19 Friday Dec 2014
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Auntie This is NOT Wanda Probe.
Been months now and Ms Tittler seems to not want to register this fact.
ERBL’s constant and wearying misrepresentations of the facts don’t speak well for the credibility of their ‘political organization’….
15 Monday Dec 2014
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At the end of yet another year – while Canadians realize that their interests align more and more with those of the Indigenous Nations – we offer a re-cap of ERBL’s brief and sordid history.
26 Wednesday Nov 2014
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The past few months have been busy for the compulsive hate-mongers at ERBL. To begin, their legendary petition campaign: much discussed; much promoted; and never launched. Similarly their attempts at campaigns in social media; which never seem to catch fire, but are regularly slapped aside by their opponents – as happened in Thunder Bay. MT’s final parry – her disrespectful head dress campaign – was identically vapid. Somehow, the image of MT smirking in her array of blue Malaysian chicken feathers never caught fire – and simply bored her excitable fans; so much so that images of Michelle pouting in her poultry finery have disappeared from the ERBL feeds. This development is unfortunate – though ironically symbolic. We’ve been left with the perfect icon of ERBL’s existence: all squawk; no chicken.
On other fronts, ERBL doubled down on their involvement in the Tamara Ward Johnson self-immolation – this time in municipal politics; with many of their allies joining social media sites in Thunder Bay in hopes of electing TWJ as a councilor.
The result was predictable: a solid phalanx of opposition from all stations and walks of life in Thunder Bay – including a large and active group of local citizens, the Mayor, the Chief of Police, and a young and charismatic Chief of the Fort Williams First Nations – who handled Johnson’s inanities with rare aplomb. The only thing that ERBL proved in Thunder Bay is that their followers are simply incapable of understanding democratic politics and the rule of law.
Tamara Ward Johnson now seems to be attempting to distance herself from some of her more rabid follows – who she had previously clung to for support through two elections – as they insist on underlining their inability to understand the modern age – and humans –by engaging in a vituperative set of attacks on private citizens who have taken the trouble of discussing and being critical of Ms Johnson’s position and platform or her social and political perceptions. These attacks have plumbed the depths of internet bullying through impersonation, slander – and some of the most vicious displays of misogyny imaginable.
In the meantime, John Podolaniuk and Brian Webster have attempted to trumpet TWJ’s poor result in her third big failure in electoral politics as some sort of victory; pretending that the meager 7% she got at the polls somehow reflects a large constituency – though she is a full 40% behind any of the winning candidates in the polls. Proof positive of their state of delusion can be found in their nuisance petitions – which make outrageous claims about the electoral process; and get few actual Thunder Bay residents as signatories. We’d like to thank these gentlemen for their last contributions to our collective memories of TWJ – as she swans off into the sunset – and hopefully for good. Stay classy, guys!
And speaking of third big fails: Dayleen Van Ryswyk has also run in what seems to be a fourth kamikaze campaign which seems to have involved campaigning for Johnson in Thunder Bay while staying resolutely silent in the Kelowna media. Van Ryswyk’s attempt to mute her long-time involvement in ERBL came to no good end; because her involvement in Thunder Bay provided much fodder for us to remind the Kelowna media of her execrable views – and poor political knowledge and judgement
Van Ryswyk’s result: an almost impossibly minimal 1.28%; or half of the standard margin of error, and fully achievable by an ambitious tree or rock. If there were any more convincing display of the fact that Dayleen Van Ryswyk does not speak for Canadians; and has no constituency whatsoever – it could not happen without the agency of a tornado; some ruby slippers; and a falling house. Short of her dear dim hubby – a major fan of MT’s – it’s clear that Dayleen has little support outside of, perhaps, a few koi fanciers – whose judgement might be questioned if one considers the logistics of raising carp in grizzly and eagle country. Any future involvement in electoral politics could only be seen as evidence of masochistic tendencies; and will demonstrate that megalomania doesn’t require any justification – other than a healthy dose of entitlement and privilege.
Happily, though, Dayleen’s collapsed dream has left her free to return to the world of on-line commentary – which will gladden the heart of her many ironic fans. Dayleen’s ego is the gift that keeps on giving:
The final result of ERBL’s electoral plunge has simply been cringe-worthy – with allies finding themselves embarrassed by their obvious ties to the increasingly hectoring MT; and the mercenary nature of their involvement in the Thunder Bay campaign. The damage done by ERBL’s opponents in Thunder Bay was so deep – and so devastating – that MT found old allies heading for the doors and – as is her character when feeling rejected – she began a project of harassment and hatefulness towards her former followers which pretty much ensures that many won’t ever return to the fold. Significantly, the first follower to get the patented ERBL treatment was of First Nations ancestry – and clearly was subject to MT’s jealous rage at her close relationship to the dapper Gerry Gagnon: the leopard hasn’t changed her spots and continues to prefer to target First Nations women.
So – for now – ERBL sits hopelessly spinning its wheels, and repeating their standard lies to a bored few remaining supporters. In fact, things are so bad that MT is now advertising for an “investor” who – as she clearly states – will not be too careful in checking the books. It looks like the old days of collecting donations from bored and hateful pensioners (which looks a great deal like taking taxpayer’s money from the entitled few who can continue depending on it) are truly over.
After two years of “campaigning”, ERBL is still working for donations – literally “hate-mongering”; and has not produced a single petition or coherent campaign. At some point, even their dullest followers will realize that Michele Tittler’s little dog-and-pony show is simply a farce – and their followers serve as their tiny circus’s clowns.
10 Friday Oct 2014
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Racial Slurs are NOT an honor!!! #StopOnlineHate
Over the years, certain well-known figures in the sports and entertainment industries have asserted that misappropriating Indigenous culture for financial gain is perfectly acceptable … and, in fact, something everyone should get in on. When Indigenous peoples have spoken out against this misappropriation, the comment most often used by these sports and entertainment big names is that they misappropriate the culture to honor the culture.
These same sports and entertainment figures will argue that the use of black face is wrong and insensitive, and that any references to the atrocities of WWII are wrong and insensitive. And they will go to extreme lengths to argue that the wrong and insensitive act of misappropriating the culture of First Nations peoples is the highest compliment they can pay to Indigenous peoples.
Rather than share my views on this subject, this article will ask others to explain how they perceive the following quotes. …
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03 Friday Oct 2014
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Idle No More: Mutiny on the Bounty by Elyse Bruce. Once again a stellar article from this author. Thank you for sharing your words; they are very much appreciated.
Last month, Tamara Johnson decided to make noise in Thunder Bay by offering what she called a “reward.” But what Ms. Johnson refers to as a “reward” is considered a “bounty” in the eyes of Thunder Bay Police Chief J.P. Levesque and Fort Williams First Nation Chief Georjann Morriseau. What’s the difference?
The dictionary definition of a reward is “money that someone receives for finding and returning something or for helping the police.”
The dictionary definition of a bounty is “money offered as a reward, especially for catching or killing a criminal.”
Based on these dictionary definitions a reward is not the same thing as a bounty. A reward can be as simple as a sincere, heartfelt thank you that is not expected but certainly accepted if offered. A bounty has an expectation of payment for services rendered.
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03 Friday Oct 2014
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British Columbia has long had a tradition of wacky and colourful politicians – from flying Phil Gaglardi to the self-named Premier Amor De Cosmos. It’s also got a well-known tradition of the most vicious racism as part of its political culture; with outrages a-plenty – from the nasty colonial behaviour of the so-called “Chilcotin War”, to the Komagata Maru; to the Japanese internment; not to mention the fact that the Province of BC refused to not only recognize the treaty relationship, but refused to admit that they’d ever signed any treaties until the Courts forced them to do so in 1964 – and not to mention the long process by which the Tsilhqot’in finally got some of their rights recognized.
It was a surprise, however, to see a politician arise who not only met the marks for wacky and racist, but managed to do so before really becoming a politician at all: actually getting kicked out as an NDP candidate on the first day of an election – for the tediously usual bigotry of attacking the use of French in the Olympics; as well as a free-form and deeply ignorant meditation on First Nations.
Dayleen first apologized for her ignorant comments; then retracted any suggestion that she was actually apologizing for her sentiments; but merely wanted to apologize to any who were so sensitive as to have been hurt by her views.
And better yet, when ERBL reached out to her, she bit – hard. “Let’s take it the next level!” 
Her idea for the “next level”: the same old dreary derogation of First Nations people.
And Michele Tittler – ERBL’s mother hen – loved to encourage Dayleen – the apt pupil. Here, she brilliantly mirrors her mentor’s language, and demonization of First Nations people. Amazingly, round dancers and drummers become “domestic terrorists”.
To demonstrate that she’s an equal opportunity hater, here’s a short section from her personal Facebook page: “Dayleen Van Ryswyk likes this” 
Unless – of course – the hate is from anyone who has stepped on Dayleen’s ambitions. Her personal encouragement of homophobia doesn’t compare at all to that of the woman who brought her racists and anti-French comments to the public’s attention:
In a very short time, Dayleen managed to become entrenched with the full network of ERBL’s friends and allies. For further information on these folks, please check “Incitement And Aryans” and “How To Run A Hate Group” – literally, a “who’s who” of Western Canadian white supremacists and racists.
Dayleen has been diligently reaching out for a year – even as her second by-election campaign failed miserably – as she tried to make political connections everywhere on the right: here, with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation – with an attendant set of “likes” from various supremacists. Note especially her hubby’s interjection: it will become a regular theme in the Van Ryswyk discourse
Although Dayleen remained rather silent in the Kelowna social media, she seems to have been everywhere this year, spreading her baleful message of hate – and encouraging other ERBL members to do the same. Here, she supports the sentiments of one of ERBL’s less visible administrators – in Winnipeg
And in Thunder Bay, she has been a prominent support of the highly marginal Tamara Ward Johnson – on Johnson’s web page; in social media community groups; and on CBC’s social media sites – always in the company of other ERBLites.
Here – reaching out to Gary McHale in Ontario
And as she reaches out, her message is becoming more and more consistent; and the implications of her grosser version of the ERBL ideology seems to underline the deep strains of violent racism within the group. She’s talking here about the various walks in solidarity with the families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women:
Compare her words – and her message – to those of some of her earliest “free speech” supporters: Stormfront – the nadir of White Supremacy in Canada.
While Dayleen was striving to spread her influence, we had a lucky break in Thunder Bay. Early attention to the racist campaign of Tamara Ward Johnson – here – and to her increasingly bizarre tactics – here – resulted in a strong group of Thunder Bay opponents who were well-aware of ERBL’s tactics – and its personnel:
Many of the leading ERBL campaigners found themselves embarrassed by the fact that they were interfering in a Thunder Bay municipal election – despite the fact that they had no connections to Thunder Bay – and especially embarrassed by public knowledge of their surreptitious connections to Michele Tittler and Gerry Gagnon. As Johnson’s campaign imploded, we watched as folks like Dayleen and Gail Dyer distanced themselves from Tittler and tried to influence Gerry Gagnon to break from the organization.
Predictably, Tittler reacted as she always does when rejected: full attack – and an attack targeted mainly at one of the few people in her retinue who has native ancestry: the full panoply of Michele Tittler’s methods were on display: slander, fake web pages, hateful messages, and harassment
Dayleen’s immediate disloyalty to her long-time mentor was a good indication of her self-serving wish to protect her election campaign from the ERBL implosion – which still has not fully resolved itself.
Her next step, however, has taken her disloyalty to a much higher level.
Watch as she presents herself as the new leader for ERBL – while carefully pretending not to criticize Tittler at all; although it would be unthinkable that she’s talking about anybody else:
And of course, she continues to pretend everything is okay; even as she tries to organize a putsch to overthrow her old friend.
So this is how Dayleen has entered the Kelowna municipal election; having done nothing to educate herself on any of the issues which brought her to abject failure in three previous elections. Instead, she has concentrated her delusions, made a power grab in one of the most hateful organizations in Canada; and tried to spin a web of connections to help her in her future ideological campaigns.
It’ll be interesting to see how she does in her election: early indications are poor – and this may be the rejection which convinces her to either educate herself – or simply go away.
25 Thursday Sep 2014
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1. If you think “not only Indigenous women go missing” and this concerns you: DEMAND YOUR OWN INQUIRY. Don’t you care about ‘your missing people’?
2. Statistics don’t lie.
FACT: Indigenous women are 3 to 4 times more likely to go missing or be murdered than non-Indigenous.3. Most Canadians are NOT Statisticians
FACT: Most women know their attackers
NOT-A-FACT: This does not mean that most Indigenous women are attacked by Indigenous men. Making that assumption – that everyone’s list of acquaintances is as narrow and non-diverse as yours – is bigoted.There is so much more we could say on this matter, but instead, we suggest you read this great article by Elyse Bruce
Two days ago, End Race Based Law posted an OpEd to the ERBL Facebook page as well as on the ERBL blog where the writer shared her views on violence, specifically on violence against Aboriginal females.
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Rather than dissect the OpEd piece, let’s take a closer look at the facts from various studies, statistics, reports, and mainstream media news articles. While some of the sources contain anecdotal or personal stories (i.e. comments from interviewees that are included in mainstream media news articles), most of the information referenced is factual data interpreted by respected and reputable professionals.
Fact #1: The most common form of violence experienced by women is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner.
This fact comes from the United Nations report found HERE.
According to Statistics Canada, this is the most recent information (based on information collected in 2011) with regards to same-sex and…
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21 Sunday Sep 2014
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It’s been many months since we made this post to publicly inform Ms. Tittler (and others) of our identity and mission yet the posts on her page with incorrect information remain. Might seem like a small thing but it evidences a pattern of behavior where “Tittler ignores or selectively uses history”. We want to #StopOnlineHate and #ShutERBLdown
Auntie This is a collective blog written by several people in collaboration and with the support and input of a larger group of people who have been working, formally and informally, to combat racism and hate speech against First Nations people.
The owners of this blog have been in contact with law enforcement about ERBL’s Hate Speech and have provided their full names and contact information to the authorities with their statements.
There have been considerable attacks made by ERBL End Race Based Laws, against another activist blogger: Wanda Probe (aka BeWytchMe Radio),based on Michele Tittler’s (the owner of ERBL) misinformed beliefs that Wanda is the owner of the Auntie This blog. Wanda Probe is NOT a contributor to this blog.
Misinformation, and the willful propagation of it, forms the basis of much of ERBL’s activities. Attempts to dialogue with ERBL about these issues are constantly…
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08 Saturday Feb 2014
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END RACE BASED LAW makes a great showing in public of its anti-racist message; its “wanting to help” the First Nations. As we will see in the following, the facts about ERBL brings out a very different view of its mission.
This set of blogs was originally supposed to be a set of five, but has been reduced to a set of four by the recent news that the family of one of the principals of ERBL has completely dissociated themselves from her views and behaviour. Not unexpectedly, she has responded to her family’s attempt to extricate their good name from the hate campaign by building yet another site which slanders and libels her family.
Consequently the order of the blogs will be “ERBL’s Activities“; “Hate Speech and Race-baiting“; “Incitement And Aryans”; and “Mickey and Gerry“
At some point in reading this, you might want to do something – right now!
Here it is: Shut ERBL Down!
For the past several years, ERBL has been trawling Canadian social media, especially sites like SunTV, the CBC, and a variety of political discussion groups. The anodyne name, “End Race Based Law”, seems harmless enough – and the initial messaging is quite harmless – and addresses the concerns of the other person, usually a conservatively minded person: in this case “Put Canadian TV First” – a group dedicated to putting the unpopular SunTV on basic cable – in the interests of patriotism and public funding for free market ideology. As we can see, an attractive picture adds to the sales pitch: young males predominate at ERBL – and there is much talk of those “million dollar legs”. All very approachable
This approach has given ERBL great success. In this cases, they’ve attracted Dayleen Van Ryswyk, a rejected ejected NDP provincial candidate. Dayleen seems to feel that demonstrating an appalling lack of knowledge about Canadian history and the Canadian constitutional arrangements, makes her a perfect candidate for, um, ‘taking it to the next level!”. Dayleen is – interestingly- a koi farmer.
Lack of basic knowledge, however, doesn’t stand in Dayleen’s way; when she has the simple rhetorical tool of derogation to use. In this case, the argument is that First Nations people “need constant supervision, not unlike a teenager or toddler”. The great thing about End Race Based Law is that her racist assertion will not be challenged; and if it is challenged, the challenger will be howled down and probably banned from the page. If you’re interested in that process, please check our previous article: “Hate Speech and Race-Baiting”
It’s wonderful to find a place in the world where you can let your most unconsidered thought fly free, safe in the knowledge that you will be applauded and celebrated for your insight. Here, a prime piece of the mundane “kitchen table” racism that will likely ensure that yet another generation of children will grow up with ignorant prejudices about First Nations people.
It’s amazing how you can let your private dreams of being a great rhetorician fly. Here we have a wonderful use of the most grounding hyperbole possible – the calloused hand of the workin’ joe – and the famously soft and unworked hands of Canada’s First Nations, living in luxury – and yet in squalor. “Poor things”!
It’s enough to make you bust a nut! Or give Chief Spence “a slap upside the head”; and don’t worry about handling that Pamela Palmater: this ERBL member is more than a match for her tricky PhD facts!
The rhetoric can burble on for days and days, safe from critical thought; certainly safe from the possibility of being hampered by anything so inconvenient as facts: “How long do WE have to pay”; “responsibilities of being a citizen of this great country”! End Race Based Law should get a conservation grant as a free-range refuge for hyperbole.
But trouble arrives too soon: ignorant bloviation and ahistorical insight soon reaches its nadir in the next example. Here, a follower manages to tick off the Hate Speech boxes of dehumanization; historical falsification; and, um, genocide.
But happily, such views are rarely – if ever – challenged. Followers like the current favourite “Lucky King” are given free vent to channel their most ignorant views about First Nations people; and the most nasty intimations of Race War:
The most ahistorical mythologies can be thrown into the conversation – and not be denied. Joseph Smith must be understandably proud to have his confusion about the Missouri mounds of Cahokia thrust into a new millennium; and the bestial description of First Nations marks a careful student of the Golden Book delivered by the angel Moroni.
Ramstein typifies the typical ERBL fanboi. He’s obviously a little taken with her intelligence, her vivacity – and her “Million Dollar Legs”. Mick obliges: she’s got dance videos available on Youtube so they can enjoy her terpsachordian art. (I will not link to her terpsachordian art: I’ve got a dancer among my exes – and as strained as our relationship may be – some actions are simply dishonourable.)
Charlie Tofawders is a stalwart of End Race Based Law – and has joined their campaigns across the interwebs. Here Charlie complains about the “dumbing down of north american ideals” . Because Indians.
But sometimes, Charlie manages to rouse himself into an analytical state. Here he has the interesting thought that there might be two sides to every issue; that perhaps some middle road could be found.
Watch carefully as his leash is yanked…
Another of the stalwarts of End Race Based Law: Mickey’s ex-husband; possible father of a child she gave up for adoption years ago; and current business partner. In Mickey’s words: “a brainiac”. Below – at the bottom of the page – an example of one of MT’s “aboriginal cyber-bully gang”. Melissa suggests that SunTV might be a poor choice for objective news – in that patented visciously hateful bullying Aboriginal tone.
Gerry’s a good looking fellow, which is a lucky thing since his picture – the only one which seems to exist in all of the interwebs – appears everywhere once you start looking for it. Which is why we will be addressing a whole article to just himself and Mickey. We’ve found a great deal about him: he’s a very interesting man.
Here we find the happy gang all together in one of their favourite instruments: a closed group where they can strategize and chat without the public lending an ear.
Please note the Scottish Scott as well as the always fashionable Claire Voyant.
We’ll be meeting them again.
Here we see how the shell game works: the same principals; a completely different group – “Idle No More Resistance”. Postings, pictures and ideology can be recycled endlessly through these groups: members are unaware of the larger plan – and the part they are playing in it. West Coasters might think of these as “Crab Traps”; East Coasters, “Lobster Pots”; and I can’t think of an analogy for the Prairies and North.
It’s almost as if Gerry was a student of political science and had studied the classical tricks of the Marxist-Leninists: multiple shell organizations with unified leadership; wide-ranging discussions along with strict attention to ideological orthodoxy.
Gerry seems to have a genius for conspiratorial organization!
It’s unfortunate that gift does not extend to his personal life.
“The cobbler’s children wear no shoes” – how true!
I guess that’s why they call it a truism!
Within the group, the burble goes on: anger; calls for violence; “parasites”; “like feeding a stray animal”! On any given day, you can tick off almost every box in the Hate Speech And Incitement To Violence list. But never mind, our federal government has wisely taken that proviso out of the Human Rights Act. Gone are the days when we were made to feel ashamed and hide our public calls for genocide behind closed doors!
Here’s a fun group: APTNFU. The owner is Rainblow Buttmonkey, who will serve as a hinge for the analysis. Rainblow is awfully shy; doesn’t appear in public much; but can usually be spotted only because he travels a lot with his associate – the red-bearded gentleman.
You’ll notice that we find yet another MT – they breed like rabbits – along with two folks we’ll just pass over very quickly: one can only spend the shortest of times staring into the abyss.
Next, the “Million Dollar Legs” version of Mickey, along with a – uh – Sun TV reporter(?)
It’s obvious our intrepid reporter has merely wandered into the wrong room: nothing to see here, folks!
It’s obvious our red-bearded friend has a hard time becoming comfortable with any particular style of facial hair – but has established quite a comfortable relationship with yet another avatar: Mick’s “Canada-branded” version.
We used to worry about her mental state – so many multiplying personalities! – until we worked out what all those Mickeys could do together. Here, our non-red-bearded friend gives Mick an interesting lesson on an archaic – and seriously discredited – theory of race. Mickey doesn’t bat an eye.
“modern Iranians are mixed bloods”: I guess that’s why they’re not called “Aryanians”
This is an important distinction to our ginger-coiffed friend – as we shall soon see.
Here is End Race Based Law its best: ” relevant information”; “progressive conversation.”
But no debate. Especially about “Race Based Issues”.
“I’m am sure the Indians feel sometimes its unfair treatment also”.
Nope, no debate.
(I suspect that ERBL will require a further corollary of Poe’s Law)
I’m thinking that our wandering friend looks better without his beard. Here, he lays down the ground rules for civil discourse, while Mickey gets excited about the subject at hand: the continuing oppression of people of the dominant culture by the First Nations, the Police, the Supreme Courts, the Government, and the United Nations.
(sorry, i was having a moment…)
Mickey is having a fine time of it: with Gerry’s help, she has extended her reach into group after group – and drawn the creme de la creme into her private discussion groups. Like a true leader, she surveys the burgeoning population of the groups she’s influencing; giving advice; thinking strategically; and giving counsell. Here she gives some sage advice to one such group – the aptly named APTNFU – on how to attract “the girls” to the sausage fest. As you might remember, the group leader is Rainblow Buttmonkey:
Unfortunately, the administrator of this particular group, our old friend Mr. Buttmonkey, is true to his buttmonkey nature – and rejects Mickey’s sage advice; and her tone. In fact, he’s got a bone – or two – or three – to pick with Mic; and the civil ideologically regimented discourse dissolves.
Mickey throws the greatest denunciation she has in her crowded armory: “you’re the same low life brain drunk abuser they are”: somehow, despite the discord, the reference will be understood.
That’s the great thing about regimented ideologies: they keep everyone on the same page. Ask Mao: he’ll tell you.
So sure, it looks like Mr. Buttmonkey might be a little bit of a misogynist. Certainly “Crazy BatShit Lady” isn’t the kind of language that a gentleman would use.
But those were stressful times: so many round dances and drum circles to denounce; so many expressions of cultural solidarity to whip up fear over! Luckily, as Mickey will later tell us, our leaders like to find their places of peace.
A lovely sunset; the sylvan glade; the immortal words “Arbeit Macht Frei” – “Work Will Make You Free”! But wait – those words sound so familiar: where, I wonder, could they have come from? Some old song?
But no. They don’t come from an old song. They’re from the main gate of Auschwitz: a somewhat sinister moment of nostalgia in Jody’s personal album. Suddenly, Jody’s concern for careful exposition on the sources of the Aryan race begins to make sense,
Too much sense.
Now, it’s important at this point in the show to explain that the international coven – or church – or whatever – of the Aryan Nation has made it clear that our red-bearded friend is not now and never will be a member of the Aryan Nation; that there is no “Saskatchewan Aryan Nations”; and that they have never been approached about the possibility of an official Aryan Nations in Saskatchewan (like most Aryans, they’re *quite* territorial)
And they don’t really care what that Buttmonkey fella’ says about it.
Jesus, up til a few minutes ago, they didn’t even know how to spell Saskathechewan!
And remember the always well-dressed Clair Voyant? She’s a peripatetic one: always looking for new fields to conquer.
In this case, the Canadian Defence League – proud Canadians (who can spell Saskatchewan) – who are proudly and loudly protecting Saskatchewan against…
The Canadian Defence League wants you to know that they are completely not a racist organization in any way. They are glad to welcome people of all ethnicities – Hindus; Jew; Europeans; even mixed-blood Iranians! – to the important service of belittling, othering, slandering, and otherwise hate-speeching people based on their religion.
They even have a Division in Saskatchewan!
Hi Jody! We thought we’d lost you! And thanks for putting that “Canadian Defence League: Saskatchewan Division” banner up on your Facebook! Is Mr. Buttmonkey there with you? You betcha! With practically the whole famn damily!
You know what buddy? It’s just like the hockey coaches used to say.
If you hang around the B teams long enough; well, sometime you’re going to get picked up by an A franchise! You betcha!
And Mickey too has moved on to greater things.
After being crushingly rejected in her attempts to make common cause with the very respectable, generous, and helpful Online Hate Prevention Institute – based in Australia – Mickey did what any respectable Anti-Racist Campaigner would do: she squatted on the organization’s name; and made common cause with an Australian woman who was also cyber-squatting yet other organizations in Australia; slandering and threatening in much the same manner as ERBL habitually does.
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The Online Hate Prevention institute has written a very good account of their perspective on the whole mess in “Hate Speech in Canada“; detailing Mickey’s contentions with her opponents on OHPI’s long-suffering site.
Still, it’s nice to see that there’s still some interest in Hate Speech in the world since it doesn’t seem to be of much interest here in Canada, now that Section 13 has gone away.
At this point, we’ve seen a great deal of End Race Based Law’s activities in the past year: its activities; its almost supernatural ability to generate hate speech and race-bait those who might think they’ll get a decent hearing from the ERBL crew; and the amazing way an “anti-racist” group can find itself in bed with racists of the most virulent kind.
In our next account, we’ll be looking at the relationship between Gerry and Mickey; and the motivation behind their amazingly effective hate campaign. It’s going to be great! Because we’ve – in the past year – received so much stuff that Mickey thought would never get into the public realm. And our diggers have been digging through court records and town halls from Vancouver to The Pas, Manitoba. We’ve been saving it up; and now can offer it to you! It’s a wonder what a hundred motivated people can do!
Here’s a teaser: a direct communication from CBSL.
and it get’s worse…
Thanks to everyone who have contended with ERBL this past year, as well as capturing the massive volumes of hate speech which ERBL produces – then went through their hard-drives to find these examples of ERBL’s hateful, genocidal discourse and wacky connections. For each comment displayed, there are literally dozens which didn’t make the cut, for one reason or another.
Many have been involved in preparing this document; and hopefully it will have some positive effect on public officials once they see the real face of End Race Based Law – and the future of Hate Speech in Canada. We’re very lucky to have a Minister of Justice who is dead set against bullying – and I’m sure will be all over ERBL once he becomes aware of this organization’s hateful influence on Canadian discourse.
If you haven’t signed yet, please sign our petition at:
Shut ERBL Down Petition
Next up: End Race Based Law: Mickey and Gerry Marketing Justice; Delivering Hate.
05 Wednesday Feb 2014
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Hate Speech has been defined in many different ways:
In Canada, it’s generally defined as language “intended or likely to circulate extreme feelings of opprobrium and enmity against a racialor religious group”.
After the genocide in Rwanda, experts in the field have decided to expand the definitions based on the experience in Rwanda, in Kosovo,and in South Sudan. Added to the list is:
● Dehumanization – portrayal of the group as subhuman or parasites, or “other”; a common trope in encitement to genocide.
● Exclusionary – dividing society into an “us” and a “them”: excluding a group of people from the larger society.
● Pseudo-scientific Racialism – ascribing “less-evolved”characteristics to a particular group.
● Delegitimizing – treating group rights. history and concerns as trivial.
● Denial – denial of known historical crimes against the group
● Incitement – expressing or encouraging the expression of the need for violence against the group
As you will see in this sampling of ERBL’s ideas, the group easily meets all the definitions of hate speech.
So much so, that we will be dedicating a whole separate articles to cases of incitement and the dodgy allies who use it regularly – and are allowed to use it – on the ERBL page.
END RACE BASED LAW makes a great showing in public of its anti-racist message; its “wanting to help” the First Nations. As we will see in the following, the facts about ERBL brings out a very different view of its mission.
This set of blogs was originally supposed to be a set of five, but has been reduced to a set of four by the recent news that the family of one of the principals of ERBL has completely dissociated themselves from her views and behaviour. Not unexpectedly, she has responded to her family’s attempt to extricate their good name from the hate campaign by building yet another site which slanders and libels her family.
Consequently the order of the blogs will be “ERBL’s Activities“; “Hate Speech and Race-baiting“; “Incitement And Aryans“; and “Valentine for Tittler“
At some point in reading this, you might want to do something – right now!
Here it is: Shut ERBL Down!
Given the wealth of examples: it’s surprising that Facebook seems to have never approved any reports of ERBL as a Hate Page.
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ERBL’s Hate Speech: surprising ideas to find on an “Anti–Racist” page.
Pseudoscience and Pseudohistory:
“It’s a fact”: End Race Based Law has an ideological system which is monolithic and can not be questioned.
End Race Based Law regularly will “cherry-pick” old and outdated information relating to the theory of 10,000 year old Beringian migration – despite the fact that it has been established that the Bering Strait was impassable – under a mile of ice – at the time when human remains first appear on the paleo-archaeological record in the Americas – long before the supposed migration
That fact aside, it has also been firmly established that “Europeans” hadn’t migrated to Europe at that same time: their ancestors were at that time living in Asia and Africa because of the same glaciation. The most recent discovery has been of a blue eyed, dark skinned individual – straight out of Africa – in Spain who lived there only 7,000 years ago; who has been genetically identified as an ancestor of the Northern Europeans. The fact that First Nations in this hemisphere pre-date the appearance of Europeans in Europe seems to have escaped the ideologically challenged.
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-spanish-hunter-gatherer-blue-eyes-dark.html
Much of the misinformation regarding this European precedence in the Americas come from the historical mis-attribution of the ancient cities of the Tennessee, Missouri and Mississippi watersheds as the product of a “Lost Tribe of Israel” who were then wiped out by a devilish” Race of Ham”- an obviously racist confusion which has been popularized through Mormon doctrine.
“Got historical ignorance?” “Thank a archaic racial theory!”
Dehumanization:
End Race Based Law has a particularly interesting obsession with incest. In their ideology, “it’s a cultural thing”; and particularly attributed to First Nations societies – against all statistics and common sense. This is one of the slanders which they use regularly to race-bait people who have come to their page: the emotional response they elicit by throwing this in peoples’ faces is seen as a victory. It’s pretty interesting that this is one of the first slanders that the Nazis used against the Jewish people; and was a particular obsession of AH, who cannot be named because writing about ERBL is always a minefield of Godwin’s Law avoidance. Historians have pointed to the fact that the parent’s of H were quite closely related – and to the unusually close relationship between AH and his cousin, who eventually committed suicide in the apartment he had bought for her, but this is not to suggest that any other person having the same preoccupations might have the same deep psychological pathologies.
Here ERBL doubles down on a whole series of libels against First Nations people: FAS, alcoholism, abuse, incest, inbreeding –; dehumanizing them and claiming they are parasites in Canada. This trope is very similar to the methodology of the classic antisemitic texts of Europe. A follower happily picks up the tone of abuse at “you people”, a classic racist “othering” formulation.
ERBL speaks on the imagined “cultural tradition” of incest:
The Canadian judiciary. justice ministries – and international human rights organizations – have highlighted the fact that the Canadian justice system has been traditionally destructive to First Nations individuals; so much so, that many initiatives have started to deal with this obvious imbalance in a fundamentally racist system. End Race Based Law seems to have missed those memos. Their explanation? Because Race.
End Race Based Law regularly portrays First Nations as outsiders and invaders. This “othering” is a central aspect of hate speech and genocidal ideation
Denial has become one of the major tropes of hate speech. Historically proven instances of genocidal behaviour are simply dismissed – despite massive volumes of evidence and government records which prove otherwise.
Denial and dehumanization – all in the same paragraph.
In addition to ignoring the whole of Canadian history, here ERBL manages to ignore the whole of European history as well.
End Race Based Law takes on “Small Pox Blanket” – key memory of genocidal behaviour which has appeared in many colonial records – and many peoples’ histories, in many places: “It doesn’t happen to all of you, by all of them” – and therefore it didn’t happen.
Ahistorical contentions – suggesting that First Nations are somehow less evolved; and taking a European claim for democracy, despite the well-known fact that Rousseau, Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin all took inspiration for democratic structures from their knowledge of First Nations’ societies.
End Race Based Law – in the service of race-baiting – ignores the whole of Canada’s constitutional history. The Royal Proclamation of 1763; the Treaties of Friendship; the Treaty of Niagara: the Two Row Wampum; the Constitution of Canada; and numerous Supreme Court findings all agree in the fact that the First Nations are nations. Not so, says ERBL: because.. and follows with the “unevolved” libel
End Race Based Law doubles down on dehumanization.
An example of how End Race Based Law uses hate speech in order to race-bait people who come to her page. An emotional response is what she’s looking for; and it’s hard not to respond emotionally – even at a safe distance from her attack.
Again, Race Based Law uses hate speech to dehumanize people – purely as a method of race-baiting.
End Race Based Law once again uses the “uncivilized” libel to race bait.
End Race Based Law’s favourite proof on any given defamation: “It’s cultural”
A fine example of “othering“: in ERBL’s ideology, there are “Canadians”; and First Nations’ people are “non-Canadian” by definition.
More othering from ERBL: In this, the simple act of standing up for one’s rights is “aggression” – and needs to be excluded from “our streets”, and “our Parliament buildings.” Again, a follower picks up on the abusive tone and established discourse.
End Race Based Law seems to be striving for “race war” thinking in this one: somehow round dances and drumming become profoundly threatening…
End Race Based Law using denial and dehumanization as their standard race-baiting tool.
End Race Based Law’s newest campaign: bolstering a widespread state of denial by attacking attempts to educate people in the facts of their history and their treaty obligations.
A particularly nasty dialogue: race-baiting by portraying First Nations people as sources of disease.
End Race Based Law plays the dehumanization card again, presenting incest and other sexual violence as particularly “cultural” expressions of the First Nation; ignoring the fact that they are common in the dominant culture and sexual violence is commonly directed at First Nations women by people of the dominant culture.
End Race Based Law is a master of dehumanization and denial. The large part that the First Nations played in horticultural innovation and the subsequent European population explosion; the riches torn out of the Americas to enrich Europe; the central part that the First Nations allies played in preserving the territory which became Canada: the massive part that First Nations played in the growth of the country: all are ignored.
End Race Based Law again uses their race war ideation: Idle No More round dances and drumming are “terrorizing” Canada.
It doesn’t matter who addresses them: ERBL’s racialization of conflict requires that they be race-baited anyway.
Again, ERBL’s discourse is meant purely to provoke: any opposition to their views must be destroyed.
ERBL pulls out the stops in abusing an opponent. Normal discourse in the ERBL world.
An amazing trick: ERBL turns racism on its head: the grass-roots expression of pride and resistance to the government’s attempts to ignore First Nations’ treaty rights become “Hitler”.
ERBL Allies:
The normal discourse on ERBL: othering, racist, typical
First, the exhortation to genocide; second, a means with which to do it; third, a follower asserts her right to denial, while ignoring the comments above. This is common discourse on ERBL: the admins seem to almost never comment on its unsuitability – or remove such hateful statements. In fact, Gerry Gagnon reaffirms the sentiment with his mention of “traitors”.
“Got Genocidal Ideation?” “Thank The Oblivious!”
Here is an astonishing exchange: while on the one hand, ERBL denies the possibility of historical genocidal behaviour; its followers are free to suggest that perhaps the problem is that the genocide was just not thorough enough. Much more of this in our next report.
The Great Wall of Denial: an ERBL Manifesto:
“Not even Hitler did that”.
Thanks to everyone who captured the massive volumes of hate speech which ERBL produced this year – then went through their hard-drives to find these examples of ERBL’s hateful, genocidal discourse. For each comment displayed, there are literally dozens which didn’t make the cut, for one reason or another. Many have been involved in preparing this document; and hopefully it will have some positive effect on public officials once they see the real face of ERBL.
If you haven’t please sign our petition at:
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Next up: ERBL – Incitement and Aryans: How the Aryans teamed up with an ‘Anti-Racist’ page
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