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   From: paul@paulfromm.com   
      
   The Richard Warman Record   
   A foreign journalist recently wrote me for a background on complaints filed by   
   Richard Warman. As I began to knock off what I thought would be a quick answer,   
   I realized that I was working on a ponderous compendium. Here is my answer.   
   Paul Fromm   
   CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION   
   FILING COMPLAINTS UNDER SEC. 13 (INTERNET CENSORSHIP) OF THE CANADIAN HUMAN   
   RIGHTS ACT   
      
   Warman filed Sec. 13 complaints under the Canadian Human Rights Act for   
   postings   
   on the Internet against:   
   * Marc Lemire and the Freedomsite (website)   
   * Fred Kyburz   
   * Alexan Kulbashian and the Tri-City Skins   
   * Eldon Warman   
   * Glen Bahr and Western Canada for Us   
   * Al Kouba   
   * Jessica Beaumont   
   * Ciaran Donnelly   
   * Terry Tremaine   
   * Bobby James Wilkinson   
   * Tom Winnicki   
   * Melissa Guille and the Canadian Heritage Alliance   
   * Jason Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance   
      
   (this is a partial list)   
   FILING LIBEL SUITS AGAINST CRITICS   
   Warman filed libel suits, usually for calling him a "censor" or criticizing his   
   anti-free speech activities against:   
   * David Icke, British New Age conspiracy commentator, for comments he made   
   about   
   Warman in his book Children of the Matrix. A number of other defendants,   
   including Ottawa monetaru critic Tom Kennedy, who had sold or marketed Children   
   of the Matrix were added to this lawsuit. This action has meandered on for   
   almost a decade and, we believe, is still at the discovery stage. A trial date   
   will be set soon.   
   * Paul Fromm and the Canadian Association for Free Expression -- found guilty;   
   Warman awarded $43,00 judgement   
   * Mark and Connie Fournier for postings on their website FreeDominion -- 3   
   separate libel suits -- ongoing   
   * 7 "John Does" (people posting under pseudonyms) on Freedominion.ca. Most .of   
   these have been identified -- ongoing   
   * The National Post, Editor Jonathan Kay -- settled out of court   
   * Ezra Levant (journalist and lawyer) for criticizing his anti-free speech   
   activities -- ongoing   
   * Jason Bertucci -- ongoing   
   * Numerous medias outlets and individuals have been threatened with defamation   
   suits   
      
   (this is a partial list)   
   FILING CONTEMPT OF COURT COMPLAINTS THAT COULD LEAD TO THE VICTIM BEING JAILED   
      
   Warman filed complaints of "contempt for court"; that is; failure to obey a   
   vague "cease and desist" gag order issued by the Human Rights Tribunal against   
   a   
   victim after a successful Sec. 13 prosecution by Warman   
   * against Tom Winnicki, who was sentenced to 9 months in jail   
   * against Terry Tremaine \twice); the first complaint was adjourned sine die in   
   July, 2009; the second charge led to Mr. Tremaine's acquittal in December,   
   2010;   
   the Canadian Human Rights Commission is appealing this decision and the   
   complaint wil be heard Sept. 19 in Vancouver   
   FILING "HATE" LAW COMPLAINTS   
      
   Warman filed complaints urging prosecution of "wilful promotion of hate" under   
   Sec. 319 of Canada's Criminal Code   
   * against Marc Lemire -- the police did not prosecute   
   * against Alexan Kulbashian and the Tri City Skins - the police did not   
   prosecute   
   * against Tom Wininicki -- the police did not prosecute   
   * against Glen Bahr -- he was charged; the charges were dismissed at   
   preliminary   
   hearing when lawyer Doug Christie argued double jeopardy citing the   
   Wigglesworth   
   decision in the Supreme Court of Canada   
   * against Ciaran Donnelly and Jessica Beaumont; their home was raided; they   
   were   
   put out on the sidewalk in their pyjamas during the search; the police seized   
   computers and CDS. No charges were laid. The computers were returned with their   
   hard drives damaged and many of the CDs wrecked.   
   * against Terry Tremaine; he was charged in 2008; he has been under a bail gag   
   order, not allowing him to post on White Nationalist or National Socialist   
   sites; a preliminary hearing went from Oct., 2009 to early 2011; the case has   
   been bound over for trial in Regina, June, 2012   
   (This list may also be incomplete.)   
   GOING AFTER DISSIDENTS' EMPLOYMENT   
      
      
   Warman complained to Terry Tremaine's employer at the University of   
   Saskatchewan   
   in 2005, more than a year before the Canadian Human Rights complaint was   
   adjudicated. He warned that he'd go to the press and police unless   
   "appropriate"   
   action was taken. Mr. Tremaine, then 57, lost his job and career as a math   
   instructor, was reduced to poverty and was unable to hire an attorney to defend   
   him in August 2006 against the Sec. 13 human rights charges.   
   TRYING TO REMOVE DISSIDENT'S MAILING RIGHTS   
   Warman filed a complaint with Canada Post against Eldon Warman of Calgary (one   
   of his Sec. 13 targets) for receiving mail at his lady friend's post office   
   box.   
   Eldon Warman received a notice from Canada Post advising him that no mail would   
   be delivered to him or his De-tax organization at that address.   
      
   APPLAUDING ASSAULT ON A DISSIDENT   
      
   * One of Warman's early targets was British New Age conspiracy writer David   
   Icke. Warman was part of a nation-wide campaign involving B'nai Brith and   
   others   
   who sought to shut down Icke's author speaking tour of Canada early in the   
   2000s. A British documentary shows Warman joking with two goons who assaulted   
   Icke by throwing a pie at him during a book signing at Duthie's bookstore in   
   Vancouver. At least one complaint was filed about Warman's behaviour with the   
   Law Society of Upper Canada, but the complaint was dismissed.   
   THREATENING LIBRARIES FOR CARRYING DAVID ICKE's CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX   
   In 2002 and 2003, Richard Warman threatened libel suits against a host of   
   libraries in Ontario and British Columbia, demanding that they purge their   
   shelves of copies of David Icke's book Children of the Matrix which he alleged   
   defamed him. [This assertion had not then and has not yet been determined by a   
   Court of Law.]   
   Some libraries knuckled under; others hung tough. Eventually, British Columbia   
   amended its defamation laws to make libraries exempt from libel actions flowing   
   from the contents of the books they carry.   
      
   MOTIVES:   
      
   Warman delivered the keynote address to the August, 2005 meeting of the   
   violence-prone Anti-Racist Action group in Toronto., Warman's address was   
   entitled "Shutting down the neo-Nazis by (almost) any means necessary" and   
   discussed his multi-level programme of complaints. He said, in part: "'The   
   'maximum disruption' part comes in because wherever I think it will be most   
   helpful, or even if I just feel it will be the most fun, I strongly believe in   
   hitting the neo-nazis on as many of these fronts as possible either at the same   
   time or one after the other. I say this because it keeps them off-balance and   
   forces them to respond to things that focus their energies on defending   
   themselves ...'   
   Then, came aHuman Rights Tribunal civil cases {Sec. 13]. .. ‘The goal was to   
   knock out a generation of the neo-Nazi leadership and the worst offenders,   
   establish a solid body of case law, and show the Internet was not the Wild   
   West.”   
      
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