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Posted on 01/29/2014 7:14:41 AM PST by conniew
Hey, B4Ranch!
We never would have gotten FD off the ground if it hadn’t been for you back in the day!
what was said about warman?
Sorry to hear that Connie ((((Hugs)))))
This needs to get to Drudge. Needs to be posted in RED.
Just missed your post...I’d thought the same thing. Thanks for sending.
Glad to have given you both a small helping hand when you needed it.
Thanks, good luck, and God bless you.
Leni
By 2004 Free Dominion was the top political discussion forum in Canada and we were growing fast within our market. Although we were unrelenting in calling our governments to task at every opportunity, we had a good relationship with many politicians on the conservative side of the aisle in the House of Commons. In fact, we were so trusted by the conservatives that we were approached by the federal conservative party of the day to organize a friendly greeting for President Bush, who was making an official state visit to Canada. This we gladly did.
On the day of President Bush’s arrival, downtown Ottawa was packed with the usual suspects protesting his visit here. Connie and I believed the conservative leader of Canada’s closest ally and best friend merited a more welcoming greeting. We have no doubt that the two of us were carefully scrutinized by Canadian law enforcement, the Secret Service and Homeland Security before we were allowed into the security cordon that had been thrown up around the Ottawa airport for the president’s arrival. We obviously passed muster.
Everything went off without a hitch and the first civilians President Bush saw when on the ground in Canada was the two of us and about thirty other Free Dominioners, all waving American and Canadian flags and our hands at the president. Security trusted us enough that the president’s car passed within fifteen feet of us. A couple of hours later in a presser Mr. Bush quipped that he enjoyed seeing us waving to him “with all five fingers.”
For the next three years we continued doing exactly as we had been doing all along, but something changed. The government turned against Free Dominion, and by extension, against us. We were unaware of this at the time, so much of what follows is from a perspective from 2014, from a barrage of legal attacks and from Freedom of Information requests. In 2007 a massive influx of government officials and lobby groups joined Free Dominion anonymously and under false pretenses. Agents from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Department of Defense, at least two police departments, the Southern Poverty Law Center (from America), B’nai Brith Canada and the Canadian chapter of Anti-Racist Action all began registering on our site.
Within months a “hate crimes” complaint had been filed against us by the Canadian Human Rights Commission because one of our members had posted a link (that’s right, a link) in our forum. They ultimately had to drop the complaint against us but we have since learned that within the bowels of that government agency Free Dominion had been labeled a hate site.
Shortly after the Canadian Human Rights Commission was forced to stop its attack on us due to the fact that the complainant dropped her complaint, an ex-employee of the Commission, who by then was working for the Department of Defense, began suing us. Four defamation cases were filed in two different cities (so we would have to run back and forth to defend ourselves), and a fourth in federal court in Ottawa over a copyright claim (we won that one without a lawyer but the plaintiff appealed so we will be in the Federal Court of Appeals in a couple of months).
While this was going on, members of the lobby groups were vandalizing our site with hate-filled posts and at least one fraudulently altered document. We deleted and banned as was necessary but it was so bad that we had to temporarily shut down our registration function to stop them.
Because we had the foresight to locate our server in Panama, beyond the reach of the Canadian government, the guns of state were turned on us personally.
Free Dominion has been successfully censored, but Connie and I are not beaten yet. We will fight on.
I’m very sorry, Connie. Shame on the freedom-hating socialist/totalitarian bastards of the world. So much for the socialist utopia. “Liberal,” my ass.
Great minds think alike, lol.
Thanks,
Leni
I hope they all join FR
I’m so sorry. It’s frightening that truth is so hated and those that speak it are so reviled.
The equivalent of Stalin's thought police. I'm sure this is a tool Obama's socialist regime will use against Americans too. The demoncrats are shooting for Limbaugh and FOX News now, but they want all conservatives muzzled. Ain't liberalism grand.
Good luck to you and Connie. God bless.
There recently was a case here in the US where it was decided that bloggers have free speech protections.
The left is going for an appeal on that.
You can bet that FR is in the crosshairs.
I would ask that you take a few moments to read of the specifics that lead to the shuttering of Free Dominion and say a prayer that free speech in America (and Free Republic) is not next.
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None of us are so naïve or new to the world that we haven’t seen a Leftist spout some of the most ugly, defamatory things this side of God’s green earth. As believers in Free Speech, we put up with it, and many of us actually like the rough and tumble of it all and relish a good fight. We are confident that TRUTH will prevail. We have no desire to see other men’s thoughts repressed, no matter how stupid—just proved wrong.
So my question is, are there Leftist sites we can go after?
In this case it would seem that turnabout is fair play...
Lincoln once said the quickest way to be rid of bad law was to strictly enforce it. I wonder if Leftist sites were challenged the same way, would a cry of outrage and desire to repeal government censorship overwhelm these courts and jurists?
Any chance of appeal to a higher court or was that the final?
It wouldn’t be the first time either!
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