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Political Prisoner Brad Love to Be Freed, June 15 — Still Not Allowed to Send Mail From Prison

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LINDSAY, Ontario. Political prisoner Brad Love, who has drawn repeated sentences for writing letters to MPs, police chiefs, the media and Jewish groups — none of them threatening, all of them opinionated — will be freed on parole, June 15. He will have spent 11 years in and out of prison, mostly for parole violations (writing more letters). At one point his parole conditions had been expanded by now retired Ontario Judge Hogg so that he was not allowed to write to “any person.” That was in Canada with its hollow Charter of “Rights”, not North Korea.
 
Still the persecution of this opinionated populist working guy and letter writer — 10,000 in over 20 years — contnues in prison.Despite appeals to the Ombudsman, the prison authorities continue to confiscate Mr. Love’s outgoing mail. They tell him it will be in his property when he is released. The Kawartha Lakes Police, who seem to instruct the prison authorities, seem incapable of reading or following court documents. They still maintain that he is under a bail condition, going back to charges last May in Fort McMurray where he was initially banned from “communicating by mail, e-mail or text to any person.” Using material prepared by CAFE, Mr. Love went back to court in July and had these Stalinist conditions amended so that he was only banned from communicating with several media persons and politicians who were the instigators of a “harassment” charge.

 

 

 

 
 
Nevertheless, Mr. Love was charged last fall with “breach of undertaking” (bail conditions) for, incredibly, writing to his own lawyer! After several Court appearances and the production of the Fort McMurray Court transcripts, an Ontario court dismissed the charges on February 5. But the police harassment continues. Mr. Love comments: “I have never seen cops look through bail transcripts for something to get you on. Crime and drugs are everywhere, but these losers worry about a writer who doesn’t even live in this shit hole Third World province!”
 
In another form of harassment, the prison authorities go through his incoming mail with a fine tooth comb. He was recently advised that they were detaining an envelope of newspaper clippings from supporters in Winnipeg. The reason — “too much paper”!
 
Even worse, Mr. Love reports, “My brother visited me in March and was not let in. He sent me $200 by mail and it was returned to him.
Mr. Love’s own lawyer told him “your case receives more police and judicial scrutiny than bank robbery cases.” But, then, that’s not surprising. Political prisoners are always treated more harshly. They are seen as a real threat. Bank robbers just steal money, drug pushers just sell drugs and the State doesn’t get its cut, but people with political ideas might actually change people’s opinions and lead to real change.
On June 15, Mr. Love will walk free but he will not really be free. The judicial Beast will continue to gag him. On July 12, 2012, Judge Kelly Write imposed the following Stalinist gag order: “”Mr.  Love is to refrain from any political speech or commentary to any media outlet, political, cultural or religious group or organization, or police organization, except with the express written permission of a political or religious organization that welcomes him as a member or associate and with the permission of his probation officer.”

Photo: Political Prisoner Brad Love to Be Freed, June 15 -- Still Not Allowed to Send Mail From Prison LINDSAY, Ontario. Political prisoner Brad Love, who has drawn repeated sentences for writing letters to MPs, police chiefs, the media and Jewish groups -- none of them threatening, all of them opinionated -- will be freed on parole, June 15. He will have spent 11 years in and out of prison, mostly for parole violations (writing more letters). At one point his parole conditions had been expanded by now retired Ontario Judge Hogg so that he was not allowed to write to "any person." That was in Canada with its hollow Charter of "Rights", not North Korea. Still the persecution of this opinionated populist working guy and letter writer -- 10,000 in over 20 years -- contnues in prison.Despite appeals to the Ombudsman, the prison authorities continue to confiscate Mr. Love's outgoing mail. They tell him it will be in his property when he is released. The Kawartha Lakes Police, who seem to instruct the prison authorities, seem incapable of reading or following court documents. They still maintain that he is under a bail condition, going back to charges last May in Fort McMurray where he was initially banned from "communicating by mail, e-mail or text to any person." Using material prepared by CAFE, Mr. Love went back to court in July and had these Stalinist conditions amended so that he was only banned from communicating with several media persons and politicians who were the instigators of a "harassment" charge. Nevertheless, Mr. Love was charged last fall with "breach of undertaking" (bail conditions) for, incredibly, writing to his own lawyer! After several Court appearances and the production of the Fort McMurray Court transcripts, an Ontario court dismissed the charges on February 5. But the police harassment continues. Mr. Love comments: "I have never seen cops look through bail transcripts for something to get you on. Crime and drugs are everywhere, but these losers worry about a writer who doesn't even live in this shit hole Third World province!" In another form of harassment, the prison authorities go through his incoming mail with a fine tooth comb. He was recently advised that they were detaining an envelope of newspaper clippings from supporters in Winnipeg. The reason -- "too much paper"! Even worse, Mr. Love reports, "My brother visited me in March and was not let in. He sent me $200 by mail and it was returned to him. Mr. Love's own lawyer told him "your case receives more police and judicial scrutiny than bank robbery cases." But, then, that's not surprising. Political prisoners are always treated more harshly. They are seen as a real threat. Bank robbers just steal money, drug pushers just sell drugs and the State doesn't get its cut, but people with political ideas might actually change people's opinions and lead to real change. On June 15, Mr. Love will walk free but he will not really be free. The judicial Beast will continue to gag him. On July 12, 2012, Judge Kelly Write imposed the following Stalinist gag order: ""Mr. Love is to refrain from any political speech or commentary to any media outlet, political, cultural or religious group or organization, or police organization, except with the express written permission of a political or religious organization that welcomes him as a member or associate and with the permission of his probation officer."
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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.

 

I was asked to testify last September at the Warman v Mark and Connie Fournier libel trial. It went dreadfully wrong. The Fourniers and two other bloggers lost and were hit with a judgement of $143,000, which included hefty costs to pay Richard Warman’s legal bills. They are appealing. Canadian libel law is so loosey goosy that a website owner can be made liable for comments posted by anonymous writers on the site. Another libel case involving the Fourniers is now in progress. Marc Lemire reports: “Defamation law in Canada is a glaring example of the archaic state of our laws. This week in an Ottawa courtroom, two Internet bloggers – who both use pseudonyms – are going to state their case before a judge.  In one corner is the defendant, an inveterate blogger who uses the pseudonym Peter O’Donnell (AKA Roger Smith) who is being sued for saying that another pseudonym “Dr Dawg” (AKA John Baglow) is “one of the Taliban’s more vocal supporters”.  And caught in the middle are Mark and Connie Fournier who ran a message board called FreeDominion, where one alias apparently defamed another alias in a back and forth message thread.” CAFÉ is beginning to lobby for changes to this law.

 

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.

 

 

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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.

 

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Political Prisoner Brad Love Turned Down For Parole & All Outgoing Mail is Stopped

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LINDSAY, March 5, 2014 “I have urged political prisoner Brad Love to change his name to WeiGuang Love, profess a fascination for carving off people’s heads and eating their flesh and then plead that his bizarre behaviour is caused by voices speaking to him,” says Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression which has advocated for Mr. Love for over a decade. ” In that case, Canada’s nutty ‘justice’ system wouldn’t be able to get rid of him fast enough or, as they put it, ‘re-integrate him into society.'”
 
 
Photo: Political Prisoner Brad Love Turned Down For Parole & All Outgoing Mail is Stopped LINDSAY, March 5, 2014 "I have urged political prisoner Brad Love to change his name to WeiGuang Love, profess a fascination for carving off people's heads and eating their flesh and then plead that his bizarre behaviour is caused by voices speaking to him," says Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression which has advocated for Mr. Love for over a decade. " In that case, Canada's nutty 'justice' system wouldn't be able to get rid of him fast enough or, as they put it, 're-integrate him into society.'" However, Brad isn't the Chinese cannibal and the voices he hears are not from some whacked out deity mumbling to him but his own conscience and passionate concern for the land where he was born. "I hadn't heard from Mr. Love for over a month," Mr. Fromm reports. "This is unusual as he sends frequent letters. About a week ago, I called his brother and determined that Brad was well and still looking forward to a date being set for his appeal against a draconian 18-month sentence for 'breach of probation' (sending information to several Toronto Jewish groups), where the usual punishment for such a minor infraction is 30 days." On March 4, Brad Love called CAFE with double disappointing news. For the past month all -- well one or two letters did sneak through -- his outgoing mail to friends and supporters across Canada has been held by the prison authorities. Despite the fact that Peter Lindsay, Mr. Love's lawyer, has provided transcripts and documentation that a North Korean-style bail condition imposed in another matter last May in Alberta, that he not "communicate by post, e-mail or text" to any person, had been modified and no longer applies, and despite the fact that, on February 4 the Crown withdrew a charge of "breach of undertaking" (bail conditions) in this matter, referring to a letter Mr. Love had sent to his own lawyer, the message hasn't apparently reached other wings of the "justice" system. The system reminds one of the legendary dinosaur with a brain in his tail and that it took many minutes for an impulse, say something seen, to travel to the beast's far off brain. On February 3, the Crown, now presented with the documentation which confirmed what Mr. Love had asserted all along, withdrew the charges. However, the message still hasn't reached the beast's tail-bound brain. On March 4, Mr. Love was turned down for parole. He was actually due for parole in December -- after serving one third of his sentence. However, because he has the bogus "breach" charge hanging over him, he could not apply. His hearing was March 4. The parole board panel scolded him: "Mr. Love, when did you intend to stop writing letters?" BUT, one almost wants to scream at the slow witted beast, "HE IS NOT FORBIDDEN TO WRITE LETTERS." As in the old Soviet Union, the "politicos" are always treated the most harshly. If he were Vincent WeiGuang Li, the system wouldn't be able to release Brad fast enough. (The human cannibal was recently granted unescorted day passes and will no longer have to stay in a secure ward -- all this just six years after he beheaded and partially ate Tim McLean, a fellow bus passenger he had never met. Those pesky voices, you know, told him to do so. On March 4, Peter Lindsay filed for a date for the appeal against Mr. Love's sentence, which is nearly half served. Much evil is done in the name of "security". We can't send political prisoner Brad Love books -- he's a voracious reader. So, CAFE is sending him Pat Buchanan's book Suicide of a Superpower, chapter by chapter, one a week. The pages are reduced, four to one side of a letter-size piece of paper and printed on both sides of the paper. On March 5, we received a form from the prison. We won't deign to call this unsigned fill-in the blanks piece of paper a letter. Dated, February 27, it advised that "per the Ministry of Correctional Services Act (R.R.R.O, 1991, Reg. 778,s. 17(1), letters with stickers, significant amount of correction fluid, or attachment(s) adhered with glue ... are not accepted." The original printed was smudged in several places. So, several thin strips of paper with a more legible copy of the smudged line of print had been lightly glued over the original. Apparently, not acceptable. Are you feeling any safer yet? A newsy personal letter had accompanied the chapter reprint. It too was returned. The CEEC form further stated: "The CEEC [Central East Correctional Centre] will not separate the contents of any envelope. It is your responsibility to make efforts to prevent this type of unacceptable material to be transmitted through correspondence at CEEC." In other words, the well paid "security department" and snoops are just too damned lazy to hand the unobjectionable letter on to the prisoner. No we don't expect prisons to be a vacation. Yes, many of the liberties of the inmates are curtailed, but the receipt of mail is not just a human right but it is also important for prisoner morale and, very likely, for reducing frustration and tension in the institution.

However, Brad isn’t the Chinese cannibal and the voices he hears are not from some whacked out deity mumbling to him but his own conscience and passionate concern for the land where he was born.
 
“I hadn’t heard from Mr. Love for over a month,” Mr. Fromm reports. “This is unusual as he sends frequent letters. About a week ago,  I called his brother and determined that Brad was well and still looking forward to a date being set for his appeal against a draconian 18-month sentence for ‘breach of probation’ (sending information to several Toronto Jewish groups), where the usual punishment for such a minor infraction is 30 days.”
 
On March 4, Brad Love called CAFE with double disappointing news. For the past month all — well one or two letters did sneak through — his outgoing mail to friends and supporters across Canada has been held by the prison authorities. Despite the fact that Peter Lindsay, Mr. Love’s lawyer, has provided transcripts and documentation that a North Korean-style bail condition  imposed in another matter last May in Alberta, that he not “communicate by post, e-mail or text” to any person, had been modified and no longer applies, and despite the fact that, on February 4 the Crown withdrew a charge of “breach of undertaking” (bail conditions) in this matter, referring to a letter Mr. Love had sent to his own lawyer, the message hasn’t apparently reached other wings of the “justice” system. The system reminds one of the legendary dinosaur with a brain in his tail and that it took many minutes for an impulse, say something seen, to travel to the beast’s far off brain.
 
On February 3, the Crown, now presented with the documentation which confirmed what Mr. Love had asserted all along, withdrew the charges. However, the message still hasn’t reached the beast’s tail-bound brain.
 
On March 4, Mr. Love was turned down for parole. He was actually due for parole in December — after serving one third of his sentence. However, because he has the bogus “breach” charge hanging over him, he could not apply. His hearing was March 4. The parole board panel scolded him: “Mr. Love, when did you intend to stop writing letters?” BUT, one almost wants to scream at the slow witted beast, “HE IS NOT FORBIDDEN TO WRITE LETTERS.”
 
As in the old Soviet Union, the “politicos” are always treated the most harshly. If he were Vincent WeiGuang Li, the system wouldn’t be able to release Brad fast enough. (The human cannibal was recently granted unescorted day passes and will no longer have to stay in a secure ward — all this just six years after he beheaded and partially ate Tim McLean, a fellow bus passenger he had never met. Those pesky voices, you know, told him to do so.
 
On March 4, Peter Lindsay filed for a date for the appeal against Mr. Love’s sentence, which is nearly half served.
 
Much evil is done in the name of “security”. We can’t send political prisoner Brad Love books — he’s a voracious reader. So, CAFE is sending him Pat Buchanan’s book Suicide of a Superpower, chapter by chapter, one a week. The pages are reduced, four to one side of a letter-size piece of paper and printed on both sides of the paper.
 
On March 5, we received a form from the prison. We won’t deign to call this unsigned fill-in the blanks piece of paper a letter. Dated, February 27, it advised that “per the Ministry of Correctional Services Act (R.R.R.O, 1991, Reg. 778,s. 17(1), letters with stickers, significant amount of correction fluid, or attachment(s) adhered with glue … are not accepted.” The original printed was smudged in several places. So, several thin strips of paper with a more legible copy of the smudged line of print had been lightly glued over the original. Apparently, not acceptable.
 
Are you feeling any safer yet?
 
A newsy personal letter had accompanied the chapter reprint. It too was returned. The CEEC form  further stated: “The CEEC [Central East Correctional Centre] will not separate the contents of any envelope. It is your responsibility to make efforts to prevent this type of unacceptable material to be transmitted through correspondence at CEEC.” In other words, the well paid “security department” and snoops are just too damned lazy to hand the unobjectionable letter on to the prisoner.
 
No we don’t expect prisons to be a vacation. Yes, many of the liberties of the inmates are curtailed, but the receipt of mail is not just a human right but it is also important for prisoner morale and, very likely, for reducing frustration and tension in the institution.

Small Victory: Political Prisoner Brad Love Can Now Write His Lawyer

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LINDSAY, Ontario, February 3, 2014. Four court appearances and over two months after the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged Canadian political prisoner Brad Love (already in jail for writing letters) with breach of bail conditions for writing a letter to his own lawyer, the Crown withdrew the charge this morning. Mr. Love can now legally write letters.

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 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.

Photo: Brad Love -- Another Two Weeks in Jail Waiting for the Crown to Get Documents LINDSAY, January 20, 2014. At mid-afternoon, the court could hear the clanging of chains from behind the door leading down to the cells. Brad Love's distinctive voice could be heard talking to the two burly prison guards in bulletproof vests. The door opened and there was the prisoner in leg chains -- a dangerous letter writer, accused of sending a letter to his lawyer! 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. Bail conditions stemming from a charge last May for sending "scurrilous material" and harassing several media people and politicians in Fort McMurray 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. The Crown, however, despite Mr. Love's court appearances December 19 and January 2, seems unable to locate the transcript of the order. Crown prosecutor Lucas O'Neil said: "I understand the issue is whether there was a variation. Since the last court date [thanks to Peter Lindsay, Mr. Love's lawyer in the appeal] we have received a certified copy of the information and it's our belief the condition remains in effect. I can advise that I will review the file and reconsider before we go to trial. I would accept a guilty plea and a three month sentence consecutive with the time already served." Mr. O'Neil charged that Mr. Love "had been cautioned about the conditions on the recognisance on November 19 by an investigative officer with the OPP. Yet, still he wrote a letter to his lawyer and inside was a second envelope with letters to the Toronto Star and MPs, with a handwritten note asking that these letters be forwarded." Mr. Love, acting as his own counsel, retorted: "Any mail from prison to my lawyer is privileged under the Charter of Rights and freedoms. On July 11, I was granted an oral amendment of my bail conditions. It is being transcribed as we speak. Eighteen days ago, the Crown told me to breach what they are arguing is my recognisance by contacting my lawyer" to obtain the transcripts from Fort McMurray! Mr. Love urged the judge to dismiss the charge and complained: "I still have no appeal date. This matter has been going on far too long. This charge is holding up my appeal." Referring to the offer of a guilty plea and three months in prison, Mr. Love rejected the deal: "Three months is a little harsh for a breach, when others get far less for violent acts." The judge Mr. Justice McDougall said: "There is no such thing as an oral amendment." Mr. Love said the transcript of the July 11 hearing and amendment was being prepared in Alberta." The judge then asked the Crown a hitherto unconsidered question that struck a layman as painfully obvious: "Did anyone ever ask if this order was over-reaching?" -- a polite way of saying wildly unjust and unfair." The Crown seemed flustered: "Mr. Love agreed to it" (in order to obtain his freedom and return to work). I can make some further inquiries." A frustrated Mr. Love demanded: "I want this settled today. Nothing in the court documents sent from For McMurray deals with the July 11 hearing. This matter is holding up my life. I ask that the charge be withdrawn." "I cannot do that," said Crown O'Neil. "I will make further inquiries about the oral variation." So, the matter was put over until February 3. Speaking to CAFE the next day, Mr. Love described a case where a prisoner was charged with assaulting police. The Crown wanted a 55 day sentence. Yet, for writing a letter to his own lawyer, the Crown was demanding 90 days for Mr. Love. Political dissidents in Canada are always treated more harshly than violent run-of-the-mill criminals. . Reviewing the previous day in Court, Mr. Love said: "I got them to admit they had opened my mail sent to my lawyer from prison." He also said that, when he appeared before the judge in Alberta, July 11, the judge agreed that the condition that Mr. Love was not to write, e-mail or text anyone was extreme. The amendment of the bail condition was oral, but "it is now being transcribed into paperwork,. Peter Lindsay has paid for it to be transcribed." In another development, Mr. Love had complained to the Ontario Ombudsman's office about the opening of his mail to his lawyer. "I received a snarky answer: 'Mr. Love you are under Court order not to write or contact anyone!'" Actually, the original bail conditions only prohibited writing, not phone calls. -- Paul Fromm

 

The Crown, however, despite Mr. Love’s court appearances  December 19 and January 2, seemed unable to locate the transcript of the order.

Mr. Lindsay finally obtained the transcript of the more reasonable bail conditions and today the Crown withdrew the charge.

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!

This is a minor victory in a 12-year saga of legal harassment of a non-violent dissident whose only “crime” is writing non-violent letters to media or public officials.

 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

If You Missed Paul Fromm on the Don Black Show Brad Love Persecuting Free Speech, Check Out the Archives

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AFP Radio: Paul Fromm Discusses the Bizarre Case of Canadian Political Prisoner Brad Love

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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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Brad Love Back in Court, January 20, Charged For Writing to His Lawyer

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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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The decade long saga of state persecution of inveterate letter writer Brad Love reached a new low this week, when he was charged with writing a letter to his own lawyer
 
 Brad Love called me from prison this morning and reported that, on November 28, police arrived at the prison in Lindsay where he’s being held pending an appeal of the 18-month sentence he was handed for breach of probation.
 
He was charged with violating an Alberta bail undertaking or condition forbidding him to write, text or e-mail to any person. [Yes, that was a condition for freedom pending trial in Alberta, not North Korea!] In July, Brad went back to Court and had the bail conditions amended so that he could write to anyone, except the parties to whom  he was charged with sending “scurrilous” political material.

Brad Love, letter writer & oil
patch worker in Fort McMurray
 
“The cops are just bullies,” Mr. Love told me. “They arrest the free speech guy in jail for writing to his own lawyer about free speech. It’s crazy! I told them to check the paper work. I’m allowed to write to my own lawyer” Peter Lindsay, and, indeed, anyone other than certain politicians and media people in Fort McMurray.”
 
Further, Mr. Love reported, a fellow inmate who had sent out some letters for Bad was warned: “You could be getting out of here soon. You’d better have nothing to do with Brad!”
 
Mr. Love is scheduled to appear in Court in Lindsay on December 12 to answer the “breach” charge.
 
If you would like to give permission to Brad Love to write to you, call Kevin Nesbit, Deputy Superintendent (Operations) for the prison and give your name and address and our permission for Brad to send you letters. The phone number is 705-328-6000.
 
You can write to political prisoner Brad Love, one of our “men behind the wire” at:
 
  1. Brad Love [557137416]
  3. C.E.C.C.,
  5. 541 Highway 36,
  7. Box 4500,
  9. Lindsay, ON.,
  11. 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.

 

Political Prisoner, Brad Love, Not Allowed to Receive or Send Mail

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The establishment persecution of political prisoner Brad Love continues. He’s an enthusiastic correspondent and letter writer. I’ve been getting a letter or call from him about every 10 days since Ontario’s malignant legal establishment threw him back in prison in July. For the past month, he’s gone silent. Worried, I talked to his brother Matt today and learned the shocking news. “They have cut off all his mail, in and out,” Matt reported.
While many of his fellow prisoners while away their time watching television or semi-comatose on the medications freely ladled out by the authorities, Brad prefers to read and write. Can’t have that. Better be a compliant zombie than a dissident thinker in politically correct Canada.
 
Brad Love, a decade after his conviction under Canada’s notorious “hate law” (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) for writing non-threatening letters to public officials criticizing Canada’s immigration mess, is still mired in the toils of repression. In July 2012, for sending some information packages to some Toronto Jewish groups, he was sentenced to a further 18 months in prison, plus a further three year gag order from writing letters to the media or politicians. He applied for bail; pending an appeal. In July, 2013, this bail was arbitrarily revoked. So, for the past four months, he’s languished in jail, again for nothing more than the non-violent expression of his populist, no nonsense working guy  views,.
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 Brad was employed in a lucrative job in Alberta’s tar sands in Fort McMurray. The arbitrary imprisonment punishes him for his views, denies him an income and, ironically, denies the state a hefty junk of his pay in taxes.
Brad Love after addressing CAFE Meeting in Toronto, April, 2013/Photo: Political Prisoner, Brad Love, Not Allowed to Receive or Send Mail The establishment persecution of political prisoner Brad Love continues. He's an enthusiastic correspondent and letter writer. I've been getting a letter or call from him about every 10 days since Ontario's malignant legal establishment threw him back in prison in July. For the past month, he's gone silent. Worried, I talked to his brother Matt today and learned the shocking news. "They have cut off all his mail, in and out," Matt reported. While many of his fellow prisoners while away their time watching television or semi-comatose on the medications freely ladled out by the authorities, Brad prefers to read and write. Can't have that. Better be a compliant zombie than a dissident thinker in politically correct Canada. Brad Love, a decade after his conviction under Canada's notorious "hate law" (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) for writing non-threatening letters to public officials criticizing Canada's immigration mess, is still mired in the toils of repression. In July 2012, for sending some information packages to some Toronto Jewish groups, he was sentenced to a further 18 months in prison, plus a further three year gag order from writing letters to the media or politicians. He applied for bail; pending an appeal. In July, 2013, this bail was arbitrarily revoked. So, for the past four months, he's languished in jail, again for nothing more than the non-violent expression of his populist, no nonsense working guy views,. . Brad was employed in a lucrative job in Alberta's tar sands in Fort McMurray. The arbitrary imprisonment punishes him for his views, denies him an income and, ironically, denies the state a hefty junk of his pay in taxes

Further Update on Political Prisoner Brad Love’s Being Denied Mail

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Political prisoner Brad Love called me collect this morning from prison. He confirmed that he is not allowed to send ANY mail out. His mail was held, without explanation, for over a month (October 15-November 18). He is now receiving mail. So, please send this “man behind the wire” — jailed solely for sending non-threatening letters to thin skinned ethnic lobby groups or politicians — a note or card.

He was called into the prison management’s office on November 19 and breezily informed: “Love, there’s a court order saying you’re not allowed to receive any mail.” Where do they find these prison personnel? In a country with a bogus “Charter of Rights and Freedoms” — really minority special privileges and rights that governments can cancel at a moment’s notice “for a good reason,” of course — and a tradition of individual RIGHTS guaranteed under our Anglo-Saxon legal traditions, you’d think the authorities might wonder: “There must be some mistake.”

Well, yes and no. There was, indeed, such as North Korean-like bail condition imposed on Mr. Love in Fort McMurray Alberta last May when he was charged with sending “scurrilous” material through the mail — strongly worded letters to the press and politicians about political matters. HOWEVER, in July, using arguments CAFE helped to prepare, Mr. Love went back to Court and had these conditions amended so that he can write to anyone, except the several individuals named in the criminal complaint.

the prison authorities also made vague threats to Mr. Love, saying he was writing “too many letters” and, if he didn’t desist, he could find himself spending more time in prison.

Brad Love [557137416]

 

C.E.C.C.,

 

541 Highway 36,

 

Box 4500,

 

Lindsay, ON.,

 

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.

Brad Love, a decade after his conviction under Canada’s notorious “hate law” (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) for writing non-threatening letters to public officials criticizing Canada’s immigration mess, is still mired in the toils of repression. In July 2012, for sending some information packages to some Toronto Jewish groups, he was sentenced to a further 18 months in prison, plus a further three year gag order from writing letters to the media or politicians. He applied for bail; pending an appeal. In July, 2013, this bail was arbitrarily revoked. So, for the past four months, he’s languished in jail, again for nothing more than the non-violent expression of his populist, no nonsense working guy views.

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Brad was employed in a lucrative job in Alberta’s tar sands in Fort McMurray. The arbitrary imprisonment punishes him for his views, denies him an income and, ironically, denies the state a hefty junk of his pay in taxes.

Brad Love after addressing CAFE Meeting in Toronto, April, 2013/