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82% OF PEOPLE SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON THE INTERNET
AND WARREN KINSELLA LIES AGAIN! FULL BIO ON KINSELLA AT END
According to the April 12, 1998 CBC show "On the Line" 82% of people
believe the Internet should NOT be censored.
This is a clear victory for online freedom of speech organizations like
the Canadian Association for Free Expression
(http://cafe.canadafirst.net) and the Canadian Free Speech League
(http://www.ftcnet.com/~freedom/cfsl)
Marc Lemire, the webmaster of Canada's largest Freedom of Speech
website, the Freedom-Site says "This poll shows again that a clear
majority of Canadians believe in freedom of speech, and that websites
like the Freedom-Site are having a huge impact on freedom loving
Canadians"
One of the callers to "On the Line" from Nova Scotia commented that
"censorship is a tool of dictatorships, when the media of information
are controlled by any self-proclaimed moralists, we lose our basic
freedoms of thought and diversity of opinions"
Some of the people who E-Mailed in their opinions said "Let free men and
women discuss and debate openly" and others said "The Internet is the
most participatory form ever of freedom of speech"
WARREN KINSELLA LIES ... AGAIN!
Of the two guests on the "On the Air" show, for the censorship side was
Warren Kinsella. He became the establishments "expert" on racism when
he wrote the error-filled book "Web of Hate - Inside Canada's Far Right
Network"
During the first half of the show, Warren Kinsella said "... a fellow in
BC, a little guy named Bernard Klatt, who runs a little server that
hosts the US Nazi Party, that hosts various sites that advocate death to
Jews, Blacks, non-Whites, Feminists and disabled people".
A quick search of Ftcnet (Internet site Kinsella speaks of) shows there
is a page called "National Socialist White People's Party"
[http://www.ftcnet.com/~nswpp] but that's where Kinsella leaves behind
the truth. There are NO death threats or advocating of killing anyone
in the pages of NSWPP website. There is a sloppily written diatribe
against Tom Metzger but no death threats.
In the second half of the show, Kinsella lets his imagination loose
again. This time he is saying that local ISPs should censor the content
of the Internet, and if they fail, then the government should step in.
He goes on to say "we're sorry Mr. Klatt of Fairview Technologies
Centers in BC, we don't want you posting HITLISTS on YOUR website"
This one is an outright LIE. Another quick look at Mr. Klatt's personal
website reveals no such hitlists. None ... nada ... zip!
Have a look yourself and see for yourself how crazy such a statement by
Kinsella is: http://www.ftcnet.com/~bwklatt/gmvs0328.htm
Also during the second half of the show a supporter of Warren Kinsella,
and maybe former mental patient, commented that there should be a class
action lawsuit against Bill Gates for inventing the technology of the
Internet and computers. She also went on a diatribe about why Kinsella
left her alone to fight Doug Collins be herself.
Viewers of the show who knew anything of the situation between Warren
Kinsella and Doug Collins, knew quite well that good 'ol Warren left
Vancouver because Doug Collins scored a huge victory against him after
whiner Warren went to the Press Council of B.C. complaining that Collins
had hurt his "reputation"
At the hearing, Collins stoutly refuted Kinsella's complaints of
unfairness and a wounded reputation. Kinsella had smarted under Collins'
accusation that he'd been parachuted into the North Vancouver riding in
last June's federal election. Kinsella was forced to admit that eight
days after the election he had put his North Van home on the market and
has since taken a job with McMillan Bull Casgrain, an establishment law
firm in Toronto.
Several years ago, Kinsella had authored Web of Hate, a strident
diatribe and smear against many Canadian conservatives and patriotic
groups."I called Kinsella's book a 'daft book' and that's one of the
reasons for the complaint," Collins told the Press Council.
"Dirty tricks are his trademark," Collins added. "If the so-called hate
laws of all kinds have a friend, it's Warren Kinsella."
BACKGROUND ON 007 AGENT WARREN KINSELLA
From Free Speech Monitor, May/June 1995:
"Warren Kinsella who is a legend in his own mind, pursued by legions of
bad guys -- neo-Nazi killers and Libyan agents -- is one of the major
stars on the anti-free speech talk circuit promoting his book Web of
Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network. In Toronto in February to speak
to the United Jewish Appeal, Kinsella "said he had installed
surveillance cameras outside his Ottawa home to protect his family. When
he and his wife register in hotels they use assumed names. He said he
frequently changes his unlisted phone number." (Canadian Jewish News,
February 16, 1995) Frequent travelers will know that it is almost
impossible to check into anything but a no-tell-motel without presenting
a credit card, even if you will be paying cash. How does Kinsella do it,
assuming that this isn't just another one of his fanciful stories?
Perhaps, some Reform MP will ask Supply and Services Minister David
Dingwall whether his assistant Warren Kinsella perhaps uses a ministry
credit card. Is the government assisting Kinsella in travelling
incognito? Kinsella was paid $2,500 by Peter Raymont who produced the
CTV smear Hearts of Hate for an outline or approach. Raymont told one of
the people interviewed for the film that Kinsella's work was 'virtually
useless.'"
From another Free Speech Monitor:
"Kinsella Cries Victim Once Again
On February 5, Warren Kinsella was in Toronto to do his song and dance
before 100 people at a meeting sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal.He
was conning the gullable with his act about being an intrepid
investigator whose very life is in danger from an assortment of Libyan
agents and neo-Nazis. Kinsella's day job is as an assistant to
left-leaning David Dingwall, the chairman of porkbarrelling for Atlantic
Canada and Minister of Supply and Services. "Neo-Nazi and white power
groups are 'better organized, more articulate and more numerous than
even a decade ago,' ... he told the meeting. ... In the wake of his
book, he and his wife have been threatened by white power skinheads. A
gang parked outside his house in Ottawa and shouted abuse on one
occasion." Careful readers may wonder whether a group small enough to
park in a car can be accurately termed a "gang". His self-promoting
whine continued: "On another occasion, he found his mailbox stuffed with
child pornography. 'No doubt it was put there by some far-right group."
(Toronto Star, February 6, 1995) Typical of the witchhunting paranoia
that surrounds these professional anti-racists, the Star article went on
to reveal: "The meeting ... itself was guarded by Metro police and by
the sponsoring group's own volunteer security force." Needless to say,
nothing happened, but it must have made for great atmosphere as
Kinsella, the ultimate establishment spoiled brat, could beguile the
true believers with tales of being a marked man. Funny how the 'marked
men' never manage to get 'hit' by the supposedly dangerous Nazis,
rightists, and Libyans who are everywhere!
Warren Kinsella & the Case of the Flying Frisbee
We're reliably told that Kinsella is so convinced that his life is in
danger -- he actually has begun to believe his own hype -- that he can
have the oh-so-politically correct Ottawa police force at his door
within a couple of minutes. A snow late last fall brought children out
to Glebe Memorial Park which backs on to Kinsella's posh Ottawa home.
Exuberant youngsters were tossing around a frisbee. The plastic disk
flew over Kinsella's fence. There erupted a furious barking from two
guard dogs. The frightened facea of the self-confessed barroom brawler
and his wife Suzanne Amos Kinsella, a PR flack with the National
Capital Commission, peered from behind the thick curtains and spotted
the object on his lawn -- a bomb, no doubt. A few minutes later up
screeched units of the Ottawa Police ever on the lookout for "racists".
Those who serve and protect Warren found nothing to arrest but an errant
frisbee! Normal Ottawa who have to wait up to a week to have burglaries
and car thefts investigated know that to Police Brian Ford, "community
policing" means policing for the community of the politically correct
only."
And from another Free Speech Monitor:
"Captain Kinsella Fights Hatred
Punk Rocker in the 80's (the Hot Nasties), lawyer, journalist,
short-lived Tory leadership candidate (he delivered his three votes to
Brian Mulroney), speech writer for Jean Chretien, now executive
assistant to David Dingwall, Warren Kinsella wears many hats. This
Liberal establishment fair-haired boy now has emerged in a new role:
Captain Canada out to fight the forces of hate. His aggressively
promoted Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network is a
self-serving smear book with an agenda. Kinsella warns breathlessly:
"Racism is growing in Canada. ... I am primarily concerned with the most
extreme elements of the carious Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups --
that is, those who advocate the use of violence or non-democratic means
against the established order." (p.5) However, it quickly becomes clear
that Kinsella's targets go far beyond a few youthful Hitler imitators.
He mentions the Northern Foundation, Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform and
the Council on Public Affairs and adds: "All of the[se] groups ... were
Neo-Nazi, or far-right groups run by crypto-Nazis." (p.239) He libels a
cast of hundreds by suggesting that they are violent and
anti-democratic. The three groups mentioned are law-abiding and have
strongly promoted referenda and recall -- radical democracy in action!
The scare tactics and the massive publicity that has greeted the book
all seem to lead up to Kinsella's conclusion: there must be more
repression! He'd like to see minorities be able to launch civil suits
against "hate literature", perhaps like Charles Harnick's repressive
Bill 56 in Ontario. Also, he enthuses, "other tools have been used very
effectively against Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the past. The
Canadian Human Rights Act, for example, prohibits discrimination on the
basis of race and so on through the vehicle of telephone hate messages.
This act has been used effectively against the Western Guard, the Aryan
Nations, the Ku Klux Klan, the Canadian Liberty Net and, most recently,
the Heritage Front. (p.357)
Kinsella none-too-subtly suggests that all his targets are criminals. He
says his subjects are "the men and women who hate." (p.1) The term and
its derivatives -- hatemongers, hatelines, hatesheets -- run through the
whole book. Promotion of hatred is, of course, a violation of Section
319 of the Criminal Code. Kinsella, thus, accuses the entire political
right of being criminals. This and other glaring errors have already
been the subject of a strong legal protest by CAFE's lawyer to the
book's publisher.
Kinsella, in his role of intrepid investigator, rather than newspaper
clipping reader and confidant of thought crimes cops like Dan Dunlop of
the Ottawa police Anti-Hate Unit, falsely states that he has interviewed
many people that he hasn't, including C-FAR's Paul Fromm. One of his
approaches is to target individuals. He helpfully gives would-be
terrorists Doug Christie's home address, in an isolated area outside
Victoria, and the Ottawa home address of Northern Foundation President
Anne Hartmann, whom he correctly identifies as a widow with six young
children. This man who so piously denounces isolated acts of skinhead
violence revels in his account of an incident where he and his fellow
punks had beaten up some Neo-Nazis who had heckled his group. They "had
retreated from the hall bloody, bruised and beaten," he chortles. (p.4)
However, the man who targets widows and lawyers with young children,
puts it about that he has written his smear at some risk to himself.
"Kinsella takes the precaution of keeping the exact location of his
Centretown [Ottawa] residence a secret. ... Because of the subjects he
deals with, Kinsella and his wife are forced to consider the possibility
of reprisals from the people he writes about," the Centretown News
(March 25, 1994) confides to its readers. "This willingness to face the
dangers inherent in such a study has earned him to respect of ... Bernie
Farber, ... [who] says Kinsella 'stands as a shining light and example
for others.'" The admiration is mutual. In a ponderous list of thank
you's, Kinsella gushes about several "extraordinarily brave men who have
never let me down, and who have become great friends: ... Bernie Farber,
who has given me his time, his support, and even his bed to sleep on."
(p.ix) For a fact and action sheet about this book, send $10.00 to CAFE.
http://cafe.canadafirst.net"
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