Neo-Nazi case won’t be heard by Canadian Supreme Court

OTTAWA — Canada’s top court will not hear an appeal in a case involving a neo-Nazi leader’s web postings that could have determined the power of Canada’s quasi-judicial human rights tribunals.

Human rights complaint

On April 8, 2005, Richard Warman   Warman wrote a detailed report on Internet hate in Canada for B’nai Brith’s Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents,^[2] and has been the target of anti-Semitic smears himself, though he is not Jewish.^[3] He received the Saul Hayes Human Rights Award from the Canadian Jewish Congress in June 2007 for “distinguished service to the cause of human rights”.  filed a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission regarding Tremaine, alleging he “engaged in a discriminatory practice on the ground of religion, national or ethnic origin, race and colour, in a matter related to the usage of a telecommunication undertaking” in violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act.^[4] In late April the University of Saskatchewan, where Tremaine had been working as a sessional lecturer in Mathematics, received a fax from Richard Warman concerning Tremaine and detailing the complaint against him. As a result Tremaine was let go by the university.^[3]

Regina’s Terry Tremaine, the head of the National-Socialist Party of Canada and a former university math lecturer, was found in contempt of court by the Federal Court of Appeal in November 2011 for refusing to remove web postings he made about blacks, Jews and First Nations people.

He had previously flouted a ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that found his postings were hate speech and ordered that he stop posting discriminatory messages and pay a $4,000 fine.

The tribunal, like other similar bodies that operate in parallel with Canada’s criminal and civil law systems, can impose financial penalties and even jail time, but its powers to enforce rulings are limited.

The November decision gave tribunals the full weight of the law, and it now stands as the final word on the case.

That was a point not lost on Tremaine, who declined to remove his Internet postings.

Tremaine claimed that the tribunal had no power to enforce the ruling.

He was then found in contempt of court, and his appeals argued that the commission’s quasi-judicial status meant it was not technically court he could be in contempt of.

“My purpose in ignoring the cease and desist order was to address the urgent matter of impending white extinction,” he said.

The National-Socialist Party of Canada uses the Nazi swastika and images of Adolf Hitler to promote itself.

Until the rights complaint, Tremaine was a lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, where he taught a first-year math course.

As is its custom, the Supreme Court gave no reason for its decision not to hear the case.

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‘Jews Against the Internet’ Rally Planned for May 20th at Shea Stadium now ‘Citi Field’

Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews will participate in a huge rally to be held on Sunday evening, May 20, at Citi Field in Queens, New York, to combat the evils of the Internet and the damages caused by advanced electronic devices.

The website JDN cites one of the event organizers who said: “This will be a mass rally never before seen in the history of Orthodox Jewry in the U.S. It will be a gathering of  unity of all the Jews living in the U.S., a gathering to disseminate information and a prayer rally for the success of Klal-Israel’s war on the Technology which threatens the sanctity of the homes of Israel.”

Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Raise $1.5 M.

forMassive ‘Jews Against the Internet’ Rally. .

 “All the Jews” in America sounds a

tad ambitious for a turnout goal, but

JDN reports that the organizers have

managed to raise $1.5 million from

“private philanthropists” to produce

the event.  more from betabeat

The “Gdolei Israel” (leading sages) behind the conference have specifically ordered to schedule it for the eve of Rosh Chodesh Sivan, a day which is considered particularly fortuitous when it comes to children’s education, since the goal of their campaign is to save the generation from the ravages of advanced technology.

The following has been published in the Haredi press, regarding the upcoming event:

A Letter from our Masters the Great Men of Israel Shlita In Preparation for the International Conference in the U.S. Against the Scourge of Technology

It is well known that in recent times through the Internet many serious family-related problems have been created, and it all happens because of it, and something must be done so they won’t be hurt. And since this touches almost everyone, we must assemble together to protect and be protected, and we hope that through this gathering in search of ideas we will be helped from Heaven to save the many, and may it be that we will be successful in encouraging the public not to stumble over this obstacle, and the Lord will guide us in a truthful path. And note that sometimes the suspension of Torah is the very way in which it must be kept.more from JP

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Obama to Release $147 Mil to PA, With No Restrictions, which is nothing compared to what Israel gets.

The US Agency for International Development will pour $147 million into Palestinian Authority infrastructure, education, health projects, and humanitarian aid, just six months after a funding freeze was imposed by President Barack Obama.

In October, US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-Fla) froze $192 million in US funding for Palestinian projects as Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas prepared to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state in the United Nations.  The bid for statehood, brought to the body in September, failed to gain international support.

Congress later released $45 million, then another $88.6 million, with limitations on where the money could be used.

The United States gives approximately $500 million a year to the Palestinians, millions of dollars of which have been used to train armed forces.more at source

A Conservative Estimate of Total U.S. Aid To

Israel: More Than $123 Billion

The current estimate by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs of cumulative total U.S. direct aid to Israel is $123.202 billion, updating the figure in our November 2008 issue. Because parts of U.S. aid to Israel are buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies or in a form not easily quantified—such as the early disbursement of aid, giving Israel a direct benefit of interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss—it is virtually impossible to arrive at an exact dollar amount.

Our latest estimate is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Israel. It does not include the indirect benefits to Israel resulting from U.S. aid, nor the substantial indirect or consequential cost to the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel. Most significantly, perhaps, it does not include the costs resulting from the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq—hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of U.S. and allied casualties, and untold tens of thousands of Iraqi killed and wounded—which is widely believed in the Arab world, and by many Americans as well, to have been undertaken for the benefit of Israel.

Among the real benefits to Israel that are not counted as a direct cost to the U.S. taxpayer is the provision allowing Israel to spend 26.3 percent of each year’s military aid in Israel rather than from American companies (no other recipient of U.S. military aid gets this benefit), which has resulted in an increasingly sophisticated Israeli defense industry.

Loan Guarantees

Another indirect benefit to Israel is the loan guarantees that Washington has extended to Israel since 1972. While these have not yet cost the U.S., they have enabled Israel to borrow from commercial sources at more favorable terms and lower interest rates, since the U.S. guarantees payment of the loans should Israel default.

Subsidies for Israel’s Illegal Colonists And Colonies

A real benefit to Israel that represents another indirect, but unquantifiable, cost to the U.S. taxpayer is the private, tax-exempt money collected by charitable American Jewish groups and then sent to support Israel’s colonists (“settlers”) and colony-related causes in occupied Palestinian territories, including by groups designated by the U.S. as foreign terrorist organizations (see November 2007 Washington Report, p. 30).

The $3 billion or so per year that Israel receives from the U.S. amounts to about $500 per Israeli. The largest amounts have been military grants (Foreign Military Financing, or FMF) and economic grants (Economic Support Funds, or ESF). In August 2007 the U.S. and Israel agreed on a new, 10-year aid plan, beginning in FY ’09 and calling for no ESF and incremental annual increases in FMF, reaching $3 billion by FY ’11 and remaining at that level through FY ’18.

Another ongoing item is so-called “migration and refugee assistance.” This originally was intended to help Israel absorb Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, but was expanded in 1985 to include “refugees resettling in Israel.” In fact, however, Israel doesn’t differentiate between refugees and other immigrants, so this money subsidizes all immigrants to Israel.

Israel also receives regular grants from the “American Schools and Hospitals Abroad” (ASHA) program.

A significant amount of aid to Israel comes from the DOD budget for so-called “joint defense projects”—although to date the Pentagon has shown little interest in these projects for its own use. Previous Washington Report estimates identified about $7.694 billion to Israel from the DOD budget through FY ’08. To that has been added amounts for FYs ’09, ’10 and ’11, as shown in Table 1. Of the $415 million shown for FY ’11, the most significant amount is the $205 million appropriated to support Israel’s “Iron Dome” short-range missile defense system.

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14-year-old Preston Hodge; who was brutally beaten at Longfellow Middle School in Enid, Ok.called a ‘hate/bias incident’.

A teenager has undergone surgery after being beaten unconscious by a fellow student in an incident of school bullying.

The argument between Preston Hodge and a classmate reportedly broke out on Tuesday during lunch break in the playground when the boys were playing dodgeball.

A teacher broke up the fight at Longfellow Middle School in Enid, Oklahoma but it was unclear how long the beating had gone on for.

Preston Hodge, 14, needed surgery after he was beaten unconscious by a fellow student at his high school in Enid, Oklahoma

The student was battered unconscious and suffered broken bones, severe lacerations and possible internal injuries, according to KFOR-TV.

The 14-year-old had a plate inserted in his fractured cheek yesterday. He was said to be in a ‘fair’ condition by hospital staff. 

Preston Hodge was reportedly beaten unconscious by a fellow student at his middle school before a teacher broke it up

Police and the school are not releasing the names of the students, but family friends have identified the boy injured as 14-year-old Preston Hodge and said the boy is scheduled to have surgery at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Jeff Rust, a friend of the family, has set up a fund to help the family with medical expenses. Rust also posted a picture of Preston on Facebook, which was sent to him from the family.

“I wanted people to see the effect of bullying in schools and having a daughter in junior high it really hit home,” said Rust.

The fund is set up at Alva State Bank and Trust located at 801 W. Broadway in Enid under the name “Preston Hodge.”

“Something has to be done to stop the cruelty of this,” said Rust. “Fighting does not solve any situation.”

The other student involved in the fight could face aggravated battery charges.more

The attack at Longfellow Middle School was ‘a hate/bias incident’ according to the campus police report.

According to school authorities, there had been pushing and shoving between the two students and an exchange of insults before the attack took place.

Although the child’s mother had yet to speak publicly, she posted a picture of her badly injured son on Facebook. According to News on 6, she commented: ‘This happened at Longfellow and have no idea where the teachers were at.’

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