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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: rec.humor.facist (was Re: Changes to the monthly postings)
Message-ID: <5542@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 89 17:47:16 GMT
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In article <495@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>In article <5493@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi) writes:
>>In article <493@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>>>If you hadn't noticed, the JEDR affair never made it to the courts.
>
>>It's not at all clear to me that the courts aren't or won't be
>>involved as a result of JEDR's actions. ...
>
>So you confirm the police won't press charges.

You make it sound like this was an embarrassing admission that I
only reluctantly conceded.  In fact, what I was doing was reporting
on what I know from reading the papers, and what I don't know.

>                                               The Canadian Human
>Rights Commission won't act because it wasn't a Canadian that was
>'wronged'.

Actually (1) it *was* a Canadian who complained, and (2) the complaint
was that Brad's actions are harmful to Jews.  The last time I checked,
North America's Jewish population was not restricted to the United
States -- ie. Canadians are involved.

>           The Canadian Jewish Congress is more interested in
>following (Canadian foreign minister) Joe Clark's overtures to the PLO.
>
>All these organizations can recognize frivolous complaints when
>they hear them. They all have far more dangerous threats to go after.

It's not clear to me that important and powerful organizations can
recognize frivolous complaints -- after all, the press, especially
the K-W Record, didn't.

>>JEDR and his friends have attempted to get Brad fired from his job,
>>destroy his reputation through "trial by media", get him into trouble
>>with the human rights authorities, and get him thrown in jail.
>
>Tried, and failed. Brad has shown than he is perfectly capable of
>destroying his reputation all by himself.

From what I see in the pages of the UW student newspaper, it's clear
that the Kangaroo Court of public opinion has found Brad guilty,
guilty, guilty.  It has been asserted in plain black and white, on
newsprint, that Brad is a racist.  Therefore it must be true.  The
accusation is proof of guilt.  These good, moral, uprighteous
anti-racist types have more in common with Edwin Meese than they know.

>Why didn't you deal with the main point of my posting, that Brad's
>asserting copyright could not have possibly prevented JEDR's attack?

You may be right.  It may give Brad a means of couterattack when some
"Son Of JEDR" rises out of Tokyo Bay to smash buildings and generally
be a large pest.  A person might think twice about raising hell if he
knows he could end up facing a lawsuit.  But since the license to read
r.h.f. is granted by default, Brad can only revoke it after "JEDR II"
has started to complain, by which time it may be too late.

The reason I didn't deal with that was (1) thinking of JEDR, I forgot
everything else, and (2) I didn't want anybody to get the idea that
what JEDR did was harmless.

-- 
David Canzi