Judge in hate speech trial won’t hear free speech charter argument before trial
QUESNEL – The hate-speech versus free-speech debate continues in a Quesnel courtroom after a judge decided to wait until the end of trial to hear constitutional arguments from the accused charged with promoting hatred.
Roy Arthur Topham, born 1947, is charged with promoting hatred against those of the Jewish religion or ethnic group on his website called the Radical Press. On the site, Topham writes anti-zionist content, has links to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and provides regular blog entries on his court case.
Last week in Quesnel Supreme Court, Justice Bruce Butler dismissed Topham’s application to have his constitutional argument of freedom of expression heard before trial.
"This can only be done at the conclusion of the trial. It would be unwise to embark on a consideration of the issues at this stage of the proceedings,” the justice said in his reasons for judgment.
Topham was charged in 2012. He elected to be tried before judge and jury.
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Once again the Marxist, communist, Zionists have everyone including Judge Butler tuning everything upside down. Of course a judgment can and should be made to expediate the course of real justice. Just a small bit of common sense would quickly remove this matter from the court docket so our courts and judges could spendtime dealing with real Canadian problems, which we have many , R,M., Bellerose you say you are against hate speech, yet you spew ” racist twat “. I also hope you fail.
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Nobody in this world is immune to criticism or discussion.Nor should there be laws in place which lock people up in cages, for initiating a discussion.http://gogetfunding.com/canadian-publisher-faces-jail-for-political-writings/
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BTW, the only “HATE LITERATURE”, as you call it, that I see on Arthur’s site, is his posting on the TALMUD.If there ever “was hate literature used to insite deadly genocide many times”, that book has it all.So where’s your complaint about this?
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Why don’t you actually try a new tactic, such as, actually discussing and proving what Arthur says is incorrect.I’ve never seen any jew or jewish organization do such a thing with the goyim.On any topic involving judiasm.It’s very telling and the goyim catch on to these things after a while.
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Much “anti-racist” material is wild guilt-by-association and leaping to conclusion that would make the average conspiracy theorist seem downright reasonable. How am I tied in the overheated imagination of Abrams source to the shootings in Charleston. Well, I am a director of the Council of Conservative Citizens — true. The alleged shooter Roof apparently learned about Black crime from the CoCC’s website. He learned that Blacks commit violent crime wildly out of proportion to their share of the population. No one seriously disputes this documented and politically correct fact. Roof never joined the CoCC, nor did he attend a meeting, nor did he approach us. Had he, he’d have been told in no uncertain terms that violence was NOT the way to go; that it would simply be an excuse for another orgy of anti-White persecution, as we can see from the attack on Confederate flags and symbols and the silly smear articles in the National Post. As to WHY Roof, who had black friends and had never exhibited any political activism, suddenly went homicidal, Alex Jones reveals he was on a highly unpredictable drug to fight addiction to opiates. This drug, Suboxone,can lead to violent mood swings and violent behaviour. How else to explain discussing Scripture with these old Blacks for an hour and then shooting them. Surely, a person bent on murder would just go in and shoot. http://www.infowars.com/charleston-shooter-was-on-drug-linked-to-violent-outbursts/
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Nonsense. Bellerose. If you’re not free to criticize, perhaps even “hate” you’re not free. “Hate speech” is seldom defined. It is usually an opinion a politically powerful minority does not like.
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“Hate speech” trials are an abuse BY process. The judge’s decision is absurd. He’s saying, “put Topham through the expense and trauma of a trial and then will decide whether the whole proceeding is constitutional.” It is Alice in Wonderland persecution of dissent. If one doesn’t like Topham’s views go to another webpage. Actually, the persecution of Arthur Tophaml, first under the now repealed and notorious Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and now under the “hate law” tends to validate Topham’s point that these are minority instigated prosecutions to shelter certain privileged groups, in this case, Zionists from critique or criticism.It has nothing to do with “hate”. You are completely free to mock, hate and vilify White Europeans and Christians. None other than the Chief Supremo Beverley McLaughlin defames Euro-Canadians in saying our effort to educate natives through the residential school system was “cultural genocide.” Accuse Israel of genocide against Palestinians and you end up in court like Arthur Topham.
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the bastard judge is wrong and using his position of power to influence proper justice…think about it…if they breach his charter rights to free speech then they have no jurisdiction and no trial is needed thus saving the taxpayers money and back log of the courts….the friken criminals are behind the bench.
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