The leader of Canada's white-supremacist Aryan Nations won't appeal a human rights tribunal ruling ordering him to stop playing telephone messages promoting discrimination.
Terry Long, a resident of Caroline, 125 miles southwest of Edmonton, noted that any appeal would be heard by a three-member appeal tribunal of the Canadian Human Rights Commission."It would be another kangaroo court that would sit and hear that appeal, and we won't participate in that kind of travesty," he said.
Long said he'll wait instead for the outcome of a Dec. 4 appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada by John Ross Taylor of Toronto.
Taylor is appealing a 1984 conviction for contempt of court for continuing to make anti-Semetic telephone messages on behalf of the Western Guard party.
Long said Taylor's appeal will also contest the constitutionality of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, arguing it violates his freedom of speech.
Long said the Canadian Human Rights Commission tribunal used the same section of the act in its July ruling to forbid the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations) from playing its telephone messages.
The tribunal said the messages violated the act because they discriminated against ethnic groups and likely promoted hatred.
The decision came more than two years after the Aryan Nations set up a telephone hotline and advertised it in the Red Deer Advocate.
B'nai B'rith, a Jewish organization, complained the recordings railed against minority groups, including Jews.