
I couldn’t help feeling it was a microcosm of the country. Like good Canadians, everyone was well behaved but I detected suspicion and the gap between the two sides created and reinforced by our prime minister’s rhetoric was on full display. To be honest, the convoy has exposed a class struggle in this country exacerbated by pols and media who tarnish working people with the usual epithets.
Like the Rodney King case — one of the first where video evidence was paramount, this trial will likely revolve around the thousands of hours shot by citizens and police. The convoy protest was one of the most widely photographed ever given the rise of the cell-phone camera and the growing cadres of citizen journalists who got fed up with legacy media’s bias. But if yesterday is any indication, the Crown is unlikely to produce any gotcha video moments. Constable Craig Barlow presented an 11 minute compilation of videos, some of it police body cam that the Crown must have believed contained inculpatory moments. I didn’t see any and it got worse. From the Ottawa Citizen.
The court was introduced to life in Ottawa during the protests with a 12-minute video of scenes recorded by police from the protest compiled by the first witness in the case, Const. Craig Barlow with the Ottawa police cyber crimes unit.
The sound of revving engines, air horns, chants of “freedom” and “we’re not leaving” filled the Ottawa courtroom as scenes of blocked intersections, large crowds, open fires and Canadian flags played on a large TV screen.
The video also showed a sea of protesters pushing back against police during a massive operation to put an end to the protest.
In her cross-examination, Diane Magas, who is representing Barber, asked Barlow whether he reviewed video of people hugging, games of pickup street hockey, a bouncy castle, and other scenes from the convoy that weren’t included in the compilation video.
When Magus argued to see more than edited snippets and the longer original versions, the video flooded the courtroom with trucker chants of Love not Fear, hardly a scary rallying cry. Justice Heather Perkins-McVey even referred to the phrase in a later discussion. In cross, Magus also asked Barlow if he included any of the video of police hitting protestors in the head. He did not. So she showed it to the court.
As a condition of Tamara’s bail, she is ordered to stay out of the Red Zone in Ottawa unless accompanied by her lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon. That was lifted for lunch yesterday and there will be more talks on-going. I heard from a source there was concern from the Crown Law Office when the bail conditions were originally set, that her presence on the street might trigger locals.
Tamara Lich with her husband Dwayne, yesterday.
And there is some hysteria here. In our hotel, a kindly restaurant worker let loose with a torrent of convoy critiques, including a false tale of a car full of explosives belonging to the protestors. When we mentioned that were this true, there would be criminal charges connected to it and it would have been litigated at the POEC — he defaulted to it’s a secret. And so it goes.
Regardless of what evidence is presented by the Crown at trial, there are a lot of folktales about the protest on a repeat-loop here that perhaps one day an anthropologist can explain.
There was talk last night at dinner that legacy media are doing an OK job covering this case so far. As I said yesterday — perhaps there is a break in our national storm.
I think many people understand what is at stake here, including the judge who is thoughtful and no-nonsense so far. Barber’s lawyer, is going for it. Interesting to watch.
Note: I will be posting Tweets from the courtroom here when I can.
Also – I am quoting from daily news reports for detailed spoken evidence because they are permitted to record the proceedings as they unfold. As an unaccredited journalist, I am not.
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[Maybe that why Dr. Tom Sunic, Dr. Kevin Macdonald, myself and a number of other nationalists who were all purged from Twitter in April have not been reinstated. CAFE retained a lawyer but we’ve had no explanation or satisfaction. As Andrew Torba explains, sadly Elon Musk succumbed to the ADL cenrsors.]
Over the past few days a grassroots campaign popped up on X calling for the platform to ban the ADL. The campaign, united around the hashtag #BantheADL, has been trending on the platform for days with hundreds of thousands of posts.
This campaign comes after the CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, made a post gloating about his organization’s sheer power to control the platform that Elon Musk purchased for tens of billions of dollars last year. Although the #BantheADL campaign effectively highlighted the significant influence the ADL holds in regulating the flow of information online, it is essential to delve into the reasons why Elon Musk cannot remove the ADL from the platform or hinder their effective management of his company, even if he were inclined to do so.
First we have to understand a bit of the context for how a platform like X actually works and is able to exist on the internet along with the inside baseball of how the ADL flexes its power to control massive corporations without owning a single share.
X is built on the rails of multiple third-party services including, but not limited to the Google Cloud infrastructure among others. X has had a partnership with Google Cloud since 2018, and Bloomberg reports that this collaboration has incurred annual expenses ranging from $200 million to $300 million for the company. Jonathan Greenblatt has openly bragged about the ADL’s partnership with Google, YouTube, Facebook, and X, going so far as to change the algorithms of these companies to meet their demands.
With one phone call to Google the ADL can cripple X. If Google pulls the plug on the cloud hosting deal massive parts of X’s critical infrastructure will be down for a long time, possibly the entire platform would be taken offline with one click. We saw this happen in 2020 with Parler when Amazon AWS pulled the plug and the platform was taken offline. They were never able to fully recover and recently shut the platform down completely after it sold to a third-party.
Going after the cloud hosting providers is just the start for the ADL’s ability to utterly destroy X. Next come the app store bans. With that same phone call to Google the ADL could easily highlight the hundreds of thousands of “antisemitic” posts on the platform and point the the #BantheADL posts as their prime example. Don’t put it past them. They likely have multiple studies going on behind the scenes tracking the “rise in hate” on the platform since Elon took over and will use this to present their case.
Without critical infrastructure and the app stores X would be in serious trouble, but Elon may be able to pull off a miracle and keep the platform online. Next come the advertisers. The ADL has close connections with all of the top Fortune 500 companies and will use their mafia-style power to get these companies to pull their ad dollars from X. This has already been going on since the moment Elon took over the platform. X is operating in a cash flow negative situation and reports claim that ad revenue has fallen by a dramatic 50% since Elon took over.
That’s only the beginning. Next the ADL will contact the sitting members of Congress and the Biden White House. We’ll see Elon be summoned to testify in Congress about the rise in “misinformation” and “hate” on the platform since he took over.
Elon is in a unique position because he’s not only running X. He’s also running several other companies including SpaceX and Tesla, both of which require him to appease the Regime and stay within their favor. The ADL can and will go after not only X, but all of Elon’s companies. It’s no coincidence that the CEO of X is having meetings with the ADL just days after the DOJ announced that they were suing SpaceX.
How do I know all of this? Because I lived it–and survived it by the grace of God.
The ADL has been attacking Gab and me for many years. Their smear campaigns against us successfully lobbied dozens of third-party services to deplatform us and cripple our infrastructure. Despite all of their efforts this didn’t stop us. We were able to rebuild our own servers, payment processing, and so much more in order to keep Gab online. It took many years and it wasn’t easy, but we are still standing.
The ADL has also come after me personally. They pay Google to promote their smear articles about me to the top of search results. They lobbied the DOJ to investigate me after January 6th, even though I wasn’t even in attendance. Jonathan Greenblatt went on national television and called me “one of the most toxic people in public life” effectively painting a target on my back.
None of this stopped me.
I don’t fear the ADL. I don’t answer to the ADL. I fear and answer only to God almighty.
The ADL has NO POWER over Gab which is why they hate us. It’s that simple. There is absolutely nothing they can say or do to get us to censor opinions they don’t like and it’s going to stay that way.
Elon has a choice. He can continue to allow this disgusting organization to run his company by proxy without his approval or he can fight back, take a stand like Gab has, and face the consequences head on. He can continue to have his CEO take groveling phone calls and enforce the ADL’s strategy of freedom of speech but not freedom of reach or he can tell them to pound sand. If he can’t run his own business without permission from some ghoulish vampire at the ADL there’s no sense in running a business at all.
For me it was an easy decision.
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus Christ is King of kings
Remembering A Free Speech Martyr & Christian Author, Malcolm Ross
A friend gave me his treasure trove of tapes and book and pamphlets among which are many recordings of CAFE meetings
I listen to a tape in short segments. I am most of the way through the talk given by Malcolm Ross June 25th 1998 “My 10 Year Battle for Vindication.” I’m pretty sure I bought Ross’ book from you at some point. [The book is Cross-Examination: Christianity on Trial –– BY Malcolm Ross fired for his religious writings on abortion and other issues appealed to Canada’s Supreme Court in 1990. This rare book is available for $25.00 plus $10 postage from C-FAR Books, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, CANADA.]
I will be turning the tape-recording in to a transcript. His explanation of the implications of the ruling of the Supremes is shocking a quarter of a century later — astonishing not a scintilla of genuine “evidence” that any real person felt they were in a “poisoned environment” in his classroom. Yet, the Supremes figured out that it was only reasonable to draw the inference of such !!
This, I fear, is what’s going to happen to Bill Whatcott, if he goes through the meatgrinder again. The Bible itself becomes ‘hate literature’ if published anywhere outside some little ‘safe space’ of a building properly registered with the gov’t as a ‘charity’ for purposes of income tax receipts
Ross cites a book to do with the doctrines of modern Juda-ism in which the “Holocaust” is understood to be an essential part of that religion.
There isn’t one person in a million who grasps that. I sure didn’t
What that means for Canada, is, after the recent amendment to section 319 of the Criminal Code, a person can be prosecuted for ‘blasphemy’ against the state-sanctioned religion, if some one of the Jud-aic persuasion, feels his or her dignity has been impugned by his questioning the Hollywood version of World War II.
Report on Freedom Protests in Victoria Outside the B.C. Legislature
After taking a break the previous weekend we were back witnessing against the SCAMdemic at The Legislature last Saturday . The finish line for the tour de Rock bicycle race is our usual spot on Belleville Street. So dissident voices would have been lost in that crowd. I was content to see the usual quorum = 12 warm bodies by 2 pm on the 26th. The rallies with big numbers of attendees are over but we’re still there for the fore-see-able future. … summertime and the livin’ is easy. Langourous safe, prosperous civilized Victoria.
The photo is of me doing what I do. Paraphrasing poet Steppenwolf half a century ago: God Damn the VAX Pusher man. Since 1988, my calling is : the Ministry of Condemnation. In which the medium IS the message : i.e. our presence at the very gates of the City, the Parliament building, condemns the Powers-that-Be provoking the conscience of individuals who walk and drive by. And that irritation accumulates.
Is it worth it? Most certainly, yes. People go crazy in herds. We are helping them to come to their senses one at a time. The SCAMdemic was years in the making : it will take years for us to heal from Boy Trudeau imposing martial law, because he got freaked-out by a bunch of guys parking their big rigs on his territory, ie Auto-Wa-Wa. The tone of feedback from passersby tells the tale. Three years ago, it was one-to-one — negative versus positive reaction. Now, a negative reaction is rare. People stop to thank us and bless us every day. The imaginary world of the Internet is powerful, but not ALLpowerful. Interaction at street level tells us that agreement with the general theme of the Freedom Movement is significant. My guess, is, conservatively, at least one quarter of the public is now, at least willing to consider that the PLANdemic was a HOAX.
My own payoff, is handing out DRUTHERS newspaper at the precinct of the Legislative Assembly. I rejoice in doing so literally right in front of the Charter of Rights sign supplied by Joseph Roberts’ COMMON GROUND. Every copy put in someone’s hand, rebukes the fool, David Eby … once-upon-a time the head of the BC Civil Liberties Association … who, while Attorney General during the COVID19 nightmare, was conspicuous by his absence as we found out how Red Fascism works. In a nutshell ; WorkSafeBC was used as the enforcement goons. Commercial enterprises large and small did what they were told, or they were out of business that day. If David Eby had any scruples, he’d hang his head in shame looking out the window at us asserting Freedom of the Press 100 yards away from the office of the Premier, proving : The Free Press is the People’s Friend, the Tyrant’s Foe
The maxim is : the Lie is halfway ‘round the world before the Truth gets its boots on. Preparing to negate the spell cast by Grand Witch Bonnie Henry took a while. In the avalanche of books, one stands out. CANARY in a COVID WORLD HOW PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP CHANGED OUR ( MY ) WORLD. Elizabeth Woodford has compiled a volume of utmost importance, irrefutable essays exposing the HOAX. If they read it in good faith, this book is all that’s necessary to disabuse someone of the notion that there ever was any substance to the COVID19 myth. Canary House publishing ISBN- 10 1739052536
we need signs
Part of the fun when we started three years ago was hundreds of witty home-made signs blooming spontaneously. Lately, we’re down to just a few. One way you can support the Freedom Movement, is sponsoring a sign that expresses what you want said aloud.
High quality signage is easy to make. If you direct me to a meme / image on the internet that resonates with you, and send me a few bux$ I’ll use it to produce a professional sign at Staples. Or, suggest a line of print = Ideally, 7 words or less. We’ll hold them up at the Leg. and also at Doktor Bonnie’s lair = headquarters of the Min de Health on Quadra St. I will then send you a receipt use-able as a deduction from income tax, via my provincial political party.
I’m well-aware of the opinion that political parties are worse than worthless. Yet, at its best, a party is a proxy and an Agent for personal participation in public life. Especially, it is critical exercise of freedom of expression – the Free Press and of assembly. Another way to be part of the witness against the PLANed-demon-ization, is, by funding DRUTHERS. Send me a contribution, I’ll put it in the account of the Party of Citizens, and forward it to them. Then I’ll send the contributor a receipt useable for deduction from provincial income tax. A similar transaction works for people who wish to support David Lindsay and CLEAR in Kelowna. If you have an idea for funding political activity via the P o’ C, run it by me. If it’s legit. we’ll do it.
The Party of Citizens has a primitive page on FaceBook : Long name > Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think for Ourselves & Be Our Own Politicians. Much truth is said in jest. Sure, it looks like a toy at this point in time. But elections BC took us seriously-enough to register it last week. On that page is a schedule of the bang you get for your bux$s. any amount up to $100 translates into 75% deducted from income tax. Or, if you want to go BIG, a banner is more like $400. Worth $200 off income tax. My contact info. Is at the end of this comment. E~transfers will work to this e-mail address.
Information we get at street level, is in-valuable. The imaginary world of cyberspace has its place. But interacting with real human beings one-to-one has much different effect on our emotions, than sitting in front of a computer screen, in jeopardy of being overwhelmed by the latest fear-porn. For-instance: the rumor that “the masks are coming back”. Well, first sign I saw when we started protesting, was WE’RE NOT HAVING IT!. At the start of their so-called Lockdown, Public health Officer Henry and her cabal with the emotional plague … Dix, Farnworth, Horgan … proclaimed that a GATHERING was illegal pursuant to COVID regulations. We ignored them. Other than discretely waving as they drove by our superspreader EVENTS the Victoria police never said “boo” to us.
That contest was won on September 13 2020, when 1000 warm bodies showed up in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her “mandate” pretended that a GATHERING of more than 50 individuals was illegal. Half an hour before the thing was set to start, there were 100 folks on the public square. I went up to the Police officer in charge and asked “what are you guys going to do?” He said “nothing. The Charter is above the Public Health Act” direct quote. Point being > that decision was not made at street level, on the fly by Sgt. Walter #1928. It must have been made at the very top of the VPD. The Man with the Gun is on our side.
So if the gang of Traitors – lately doing business as the NDP administration – think British Columbians will comply with that INsanity again … they’re right out of touch. We withstood Bonnie’s witchcraft before and we’ll do it again.
August 30th 2023 A. D. Gordon S Watson
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