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Why Not Write Your Politicians As Mr. Newton Has?<\/h2>\n Why Not Write Your Politicians As Mr. Newton Has?<\/h2>\nWhy Not Write Your Politicians As Mr. Newton Has?<\/p>\n
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 7:34 PM To: HRTO.Registrar@ontario.ca Subject: Question<\/p>\n
Attention Ontario Human Rights Tribunal,
\nQuestion;
\nI am a Canadian born senior citizen who was born in Toronto back in 1948. Over the past few years I have become aware of the fact that Canadian\u2019s have lost their basic right to free speech and expression. A man named Brad Love was even jailed for eighteen months for simply asking politicians to answer his questions on excessive immigration http:\/\/blog.freedomsite.org\/2009\/03\/political-prisoner-brad-love-may-not.html
\nI am very concerned about this police state government situation, as I\u2019m wondering what might some day happen to my grandchildren, should they demand their right to free speech as they become adults. Something has gone terribly wrong in Canada and I\u2019m very concerned. Both of my grandfathers died in WWII to keep Canada a free and democratic society, and now the smell of communism is in the air. These are scary times in Canada.
\nI had to write to express my concerns,
\nJohn Newton
\nPolitical Prisoner Brad Love May Not Write Letters to Anyone — Yes, That’s In Canada, Not North Korea
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\nTORONTO, March 24, 2009. Today, the outspoken voice of the workingman, Brad Love was released from prison on bail conditions his own lawyer, Peter Lindsay suggested are more usually imposed on people facing murder charges. Mr. Love is accused of five counts of writing letters, contrary to his previous parole conditions.
\nHerr are the conditions imposed on Mr. Love who was arrested by eight burly Metro police who burst into a free speech meeting sponsored by the Canadian Association for Free Expression in Rexdale, Thursday, March 19.<\/p>\n
$2,000 cash bail paid by his sister-in-law
\n$110,000 surety \u2013 the entire value of his brother and sister-in-law\u2019s house
\nMr. Love is prohibited from sending mail to anyone, unless that person has specifically requested it;
\nHe must reside at his brother and sister-in-law\u2019s Bolton home;
\nHe must get a job.
\nHe must keep the peace.
\nA 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew (just like some naughty 15 year old)
\nHe\u2019s specifically forbidden to have any contact with the Canadian Jewish Congress, B\u2019nai Brith or York University, Peter Lindsay told CAF\u00c9.<\/p>\n
<!–[if !vml]–><!–[endif]–>The Crown had demanded Mr. Love\u2019s continued incarceration for having written letters. The female Crown commented darkly that \u201cMr. Love\u2019s purpose of returning surreptitiously to Ontario was to give a lecture on \u2018hate.\u201d In fact, Mr. Love flew openly for two weeks vacation with his family and only as a side matter spoke to a Toronto CAF\u00c9 meeting as has before.
\n\u201cTo the best of our knowledge, it\u2019s not yet illegal to criticize Canada\u2019s poxy, minority-inspired, thought gagging hate laws,\u201d a furious Paul Fromm, director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, said outside the court. \u201cBesides, he isn\u2019t charged with speaking to the free speech meeting.\u201d
\nMr. Love\u2019s sister-in-law, promised the court: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to have any newspapers in the house and we\u2019ll review his outgoing mail.\u201d
\nOne of the Crown\u2019s reasons for wanting Mr. Love kept in prison pending his trial, which Peter Lindsay said might not occur for six to nine months, is that he has not changed his political views: \u201cIt\u2019s quite obvious,\u201d she said, \u201chis beliefs still exist and he\u2019s not going to stop his behaviour no matter what conditions are put upon him. Despite sentences on his record, he is going to continue [to express himself.] He is an individual obsessed with racial hated and others sorts of hatred.\u201d
\nIn an interview with Caf\u00e9 tonight, Mr. Love, settling down after enjoying his first decent meal in five days explained the writings that have stirred the powers that be to send him back to prison. He wrote taunting comments to the York University Student Union, B\u2019nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress on the occasion of Israel Equals Apartheid Week. Among his comments were: If all these Third World people are against Zionism, maybe they\u2019re right. He also wondered in his letters whether Third Worlders demonstrating against Zionism would be called racists. Brad Love told CAF\u00c9: \u201cMany of the comments I made I borrowed from Jewish comedians.\u201d
\nMr. Lindsay told the court that the surety of $110,000 is more usually demanded in crimes of serious violence or murder, not for a man who wrote non-violent, non-threatening, even if provocative, letters. He also suggested that the previous parole condition that Mr. Love was not to write, FAX or e-mail letters to anyone who had not asked for this communication may well have violated his Charter rights to freedom of speech.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s because it\u2019s a thought crime,\u201d Mr. Love commented on his legal shackles and restrictions. \u201cFort McMurray is my fortune. I have a great job there. All my clothes and possessions and my car are there. There are almost no jobs in Toronto,\u201d he added.
\nThe Crown hinted that three police forces have an ongoing investigation into Canada\u2019s most famous and most jailed letter writer.
\nOver a 20 year period, Mr. Love wrote over 10,000 letters to elected officials and newspapers. In 2003, he was sentenced to 18 months in jail under Canada\u2019s thought control \u201canti-hate\u201d law, Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code. He subsequently spent a total of six months more in prison for having written letters to persons other than those elected officials his initial parole conditions forbad him to contact.
\n\u201cIt seems the state is intent on shutting Brad Love up,\u201d Paul Fromm observed. \u201cWhat does it say about the emotional fragility of the powers that be that they can\u2019t withstand a little needling and criticism from a blunt spoken working guy, without running to the State to have him gagged and jailed? And we\u2019re over in Afghanistan trying to bring democracy and human rights to those people. We ought to start right here in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why Not Write Your Politicians As Mr. Newton Has? Why Not Write Your Politicians As Mr. Newton Has? Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 7:34 PM To: HRTO.Registrar@ontario.ca Subject: Question Attention Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, Question; I am a Canadian born … Continue reading