Veterans Minister should order CHRC boss to stay away

Blogs are the perfect tool to spread the word, quickly and inexpensively, about outrages like Jennifer Lynch's crass attempt to hijack the National Remembrance Day Ceremony.

They're a great way to get people involved in an e-mail campaign, because people are already at their computers. I'd estimate that Greg Thompson, the Minister of Veterans Affairs, has received 200 e-mails so far about this -- probably the biggest one-day burst on any subject he's ever received.

But sometimes you've just got to go bigger, faster. You want to tell every single newspaper editor, TV producer and anyone else in the MSM, because you know the story is that big.

That's when you get Canada Newswire to send a press release for you to every English language media outlet in Canada. So that's what I did, at 7 a.m. ET today:

Attention News Editors:

Disgraced bureaucrat to crash Remembrance Day ceremony

Ottawa – In a cheap publicity stunt, the chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission has announced that she will crash today’s National Ceremony for Remembrance Day.

Jennifer Lynch was not invited by the government, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But that didn’t stop her from issuing a crass press release boasting of her intentions to use fallen soldiers as a political photo op.

“It’s disgusting that Lynch is politicizing Remembrance Day,” said Ezra Levant, a free speech advocate. “Remembrance Day is about the sacrifice of our fallen soldiers. It’s not about some glad-handing bureaucrat giving out business cards and mugging for the cameras.”

“But it’s worse,” added Levant. “For a censor like Lynch to crash Remembrance Day shows she doesn’t understand the sacrifice our soldiers made for freedom of speech.”

Lynch’s brief tenure at the CHRC has been marked by scandal. This spring, the RCMP and the Privacy Commissioner both launched investigations into the conduct of Lynch’s staff who hacked into a private citizen’s Internet account. Lynch’s staff have also admitted under oath to joining neo-Nazi organizations, and publishing hundreds of bigoted remarks on the Internet.

“It’s grotesque that the woman who approved of neo-Nazi memberships for her staff would show her face when we give thanks to the men and women who liberated us from Nazism.”

In her bizarre press release, Lynch doesn’t mention the First or Second World Wars, the Boer War or Korea. But she has plenty of praise for herself, the CHRC and the United Nations.

“Jennifer Lynch just doesn’t get it. Remembrance Day isn’t about her, or her pathetic attempt to rehabilitate the discredited CHRC. It’s about our fallen soldiers. Greg Thompson, the Minister of Veterans Affairs, should order her to keep away from the ceremony,” concluded Levant.

For more information, e-mail ezra@ezralevant.com

Sending a release like this via Canada Newswire costs about $500. I do it very rarely, but it's extremely powerful -- it goes into the in-boxes and fax machines of every news outlet in the country. If you think, as I do, that this was an important step in the denormalization of these abusive HRCs -- not to mention an important step to prevent the desecration of Remembrance Day -- I'd be grateful if you chipped in a bit to help me pay for it!

Thank you.

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