Apparently it is okay for neofascist dingbats to smear the reputation of a respected academic, trade unionist and blogger by spreading lies about him being a supporter of the Taliban, but if you say mean things about a police spies and agent provocatuers, well....
Activist charged with criminal defamation over posting about undercover officers
Police officers linked to last year’s G20 summit say a Kitchener activist defamed two undercover police officers in comments he made on a local university-based website.
Dan Kellar, 29, was recently charged with two counts of defamatory libel by officers in the OPP anti-rackets squad as he left his Kitchener home on a bicycle.
He was also charged with counsel to assault one of the officers.
Police allege he published comments likely to injure the reputation of the officers by exposing them to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or that were designed to insult the officers.
Kellar and his lawyer, Davin Charney, say the charges are an attempt to stifle dissent.
“Dissent is now a criminal activity,’’ said Kellar, a member of Anti-War at Laurier (AW@L), which calls itself “a community-based radical direct-action group committed to solidarity and anti-oppressive organizing.’’
Criminal defamation is a rarely used section of the criminal code, Charney said.
“It gives police the ability to criminalize and charge people who are criticizing the police,’’ he said.
Sgt. Pierre Chamberland, a communications spokesperson for the OPP, acknowledged the charge of criminal defamation isn’t commonly laid.
“It’s not a charge I hear used every day,’’ he said. “However, I suspect people will need to understand they own the words they post publicly.’’
Click the headline and read the whole thing. The police spies who infiltrated the activist group were outed at some other site months ago. These charges have been laid simply because Dan Kellar said something rude about the undercover cops involved. He invited people to "spit in their footsteps and scoff at their existence" and I guess the big, brave infiltrators got their feeling hurt, because that statement drew a "cousel to assault" charge. Does that mean that if I scoff at the existence of these people I am guilty of assault? I guess they better lock up all the right-wingnut bloggers who told us that the police never use agent provocateurs or infiltrate non-violent groups.
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And Tom Flanagan calls for the assassination of Julian Assange on national TV, and they don't try charging him with counseling assault?
What would the charges be if one were heard to make the comment that they would love five minutes alone with officer" Bubbles" out of uniform and in a dark alley.
Mark, probably soliciting a prostitute
That might start some interesting discussion around the squad room. His (Bubbles) career could be undermined in other ways.
Dear Mr. Reverend Paperboy, Sir:
I have been absent these last few months because I've been busy sinking into the depressional morass that is U.S. politics around trying to convince myself that at least one of the candidates isn't a dimwit sociopathic fuckwad GODbot or a well buffed corporate tool. Thus far I am having no luck in finding that Holy Grail of a politician whose policies will fuck me more slowly and less deeply than the current crop of stuffed shits.
I think it's nigh unto time that you ultracourteous Canadahoovians try being a little less so. I know that screaming, "You lying, fucking piece of shit" is counterproductive in the debates which occur in the "free (or as free as the masters want you to think it is) marketplace of ideas" it has a delightfully liberating effect and has been proven to lower blood pressure by as much as 70 points! Really, I've been doing it for some time now and not only has my blood pressure dropped from a gazillion/afuckofalot to a tolerable 260/190 (that's in decicentrigrade not fahrenheimlich) but my neighbors NEVER bother me now.
Try it, you'll like it! Oh, I forgot, you live with other people. Never mind.
Hey, come to my house and read about my exciting adventures with the doctors.
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