Monday, April 23, 2007

OUTSPOKEN CRITIC of Dera WINS CASE

Oldtown News
Vancouver, BC

OUTSPOKEN CRITIC of Dera WINS CASE


An outspoken critic of Dera/APC and prostitution crusader for Human Rights, Jamie Lee Hamilton, who Dera was attempting to silence through mis-use of theResidential Tenancy Act, has won her case.

The Arbitrator, hearing the case, even though Dera had submitted numerous entries of my web log as reasons to evict, found that no evidence was provided to back up the claim of defamation.

Dera/APC tried to muzzle my freedom of speech rights and were rebuffed in their efforts.

Really galling and obscene in this case is that the President of the BC Civil Liberties Association, JasonGratl, as legal counsel for Dera, tried to have my weblog posting privileges at Google cancelled. When that failed, he threatened me with a lawsuit and when that went nowhere, He, I allege, advised Dera, to mis-use the legislative power available to landlords in order to silence me. This too has failed and these crass attempts by Mr. Gratl, to quash my Charter and Human Rights will not simply go away.

When the President and Leader of a credible freedom of speech organization, as the BC Civil Liberties Association is, attempts to eliminate my Charter rights in a free and democratic society, this raises serious concerns.

Stay tuned!

Jamie Lee Hamilton
tricia_foxx@yahoo.com