Posted on 10/02/2009 12:57:38 PM PDT by Psion
Dr. Paul L. Williams & Hamid Mir
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Next week, investigative journalist and author Dr. Paul L. Williams will be tried in a foreign court for his investigative work on reports of al Qaeda terrorists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
But he broke no American statute and his alleged violation of Canadian law took place not in Canada, but at his home in Pennsylvania.
Williams got into a legal jam with the Canadians while discussing his book The Dunces of Doomsday on the nationally syndicated “Coast-to-Coast AM” radio program with George Noory.
To make matters more bizarre, Williams had been advised by the Ontario Provincial Police to issue warnings to his fellow Americans about terrorist activity at the Canadian university that placed the lives of countless millions of Americans in jeopardy.
The case is significant since it represents the first time an American journalist is being forced to submit to Canadian law.
Williams has been stripped of his Constitutional rights and forced to deplete his financial savings to pay for his Canadian lawyers.
“The matter would have gone away if I simply signed an apology,” Williams said, “but what kind of journalist would I be if I apologized for telling the truth?”
He estimates that the cost of the lawsuit already has topped $500,000.
Williams visited McMaster University in May, 2006 to verify accounts by Janice Kephardt of the 9/11 Commission, journalists Bill Gertz and Scott Wheeler of “The Washington Times,” former federal prosecutor John Loftus,
(Excerpt) Read more at thelastcrusade.org ...
Canadian censorship laws have apparently been adopted in Maine. There were 2 stories from Maine this morning that amazed me. Let me see if I can find them.
Please do!
The other one apparently didn’t mention the state in the title, it’ll be hard to find.
bookmark.
Quioted from article: “In Canada, any person offended by a statement can file a lawsuit, and it remains up to the respondent to prove his innocence.”
..... TWO can play THAT game.
Every time there is a “Death to the Jooz” rally or an anti-Western protest, an avalanche of lawsuits should immediately be filed in response.
I wonder if Canadian freepers can be offended by DUmmies and file a lawsuit over them....
Perhaps his first error was answering the knuckleheaded censors in a foreigh land.
“When called by a panther, don’t anther.” Ogden Nash.
In Canada.
Dr. Williams’ said nothing on Noory’s show that wasn’t said to Congress:
Read this in America.... and you will be sued in Canada
http://www.cis.org/weaponization_of_immigration.html
GraceG wrote:
I wonder if Canadian freepers can be offended by DUmmies and file a lawsuit over them....
..... Exactly my point. Good for the goose; good for the gander.
Apparently folks just don’t care.....until it is too late.
(How do you write “Precedent” in text-talk?)
“When called by a panther, don’t anther.” Ogden Nash.
You would have loved to have been there. I was at work just before quitting time, and someone asked, seriously, the difference between a panther and a leopard! I said,The difference between a panther and a leopardHe admitted that he was completely taken in. I loved it!
Is that one of them hasn't been peppered.Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say, "Ouch!"Better yet, if called by a panther
Don't anther.
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