Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Free-D Update: Did Free-D Lawyer Bust Santa?

It's odd enough that the Free Dominion crowd should have hired lawyers at all to defend them in their libel case against rights activist Richard Warman. Previously, their preferred method of dealing with his accusations has been to hurl even more abuse. But it is even stranger that they should have hired Ottawa lawyer Kenneth Bickley, for Mr. Bickley appears to have been a one time storm trooper in the war against Christmas!

In fact, it looks like Mr. Bickley has gone after Santa himself. Witness this secret document from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners:

Accounting frauds are fair game; corporate swindles and scandals too are fair game. But the reality is that for decades there is a more basic fraud, which has gone unnoticed, unprotested and undetected--Just in time for the festive season, the Ottawa Chapter of the Certified Fraud Examiners is pleased to be the venue where the fraud of Santa Claus will be exposed. Using tried and true techniques of a certified fraud examiner, our speaker will take you through the mechanics of the fraud and leave you puzzling over how the CFE can assist in preventing similar frauds in the future.

Speaker: Kenneth Bickley


Barnes Sammon

Our speaker, Kenneth Bickley (aka Klown Counsel), will hopefully be assisted by a mysterious visitor--the culprit in person--who will be caught red handed in thecontinued perpetuation of the fraud.

Note the ambiguity of the phrase "the culprit in person", which suggests the possibility that we are dealing not with Santa himself, but one of his army of android lookalikes. Note also that I hate Santa as much as anyone, in fact I probably hate Santa far, far more than most people, so I am inclined to cheer Mr. Bickley on whatever the particulars of the matter. But there must have been some hardcore eating of crow amongst the ranks of Free-Ders when they hired this guy.

And Oh My GAWD LOOK!! Mr. Bickley's firm, Barnes Sammon, provides service in Chinese, and lists "Canadian Immigration" as one of their services. Free Dominion is being defended by a bunch of immigration lawyers! Such irony! The "principled Conservatives" over there must be in convulsions.

But I guess committed far Right legal talent is difficult to come by, far too difficult to require ideological purity from your counsel. Doug Christie can't be everywhere, after all!

4 comments:

Reality Bites said...

I can't imagine why anyone would hire Doug Christie to defend against a charge involving human rights or hate speech.

Much simpler and cheaper to plead guilty, since associating with him is a de facto admission of guilt.

As for FD - one of their members, "Harry" has repeatedly called for death to all homosexuals, with the only response from Her Highness Connie being an insistence that he's joking (despite any evidence of that). That's advocating genocide, pure and simple.

They may sneak out of the Warman defamation suit. I don't have any knowledge of defamation law and can't offer any kind of informed opinion.

However, it is clear that on numerous occasions the site has spread pure hate propaganda towards Muslims and Homosexuals. Their only defense against being considered equal to other hate sites is "Hey, but we don't hate Jews TOO - we have Ed Seib here, the kind of Jew even a Nazi can praise."

Their time will come. Perhaps not in this case, but someday one will be filed by someone less easily intimidated than the last person to file a human rights complaint against them.

bigcitylib said...

I don't think Warman will be intimidated at all and I suspect that, he being a lawyer, he has at least a plausible case.

Reality Bites said...

I wasn't referring to Warman being intimidated, but to the person who filed a CHRC complaint.

Their reaction was a textbook example of threats and intimidation expressly forbidden by the Human Rights Act.

"Thug" is among the nicer words that could be used to describe the people who inhabit FD.

I wish Mr. Bickley the best of luck in attempting to contain the froth-mouthed rantings of his clients.

Micah said...

Ottawa has lots of crooked cops, judges and lawyers who take bribes. Athena Basta is just one of the many crooked lawyers in Ottawa who takes bribes. She is also a scam and fraud artist. Nobody should ever trust her with their money.