Monday, May 10, 2010

Take Your Pick

Here are three explanations for why Salman Hossain, hate-speaker, remains at large:

1) Bernie Farber's:
"It’s a complicated case because we’re dealing with computer technology in which much must be proven.. This isn’t just a case of scrawling on a bathroom wall or a bridge. ISPs have to be taken into account. Many technical issues have to be taken into account and worked through properly."

2) OPP Commish Julian Fantino's:
The investigation is taking time because it hinges on free speech rights.

 “It adds complexities," he said. "If you recall how long the likes of Ernst Zundel went on and on and on with his hate-mongering and all of that, it took a long time to basically kick him out of the country.
3) Mine: Hossain is Muslim, not Christian.

According to Bernie, "the clock is ticking," since police have 60 days to put together a viable case and present it to the Attorney General, or fuggedaboutit (as happened during the last go-round with Hossain and his hate speech). Who wants to bet that, despite police doing their goshdarned best, the clock runs out yet again?

Update: Here's the Zundel timeline according to wiki:
On February 5, 2003, Ernst Zündel was detained by U.S. local police and deported to Canada, where he was detained for two years on a Security Certificate for being a foreign national alleged to be a threat to national security pending a court decision on the validity of the certificate. Once the certificate was upheld and Zündel was determined to be a national security risk he was deported to Germany and tried in the state court of Mannheim on outstanding charges of incitement for Holocaust denial dating from the early 1990s. On February 15, 2007, he was convicted and sentenced to the maximum term of five years in prison.[8] He was released on March 1, 2010.[9]
Um, sorry, Commish, but how is Zundel relevant to Hossain since Canada slammed the German in the clink post haste for two whole years before shipping his sorry hide back to the Vaterland while Hossain has always remained free as a bird?

7 comments:

Blazingcatfur said...

It's because he got a spiffy new Nazi uniform;)

scaramouche said...

Including those really shiny black boots. They things rock.

Unknown said...

What do you suppose would happen if I started a blog called "Filthy Human Rights Commission Employee Terrorists" and wrote that there should be a genocide against all those workers?

scaramouche said...

scream--you'd be clapped in irons so fast it'd make your head spin.

Blazingcatfur said...

That's a good idea Hmmmm.....

Anonymous said...

The clock starts ticking from the moment the police hand over the case to the Crown for approval.

Man with Hat said...

Chapel, what you have written could be misconstrued as when the charges are filed in the court that perhaps a Crown Attorney could approve it. It must be approved by the Attorney General in the province where the charge is filed. There has also been at least one incident where the Hate Crimes unit of the Police Service in the jurisdiction where the alleged crime occurred have filed the charges without requesting let alone receive that approval from the AG. That way, like the HRC's the process becomes the punishment.

Fat Julian is being duplicitous in his statement about Zundel as in the end he wasn't charged under section 318, 319 or 320 of the Criminal Code as was Mark Harding (a wrongful conviction) or Jim Keegstra (a rightious conviction).