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Fred Ziffel

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Mar 11, 2004, 10:22:41 PM3/11/04

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/98/10/Lethbridge1.html
(Link active January 12, 2004. Archived locally as: fppLethbridge1)

Posted Sunday, October 18, 1998
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Alberta Report, Canada, October 18, 1998
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The responsible step

by Kevin Michael Grace

COMMUNIST activist David Lethbridge has a fine new name for his bullies.
According to the September 29 Edmonton Journal, "He heads a group called the
Bethune Institute for Anti-Fascist Studies." (Would neo-Nazis get respectful
media coverage if they styled themselves the "Horst Wessel Institute for
Anti-Bolshevist Studies"?)

In an attempt to force cancellation of a meeting of the Canadian League of
Rights, Mr. Lethbridge sent a fax to Leduc manager Menaz Rahmani:

"Many other hotels have taken the responsible step of cancelling similar
meetings once the nature of these events has been brought to their attention."
One of these hotels was Edmonton's Coast Terrace Inn, which cancelled a booking
in 1996 after an intervention by Mr. Lethbridge and Alberta Human Rights
Commission chief commissioner Charlach Macintosh.

How typically Canadian -- businessmen taking moral instruction from a Communist.
Could this be the Third Way one hears so much about?
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Alberta Report, along with its sister publication, British Columbia Report, is a
weekly magazine published by the Byfield family (of Edmonton, Alberta), and in
size and format looks a lot like, say, Maclean's magazine (or Time or Newsweek).
Its ideological orientation is Christian and conservative, pro-business and, on
issues regarding free speech, somewhat libertarian.

--END--

Our opinion

Alberta Communist functionary David Lethbridge is, with CHBC, in deep trouble,
having been ordered by the Canadian courts to pay to Eileen and Claus Pressler
damages totalling $70,000 for libelling them in news reports which, inter alia,
liked their new home to an "armed military compound." Eileen Pressler is
pursuing further action against Lethbridge in a suit for defamation in
connection with an interview he gave to the Creston Valley Advance newspaper.

The traditional enemies of free speech do not like finding themselves sued in
the law courts -- not one little bit. <END>

The above item is reproduced without change other than typographical

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/00/12/Collins061200.html
(Link active January 12, 2004. Archived locally as: Collins061200)

THE COLLINS COLUMN, Wednesday, December 6, 2000

JUSTICE DELAYED, BUT DONE

by Doug Collins

Some strange things happen these days in our courts. But all is not yet lost, as
can be seen from the judgment in the Pressler/Lethbridge/TV libel case.

The verdicts against Lethbridge & Co. in the B.C. Supreme Court and in the
Appeal Court showed that in spite of strenuous efforts to the contrary, the
lunatic Left cannot yet attack the Right with impunity; nor can it threaten to
drive their victims out of town and destroy their businesses. It should also be
mentioned that the case was a major victory for lawyer Doug Christie, who
handled it for the Presslers in both courts.

David Lethbridge is a psychology professor at Okanagan University College who
for years has waged a vicious vendetta against Mrs. Eileen Pressler and her
husband, Claus.

Mrs. Pressler ran the right-wing Council On Public Affairs, which put out a news
letter and held meetings in Salmon Arm, her home town. Among others, talks were
given by Eustace Mullins, the American right-winger and author, Ron Gostick of
the Canadian League of Rights, and on one occasion even by my humble self and
Pat Burns, the late broadcaster. He and I spoke on the threat to free speech
represented by B.C.'s venomous human rights laws.

Lethbridge, a communist, organized several demonstrations against the Presslers,
using stupid students as his tools. A fanatic, he bullied hotels into not
allowing Mrs. Pressler to hold meetings in them and in 1992 he phoned her to
say:

"Yeah. I got a message for you, you f***ing Nazi pigs. Any more of these goddam
rallies and there's gonna be trouble. We're fed up with you, so just f*** off."
The call had been recorded and was presented in court as evidence.

At one event he "mooned" the Presslers, being apparently proud of his bare ass
and proving that leftist academics can be cruder than skinheads.

In 1993, inspired by Lethbridge's activities and press reports based on his
drum-fire propaganda, the Okanagan's CHBC TV did a program claiming that
sinister things were afoot on the Presslers' property.

A large house they were having built, stated the television reporter, was
rumored to be a fortified convention centre with a potential for paramilitary
use, complete with underground bunkers, security fences, and special electronic
equipment.

Lethbridge was interviewed, and viewers could conclude from the program that the
house was a sort of Waco compound or Nazi bunker designed for the use of
"fascists" and other sub-humans. It was also alleged that in building the house,
the Presslers had deceived the municipal building authorities. It seems she
hadn't made it clear that she was building a fortress.

The report was false from beginning to end, and Mrs. Pressler told the court it
was "a nightmare that almost overnight destroyed our family in the community. We
became outcasts and pariahs because of what appeared in print and on
television".

The story made a lot of news in B.C., and CBC Newsworld ran the story nationally
(you bet!). It was so convincing, said Mrs. Pressler, that she was not sure she
had persuaded her sister in Saskatchewan that it was totally untrue.

Lethbridge, meanwhile, had made no secret of his intentions, which were not only
to drive the Presslers out of town but also to destroy Mr. Pressler's pharmacy
business, and the publicity contributed to its having to be sold.

As this teacher of our youth told the Globe & Mail, "What has an effect is when
the family breadwinner goes down the tubes...."

The trial lasted 25 days, and the judge found against Lethbridge and the TV
station. In doing so, he nevertheless took it upon himself to describe Mrs.
Pressler as a racist and an anti-Semite, which, true or false, in my opinion had
little to do with the libelous matter in hand. Still, he awarded Mr. Pressler
damages of $50,000, while Mrs. Pressler got $11,500. Plus costs in both cases.

Incredibly, in view of the undeniable evidence, the station and Lethbridge
appealed, the former stating publicly that it "stood by its story". But,
unanimously, the court dismissed the appeal. It also awarded the Presslers
$15,000 punitive damages against Lethbridge that had not been awarded by the
trial judge. Mr. Christie's plea that the story was "false, malicious and
injurious under the pretext of news" was therefore upheld.

"No-one has any right," said the three appeal judges, "to drive anyone, no
matter what his views, out of town". The punitive damages, they declared, were
"to warn off others ...who assert that they may take the law into their own
hands. A lynch mob is still a lynch mob," they said, "even if the person lynched
committed the crime."

Madam Justice Mary Southin led the judgment, observing dryly that the TV program
"was not in the highest traditions of responsible journalism". The reporter, one
Blaine Gaffney, had been "blinded by Mrs. Pressler's opinions and thus was
unable to grasp that what he was doing was wrong". In other words, he was a
politically correct devotee of the idea that anyone accused of anti-Semitism,
racism or of breaking taboos, deserves to be dragged through the dirt, bunkers
or no bunkers.

Typically, the outcome of this story has been ignored by the mainstream media,
but the full verdict is on the Freedomsite. <END>

The above item is reproduced without change other than typographical

PROOF DAVID LETHBRIDGE IS A COMMUNIST AND IS A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY:

http://www.communist-party.ca/english/pv/jan2_00_okan.html
(Link active January 12, 2004. Archived locally as: jan2_00_okan)

THE 1999 WTO CARAVAN'S OKANAGAN TOUR

(This article is from the Jan. 16-31/2000 issue of People's Voice, Canada's
leading communist newspaper. Articles can be reprinted free if the source is
credited. Subscription rates in Canada: $25/year, or $12 low income rate; for
U.S. readers - $25 US per year; other overseas readers - $25 US or $35 CDN per
year. Send to: People's Voice, 706 Clark Drive, Vancouver, Canada, V5L 3J1.)

[...]

"Salmon Arm: A noon rally took place in front of the Post Office in downtown
Salmon Arm on Tuesday, Nov. 23, attended by over 30 people. A successful
downtown leafletting action followed, then lunch and media activities. The day
concluded with a public forum at the Salmon Arm Campus of OUC. Over 40 people
took part, forming a steering committee to coordinate local protest events for
Nov. 30th. The event was organised by David Lethbridge of the Communist Party of
Canada in conjunction with Dale Werechuk of CUPW. Sharon Lethbridge did a
phenomenal amount of work organising, as well as mobilising CUPE throughout the
valley." <END>

http://www.globeandmail.com/series/election/2000Federal/candidates-new/1499.html
(Link active January 12, 2004. Archived locally as: 1499)

Globe Candidate Snapshot:

David Lethbridge
Communist Party, Okanagan - Shuswap

1481 Okanangan Avenue
Salmon Arm, BC
V1E 1N5
Phone: 250-832-6678
Fax: 250-833-0692
E-mail: sa...@shuswap.net

Web site:

Date of birth: 08 04, 1950
Place of birth: Flin Flon, Man.
Occupation: College Professor
Education: B.A., M.A., PhD.

Platform: Not Available

Why vote for me? I have a proven and public track record of fighting for the
rights of First Nations, and of gays and lesbians, of fighting for women's right
to reproductive choice and against organized racism and facism. I will fight to
protect and expand social programs and struggle for workers' rights.

Political experience:

Candidate in 1997 for communist party in federal election
Member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Canada

<END>

Organizations who support David Lethbridge the communist:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&selm=4186tvsr4d3oiodp2nibbuvuj91rakvimb%404ax.com&rnum=1
Subject: UPDATED! B'nai Brith Allies Itself With Communist David Lethbridge
Against Capitalism, and Christianity V2.0 R_1207
Message-ID: <4186tvsr4d3oiodp2...@4ax.com>
Date: 7 Dec 2003 12:48:39 GMT

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&selm=p0afnvchj52pcuh6c0dk78f9bs7ngfetac%404ax.com&rnum=1
Subject: NIZKOR.ORG Allies Itself With Communist David Lethbridge Against
America, Capitalism, and Christianity R_0928
Message-ID: <p0afnvchj52pcuh6c...@4ax.com>
Date: 29 Sep 2003 03:38:54 GMT

Tavish

---
"If communism and fascism both lead to the same end, ie. totalitarianism, Why is
it that anyone who challenges and exposes international fascism is "good", and
anyone who challenges and exposes international communism is "bad"?"
http://www.niagara.com/~freedom/anticom/comweb.htm
(Archived locally as: niagara-comweb)
"...Beware of any organization that champions equality but only denounces
fascism. Communism has enslaved far more people than fascism. Any organization
that condemns fascist atrocities while denying or ignoring communist atrocities
is most certainly a communist organization. Remember also that "equality" to a
communist means the equality of slavery."
http://www.niagara.com/~freedom/anticom/first.htm
(Archived locally as: niagara-first)

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Doc Tavish

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Sep 28, 2004, 10:39:34 AM9/28/04

The responsible step

by Kevin Michael Grace

--END--

Our opinion

More on the enemies of free speech and examples of their documented tactics may
be seen in these links:

-------B'nai Brith/ADL's Agenda Against Free Speech World Wide----------
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_umsgid=9e9gd01f5ggok1amq...@4ax.com&lr=&hl=en
Subject: Re: B'nai Brith/ADL's Agenda Against Free Speech World Wide
Date: 22 Jun 2004 12:28:01 GMT
Message-ID: <9e9gd01f5ggok1amq...@4ax.com>
References: <eok8d0popocig47gb...@4ax.com>
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_umsgid=eok8d0popocig47gb...@4ax.com&lr=&hl=en
Still no return on my original post Referenced above which suggests the original
again was NUKED!!
Also see:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&selm=frc210pfvma6lvpqoibt1dqejbladopquq%404ax.com&rnum=1
Subject: Sara Salzman Continues Her HACK Smear Against David Irving! aka Re: A
thought for David Michael
Message-ID: <frc210pfvma6lvpqo...@4ax.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2004 15:01:39 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Continuing:

JUSTICE DELAYED, BUT DONE

by Doug Collins

[...]

Globe Candidate Snapshot:

Web site:

Platform: Not Available

Political experience:

<END>

Prologue:

The Nizkor Project director Ken McVay trying to be funny about communists:
"Did you know that Communism was perfectly legal in Canada, and that
folks representing the CP of Canada run for Parliament every time an
election rolls around?
Most folks just laugh at 'em, and we never, ever, look under our beds
or lock up our daughters."
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_umsgid=7soT9.302%24q%253.15...@news.nnrp.ca&lr=&hl=en
(Archived locally as: McVay-CP-Canada)
Subject: Re: SCOTT BRADBURY IS AN IDIOT
Organization: The Nizkor Project, http://www.nizkor.org/
From: kmc...@vex.net (Ken McVay)
Message-ID: <7soT9.302$q%3.158...@news.nnrp.ca>

For a fact Ken McVay and the people at B'nai Brith don't laugh at communists
because they are documented as aiding and abbetting communism as the two
archives detail in full below!

Tavish

~~Questions Jews and their Duped Gentile Sycophants Will Avoid Like Plague~~
1) If communism was/is an oppressor of Jews in the manner Nazism was then why
don't we see Jews condemning communism as they do Nazism instead of praising it
and defending the ideology and those who espouse it?
2) If communism was/is an oppressor of Jews then why are so many Jews and their
Gentile sycophants so virulent against "anti-communists" YET are kind to
"anti-Nazis"?
3) If communism was/is so oppressive to Jews then why is it primarily Jews who
spread it? (No one sees Jews spreading Nazism but Jews do spread communism!)
4) If communism was/is so oppressive to Jews then why are so many Jews and
their Gentile toadies outraged at the mere thought communists were hung from
lamp posts? (You would think they would rejoice with glee that their
"oppressors" were hung. The Jews certainly did not complain about Nazis being
executed!) See:
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_umsgid=nj3a009i4aj9ba7vo...@4ax.com&lr=&hl=en
Subject: If Communism Was/Is so Oppressive to Jews then Why Don't Jews Treat it
the Same as They Do Nazism? V3,0b S_0114
Message-ID: <nj3a009i4aj9ba7vo...@4ax.com>
Date: 14 Jan 2004 10:39:56 GMT

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&selm=heacl09r40oic5bnu1tkb3itbrng06p76p%404ax.com&rnum=1
Subject: V3.0f Forefathers of the Soviet State and Anti-Christ Communism V2-0
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:34:42 -0500
Message-ID: <heacl09r40oic5bnu...@4ax.com>

Doc Tavish

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Feb 8, 2005, 12:32:57 AM2/8/05

The responsible step

by Kevin Michael Grace

--END--

Our opinion

More on the enemies of free speech and examples of their documented tactics may

be seen in these links:

Continuing:

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/00/12/Collins061200.html

JUSTICE DELAYED, BUT DONE

by Doug Collins

[...]

Globe Candidate Snapshot:

Web site:

Platform: Not Available

Political experience:

<END>

Prologue:

For a fact Ken McVay and the people at B'nai Brith don't laugh at communists
because they are documented as aiding and abbetting communism as the two
archives detail in full below!

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&selm=4186tvsr4d3oiodp2nibbuvuj91rakvimb%404ax.com&rnum=1

Subject: UPDATED! B'nai Brith Allies Itself With Communist David Lethbridge
Against Capitalism, and Christianity V2.0 R_1207
Message-ID: <4186tvsr4d3oiodp2...@4ax.com>
Date: 7 Dec 2003 12:48:39 GMT

Tavish

~~Questions Jews and their Duped Gentile Sycophants Will Avoid Like Plague~~

Doc Tavish

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Jul 30, 2005, 4:38:37 AM7/30/05

The responsible step

by Kevin Michael Grace

--END--

Our opinion

More on the enemies of free speech and examples of their documented tactics may

be seen in these links:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/506c786bbc224709?fwc=1
Subject: B'nai Brith/ADL's Agenda Against Free Speech World Wide V2-0 T_0726
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:54:45 -0500
Message-ID: <vdsee1dsn2p5kpv42...@4ax.com>
References: <b5tde1t8378dhgsvj...@4ax.com>
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/506c786bbc224709?dmode=source&hl=en
Also see:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.revisionism/msg/33b2207ea646fd47?fwc=1

Subject: Sara Salzman Continues Her HACK Smear Against David Irving! aka Re: A
thought for David Michael
Message-ID: <frc210pfvma6lvpqo...@4ax.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2004 15:01:39 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Continuing:

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/00/12/Collins061200.html

JUSTICE DELAYED, BUT DONE

by Doug Collins

[...]

Globe Candidate Snapshot:

Web site:

Platform: Not Available

Political experience:

<END>

Prologue:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.revisionism/msg/5ad04e4dd7bfa79c?fwc=1

(Archived locally as: McVay-CP-Canada)
Subject: Re: SCOTT BRADBURY IS AN IDIOT
Organization: The Nizkor Project, http://www.nizkor.org/
From: kmc...@vex.net (Ken McVay)
Message-ID: <7soT9.302$q%3.158...@news.nnrp.ca>

For a fact Ken McVay and the people at B'nai Brith don't laugh at communists
because they are documented as aiding and abbetting communism as the two
archives detail in full below!

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/can.general/msg/56c62b82ce6a0edb

Subject: UPDATED! B'nai Brith Allies Itself With Communist David Lethbridge
Against Capitalism, and Christianity V2.0 R_1207
Message-ID: <4186tvsr4d3oiodp2...@4ax.com>
Date: 7 Dec 2003 12:48:39 GMT

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.portuguese/msg/40e2a82de0029cb2

Subject: NIZKOR.ORG Allies Itself With Communist David Lethbridge Against
America, Capitalism, and Christianity R_0928
Message-ID: <p0afnvchj52pcuh6c...@4ax.com>
Date: 29 Sep 2003 03:38:54 GMT

Tavish

~~Questions Jews and their Duped Gentile Sycophants Will Avoid Like Plague~~

1) If communism was/is an oppressor of Jews in the manner Nazism was then why
don't we see Jews condemning communism as they do Nazism instead of praising it
and defending the ideology and those who espouse it?
2) If communism was/is an oppressor of Jews then why are so many Jews and their
Gentile sycophants so virulent against "anti-communists" YET are kind to
"anti-Nazis"?
3) If communism was/is so oppressive to Jews then why is it primarily Jews who
spread it? (No one sees Jews spreading Nazism but Jews do spread communism!)
4) If communism was/is so oppressive to Jews then why are so many Jews and
their Gentile toadies outraged at the mere thought communists were hung from
lamp posts? (You would think they would rejoice with glee that their
"oppressors" were hung. The Jews certainly did not complain about Nazis being
executed!) See:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/38a34215c6be9542

Subject: If Communism Was/Is so Oppressive to Jews then Why Don't Jews Treat it

the Same as They Do Nazism? V4-0 UPDATED LINKS T_0630
Message-ID: <7iu6c19hjdu4t3itg...@4ax.com>
Date: 30 Jun 2005 05:12:31 GMT

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/e364b24e60b8c04d

Subject: V3.0f Forefathers of the Soviet State and Anti-Christ Communism V2-0
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:34:42 -0500
Message-ID: <heacl09r40oic5bnu...@4ax.com>

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