Ezra Levant Makes Shit Up: The Proof

A month and a bit ago the right wing blogosphere was all in a tizzy about Warren Kinsella being fired by the Canadian Jewish Congress. One of those writers was Ezra Levant:

On Monday, almost exactly one year after he joined it, Warren Kinsella was asked to leave his volunteer position on the legal affairs committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress. It’s not often that volunteers get fired, but it happens.
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Others will note Kinsella’s latest defeat with glee. And part of me is glad to see someone who tries so hard to bully and blackball others, have his own stratagems backfire on him. But, to be very frank, I’m not that gleeful – I actually feel sad for him. I’m not saying that condescendingly – it really is sad to see a man with so much energy and talent get so consumed with personal vendettas and petty squabbles that it starts to cost him in his professional and public life.

I’m not going soft on Kinsella – his lawsuit against me is absurd, and if taken at face value, he means to bankrupt me. He’s a bully, and a fountain of foul-mouthed defamation in his own right. But there comes a point when someone – even someone who swears he’ll destroy you – is so self-destructive, and so blind to that self-destruction, that you feel a pang of sorrow for them.
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But underneath his bluff and bravado is a real man with – though he might deny it – real feelings. I know he must be embarrassed and angry today at his ouster, just as he was a year ago. And though I won’t do it, I feel a strange urge to send him a note of consolation again. . . . I hope Kinsella loses his nuisance suits. But where I thought I might feel schadenfreude, I feel sorrow. The news of his termination today doesn’t give me any joy. There is none in this public spectacle as he tumbles down, a flailing ball of anger and impotence.

No. No gloating at all.

There's only one rather significant problem with Levant's descent into schadenfreudic bliss.

He's lying.

Public statements suggesting that you were "fired" from the CJC are simply incorrect.

In any event, we look forward to having you rejoin our organization at a time that is mutually beneficial.

Mr. Levant, would you like to respond?

UPDATE 1: And out of the woodwork come the Kinsella haters. You boys and girls need to include a little more originality in your insults.

And in answer to jaycurrie, no. We get our information from little birdies.

UPDATE 2: You know what? What the hell. We'll post the comments currently being moderated and we'll deal with some of them later on in a follow up to this article (we did ask Mr. Levant if he'd like to comment and it wouldn't be sporting of us if we kept his comment moderated). Besides, they do tend to indicate the vitriolic and irrational hatred some of these folks have for Mr. Kinsella which says something about their state of mind.

And jaycurrie, the information that was redacted were addresses and email. We didn't think Mr. Kinsella would want that information out there for every crazy with a laptop to read.

April Bits and Bites.

This was an anonymous message we received today.

lol instead of posting stupid shit like this you should get on the fact that kyle mcgee or however yous spell his name got killed at work by a truck

The above message was followed up by this one:

kyles fucking dead so you can stop slandering him

We received a few more messages, including one saying that he was pronounced dead at the Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary.

Well golly gee! We guess we'll just publish this "news" without any further investigation as to it's veracity. We certainly will not contact a friend who works as a nurse at Peter Lougheed Hospital who would be able to tell us if it's true or if it's a load of horse manure in a matter of minutes. Why would we ever suspect news like this delivered to us on April 1 would be anything less than totally credible?

And if you have an bridges on sale we want to buy half a dozen.

Come on! Give us a little more credit than that. No, Kyle McKee is very much alive, though he still looks as scrawny as a meth addict. You all have to do a lot better than that.

In other news, we managed to identify a few more Aryan Guard supporters from the March 21 rally. We published their names along with the others. Speaking of names, one of the people we named seems to have been taken quite aback concerning our having identified him:

I CANT BELEIVE THOSE FUCKERS FOUND ME! IM ON THE FUCKING ARA WEBSITE! PLEASE EVERYONE JOIN MY GROUP!!!! FUCKING ARA SCUM

It doesn't seem that Jordan H., pictured here with Paul Fromm, is appreciative of our efforts. One point of clarification however. We are not the ARA, but we do have a very amicable working relationship with some of their members. We don't suppose that fact will mean a great deal to Mr. H. though. We also enjoyed his emo, "no one understands me" moment as well:

fuck everyone who is agianst me. I will always stand proud and strong. Think what you want.''brainwashed'' Listen to the lying media cause thats the only source you get the worries about. Im Not a fuckingg child anymore, Im not ever changing. Disowning me will only affect you in the end.

Priceless.

We also recently had some discussions with Michael Gaio of Toronto. He too was surprised that we knew who he was. We decided to ask him about his friends Richard Martin and Andrew Benson:

hahaah i dont even speak with them. saw them once downtown and that was it. so how the hell would i know? i dont hang out with them i got my own people.

We thought that the great Aryan Race would be more honest. Well, for someone who doesn't hang out with them, Puddles sure does hang out with them.


Aw! Looks just like that scene out of "An Officer and a Gentleman." We guess that makes Gaio Debra Winger and Richard Martin a very homley Richard Gere.

It's interesting that Gaio has tried to convince us that he's not associated with Martin, Benson and that group. Perhaps because the last two pictures seem to have come from the batch of photos taken of Martin committing arson?

Finally, a blast from the past. We at Anti-Racist Canada have been active long before we began this blog. We've been monitoring racists on line not long after Stormfront came online back in the mid 1990s.

A few years ago, a young man named Renaud Emard was busy posting away on hate websites such as Stormfront and Blood & Honour as Necro99. Among his online activities was posting pictures of himself with numerous firearms in front of Nazi flags, writing racist online posts and talking about his obsession with the Columbine murders. This was just after the Kimveer Gill attack on Dawson College in Montreal. Given this it isn't too much of a surprise that police in Quebec took down Renaud soon after being made aware of his online activities.

While we missed it at the time (we were busy preparing for the Aryan Guard march), here are two articles that detail how Mr. Renaud plead guilty to almost all of the weapons charges against him and received a conditional discharge with a year's probation. He claims to have learned his lesson. Let's all hope that this is the case.

Conditional discharge for Îile Perrot man who dabbled in racist past-times

Wed, 2009-03-18 15:07.

Shuyee Lee

A young Île Perrot man who dabbled in racist online chats and paraphernalia has pleaded guilty to most of the weapons charges against him. But he won't have a criminal record.

It was about two weeks after the Dawson shootings and police didn't take any chances when they arrested Renaud Émard on seven weapons violations after they searched his bedroom at his parent's Île Perrot home and found five unloaded guns and plenty of ammunition, plus posters of and books on guns, the military, the Third Reich, and ethnic cleansing. Émard was also believed to have been chatting online on white supremacist sites and posting pictures of himself giving the Heil Hitler salute and holding guns.

The guns belonged to his father, a hunter and gun collector, and were improperly stored. Police found 20 guns in all. Émard pleaded guilty to all but the most serious weapons charge, weapons possession for dangerous intent, which was dropped. He was given a conditional discharge and one year probation.

Anti-terrorist and hate crimes investigators also found a suitcase with military paraphernalia, a
manual entitled "Ethnic Cleansing", posters of guns with slogans such as "Born to Kill" and "Natural Born Killer", and a list of schoolmates he considered to be annoyances to be done away with.

During his first bail hearing in October 2006, the 18-year-old testified he was surprised the list was still around and that he didn't get rid of the list, insisting he was still on friendly terms with the people on the list.

His lawyer says it was all an act by an immature young man who was bullied and teased at school and the alleged online threats were just posturing to gain respect and acceptance, adding his client in no way approved of the actions of the Dawson shooter.

"All the experts concluded that he wasn't a danger to society. He didn't have the intent to kill anybody," defence attorney Robert La Haye tells CJAD News, pointing to two psychiatrists' reports.

"It was just having a behaviour that would make some people to think that but that wasn't the case."

The judge agreed, calling it bad judgement and an error of youth, saying Émard has come a long way following his therapy.

Émard told the judge that it was partly his fault and understood what he did wrong. The young man, now 20, still has a babyface two and a half years after his arrest, but now he's got a goatee and his shaved head is now fully grown out. He appeared relaxed, sometimes smiling during the court proceedings.

Guilty plea to gun charges after Web threats

The Gazette
March 19, 2009

An Île Perrot man who was arrested for making threats on the Internet less than a month after the Dawson College shootings has been given a conditional discharge.

Renaud Émard, 20, pleaded guilty to most of the weapons charges laid, after police saw images of him posing with several guns, and making a salute to Adolf Hitler on a popular white supremacist website.

Émard was living with his parents on Oct. 4, 2006, when he made threats similar to those made by Dawson shooter Kimveer Gill. He was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possession of a prohibited weapon - brass knuckles - and five counts of careless storage of five rifles. The guns belonged to his father.

Yesterday, his lawyer, Robert La Haye, said Émard was depressed at the time that he made the threats, and fellow students were making fun of him because of his large size.

He has since undergone therapy. La Haye said neither Émard's therapist nor the prosecutor's psychiatrist found that Émard represents a danger to society. Because he was discharged, Émard won't have a criminal record.

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

ARA Statement

Before we publish this statement, we want to make it clear that we are not the ARA. While we may share some similar goals, there are distinct differences between the ARA and ARC. One difference is that ARC will not sanction the use of violence in support of our ideals for any purpose, though if it should come to it we will ONLY use the minimal amount of force necessary to defend ourselves so that we can extricate ourselves from a dangerous or threatening situation. For us, this is reasonable. A second difference is that we are generally very supportive of the police, though this support doesn't mean that we don't have some legitimate concerns about the events of March 21 (such as some obvious assaults committed against anti-racist protesters by Aryan Guard members and supporters that occurred in view of some of the police, or what seemed to be an overreaction by some police officers in their treatment of anti-racist protesters in tense and difficult conditions).

Despite our differences, we have a very amicable working relationship with a number of ARA members in Canada, including Calgary. As such, when one of those members asked if we would be willing to publish a statement regarding a controversy arising from recent statements by an ARA spokesperson in the media, we were happy to agree to the request. Here then is that statement;

Ruling Comes Down in Free Dominion Lawsuit Regarding the "John Doe"

For a bit of a change of pace from covering the March 21 Aryan Guard march in Calgary, we thought we would post the John Doe ruling in the lawsuit against the Fourniers. Suffice it that Connie and Mark are not going to be happy.

Pictures

Selected pictures taken of the events on March 21:

Paul Fromm marching with neo-Nazis while sporting a smart, red man purse.

Concerning Comments

Since we posted the story about the Aryan Guard march that occurred yesterday, we've been inundated with comments. These comments run the gambit of ideological positions:

• From those who support the police to those who condemn them for brutality.
• People sending us email addresses to provide pictures of the events.
• Debate over the number of Aryan Guard members and supporters who attended (these numbers now range between 30 and 120, though a safer range is likely between 40 and 60).
• Discussions over the use of violence, who started the confrontations and how anti-racists should respond.

We actually can't keep up with it all at this point so if you left us a comment and it hasn't posted, that isn't necessarily because we refuse to publish it. It could be that it was just lost in the shuffle. Or, if you left an email and we haven't gotten back to you yet, it might be because we've lost track of it amongst all the other requests we've received to contact people (if we don't respond in the next couple of days, try us again).

However, if you're a supporter of the Aryan Guard, don't expect us to give you a forum. You have your own. For you we suggest going out to play in traffic.

In the meantime, we had a request to provide the link to a video of the event on YouTube. Enjoy.

News Release from the Anti-Racist Organizer

We received this information moments ago.

Activists Successfully shut down Neo-Nazi March More than 500 people prevent racist rally in downtown Calgary 

More than 500 anti-racist activists converged on downtown Calgary this afternoon to successfully prevent local neo-Nazi hate group the Aryan Guard from holding a rally of their own.

Preliminary Information on Aryan Guard March

The Aryan Guard said that they would be able to bring 100 or more people for their "White Pride" rally. In the end they could only muster 50 to 60, though that was 50 to 60 too many.

Anti-racists expected about 400. From initial news accounts, they managed to get that, though we received information that there may have been more.

We'll provide more information when it comes in, including pictures (we hope). In the meantime, we will publish some mainstream media coverage of the event:

Less Than 24 Hours

First, a message for Gandalf.

Regarding your question we sent a message to our mutual friend. We suggest caution, but have questions concerning the veracity of the information.

Now, the business at hand.

In less than 24 hours, anti-racists will be confronting the Aryan Guard as they march for the second year on the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which the Aryan Guard and other's before them have tried to re-brand as "White Pride" Day. We know that "White Pride" is a euphemism for "White Power", "White Supremacy" and racial intolerance. They will claim that they are merely "proud" to be White. No one is fooled.

More on the Brad Love Arrest

We received the following regarding our scoop that Brad Love was going to be/had been arrested last night from someone calling himself "White Power Toronto":

That little bird you're talking about is obviously just you making up stories. And I know you wouldn't dare post the truth to your little faggot blog. Homo. :)

The wit and wisdom of the racist right in Canada. Well, at least his spelling was correct.

So we make things up, do we? Then we suppose someone should tell the police in Toronto that they didn't arrest Brad Love on outstanding warrants, or the "Globe and Mail" reporter who covered the story (after we did, of course):

Man's speech in Toronto leads to his fourth arrest

COLIN FREEZE
From Friday's Globe and Mail
March 20, 2009 at 3:58 AM EDT

TORONTO — A man previously convicted of promoting hatred was arrested again last night in Toronto, after giving a speech to a small group gathered at an airport hotel.

"Well, so much for free speech and democracy," said Brad Love, 48, as he was escorted from a conference room by eight officers.