Alberta
Report,
Canada, October 18, 1998
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
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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.
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