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Thread ID: 19059 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-07-09
2005-07-09 03:42 | User Profile
An update of the travails of an Indian leader in Canada who did not realize that Canada is now a Zionist controled turd world manure pile.
[url]http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=62ddf3ea-6cc7-4eaa-84cc-3b16281d3999[/url]
Friday û July 8 û 2005
Ahenakew: guilty of promoting hatred
Tim Cook Canadian Press
Friday, July 08, 2005
CREDIT: CP PHOTO/Troy Fleece David Ahenakew, an aboriginal leader charged with willful promotion of hatred, arrives at provincal court in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Friday, July 8, 2005.The former head of the Assembly of First Nations is charged with the wilful promotion of hatred and, if convicted, faces up to six months in jail.
SASKATOON -- A defiant David Ahenakew lashed out at the Jewish community, the courts and the media Friday after being convicted and fined for promoting hatred.
With his family members behind him at a news conference he called following the verdict, the former First Nations leader complained bitterly about the fairness of his trial and a campaign he said Jewish groups waged to have him removed from the Order of Canada.
[B]"This, of course, was the direct result of the pressure put on the (Governor General's) advisory committee by some of the Jewish community, including a letter-writing campaign and the lobbying by the Canadian Jewish Congress," he said.
"My conviction says the power of this country lies with those who have the funds to back their lobbies and the corporate and financial influence to bend the Canadian judicial system and the government at their will.[/B]"
Ahenakew also criticized the courts.
"First Nations people have never received a fair trial in Canada's judicial system since the first so-called settlers arrived here more than 400 years ago," he said.
"The jails of our country are full of our people. My case was as much about racism against First Nations as it was about alleged racism against the Jewish community."
[B]Ahenakew, 71, was found guilty of wilfully promoting hatred when he referred to Jews as "a disease" and justified the Holocaust in a December 2002 interview.[/B]
Provincial court Judge Marty Irwin handed down the decision earlier in the day in a tiny courtroom packed with Ahenakew's supporters, members of the Jewish community and reporters. He then imposed a $1,000 fine.
Irwin said calling any group of people a disease serves only to dehumanize them, and to deny them basic respect and dignity.
"To suggest that any human being or group of human beings are a disease is to invite extremists to take action against them and to give a justification for violence against them."
Ahenakew said he would appeal the conviction, but not his removal from the Order of Canada.
Earlier this month, he was sent a letter by the Governor General's office saying the process to revoking his Order had begun and he had until Saturday to contest the move.
"Accepting the Order of Canada comes with no injunction against free speech," Ahenakew said. "I am now forced to choose between freedom of speech and the Order of Canada. I choose free speech."
[B]Jewish groups were happy with Ahenakew's conviction.
"His comments were extreme and they were public and that was proven in court today," said Wendy Lampert, a spokeswoman with the Canadian Jewish Congress.[/B]
But there was outrage over his comments following the verdict.
"For Mr. Ahenakew to make these kinds of statements and . . . turn it back on a community that has such shared values and similar history is really disappointing and shocking and hurtful," Lampert said.
[B]Holocaust survivor[/B] Miklos Kanitz followed the trial and was glad to see it end.
"I'm relieved that it's over," Kanitz said. "I think the biggest price that he has paid . . . (is) he lost the respect of his own people."
The trial lasted for four days in April and was coloured by an overriding tension between Ahenakew's supporters and Jewish groups.
At one point Chief Terrance Nelson of the Roseau River First Nation in Manitoba warned that tensions between aboriginals and Jewish people could rise if Ahenakew were convicted, and that punishing him would make him a martyr.
On Friday, Nelson said it's now up to Jewish organizations to stand up for his people's human rights.
"The shoe is now on the other foot," he said. "The Jewish people have to be very visibly seen as condemning anybody that promotes hatred toward indigenous people."
Court heard how Ahenakew, the one-time head of the Assembly of First Nations, made a fiery speech to the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations on Dec. 13, 2002, in which he said the Jews started the Second World War.
Asked about his comment afterward by a reporter from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Ahenakew called Jews "a disease."
[B]"The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's how Hitler came in," Ahenakew said in the taped interview.
"That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know."
Ahenakew publicly apologized for his comments a few days later, but at his trial it seemed, at times, that he still believed what he said.
Initially he testified that he was only repeating what he was told by the Germans when he served overseas with the Canadian army and that he trusted what he heard.[/B]
At points, however, he wavered and suggested he didn't know what to believe anymore.
He told court he wasn't feeling well the day he made the speech, because his diabetes medication had recently been changed and his blood sugar was high.
Irwin rejected that argument.
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2005-07-09 04:32 | User Profile
Spoken words are only offensive if the one who listen to them make them so, words are used as an excuse and not the reason to create trouble, fight or make war.
Even here at this forum I have been called many names like, uneducated (can't even spell it hehehehehehe), foreigner, wet back, anti-semite and on and on but to me those who say those words are spitting against the wind because they don't reach me, I choose not to be insulted.....and besides, I am what they called me so why should I be offended?....get it?
[B]EST[/B] Sep "B" 1977, either you got it or you don't.
2005-07-09 04:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE]"To suggest that any human being or group of human beings are a disease is to invite extremists to take action against them and to give a justification for violence against them." [/QUOTE]This is the most retarded idea I have ever heard. I remember hearing about this story a while ago. So if I said a certain "human being" of group of "human beings"(what all could that include? pedophiles and rapists could be "groups of human beings") I could be arrested because my words would invite extremists to take actions against them? So I, just by saying that, could create the feelings or mindset in another person that would enable them to go out and kill or harm this person or persons? Wouldn't they already have to have negative feelings about this person or persons I am talking about to be so "moved" by my words? So how would that invite extremists to take action against them. And especially how would I be giving anyone justification to do this if some type of justification didn't already exist, to them? Taking a really insane look at this idea, I could just walk up to someone on the street and tell them niggers are savages,etc and that person might just decide after I say this, that I am correct, and that they are going to go kill a nigger? LOL. if only.
[QUOTE]Holocaust survivor Miklos Kanitz followed the trial and was glad to see it end.[/QUOTE] ** hmm, now how is it, that without fail, there is always a "holocaust survivor" somewhere, to make an appearance, in situations like this? LOL.