On behalf of my lovely wife Shastah and myself I want to take this moment to thank everyone who made our trip to the 24th annual George Orwell dinner in Victoria, B.C. a reality.

Travel from our relatively remote area of the province to the island is expensive and it was only due to the generosity of those who donated funds that we were able to attend this important gathering of free speech advocates from across Canada.

This was the second time that we were able to enjoy the fellowship of people on the front lines of those fighting to retain the right to speak out their truths in the face of a brutal and alarmingly dangerous force: the government of Canada and its bureaucratic agent known as the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC).

Due to time restrictions at the moment I cannot elaborate on the meeting but will do so over the next while.

Arthur Topham

Pub/Ed

RadicalPress.com

Teztan Biny/Fish Lake Petition
http://www.protectfishlake.ca/petition

Teztan Biny is part of the Tsilhqot’in homeland and the Taseko River / Fraser River watershed.

At Teztan, Nabas, and Jididzay, Tsilhqot’in families have hunted, trapped and fished, and gathered medicines in their traditional way of life for decades, just like their ancestors, the Esghaydam, did before them.

Today, Teztan is still a beautiful and powerful place where they go to practice their culture and preserve their way of life. Since settlers came into their land, they have worked hard to protect their culture and their way of life from the settlers destructive ways. Now Taseko Mines Ltd. wants to build a huge mine there. They want to cut the trees, tear up the land, and make a lake of poisoned waters there, forever destroying this lake. We do not want to see Teztan Biny/Fish Lake and the lands and waters poisoned and destroyed for short-term gain. We want to see it preserved for our lives, for our children, and for our grandchildren after them.

We all say ‘No’ to this mine and the destruction of the land and our clean water resource.

Thank you very much for signing the petition.

Please take a minute and forward this petition to your friends and family that they can sign it as well.

To comment directly to both the federal and provincial governments before midnight May 25, 2009, here’s the contact information:

Garry Alexander
B.C. Environmental Office
P.O. Box 9426, Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 9V1
Fax: 250-356-6448
E-mail: eaoinfo@gov.bc.ca

and

Colette Spagnuolo
Panel manager, CEAA
160 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0H3
Fax:  613-957-0941
E-mail:  prosperity.review@ceaa.gc.ca

Photo credit: WCWC

BC’s Rivers: Is Anyone Listening?

by Arthur Topham

May 1, 2009

The Royal Canadian Legion in downtown Quesnel was likely the most popular spot in town on Thursday evening, April 30th and considering that the Canucks were playing at the same time it was little short of a miracle that so many local citizens would have taken the time to leave their homes.

What could possible draw a near full house of hockey enthusiasts away from the tube on a week day evening other than a national emergency? Well, as Joe Foy of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee so aptly put it, there’s another emergency happening right here in B.C. that may be as critical and important to all British Columbians as any other crisis that the nation as a whole has ever faced.

And what on earth could be so important? As Foy went on to explain to a rapt audience of concerned listeners, that biggest scam being pulled off on the people of the province; one engineered by the very people elected to represents the interests of electors of British Columbia, was what the Save Our Rivers Society was here to explain to people.

That “scam”, as former Social Credit Environment Minister, author and renowned Vancouver radio broadcaster Rafe Mair told the audience (in no uncertain terms), is the total selling off by the Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell of BC’s public ownership of the streams and rivers that are the lifeblood and, as Rafe summed up in his provocative talk, the “soul” of this province’s geographic and ecological treasures; ones which make British Columbia the most beautiful and prized piece of real estate on the face of the planet and upon which all our other economic and social assets, as well as the free flowing vitality of the natural ecosystems, depend for their existence.

The Save Our Rivers crew from Left: Joe Foy - Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Melissa Davis - B.C. Citizens for Public Power, Rafe Mair - Save Our Rivers Society, Mike Bruce, Union Rep & MC
Photo credit: Radical Press
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Rafe Mair, now retired from politics and broadcasting and into the 78th year of his earthly sojourn, sporting a light beard, a jolly belly and a trusty cane, has been leading a a series of public awareness meetings throughout the province to try and drum up public awareness and interest in what he feels is an upcoming provincial election whose outcome could have a devastatingly negative impact on all future generations in the province should the Liberal Campbell government be returned to power and be given free reign to fulfill their self-chosen, hidden mandate to sell off BC’s rivers to foreign corporate interests.

Over a decade ago Mair published a book called Canada: Is Anyone Listening? in which he presented his views on the state of the country. Today, he could just as easily write another one, were there enough time, titled “BC: Is Anyone Listening?” On this night in Quesnel there were people listening and to put it mildly they weren’t impressed with what they were hearing.

Representing a non-profit, publicly funded organization called the Save Our Rivers Society, see http://www.SaveOurRivers.org , the former politician and broadcaster and now elder environmentalist and contributing writer to the online news site http://www.thetyee.ca , has been traveling around the province with an entourage of other public figures in a somewhat desperate attempt to alert voters to the real situation that exists regarding the state of our publicly owned utility known as BC Hydro and how it’s being hijacked by corporate interests and aided and abetted by the Campbell Liberal government in Victoria.

Accompanying Rafe with his traveling salvation show in favour of the salmon, the streams and the environment was Joe Foy, spokesperson for the BC based Western Canada Wilderness Committee, BC’s longstanding, dedicated and trusted environmental organization noted for numerous accomplishments in the way of protecting British Columbia’s eco systems and wildlife habitat from the devastating effects of overly zealous industrial logging and mining interests who tend, at times, to put the dollar and the interests of the corporate boardroom above the natural environment.

Also included in the list of speakers was Melissa Davis from BC Citizens for Public Power see http://www.citizensforpublicpower.ca who began the evening’s discussion with an introduction to her organization’s efforts over the past few years to draw public attention to the urgency of what has been taking place behind closed doors in Victoria with respect to the Liberal agenda for privatizing BC’s publicly owned natural resources.

Of particular note were Melissa’s comments regarding the broken Liberal promise in 2001 to “not sell or privatize BC Hydro’s dams, transmission lines, water resources, or other core assets” followed by a grim reminder that Bill 30 was brought in by the Liberals to usurp any democratic rights of local regional governments to enact rules for safeguarding their resources thus allowing foreign, corporate interests to prevail over indigenous decisions of local governments in their bid to gain control of all provincial rivers and streams.

Melissa Davis’s third point, one which the audience appeared to understand almost intuitively, was that the Liberal’s willing compromises to BC’s environment and its citizens by the relinquishment of the rights of public ownership of BC Hydro and introducing a private sector model of corporate control of public assets for stockholder’s profits over and above anything else, would automatically ensure that the price people are paying for their electrical needs would dramatically increase in the years ahead. Predictions went as high as a 25% increase in one’s power bill over the next 3 years, this on top of already substantial increases. Rather shocking to say the least! Melissa recommended going to the following website to view a map showing the rivers and proposed projects: http://www.ippwatch.com .

Rafe took to the podium after Melissa’s enlightening talk and opened his remarks with a rather choice anecdote. He had served as a cabinet minister in the Bill Bennett government of the 1970s, along with the Cariboo’s own Socred MLA of the time, the well respected Alex Fraser who had been Minister of Highways for many years and after whom the Alex Fraser bridge in the lower mainland is now named in fond remembrance.

Rafe told a little story about how when in cabinet meetings theywould try to guage public approval of their policies by media comments but that when Bill Bennett really wanted to know how the public were taking to their policies he’d always turn to Alex Fraser and say, “Alex, now what are the folks in “Queznelly” saying about all of this?” Alex would then inform them that they thought if was just a “bunch of bs” and that would settle the question then and there.

In some respects that is how Rafe proceeded in describing the selling out of the province’s rivers and streams and the people’s collective ownership of public utilities such as BC Hydro. He dispensed with all the bs that CanWest media, the Liberal government and the pseudo-”green” organizations are telling the people of the province and got down to the nuts and bolts of what is really taking place. It wasn’t a pretty picture.

“The massive destruction of our environment and the slow but sure death of BC Hydro have been planned and are being implemented without any opportunity for the public to be heard.”

“Why the lack of real consultation?”

“Where’s the proof that we need more power and, if we do, are there alternatives?”

“Experts tell us — so does BC Hydro, for that matter — that with conservation, upgrading present facilities and adding generators on existing dams plus taking back the power we’re entitled to under the Columbia River Treaty, we have no need for many years for more power. So why are going down the privatization route?”

“Why is BC Hydro not permitted to create any new power?”

“Why are we giving away to large corporations the hundreds of millions of dollars BC Hydro puts into the public purse every year to help with schools, hospitals and the like?”

“Why is BC Hydro forced by the government to enter contracts for energy with private producers which cost Hydro more than they can sell it for — buy high, sell low is a strange policy especially for a capitalist government!”

“Why are we approving intermittent power, which only can be produced during the spring run-off?”

“What will be the effect of NAFTA? Will it mean that any American company with rights on a river has all rights, including the right to export it?”

“Will it mean that as long as the American company uses the river, it can ignore the time limit in the lease? The answer to each is probably “yes.””

“Why are we disabling BC Hydro so that it must go broke under the proposed policy?”

All these explosive questions and more were given to the crowd of listeners who sat attentive throughout the whole presentation.

Photo credit: WCWC

The final speaker was Joe Foy of WCWC and he proceeded to pull the plug on privatization plans of the Liberal government. Speaking clearly and forcefully and with extreme knowledge and awareness of the various projects already on the go throughout the province, Joe assured the audience that these so-called “little mom and pop” power projects as the government likes to label them are anything but little and anything but benign when it comes to the extreme destruction of the natural environment and the fish and wildlife that will result from their construction. Using examples such as the Pitt River Project in the lower mainland Foy went on to explain how this environmentally friendly little private power venture would entail constructing close to 40 kilometers of pipelines and river and stream diversions which would reduce the levels of the free flowing waterways by up to 90% and that coupled with power lines and roadways criss-crossing throughout what is now virtually pristine wilderness areas.

In graphic detail and in cogent, convincing arguments Joe went on to expose the absolute insanity and irresponsibility of the Liberal government in determining in secret, private discussions with corporate interests this monumental scheme to steal from under the nose of an otherwise ill- and mis-informed public, the fundamental sources of the province’s wealth and future. When he was finished speaking the audience acknowledged his efforts with a rousing round of sustained applause.

Following the speakers’ presentations there was ample time given over to questions from the audience. One of the first persons to speak was a Chief from the Chilcotin who used the occasion of the meeting to further enlighten listeners as to the problems the First Nations people of the Nemaiah Valley were facing with a similar project by Taseko Mines which was threatening to destroy Fish Lake one of the water bodies the water in their indigenous territories. While it was slightly off topic in terms of the purpose of the meeting the speakers listened attentively to what the Chief had to say and were in full support of his position. To the credit of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee Joe Foy publicly stated, “We’d love to join you at Fish Lake.” He told the Chief that all they had to do was invite WCWC to lend their support and the environmental group would be there within days fully committed to helping the Chilcotin people in any way possible.

Another inquisitive listen asked Rafe Mair why it was that so many of the public were unaware of the issue and how come the mainstream media wasn’t drawing more attention to the subject. That brought a rather grimaced grin to the face of the elder Mair and he proceeded to give the Asper-controlled CanWest corporation a well-deserved tongue lashing pointing out that they have done nothing in terms of bringing this issue to the public’s attention and in fact everything to keep it hush hush or else misinformed by only presenting the government and corporate propaganda and those so-called “green” environmental lobbyists who have sold out and are now capitalizing on the issue by giving their tacit consent to the Liberal’s scheme. With the Province, the Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times-Colonist all mum on the subject of selling off BCs public resources there’s little way for the public to know what is truly being implemented. That said, Rafe went on to tell the audience that they should visit the websites of those non-profit groups who were giving the rest of the story on this issue and also that they should write letters to their editors and to their MLAs and send information out to whatever lists and groups that people might be connected to on the internet. If the mainstream wasn’t going to cover the whole story then the alternative media and the people themselves could spread the word via the net.

The meeting ended at 9 pm as scheduled and the audience gave the presenters a long and hearty round of applause for having empowered them with new and vital information with which to deal with the problem. The final bonus of course for all of those who had sacrificed their time and left their televisions to attend the meeting was the announcement that the Canucks had been victorious!

Such is life in the Cariboo!
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Arthur Topham is the publisher and editor of http://www.radicalpress.com an alternative, online news site located in central BC and in operation since 1998. He can be reached at radical@radicalpress.com .

CARTOON BY GERRY HUMMEL  ghummel@telus.net
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[Editor’s Note: Big thanks to Merv Ritchie of The Terrace Daily for permission to reprint this article. Also for alerting me to the excellent work of Cartoonist Gerry Hummel of Kitimat, B.C. Gerry says please use his cartoons to help spread the word about ridding this province of the Campbell Liberals. Please credit his work and post his email if you use them. Go to The Terrace Daily to see more of Gerry’s fine cartoons.]

http://www.terracedaily.ca/show3831a/POWER__AT_WHAT_COST
POWER: AT WHAT COST?
Ken Fraser
April 17, 2009

The main speaker of the evening was John Calvert, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University, and the author of the book ” Liquid Gold”. Calvert feels that BC has one of the most reliable, secure, and low-cost electricity systems in the world. Yet despite this he sees the BC government jettisoning the public ownership approach. And why is this happening? It is difficult to look into the BC Liberal Party’s mind and find the answer, but he felt that it may be connected to privatization. Calvert also noted that hydro customers will be paying well beyond BC Hydro’s cost to produce energy if private developers have to provide that power in the future.

John Calvert of SFU and author of Liquid Gold speaking in Terrace, B.C. on the subject of the Campbell government’s selling out of BC Hydro to private corporate interests.
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Calvert felt that about a dozen companies have the major control in the hydro projects in BC today and some of these are American controlled. Lurking into the background related to this fact is NAFTA’s Chapter Eleven. Calvert said that once these American companies become entrenched in BC’s electricity system it may be almost impossible to adopt policies that affect their profit making policies without paying dearly. Another very interesting comment made by Calvert was that First Nations have almost entirely been excluded from the awarded water licenses despite that almost all projects are on territory subject to land claims. It appears that you have to be “first in line” or live on “Howe St.”.

Aaron Hill was one of the two presenters at the public information session, Liquid Gold, held at Caledonia High Sr. School Thursday evening.

Hill is an ecologist specializing in freshwater and coastal ecosystems, with an emphasis on salmon habitat and fisheries. His current project areas include Wild Salmon Policy implementation and ecological sustainability of energy development in BC for the Watershed Watch Salmon Society. Hill feels that the gutting of the Environmental Act has not been beneficial to the environment when private power projects are being developed. The vast majority of the run-of-the-river projects now no longer need to undergo a full environmental assessment. In addition these assessments and the planning approach fail to capture the overall impact of these projects on a region and watershed where the project is being developed. But he did acknowledge that there are some good projects on the go in BC. One example Hill gave was a local run-of-the-river possible project on the Dasque and Middle East Creeks near Terrace by the company Swift Power Corp. One of the company’s representatives at the session stated it has set its standards high to satisfy the environmental assessment as well as individuals/communities concerns about the project.

Over 50 people attended the presentation. A comment by one individual noted that it was interesting how little attention the topic, run-of-the-river hydro projects, was getting in the lower mainland news even though there is a huge number of such projects in the lower half of BC, and that these projects and the government’s moves are truly changing the hydro scene. Another individual stated that people are not against these projects, but only want to be included in the discussions and decisions to determine if the project should go ahead.

For more information, buy John Calvert’s book, ” Liquid Gold” and check the following sites:

www.watershed-watch.org

www.ippwatch.info

www.saveourrivers.ca

911 & Sec. 13(1): Coincidence or Collusion?

By Arthur Topham

April 18, 2009

“The reason men are silenced is not because they speak falsely, but because they speak the truth. This is because if men speak falsehoods, their own words can be used against them; while if they speak truly, there is nothing which can be used against them - except force.”

~ John “the Birdman” Bryant 1943 - 2009

There are important reasons why the 9/11 Truth movement must be discredited in the eyes of the still bewitched mainstream public. One of the more far-reaching ones is the connection between the Israeli Mossad (their official/unofficial spy agency), the insiders within the US administration and the resulting legislation that followed in the aftermath of the premeditated attack upon the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

For the USA, it represented the labour pains purposely induced by a traitorous element within its own government designed to birth the infamous Homeland Security legislation and justify its planned war against Afghanistan and Iraq plus the “War on Terror”. For Canada, that act of deliberate mass murder (better named a mini-holocaust considering the circumstances), had a different, although comparable direct and immediate benefit for the same criminal element now embedded within our nation’s social and political infrastructures whose similar purpose is to undermine Canada’s Constitution, Bill of Rights and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

I’m referring here of course to those Zionist Jew lobby groups within Canada who consistently and systematically seek to increase their stranglehold over the country’s judiciary and government leaders in order to fulfill their own separate, alien and seditious objectives which are to adulterate and manipulate Canada’s federal and provincial statutes in order that the courts, be they judicial or quasi-judicial, may then inhibit and pervert our traditional rights and freedoms; ones fundamental to the harmonious, peaceful functioning of our democratic way of life.

I don’t make these allegations lightly nor do I make them without reason or evidence. I make them because they are a reality in today’s world of politics not only in Canada but in the USA and throughout the vast majority of the world’s nations (if not, if fact, all of them).

In the example of Canada we are now facing the same crisis that exists in another of the former British colonies, Australia, where in the past days we’ve witnessed the blatant ruling by their supreme court which found Dr. Fredrick Toben, owner of the Adelaide Institute website, guilty of 28 counts of contempt, all connected to that country’s legal bondage to the Jewish lobbyists who have successfully infiltrated and taken over the former democratic nation’s rights to freedom of speech and expression and introduced, (better, substituted) their Talmudic Noahide “laws” for those which once were based on British Common Law. As such they’ve been deliberately deceived by these Jewish lobbyists into accepting the erroneous beliefs of the Zionist Jews that to question aspects of history, specifically the scientifically unproven, mythical 6 Million Lie about an exclusive “Jewish” holocaust committed during World War II, must constitute a criminal act, one warranting both incarceration and massive financial punishment.

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Editor’s Note:

The yahoo group Integrity BC was first started back on March 6th, 2004 by Arthur Topham and former Lawyer Jack Cram. Its purposes are outlined below. For a number of years I have been away from the site but it has, nonetheless pioneered on and persevered in its aims.

Regular contributors to the site ensure that it remains hard-hitting and controversial. A perusal of the latest posts involving former United Church Minister Kevin Annett will illustrate this comment.

Check it out and become a contributing member.

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The goals of INTEGRITY BC are:

1. To document, expose and eliminate all forms of corruption in B.C. with an emphasis on Government, Judicial and large corporations.

2. To restore faith, honour and integrity in the Rule Of Law.

3. To liaise, support and assist allied individuals, groups and coalitions.

4. To encourage proportional representation and effective accountability in government for the social, cultural, economic and healing benefit of all.

5. To create, promote, expand and share alternative communication networking via the web, newspapers, pamphlets, radio and t.v. for distribution of information, news and events reflecting IntegrityBC objectives and goals.

6. To foster and build a B.C. Peoples’ Movement as an effective independent watchdog to police ‘public’ and ‘political’ party policies and programmes.

7. To expand and to share these goals with other provinces and territories.

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Click to join IntegrityBC

THE ARROW LAKES INDIANS ARE RECOVERING FROM EXTINCTION

New Book Tells of a People Who Were Forgotten Until Their Ancestors Were Taken Away

Local author and artist Cliff Woffenden’s latest book is now published. The title Ghost Peoples is the story of the Arrow Lakes Indians. Cliff wrote this book to clear up the many misunderstandings about these people and their place in local and Canadian history.

In 1956 the Canadian government declared the Arrow Lakes Indian Band extinct. There was only one problem - they were still alive. But the government was about to begin negotiations with the USA for the Columbia River Treaty that would dam the Columbia and create a reservoir stretching from Castlegar in the south to Revelstoke in the north. This two hundred kilometer long lake would eventually wipe out all archaeological traces of a culture that had endured for over five thousand years.

To complicate matters, just when the last visible vestiges of their culture were disappearing from the landscape, the people came back to their home to request the return of the remains of their ancestors that were dug up by archaeologists and carted off to museums.

An interesting dilemma for the government. A rediscovery of a peoples’ identity. A clash between two worldviews. The return of the Sinixt Peoples has caused both elation and fear among members of the dominant society. Their return signals the end to the vacuum in our history and on our landscape. It also brings up the insecurities of a society that seems to fear the truth.

Ghost Peoples is the story of the Sinixt: their origins, their culture, their history and their present situation. This story is not one of blame but one that hopes to shine a light on a darkness that pervades our history so that it can be reconciled. Our story is not complete without the truth of our prehistory; our landscape is barren without its original inhabitants.

Ghost Peoples is published by Howling Moon Productions of Nakusp, B.C. CANADA

CLIFF WOFFENDEN - AUTHOR/ARTIST

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Contact information: Cliff Woffenden

91 4th Ave NW,

Box 214, Nakusp, B.C. V0G 1R0

250-265-0122

woffend@telus.net
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Cliff has been researching the story of the Sinixt people for two decades and lives in Nakusp, B.C. He is available for comment at 250-265-0122 or woffend@telus.net

Dedicated to all who value the truth, free speech and are willing to sacrifice themselves on the “Highway of Public Controversy”

Hi Everyone, 

We are very excited to launch this Hard-Hitting, Pro-Family, Pro-Truth Radio show.

Please help us to make it a hit by forwarding this email to your list and then making a date with us tonight on RoadKill Radio!!!  It’s going to be fun and ohhhh so very needed!!!

With great appreciation for all you do!

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YES TODAY!!!!!!

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– The naughty Pro-Lifers who dared to exercise their right to free speech and have now been charged by the  University of Calgary with trespassing!

–  Polygamy, do we need to say more?….YES!

–  Gay Politics 101 and other Social Injustices – The Corren Agreement

DOUGLAS CHRISTIE - DEFENDER OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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NEWS  RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 23, 2009

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CANADIAN FREE SPEECH LAWYER DOUGLAS CHRISTIE INTERVENES IN ABRAMS/B’NAI BRITH V. RADICALPRESS.COM HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL HEARING

QUESNEL, B.C. – Arthur Topham, Publisher and Editor of RadicalPress.com, says he received an email from the Victoria, B.C. Law Office of Douglas Christie on Friday, February 20th, 2009 confirming Mr. Christie’s interest in the current Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing process involving the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada v. Topham and his website RadicalPress.com (Complaint No.: 20071016).

In an email letter to Registry Officer Nancy LaFontant and Tribunal member Karen Jensen of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in Ottawa, Ontario Mr. Christie stated:

“I am general counsel of the Canadian Free Speech League, and as such I am interested in the case of Arthur Topham. I would like the opportunity to intervene on behalf of the free speech issues raised in this case. We were allowed intervention status in the case of Marc Lemire, and it is our desire to assist in the maintenance of a constitutional challenge to the enabling legislation, as well as to participate in the fact-finding that would be the foundation of such an assessment.”

Topham’s case first came to light back in November of 2007 when Harry Abrams, B.C. representative for the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada and his co-complainant the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) alleging that he, Topham, Owner, Publisher and Editor of RadicalPress.com was promoting “hatred toward Jews and citizens of Israel” because of articles on his website critical of both political Zionism and the actions of the foreign Jewish state of Israel.

Topham, who has publishing both a hard copy newspaper, The Radical (now defunct) and an online new site since 1998, said that after receiving the complaint back in November of 2007 he filed a hard-hitting, detailed, and thoroughly  documented 13-page Response http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=629 which he sent to CHRC “hate-team” investigator Sandy Kozak sandy.kozak@chrc-ccdp.ca on January 3, 2008.

On September 5, 2008 Topham received the Investigation Report from Ms. Natalie Dagenais, Director, Investigations Division. http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=785 . He was given until September 17, 2008 to comment on the Report. See: http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=786 .

On November 21, 2008 Topham received confirmation from the CHRC that the complaint would be moved to the Tribunal stage with the possibility of a hearing.

On January 14, 2009 Topham received an email from the CHR Tribunal requesting confirmation of whether or not he wanted to enter into a mediation process with the complainants. Topham declined to participate giving the Tribunal his reasons in a letter dated January 28, 2009. See: http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=893 .

With the Tribunal hearing now underway Topham said he was deeply honored to receive word that Mr. Christie had taken an interest in the case and was planning to intervene as General Counsel of the Canadian Free Speech League, a society that defends freedom of expression in Canada.

“No one accused of ‘hate speech’ could ask for or expect a better man of principle to stand by him than Doug Christie,” Topham said. “Mr. Christie has a well-deserved reputation world-wide as Canada’s most prolific defender of free speech, having appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada in that capacity more than any other counsel. Mr. Christie has been defense counsel for James Keegstra, Ernst Zundel, Malcolm Ross, John Ross Taylor, Tony McAleer, Imre Finta and in his most recent case that of First Nations leader David Ahenakew. And so it would be an understatement to say that I was both surprised and deeply grateful for the fact that Mr. Christie would take an interest in my case.”

As Doug Christie states on his website http://www.douglaschristie.com he has “challenged the powers of big government, the income tax department, big banking institutions, “human rights” commissions, social service bureaucracies, and other forces seeking at times to unjustifiably curtail the liberty of individuals.”

“Who could ask for a finer ally than that in my struggle with the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada and the censors within the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal,” Topham said.

“The root cause of all the legal problems facing writers, bloggers and publishers in Canada is the infamous Sec. 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act. It’s the most specious piece of Orwellian legislation ever to have (dis)graced the law books of Canadian jurisprudence; one which prohibits truth and intent from entering into a person’s defense when such a complaint has been filed against them” Topham added, “and that is why I intend to also file a constitutional challenge to this undemocratic and draconian section of the CHR Act.”

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CONTACT: Arthur Topham

Email: radical@radicalpress.com

Website: http://www.radicalpress.com

Home: 1-250-992-3479

Forty Years is too Long to Hate
by Doug Collins

Nov. 11th, 1985

This item is taken from my first book of columns (The Best and Worst of Doug Collins), published in 1987, and there are three reasons for using it again. It shows what my thinking was in 1985 with regard to old enemies; it has a link with what got me into trouble with the Human Rights maniacs over a decade later, when I wrote that Hollywood’s obsession with the Holocaust was hate propaganda in the form of films; and it has a bearing on the rest of the columns in this section. (From the Preface to the reprinted article found in Doug Collin’s last book, Here We Go Again! 1998)

If anyone had told me in 1945 that I would on this Remembrance Day be writing the column you are reading now, I would have referred him to the doctor. I was a good hater, you see. But time is not only a healer. It’s a teacher.

It’s now almost forty years on, and we should stop making villains of the Germans. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, there can be no other instance in history where so many have been subjected to so much vilification for so long. If such a thing happened to anyone else – East Indians, for example – there’d be hell to pay.

The Second World War is the longest-running movie of all and it’s time for a change of program. That doesn’t mean we should forget the sacrifices that were made. But:

I am tired of seeing bemonocled heel-clicking Nazi officers saluting one another as if the Fuehrer were about to jump out from behind a curtain and make another speech.

I am tired of seeing those clips of the Brownshirts marching down Unter den Linden in that torchlight procession. It crops up in every documentary on the Nazi regime. And there are almost as many documentaries as there were torches.

I am tired of the concentration camp stuff and tired of hearing about war criminals and the trials of war criminals. I am also tired of Simon Wiesenthal the Nazi-hunter. Forty years of Nazi-hunting is a hell of a lot of hunting, and the guy should find another job. Anyone would think that the Israelis have never been guilty of any war crimes.

It’s time we lifted the cross of guilt from the backs of German generations that are no more responsible for what happened between 1939 and 1945 than your seven-year old tad is.

Consider:

There are Germans now grandparents who weren’t old enough to have been in the war at all.

A kid who was 15 in 1945 and shoved into the Hitler Youth and given a gun whether he liked it or not is now 54.

Any German even remotely responsible for the rise of Hitler would now have to be at least 72, the voting age in 1933 having been 21. Most of those who cast a ballot in that un-wonderful year were much older, and are now dead. And millions voted against Hitler.

But the longest-running movie of them all runs on….

This year, in addition to old soaps like Hogan’s Heroes, and 50s late-night oldies like The Longest Day, it was The Winds of War, a ridiculous eight-hour propaganda melodrama if ever there was one. Before that it was Holocaust and others too numerous to mention.

It’s curious, this Hollywood fascination with the Second World War, because it zeroes in almost exclusively on the Germans. The Japanese, who weren’t exactly gentlemen either, are almost ignored. Apart from Bridge on the River Kwai and Tora! Tora!, which latter epic dealt with the attack on Pearl Harbour and made the Japanese look pretty good, I can’t think of any big feature in the past 20 years or so that deals with them.

Yet they murdered and pillage on the grand scale in South East Asia, and the atrocities they committed against British, Canadian, and American prisoners of war far exceeded anything the Germans did. Of those held by the Germans, two per cent died. Of those held by the Japanese, 27 per cent died. Many others staggered home only to expire from their sufferings. Others are still physical wrecks, and will die so.

I am not suggesting that we start a movie war against Japan (someone might hit my Toyota) but that we drop the movie war against the Germans.

Forty years is long enough. Talk about hate literature!
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ALL ALONE ON THE RIGHTS GRIDDLE
By Doug Collins

[Editor’s Note: I was reflecting on this piece this Sunday morning as I read it through. Here was a man of singular honesty, forthright and filled with courage at the age of 77, writing in defense of his sincere belief in the value of freedom of thought and expression. A man who had, at the age of 19, joined in fighting a war that he felt would keep the world free of the sorts of traitorous acts which, 58 years later, would return to haunt him and his work as a Canadian journalist (not to mention the rest of us free speech lovers).

That of course brought to mind Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada who were attacking everything that Collins had fought for (including escaping 11 times from Germany prisoner-of-war camps before the age of 25!) all of which was cause for rumination on my part and the recognition that in today’s world how cheap and taudry have become the old principles of respect for and admiration of our elders especially those who sacrificed so damn much in order that we Canadians of today would have the freedom to express our thoughts and ideas without fear of repression and harassment and imprisonment and fines.

This idea of this relatively young, baby-boomer Abrams and his co-conspirator the B’nai Brith, doing their damnedest to destroy the credibility and integrity of one of Canada’s true heroes I found to be exceedingly repulsive and contemptible.

My own Dad, born in 1918 only two years before Doug Collins and a man who also fought in WW2 against the supposed “fascists”, had he the requisite literary skills that Doug did, would likely have taken the same position of Collins on these very issues that Abrams and his pro-Zionist org B’nai Brith Canada are hell-bent on imposing upon the Canadian legal and political environment. When I look at Doug’s picture I also see my Father and become that much more incensed at the thought of what these anti-democratic, ungrateful and miserable, misinformed misanthropes are attempting to do to the most cherished of human values.

And for what I’m forced to ask? So that they can prevent Canadians from weighing the facts both pro and con as per the endless propaganda that’s been literally forced upon the minds of Canadians for decade upon decade? Hardly a justification for making critical analysis a crime.

Now these censors are not only unhappy with preventing “hatred toward Jews” in Canada. In addition to such a totalitarian/Bolshevik notion they also want to stop Canadians from extending any critical analysis to the foreign nation of Israel as well. How quaint. What next? No criticism of the Harper Conservatives or the Ignaiff (Jewish) Liberals or the Layton NDP or the May Greens because they all happen to be in the same bed with the Jewish Lobbyists like the CJC and the B’nai Brith and so in their orgies of appreciation for this racist, apartheid state and their blatant prostrations before their Zionist idol of innocence and endless persecution any protest of a frank and critical nature against them must also not be allowed to enter into the slipstream of Canadian thought? That, I propose, is the intent of this latest attack upon myself and RadicalPress.com. They’re out to set a new precedent in duplicious cowery, one that I could, and would, and will state is on par with Israel’s latest precedent-setting example of humanitarianism respecting their recent slaughter of the innocent Palestinian people of Gaza.

We must NEVER forget men like Doug Collins and what they spent their lives fighting for: the Free Will and God-given Right of every human being to express their deepest ideas and concerns without fear or threat or intimidation by others.]

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ALL ALONE ON THE RIGHTS GRIDDLE
By Doug Collins
July 20, 1997

from the North Shore News

North Vancouver, B.C.

Your man Doug is in trouble for saying that the “holocaust’s” six million story is  nonsense, that the biggest influence in Hollywood is the Jewish influence, and that the whole thing has become a business.

Which latter point was emphasized some time ago by the Chief Rabbi in the U.K. As they say in Israel, “There’s no business like Shoah (holocaust) business.”

So while we await the verdict of the Great Heresy Trial, [the one involving Harry Abrams and B’nai Brith Canada. A.T.] I want to ask a question. If the Commissars of Right-think don’t mind, that is. Or even if they do mind.

It is this: how come that I am the only one on the griddle?

A chap called Michael Enright shot his mouth off a couple of months back.

Enright, successor to Peter Gzowski on the ever-holy and blessed – by liberals – CBC Morningside, declared that next to the Mafia, the Roman Catholic Church was the biggest criminal organization around.

There were a couple of squeeks of surprise. But no witch hunt. Little old Michael was in safe hands.

Allan Fotheringham didn’t call him a monster.

The Sun’s Vaughn Palmer didn’t call him contemptible.

Writer David Mitchell didn’t call him anti-Catholic. Which, of course, is by no means as moral a sin as being “anti-Semitic”.

Nobody complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission about Enright, either. But what do you think would have happened if I had said that those of the Jewish faith were the biggest bunch of crooks outside of the Mafia?

The sky would have fallen. It would have been a case for criminal prosecution under the hate laws. I would have been sued. And burned at the stake.

Take a look around you.

In Alberta a couple of years ago a small magazine publisher was roasted for complaining that the Hollywood film, The Last Temptation of Christ, was anti-Christian and blasphemous.

Jewish groups cried havoc. Supermarkets refused to carry the magazine. And the publisher went out of business.

But what’s this?

Here we have an American rabbi, Yechiel Eckstein, accusing Hollywood of “a very real and pervasive anti-Christian bias.”

A story to that effect was carried on the Ecumenical News International wire.

The rabbi belongs to the the Orthodox branch of the Jewish faith and is quoted as saying that in order to rectify the situation, Christians should put pressure on the film industry in the same way  as pressure has been put on American tobacco firms.

Writing in the North Jersey Jewish Standard he said that Hollywood had gone out of its way to portray evangelical Protestants and devout Roman Catholics in the worst possible light.

“The cherished symbols of their faith are put to blasphemous use,” he declared.

“If there is a Christian character in a film, he is usually depicted as a fool, a liar, a cheat, a diabolical murderer, or a crazy person. And if such images are allowed to accumulate without a response they could prove detrimental to faith and to Christianity.”

I pointed out years ago that you never saw a movie out of Hollywood that featured a bad Jew. For Hollywood, there aren’t any bad Jews.

Not to mention that Christianity, thanks mainly to “minority” pressures, has become a no-no in our schools and that the Christian cross cannot be shown in some public places.

As for the rabbi, I guess it would be OK for him to say these thing even if they had human rights tribunals in the U.S., which they do not. Comment is protected by the First Amendment so he could not be dragged before one.

There’s something else. In many movies WASPS generally are depicted as being sinister.

You might think they were all members of the KKK. Mississipi Burning was such a film.

If you ask me, and I know you haven’t asked me, my comments were like kid’s pap compared with what some other people have said.

I guess it all depends on who your friends are. And what is “right” and what is “wrong” in the halls of political correctness.
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Foreward to the Doug Collins book Here We Go Again!
By Doug Collins
1998

“The purpose of human rights commissions is clear: it is to harass dissidence and throttle all serious attempts to fight political correctness. In other words, don’t question immigration or suggest that not all immigrants are equal, and don’t criticize the politics of the pressure groups, who have been handed a deadly weapon. Do ridicule traditional Canada and support the ills that liberal flesh is heir to. We must all subscribe to liberal thought. Or else!”

~ Doug Collins

It brings a blush to my battle-hardened hide, but frankness forces me to confess that in 1997 I became the most discussed columnist in the country, thanks to the Canadian Jewish Congress and other would-be censors. But it still puzzles me that my harmless offerings could create a national furore and, in British Columbia, a media feeding frenzy.

Such are the joys of political incorrectness. Only a few years ago, when men were men, and liberals, homosexuals and feminists did not rule the roost like so many squawking chickens, the columns in question would never have raised an eyebrow.

For such critics I was the serpent in the Garden of the Politically Correct Eden. Sleepwalkers in the major media nodded their heads like clockwork Barbie dolls as your correspondent was put through the grinder, describing me as an anti-Semite, a racist, a dork, and other terms popular with people who profess to hate hate.

The immediate cause of those fulminations was the column “Hollywood Propaganda”, published in 1994 in Vancouver’s North Shore News. It led over three years later to a five-week hearing before a “human rights” tribunal, the inquisitors believing, obviously but in this case mistakenly, that the longer a person is on the rack the louder will he repent.

In the eyes of the provincial government and the Jewish Congress the column was “hate literature”. But neither it nor anything else I have written has been, or ever could be, the subject of a criminal prosecution under the federal hate laws. That much was admitted by Lisa Mrozinski, a lawyer representing the government side. She stated that the need for proof makes it difficult to get anywhere with such complaints in the courts. The implication was that no proof is needed in the NDP’s Alice in Wonderland hearings, where words mean what the inquisitors want them to mean.

A complaint, in effect a charge, leads to a politically appointed one-person tribunal in which an “adjudicator” is judge, jury and prosecutor.

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FREE SPEECH HAS ALWAYS HAD A BAD NAME

By Doug Collins
January 11th, 1997
From the North Shore News

HARK, HARK, the dogs do bark…

And hunt in packs.

I trotted into the North Shore News on Friday to be confronted with a piece written by “colleague” David Mitchell which was headed:

“Giving free speech a bad name.”

He meant me. I am giving free speech a bad name.

What took him so long?

He was way behind Vaughn Palmer, Allan Fotheringham, Denny Boyd, Michael Smyth, Paula Brook, Miro Cernetig, Rafe Mair, John Pifer and others in the pack of the politically correct.

All of whom have pronounced me, the Great Satan of British Columbia, Guilty as Charged; all of whom know they themselves are too safe to be fixed by the basilisk glare of the Human Rights Gestapo and that they will never rock any politically correct boats.

David disappointed me. He should have been able to think up better epithets than “intolerant rantings,” “abusive ravings,” and “well-known anti-Semitism.”

That’s kid stuff. How about stinkweed, wart, hatred wretch, rug-headed kern, serpent’s egg, singlewit, goat, toad, or dunghill?

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GETTING READY TO SLAY CENSORSHIP

By Doug Collins
May 18th, 1997

From the North Shore News

That was the Week That Was. Coast to coast coverage. Plus long interviews with the Christian Science Monitor and The Daily Telegraph.  Perhaps Canada will wake up to the fact that the forces of censorship are a bit more dangerous than I am.

The Globe & Mail put the story on its front page [after my prosecution under the Human Rights Act was announced] and published an editorial headed “B.C.’s Gag Law,” in which it stated:

“The quality of his views is not the issue; his right to express them is. It is an inherent right. This presumptuous B.C. Legislation should be struck down by the courts….”.

Southam correspondent Ian Haysom sent a balanced account of this farce and fracas to the Southam papers. The headline in the Edmonton Journal was: “Does free speech give free rein?”

It should, but doesn’t. And won’t until this Jewish Congress attack on free speech is smashed. Will the courts be so bold? Who knows? This is Canada, not the U.S.

At the “tribunals” (lovely word) a multicult law professor by the name of Nitya Lyer is in charge. Gordon Watson the anti-abortionist says she is an NDP insider who helped to write the controversial “bubble law” that prevents demonstrators from getting too close to abortion clinics.

Freedom of speech is OK at a distance!

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DOUG COLLINS: CANADIAN FREE SPEECH CHAMPION

[Editor’s Note: On February 2, 1999, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada then Tribunal Member for the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, Tom W. Patch, brought down his decision in the controversial complaint brought against Doug Collins, writer and journalist for the North Shore News, a publication out of North Vancouver, B.C. by Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada.

The BCHRT’s Decision:

Individually, and taken out of context, each of the four columns at issue might not convey messages that meet the high threshold that is necessary to be considered hatred or contempt within the meaning of s. 7(1)(b) of the Code. However, collectively they do. They repeatedly reinforce some of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism. They convey the message that Jews, individually and collectively, are selfish, greedy and manipulative; that they have conspired to control government institutions and the media; and that they use that control to perpetuate inflated figures  concerning the victimization of Jews during the Holocaust and to persecute anyone who speaks out
against them.

The publication of these messages in a community newspaper that is delivered to almost
every home in the community is likely to increase the risk to Jewish people of being exposed to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry. Mr. Collins expresses hatred or contempt indirectly and subtly. He does not overtly incite hateful or contemptuous expressions. However, he reinforces negative stereotypes of the Jews that have been promulgated for centuries. Further, publication of these ideas in a credible newspaper increases the likelihood that others will manifest hateful and contemptuous views in a more directly harmful manner.

I find that the four columns, which were written by Doug Collins and published by the North Shore News, and which were the basis for this complaint, are likely to expose Jewish persons to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry contrary to s. 7(1)(b) of the Code.

Tom W. Patch, Tribunal Member
Vancouver, British Columbia
February 2, 1999

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In the case of Abrams v. Doug Collins and the North Shore News the Respondents had decided not to attend the Tribunal hearing and defend their position as per Mr. Collins’ articles. In hindsight that may have been an error for in doing so it gave full license to Abrams and the B’nai Brith to present their one-sided view of the issues which Doug Collins highlights in the four articles posted below.

It’s obvious when reading through the case that all the standard specious arguments used by the Zionists are presented by their coterie of “expert witnesses”. It’s also obvious that the Tribunal members swallowed all of this Zionist propaganda hook, line and sinker.

For the sake of today’s readers who are much more informed on these issues that the courageous journalist Doug Collins first highlighted for the general public I am republishing the four articles of Mr. Collins’ so that readers can decide for themselves whether or not justice was served back in 1999. Each of the four articles will include this introduction. By the way, Doug Collins’ column was called “On the Other Hand”.]
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Four articles used by BCHRC in Abrams vs Collins case written by Doug Collins

Article 4:

“On the Other Hand”

Some value freedom of the press, some don’t
Doug Collins
June 26, 1994

Freedom is the greatest toy in the world… But it don’t work so good in practice as is does in speeches. – Will Rogers.

WHAT WOULD happen if some right-wing or religious group tried to put newspapers out of action, prevented people from speaking at meetings, or was able to get national media to suppress stories?

There would be shock headlines. Open-liners would flap their lips to bits. Parsons would salt their soup with tears.

Jewish groups in Canada have done all of the above.

Is it “anti-Semitic” to say so? Only if facts are. Besides, it’s not hard to be an anti-Semite. When the Hebron massacre ocurred a reader complained to the Times-Colonist in Victoria that it was anti-Semitic to report that a Jew did the deed.

Media folk are usually discreet where Jewish doings are concerned. It’s a byproduct of the inflated six million story.

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DOUG COLLINS: CANADIAN FREE SPEECH CHAMPION

[Editor’s Note: On February 2, 1999, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada then Tribunal Member for the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, Tom W. Patch, brought down his decision in the controversial complaint brought against Doug Collins, writer and journalist for the North Shore News, a publication out of North Vancouver, B.C. by Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada.

The BCHRT’s Decision:

Individually, and taken out of context, each of the four columns at issue might not convey messages that meet the high threshold that is necessary to be considered hatred or contempt within the meaning of s. 7(1)(b) of the Code. However, collectively they do. They repeatedly reinforce some of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism. They convey the message that Jews, individually and collectively, are selfish, greedy and manipulative; that they have conspired to control government institutions and the media; and that they use that control to perpetuate inflated figures  concerning the victimization of Jews during the Holocaust and to persecute anyone who speaks out
against them.

The publication of these messages in a community newspaper that is delivered to almost
every home in the community is likely to increase the risk to Jewish people of being exposed to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry. Mr. Collins expresses hatred or contempt indirectly and subtly. He does not overtly incite hateful or contemptuous expressions. However, he reinforces negative stereotypes of the Jews that have been promulgated for centuries. Further, publication of these ideas in a credible newspaper increases the likelihood that others will manifest hateful and contemptuous views in a more directly harmful manner.

I find that the four columns, which were written by Doug Collins and published by the North Shore News, and which were the basis for this complaint, are likely to expose Jewish persons to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry contrary to s. 7(1)(b) of the Code.

Tom W. Patch, Tribunal Member
Vancouver, British Columbia
February 2, 1999

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In the case of Abrams v. Doug Collins and the North Shore News the Respondents had decided not to attend the Tribunal hearing and defend their position as per Mr. Collins’ articles. In hindsight that may have been an error for in doing so it gave full license to Abrams and the B’nai Brith to present their one-sided view of the issues which Doug Collins highlights in the four articles posted below.

It’s obvious when reading through the case that all the standard specious arguments used by the Zionists are presented by their coterie of “expert witnesses”. It’s also obvious that the Tribunal members swallowed all of this Zionist propaganda hook, line and sinker.

For the sake of today’s readers who are much more informed on these issues that the courageous journalist Doug Collins first highlighted for the general public I am republishing the four articles of Mr. Collins’ so that readers can decide for themselves whether or not justice was served back in 1999. Each of the four articles will include this introduction. By the way, Doug Collins’ column was called “On the Other Hand”.]
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Four articles used by BCHRC in Abrams vs Collins case written by Doug Collins

Article 2:

“On the Other Hand”

Hollywood propaganda
Doug Collins
March 9, 1994

PROPHECY IS risky. But today I prophesy that the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List will run away with the Academy Awards.

I make that forecast without having seen it and without having any intention of doing so, since it must be the 555th movie or TV program on the “holocaust.”

Fifty years after the war one tires of hate literature in the form of films.

B.C. schoolchildren are being trooped in to see this effort. In the name of piety, of course.

But wasn’t it Elie Wiesel, a major holocaust propagandist, who said the world should never stop hating the Germans?

Such indoctrination goes on even though Germans born after 1925 or so are no more responsible for the Hitler period than are the Eskimos.

Why are we getting such an overdose of a bad thing?

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DOUG COLLINS: CANADIAN FREE SPEECH CHAMPION

[Editor’s Note: On February 2, 1999, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada then Tribunal Member for the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, Tom W. Patch, brought down his decision in the controversial “hate crimes” complaint brought against Doug Collins, writer and journalist for the North Shore News, a publication out of North Vancouver, B.C. by Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada.

B.C.’s Sec. 7(1) of the BCHR Code is basically akin to the CHR Act Sec. 13(1) which these same complainants are using to try and convict myself and RadicalPress.com  of a similar crime compounded by the addition of spreading hatred “toward citizens of Israel”.

The BCHRT’s Decision:

Individually, and taken out of context, each of the four columns at issue might not convey messages that meet the high threshold that is necessary to be considered hatred or contempt within the meaning of s. 7(1)(b) of the Code. However, collectively they do. They repeatedly reinforce some of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism. They convey the message that Jews, individually and collectively, are selfish, greedy and manipulative; that they have conspired to control government institutions and the media; and that they use that control to perpetuate inflated figures  concerning the victimization of Jews during the Holocaust and to persecute anyone who speaks out
against them.

The publication of these messages in a community newspaper that is delivered to almost
every home in the community is likely to increase the risk to Jewish people of being exposed to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry. Mr. Collins expresses hatred or contempt indirectly and subtly. He does not overtly incite hateful or contemptuous expressions. However, he reinforces negative stereotypes of the Jews that have been promulgated for centuries. Further, publication of these ideas in a credible newspaper increases the likelihood that others will manifest hateful and contemptuous views in a more directly harmful manner.

I find that the four columns, which were written by Doug Collins and published by the North Shore News, and which were the basis for this complaint, are likely to expose Jewish persons to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry contrary to s. 7(1)(b) of the Code.

Tom W. Patch, Tribunal Member
Vancouver, British Columbia
February 2, 1999

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In the case of Abrams v. Doug Collins and the North Shore News the Respondents had decided not to attend the Tribunal hearing and defend their position as per Mr. Collins’ articles. In hindsight that may have been an error for in doing so it gave full license to Abrams and the B’nai Brith to present their one-sided view of the issues which Doug Collins highlights in the four articles posted below.

It’s obvious when reading through the case that all the standard specious arguments used by the Zionists are presented by their coterie of “expert witnesses”. It’s also obvious that the Tribunal members swallowed all of this Zionist propaganda hook, line and sinker.

For the sake of today’s readers who are much more informed on these issues that the courageous journalist Doug Collins first highlighted for the general public I am republishing the four articles of Mr. Collins’ so that readers can decide for themselves whether or not justice was served back in 1999. Each of the four articles will include this introduction. By the way, Doug Collins’ column was called “On the Other Hand”.]
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Four articles used by BCHRC in Abrams vs Collins case written by Doug Collins

Article Number 1:

“On the Other Hand”

News flash! Daily press discovering free speech
Doug Collins
January 12, 1994

AMAZING! THE Vancouver dailies have discovered political correctness and freedom of speech. Sort of.

I know this because in December the Sun deplored the gag on the Teale manslaughter trial in Ontario.

“What’s next?” it asked. “Will Canada Post start censoring Christmas mail?”

Don’t those dopes know that Customs and Excise already censors Christmas mail if it happens to be a gift in the form of Professor Arthur Butz’s Hoax of the Twentieth Century or some other politically incorrect work?

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 RadicalPress.com Editor and Publisher Arthur Topham’s Preliminary Comments:

Greetings Reader:  The information contained in the article below, which is actually my response to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s “offer” to participate in a mediation process with Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, is of vital concern to all Canadians who take the issue of Internet Censorship seriously. As such I would strongly suggest that you do your utmost to assist me in moving this story/letter about the net in the most expedient manner possible. The next, and final stage of this Bolshevik Show Trial will be a “hearing” by the CHR Tribunal which will take place within a month or two and likely conclude with a decision to try and shut down my website RadicalPress.com . Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Arthur Topham

Pub/Ed

RadicalPress.com

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B’nai Brith v. RadicalPress.com: Zionism’s Battle for Control of Canada’s Mind

by Arthur Topham
January 28, 2009

Preface:

The following letter is a reply sent to Nancy Lafontant, Registry Officer and Gregory M. Smith, Registrar of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, a quasi-judicial federal agency  now in the process of preparing for a Tribunal hearing regarding the complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission by Harry Abrams and The League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada against RadicalPress.com.

The reply contains the argument put forth by RadicalPress.com owner and publisher Arthur Topham that this is a case of an intentional attack upon one of the last remaining alternative news network in Canada – one willing to stand up to the Zionist-controlled media and the assorted Zionist Jewish lobby groups that hold way too much influence over Canada’s Judiciaries and governments, both federally and provincially.

The means being employed by B’nai Brith Canada is the infamous anti-hate law contained in the Canadian Human Rights Act and known as Sec. 13(1).

The RadicalPress.com publisher maintains that the Tribunal’s offer to “mediate” is but a meaningless formality due to the fact than never in the history of the CHRC or the CHRT has a case been won by any of the numerous respondents who have been entrapped by this vile legal trap, one that NEVER allows the Truth to get in its way. NOT UNLESS OF COURSE YOU HAPPEN TO BE JEWISH AND PRO-ZIONIST!

The letter outlines much of the efforts by other victims of this Bolshevik bit of legislation as well as attempts by sane people across Canada to convince the federal government to toss this specious piece of pro-Zionist handiwork into the trash bin of history and at the same time dismantle all the Human Rights Commissions across Canada, be they provincial or federal. The dangers inherent in such quasi-judicial bodies has now become only too obvious at this stage of the game. [A.T.]

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B’nai Brith v. RadicalPress.com: Zionism’s Battle for Control of Canada’s Mind

by Arthur Topham

January 28, 2009

To:
Nancy Lafontant
Registry Officer
And
Gregory M. Smith
Registrar

Registry Officer / Agent du greffe
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal / Tribunal canadien des droits de la personne

Ottawa, ON K1A 1J4/ Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 1J4
nancy.lafontant@chrt-tcdp.gc.ca
Telephone | Téléphone 613-947-1137
Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-995-3484
Teletypewriter | Téléimprimeur 613-563-6460
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada

From:

Arthur Topham
Publisher/Editor
The Radical Press
4633 Barkerville Highway
Quesnel, B.C. V2J 6T8

January 28, 2009.

Dear Ms. Nancy Lafontant and Gregory M. Smith:

RE: Your Tribunal email letter of January 14, 2009 regarding,
Tribunal – Harry Abrams and The League for Human Rights of B’Nai Brith Canada v. Arthur Topham and RadicalPress.com
Your File: T1360/9008

Since receiving your email letter of January 14, 2009 I have given much serious thought and consideration to your “offer” of mediation in the complaint filed by Mr. Harry Abrams and The League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada against my person and my website http://www.radicalpress.com .

Contained in this somewhat lengthy reply you will find my response. Please bear in mind that what is written is done so in a spirit of honest, frank, open-minded and loving intent; designed to address and ultimately resolve in an abbreviated synopsis, the overall issue that is presently at stake in this case. Therefore, no remarks or comments of mine, regardless of their apparent harshness or levity are intended to offend, malign or denigrate any of the parties concerned, which includes the Tribunal and its members.

With respect to the entrapment legislation (which is how I interpret Sec. 13(1) of the CHR Act), whether or not there ever existed or does exist a case of its nature, wherein mediation has benefited the “Respondent” at no cost to their principles, beliefs, integrity or rights I am unaware of it. Perhaps the recent one involving Harry Abrams and The League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada v. Al Rycroft and www.PEJ.org (one set in tandem and paralleling my own) is an exception to this general rule but, not being privy to the details of said case as to whether or not any self-censorship was involved, I cannot make any definitive statement on it one way or another. I do know though that it was initiated by the same parties who have conjoined to bring about the complaint against myself and my website and that in the case of www.PEJ.org it was settled in favour of the respondent but what effect that case will have or has had upon the issue of the ultimate illegality of this specious Section of the Canadian Human Rights Act remains to be seen. It is one case shrouded in almost complete secrecy since the complaint was first laid.

What I am privy to though and acutely cognizant of, is the ultimate nature of this particular complaint and its intended purpose which, I contend, has nothing to do with the issue of “Hate” or “anti-Semitism” or “Racism” or any of the other carefully crafted, misleading phrases and loaded terminology used by both the complainants and, tragically, your own departments within the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT).

Obviously this issue deals with the primary, fundamental, God-given right, as contained within Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and elsewhere, to freedom of thought and speech as well as freedom of the media to publish whatever is deemed relevant as either news or views; barring of course all which currently falls within the legal parameters of Canada’s Libel laws and those whose related purpose is to prevent acts of malicious violence toward an individual or group and/or seditious acts against the government of Canada and its sovereign citizens.

As I have previously stated, both in my original Response to the CHRC Investigating officer ( http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=629 January 3, 2008 ) and in my Comments on the CHRC final Report ( see: http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=786 Sept 17/08 ), this is not a simple case of a person of “Jewish faith” being personally maligned or threatened or libeled. Nor is a mundane example of some benign, benevolent society within the ranks of Canada’s multi-cultural social milieu being unduly criticized or picked on for spiteful or vexatious reasons. It is much more complex and convoluted and important, relatively speaking.

It has always been the contention of RadicalPress.com and myself, well before this case arose, that the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada is today a strongly political and vociferous pro-Zionist arm of the Mossad, the designated name for Israel’s unofficial spy network. As such its direct and full complicity with the state of Israel in their covert operations abroad and in its capacity as one of Israel’s most powerful lobby groups here in Canada, makes it de facto, an organization whose operations, both within Canada and without, are justifiably suspect and deserving of the most extreme scrutiny by the media, alternative or otherwise. I needn’t at this point go into any great detail surrounding the influence of this political lobbyist group here in Canada and its subsequent negative effect upon successive federal governments as per Canada’s role in supporting the racist, apartheid policies of the state of Israel.

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When Truth Becomes “Anti-Semitic”: What World Famous People Say About Jews and Zionism

Introduction by Arthur Topham
http://www.RadicalPress.com

radical@radicalpress.com
January 13, 2009

In a recent screed of January 10, 2009 (The ‘Oldest Hatred’ Lives, from Gaza to Florida http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hamas-gaza-jewish-2277487-muslims-state ) outlining a list of relatively minor examples of anti-Jewish sentiment resulting from Israel’s current butchery of the defenseless Palestinians of Gaza, Canadian journalist Mark Steyn, one of Zionism’s key literary brokers for North America’s Jewish-owned media cartel, attempts to lay the blame for the growing public outrage on the doorstep of Palestine’s democratically elected government Hamas along with other Islamic extremists, Muslims and anyone, anywhere expressing “anti-Zionist” sentiments.

After listing off his abbreviated litany of “anti-Semitic” attacks upon various Jewish individuals and groups he writes, “Forget, for the moment, Gaza. Forget that the Palestinian people are the most comprehensively wrecked people on the face of the earth. For the past sixty years they have been entrusted to the care of the United Nations, the Arab League, the PLO, Hamas and the “global community” — and the results are pretty much what you’d expect” all the while conveniently leaving out of his deceptively narrative description the blatant historic fact that it was the newly-formed Israeli government itself who, via mendacity and sheer ill-will and bloody terror, drove the legal inhabitants of Palestine out of their homes and villages and into that hideous concentration camp we now know as Gaza.

This simplistic and transparent ploy by Steyn to high jack the legitimate concerns of people around the world via jingoist sophistry and twisted argument in favour of the worn canard of “anti-Semitism” falls flat in the face of an abundance of gross images of mutilated, dead and dying Palestinian children, women and elderly, yet this doesn’t deter him in his vainglorious denial of the truth from continuing to ride his blood-steyned steed further into the fray of unabashed Zionist media propaganda, thrashing about with his sword of lies and brandishing his bullet-ridden “anti-Semite” banner – one flapping madly about in the righteous winds of vehement feelings of horror expressed by decent people around the planet incensed and ashamed that such despicable acts of cruel and wanton bloodshed could still be committed against the human family at the beginning of the 21 Century.

But let’s, as Steyn says, “forget Gaza” “and instead ponder the reaction to Gaza in Scandinavia, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and golly, even Florida. As the delegitimization of Israel has metastasized, we are assured that criticism of the Jewish state is not the same as anti-Semitism. We are further assured that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism, which is a wee bit more of a stretch. Only Israel attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying its very existence.”

In a token of submission to the Zionist god of cunning and perfidy Steyn tries comparing Israel with the state of Pakistan as part of recent political machinations and Mossad false flag operations by the Zionist-controlled US government to vilify Pakistan before eventually attacking it as yet another rogue, “terrorist” state. Of Pakistan, and with obvious intent to deflect attention from Israel, Steyn sardonically states, “I happen to think the creation of Pakistan was the greatest failure of post-war British imperial policy.”

Steyn’s culminating and rather crass attempt to convince his western readers that all who reject Zionism are in fact Jew-hating bigots, hypocrites and “anti-Semites” is eventually steeped in a feeble flourish of anti-Muslim artistry, punctuated with an excerpt from the Syrian poet, Nizar Qabbani, suggesting that the people of Gaza are all “mad”. And why are they mad? Why because, as Steyn so lucidly tells us, they exhibit “the enthusiastic adoption of the same pathologies” that mainstream Europe is now expressing in their “anti-Semitic” attacks but of course the Palestinians are even “more deranged — and in the end” their resistance to the phosphorus bombs and DU bullets of Israeli justice “will prove just as self-destructive.”

Such is the ethereal substance of the Zionist media’s #1 propaganda broker Mark Steyn. If you don’t approve of the butcher’s banquet that Israel and its pro-Zionist supporters around the world are feasting upon then by definition you are “anti-Semitic” and a Jew-hater.

Which brings me now to the list of world famous people, who by Steyn’s and Zionism’s definition, fit the description of “anti-Semite”. It was one of these people listed, H.H. Beamish who, in a New York address in October 1937 made the following observation:

“In 1848 the word “anti-Semitic” was invented by the Jews to prevent the use of the word “Jew.” The right word for them is “Jew” …”

Like gemstones and special treats of food I would guess that almost everybody loves reading quotes. The ones that follow are the most comprehensive list related to the issue of “anti-Semitism” that I am aware of. They are offered here to the internet community as one small token of respect for the inhumane suffering of the Palestinian people of all of Palestine and the Arab world in general. They are also dedicated to those brave truth-seeking men and women who now languish in German prisons because they had the fortitude, the fore-knowledge and the courage to question the Zionist Lie. God bless and keep them all safe from any further harm.

If readers of these quotes feel they are being wrongly accused by the likes of Mark Steyn and the Zionist warlords I am certain that by the time they complete reading them they will not feel alone in their gut reaction to what is going on in Gaza today.
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“In the beginning was the word and the word was that the Talmudic Jews were anathema to universal justice and peace for all non-Jewish peoples of the earth.“
~ Arthur Topham, January 13, 2009

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[Editor’s Note: This article is dated and appears here simply because the forum on which it was originally posted was destroyed by the malicious machinations of the Zionist B’nai Brith Canada censors. I’m posting it here for posterity and for future reference.]

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The Gitxsan: Betrayal of a Nation
by Arthur Topham
Jan. 27/2004

“We know that justice and generosity can flourish only in an atmosphere of trust. For if individuals and minorities do not feel protected against the possibility of the tyranny of the majority, if French-speaking Canadians or native peoples or new Canadians do not feel they will be treated with justice, it is useless to ask them to open their hearts and minds to their fellow Canadians.” - Pierre Trudeau, April 17, 1982

The irony contained in the Globe & Mail’s January 27, 04 front page story “PM’s Throne Speech has native focus”, I’m sure was not lost on the 50 Hereditary Chiefs of the Gitxsan Nation and their 5000 band members living in the north-western region of central British Columbia.

Just weeks ago, on the 14th of January, this same group of frustrated, disillusioned, yet determined people, filed a lengthy and controversial Complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) and the federal Minister of Justice, Mr. Irwin Cotler citing a shocking list of grievances against an array of highly prominent B.C. judges, lawyers, law firms, politicians and corporations all linked to a host of crimes ranging from misconduct to deceit, bribery, corruption, obstruction of justice and complicity, the sum of which has devastated and endangered the 33,000 square kilometre area of their traditional lands.

First and foremost of the complaints is the conduct of B.C.’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald J. Brenner while presiding over the “restructuring” proceedings related to a large forest products company in Prince Rupert, B.C.; one in which the provincial government held controlling interest and declining revenues. That initial example, shown in great detail within the lengthy submission, exemplified at the onset the serious nature of the many other accusations of fault contained within the document, illustrating once again the seemingly endless challenges which have plagued the treaty process in B.C. for decades.

Readers may recall that it was this same First Nation that captured headlines across the country during the latter part of the Mulroney era when what the Claimants describe as “arguably the most important case in Canadian jurisprudence” the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en land claims trial, known as Delgamuukw, finally concluded with judgment on March 8, 1991, after 374 protracted court days stretching over a three year period.

According to Ron Jackson and Robert Jackson, the two signatories of the Complaint representing the 50 Hereditary Gitxsan Chiefs and their people, the original Delgamuukw trial was a staggeringly complex and insidious deception that saw figures from all levels of government, the judiciary, industry and the media conspiring to foist upon the general public, and specifically the Gitxsan people themselves, a horrendous ‘legal’ hoax which would allow the B.C. government to further augment its power over the traditional territories of the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en for the benefit of all vested interests except the indigenous inhabitants of the region themselves.
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SMEAR JOB!!! : The Zionist Media’s Mendacious Battle to Control Canada’s Election Agenda

By Arthur Topham

September 29, 2008

Midway into Canada’s federal election the battle lines are clearly taking shape as voters across the country witness in anger and sad disbelief the Asper Media cartel’s unabashed smear campaign now being orchestrated against any and all candidates who don’t espouse views acceptable to the Zionist agenda for globalization, endless war, and the suppression of free speech.

Whether you are Green or Red or Blue the colour doesn’t matter. What is critical is that you must not come into this election bearing any present or past grievances toward either the Bush Regime, the Zionist state of Israel, the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or the draconian federal laws prohibiting citizens from cultivating or enjoying a puff of that magic dragon cannabis.

Spearheaded by CanWest’s Asper media monopoly and its most zealous rag the National (Zionist) Post and aided and abetted by the persistent collusion of a motley hoard of rabid, pro-Zionist cyber hounds concealing themselves behind various “Christian”, “Conservative” and “Liberal” blogkades, the search for the non-believers in the official lies of 9/11, the heathen apostates who have yet to prostrate themselves before the Zionist Israeli lobby now controlling Ottawa and the freaks who once, or still, smoke the cursed marijuana herb are all fair game in this Armageddon to control the mind-fields of Canada’s volatile electors.

Astonishing as it may appear to many voters the realization that Canada’s media is dominated by one small faction of Zionist extremists still remains a mystery yet is thee perennial problem that Canadians face in terms of discerning truth from lies when it comes to our so-called “independent”, mainstream media.

When Joe or Jane reader in British Columbia pick up their “news” paper from their front step or the supermarket or corner grocery they basically have four choices: The Province, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post or The Globe and Mail. Of these four the first three are part of a monopoly that Vancouver writer and political commentator Robin Mathews once described as being one of the “sleaziest media concentration monsters in Canadian history: CanWest Global Communications”.

CanWest is owned by the Asper family, admittedly pro-Israel and thus, by definition, Zionist in terms of its political perspective.

Mathews also stated that Sociologist Larry Patriquin, after studying The National Post (2004), said of the Post’s material that it fits “’the classic definition of propaganda’. It was, he said, ‘a discourse in which incomplete information is presented to people with the purpose of distorting their view….’”

In fact a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in an analysis of CanWest’s propaganda machine, once commented that it was so slanted and biased in its political coverage that  “Vancouver’s daily papers should be read at a 45-degree angle”!

The fourth choice, The Globe & Mail, while not apparently owned by the Zionists, might as well be for it follows suit with the former three in its editorial policies and is thus basically a clone of the Zionist cartel of the Aspers. In tandem they all work together to give a one-sided, pro-Zionist perspective on national issues and global politics, one that favours the US/Israel/UK agenda as well as the Harper government’s Conservative perspective on political issues.

In addition to the aforementioned, CanWest also owns Southam Publications whose daily papers include: the Halifax Daily News, the St. John’s Telegram, the Charlottetown Guardian, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, the Windsor Star, the St. Catharines Standard, the Regina Leader Post, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.

As well, the Asper cartel owns 126 other daily and weekly papers across Canada. Here In BC these papers include: the Abbotsford Times, the Alberni Valley Times, the Burnaby Now, the Campbell River Courier-Islander, the Chilliwack Times, the Coquitlam Times Now, the Comox Valley Echo(partnership interest), the Cowichan Valley Citizen (Duncan), the Delta Optimist, the Harbour City Star, the Kamloops Daily News, the Lake Cowichan News, the Langley Advance, the Maple Ridge Times, the Monthly Star Homes, the Nanaimo Daily News, the New Westminster Record, the North Shore News, the Now Community, the Parksville/Qualicum Beach Morning Sun, the Pennyworth Shopper, the Prince George Citizen, the Real Estate Weekly, the Richmond News, the TV Scene, the Vancouver Courier, and the Westerly News.

This same Asper/Zionist media monopoly extends to television as well where the vast majority of Canadians get their political perspective on national and world events and includes the following televised media sources: Global Television Network (8 regional channels including Edmonton’s ITV and Vancouver’s VTV), Fox Sportsworld Canada, Lone Star, Deja View, Mystery Channel, CHEK Victoria, CHTV Hamilton, and CHBC Okanagan. They also own Fireworks Entertainment and 8 other foreign channels and numerous radio stations across the globe.

Now when you consider that an identical editorial (propaganda) perspective, such as the recent poison-penned hit attack upon Liberal candidate Leslie Hughes and the NDP’s Bev Collins by Jonathan Kay of the National Post is instantly peddled throughout this vast media network is it that surprising so many Canadians are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the Zionist propaganda machine and find themselves thrown into cognizant disarray?

Those additional forces within the fabric of Canadian society who are pushing this pro-Zionist agenda, either wittingly or unwittingly, consists in the main of the following: Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress headed by Bernie Farber, the Simon Weisenthal Center and an assortment of pro-Israeli websites and bloggers such as http://www.FreeDominion.com , http://www.EzraLevant.com , the Liberal’s http://www.teambc.ca , http://www.liblogs.ca , http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com , Kathy Shaidle http://www.fivefeetoffury.com , http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com , http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com and so on.

Voters are being assailed on all quarters by a concerted effort on the part of a biased media monopoly to thwart the right of Canadians to choose their representatives without interference from an obviously parisan Fourth Estate.

As Dylan once prophetically wrote, “The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast”. Canadians, whether they wish it or not, are being forced to either suspend their disbelief in the freedom and independence of Canada’s media or else come to terms with the obvious.

There is only one reasonable solution and that is for all those political parties currently being affected to realize the trap they’ve fallen into and to then confront this mendacious media attack upon their candidates and expose the true agenda of the Asper empire. It will take courage and the will power to stand up for one’s beliefs but if our parties don’t confront this Trojan Horse now and expose it for what it truly is then the results will only be that much worse for the country in the long run.
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Arthur Topham is the publisher and editor of the RadicalPress.com http://www.radicalpress.com and lives in central British Columbia, Canada.
He can be reached at radical@radicalpress.com

Vancouver, Monday,

August 18th 2008
Left of what? Left of Centre?

by Betty Krawczyk
That’s how Vision, a Municipal Political Party of Vancouver is being described, by themselves, and by the media, as left of centre. My question is: how can any political party be described as left of centre when it is seventy per cent funded by developers and corporations?  But this question is never raised by our only two daily print newspapers, The Vancouver Sun and the Province.  Both newspapers are owned by the Asper family of Winnipeg.

Okay, if only one family who lives in Winnipeg owns the only two daily print newspapers in Vancouver, (the family owns CanWest, the largest media conglomerate in Canada) what are the politics of this family, that is, the way they slant the news ?   Decidedly right wing.  That is, the usual right wing messages advocating the privatizing of everything public, including health care.  All in a reasonable tone, of course.  And the Aspers have already elected Gregor Robertson of Vision as the next mayor of Vancouver.  How have they done this?  By getting Gregor Robinson out there, at every opportunity, front and centre. in their newspapers.  And never even mentioning the fact that I, too, am running for mayor of Vancouver.

The Aspers obviously consider the fact that a little old lady environmental activist running for mayor as completely unworthy of mention.  Or, the other possibility is that I present some kind of a threat.   Because here’s an odd thing.  In my role as an environmental activist, both papers have covered my activities.   But as soon as I’m out of prison and announce that I’m running for mayor of Vancouver there is absolute silence.  The Vancouver Sun and the Province have never heard of me.  And furthermore, they have no intention of hearing my name or seeing my face.  Wouldn’t you agree that this is odd?  Wouldn’t you think that the only two local daily print newspapers would at lest mention that I, too, am running for mayor of Vancouver?  Especially since there is only one other declared candidate for mayor (besides myself), Peter Ladner of NPA?  And they do report on Mr. Ladner?  I would even feel that the Aspers were fulfilling some kind of civic responsibility to their readers if,  when discussing the mayoral race in an article, they  just tossed a throw away line at the bottom by adding : and oh yes, and  Betty Krawczyk is also running for mayor.  But not even this footnote.

The fact that there is not even a footnote makes me suspicious.  Could the Aspers really be afraid of me?  Of what I represent?  Which is public resistance to their corporate agenda and value systems?  If so, what right have they to pick the next mayor of Vancouver, one whom they consider to be more amenable to their ring wing agendas?   To do this by endorsing a nice man with a soft image and calling his seventy per cent corporate and developer funded party left of centre?  And the Aspers don’t even live in British Columbia.  Oh, money is a powerful thing!

If one bluntly questioned the Aspers about this they would probably reply that they have a right to say what they please and ignore what they please as they own the newspapers.  But I say they have a responsibility to the public as owners of the only two local print dailies in Vancouver to report the news, what is actually happening, not ignore what displeases them.  I say, just print the news, you Asper family of the Vancouver Sun and the Province.  And part of the news concerning the mayoral candidate race in Vancouver is that Betty Krawczyk is also a candidate and she is running under the auspices of The Work Less Party.  You don’t like that?  You’re afraid of it?  Better to ignore it?  Beneath your notice?

Ah, but you have a public obligation, you Aspers. You have an obligation to print names of declared candidates and legal municipal parties who have declared.  In fact, I think there may even be some legal obligation here to do so.   Just mentioning this as a foot note.

Betty Krawczyk

Blog: http://bettysearlyedition.blogspot.com/

For more information contact:

Betty Krawczyk
Mayoral Candidate, City of Vancouver
www.worklessparty.org
betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca

BOUNTIFUL, BRITISH COLUMBIA’S CHILD GROW OP SCANDAL

Dear Editor:

This scandal has been perpetuated by a long succession of BC Premiers, Attorneys General and Solicitors General, all of whom can take credit for an abysmal record and the outright failure to protect the children of Bountiful. The Canadian children “transferred” or “reassigned parents” from British Columbia’s long standing polygamous compound, may be but the tip of the iceberg of child abuse, inflicted by Bountiful’s felonious, polygamous males together with their numerous enabling and/or brainwashed wives.

In January 2005 BC Bountiful member Mark Edward Calder, 37 pleaded guilty to transportation of more than 600 images of child pornography while driving from Utah into Canada. Utah District Judge David Winder approved a plea deal that imposed a five-year prison sentence. This information was provided to BC police as there were concerns that these 600 images were of BC children sequestered within the BC Bountiful compound. Of course if that were the case, then transferring and or reassigning children to new parents in Texas makes good criminal sense as it impedes police investigations.

The BC Crown Counsel Act has emasculated BC Police power under the Criminal Code of Canada (CCC). This Act in effect allows Crown Counsels and their political masters to secretly control what laws are enforced and to whom they are applied. Bountiful is a perfect example of why our police are unable to do their job. Our local news media have been reporting on this festering cesspool for years. RCMP have time and time again recommended charges be laid at Bountiful, yet Attorney General Wally Opal and the long list of AGs before him, have refused to allow police to lay those charges, let alone instruct prosecutors to proceed to Court.

Attorney General Opal’s position usurps the CCC, our judges, courts and the Parliament of Canada. His excuse for his inaction is based solely on the opinions of other publicly funded lawyers; an opinion that presupposes how our Judges and courts may or may not rule. This is political irony at its best. BC’s once top Justice, now has the unmitigated gall to shed governmental crocodile tears about his inability to act.

Child abuse of any kind, especially sexual abuse under the guise of religious emancipation is unacceptable. BC children are knowingly being abused, sexually and psychologically. These children are being traded like cattle between “religious” men who are openly engaging in plural sex with post-pubescent children. This is a made in BC scandal from Hell. Premier Campbell, the buck stops with you. Inaction is not an option. Protect these children NOW!

Doug Stead
Coquitlam, BC

January 31, 2008

German Citizens Protest Logging of Mountain Caribou Habitat at Canadian Embassy in Berlin

British Columbia, Canada -  The BC government’s failure to stop logging in mountain caribou habitat sparked protest at the Canadian embassy in Berlin today. German citizens gathered in front of the embassy carrying a banner with the slogan “Save the Inland Rainforest of Canada” and two life-sized effigies of the mountain caribou.  The environmental organization Robin Wood delivered a letter to the embassy addressed to BC Premier Gordon Campbell. It was signed by 4,835 people.  The letter declares support for a petition that was sent to the BC government last year by fifty Canadian and US biologists.  It called for an end to logging all old-growth mountain caribou forest older than 140 years.

Last year several German environmental groups including Koordinationszentrum Natur und Umwelt, Naturschatz, Regenwald Kanada, and Urgewald wrote letters of concern to the BC government.  The government has now announced its new plan to save the mountain caribou. However, the plan did not reduce the allowable annual cut in mountain caribou habitat. It did not create one real protected area. With the kind of protection that’s being granted, if the caribou disappear because too little habitat has been protected, the logging can commence, continuing to send numerous other old-growth species into extinction. Today’s protest demonstrates growing concern in Germany.

“For the last 47 years the nations of the world have had the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to ensure that trade did not make species go extinct,” says Anne Sherrod, a director of Valhalla Wilderness Watch based in New Denver, BC. Canada is a signatory. But suppose what’s being traded is wood products, and it’s the logging of the wood that’s causing species to go extinct? This is happening in Canada’s Inland Rainforest. Many kinds of old-growth dependent lichens, plants and animals are endangered.

“The last intact old-growth Inland Temperate Rainforests are being destroyed for profiteering at any cost,” says Eric Schindler of Pro Terra, based in Argenta, BC. “Yet the huge crown volume of one of those majestic trees produces more oxygen, filters more dust from the air, transpires more moisture, gives more protective shade to the ground, regulates the climate better than a thousand young plantation trees. These are astounding ecosystems and world-unique assets which only fools would allow to be harmed and destroyed.”

The mountain caribou and its habitat, the Interior Wetbelt, extend into the northern US, where there has been a large effort to get BC to protect its part of the habitat. The following are a few of the BC and US environmental groups that also support the scientists’ mountain caribou petition.  “We cannot support a plan for recovering mountain caribou that does not stop the logging of forest critical to their survival. Thousands of Canadians have written letters to the BC government begging for an end to logging the old-growth caribou forests, especially Inland Rainforest.  But the new plan ignores their pleas just as it ignores the main cause of the mountain caribou’s decline: logging.  This is an ecosystem of global significance, and now the international community is starting to speak out.  We hope the governments of BC and Canada will listen.”

Signatures:

Anne Sherrod, Valhalla Wilderness Watch
Dr. Rick Zammuto, Save the Cedar League,
Eric Schindler, ProTerra
Judy Stratton, Northern Ecology Watch¬
Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Marilyn Burgoon, Perry Ridge Water Users
Pat Rasmussen, World Temperate Rainforest Network
Elizabeth von Ah, Kids for Caribou
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Contact person:  Anne Sherrod, 358-2610

Email: wildernesswatch@netidea.com

PLEASE come out and support Betty this Friday!!!! I will be away on business so please help make sure that she has the support she needs!
-Monika

Vancouver, Wednesday, January 9th, 2007
Betty Krawczyk

Kevin Falcon, the Minister of Transportation, is quick on the draw.  Oh, yes.  Mr. Falcon is in the process of shooting down my law suit against him for collusion and malfeasance of public office stemming from his role at creating and guiding the destruction of an intact eco system at Eagleridge to build an ugly, unneeded, destructive four lane highway over the bluffs and wetlands and enchanting us all with his witty remarks about China’s method of dealing with protesters.  But Mr. Falcon has his own methods.

He has surprised me with a demand that I be in the Supreme Court Building at 9:45 on Friday morning (Jan. 11) so he (and/or his lawyer) can shoot down my case against him from close range without the documents he refuses to reveal.  It’s a catch 22.  Or sawed off shotgun.  The Minister refused to give the documents I need to prove my case, then will ask the judge to strike my claims, as I don’t have the documents to prove them.

Clever, these guys.  It looks hopeless but please come witness the shoot out at the OK corral!  I will be representing myself.  Who knows, maybe the sky will fall.  Remember.  Friday morning.  9:45.  Supreme Court building, 800 Smithe Street.
Thank you.

Betty Krawczyk

Blog: http://bettysearlyedition.blogspot.com/

Books: http://www.booksofbettyk.com/

For more information contact
betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca  x-msg://1441/betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca
or
Monika Sheardown
778.865.0664