Is Canadian Court Adopting Nazi-Like Tactics in Fighting Nazism?
As Ihave previously discussed, Robert McCorkell’s sister recently had a NewBrunswick judge issue a temporary injunction on public policy grounds toprevent his estate, and valuable coin collection, from being sent out ofprovince and into the hands of the neo-Nazi organization, the NationalAlliance.
Whileother groups like the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and theAlabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center have announced plans to take furtheraction, an interesting question arises: Is the Canadian court adoptingNazi-like tactics to combat Nazism?
Inthe 1930s and 40s, the Nazis legalized, or at least facilitated, the theft ofproperty from European Jews for the sole reason the property was owned bypeople the Nazis despised for their religious beliefs. Now, this New Brunswick court is consideringauthorizing the “theft” of property merely because it will be delivered to anorganization despised for their ideology. So is the National Alliance sufficiently loathsome to justify the deprivationof property or is this slope just a little too slippery?
See Karen Selick, You Don’t Fight Nazis by Becoming a Nazi Yourself, The HuffingtonPost, July 29, 2013.