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Passing this on, show up for 6:0 if you can.

Hey folks,

So it seems that Jared Taylor, the American Renaissance writer with white
supremacist leanings is in fact coming to Halifax to speak tonight, Tuesday,
January 16th. He'll be arguing against racial diversity and immigration and
likely smearing Martin Luther King Jr. day, which was yesterday, as he has
done in year's past (see http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0123-02.htm,
"Jared Taylor - a racist in the guise of 'expert'")...

I propose we meet at Victoria Park at 6:20pm on Tuesday and make sure that
we send a clear unified message that racism and bigotry is more than
unwelcome here!

Bring placards, noisemakers, friends and allies!

Details:
Lord Nelson Hotel, Britannia Room (3rd Floor)
Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 7pm
1515 South Park Street, Halifax
This event is Free.

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White power website buzzing over Dal debate

By CHRIS LAMBIE Staff Reporter

A white supremacist website based in Florida is touting an upcoming debate
on racial diversity at Dalhousie University.

A message posted on Stormfront.org, which uses the slogan White Pride
Worldwide, advertises the Jan. 15 clash between David Divine, Dal's chair of
black Canadian studies, and Jared Taylor of American Renaissance magazine.

"Hopefully people on the East Coast can spread the word to like-minded
Canadian allies, resulting in a large following to attend and support our
side of the debate," says a Stormfront moderator who goes by the online name
OdinPatrick.

Reporters will be sure to cover the event, the moderator notes.

"And Eastern Canada should receive a good introduction to our philosophy.
Please tell friends of this. . . . If we're lucky, Paul Fromm may attend."

Mr. Fromm is a public supporter of notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.

A poster on Dal's official website dubs the debate Racial Diversity: North
America's Strength or Weakness?

Reached at his office in Virginia on Wednesday night, Mr. Taylor said he is
looking forward to the event. But he said he heard from one of the
organizers Wednesday that Dal president Tom Traves had decided the event
must not take place.

"He had heard that Nazis were threatening to mob the event," Mr. Taylor
said.

The Dal president, reached at his home Wednesday night, denied any knowledge
of the postings on Stormfront.org .

"I'll have to look into this," Mr. Traves said.

If the debate does take place, Mr. Taylor will argue against racial
diversity and immigration.

"Wherever you look, where people are most diligently killing each other,
it's because diverse populations are trying to share the same territory," he
said.

"The idea that racial or ethnic diversity is a strength and a great benefit
for a country is so obviously wrong and stupid that only very intelligent
people could convince themselves that it's true."

Mr. Taylor admitted that he has, in the past, been accused of being a white
supremacist. But he denied the label.

"I would describe myself as a race realist," Mr. Taylor said. "I think it's
clear that race is an important part of both individual and group identity.
And I believe that, although an attractive notion, the idea that a society
can make race not to matter is a futile one."

The assumption is that "people can come from essentially anywhere in the
world and can assimilate and become first-rate Canadians or first-rate
Americans and that the institutions will continue unchanged, no matter who's
living here and in what numbers. I just think the evidence suggests
otherwise, and I believe that we are dicing with the futures of our
countries if we really do assume that a non-European population will
continue in a manner that our European forebears have established."

Mr. Divine could not be reached for comment.

Stormfront.org was at the centre of a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing
last week in Vancouver.

An Ottawa lawyer filed the complaint against a former Coquitlam, B.C.,
couple in January 2005. It alleged that Jessica Beaumont and her boyfriend,
Ciaran Donnelly, engaged in a discriminatory practice on the grounds of
religion, sexual orientation, race, colour, national or ethnic origin and
disability by posting hateful messages on the Internet. In particular, Ms.
Beaumont's comments on Stormfront.org were considered hateful, the complaint
alleged.

Police raided the couple's Coquitlam home in July of this year, seizing Nazi
memorabilia, computers, clothes and books.

Mr. Taylor said he was surprised to learn the upcoming Halifax debate was
being promoted on Stormfront.org.

"I just learned today that Stormfront had gotten wind of this somehow," he
said Wednesday. "But they're certainly not suggesting that anyone
misbehave."

Mr. Taylor said he is not associated with the website.

"In fact, I am frequently criticized on that site," he said.

The Anti-Defamation League calls Stormfront.org a "veritable supermarket of
online hate."

( clambie@herald.ca<http>
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Tonight, a NEO-NAZI, Jared Taylor is speaking at the Lord Nelson Hotel, on Spring Garden Road. There is a rally at 6:20PM to let him know that he is not welcome in our community. Bring noisemakers and masks.

I think someone should throw a chair at Geraldo.

Are you sayign we should have all sorts of public debates with Nazis like their view of the world is valid, deserves respect, demands air time? What are you saying?

arguing against neo-nazi type racism seems like a pretty redundant debate.

"The idea that racial or ethnic diversity is a strength and a great benefit for a country is so obviously wrong and stupid that only very intelligent people could convince themselves that it's true."