Comments on: Legalese

By: Emile Lahoud

Emile Lahoud — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:29:38 +0000

Slight problem with Mr. Briemberg’s statement of defense. Even though he now claims that he wasn’t a founder of Canpalnet. It’s all over the internet that he is or was.

Also, they keep calling this “paper” a parody, which implies humour. There’s no much that’s humourous about the violent phrase: END ISRAEL’S BRUTAL APARTHEID OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE ! below a crude graphic of 2 rifles, which is the principle contents of page 3 of this “paper.”

That phrase is generally understood to call for the eradication of the existence of Israel, and not a suggestion that Israel retreat to the 1967 armistice lines. Indeed, it’s a phrase that terrorist groups like Hamas use.

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:18:49 +0000

SLAPP suits should be illegal.
Imagine, Canada, that you are not allowed to “publicly participate”. Imagine that corporations are allowed to launch a “strategic lawsuit” against specific people who want to exercise their views.

We are not talking about hate literature here – we are talking about factual information, verifiiable events, opinions with legitimate evidence – is this not allowed in Canada?

Well, the court case shall give us our answer. Does Canada have a just constitution or not? Can it protect our rights, or not? Is Canwest out of line, or not?

My wish is that the Court would throw out this silly SLAPP suit and award costs, damages, etc. to the defendants , along with a sophisticated scolding of Canwest for wasting the Court’s time, accompanied by a warning that further mischief will cost them dearly.

By: pasha

pasha — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:15:31 +0000

nice blog

By: Shawkat Hasan

Shawkat Hasan — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:05:07 +0000

Hi Mordecai,
Two thinks I would like to ask,
1- I would like to invite Al-Jazira reporter to attend part of the legal events. If you give me dates, I will work on it.
2- Today at 8:30 am. Asper Foundation used (Chnu10) to broadcast lectures dated 2002 on activists in Canada and the US that promote hate towards Israel. They have their own TV stattions and Newpapers but why they used the religious channel to broadcast their old programs ? I wouild like to ask the Channel 10 about using political programs instead religious ones.

By: mrT

mrT — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:35:23 +0000

Reading through this writ is most troubling. The mock Sun issue was political, this writ is political… are our courts now to be the arbiters of political discourse?

Many times the Sun has been parodied in precisely this manner. Somehow criticism of Israel is deemed more important than criticism of BC logging, criticism of environmental issues, criticism of media concentration (all of which have been the subject of mock issues).

I guess the activists “went too far” this time, criticizing the state that sees itself as uncriticizable. Apparently the long arm of the uncriticizable state reaches all the way into the homes and pocketbooks of our own homegrown activists. I hope the courts throw out this SLAPP suit, and I hope the named defendant, as well as the 3 John Doe’s and 3 Jane Does launch a countersuit for damages!

By: KL

KL — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:16:49 +0000

It’s time to turn up the heat on CanWest. Cancel your subscriptions if you have one. If you read something that doesn’t seem balanced or factually correct challenge them on it. If it is not corrected then send complaints to the appropriate Provincial Press Council. Let’s not let CanWest control the discourse in this country.