James Sears, Editor of Canada’s Most Racist Paper, Guilty Of Hate Charges
Credit to Author: Mack Lamoureux| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:36:49 +0000
The men behind one of Canada’s most vile publications have been found guilty of promoting hatred targeting Jews and women.
In a Toronto courtroom on Thursday morning, James Sears, 55, and LeRoy St. Germaine, 77—one tall with a head full of flowing black hair and the other short and bald—heard the verdict. Sears, the editor of Your Ward News, and St. Germaine, the publisher, defended themselves and their product throughout the trial by saying their writings were satirical.
In his ruling, Judge Richard Blouin directly disputes this characterization, writing, as the The Canadian Press reported, “both men were fully aware of the unrelenting promotion of hate in Your Ward News. (They) intended that hatred to be delivered to others.”
Outside the courtroom, after the verdict was announced, Sears, who marketed his publication as “the world’s largest anti-Marxist publication,” compared himself to Jesus.
Your Ward News is a small publication—having around 20 pages per issue—and was put out in the Toronto area. Inside its fold, you would be able to find rape advocacy, Holocaust denial, all forms of anti-Semitism and racism, conspiracy theories, and all sorts of vileness.
One rather notorious passage which preaches against the statutory rape law, reads “age of consent should be the age at which a woman can safely have sex, and not a random number chosen by our ZioMarxist oppressors.”
A small cabal of activists, including longtime political players, anti-hate networks, and Jewish organizations, worked to get these charges laid against Sears and St. Germaine.
“Justice has been served,” Bernie Farber of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network told VICE when the verdict was announced. “It took too long for such an obvious case of hatred and it only points to the need for police to re-establish dedicated anti-hate units within police services.”
The paper would come out quarterly but it stalled in frequency after the hate charges were filed. However, fear of the eventual guilty plea didn’t seem to deter the duo as the 2019 edition of the paper was published online a mere eight days ago. The 20-page edition focuses on the Yellow Vest movement, anti-immigration, how liberals are really communists, how the CBC is “fake news,” Jewish conspiracies and, of course, the trial—they told their audience they were found “not guilty.”
In 2016, Canada Post pulled distribution of the paper—prior to this decision, Your Ward News was reaching upwards of 300,000 homes.
James Sears has been a shitty chameleon of sorts throughout his life. In over 20 years, Sears made his way from being a medical doctor who had his licence pulled after “sexual impropriety with his patients” to a pickup artist known as Dimitri the Lover who would teach classes on how to get laid to finally being a vile hate monger as the publisher of Your Ward News.
In a statement Sears put out to media when the charges were first announced, he called them “politically motivated.” Sears, in an interview with the right-wing YouTube channel Freebird Media, said that he has just been a masterful “troll” for the majority of his life calling his paper “troll gold.”
According to Warren Kinsella, who, alongside his wife Lisa, worked to get the charges laid and Canada Post to pull distribution, said that Your Ward News was around before Sears and that while it was offensive per se it wasn’t necessarily hateful.
“As soon as he took over it became an avowedly and aggressively anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, racist, homophobic, misogynistic,” Warren Kinsella told VICE when the charges were first laid.
After the verdict, Sears said the duo will be appealing, however, in the meantime, the two will be sentenced on April 26—they face a fine of $5,000 or six weeks in jail.
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