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Thread ID: 17638 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-04-04
2005-04-04 10:16 | User Profile
[I]Jews, being the congenital whiners that they are :crybaby: , cannot refrain from complaining how no one likes them...even passing special, Orwellian laws outlawing critical speech. It's [B]never[/B] their fault that no one wants or likes them. It's always the others' failure in appreciating their goodness or qualities.[/I]
Ahenakew's hate trial begins Monday
Tim Cook Canadian Press
April 3, 2005
CREDIT: Canadian Press David Ahenakew addresses a news conference in Saskatoon in this Dec. 17, 2002 file photo.
SASKATOON (CP) -- David Ahenakew's anti-Semitic comments have already cost him his place as a respected leader in the aboriginal community and have thrown his membership in the Order of Canada into question.
But experts say proving his remarks were criminally hateful is a different story.
Ahenakew's case is to go to trial Monday in Saskatoon provincial court. He's charged under a section of the Criminal Code that prohibits the wilful promotion of hatred against an identifiable group. If found guilty by the judge hearing the case, Ahenakew faces up to two years behind bars.
"The hate propaganda sections of the code went into effect in 1970, but we have had very few actual prosecutions under the section because it's a quite onerous section for the Crown," said Sanjeev Anand of the University of Alberta. He has published several papers on hate crimes.
"There are a lot of defences that the accused can make use of."
Anand said the Supreme Court has set the bar high when it comes to how hateful statements must be before they are criminal. The can't be just a flippant offensive remark.
Stephen Jenuth, president of the Alberta Civil Liberties Association and a lawyer who has defended clients against hate charges, said the case has got to be extreme.
"It has to be hatred as opposed to anything less than hatred," Jenuth said. "I think we recognize that it has to be a very clear and a very intense case before we bring the prosecution."
Ahenakew, 69, was charged after he made a speech as a Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations senator in December 2002.
During the speech, he complained about bigotry in Canadian society and accused the media of creating racial conflict. When asked by a reporter to clarify his comments, he said the Holocaust was justified.
"How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?" he said. "The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe.
"That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the God damned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries."
The comments provoked nationwide outrage and anger. Ahenakew apologized, but was stripped of his position with the Indian federation.
A committee began a review of his membership in the Order of Canada, but put that on hold when the criminal case began.
It took Saskatchewan's justice minister six months to decide whether Ahenakew should be charged -- a move required under this specific section of the Criminal Code.
He pleaded not guilty in October 2003 and, after parting ways with his first lawyer Alan Gold, recruited Victoria lawyer Doug Christie to mount his defence.
Christie, a self-professed champion of free speech, has gained notoriety for defending other people charged with hate-related crimes, including Alberta teacher James Keegstra and Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel.
He's also behind a movement to separate the three Prairie provinces and British Columbia from the rest of the country.
On Sunday, reporters were invited by Christie's office to a downtown Saskatoon hotel for an afternoon "free-speech rally."
But shortly before Christie and Ahenakew arrived to speak to a half-dozen people who showed up, reporters were ordered out with no explanation.
Both Christie and Ahenakew refused to comment on the case as they went in.
Ahenakew, a father of five from the Sandy Lake reserve in northern Saskatchewan, was 35 when he became the youngest man ever elected as chief of the Saskatchewan Indian federation in 1968. He served a record 10 years in that job.
He also served as chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1982 to 1985. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1978 for his work as a member of a United Nations committee as well as the World Indigenous Peoples Council. He was also cited for years of service to Indians and Metis in Saskatchewan.
He is no stranger to controversy. He once outraged aboriginal women by arguing hotly against federal government plans to abolish an Indian Act provision that stripped women of their Indian status if they married a non-Indian.
Ahenakew maintained that aboriginal people themselves should determine their own membership.
é Canadian Press
[url]http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=2ab79a51-f979-47da-9f41-504801caa1b8[/url]
2005-04-04 11:15 | User Profile
[QUOTE=friedrich braun][I]He is no stranger to controversy. He once outraged aboriginal women by arguing hotly against federal government plans to abolish an Indian Act provision that stripped women of their Indian status if they married a non-Indian.
Ahenakew maintained that aboriginal people themselves should determine their own membership.
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It appears the Canadians are as oppressive and meddling as our Federal yankees when it comes to Indian affairs.
2005-04-04 19:50 | User Profile
I didn't know that Doug Christie was such a committed Christian. This must be one of the reasons why he's so hated by the Canadian media.
[url]http://www.douglaschristie.com/DHC/backgrou.htm#Background%20&%20Biography[/url]
2005-04-04 19:53 | User Profile
I guess even the genetic virtue of being an Indian can't save you when you criticize Jewry.
2005-04-04 21:20 | User Profile
North American Indians are the ultimate inconvenience for the Jews. They are a "victim class", but their "victimhood" cannot be redressed because restoration of Indian hegemony over North America (the [I]status quo ante[/I]) is obviously inconsistent with Jewish hegemony over the same territory. They are to be ignored, or -- as in this case -- persecuted.
2005-04-05 02:45 | User Profile
Memo:
To: All goyim "minorities."
From: God's Chosen Pe(s)ts
Subject: The Pecking Order.
Just because we lift you to the status of "Most Highly Exalted Minority", Just remember that your function is [U]only[/U] that of a club to be used to beat down those evil white anti-semites to the point that they willingly grovel at our (kosher) feet, nothing more!
Take this as a lesson, go back to your drunken stupor, reservation life, and we will drag you out when we need you again.
Signed, Hymie the Humble Joo
2005-04-05 03:21 | User Profile
No one can insult the Jews better than they themselves do it everytime they open their mouth, and when ever a "goyin" does? it is only icing on the cake.