The Canadian Human Rights Commission's Bigoted Comment of the Day

I've been trying to post some good news every day. Lately that has taken the form of letters from MPs speaking out against the Canadian Human Rights Commission's corrupt and abusive practises.

But it's not enough to know who the good guys are. We need to know who the bad guys are -- and why we must take the public's trust and power away from them. Or, as I like to say, Fire. Them. All.

So starting today, I'm going to post a daily anti-Semitic, anti-gay or anti-Black remark published by CHRC staff as part of their bizarre "anti-hate" campaign. You read that right: the CHRC, in its official, tax-funded work against "hate", actually spreads hate.

I don't want my site to turn into some white supremacist blog, like Stormfront -- the site to which several CHRC staff signed up as members. But I think it's important to shine a light on just what they're doing over there at the CHRC.

I decided to have this "CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day" feature after thinking some more about my recent interview with Mike Duffy.

The news peg for that TV appearance was the RCMP's investigation of the CHRC for allegedly committing the crime of hacking into a private citizen's Internet account. (That's contrary to the Criminal Code's section 184, "interception of communications"; section 326, "theft of telecommunication service"; section 342, "unauthorized use of computer"; and section 430, "mischief in relation to data".)

But watching the CTV clip again, it became clear to me that the non-criminal conduct -- the CHRC making bigoted Internet posts -- was equally flabbergasting, not only to Duffy, but to the partisan panellists that were asked about it in the TV segment after mine. None of the panellists wanted to talk about the RCMP investigation -- that's fine -- but they all seemed genuinely shocked at hearing about the CHRC's bigotry; Liberal Don Boudria called them "alleged improprieties", but improprieties nonetheless.

But those improprieties are not just "alleged". They are admitted to, under oath, by the CHRC.

Richard Warman, the former CHRC "anti-hate" investigator, admitted under oath to using several codenames for his bigoted posts, including codenames "Pogue Mahone", "Axetogrind" and "Lucy". And Dean Steacy, who still works at the CHRC, said that he, Warman, and others used "Jadewarr".

Here's a written confession by Steacy to using "Jadewarr". And here's a transcript of Warman, under oath, admitting (after first "forgetting") that he used codename "Lucy". And here's Warman's admission that he used the codename "Pogue Mahone". Et cetera. Warman even says that he's been to Stormfront and other anti-Semitic websites so often, he even "forgets" some of the many codenames he uses. There could be a dozen.

So, without further ado, here's today's CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day. Again it's not "alleged". It's admitted to. And it's not even what the RCMP is investigating.

Let's start this new series off with a post on Stormfront from May, 2004. Stormfront calls itself a "white nationalist" website. Right at the top, you can see an ad for a radio show by former KKK leader David Duke. This particular conversational thread was called "Moving back to Europe".

One member named "Kitten" wrote "ZOG agenda is world wide. There is no escape for White race." ZOG, for the uninitiated, is neo-Nazi shorthand for Zionist Occupational Government, and it's what racist conspiracy theorists think about the world's governments -- that they're illegitimate occupiers, answering to Jews.

Another member, named "exterminance", waxed lyrical about the beauty and meaning of the swastika -- the "symbol of the Aryan race".

Then Stormfront member Pogue Mahone joined in. You'll recall, that's CHRC staffer Richard Warman. (For Boudria: here's Warman admitting it.) 

Warman's comment first repeated a bigoted rant by a racist named Louis:

Most of the immigrant problem in Canada is basically centered in our large cities. The rural communities are still predominantly White.

I think Canadians planning to move to Europe, to escape the "mud-flood", should probably visit there first. From what I have heard, conditions there are ten times worse than here.

The NWO agenda has affected every White nation.

By the way, NWO means New World Order. Warman replied:

I think Louis has hit the nail on the head. but why couldn't we get Whiteville off the ground? I think it was a good idea and held somepromise for those of us who want to be among our own kind - but isnt Alberta too cold in the winter???

Did you get that? The conversation is about visible minorities. A Stormfront member calls them a "mud flood", and laments the disappearance of "White nation".

Warman agrees, and goes further -- calling for a whites-only city, which he names Whiteville. He suggests transforming Louis's comments from passive racist complaining into action. He thinks it would be a good idea for "those of us" who don't like minorities. And that leads to a whole stream of comments discussing the merits of creating an Apartheid city in Canada. The site was racist before Warman's post. But he helped shape their discussion, he focussed it, he encouraged it, he added to it, and he suggested action, not mere words.

In other words, he spread hate.

You can read the whole thing right here.

That's just one post. As you can see right under the name Pogue Mahone, by May of 2004 Warman had already made 93 comments on the Stormfront website -- using this alias alone. I'll be posting the CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day for quite a while.

EPILOGUE: Do you think I should call it the CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day? Or should I call it the CHRC/Canadian Jewish Congress Bigoted Comment of the Day? Because last year, the CJC gave Richard Warman their  Saul Hayes Human Rights Award. You can see a photo right here. The caption notes the award was bestowed in Ottawa. Alas, the utopia of Whiteville has yet to be built.