Canadian court hands rare Internet hate crime conviction (AFP)

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Source: AFP

Canadian court hands rare Internet hate crime conviction

06/02/2008 04h42

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - A Canadian court handed down a rare conviction to a white supremacist for posting hate material on the Internet, police here said Tuesday.

A judge ruled that Keith Francis William (Bill) Noble, 31, did "willfully promote hatred against identifiable groups, namely Jews, Blacks, homosexual or gay persons, non-whites and persons of mixed race or ethnic origin," said a police statement. Noble was sentenced to four months in jail, plus restrictions on his use of computers for three years, said the police statement. He was charged after police raided his former home in the rural community of Fort St. John.

Monday's conviction by the British Columbia Supreme Court in western Canada, following a two-week trial last fall, is unusual, Sergeant Sean McGowan told AFP. "The conviction rate for Internet-related crimes is very low."

"This is the second conviction of an individual for hate propaganda in British Columbia, and there have been only four or five cases in all of Canada where an individual has been prosecuted and convicted for hate over the Internet," said McGowan.

Read more: http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/080206021442.hlj0mf1a.html

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Oh Great! Thanks Canada! Now they will all move here, seeing how George Bush LOVES Hate speech and won't stop White Canadians at the border.