Free Speech Under Attack in Canada

The foremost opponent of free speech in the Frozen North, a former Human Rights Commission employee named Richard Warman, has decided that the civil courts are the way to go to shut down voices he doesn’t like. Among his targets are a number of conservative bloggers, including Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury, who writes:

Canada’s busiest litigant, serial “human rights” complainant and — the guy Mark Steyn has called “Canada’s most sensitive man” — Richard Warman is now suing his most vocal critics — including me.

The suit names:

•Ezra Levant (famous for his stirring YouTube video of his confrontation with the Canadian Human Rights tribunal after he published the “Mohammed Cartoons”)
•FreeDominion.ca (Canada’s answer to FreeRepublic.com)
•Kate McMillan of SmallDeadAnimals.com
•Jonathan Kay of the National Post daily newspaper and its in-house blog
•and me, Kathy Shaidle of FiveFeetOfFury.com

Richard Warman used to work for the notorious Human Rights Commission, which runs the “kangaroo courts” who’ve charged Mark Steyn with “flagrant Islamophobia.”

Richard Warman has brought almost half these cases single-handledly, getting websites he doesn’t like shut down, and making tens of thousands of tax free dollars in “compensation” out of web site owners who can’t afford to fight back or don’t even realize they can.

The province of British Columbia had to pass a special law to stop Richard Warman from suing libraries because they carried books he didn’t approve of.

Richard Warman also wants to ban international websites he doesn’t like from being seen by Canadians.