This Is Your Brain, This Is Your Brain On Canwest
I dunno, readers might mistake a dog turd for the Vancouver Sun, Canwest, but a Pro-Palestinian parody? (best line: "The truth is biased against Israel."):
The Canwest suit lists a print shop and Mordecai as named defendants, and then pads the list out with six unnamed defendants: John Doe #1, John Doe #2, John Doe #3, and Jane Doe #1, Jane Doe #2, Jane Doe #3. While ostensibly centering on a commercial violation of trade mark, the charges read like a political attack. They assert that Mordecai and the six John/Jane Doe defendants have been involved in "anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian media activities", and have written or spoken "harshly critical of the State of Israel and of the plaintiff and anyone who publishes articles or views which the defendants perceive to be contrary to their own views". In Canwest's Writ of Summons Mordecai's name is repeatedly linked to Canada Palestine Support Network, a group that is not even alleged to have anything to do with the parody. They demand a sweeping variety of remedies including an injunction restraining the defendants from "publishing injurious falsehoods by way of newspapers or other publications, on the internet or otherwise".
So, newspaper chains in Canada, eh, fellow Canadians who no longer read newspapers? Thank Gawd for our foreign ownership restrictions, at least. Well, here's hoping all the NeoCon Free Speech Warrior Pundits who work for Canwest will resign in protest of the owners' and their truckloads of lawyers' (and in Vancouver, Canwest owns both competing Rightwing newspapers - the Province and the Sun, "Dumb and Dumber") over-the-top attack on having their hilariously biased editorial stance on everything to the left of Attila the Hun mocked.
Disclaimer: {{Hugs, Israel - Sooey Luvs U!!!}}
