This time, Canadians are the recipients, but this stuff goes on all the time; leftists love the courts, and they love activist judges. They love crippling someone with the charges it would cost someone to defend themselves, especially if the charges are specious. In Canada, they love the Human Rights Commission, because that entity can throw political correctness around and make a bigger impact with it than the courts can - because the HRC promotes someone’s right not to be offended over the rule of law in a regular court situation.

Levant has written about this Richard Warman character previously. Warman is a former Human Rights Commission investigator, who learned while he was working for the HRC, that he could use section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act to his advantage, and that it could be quite profitable. I found it rather shocking that he- practically all by himself-has kept the HRC going with a full case load of ‘offenses’ to investigate.

Now, after Levant succeeded in battling the HRC from Syed Soharwardy’s stoopid Motoons HRC complaint, Levant finds himself with a different battle on his hands: A handful of Canadian Conservatives, Levant included, are named defendants in a new lawsuit brought on by Richard Warman.

Ezra writes:

Warman’s not just suing me. He’s suing some of the biggest names in the Canadian blogosphere – from Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals to Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury (or, Five Feet of Furry, as the lawsuit says on page 2), to Free Dominion, the largest conservative chat site in Canada.

Free Dominion is Canada’s equivalent to America’s “Free Republic”.

Warman’s goal is breathtaking in its chutzpah: he wants to muzzle the Canadian conservative Internet. It’s not just his goal – it’s the goal of the CHRC itself, and its friends at the Canadian Jewish Congress, who have stated their goal is to “tame” the Internet – or at least those voices they disagree with. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the CJC was bankrolling Warman’s lawsuit – they’ve done joint legal work together before, and Warman’s number one defender is on the CJC’s legal committee. The CJC hates conservatives, and this would be a way for them to do damage to the conservative blogosphere without taking the political flak for it.

Take a look at the language Warman’s lawsuit uses to smear Free Dominion. At paragraph 17, Warman calls them an “extreme right-wing discussion forum”. Look at that language – hardly distinguishable from the CHRC’s and CJC’s boilerplate insults reserved for neo-Nazis. That’s what this lawsuit is about: an attempt by the CHRC’s biggest star to try to marginalize Canadian conservatism. And why not? The CHRC has moved from targeting white supremacists to targeting mainstream conservatives like Mark Steyn; the Alberta HRC has already gagged Christian pastors and taken a run at Calgary’s bishop, and two years ago they charged me with publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. Surely attempting to criminalize conservatism is just the next, natural step for these congenital censors.

Look for the “donate” buttons at Ezra Levant’s, Connie Wilkins and Mark Fournier’s, Kathy Shaidle’s and Kate McMillan’s blogs. Pitch in what you can.

It will cost them about $30 grand a piece to defend themselves.

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