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kmcvay@nizkor.org (Kenneth McVay OBC) wrote:

>In article <35313eda.2940944@news.datanet.ab.ca>,
>Edmonton's William "I used to be a Gruber" Grosvenor 
><fournier@no.spam.com> wrote:

>[the usual vomitus deleted]

>Here's an interesting news item, Mr. Gruber:

>Supreme court upholds defamation sentence 

>23:02 Thursday, April 2, 1998

>THE GLOBE AND MAIL News Wire

>BY KIRK MAKIN
>Justice Reporter

>A Saskatoon couple who paraded in front of a police station with placards
>that maliciously defamed a police officer deserved to go to jail, the
>Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday.

A henious , tragic and fascistic ruling if ever there was one. 

The cop may or may not have been libelled... but when one is libelled
- as the Saskatoon couple surely were... - you are generally entitled
to rebutt the libel with a libel... something apparently not allowed
by the justice department of Saskatchewan... the place were the poor
get convicted and the criminals run the province. 

The man involved in the case reportedly pled guilty to charges of
child molestation because the crown advised  him "that other family
members would likewise be charged with similar offences if  he did
not..., " reprehensible conduct on the part of the police and
prosecuters, to be sure, which - if true - should lead to the
disbarment of the offending crown... and the summary dismissal of the
investigating officers.

A media circus ensued, in which the man and his family were portrayed
as evil incarnate. They responded by circulating posters about "Starr
Chamber" proceedings... a response that seems rather apt.

>In upholding the constitutionality of the law of criminal defamation, the
>court said the need to stop people from causing unfair harm to the
>reputation of others is far more important in such cases than the right to
>free speech.

Which just shows what kind of protection the charter gives...
when judges are all state employees, and it is the long arm of the
state that is acting to take away the freedoms...

Other facts that were not mentioned in this G&M story are  that the
provision under which they were charged... the defamatory libel
provision... had not been employed in this province previously... and
that it has rarely been used since its enactment...
 
>"The protection of an individual from willful and false attack recognizes
>both the innate dignity of the individual and the integral link between
>reputation and the fruitful participation of an individual in Canadian
>society," the court said.
Completely overlooking the traditional law of libel and slander, and
the political nature of the charges... never libel your accuser when
the accusers are prosecutors and police... a maxim that bodes well in
a fascist state.

>[Balance of article snipped. See Globe and Mail, April 2, 1998]

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