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Freedom Rallies in the Okanagan, January 28-29, February 4. Freedom Convoy Tribute; SOGI & The WEF: Stop the Transgender Agenda Protest
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Rally’s and Events
“It Ain’t Over”
Note: We were unable to get our newsletter out last week due to major scheduling issues, that unfortunately are continuing into this week. Hopefully we will be back to normal next week, in time for our Feb. 4 Rally!
Important Changes
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Heraclitus
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean
Hi everyone. As announced at our last rally, we are making a few changes. To begin, we are going to have rallies on the first Saturday of every month, as opposed to each Saturday. Time and location remain the same: Stuart Park at 12:00 p.m.
Our first rally was January 7, 2023, with special speakers Steve Merrill from Sun City Silver & Gold, and Lindsay Gabelhouse, Journalist and Consultant, both from Kelowna!
The next rally will be February 4, 2023. Speakers:
Dominic from Prince George with updates from the North!!!
Donald Lee, Author What the Hell is Going On? https://www.cominghomespirit.com/
We are also going to begin shortly with CLEAR meetings indoors to
permit us to work more effectively on freedom related issues. More info to come in this regard.
We will continue to do special rallies and marches when necessary or beneficial to do so, as well as other public activities in support of freedom. This includes the huge Saturday, January 28, 2023 Truckers Tribute Convoy.
Our objective is simply to be more effective in opposing Gov’t tyranny. Our rallies have inspired so many people and have set fire under the gov’ts for almost three years. The ongoing attempts to shut us down, which continue to fail, demonstrate an ongoing fear by all Governments of the public attention we are raising on these issues. Remember too, they do not know the extent of our efforts and this frightens them even more. I cannot begin to tell you the number of people who have thanked us for our rallies and continued opposition to these corrupt gov’ts, and the inspiration we have provided to so many people, not only in Kelowna but throughout BC and Canada. Everyone coming to our rallies and participating in our activities, has contributed to this success.
Now we need to be more effective and begin more direct work against these tyrants in power.
Our objective remains freedom – we now will approach that objective from several directions. We are definitely going to require more volunteers and ideas. We hope you will continue to support us as we move forward this year.
We remain available at clear2012@pm.me for your questions and suggestions.
In freedom
David and the CLEAR Team
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NOTICE: The Geoengineering and Chem Trail event on Thursday, January 26, 2028, has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances, likely until sometime in later February now.
From: Geoengineeringfreecanada.com/
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Convoy Route: NOTE: Approximate times only
Arrive Location Leave
8:30 a.m. McCurdy Mall Kelowna Hwy 97 & McCurdy 9:10 a.m.
Arrivals also from Salmon Arm, Vernon, Armstrong, and Kelowna
9:45 a.m. Superstore West Kelowna 3020 Louie Dr. Turn R on Butt Road 10:15 a.m.
Osoyoos/Penticton to meet us here
Arrivals from S. Okanagan
Take the Connector to Merritt
Vehicles will proceed slowly to permit catch-up, then Hwy speed
Loon Lake Road — Washroom Break L. side of Hwy
11:30 a.m. Arrive Gravel Pit Merritt 12:00 p.m.
At traffic light at bottom of hill coming off the connector, go straight and take second left into Godey
Pitts
Tour through Merritt
12:30 p.m. Leave to Kamloops
1:30 p.m. Petro Canada, Copperhead Exit – Rest Kamloops 2:10 p.m.
3:15 Salmon Arm Location Stop at the Mall (Location?) 3:30 p.m.
Leave via Hwy 1 east to Hwy 97B, turn right
Junction Hwy 97B and 97A – turn right onto Hwy 97A
Continue through Enderby, Armstrong
4:30 Vernon – travel straight through
6:00 p.m. END – McCurdy Corner Kelowna End and socialize
Lead car: Lou
Tail car: Sarah Both lead cars to have two people so one person can communicate with others
Meeting Place For South Okanagan Convoy Participants
8:00 a.m. Convoy Participants from Osoyoos, Oliver and Penticton to meet at the corner of Warren Ave
and Main Street in Penticton.
(Please arrive on time as we could be delayed by 20 minutes due to construction on Hwy 97 just
north of Summerland. It important for the convoy to leave at 8:15 am sharp)
8:15 a.m. sharp Leave Penticton heading to Westbank
9:30-9:45 a.m Arrive Superstore parking lot, 3020 Louie Drive, Westbank
Turn left onto Butt Road and take 3rd exit at roundabout to Superstore parking lot.
Meet up with Convoy from Kelowna.
Supported by: CLEAR & The Resistance
And there’s more in Alberta!!!
Postponed
https://t.me/+0lJmFC2yUtcwMWQx
https://www.geoengineeringfreecanada.com/
JOIN THE COALITION FOR A GEOENGINEERING FREE CANADA
Contact Bettina
Email: geonegineeringfreecanada@proton.me
Geoengineering Free Canada | Facebook
This group is to educate people and try to put a stop to the geoengineering and poisonous chemtrails they spray in our skies.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1780830142282917/?mibextid=6NoCDW
Jan. 28, 2023
For those who cannot come to the convoy
Drag Queen story hour …
Promotes the sexualization of children and exposes them to transgender ideology.
A common attribute of Drag Queens is that they have been found to possess a criminal back ground for child pornography and pedophilia.
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Please join us Saturday 28 January
at the Kelowna Public Library
1380 Ellis St at 10 am
to register your disapproval
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11-year-old ‘drag kid’ dances in popular NYC gay club as patrons toss money at him – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
WATCH: Disturbing Videos Show Famous 12-Year-Old Drag Queen Pretending To Snort Ketamine, Interviewing With Convicted Killer | The Daily Wire
Bombshell: Another Drag Queen Story Hour Member Exposed as Pedophile, Report Says – NewsWars
Judge who headed ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ sponsor arrested on child porn charges | Fox News
Pennsylvania Drag Queen Who Performed For Children Charged With 25 Counts Of Child Pornography | The Daily Caller
Pedophiles Running Drag Queen Story Hour, And Other Unsurprising Revelations | Ep. 682 (rumble.com)
NOTE
Bill C-4 makes it a criminal offence for a parent or guardian to advise a child NOT to undergo the process of gender transition.
This includes chemical castration, sterilization, the use of hormonal drugs, and the mutilation of genitalia.
Authority to make these decisions for your child is now in the hands of your Canadian government, schools and court rooms.
Action4Canada (https://action4canada.com/urgent-call-to-action-stop-the-sexualization-of-our-children)
Urgent Call to Action Stop the Sexualization of Our Children | Action4Canada
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Sign this Petition NOW! 45 332 signatures to date!
NATIONAL CITIZENS’ INQUIRY LAUNCHED
PRESTON MANNING ANNOUNCES NCI FROM PARLIAMENT
We need a truly independent inquiry – not some committee where the arbitrator is appointed and the terms and conditions set out by the Prime Dictator of Canada.
Here is the Petition:
Also:
Be a witness – do something!!!
Sunday Paper Deliveries
Next delivery day: Jan. 29/23
(Weather Permitting)
| Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day |
Pick the time that works for you:
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at
11:30 am
OR 1:45 pm
- Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except the odd snowman.
- We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
- Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
- Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
- You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
- We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
- Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
Sign up as a Volunteer to participate in one of the many focus groups we will be organizing at our inaugural January meeting. Time to roll up your sleeves, take off the gloves and get your hands dirty!
Look for the sign-up sheet at the CLEAR booth on Saturday, Jan. 7th or contact Linda at delindalou@pm.me
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
- Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAPS!
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
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Notices of Liability for Accountability
In last fall’s survey, most rally attendees indicated that they check out what’s available at the CLEAR booth although some don’t. Seven people indicated they were not aware of the Notices of Liability (NOL) or didn’t know how to use one. The reason David decided to have a booth at the rallies was not to irritate Bylaw (who should be respecting our lawful, constitutional right to protest), but to provide a sheltered location that offers educational resources for Freedom Activists. And many of those resources resulted from the hard labour of Action4Canada. Hundreds of copies of these NOL’s were printed and available for free for your convenience. There is an NOL for almost every imaginable situation and as a Freedom Activist, these are tools you can use to educate fellow citizens.
During lockdowns, most individuals were/are following government mandates out of fear/ignorance. When you give them an NOL, you are helping to educate them about the Plandemic reality with factual information about our Canadian laws that are being violated by their actions. They are presented with a choice to either stand up to government bullying tactics and not discriminate against others, or to cower from intimidation and eventually suffer the consequences.
Twenty-four people indicated they had success with the NOL’s while eight said they didn’t. For those eight who didn’t have positive results, give yourself a pat on the back anyway because you made the effort. It was not in vain because the people you served have now been educated and are consciously breaking the law at the expense of their own humanity. There are MANY things you can do if your NOL seems to fall on deaf ears:
- You can follow up by laying charges
- You can serve (or mail) another NOL to their boss
- You can serve (or mail) one to the head of the company
- You can serve (or mail) it to their Union Rep
- You can boycott their business and share their discriminatory behaviour with all your contacts
- You can post bad reviews online about this place
- You can organize a protest in front of their business
- You can pull your child out of the school or activity that is controlled by this individual
You get the idea. Be creative. Whatever you do, never back down. Demanding accountability means acting “like a dog with a bone.” In my battles, I am constantly hitting brick walls. The government bureaucracy is comprised of all kinds of redundant agencies where nobody answers the phone, voice mail messages are forwarded to a government “black hole,” government procedures and timelines are not followed, inquiries are bounced around from department to department with no one knowing the answer, etc… The state of all government-run services is absolutely deplorable. It has been deteriorating to this point over decades, accelerated by the Plandemic. Your job as an activist is to expose this mess and the corruption behind it. The more light we shine on these establishments that waste taxpayer money and do not provide the services they claim, the faster they will crumble to the ground.
We still have many printed copies of the notices at the CLEAR booth. If we don’t have the one you want, many others are available here: https://action4canada.com/covid-liability-notices/ as well as a video explaining how to serve them. Come visit the booth at the next rally on February 4th and pick up an NOL. Nobody likes confrontations. But in this war, no confrontation = acquiescence = slavery. Think about that.
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Action4Canada
Know Your Rights:
Guidelines for Peaceful Protesting/Gathering/Rallies and/or Attending Events (eg. Council Meetings, School Boards, Handing out Flyers)
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https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective
From Vaccine Choice Canada
Please obtain a copy from Tom at Saturday’s Kelowna Rallies and pass along to informed and uninformed alike!
Or watch here:
https://librti.com/uninformed-consent
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash.
Withdraw money on Sunday from the bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
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Contact Unity Health & Sciences Team to volunteer to distribute their professional brochures and Medical Doctor Packages throughout your home area, and to your medical doctor!
Not every doctor, analyst, and specialist is on the gov’t side and many have strong science and personal experiences opposing the gov’t narrative.
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New signs???
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
Digital currency and no cash
Climate change fraud
Further health, property, rights and freedoms restrictions
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CLEARBITS:
This will be updated again next week.
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Including our own media
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Freedom Rallies
“It ain’t over till it’s over”
Next Kelowna Rally:
Saturday,
February 4, 2023
Speakers:
Dominic Exciting updates from Prince George
Donald Lee Author
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January 28, 2023 12:00 noon
Vernon Freedom Rally
12:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. @ Polson Park
Join Darren for the Largest rally in the North Okanagan, and growing weekly!
North Okanagan Shuswap Freedom Radio
http://s1.voscast.com:11464/stream
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January 28, 2023 11:30 a.m.
OK Falls Freedom Rally
11:30 a.m. Across from Esso Station
Join the OK Falls freedom activists continuing their local Freedom Rallies!
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January 28, 2023 12:00 noon
Oliver Freedom Rally
12:00 p.m. Town Hall
Join the Oliver freedom activists who are continuing their local Freedom Rallies!
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January 28, 2023 11:00 a.m.
Osoyoos Freedom Gathering
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Town Hall
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Kamloops Freedom Gathering
January 28, 2023 10:00 – 12:00 Noon
Valleyview Centennial Park
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Penticton Freedom Rally
January 29, 2023 1:00 p.m. Warren & Main St. in N.E. lot
Join Mary Lou for the largest rally in the South Okanagan, and growing weekly!
DISSIDENTS THE WEST WORSE THAN THE SOVIET BLOC
DISSIDENTS THE WEST WORSE THAN THE SOVIET BLOC
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We’re used to Russian, Chinese, Iranian and Saudi Arabian dissidents. However, the most notorious deniers of free speech are found under upturned rocks in the West.
Investigative journalist Julian Assange sought sanctuary in London’s tiny Ecuadorian embassy in 2012. The whistle-blower refuses to be silenced. The Australian has been awarded more than a dozen journalism awards. Once evicted under a dodgy-deal, blackmail and bribery, Assange faces life imprisonment, perhaps a death sentence.
Thanks to a clerical error by the U.S. attorney’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, the existence of sealed criminal charges against the Wikileaks founder has been confirmed.
What is typically left out is that Wikileaks originally released the diplomatic cables in piecemeal form, with names removed to prevent loss of life and minimize harm. It was only after a Guardian journalist’s error led to the full legally edited cables leaking to third parties on the web that Wikileaks also published them. Assange even attempted to warn the office of Hillary Clinton, then U.S. Secretary of State.
In other words, Wikileaks behaved precisely as any responsible journalist would in handling sensitive material should by removing information that could cause harm. The removals stopped only when they became pointless. The Pentagon later admitted under oath that they could not find any instances of individuals losing their lives as a result of being named in Manning’s leaks to Wikileaks.
When it comes to negligence a far stronger case can be made against Hillary Clinton for the way she handled State Department emails. Yet, no criminal charges have been laid against a woman mired in corruption and whose snail-trail lies over a score of corpses.
Assange is being targeted because he dared to challenge the western establishment but he is far from alone. Western governments routinely target scores of news reporting dissidents.
Imprisoned in Germany merely for investigating holocaust related fraud; Ursula Haverbeck (90), lawyer Sylvia Stolz, Music tutor Monika Schaeffer and her brother Alfred Schaeffer. In France, Professor Robert Faurisson, Brigitte Bardot, and Vincent Reynouard. The list of Western dissidents is as long and silent as are the names on the Cenotaph situated in Whitehall.
Any who associated with Julian Assange are pursued. Another well-known dissident is the National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It was a time of globalist unease at the power of the internet to undermine authority.
Who would have thought that the highest court in Europe would uphold a case in which a woman was prosecuted for blasphemy against Islam? Who would have thought that Britain, the supposed birthplace of liberalism and the free press would ban an independent journalist from its shores for satirising the same religion?
Who would have thought that Germany, whose living memory of the totalitarian Stasi is just three decades old, would put its largest opposition party under surveillance? Just a few years ago, all three would sound far-fetched. But cases like these have become common as elites in virtually every western country mount a panicked attempt to contain the rise of populism.
A case in point is Tommy Robinson, the British critic of Islam who was dragged through Britain’s courts on fuzzy contempt-of-court charges. Sentenced to an astounding thirteen-month imprisonment, Robinson was eventually freed after a successful appeal. Robinson now awaits a final trial before Britain’s Attorney General. Shaky charges that have been successfully appealed were exploited to persecute a British citizen who was inconvenient to the establishment.
Alison Chabloz is endlessly re-cycled through British courts at the urging of Jewish special interest groups. She has been sentenced, fined and ordered to work for the State without charge.
Her crime, she satirises the spin of World War II propagandists. Again in Britain, Jez Turner is sentenced to 12 months in prison merely for publicly stating that Britain’s regime is overly influenced by Zionists; ironically, Zionists boast much the same thing.
In the self-styled cradle of democracy, one of the last European countries to give voting rights to men and women, Michael Walsh was handed down 6 x 4-month prison sentences for publishing fliers critical of immigration.
Britain routinely bans foreign politicians and media figures from the country for being right-wing. Michael Savage, Geert Wilders, Lauren Southern, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer all enjoy this dubious distinction. Theresa May, who was responsible for internal affairs and immigration when Spencer and Geller were banned, is the Prime Minister.
Trump’s White House, supposedly an ally of populists, failed to intervene on behalf of the American citizens banned from the U.K. for expressing populist viewpoints.
Julian Assange, a leftist oriented libertarian may share little ideological ground with right-wing critics of Islam. But they all share at least one thing: persecution by the Western States coupled with anti-establishment political speech or activities.
We also see attacks on free speech, with governments and politicians across the West pressuring Silicon Valley to suppress its critics. These toxic unaccountable, unelected elite can sweep away a person’s livelihood in minutes, and cut their political message off from millions of American citizens. PayPal, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook routinely disconnect the accounts of even small ‘c’ conservatives.
Undeniably, the West is as repressive as was the former Soviet Bloc. Who would have thought that countries like Ecuador, Russia, and Iran would offer sanctuary, safe passage and freedom to speak to Western dissidents; journalists, authors, poets, writers, libertarians and political activists?
Edward Snowden faces life in Russia as an exile for revealing the National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance of Americans. Before that, he sought refuge in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
IHR Director Mark Weber Banned From Britain
IHR Director Mark Weber Banned From Britain
Theresa May’s 2015 Order Cites Alleged Quotes That a Major Newspaper Now Acknowledges Were Inaccurate or DistortedNews from Institute for Historical Review
January 2018 (Updated)
January 2018 (Updated)
Weber speaking at the April 2015
‘London Forum’ Meeting
Mark Weber, an American historian and director of the Institute for Historical Review, was banned from Britain in April 2015 by order of Theresa May, who is now the country’s Prime Minister. The decision to ban him was “taken personally” by May while she was serving as Home Secretary, Britain’s Home Office has acknowledged.
As justification for the ban, her order cites three statements allegedly made by Weber, as reported in a sensational article in Britain’s Mail on Sundaynewspaper. After the exclusion order was issued, the paper publicly acknowledged that the first of the three statements attributed to Weber was never made by him, and that a portion of the second statement was likewise not by him.
Moreover, the second and third statements cited in the order are distortions of remarks Weber had made at a “London Forum” meeting on April 11, 2015 – as he explained in a letter to the Home Office of Jan. 9, 2018. (Full text below). That letter is a response to a Home Office letter to Weber of Dec. 22, 2017, and a Home Office file letter of April 29, 2015. (Facsimiles below.)
Theresa May
Home Secretary in 2015, and now Prime Minister
The text of Weber’s address, titled “The Danger and Challenge of Jewish-Zionist Power,” is posted on the IHR website, along with an audio recording. A video of the talk is posted on YouTube.
The “London Forum” gathering, which drew an audience of more than a hundred, received extensive but hostile coverage in major British newspapers, as well as by Jewish news services. Although media reports called the event a gathering of “Holocaust deniers,” in fact not a single one of the speakers at the meeting spoke about the Holocaust, or said anything that could be considered “Holocaust denial.”
London’s Metropolitan Police Force looked into the talks by Weber and the other speakers, and decided that what they said “does not reach the threshold for a criminal investigation,” the London Daily Express reported. The news that Weber and the other speakers “would go unpunished provoked outrage in the Jewish community,” the Express also noted. A spokesman for the “Campaign Against Anti-Semitism” organization, the paper reported, said that the “speakers should have been barred from the UK.”
“The decision to ban me from the UK,” says Weber, “was based on inaccurate, untrue or distorted claims from a sensational and hostile second-hand report. British authorities made no effort to check the accuracy of the statements cited to justify this ‘McCarthyite’ ban.”
“If authorities in, say, Russia or Poland or China, were to ban peaceful UK citizens from entering those countries on the basis of similarly sensational and inaccurate reports,” Weber adds, “British politicians and media commentators would understandably protest and voice their outrage.”
The current government of Prime Minister Theresa May is one of the most ardently pro-Zionist in British history. In a speech on Nov. 4, 2017, for example, she praised and defended the notorious Balfour Declaration of 1917, by which Britain pledged to support the Zionist campaign to establish a “Jewish homeland” in Palestine. That Declaration is widely regarded as a blatant betrayal by Britain of its often-proclaimed devotion to the principles of democracy and self-determination.
In April and May 2015 Weber persistently urged the Mail on Sunday to correct at least the most egregious errors about him in its report on the “London Forum” meeting. After exchanges of e-mail messages by Weber with the paper’s managing editor, John Wellington, and a face-to-face talk with Peter Sheridan, the paper’s correspondent in California, the Mail on Sunday in late May or early June 2015 added a “correction” footnote to its posted report that acknowledged that it had inaccurately attributed at least two quotations to Weber — quotations that were cited in the UK ban against him.
Mark Weber is director of the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), an independent educational and publishing center that works to promote peace, understanding and justice through greater public awareness of the past, and especially socially-politically relevant aspects of modern history. It is recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) public interest, educational, not-for-profit enterprise. Founded in 1978, the IHR is non-partisan, non-ideological, and non-sectarian. Its offices are in Orange County, southern California.
Mark Weber holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in history. In 1988 he testified for five days in Toronto District Court as a recognized expert on Germany’s World War II Jewish policy.
Weber first learned that he was banned from the UK on Sept. 23, 2017, at the international airport of Madrid, Spain, as he was about to board a flight to London’s Heathrow airport for a lay-over of a few hours before getting a connecting flight to return home to California. He was obliged to pay hundreds of dollars to arrange belated alternative flights back to the US.
After his return home, Weber wrote letters to relevant British agencies, including the Home Office, to learn more about the ban. It was not until January 4, 2018, that he received letters from the Home Office explaining just how and on what basis he had been barred from entering the UK.
The UK government routinely bans visitors “if their presence would not be conducive to the public good.” Although British authorities will not say just who is on its list of “excluded” persons, it is known that Edward Snowden, Martha Stewart, Louis Farrakhan, Pamela Geller, Michael Savage and Geert Wilders are among those who have been banned.
Mark Weber
P.O. Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659 Tel. 714 -593 9725 E-mail: weber@ihr.org(link sends e-mail)January 9, 2018
Ref.: W1993505
Home Office
P. O. Box 1922
Croydon, Surrey CR90 9DD
England – UK
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you for your recently-received letter of Dec. 22, 2017 (copy enclosed) in response to my letters to the Home Office of October 5 and November 6, 2017. I also appreciate that you enclosed a copy of your letter or notice of April 29, 2015 (copy enclosed), which explains how and on what basis the decision was made to exclude me from the UK.
In your April 2015 letter, three statements attributed to me are cited as reason or grounds for the decision. You then write: “The Home Secretary considers that should you be allowed to enter the UK you would continue to espouse such views. In doing so, you would be committing listed behaviours and would therefore be behaving in a way that is not conducive to the public good.”
My main purpose in writing today is to explain that the decision to exclude me from the UK was based on second-hand information that is, at least in part, inaccurate, untrue or distorted.
The first of the three statements attributed to me in your April 2015 letter is this: “The Holocaust is a religion. Its underpinnings in the realm of historical fact are non-existent – no Hitler order, no plan, no budget, no gas chambers, no autopsies of gassed victims, no bones, no ashes, no skulls, no nothing.”
In fact, I never wrote or uttered those words, and I do not agree with them.
No source, or even a date, is given for this statement. To the best of my knowledge, it was first (inaccurately) attributed to me some years ago by the “Anti-Defamation League,” an influential US-based Jewish-Zionist organization.
The second of the three statements attributed to me in your April 2015 letter is this: “The Jewish connection covers all areas and reaches every level. Most Americans may not even sense this gigantic effort, but there is scarcely a Jew who is not touched by its tentacles. In reality, the Jewish hold on American life is far more dangerous. Why? Jews in America have a strong loyalty to a foreign country – Israel. Secondly, because of the distrustful and sometimes adversarial way in which Jews view the rest of us. This ‘chosen people’ mindset, this ‘Us vs Them’ attitude, is anchored in centuries of Jewish history and heritage.”
As your April 2015 letter makes clear, this statement, as well as the third one you cite, were attributed to me in an item, headlined “Nazi Invasion of London Exposed,” that appeared in the Mail on Sunday of April 18, 2015, which sensationally reported on a talk I gave at a meeting in London one week earlier. As your April 2015 letter notes, this item is posted online athttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3045115/Nazi-invasion-London-EXPOSED-World-s-Holocaust-deniers-filmed-secret-race-hate-Jews-referred-enemy.html
The first two sentences of the second statement are actually not by me. As I made clear in my London talk, those two sentences were quotations from The Zionist Connection, a detailed study by Jewish-American scholar Alfred M. Lilienthal, issued by Dodd, Mead, a respected New York publisher.
The remainder of that second statement, as well as the third statement attributed to me in your April 2015 letter, are likewise distortions of remarks I made in my address at that London meeting.
The full text of my London talk is posted at: http://ihr.org/other/jewishzionistpower2015
A video of my April 2015 London address is posted online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJ0UUIaxF0
I was so concerned by the errors and distortions in that Mail on Sunday report, on which you have relied, that in April 2015 I sent an e-mail message to managing editor John Wellington to ask him to correct at least the most blatant errors. I also met in person with Peter Sheridan, the Mail on Sundaycorrespondent in California, to gain his help in correcting errors about me in his paper.
After several exchanges of e-mail communications with both Wellington and Sheridan, and some delay, the Mail on Sunday in late May or early June added a “correction” footnote to its posted report acknowledging that it had inaccurately attributed to me at least two quotations – quotations cited by the Home Office as grounds for its exclusion decision. Of course, that online Mail on Sunday correction was made after the decision had already been made to exclude me from the UK.
Although you mention that there is no “statutory right of appeal against the Home Secretary’s decision,” I urge you to inform the appropriate authorities that the April 2015 decision to exclude me from the UK is based on second-hand information that is, at least in part, inaccurate, untrue or distorted. I further respectfully ask the appropriate authorities to reconsider and rescind the decision to exclude me from the UK.
Sincerely,
Mark Weber
Edward Snowden Warns Canadians To Be ‘Extraordinarily Cautious’ Over Anti-Terror Bill
Edward Snowden Warns Canadians To Be ‘Extraordinarily Cautious’ Over Anti-Terror Bill
The Huffington Post Canada | By Zi-Ann Lum
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed students at a Toronto private school via video link on Monday to warn about the perils of being complacent as the government makes sweeping changes to Canada’s anti-terrorism laws.
“I would say we should always be extraordinarily cautious when we see governments trying to set up a new secret police within their own countries,” Snowden said in alivestream feed from Russia. He made reference to Bill C-51, legislation tabled by the Conservative government days earlier.
More than 900 students attended the talk titled, “Privacy vs. Security: A Discussion of Personal Privacy in the Digital Age” hosted at Upper Canada College. Nearly 1,400 watched the live broadcast online.
Snowden urged the audience to be adept at lining up facts versus rhetoric with emergency legislations born from times of “fear and panic.” He added though Canada is not unique in its anti-terrorism laws and surveillance programs, it’s important to be critical toward political arguments championing their necessity.
“Once we let these power get rolling it’s very difficult to stop that pull through,” Snowden said. “So I would say that we need to use extraordinary scrutiny in every society, in every country, in every state to make sure that the laws we live under are the ones we truly want and truly need.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald was also on hand for the keynote via conference call.
Using ‘fearmongering’ as vehicle for legislation
Despite the sharp uptick in terrorism rhetoric after two Canadian soldiers were killed within days of each other last year by “radicalized” attackers, the former Guardian journalist says a Canadian’s real-world chance of being killed in a terrorist attack is “infinitesimal.”
“If you are a Canadian citizen, you have a greater chance of dying by being struck by lightning; or by going to a restaurant and eating a meal that will give you an intestinal disease; or by slipping in your bathtub, hitting your head on the ceramic tile than you do dying in a terrorist attack,” said Greenwald.
He criticized what he sees as the Conservative government’s tactic of using fear to untether the weight of public scrutiny to push the anti-terrorism measures into law. “Your government continuously hypes the threat and tells you that unless you give it more and more power it will be incapable of saving you from this threat,” he said.
“And this fearmongering is a very dangerous, yet very effective form of persuading people to submit to things you otherwise wouldn’t submit to.”
New anti-terrorism measures ‘more about politics’
On Friday, the Harper government tabled its much-anticipated anti-terrorism legislation designed to give Canadian security and intelligence services more powers and more flex from the RCMP.
If passed into law, changes would see the standard of evidence needed to obtain warrants lowered. Police would also be given authority to extend the amount of time they can detain someone without charge if that person is suspected to be involved in terrorist activity.
“Jihadist terrorism is not a future possibility, it is a present reality,” Harper said at the announcement. “It seeks to harm us here in Canada, in our cities and in our neighbourhoods through horrific acts.”
The measures are intended to curb nine interpretations of “activities that undermine the security of Canada” — including a broadly-worded clause criminalizing any “interference with the capability of the government of Canada in relation to intelligence, defence, border operations, public safety, the administration of justice, diplomatic or consular relations, or the economic or financial stability of Canada.”
But the omnibus legislation isn’t bringing peace of mind to one prominent Ottawa-based human rights and civil liberties lawyer.
Paul Champ told The Hill Times the election-year timing of the bill utilizes it as a “political wedge issue of sorts” that has already tempered NDP and Liberals reaction to be “in kind” than “taking a principled stand on civil liberties.”
“I think it’s clear both from the manner of the prime minister’s announcement, and unfortunately the response of the opposition parties, that this bill is far more about politics than public safety,” Champ said.
Reporters were supplied information about the anti-terror bill in a controlled media briefing a day before the legislation was announced by the prime minister at a Toronto-area community centre.
Harper was joined by Justice Minister Peter MaKay, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, and associate National Defence Minister Julian Fantino at the Jan. 30 event.
“They’ve been creeping over that line from surveillance to operational for some time,” Champ said. “Now we see it confirmed in legislation.”
With files from The Canadian Press
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