CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day: Jewish youth group Hillel tears people down

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has posted literally hundreds of bigoted comments on white supremacist websites, like Stormfront and Vanguard News Network. CHRC staff became members of these groups under codenames, and then spewed forth bigoted venom for years.

I know that's hard to believe. I would not have believed it four months ago myself.

The CHRC, through its various codenames -- Jadewarr, Axetogrind, Pogue Mahone, Lucy, etc., etc. -- was responsible for more hateful comments on the Internet than almost anyone else in the country. They did it hundreds, perhaps thousands of times. And there is no evidence that they've stopped.

It's important that the public -- and Parliamentarians -- know about this corrupt, abusive, counterproductive behaviour, that also just happens to be against section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which the CHRC is supposed to uphold.

Today's CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day is one published by Richard Warman on May 31, 2004, on the neo-Nazi webite Vanguard News Network. Warman was an investigator at the CHRC, and he used the codename Axetogrind. If you still can't believe this, you can read him admitting under oath that he was Axetogrind in this transcript here, on page 434.

Warman's bigoted comments were made in a discussion about a new National Socialist -- i.e. Nazi -- political group, called NSM. WN stands for White Nationalist; I have no idea what the other racist acronyms stand for -- other Nazi splinter groups, I presume. Here's what Warman, the CHRC staffer, added to the conversation:

...if people spent half the time building fellow WNs up rather than tearing them down we'd be dangerous. Unless your goal is to tear people down in which case go join Hillel or something and go to town!

NSM/NA/WR/EURO/ESS/ whatever, lets quit beeyatching at each other. We'll invite you to our first meeting here in Canada and we'll work it out over a beer. Except we drink real beer so you can only have one!

Let's look at that line by line. Warman identifies himself as a White Nationalist, and encourages unity amongst all White Nationalists. He tells them to build each other up. He's giving neo-Nazis a pep talk. But not just for idle purposes; he tells them they can be dangerous if they get their act together. Warman is telling neo-Nazis who spend their time harmlessly prattling on the Internet that their ideal should be not just to bicker, but to be dangerous.

This is your Canadian Human Rights Commission at work.

But look at that next line: if fellow white supremacists' "goal is to tear people down" -- they should join Hillel.

What's Hillel? I was a member of Hillel when I was a student. I'm going to a Hillel fundraiser on Monday. Hillel is the name of the leading Jewish youth group on campuses in Canada and the U.S. It's a social club, a charitable club, a place to make Jewish friends. It's like a junior Rotary Club, but Jewish. To say that Hillel's goal it to tear people down is to say that being young and Jewish is to tear people down.

That's anti-Semitic.

The man who spewed this venom is the man to whom the Canadian Jewish Congress gave a human rights award last year. Did they know about Warman's smear against Jewish youth groups? Did they know that while he was calumniating against Jewish youth, he was encouraging neo-Nazis to get organized, and to become dangerous? That he was telling anti-Semites to stop just typing on their computers, and to unite, and to start organizing themselves into meetings -- and to import U.S. neo-Nazis up to Canada?

Richard Warman vomited this anti-Semitic bile while on the Canadian taxpayers' dime, while he was employed as a CHRC "anti-hate" investigator. To this day, he is the CHRC's chief complainant under their section 13 hate speech section. He's got a few cases on the go with them right now. What the hell is going on over there?

And what the hell is going on over at the Department of Defence, where Warman now works as an investigator? If a Jewish soldier files a grievance, does Warman recuse himself?

The RCMP's investigation into alleged criminal conduct at the CHRC is important, and scandalous, and should be enough to euthanize their anti-hate bureaucracy right there. But the CHRC's stream of hundreds of bigoted remarks -- remarks that violate their own legislation -- is a national disgrace.