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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Sat Jan 9 21:12:18 1999
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[pictures and accompanying text snipped... jfa]
[Note by JFA: the problem with theses groups is that most of the time, their
motor is religious fundamentalism and a mystical approach to life instead of a
the most rational recognition of Man's fundamental characteristic, i.e. that
he is a rational animal and that his only real tool of survival is his mind.
...sigh...]
Issue: Proposed Changes to Canada's so-called "Hate Laws"
Background:
After secret meetings in 1998 Canada's 10 provincial Attorney Generals and the
federal Soliciter General have recommended drafting new laws that would
criminalize computer owners, religious groups, conservatives, historians, and
anyone who expresses a political opinion. The recommendations are a surrender
to minority special-interest groups that have been lobbying for years to
restrict free-speech.
These proposals would again expand Canada's notorious "hate law" (Section 319
of the Criminal Code <http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/cc/cc.319.html>).
New laws would:
- Give police powers to enter your house,
- search your computer hard-drive,
- and then seize the computer if in their opinion it contained "hateful
material"!
Add "sexual orientation" to the long list of "special categories" protected
under the "hate law". This would criminalize, for example, any opposition by
conservative Christians, Moslems and Jews to the homosexual lifestyle. This
ominous expansion of protected groups also seems designed to shield child
molesters and pedophiles from 'hatred or contempt'.
Make possession of alledged "hate" material for distribution a criminal
offence. This is aimed at throttling groups opposed to imposed bilingualism,
wide open immigration, NAFTA, the New World Order, and the homosexual agenda.
The fear of possessing news-letters that could lead to criminal charges would
persuade individuals and groups not to organize. This is the same type of
intimidation used in pre-1988 Russia to stifle any political dissent.
Overturn laws which our ancestors fought and died
<http://www.canadafirst.net/our_heritage/index.html> to protect by making
truth no defence for court-defendants who question historical genocide. As in
Russia, this would result in state-sanctioned history. For example if one's
research showed that the government approved figure of 1.5 million Irish
victims of the 1848 famine was actually closer to 1.3 million, they could be
arrested and tried without being allowed to show their evidence in court.
Today in repressive regimes like North Korea scholarship and learning stultify
as the threat of prison prevents anyone from questioning state-sanctioned
history.
