The Return of Stormin' Warman

After suffering a significant setback, Bernie Farber's favorite dress up Nazi/Nazi-nabber appears to be back in business. Here he is commenting on the case of an Alberta neo-Nazi named Tremaine, the object of one of his "human rights" gotchas, who lost a legal appeal:

Even though he “deliberately flaunted” an order of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to stop his online hate messages, imposed in 2007, he won an appeal last year at the Federal Court of Canada, which said the tribunal, as a “quasi-judicial” body, could issue orders but not enforce them.

It was a point not lost on Mr. Tremaine, who declined to remove his Internet postings, made under the moniker “mathdoktor99,” which called Jews a “parasitic race,” said “blacks are intellectually inferior to whites” and “Hitler was a lot nicer to the Jews than they deserved,” according to the tribunal’s judgment.

Rather, he told court, the tribunal deserved his contempt.

Mr. Tremaine said he felt compelled to ignore the order.

“My purpose in ignoring the cease and desist order was to address the urgent matter of impending white extinction,” he said.

But the Federal Court of Appeal last week breathed new life into the ability of quasi-judicial tribunals — not only those dealing with human rights — to issue orders that must be complied with.

Anti-hate speech activist Richard Warman, an Ottawa lawyer who launched the human rights complaint, praised the appeal victory.

“This says that tribunal orders, generally, are deserving of much greater respect and much greater weight than they seem to have been in the past,” he said.

“It gives weight to the Human Rights Tribunal’s orders and says these are not orders to be ignored. These are orders of a quasi-judicial body that Parliament has given authority to issue and they shall be respected. I think that’s really important, because without that power behind it then tribunals are really rendering their orders into voids.”

Rendering their orders into voids--halevai! (Yiddish for "if only 'twere so," more or less), as my late Bubbie would have said.