Canada Ping!
Posted on 08/11/2015 11:55:02 PM PDT by bob_denard
The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has barred a neo-Nazi group from inheriting the estate of a white supremacist Canadian man.
Thursday, the court confirmed the decision to prevent the National Alliance, a violent West Virginia-based neo-Nazi group, from receiving a collection of coins and artifacts worth about $250,000.
Harry Robert McCorkill, a retired professor from Saint John, N.B., left his valuable possessions to the hate group in his will before he died in 2004. They included Greek and Roman coins that have been displayed at museums, Nazi memorabilia and a human skull.
McCorkill’s sister contested the will in 2013 on the grounds it violated public policy, arguing the valuables would benefit a racist group linked to assassinations and bombings.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre filed an affidavit supporting Ms. McCorkill. The Centre for Israel & Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada and the province of New Brunswick also intervened on her side.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Oddly enough I support the skinheads in this one.
I wouldn’t express it that way. How about: These skinheads aren’t worth establishing really bad precedents?
Ironic, isn't it?
Folks getting all worked up over $250K in old coins while the US is giving (taxpayer/public funds) a Billion or so to Iran to fund it terror network and openly admitting that the same fort of funding has gone to Al Quaeda and ISIS to crucify Christians and Jews in te Levant. (And probably a few recalcitrant Moslems as well.)
The court defeated the will of the testator.
Depriving people of property rights is pretty serious business (just ask former AJ Souter). You just don't up and strip people of property rights because their discourse is a) wrong and b) distasteful.
Who are these Canadian jurists -- Beings of Jupiter that can see beyond mere mortal concerns?
We can understand SPLC's being there -- they hate just as furiously as anybody they say they hate for hating people. But B'Nai B'rith? I thought they did advocacy, not civil commitment, which is what this amounts to.
Not surprised at the SPLC. They lack all credibility.
B’nai B worries me. It has traditionally been pretty normal, but lately statist liberals seem to have taken over .
You and me both
Blatant violation of probate law and custom at least per usa standard
Rockwell was murdered nearly 50 years ago
How odd NA is still around......I’ve never known anyone a member myself but I did see a Jubilee newsletter once .....in the early 90s
As do I. Weird world.
Sis'll be lucky if she ends up with enough for a Starbucks coffee
What if it went to, say, ISIS...?
I despise skinheads, but it takes a whole lot to overturn a will legitimately, and this greedy sister doesn’t have anywhere near sufficient justification. The money is private property and morally belongs to the racists. I miss the days when the rule of law had less connection to who you knew and how much they liked you and depended primarily on written law.
If property can be taken in action that is clearly outside of the law, there is no law and property rights no longer exist except at the whim and prejudice of a corrupted court system.
ps
The skinheads are vile creatures, but the assets legally belong to them.
Canada Ping!
In that case, The Usurper would have one of his Moslem Brotherhood cronies (you know - the real Cabinet) go to Canada, collet the loot and deliver it personally.
(Or he might cut them a deal and give them a Billion worth of MANPADS and MRAPs in trade for the coins.)
My thought as well. I haven’t had time to look into the details of this case, but I expect that the ruling was based on the group’s penchant for violence and incitement to violence, rather than the fact that they’re expressing unpopular opinions.
"But, as the Sirian had a good heart, he understood very quickly that a thinking being is not necessarily ridiculous just because he is only 6,000 feet tall. He got to know the Saturnians after their shock wore off."
Voltaire in MICROMEGAS
Are these violent penchants not criminal? Must society cravenly twist civil law to punish perceived criminality? Strunk & White wrote, “Try to keep things straight”. This is not keeping things straight.
How about ISIS? Would you support them too? If not, why not?
This is better:
“On their way they did all they could to see whether the planet was inhabited or not. They crouched, laid down, felt around everywhere; but their eyes and their hands were not proportionate to the little beings that crawl here, they could not feel in the least any sensation that might lead them to suspect that we and our associates, the other inhabitants of this planet, have the honor of existing.”
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