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Merry Christmas and a Happy, Hopeful New Year from RadicalPress.com
December 24, 2015 by 4 Comments
Dear Radical Readers and Friends of Freedom of Speech Everywhere,
On behalf of my wife Shastah and myself I would like to thank everyone who has been standing with RadicalPress.com over the past year and longer in my ongoing struggle to defend the legal right of all Canadians, as stated in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to be able to express their thoughts and viewpoints on the Internet and in other media without fear of being attacked and persecuted by the government of Canada via the use of Sec. 319(2) of the Criminal Code.
This past year saw the case move to the actual stage of trial which commenced in the B.C. Supreme Court, Quesnel, Canada on October 26, 2015 and ran until November 12, 2015 when the jury of 8 women and 4 men found me guilty in Count 1 and not guilty in Count 2 of the identical charge that I did “willfully promote hatred against an identifiable group, people of the Jewish religion or ethnic origin, contrary to Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code.”
As a result of this peculiar and strange ruling the stage has been now set for the continuation of my Charter challenge to Sec. 319(2) in the coming new year. The time when this challenge will occur is yet to be determined but the week beginning January 25, 2016 will see a date fixed for the Constitutional argument to be heard.
In the event that my Charter argument fails to convince the Supreme Court that Sec. 319(2) is in violation of Sec. 2b of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms then I will then have the right to appeal the decision of the court on Count 1 that was handed down November 12, 2015.
There were a number of extenuating circumstances that arose during the actual trial which will, of necessity, come to the forefront in the appeal and portend a strong case for having the decision tossed out and a not guilty decision rendered. Space here doesn’t allow for any elaboration on the process but the new evidence will be forthcoming in the new year.
As of today I am still raising money in order to purchase the transcripts from the trial. Not only does the legal process in this country unfairly work against the individual through unjust legislation such as Sec. 319(2) of the criminal code but when forced to defend oneself against such specious forms of “thought crime” laws the costs incurred are then further exacerbated by the state in the form of the victim having to pay exorbitant costs for the transcripts of the proceedings in order to continue on with their defence.
As it now stands the transcripts will cost me $7,500.00 to purchase from the sole contractor to the Attorney General’s office in B.C. JCWord Assist Ltd. The amount of support and funding for this onerous and ridiculously unfair process of procuring the transcripts has been overwhelmingly positive and to date we have already raised over $7,000.00 toward this end. I am deeply appreciative and humbled by this generosity on the part of supporters world-wide who’ve found it in their hearts to help me out. The transcripts are vital to my defence and will prove extremely useful in the days ahead as this battle to retain our right to freedom of speech continues to unfold in the Supreme Court of Canada.
The transcripts though are not the only expenses that I face and therefore I am forced to continue to ask for financial assistance and will likely do so until the process wends its way to a final outcome. It’s for this reason that I must therefore append my donation “shingle” to this Christmas greeting as well.
As the new year approaches I am filled with hope, strength and an unwavering determination to carry on with this fight until the odious sections of our legal system that make it a criminal act to speak one’s mind are defeated and repealed once and for all.
The world today stands at the brink of despair and hope. Never has there been a more urgent time in our history for the people to be able to stand up and speak out for their basic human rights in order to defend their nation against the incredibly powerful and deceptive actions of their respective governments and media; political bodies and complicit agencies who have shown themselves, over and over, to be working against the fundamental rights of the individual in order to broaden the scope of their control and propaganda now being forced upon the minds and hearts of people around the globe all at the behest of special interest groups who wield, altogether, untold amounts of unwarranted power and influence over nation states worldwide.
2016 bodes well in terms of providing the impetus to speak out and be heard. Let us pray that vigilance and discernment will be the watchwords in the days ahead and that we will retain our basic rights and continue to live freely and in peace and harmony with all of humanity.
May God bless the peacemakers and all who strive for justice and truth!
Sincerely,
Arthur Topham
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GUILTY/NOT GUILTY! by Arthur Topham
November 12, 2015 by 20 Comments
The British Columbia Supreme Court trial of R v Roy Arthur Topham concluded today in Quesnel’s Supreme Court at 11:27 a.m. when the Jury Foreman responded to the two charges laid against Arthur Topham and his website RadicalPress.com.
Both charges in the case were identical. Only the time period in which the evidence on the website was investigated differed. The charge itself read:
Count 1
Roy Arthur TOPHAM, between the 28th day of April, 2011 and the 4th day of May, 2012, inclusive, at or near Quesnel, in the Province of British Columbia, did by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promote hatred against an identifiable group, people of the Jewish religion or ethnic origin, contrary to Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code.
Count 2
Roy Arthur TOPHAM, between the 29th day of January, 2013 and the 11th day of December, 2013, inclusive, at or near Quesnel, in the Province of British Columbia, did by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promote hatred against an identifiable group, people of the Jewish religion or ethnic origin, contrary to Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code.
When asked by the Court Registrar what the verdict was for Count 1 the Jury Foreman replied GUILTY.
When asked a second time by the Court Registrar what the verdict was for Count 2 the Jury Foreman replied NOT GUILTY.
After announcing to the court the verdict in both counts Justice Bruce Butler then thanked the jury for their time and dedication to the judicial process and following that he instructed them that anything they had discussed during the course of their deliberations was to remain secret and that to divulge anything that had taken place was a criminal offence. After that the jury was released.
Immediately upon releasing the jury Crown Prosecutor Jennifer Johnson attempted to have Topham’s bail conditions changed, presumably in order to have more stringent conditions imposed other than those already in place.
Justice Butler was not prepared to entertain the Crown’s immediate offer. Defence Attorney Barclay Johnson addressed the Justice stating that if Crown wished to alter Topham’s bail conditions then the proper procedure would be for her to file an application to that effect and a hearing take place. Justice Butler agreed and a hearing on the matter was set for Thursday, November 19th, 2015.
Following that court adjourned.
At this point in time the question remains as to why a guilty verdict was handed down for Count 1 and why a not guilty verdict was handed down for Count 2.
Speculation is that Count 1 included evidence which the jury felt wilfully promoted hatred toward people of the Jewish religion or ethnic group. Count 1 also included the book Germany Must Perish! written by the Jewish author Theodore N. Kaufman as well as the parody/satire of Kaufman’s book by Topham titled Israel Must Perish! which Crown, from the onset of the trial, has adamantly claimed was a “book” that Topham wrote rather than merely a satire of Theodore N. Kaufmann’s book.
It is believed that the jury was convinced by Crown that Topham’s satire of the original book was in fact his own work and that Topham was therefore promoting the total destruction of the Jewish people which the jury felt was proof that Topham did “wilfully promote hatred toward an identifiable group, people of the Jewish religion or ethnic origin, contrary to Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code.”
The next stage in this unfolding drama could conceivably be an appeal based upon a Constitutional challenge to the criminal code’s section 319(2); one which had already been attempted back in June of 2015 but failed. It was deemed at the time of Justice Butler decision that a Charter application challenge to the legislation would be more appropriate following the outcome of the trial. Now that the outcome has resulted in a guilty verdict in Count 1 the way is open to again challenge Section 319(2) under Sec. 2b of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Sec. 319(2) of the Criminal Code must be repealed based upon a Charter challenge and the framework for such a challenge may finally be in place.
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Press Release: OCLA Denounces the Hate Speech Criminal Prosecution of Arthur Topham
November 9, 2015 by Leave a Comment
From: Joseph Hickey – OCLA [mailto:joseph.hickey@ocla.ca]
Sent: November 9, 2015 11:22 AM
To: ‘Joseph Hickey – OCLA’
Subject: OCLA Denounces the Hate Speech Criminal Prosecution of Arthur Topham
OCLA Denounces the Hate Speech Criminal Prosecution of Arthur Topham
(Ottawa, November 9, 2015) – The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) denounces the criminal prosecution of Mr. Arthur Topham taking place in Quesnel, BC.
Mr. Topham is on trial for charges under the “hate speech” provisions of Canada’s Criminal Code (s. 319(2)). The Crown is expected to make its closing statements today.
These provisions criminalize belief, opinion, and expression of one’s beliefs and opinions, and are incompatible with the universal principle of free debate in a democracy.
No person should ever be subjected to a criminal prosecution without the state having the onus to show actual harm to a person and intent to produce the actual harm, beyond a reasonable doubt.
The “crime” in essence is in the abstract, regarding production of an emotional response “at large”. No actual effect or imminent danger need be demonstrated by the Crown. The Crown will not rely on showing actual harm or intent to harm.
Canada’s “hate crime” provisions require specific consent from the province’s Attorney General for a prosecution to proceed. This feature makes the state’s decision about whether or not to prosecute alleged “hate crimes” particularly susceptible to political influences. In the present political climate in Canada, cases where the expression can negatively impact public opinion about Canada’s diplomatic and military support for US and Israel policy and actions in the Middle East, or where state suppression of targeted expression supports the geopolitical goals of the US and Israel in the Middle East, are among those which are most at risk from being attacked using disproportionate means wielded by the state.
In September 2014, the OCLA launched a petition to the Attorney General of BC asking that she retract her consent for the criminal proceedings against Mr. Topham. The petition, which gathered over 1,400 signatures, can be viewed online at the following link: https://www.change.org/p/hon-suzanne-anton-attorney-general-of-bc-jag-minister-gov-bc-ca-hon-suzanne-anton-retract-your-consent-for-the-criminal-proceedings-against-mr-arthur-topham
All expression stems from the individual’s experience and perception, and is therefore of value to society, in that it reveals points of view for evaluation. Any individual’s expression of any view is needed content in the struggle for greater democracy and understanding. The OCLA defends Mr. Topham’s expression of his views, along with any other person’s expression of any view. The health of our democracy depends on freedom of speech.
The “hate speech” provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada are irreconcilable with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and should be repealed. They are an offence against decency and human rights.
About the Ontario Civil Liberties Association
The OCLA vigorously advocates for authentic and unqualified freedom of expression of individuals, on all topics and in every form, in accordance with the right to free expression enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The OCLA also advocates for unimpeded civil liberties and civil rights of all persons, in dealings with public and private institutions and corporations.
Contact:
Joseph Hickey
Executive Director
Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) http://ocla.ca
613-252-6148 (c)
BC HATE CRIME TEAM Det.Cst. Terry Wilson Pulls Disappearing Act By Arthur Topham
August 13, 2015 by 9 Comments
BC HATE CRIME TEAM Det.Cst. Terry Wilson Pulls Disappearing Act
By Arthur Topham
I recently learned from an associate that Det. Cst. Terry Wilson, Chief Investigator for the BRITISH COLUMBIA HATE CRIME TEAM located in Surrey, B.C. has suddenly “retired” from the RCMP.
Former Det. Wilson was the head cop responsible for flying his Hate Crime Team up to Quesnel, B.C. and then, with the assistance of the local RCMP, stopping me and my wife on the Barkerville Hwy while traveling to Prince George on business on the morning of May 16th, 2012 and then arresting me on a trumped up Sec. 319(2) “Hate Crime” charge and tossing me in the Quesnel jail.
While I was locked up he and his partner Cst. Normandie Levas then proceeded to gain an illegal search warrant from some flunky judge down on the coast and then entered my home and stole all of my computers and electronic files.
When I was released just before midnight from confinement I was given an order not to post anything on the internet. Since that infamous day, 1181 more days have passed, first battling with the B.C. provincial court system and now with the BC Supreme Court in order to defend my name and my Constitutional right to publish news and opinions on my legitimate sole proprietor business website RadicalPress.com as well as stop the legal system from possibly sentencing me to two more years in jail should I be found guilty of this spurious, politically motived “crime” initiated by the Jewish lobby group B’nai Brith Canada a secretive, Jews-only Freemason society.
The first question that sprung to my mind when I heard of Det. Wilson’s disappearance from the force was did he leave intentionally in order to somehow avoid having to appear in court when the trial commences this October 26th here in Quesnel and thus escape being cross-examined for his part in this whole disgusting charade that has been ongoing since November of 2007?
Or could it have been due to the fact that Wilson and his “HATE CRIME TEAM” have been wasting HUGE amounts of taxpayer’s money for years trying to catch Canadians who are merely exercising the constitutional right to free expression on the internet and NEVER gaining a conviction over the time and money spent on this frivolous and malicious enterprise of censorship on the part of the Zionist Jew lobby in Canada?
Whatever the reason this traitor to Canada and sycophant for the Zionist lobby is a disgrace to the country. Having stole years and years of private email communications when they removed all of my computers Wilson then proceeded to snoop about through the hundreds of thousands of private communications like some voyeur trying to find out who I’ve been exchanging my private thought and ideas with since 2006 at the earliest. Whenever I think about this sonofasatan going through all of my private email it burns my ass knowing that what he was doing was unethical, immoral and down right criminal. In fact there is a 5-year jail sentence for people like Wilson and Levas who pull this sort of shit on citizens that still awaits redress.
So this is how our justice system works in Canada these days. The Zionist lobby creates these phoney Commie style spy organizations and portrays them to the public as defenders of human rights and commissars of “hate speech” and then wastes millions of dollars of taxpayer’s hard-earned money threatening, abusing, arresting and charging people like myself for publishing news articles and opinions that the Jewish media intentionally hides and/or distorts from the public in order to cover their own asses and their own obnoxious and nefarious agenda.
Wilson will appear at my trial to justify his actions come hell or high water and justice WILL prevail.
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Pianist Valentina Lisitsa: latest victim of Canada’s pro-Zionist Sec. 319(2) Hate Propaganda laws By Arthur Topham
April 12, 2015 by 8 Comments
Pianist Valentina Lisitsa:
latest victim of Canada’s pro-Zionist Sec. 319(2) Hate Propaganda laws
By
Arthur Topham
“We don’t have freedom of speech to protect only those we agree with, or those whose views are inoffensive. We have it precisely to protect people who have unpopular or even outrageous opinions.”
Editorial, Toronto Star, April 7, 2015
“It’s really hard to come up with words to praise her highly enough because this is someone the world needs to hear.”
Michael Fine, Producer, Valentina Lisitsa’s Rachmaninoff Project at London’s Abbey Road Studio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Preliminary remarks
Back on April 27th, 2011, just days prior to Canada’s May 2nd federal election that saw the Stephen Harper Conservative government ascend to power, I penned and published an article titled, Hating Harper. The purpose of the piece was two-fold; first, to highlight my own battle with the then despicable Sec. 13(1) “hate crime” legislation that the Canadian Human Rights Commission and B’nai Brith Canada had been using against me since 2007 and second, to warn the Canadian electorate of the potentially dire consequences for the nation should the Conservative win a majority government.
The essay outlined what I felt were the root reasons why Canadians shouldn’t vote for this particular party. In part it contained the following:
“Plainly stated Canada is a Zionist Jew-controlled colony of the state of Israel. . . While hidden for over six decades from the majority of Canadians by the Zionist-controlled media’s ‘Iron Curtain’ of deception it is nonetheless an established fact and a reality that must be faced if the nation is to ever recover its former independence and sovereignty.
Anyone who desires to dispute this assertion has to explain and justify to the people of Canada why there is not a single federal political party in the country willing to stand up to the Zionist Jew lobby that now wields such a sinister political influence upon the nation. To attempt a negation of the argument without speaking to this issue can only be construed as evasion and denial.
In the thick of yet another federal election, with Harper and his Conservative party striving with utmost intent to gain a majority government, this pseudo-Semitic elephant in the midst of Canada’s political/judicial/cultural/social living room blithely goes about its business of knocking over, crushing and destroying the country’s constitutional rights along with trammeling upon its domestic and foreign policies, all the while aided and abetted in its traitorous actions by a colluding, fifth column ‘mainstream’ media; itself but another monopoly controlled weapon within the Zionist’s plethoric armory of subterfuge and deception. . .
. . .The Conservative government of Stephen Harper is a contemptible Trojan Horse. Like previous governments it was dragged into Ottawa under the pretense of being the best option for Canadians to preserve not only their integrity as a free and democratic nation but to set a good example for the rest of the world; one that other nations might look up to and aspire after in the hope that someday they would also reap the benefits that a free society and sovereign democracy can offer to its people. This has not been the case. As we can see from the graphic immediately above there is a specific, self-chosen group of zealots who, through subterfuge and the power of their usurious ‘purse’ plus their Babylonian Talmud-inspired ideology known as Zionism, have a totally different agenda in store for the nation.
Voters, who for the most part have been deceived by the pundits and the Zionist-controlled talking heads within their media, remain unaware of this insidious threat to our sovereignty. Were Canadians fully apprised of the seditious nature of the Zionist Jews within their nation’s walls they would likely vote en masse to rid the country of this omnipresent danger. But they aren’t and so the country once again teeters on the brink of the unknowing. Should the false saviour of Canada, Stephen Harper, achieve his mandate to rule over us with his Zionist rod then maybe that will be the time for a new movement to arise and a new federal party to germinate; one that will address the issues I’ve delineated in this essay plus all the others not covered. The key to our future as a sovereign nation is to understand how the Zionist agenda operates, not only in Canada but throughout the world. Without that key we will continue to remain prisoners of Zion.”
On April 28, 2011, the day after my article appeared on the net Canada’s #1 serial “hate crime” complainant working for the Canadian Jewish lobby organization B’nai Brith Canada (a court order prohibits me from mentioning his name), filed a Sec. 319(2) CCC complaint against myself and my website RadicalPress.com alleging that I was “promoting hatred toward Jews”.
On May 30, 2011, less than a month after the Harper Conservative government won the election, a second Sec. 319(2) CCC “hate propaganda” complaint was filed against me and my website by a representative of B’nai Brith Canada (a court order prohibits me from mentioning his name as well) also accusing me of “promoting hatred toward Jews”.
Both of these complaints were received by the BC Hate Crime Team in Surrey, B.C. and an investigation was undertaken by Det. Cst. Terry Wilson. A year later on May 16th, 2012 I was arrested by the BC Hate Crime Team while traveling to work and placed in a jail cell while the RCMP illegally entered my premises using a trumped up “search warrant” and stole all of my computers and electronic files containing well over a hundred thousand private emails.
I have been fighting this second, specious criminal charge that could result in a two year jail sentence ever since. The case is now in BC Supreme Court with a trial date set for October 26th, 2015.
With the one exception of my home town community newspaper the Quesnel Cariboo Observer and its illustrious editor Autumn Macdonald, ever since 2012 my story has been virtually blacked out by Canada’s mainstream media. Nothing, other than the usual smear and slander that appeared back in the msm in November of 2012 when the Indictment was formally handed down by the BC Attorney General’s office, has come out in the press since relating to the mis-use of these so-called “Hate Propaganda” laws.
The Discordant Case of Valentina Lisitsa
The recent case of world renowned pianist Valentina Lisitsa has once again highlighted the hypocrisy, bigotry and outright malfeasance that pervades Canada’s judiciary and the nation’s cultural and social media environment when it comes to using the “hate” card, aka Sections 318 – 320 of Canada’s Criminal Code, to harass, intimidate and slander anyone whose opinions and political viewpoints don’t fall in line with the expected (and calculated) agenda of the Zionist interlopers who now control the Prime Minister’s office, his cabinet and, thus far, the leaders of all the other federal parties.
In an article published April 7th, 2015 in the Globe & Mail, reporter Robert Everett-Green writes: “On March 13, Ms. Lisitsa said, the TSO [Toronto Symphany Orchestra] forwarded to Ms. Dorn an e-mail from Toronto lawyer Michael C. Smith that cited section 319 of the Criminal Code concerning “wilful promotion of hatred,” and said “there is a possibility that Ms. Lisitsa could be stopped at the border … and deemed ‘unacceptable’ to Canada.” An attached note from Mr. Melanson, who is not a lawyer, went further, stating that Ms Lisitsa’s social media posts “would likely breach or come close to breaching the Criminal Code of Canada.” Ms. Lisitsa replied with her lawyer’s opinion rejecting that of Mr. Smith. [All emphasis added.]
So what exactly does Canada’s Criminal Code say about “hate” – this oft used and ever abused term that the Zionist lobbyist has managed to inject, via subterfuge, into the country’s legal system and their media tool kit? The Code reads:
Wilful promotion of hatred
319. (2) Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Judging from the wording of the text we find that just like the term “terrorist” there’s no actual definition given as to what the word “hatred” means. In other words it is subjective and means whatever a person or lawyer or judge decides it means to them. This fact renders it useless in terms of trying to argue against it or debate it once the word has been inserted into jurisprudence thus making it merely a tool for intimidation and control in the same way that the term “anti-Semite” has been used for the last century to browbeat and demonize anyone who so much as issues a dissenting sigh in hearing distance of a Zionist Jew or one of their sycophantic lackeys.
The same has now become true for the “6 million” holocaust debate wherein an accusation of being a “holocaust denier” has taken on the same legal authority in certain countries and is being used to censor proven historical facts and jail anyone who so much as questions whether the alleged event ever occurred in real time or disputes the purported numbers.
As an editorial in the Toronto Star on April 7 put it the Ukrainian-born pianist shouldn’t have been prevented from performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, adding that, “In a particularly weak explanation of why the orchestra was dropping her, TSO president Jeff Melanson said Lisitsa was bounced over “ongoing accusations of deeply offensive language by Ukrainian media outlets.” And, he added: “As one of Canada’s most important cultural institutions, our priority must remain on being a stage for the world’s great works of music, and not for opinions that some believe to be deeply offensive.”
This misses the point on at least two counts. First, Lisitsa was not invited to Toronto to discuss her provocative political views. She was scheduled to play the piano. And second, banning a musician for expressing “opinions that some believe to be offensive” shows an utter failure to grasp the concept of free speech.
We don’t have freedom of speech to protect only those we agree with, or those whose views are inoffensive. We have it precisely to protect people who have unpopular or even outrageous opinions.”
Again, in a subsequent article on April 9 in the same publication writer Vinay Menon adds, “It’s a good thing Jeff Melanson isn’t running our public library system. Or the city would need to hire 2,000 firefighters to keep up with all the book burnings this summer. . . Am I being unfair to Melanson, chief executive of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra? Perhaps! But this is my opinion and, here in Canada, we are allowed to express opinions, even ones that may seem unfair and offensive.”
Menon further states, “The spiritual charter of any cultural institution, important or otherwise, must have certain words etched between the operational lines, including ‘freedom of expression‘ and ‘don’t cave to special interests.‘”
It’s a well established fact that those who accuse others of “promoting hatred” are, themselves, the ones who hate to hear the truth and therefore resort to Canada’s infamous “Hate Propaganda” laws in order to stifle any discussion related to their own questionable actions. Such has been my own experience in dealing with my accusers and, as we can see from Valentina’s encounter with the bureaucrats who run the Toronto Symphony Orchestra she ran into this this same mindset; one that invariably displays both a lack of integrity and the inability to talk openly and honestly about their intentions or their ultimate agenda.
Are we finally seeing a change in attitude on the part of Canada’s mainstream media when it comes to actually challenging Canada’s ill-conceived “Hate Propaganda” laws contained in Section 318 – 320 of the Criminal Code?
Is Canada’s media, the same organ that trumpeted the call for the repeal of Sec. 13(1) now going to tackle the final citadel of censorship, Section 319 of the Criminal Code? If so then they’ll also have to start considering lending a positive voice to organizations like the Ontario Civil Liberties Association, the one and only civil liberties group in Canada to date that is openly supporting my legal case and the repeal of these Orwellian “Hate” laws that reap nothing but repression, opprobrium and the loss of free expression for all Canadians and others like pianist Valentina Lisitsa.
The time is long past for Canada to resume its former role as a free and democratic nation and nothing will ensure that this happens more than the country ridding itself of all its Zionist-induced “Hate” legislation.
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Harper government steals $9 million from taxpayers to fund covert Zionist ‘Digital Public Square Project’ by Arthur Topham
January 9, 2015 by 16 Comments
Harper government steals $9 million from taxpayers to fund covert Zionist ‘Digital Public Square Project’
by
Arthur Topham
January 9th, 2015
Chutzpah alone is insufficient a term to describe this latest move on the part of the Zionist controlled Harper government to undermine Canada’s former status as an independent, sovereign western democracy and drag it further down into the demonic pit of Isra-hell’s demented, psychopathic, war-crazed, terrorist-ridden criminal actions.
Driven by an unquenchable lust for power and control of the world via deception and control of foreign governments and being the pathological liars and swindlers that they are, nothing appears to deter the Zionist’s endless political machinations which inevitably include deceiving the general public in order to have the dumbed down goy pay for these traitor’s own nefarious aims. This transparent process is no better exemplified than in their latest swindle of $9 million bucks of taxpayers money to help Israel continue its relentless, hate-filled disinformation campaigns against the Russian Federation and the Muslim nations throughout the Middle East that Israel has its greedy little eyes set upon invading and controlling.
And what better way than to funnel that $9 million into a Jew-created Trojan Horse Zionist disinformation center like the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and then have the funds laundered out to various private Zionist organizations by the Munk school’s former Director, the staunch Zionist matriarch and commissar, Professor Janice Gross Stein who will be overseeing this additional new project of the 21st century to undermine foreign nations in order to destroy them and take control of their resources.
Professor Janice Gross Stein and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird at the launch of the Digital Public Square Project
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The absolutely farcical and hypocritically cunning nature of this move on the part of the Harper government and its Jewish overlords is best illustrated in some of the more blatant statements made in the ZNP article regarding the notion of freedom of speech and the rights of citizens to criticize their governments which I will add further comment to as the sorry tale unfolds.
In a separate article which I found on the University of Toronto’s News homepage titled, “Government of Canada backs digital public square from U of T’s Munk School” writer Terry Lavender states that the Zionist Israeli disinformation scam, code-named the “Digital Public Square Project” is being marketed by the mendacious Munk and Harper Zionists as “a new project to increase digital communication access for people in countries ruled by repressive governments.” (That is, countries outside of our own.)
He then quotes Baird as stating, “Canada believes that by harnessing new digital technologies to support freedom and democracy we can help give a voice to the voiceless. Through the Digital Public Square project, the Munk School of Global Affairs will create open digital spaces to enable citizens to hold their governments to account in defending freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.” [all emphasis throughout this article is mine. AT.]
Professor Gross Stein then waxes eloquent in the Zionist style of deception that the world has now grown so used to hearing and delivers the following remarks on this latest subterfuge by stating, “Governments have jailed journalists, closed civil society organizations, and strengthened their firewalls to deny citizens access to the web. Using surveillance technologies, they monitor what their citizens post. [Heed this statement Det. Cst. Terry Wilson of the BC Hate Crime Team. AT.] Why do they do this? Because oppressive and authoritarian regimes fear the power of ideas. Ideas are what they fear most. And for good reason. Ideas create change. Ideas are what citizens exchange when we push against the constraints that others impose.”
Gross Stein then announced that “Munk will work with partners in the private sector in Canada and others around the world on the project.”
Yes, and I’m positive that Stein and Munk, holding the key to the vault containing $9 million of Canadian taxpayer funds, will be most prudent in their spending of those ill-gained dollars making sure to pass them along to only pro-Israeli, pro-Zionist “partners” here at home and abroad.
Wikipedia tells us that, “Stein is the [former. AT] director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and Associate Chair and Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation within the University of Toronto’s political science department. She is a specialist in Middle East area studies; negotiation theory; foreign policy decision-making; and international conflict management, on which she has lectured at the Centre for National Security Studies in Ottawa and at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy.“
Oi vey! what can one say about such prestigious credentials? A lecturer at the NATO Defense College in Rome no less. NATO, the one organization that the Zionist Israelis and their sycophants are using constantly to threaten and intimidate and cajole nations into allowing the US to set up nuclear weapons on their land in order to surround those who don’t kowtow to the Rothschild global agenda for a one world totalitarian government. Does it sound like Professor Gross Stein might have some peripheral interest in what’s happening in Israel and Palestine and Iran and Iraq and Libya and Syria and Lebanon and Russia that might make her the perfect “neutral” “Canadian” spokesperson to bring freedom of expression and Internet freedom to all those ignorant slaves throughout the Middle East and Russia who are suffering under “oppressive and authoritarian regimes” and unable to express their thoughts and feelings and ideas because of those brutes will resort to anything, including throwing someone in jail, merely for expressing their opinions on issues and on their governments.
Going back to the Zionist National Post we find the Harper Zionist occupation government referring to their latest conspiracy with the Munk megalomaniacs as “direct diplomacy” where, according to ‘Bimbo the Obescient’ Baird, the “partnership” in crime “would open up online spaces for political dialogue within “restrictive and repressive environments.” Hmmm… he wasn’t thinking about Canada was he I thought to myself as I read it.
The article goes on to describe this latest initiative in mind-control of Canadians and citizens of other independent nations as a further development of an earlier psych-op used to try and undermine Iran and gain western support for Israel to attack that nation based upon fabricated lies about “nuclear weapons” and the threat to Israel, a plan that never gained enough traction to come to fruition (thank God!).
Baird then has the balls (metaphically-speaking of course) to state that the project would “‘increase digital space for free expression,’ allowing citizens to stay informed, share their opinions and advocate for their rights.”
Some more juicy quotes from the same article:
“We believe that citizens of all countries must be able to express themselves freely, to hold their governments to account as well as to exchange information and ideas.”
“The internet is a game-changing technology on these issues. It has the ability to empower individuals more than any other technology before it. This scares some people in power and so regimes around the world are increasingly working to restrict the Internet.”
The writer then goes on to quote excerpts on Internet freedom from the U.S.-based (Zionist Jew, pro-Israeli) non-profit Freedom House, stating that other countries were “rapidly adopting new laws that legitimize existing repression and effectively criminalize online dissent, [and] as a result, more people than ever were being arrested for the things they had posted online.”
“Blocking and filtering — once the most widespread methods of censorship — are still very common, but many countries now prefer to simply imprison users who post undesirable content, thereby deterring others and encouraging self-censorship.”
Hmmm…. I again thought to myself, finally they’re catching up to good ol’ “democratic” Canada who has had these repressive laws enshrined in their criminal code now for decades beginning with the “Hate Propaganda” laws under Section 318 to 320 of the Canadian Criminal Code and then the now repealed sec. 13 “hate crime” legislation used to silence dozens of Canadian citizens who were all trying to alert their nation to the real threat of the Zionist interlopers who are now in control of Canada’s the ship of state. These Zionist created laws were all designed to stifle and silence and jail Canadians for precisely the same “crimes” that these two-faced, hypocritical Zionist bigots in Ottawa and the University of Toronto are now proposing to stem in other countries.
So here I am a Canadian citizen facing a sec. 319(2) Criminal Code of Canada “Hate Propaganda” charge laid filed against me by a member of Canada’s most influential Jewish lobby organization B’nai Brith Canada because I was deemed by this individual zealot and one other psychopathic Zionist sycophant to have expressed my opinions and published the opinions and facts of others regarding the dangerous presence here in my home and native land of foreign government influences, to wit, the Zionist state of Israel and the control of my country’s news media by this same group of criminal war-mongers and international gangsters. And on top of that I’m facing a possible two-year jail sentence should I be found guilty of said “crime” and while all of this charade has been ongoing now RIGHT HERE IN CANADA FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS Baird the buffoon and Harper the traitor and now Janice the Jew sayan are all telling me and the rest of Canada that they’re going to take $9 million dollars out of our pockets to help other nations preserve THEIR right to freedom of expression!
Am I missing something here? Are you?
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RED ICE RADIO: INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR TOPHAM – Hour 1 – “Hate Propaganda” Legislation in Canada
November 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
When the Chicken-Hawks Come Home to Roost: Harper’s War on Terror lays a gold egg for further Zionist Repression in Canada By Arthur Topham
October 23, 2014 by 5 Comments
When the Chicken-Hawks Come Home to Roost:
Harper’s War on Terror lays a gold egg for further Zionist Repression in Canada
By
Arthur Topham
October 23, 2014
“By such measure we shall obtain the power of destroying little by little, step by step, all that at the outset when we enter on our rights, we are compelled to introduce into the constitutions of States to prepare for the transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution, and then the time is come to turn every form of government into our despotism…. But you yourselves perfectly well know that to produce the possibility of the expression of such wishes by all the nations it is indispensable to trouble in all countries the people’s relations with their governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the innoculation of diseases, by want, so that the “goyim” see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else…. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive.”
Protocol No. 10, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
By all standards of logic and recent vicissitudes of world history it was inevitable that sooner or later an event like the shooting at Canada’s Parliament would occur.
Like other similar acts of violence perpetrated in the USA since September 11, 2001, it’s beyond doubt that they are all, in one form or another, related to the underlying ideology and political agenda of the Zionist state of Israel, the world’s foremost rogue nation whose principal business plan is the promotion of a malevolent, psychopathic, power-driven, worldwide program of terror and fear designed with the sole purpose of dividing and destroying sovereign nations through the creation of deceptive false flag events, endless wars, media disinformation and economic insecurity, all of which they hope will eventually converge to accomplish their ultimate objective of attaining absolute political and economic world hegemony.
That primary goal was first laid out in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in the first decade of the 20th Century. It is still the modus operandi of the psychotic, delusional Zionist cult today and will remain their primary strategy until either the world soon unites against them and takes away their license to kill and destroy or they, through their endless machinations accomplish their diabolical goal and turn the world into a global gulag ruled by the iron heel of Zionism.
Those who have studied world history within the context of the Protocols will already be fully cognizant of this fact but for the majority of Canadians and others who are still dependent for their intellectual understanding of world history and current events upon the information presented to them in the Zionist-controlled mainstream media (including CBC), this latest in an endless series of violent false flags, will simply add to their confusion and play into the grander Zionist scheme; one meant to slam the people of West with head punch after head punch of apparently senseless, violent incidents which they inevitably will associate with their current Middle East victims until they’re eventually programmed via the trauma effects of mind-control and willingly lay down their freedoms in order to obtain what will ultimately be a false sense of security leading them down a one-way street that ends in an Orwellian police state on par with that of the former Marxist Bolshevik-ruled Soviet Union.
In this sense, we the people, everywhere, are now in the same geopolitical boat as the victim’s of Gaza/Palestine (or Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya or Syria or Ukraine, etc.) and given the fact that the UN has been neutered and unable to rein in the ongoing viciousness and unabashed terror and destruction that Israel consistently subjects the people of Palestine to, it has only spurred them on to more of the same behaviour throughout the Middle East thus fomenting and laying the groundwork for greater hatred and resentment toward the Zionist state and all who align themselves with their insane and immoral behaviour.
This pattern for Zionist tyranny, once laid out upon the fabric of societies everywhere, inevitably leads to the type of reaction that we’ve just witnessed in Ottawa, Canada. Given the overriding matrix of mendacious, deceptive designs cut from the cloth of today’s political milieu it becomes practically irrelevant to debate the motives of the deceased shooter. Whether he was reacting to the incessant brutality meted out to the Muslim nations of the world via the Zionist-controlled killing machine (of which Harper & Co. are now an integral part) or whether his personal agenda was something other than revenge, the result is still the same – furtherance of the Zionist objectives of causing endless war and hatred and terror with the added bonus of buttressing their ongoing attack upon freedom of expression in Canada.
Referring once again to the Protocols, in Number 2 it states, “In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing to our requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But the goyim States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade….”
The British author Douglas Reed probably put it best in his classic 1956 study of political Zionism titled The Controversy of Zion, when he wrote,”The state of affairs thus brought about after 1920 [referring to the then recent coup in the former Russian Republic. Ed.], and continuing today, was foretold by the Protocols in 1905: ‘Through the press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade … The principal factor of success in the political” (field) “ is the secrecy of its undertaking; the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat … We must compel the governments … to take action in the direction favoured by our widely-conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the means of that so-called ‘Great Power,’ the press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands … We shall deal with the press in the following way: … we shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb; we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? … No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification … We shall have a sure triumph over our opponents since they will not have at their disposition organs of the press in which they can give full and final expression to their views owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press …’”
Of course it must be borne in mind that those words were written well in advance of the Internet.
Back in 1921 Henry Ford, Sr. made the following prescient and provocative statement regarding the authenticity of the Protocols:
“The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW.”
One can only repeat this same refrain today by restating, “The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are now a hundred and ten years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW!”
As was predicable the Harper Conservative government, its lackey sycophants and the Zionist media are making full use of the present killing event to try and convince Canadians that it’s the “radical” elements with society (bloggers, alternative news media, environmentalists, natives, publishers and non-msm journalists) who have somehow played a part in laying the groundwork for the scenario that’s just unfolded in Ottawa and calls for clampdowns on any form of dissident behaviour ought to be taken for the ‘security and safety’ of the general public. Here’s where the “Hate Propaganda” laws in our criminal code (Sections 318 – 320) come into play once again and one can bet that Jewish lobby organizations like B’nai Brith Canada (the group that was instrumental in charging me with a sec. 319(2) “hate” crime in May of 2012) are ecstatic over the recent turn of events just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was most pleased by the events of 911.
What it all means in the long run for Canadians who value their right to question the course of history now unfolding around the world is that we will have to be just that much more vigilant and forthright and proactive and UNITED in challenging and resisting these false accusations of the Harper regime, the Zionist media and all of those Jewish lobby groups here in Canada who are determined to maintain and even increase the levels of censorship in our nation, especially as it applies to the free use of the internet to openly discuss political events.
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[If you haven’t already please consider signing the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) petition to the Hon. Suzanne Anton, Attorney-General of British Columbia requesting that she remove her consent from the criminal charges laid against Arthur Topham. Over 1000 signatures have been registered to date but we need many more. Thanks. Arthur Topham, Ed.]
Regina v Radical Press Legal Update # 22
September 30, 2014 by 2 Comments
Regina v Radical Press Legal Update #22
September 30th, 2014
Dear Free Speech Advocates and Radical Press Supporters,
It has been close to five months (May 7th, 2014) since I last posted a Legal Update on my Sec. 319(2) “Hate Propaganda” CCC charge that commenced back on May 16th, 2012. This is the greatest span of time since I began writing these records where I haven’t had to report on my case but it was a long overdue and necessary break from the onerous, ongoing reality that we know as the legal process here in Canada. The wheels of justice do indeed move at a snail’s pace.
Back in April of this year I was fortunate to have had B.C. Provincial Court Judge, the Honourable Judge Morgan, decide against agreeing to the Crown’s application to impose stringent bail conditions on me which would, in effect, have prohibited any further publishing on RadicalPress.com or any other internet site until after the completion of the upcoming trial in B.C. Supreme Court.
My case having then shifted from the provincial court to the B.C. Supreme Court I returned to Supreme Court on Monday, April 28th, 2014 in order to fix a date for trial. It was then that Crown asked me whether or not I was once again going to apply for a Rowbotham application which is a process that would have, if successful, enabled me to have the case stayed until the Attorney General’s office provided me with legal counsel.
I advised the court that I was planning on reapplying for said application (having done so prior to the preliminary inquiry when it was first refused by the court) and it was at that point that Crown counsel Jennifer Johnston suggested that I be given until September 29th, 2014 to refile all the necessary paperwork and return on the 29th to set a further date for a hearing on the matter.
Given that I had more than sufficient time to reapply I decided to take some time off from all the legal work and focus on regenerating the family garden which had fallen into neglect over the years due to all the past eight years of legal wranglings with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and now the criminal court of Canada. Apart from our gardens there were numerous other maintenance projects awaiting redress on our 5 acre plot that also require urgent attention.
Nearing the end of June I was beginning to get ahead of the game and began preparing to start the process of applying a second time for a new Rowbotham application. Then, in the beginning of July all hell broke loose in Gaza as the Israeli government once again began beating their war drums and commenced with yet another murderous bombing campaign against the helpless, entrapped Palestinian people slaughtering thousands of innocents and crippling and maiming thousands more as well as destroying much of Gaza’s infrastructure. It was the worse case of unjustified lethal aggression against the Palestinian people to have ever occurred and as a result all of my thoughts about working on another Rowbotham application came to a screeching halt as I decided that covering this gross act of genocide by the Zionist forces against the people of Gaza was much more important than spending endless hours on preparing documents that I intuitively knew would be rejected a second time.
The mainstream media (msm) being dominated by the Zionists there was nothing else left to counter all of their lies and disinformation but to focus on constant efforts to disseminate the truth about what was really going on with respect to Israel’s illegal, immoral, unjust and depraved slaughter of defenceless children and adults in Gaza. Being a part of the alternative news media it became my first and foremost duty to try and provide internet readers with a more balanced perspective on the war. In the process of doing so the months of July and August were consumed and when a lasting truce was finally signed with Hamas there was little time left to begin again on the Rowbotham application.
I contacted Keith Evans, counsel for the BC Attorney General’s office on August 22nd, 2014 alerting him to the fact that I wished to resume the process but instead I received a reply from a Freya Zaltz, Barrister and Solicitor, Constitutional and Administrative Law Group, Minister of Justice / Legal Services Branch who informed me that, “Given that it is already August 22, it’s highly unlikely that a new Rowbotham application could be resolved by September 29, 2014.”
Given this information I then decided to forego applying for the Rowbotham application and replied to Ms. Zaltz on September 2nd, 2014 informing her:
“With respect to your comment that “it’s highly unlikely that a new Robotham application could be resolved by September 29, 2014″ I would add, by way of explanation, that the delay in applying was due to the unfortunate actions of the state of Israel and their war on Gaza that began in early July and consumed most of that month plus August.
As my professional responsibilities to my readership at RadicalPress.com required ongoing coverage of this event in order to counter the Zionist media propaganda here in Canada I had to make a decision as to where my priorities would be focussed. My decision was to place Gaza at the forefront, over and above all other considerations. Given the nature of my case and the spurious charges which were brought on by the Zionist Jew lobby B’nai Brith Canada and then approved by your office in November of 2012 I’m sure you can understand why I deemed my actions to be of greater importance than to focus on my own personal circumstances. Had Israel not attacked Gaza when it did I would, in all likelihood, have met the obligations set.
As such, seeing that the application deadline cannot be completed by my next appearance on September 29, 2014, I will forego proceeding with it and let Crown Counsel in Quesnel know of my decision.“
That aspect of the case having been terminated I then awaited the court appearance on September 29th, 2014 designed to “fix a date” for the upcoming trial in BC Supreme Court and also to possibly set a hearing date for the former Rowbotham application.
My dear wife Shastah accompanying me as we appeared at the Quesnel courthouse at 10:00 am on Monday, September 29th, 2014. The Supreme Court Justice appeared on video from somewhere and the proceedings were recorded as per normal. Crown Counsel Jennifer Johnston began by notifying the judge that we were there to set a date for trial and then proceeded to name a couple of time slots when she would be available. Both dates fell in the year 2015. The first suggested date was too early for me given that I am planning a number of pre-trial Charter applications which will most likely require at least four days of court time to address. That proposed date was in the late spring of 2015. The second date (covering a two week time period) was to commence on October 26th, 2015 and run until November 6th, 2015.
After Crown made her dates known to the judge and I had the opportunity to speak I informed the judge that I would prefer the latter period and then explained to him why I felt I couldn’t be prepared in time to meet the early date. I began by stating that the issues surrounding the case were very complex from the standpoint of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and at the same time also informed the court that I was in consultation with a lawyer from the lower mainland of the province who would be preparing extensive written legal arguments that they would be unable to complete prior to at least March of 2015. As well, I informed the court that my legal counsel would also not be free to appear in Quesnel until at least May of the same year.
Crown Counsel Johnston appeared pleased with the knowledge that I was in consultation with legal counsel and told the court that she had no problem with setting the trial date for October 26th of 2015. She also told the judge that the 10-day schedule trial could possibly be shortened by the fact were I to have legal representation.
The trial date thus being set Crown then asked the judge to set another date for a pre-trial conference with my counsel. That date was set for March 23rd, 2015.
I was very pleased with the outcome as now I will have the time to prepare all the important documents relevant to the case and also have the time to organize an ongoing legal defense fund in order to cover the costs of procuring legal counsel to represent me during both the pre-trial applications and, if needs be, the trial itself. That was all that took place and within a matter of about fifteen minutes my wife and I left the courtroom.
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The other important notice regarding my case concerns the recent and rather startling news that the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) has taken it upon themselves to come out publicly in favour of me as well as challenging Canada’s “Hate Propaganda” laws Sections 319 to 320, calling for their complete and final repeal.
When I first heard of this I was absolutely overwhelmed with a sense of instant relief and thankfulness. After eight long years of battling with the Jewish lobby (B’nai Brith Canada) who were instrumental in laying both the sec. 13(1) “hate crime” complaint against myself and RadicalPress.com back in 2007 plus the current sec. 319(2) CCC “Hate Propaganda” complaint in 2011 that resulted in my arrest and incarceration on May 16th, 2012, the fact that a well-recognized and prestigious mainstream public civil liberties organization such as the OCLA was backing up my right to freedom of expression, petitioning BC’s Attorney General, the Hon. Suzanne Alton to retract her consent to the spurious charges, and tackling the final stronghold of the forces of Orwellian internet “freedom of speech” repression, i.e. Sections 318 to 320 of the Canada’s Criminal Code, was almost beyond belief.
This sudden turn of events has been a game changer and is comparable to having a D-9 Caterpillar appear on the legal/media playing field in my favour to level off what’s been a definite bumpy, one-sided, stacked deck of silence and collusion in favour of the Zionist lobby, their mainstream media cartel and the courts. As such, on behalf of my wife and myself, I wish to publicly express my deepest sense of gratitude to the OCLA for having come to this important and prescient decision; one that is bound to affect all Canadians and, should their campaign prove successful, ensure that the future of Canada’s media, both msm and alternative, will remain free and open and democratic and not subject to political interference from any special interest groups.
I would like at this point to add the latest statement on this matter from OCLA which was sent out by Joseph Hickey, Executive Director, Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA):
Dear OCLA Supporter,
Please take a moment to read and consider signing OCLA’s petition in defence of the civil rights of Arthur Topham, a BC man who is currently being prosecuted under a “Hate Propaganda” section of Canada’s Criminal Code. The petition is online at the following link: http://www.change.org/p/hon-suzanne-anton-attorney-general-of-bc-jag-minister-gov-bc-ca-hon-suzanne-anton-retract-your-consent-for-the-criminal-proceedings-against-mr-arthur-topham?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_created
OCLA has the position that sections 318 to 320 of the Criminal Code should be repealed. These sections allow egregious violations of the civil rights of liberty, just process, and freedom of expression. Under these provisions, a person can be jailed without the Crown being required to prove any actual harm to a single identified individual.
Mr. Topham was arrested in front of his spouse, detained, subjected to a home-invasive seizure, and faces jail time if convicted, for expressing his highly unpopular views.
OCLA’s public statement on this matter is available at: http://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/OCLA-statement-re-Arthur-Topham.pdf
Please read OCLA’s letter to the BC Attorney General asking her to withdraw her consent for this prosecution, which is available at: http://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-24-Letter-OCLA-to-AG-of-BC.pdf
Yours truly,
Joseph Hickey
Executive Director
Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) http://ocla.ca
613-252-6148 (c)
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire
In closing I would ask all readers to assist both the OCLA and myself in achieving the highest number of signatures and comments on the OCLA petition to Hon. Suzanne Alton as humanly possible and to pass this information on to as many other people and blogsites and news sites as possible. The OCLA has taken a courageous and valiant step forward in our battle to retain our Charter rights to Freedom of Expression. It may be our last chance to change this draconian legislation using peaceful, lawful means. Please take advantage of this opportunity for the sake of all Canadians both present and of future generations.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Arthur Topham
Pub/Ed
RadicalPress.com
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My court battle has now moved to an actual trial by judge and jury in the British Columbia Supreme Court. In doing so it places a far greater emphasis on my having to obtain legal counsel and/or advice from legal counsellors, which ultimately requires funding.
The trial will be a major battle in the upcoming legal war to rid Canada of all the Section 318 to 320 “Hate Propaganda” legislation now in the Canadian Criminal Code. The outcome of this trial will, in all likelihood, determine whether or not Canadians will retain their right to publish the truth on the Internet about any and all injustices that may befall our country.
I DO NEED YOUR HELP NOW MORE THAN EVER!!!
Please consider a donation to the Radical Press Free Speech Defence Fund.
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Remember that every bit helps (all of us).
Thank you.
Arthur Topham
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Please Support the OCLA Petition in Defence of Arthur Topham by RadicalPress.com
September 27, 2014 by 1 Comment
Dear OCLA Supporter,
Please take a moment to read and consider signing OCLA’s petition in defence of the civil rights of Arthur Topham, a BC man who is currently being prosecuted under a “Hate Propaganda” section of Canada’s Criminal Code. The petition is online at the following link: http://www.change.org/p/hon-suzanne-anton-attorney-general-of-bc-jag-minister-gov-bc-ca-hon-suzanne-anton-retract-your-consent-for-the-criminal-proceedings-against-mr-arthur-topham?utm_source=guides&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_created
OCLA has the position that sections 318 to 320 of the Criminal Code should be repealed. These sections allow egregious violations of the civil rights of liberty, just process, and freedom of expression. Under these provisions, a person can be jailed without the Crown being required to prove any actual harm to a single identified individual.
Mr. Topham was arrested in front of his spouse, detained, subjected to a home-invasive seizure, and faces jail time if convicted, for expressing his highly unpopular views.
OCLA’s public statement on this matter is available at: http://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/OCLA-statement-re-Arthur-Topham.pdf
Please read OCLA’s letter to the BC Attorney General asking her to withdraw her consent for this prosecution, which is available at: http://ocla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-24-Letter-OCLA-to-AG-of-BC.pdf
Yours truly,
Joseph Hickey
Executive Director
Executive Director
Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) http://ocla.ca
613-252-6148 (c)
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire
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QUOTE OF A COMMENT ON THE OCLA PETITION
“The belief that ideas are a prerogative of any self-chosen element of society is repugnant, intellectually and morally indefensible and insulting to any citizen who has both the right and responsibility to consider all available evidence, pro or con, on any issue of possible public concern or interest. The crucially important issue is that all citizens must be free to communicate their views and the right of all citizens to do so must be assured. Anti-“Hate” legislation is a transparent political measure meant to serve the interests of its sponsors who obviously are willing to employ almost any form of sophistry, cajoling, deception and intimidation to achieve the suppression of views which they do not like. Each citizen must be accorded the elementary respect as being sufficiently intelligent to assess the validity or otherwise of expressed views. Many of these issues have been debated by seers and saints from time immemorial and the debate certainly does not belong in a criminal court but rather in the court of informed public assessment. Informed assessments can only be made in light of full disclosure of evidence – on every ongoing process in the affairs of mankind. State suppression of ideas is a clear and inevitable route to tyranny and people who support such repression are a threat to civilization. I think that I am sufficiently intelligent and knowledgeable to hear an idea and accept, reject or consider it without any “assistance” from the State or those who exercise influence upon and behind the State apparatus. Anti-“Hate” (which can mean almost anything depending upon one’s perspective) legislation is an affront to the intelligence and integrity of every citizen and a violation of the historic assumption that truth is paramount and can only be found by diligent and unimpeded individual enquiry. The motives of persons or groups which attempt to suppress comment or criticism are patently suspect and transparent and such conduct does not go unnoticed or help their cause in the court of public opinion. By all means, do stay proceedings in this case and do not initiate them in any comparable situations. I do not need to be told what to think.” – Wallace Klinck
