{"id":277,"date":"2013-05-10T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2013-05-10T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T00:21:58","slug":"brad-loves-ten-years-punishment-by-the-courts-for-writing-non-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Brad Love\u2019s Ten Years Punishment By the Courts for Writing Non-Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brad Love\u2019s Ten Years Punishment By the Courts for Writing Non-Violent <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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TORONTO. April 25, 2012<\/b>. \u201cThe thousands of dollars I spent to fly back here, to \u00a0take 10 days off work, to \u00a0rent a car, to fund other expenses are down the drain,\u201d an angry Brad Love told the monthly meeting of the Alternative Forum here tonight. Mr. Love had just learned that his appeal against a brutal 18 month sentence for breach of probation and a further three year political gag order had been postponed. The appeal was to be heard Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe system is sucking me dry,\u201d the Alberta-based oil worker explained. \u201cI was charged four years ago for breach of probation \u2013 for sending a package of critical commentary to four Jewish groups, who had given me their permission.\u201d Mr. Love was then under parole conditions stemming from a 2003 conviction, under Canada\u2019s notorious \u201chate law\u201d (Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code) \u00a0for writing non-violent letters to some 20 MPs and other public officials. He had received an 18-month jail sentence and Ontario Judge Hogg had imposed conditions under which he was forbidden to write to \u201canybody\u201d without their express permission. [Those conditions, incidentally, were imposed in Ontario, not in the Congo or Burma.] <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe average black crack dealer would get legal aid for free, spend 20 minutes in court and get maybe 60 days in prison,\u201d Mr. Love charged. This marks at least a dozen trips back to Ontario for this simple breach of probation charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was abandoned by my pervious lawyer as soon as I was sentenced to prison, last July,\u201d Mr. Love recounted.\u201d After six weeks his new lawyer effected his release.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI am still working at Fort McMurray. All I make now seems to go to my lawyer. I wrote these letters These were my opinions. Let the cards fall where they may. Growing up, I was told by my parents: \u2018If you don\u2019t like something, speak up. The politicians work for you,\u2019\u201d he recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, \u201cthe ;politicians waste billions of dollars on foreign aid, aid to Haiti, aid to Mali \u2013 I don\u2019t even know where Mali is, training Costa Rica\u2019s police force. I\u00a0 am 54 years old. I work 84 hours a week and the government takes half. I don\u2019t pay<\/i> taxes; they take<\/i> them from me,\u201d he charged.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Africa, he argued, \u201cproduces children faster than we can print foreign aid money. It seems every time I write about immigration, it\u2019s eight White cops who arrest me, not Blacks,. I hate my own government, not Blacks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s business and political establishment \u201cwant cheap labour. Every immigrant they bring in means a wage cut. A Somali cab driver in Fort Mac said he came from Toronto to Fort Mac \u2018because there are too many fucking immigrants in Toronto for me to make any money.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Love is an impassioned and highly entertaining speaker. \u201cI hear to the developing world,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat \u2018developing\u2019? Africa has been there for 100,000 years. They should be sending us money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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He predicts that the trend of bringing in cheap foreign labour \u2013 despite high unemployment in Canada \u2013 will continue in Fort McMurray. Wages will go down and the good times will be gone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Love seems to be a special target of Ontario\u2019s police. \u201cMy lawyer told me: \u2018You\u2019re on the police radar. Any contact with the police, contact us.\u2019\u201d On Tuesday, on a noon visit to the liquor store in Mississauga\u2019s Applewood Mall, Mt. Love saw he was being surveilled by a police cruiser. He was questioned and asked had he been drinking. [No.] His ID was carefully scrutinized and he was asked where he was staying.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cEverything in this country is a joke, just a fumblebutt system,\u201d Mr. Love said. \u201cthe police want an incident, to provoke me to react so that they can seize the bail my parents help put up. \u201cThis was the day after cops arrested two black bank robbers who jumped a counter and shot two people and some other blacks who robbed people on the subway.\u201d Despite this real crime, \u201cthey still have time to watch Brad Love, who is not even from this province.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite efforts by Mr. Love and CAF\u00c9, the Canadian media seems studiously uninterested in Mr. Love\u2019s battering and gagging by the courts. Discussing these costly and prolonged proceedings, Mr. Love noted that no lawyer or judge has ever asked: \u201cBrad, how are you coping?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some years ago, he recalled, he wrote letters to the Minister of Immigration critical of Haitians. \u201cFour cops showed up and told me: \u2018We don\u2019t like the tone of your letters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWith what they\u2019ve spent persecuting me they could have built a large home for seniors and done something for this country,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still, Brad Love is a happy warrior: \u201cI am still smiling. I go to work every day. I drink my beer. I snub the government and look at this country as a joke. Sodomy is legal. Gay marriage is legal,\u201d but free speech is illegal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople know I\u2019m right, but they are afraid. They say: \u2018I don\u2019t want to be you, Brad.\u2019 People fear losing their house, their bank account, their job. If you\u2019re a dissident, there\u2019s no safety net for you. The government wants to see you broke and living in a ditch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe in my own country,\u201d he added. The decade-long persecution has affected my friends and my family,\u201d he added. \u201cI am not a skinhead, I am not a neo-Nazi. I am not a racist. But I do not like what the government is doing with my money.\u201d \u2013 Paul Fromm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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