{"id":2104,"date":"2017-11-26T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2017-11-26T02:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T07:13:11","slug":"warman-the-thought-police-shut-down-another-ottawa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Warman & the Thought Police Shut Down Another Ottawa Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ottawa Public Library has cancelled a planned screening of the documentary Killing Europe.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For immediate release:<\/b><\/p>\n

Ottawa, 24th of November, 2017<\/b><\/p>\n

Cancellation of the Screening of the Documentary Film ‘Killing Europe’ at the Ottawa Public Library<\/b><\/p>\n

The world premiere screening of the documentary film ‘Killing Europe’ by the Danish-born film-maker, Michael Hansen had been\u00a0 scheduled to take place on Saturday, the 25th of November, 2017, from\u00a02 to 4 pm<\/span><\/span>, in the Ottawa Public Library Main Auditorium,\u00a0120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0On<\/a>\u00a0the 24th of November, 2017, the Ottawa Public Library had informed Act! Ottawa that they were withdrawing from the agreement to rent us space to screen this documentary film, as it was deemed to be in breach of community standards.<\/b><\/p>\n

Act! for Canada is an organization that highlights human rights abuses, giving voice to victims of violence and oppression, regardless of the consequences.\u00a0 It is in this spirit that Act! for Canada was screening this documentary film, ‘Killing Europe’.\u00a0 The subject of this documentary is difficult, painful and may be triggering to more vulnerable members of our society – and Act! For Canada fully admits that.<\/b><\/p>\n

It sheds light on the growth of several very problematic movements within Europe, including\u00a0homophobia, Anti-Semitism and rape-culture.\u00a0 However difficult these issues are, it is essential that they be exposed for what they are, and that the victims have the opportunity to tell their stories, no matter how difficult and traumatic these are.<\/b><\/p>\n

This is exactly what the documentary film ‘Killing Europe’ does:\u00a0 it brings forward the personal, first-person accounts of stories of victims of rape, anti-Semitism, and homophobia and the violence they had been subjected to.\u00a0 Yes, these stories are painful and troubling, but they are true, first-person accounts of victims of institutionalized violence – and they deserve a fair hearing.<\/b><\/p>\n

By de-platforming the world premiere screening of ‘Killing Europe’, the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Public Library are permitting the perpetuation of these abuses and are permitting themselves to be tools of institutionalized oppression.<\/b><\/p>\n

We, at Act! for Canada, are staunch defenders of the human rights of the most vulnerable members of our society, and we condemn, in the strongest terms possible, the re-victimization of women who bravely spoke out of their experience of rape and the institutionalized misogyny that they had been subjected to being further compounded by being denied the means to share their experience by the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Public Library.<\/b><\/p>\n

Alexandra Belaire,<\/b><\/p>\n

Act! for Canada\/Act! Ottawa<\/b><\/p>\n

If you’re planning a political meeting in Ottawa, it might be wise to phone over to the Department of National Defence and ask to speak to chronic busybody Richard Warman. He is an perpetual filer of complaints and initiator of legal procedures aimed at stifling opinions of which he does not approve. His latest victim was Act! for Canada which had advertized a screening of\u00a0Killing Europe,<\/b><\/u>\u00a0an expose of the Islamicization of Europe and the negative effects of mass Moslem immigration to Europe. To its everlasting shame, the Ottawa Public Library actively connived in this denial of free speech. Libraries across Canada celebrate “Freedom to Read” week. Apparently, the Board of the Ottawa Public Library. see no need to guarantee freedom to meet and discuss controversial issues. Although the public pays for the library through their taxes, only vetted politically correct members of the public can use the facilities for meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n

A story in the\u00a0Ottawa Sun\u00a0<\/u><\/b>(November 24, 2017) provides further details:\u00a0 “<\/span>The Ottawa Public Library has cancelled this weekend\u2019s screening of a controversial documentary, Killing Europe, after complaints the film was thinly disguised hate speech against Muslims and immigrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am letting you know that I have been working with the city solicitor about concerns brought forward by the Ottawa district labour council, unions, residents, board members and friends,\u201d Coun. Tim Tierney, who is chairman of the library\u2019s board of directors, said in an email.\u00a0 …’I can now report that the rental of the room will not take place.'” Let’s be quite clear the accusation of “hate speech” usually says more about the accuser than the people accused. “Hate speech” is usually speech someone hates.\u00a0Killing Europe<\/u><\/b>\u00a0has never been charged under Canada’s notorious hate law or found guilty\/ But just the mere accusation is enough for library authorities to interfere with free speech and discussion.<\/p>\n

“Screening the film is \u201cin clear violation of the library\u2019s own rental policy prohibiting the use of space for discriminatory purposes,’ [Richard] Warman wrote in an email to the library and its board members, Mayor Jim Watson, and others.” Where’s the discrimination? The movie expressed a point of view. No Moslem was being denied a service to which he was entitled.<\/p>\n

\u201c’When I looked at the three-minute trailer, it was clear it was going to be an all-out assault on immigrants and the Muslim community,’ Warman said Friday. … But where to draw the line between suppressing free speech and stifling hate speech?<\/p>\n

Warman said the screening clearly violated the library\u2019s obligations, stated on its website, to not provide public space for individuals or groups that are likely to promote discrimination, contempt or hatred to any person on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, marital status, family status, sexual preference, or disability, gratuitous sex and violence or denigration of the human condition.\u201d Well, that lugubrious list is broad enough to shut down almost any criticism of anyone. Way to go library defenders of intellectual freedom!<\/p>\n

“‘This is hate propaganda that is clearly directed toward recent immigrants and members of the Muslim community,’ [Warman] said.” Well, despite the fact he’s a lawyer, Warman is wrong. The movie has never been the subject of a Canadian Sec. 319 “hate charge”!<\/p>\n

\u201c’The main thing is that we ensure public venues aren\u2019t used as amplifiers of the message of hate-mongers \u2026 Public, taxpayer-funded facilities cannot be used to engage in hate propaganda. The library board has the obligation, when we know that these groups will attempt to misuse public facilities.'” What a constipated view of the right to use public facilities, Warman holds. Even people he disagrees with pay taxes to support the institutions he would prevent them from using.<\/p>\n

Paul Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

Director<\/span><\/p>\n

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION<\/span><\/p>\n

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And why not let the\u00a0Ottawa Public Library,\u00a0Mayor Jim Watson, and\u00a0Ottawa City Councillors<\/a>\u00a0know what you think of their compliance with Antifa bullying?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Catherine.Seaman@biblioottawalibrary.ca<\/p>\n

danielle.mcdonald@biblioottawalibrary.ca<\/p>\n

Jim.Watson@ottawa.ca<\/p>\n

Tim.Tierney@ottawa.ca<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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