Warman strikes again

Richard Warman -- the former human rights commissioner who went on to become the commission's most avid complainant -- is at it again.

Warman, and his allies at the Canadian Jewish Congress, have issued a jubilant press release. They've managed to convince Regina's police to lay criminal hate speech charges against a nobody with no following who they're about to turn into a somebody with a huge audience. The Canadian Jewish Congress, and its executive director, Bernie Farber, are the super-agents who turned Ernst Zundel into an international figure. They're about to work their magic again.

(I'm surprised; if I understand the news correctly, this charge will require the approval of the Attorney General. Will he really go along with this -- especially on the heels of the courts tossing a similar case in the same province?)

But that's not what's interesting. After all, the CJC has become increasingly politically irrelevant, as the country and the Jewish community move away from their dyed in the wool leftism. Their decision to stand by Warman, despite recent revelations of his own anti-Black, anti-women bigotry, has only hastened their spiral into irrelevance.

What's interesting is how foolish the CJC's figurehead co-presidents, Reuven Bulka and Sylvain Abitbol, are willing to allow themselves to look. Their press release on these new hate charges was issued on exactly the same day that Bulka and Abitbol published an Op-Ed in the Canadian Jewish News trying to distance themselves from the excesses of human rights commissions.

I've spoken before on this blog about the proper legal limits on speech -- ranging from laws against forgery and fraud, to laws against defamation.

How out of synch must the CJC be with Canadians and Jews before its name crosses over into "false advertising"? Or, in the words of the human rights commissions, before the CJC, because of the bullying censorship committed in its name, causes Jews to be held in "hatred and contempt"?