AntiHate.ca, RCMP, Banks and Trudeau Sued For $35 Million

This has been the best Valentine’s Day to date for the Canadian Freedom Movement. There were two lawsuits filed on Valentine’s Day, one that was filed on behalf of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber that received much media attention.

The other one was filed by Edward Cornell, a Canadian military vet and Vincent Gircys, former Ontario Provincial Police officer. Their lawsuit is seeking a total of $35 million in damages plus declaratory relief for a total of 24 plaintiffs. All the plaintiffs have one thing in common—they all had their bank accounts frozen after the Emergency Measures Act was invoked by Justin Trudeau.

“All of the Plaintiffs are either individuals or businesses who had their financial accounts and private property including banking and credit cards, cryptocurrency, and other financial instruments frozen and unlawfully seized following the Unlawful Enactments in February of 2022.”

The law firm Loberg Ector posted a press release on their website:

 

 

“The Plaintiffs in this action seek compensation and related relief arising from the unjustified and unconstitutional actions of the Liberal government, as well as the actions of certain police agencies and Canadian financial institutions who followed the unlawful orders of the Liberal government, and other defendants who participated in or promoted these actions.”

Eddie Cornell, co-founder of Veterans4Freedom, who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, is quoted in a recent Epoch Times article: “It’s what we had to do. The people that are in it, are not in it for the money. It’s the principle. They have to be held to account, every last one of them.”

The lawsuit is divided into several categories of defendants:

• Federal Crown Defendants, which includes the RCMP, Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, Bill Blair (Minister of Emergency Preparedness) and several other ministers
• Financial Institutions, including 12 banks and credit unions
• Localized Police Organizations, including Ottawa Police, Ontario Police and their respective Chiefs
• Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Bernie Farber
• Unnamed John Doe Defendants

The most intriguing aspect of the lawsuit is that it names Canadian Anti-Hate Network as a defendant, arguing that the organization provided “false information to several other defendants and media organizations designed to harm the plaintiffs” and that its statements led to the Emergencies Act being invoked.

The Anti-Hate Network, it is noted “at one point were recipients of funding from the Crown Defendants.”

AntiHate.ca recently posted a disclaimer on their website: “The Canadian Anti-Hate Network was previously the recipient of a grant from the Anti-Racism Action Program. That grant period ended in March 2022. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is not currently receiving any government funds.”

The grant was for $268,400. The Liberal government has since increased funding for its Anti-Racism Program:

“Recognizing that Canada’s fight against racism is far from over, Budget 2022 provides $85 million over four years, starting in 2022-23, to support the launch of a new Anti-Racism Strategy and National Action Plan on Combatting Hate.”

Anti-Hate’s website also posts the “Pride Defense Guide” in the main menu tabs. The truth is they are a gay rights watchdog, that exists to seek out through extensive online research, any and all groups or individuals who have ever made any negative comments or criticisms of the LGBTQ community.

According to its mandate, the Anti-Racism Action Program exist to combat racism, primarily against indigenous people. The last time I checked, gays were not a race.

The AntiHate group is rightly called a “network,” because they operate through their operatives, who are huddled together on Twitter. Some of the false information that AntiHate’s chairman Bernie Farber shared:

Global News, along with other Canadian mainstream media outlets advertised AntiHate.ca as “anti-hate experts” in an article during the Truckers’ Convoy. Their non-stop rhetoric that the truckers, as well as the entire Freedom Movement are “violent” or “potentially violent” has not proven to be historically accurate over the last 4 years.

The Truckers’ Convoy in Ottawa was in fact a remarkably peaceful protest, and the participants showed an exemplary display of good behaviour, despite the extreme circumstances of global medical tyranny foisted on us by unelected, undemocratic institutions like the World Health Organization.

 

The article quotes AntiHate deputy director Elizabeth Simons:

Anti-hate experts are raising concerns after a picture of weapons, ammunition and body armour seized at the border protest at Coutts, Alberta showed patches belonging to a neo-nazi group in Canada.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network tweeted on Monday that gear seized by police at Coutts includes a plate carrier with Diagolon patches. According to the network, Diagolon is an accelerationist movement that believes a revolution is inevitable and necessary to collapse the current government system. It wants to build its ideal nation-state, which runs diagonally from Alaska through the western provinces down to Florida.

It is also a neo-fascist militia with a sizeable support base across the country, said the network.

“A lot of them claim to be ex-military members and a lot of them claim to have some kind of military training. There’s very much a militia kind of vibe within the network and there have been lots of talks of weapons.”

The current chair of AntiHate.ca is Sue Gardner, former head of Wikimedia Foundation and former CEO of CBC. She was also member of Global Voices, a network of international journalists, that were funded by the usual suspects: Open Society Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Omidyar Foundation (Factcheckers, Poytner Institute).

Gardner also worked for the Tor Project and First Media, also founded and funded by Pierre Omidyar, founder of Ebay.

The Emergencies Act

The Emergencies Act that the Trudeau government declared in February 2022 was ruled as unconstitutional by Federal Judge Mosley on January 23, 2024.

The federal government invoked the never-before used Emergencies Act largely because of Diagolon’s perceived threat to national security. Through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP), a pair of independent journalists Caryma Sa’d and Elisa Hategan obtained 1,000 pages of internal RCMP documents on Jeremy MacKenzie and his eponymous group, Diagolon—a group that MacKenzie testified was based on a joke about a fictional country called Diagolon.

During the interview at the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) inquiry, MacKenzie testified that he came up with the idea of Diagolon as an analytical commentary on current events and politics. He said he noticed that the Mid-Western states of Texas, Florida, South Dakota, along with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Alaska, formed a geographical oblique line of states and provinces that were resistant to government-imposed mandates and were traditionally Conservative areas in the two countries.

“I kind of found it amusing that there was this kind of geographical divide,” he said, adding that it became a joke that it was a pretend kind of parallel universe. He said he created the “Diagolon” flag on his cell phone and it became synonymous with his name and podcast.

“Diagolon does not pose a criminal or national security threat,” the RCMP said in their reports. “The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) is cited as the main authority on the group by all mainstream media outlets; due to the fact that all information traces back to one source, triangulation and the verification of facts is almost impossible at the current time.”

Anti-Hate executive director Evan Balgord issued a statement on January 30, on their website, washing their hands of any wrong-doing:

Balgord stands behind his expert-level status as an investigator by linking to one of their own articles that reads like a Phd thesis, more suitable for an academic setting than for the real world.

“It is important to understand what Diagolon is and what it is not. The plot to carve up select regions of North America into a new canted superstate is, at its heart, a meme. What Diagolon has become, however, is both an actual and symbolic banner under which participants of this movement can rally and self-identify. The community is a cross-section of trolls, shit posters, content creators, conspiracists, survivalist enthusiasts, and extremists. Much like the Boogaloo movement, Diagolon uses irony and memes to build an offline, insurrectionary, anti-state network that remains attractive to adherents of militant accelerationism. Thus, it is not an explicit terrorist movement or organization. But this does not prevent terrorist plotting or accelerationist violence from emanating from within the Diagolon movement.”

Jeremy MacKenzie is guilty of thought crime, and AntiHate.ca are today’s version of the Thought Police, or more accurately the Hate Police. They pour over the internet like little spiders, searching for every wrong word, wrong book, wrong idea—and then accusing people of crimes they haven’t committed yet.

Reductio Ad Hitlerum

In Anti-Hate’s distorted and hate-filled world, books they don’t like are violence, thoughts they don’t like are violence, words they don’t like are violence and people they don’t like are “far-right,” “extremists,” “terrorists,” and “militant accelerationists.” Though no one can deny there are actual neo-Nazi groups out there, and even militant individuals who think Hitler was just “misunderstood,” the truth is these are a very small percentage of Canadian society, with virtually no real presence on social media.

There does not exist any Brown Shirts or overtly National Socialist Party in Canada. Why? Because nobody would vote for them. Even Libertarian Max Bernier can’t win a seat, yet AntiHate still clutch at fascist straws when they attempt to paint Bernier as a fascist.

Anti-Hate’s primary logical fallacy is reductio ad Hitlerum, a term made famous by Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss in 1953, in his book Natural Right and History. This is basically “guilt by association,” where any idea or similarity between any aspect of Nazism or Adolf Hitler is labeled as fascist, racist, nationalist, militant or anti-Semitic, and therefore the promoter is guilty of being a Nazi.

It would be the same argument that could be used like this:

1. Hitler was a vegetarian
2. All vegetarians are therefore Nazis

In the case of AntiHate’s vilification of the right, they use the terms racist, anti-vaxxer and fascist interchangeably with extremist, anti-Semitic, transphobic or homophobic. The fact that AntiHate.ca has vastly overstepped its mandate into the realm of medical science, and decided to be the authority on vaccines, mask-wearing and government mandates should not be overlooked.

The utter absurdity remains that the Canadian Federal government used its executive powers to declare what essentially amounts to marital law over the alleged threat posed by a fictional country should not escape the reader’s attention. In the upside-down world that we live in, men can be women, peaceful protests are called violent, and experimental toxic waste injections are called safe and effective. It is fairly obvious who are the ones that are unable to separate fact from fiction.

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Rick Thomas/ www.freepolitik.com