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Richard Warman turns against the Jews
By Ezra Levant on November 11, 2010 9:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (48) 

It was three years ago that I first paid any serious attention to Richard
Warman. I had come across a website that claimed that Warman was personally
responsible for more than half of all section 13 censorship complaints to the
Canadian Human Rights Commission -- and all but two such prosecutions before
the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

One man.

I will tell you that I was exceedingly skeptical when I first read that. It
seemed like a conspiracy theory. After all, Warman had been a CHRC staffer
when he started filing all of those complaints. And even when he left the
CHRC, he still had the run of the office, stopping in to the CHRC's secure
facility, telling his colleagues how to investigate his complaints, even
accessing their computers.

Seriously: that kind of corruption just didn't sound credible.

I meticulously checked the CHRT's website, and started to read thousands of
pages of CHRT transcripts, and found that it was indeed true. I also
discovered that Warman had been awarded tens of thousands of dollars -- tax
free -- for making those complaints. And, most shockingly, I found that
Warman, while working for the CHRC, allegedly combating "hate", actually
joined neo-Nazi organizations like Stormfront and Vanguard, and began
publishing hundreds and hundreds of bigoted statements online. Some are so
shocking I remember them to this day, such as his declaration that gays are a
"cancer" on society; that white police should be loyal to "their race" and
that Canada should have an apartheid city called "Whiteville". He also vomited
on the Jews whenever he could, disparaging the Jewish students club called
Hillel, and writing that Jewish politicians were "scum".

In other words, what I had written off as a nutty conspiracy theory was the
awful truth -- about Richard Warman, and about the Canadian Human Rights
Commission.

I also discovered that Warman is the most thin-skinned man in Canada. Because
in addition to filing the vast majority of all of the section 13 censorship
cases heard by the CHRT, Warman has sued or threatened to sue no fewer than 60
different Canadians -- often just for calling him a censor.

Amongst those he sued or threatened to sue are a minor child; a charity; and
at least two public libraries. 

Needless to say, it wasn't very long before Warman sued me for writing the
truth about him. (Those suits are ongoing.)

But something has changed along the way. Over the past three years, Warman has
shifted his focus. Until I started to write about him in early 2008, he
usually sued white supremacists and neo-Nazis. I acknowledge that many of the
people Warman accused of being white supremacists actually aren't -- that's
just part of Warman's demonization of his political enemies. But some of them
truly were racists.

I think that's why the Canadian Jewish Congress, and Bernie "Burny" Farber in
particular, loved Warman so much. His penchant for censoring people, his
boastful abuse of process and countless nuisance suits were very un-Jewish.
But Farber and the CJC didn't mind, as long as Warman was going after
anti-Semites.

But Warman's strategy of nuisance suits (he actually has a name for his
conduct: "maximum disruption") has metastasized. He doesn't sue anti-Semites
anymore. He sues Jews, and non-Jewish supporters of the Jews.

Since February of 2008, Warman has sued me, Kate McMillan of
SmallDeadAnimals.com, Kathy Shaidle of FiveFeetofFury.com, FreeDominion.com,
Walker Morrow, Michael Veck, Jonathan Kay and the National Post -- all for
criticizing his campaign of censorship and his prolific online bigotry.

Let's go through Warman's new enemies list:

Ezra Levant: I'm a Jew, and a former board member of the Canada-Israel
Committee. As a journalist, I often write sympathetically about Israel and
critically of radical Islam.

Kate McMillan: Kate is a Gentile pro-Israel blogger who has been to Israel.

Kathy Shaidle: Kathy is also a Gentile pro-Israel blogger who has been to
Israel too. She also participates in grassroots pro-Israel events in Toronto,
including those where many Jews would feel afraid to attend because of abusive
radical Muslim or labour union bullying.

Free Dominion's Connie and Mark Fournier: Connie and Mark run a broad Internet
chat site, with a very wide range of opinions. But the dominant foreign
affairs theme of their site is support for the war on terror, and support for
Israel. Connie and Mark themselves are pro-Israel Gentiles.

Walker Morrow: Walker is a high school student from B.C. He is also a
pro-Israel Gentile blogger.

Michael Veck: Michael is a pro-Israel political staffer on Parliament Hill.
I'm not sure if he's Jewish; I think he is part-Jewish and is reclaiming his
roots.

Jonathan Kay and the National Post: Jonathan Kay is the comment editor of the
National Post, the most pro-Israel page in Canadian media. Jonathan himself
writes many of the Post's Israel editorials.

Do you see a pattern here?

Warman has gone from collecting scalps of anti-Semites to collecting scalps of
Jews and righteous Gentiles.

I hear he has even filed a human rights censorship complaint against the
Jewish Defence League, because they aired Geert Wilder's acclaimed film about
radical Islam, called Fitna. So that's another Jewish target of Warman's
campaign of harassment.

But now Warman has attacked another friend of the Jews, Arnie Lemaire. You may
know Arnie better as the blogger Blazing Catfur -- who also happens to be
Kathy Shaidle's husband. Like Kathy, Arnie has participated in a pro-Israel
mission. But that's the least of it. It's rare that a single day goes by when
Arnie isn't doing dramatic, primary research about radical Islam in Canada --
the kind of investigative journalism that the mainstream media should be
doing, but doesn't. In fact, many of Arnie's scoops soon become front page
stories, when MSM journalists take his work and run with it. Just to name the
most recent example, it was Arnie who blew the whistle on Zijad Delic, the
radical imam of the anti-Semitic Canadian Islamic Congress, who had been
invited by the Department of Defence to give a talk to the government. After
Arnie's expose leapt from his blog onto TV, Peter MacKay himself cancelled the
event.

That's Arnie.

So it shouldn't surprise you that Richard Warman is now suing Arnie for
$500,000. Amongst Arnie's crimes? Linking to the website of Mark Steyn.
Seriously. (I should note that Warman hasn't sued Steyn -- he's too afraid to
do so. Warman's specialty is suing penniless bloggers or pushover media
outlets happy to pay a nuisance settlement. Neither describes Mark Steyn and
Maclean's.)

So I am writing this blog entry for two reasons.

The first is to ask you, my dear readers who have been so helpful to me
throughout my own battles against censorship, to chip in to help Arnie fend
off Warman's predatory lawsuit. Would you please visit his website, and click
on his PayPal button? You wouldn't just be helping Arnie. You'd be helping me,
too, and everyone else being victimized by Warman. Because we must all stand
united against that bullying censor.

That's the first reason: to help Arnie.

The second reason I'm writing is to note how unmoored from reality the Burny
and the Canadian Jewish Congress have become.

Perhaps, until 2008, Burny and the CJC could justify their support for a
foul-mouthed censor, because he was picking on anti-Semites. Perhaps.

But it's 2010 now, almost 2011. Warman's section 13 complaints have been shut
down by the CHRT, which has ruled them unconstitutional -- in part because of
Warman's aggressive and abusive conduct.

So now it's just the lawsuits. And all the new ones are against Jews and
pro-Jewish Gentiles.

All of them.

You'd think Burny would have got the message last spring, when a ruling by the
CHRT itself focused on Warman's anti-Semitic conduct, drawing attention to
Warman's slander of Jews as "scum", and calling Warman's activities
"disappointing and disturbing".

You just know that Warman would have sued that judge if he could!

If you take Arnie and Kathy and Kate and the Fourniers and Walker and Michael
and Jonathan and me out of the game, that's a big chunk of the pro-Israel,
pro-Jewish commentariat that Warman wants to silence. And, in Arnie's case,
it's shutting down Canada's leading investigative reporter who is actually
exposing dangerous developments that threaten the Jewish community. And then
there's the complaint against the JDL.

Burny has supported this every step of the way. Shame on him.

It's one thing for Burny to continue to be friends with Warman, a man who
calls Jews "scum". That's between Burny and his therapist. But it's quite
another for Burny to bring the entire CJC into disrepute by endorsing Warman's
lawsuit pogrom.

I hear that Burny is about to be shuffled out of his position at the CJC.
We'll see. But if he does lose his position, I wouldn't doubt that his willful
blindness to the anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist bullying by his friend Richard
Warman was a part of his downfall.


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2010 9:00 PM.