Suing Blazing Cat Fur for half a million exemplifies 'hate industry' bullies and cowards who can't win their points on the merits so seek to punish and impoverish those who have views--or even link to views--different from their own-Steyn
1/3/13,
"Slapping the Cat," Mark Steyn, NRO, The Corner
"Thank you for your kind donations to our legal defense fund against a nuisance suit from self-endowed Nobel laureate Michael Mann.
We can always use a little more — we’re in court in D.C. later this
month, and the framed copy of my online legal diploma (valid most
jurisdictions except the Northern Mariana Islands and Abkhazia) from a
website in Tajikistan has apparently been delayed in the Christmas mail.
But here’s the thing. South of the border, National Review
is being sued for defamation for publishing a piece by me. North of the
border, they’ve gone to the next stage: one of Canada’s top bloggers is
being sued for defamation merely for linking to me – or, as the plaintiff puts it, to “far-right website SteynOnline“.
He’s seeking half-a-million bucks in damages, which even in Canada seems a high price for an Internet link to lil’ ol’ me.
This is what you might call a bit of mopping-up after my free-speech
battles in Canada. We won, and we got the law in question, Section 13,
repealed last summer. But along the way we pointed out that the
plaintiff on all but one of those Section 13 “hate speech” cases since
the turn of the century had been the same man — a civil servant called
Richard Warman, who appointed himself Canada’s Hatefinder-General and
brought highly lucrative “hate” complaints against anyone who crossed
him. Since the repeal of his own personal revenge law, he can’t file
“hate” complaints anymore, so instead he’s filing nuisance law suits
- against the bloggers who exposed him.
Arnie Lemaire of the Blazing Cat Fur website is one of those
bloggers, a man who breaks a lot of news the cowed politically correct
ninnies at the big dailies won’t go anywhere near until he’s made them
too big to ignore — like the Toronto middle-school “Mosqueteria”
story, in which he exposed a Canadian public school that converts its
cafeteria into a mosque every Friday and segregates its girls according
to whether they’re menstruating or not.
I’ve been involved in cases like these from Copenhagen to Melbourne,
and I’m mighty sick of people who find it easier to sue you into silence
than argue their case on the merits. Free speech is beleaguered in
Britain, Australia, Europe — and also the United States, where, to his
discredit, the president recently lent credence to the notion hitherto
unknown to American law that it’s possible to “slander” a bloke who died
in the 7th century.
So I’d like to keep Blazing Cat Fur in business. Instapundit and other American bloggers agree. He’s having a big fundraiser in Toronto
on Monday. If you don’t fancy the scenic drive from Buffalo up the
Queen Elizabeth Way, I hope you’ll consider helping out in other ways." via Legal Insurrection
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