There’s a new lawsuit in the ongoing battles over the tactics of the man often described as Canada’s number one Internet censor. Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman has filed libel suits against the four most prominent conservative blogsites in the country, FreeDominion.ca, SmallDeadAnimals.com, FiveFeetofFury.com, and EzraLevant.com. The owners/moderators of those sites are also personally named. Another party to the suit is the National Post, and editor Jonathan Kay.
Warman is asking for $50-thousand in damages over repeated assertions at these websites that he – Warman – was the author of an extremely derogatory and racist post about Senator Ann Cools at Mark Lemire’s Freedomsite.
Kay repeated the allegations in a column in the National Post, but then retracted the substance of the column when he found out that the technical expertise which purported to establish the link between Warman and that racist post was provided by Bernard Klatt, who had previous associations with people such as Ernst Zundel.
The post, which included a reference to Senator Cools as “a woman nigger import”, was written by someone using the alias “90’sAREover”. Klatt says the IP address from whence it originated was identical to the one that Warman had used to post under a different alias – “Lucy”. That was an alias which Warman has admitted, in sworn testimony, to using at Freedomsite.
The full text of the lawsuit is available here.
Ezra Levants’s take on the lawsuit is here, while Kathy Schaidle writes about it here.
Public date: April 9th, 2008
