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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.� 
These are his stated motives but they seem contradictory and unconvincing. At
the very least, Warman casts a wide net in defining "neo-Nazis."
It must be noted that Warman's victims have included the Fourniers. They and
most of their circle at Freedominion are strong supporters of Israel -- a rather
odd form of "neo-Nazi." Ezra Levant is right of centre. perhaps a bit
libertarian and a supporter of free speech. Again, it's hard to see him as a Jew
and Zionist as being some sort of "neo-Nazi." Indeed, only two of Warman's
victims (the obscure Bill Wilkinson and Terry Tremaine) even identify themselves
as National Socialists.
In 2007, Warman received the Saul Hayes Award from the Canadian Jewish Congress
for his "human rights work" in filing|"hate" complaints about Internet users..
Earlier, he contributed a significant section to the 2005 B'nai Brith Annual
Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. Free speech supporters have been repeatedly
thwarted at tribunals from discovering how much he was paid for his writing and
report.