00:26:37.300it takes on it takes on a lot of audacity to walk out the door as this guy so but let's have a look
00:26:45.540board member right yeah more like board member richard is a human rights lawyer perhaps best
00:26:52.900known for having dedicated an enormous amount of his personal time this this is not a flex
00:26:58.020let me just say that right out the gate i got notes
00:27:01.120a frankly ridiculous amount of his personal time energy and resources over the past 20 years
00:27:09.440to monitoring and countering the efforts of those who seek to poison our communal well with hate
00:27:15.320odd phrasing and also that does employ that implies that he wasn't employed
00:27:19.860while doing this terminally online it sounds like he's a terminally online man0.74
00:27:25.980betraying the war man name the sky was the limit with dick war man as your moniker okay0.72
00:27:34.680this work has predominantly focused on the white supremacist and neo-nazi movements particularly
00:27:40.260the spread of hate propaganda through the internet which would mean like you can twitter right
00:27:48.020Since 2001, after 9-11, he has been made the successful complainant in 16 consecutive cases before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal dealing with internet hate.
00:52:27.320This is why it's good that you're here.
00:52:28.520Without you here, it would just be like, wow, this person knows her really well.
00:52:33.640Eliza's depression spiraled into despair after abruptly discovering that while she'd been in hiding,
00:52:38.720the CBC had culled lived experiences from her 1994 trial testimony
00:52:43.240and interviews with people who knew her into a movie titled white lies starring sarah paulie
00:52:49.000now this is a known movie you can go find this movie we might even cover it on the show i don't0.67
00:52:53.840know it might not be that interesting but uh but so they made a movie about her life she's pissed
00:53:01.540off um when she posted on facebook that her only relative in canada was dying she recalls that
00:53:12.940kurt's response was a sad face emoji suicidal and under the influence valkal she wrote him
00:53:18.540an angry abrasive letter accusing him of being no better than the nazis he claimed to fight
00:53:23.120she uh cc'd it to another arc member before blocking him um now we're going to get to the
00:53:31.120inception because arc leads into the canon canadian anti-hate network that's why we're
00:53:35.440talking about it um let's see here but um
00:53:42.940there's a lot of talk about twitter followers okay actually as kurt's fame and popularity grew
00:53:47.740he a man who had never shut down any hate groups or formally studied criminology and terrorism
00:53:53.180was touted as an expert of the far right while the jewish woman with formal training who had
00:53:57.820risked her life to shut down a hate group was smeared as a nazi you know i'm just gonna i'm
00:54:03.980just gonna leave it there it's you know what it is it's it's really a how about that um
00:54:08.780Now, now we'll get to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
00:54:13.620The Canadian Anti-Hate Network was incorporated in Toronto on March 30th, 2018 as a not-for-profit organization that purports to be an anti-fascist and anti-racist advocacy group.
00:54:35.440So, armed with $25,000 in seed funding from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Khan quickly outpaced other fledgling nonprofits by raking in sizable donations, a significant grant from the Bank of Montreal, and a $260,000 grant from the Liberal government's Anti-Racism Action Program.
00:54:55.940it certainly helped that two of the men at its helm farmer and balgord had extensive media
00:55:01.380connections which ensured that khan would receive any kind of widespread coverage that it wanted
00:55:06.380so for people who might not be aware a grant is just free money this wasn't a loan this wasn't
00:55:12.880even an investment it's just here we're throwing money at you and good luck have fun with it
00:55:19.100um it might have been a new organization but the arc collective modus operandi continued
00:55:25.720a chimera of sorts con absorbed the blog archive arbitrary targets and questionable cyber sleuthing
00:55:32.100tactics kurt had relied on for over a decade transplanted them into a new incarnation one
00:55:37.160that arguably turned the word leverage into a business plan so to gain a rudimentary understanding
00:55:44.100of how arc and cons wrote intersect you need to look no further than the explosive allegations
00:55:48.620contained in the toronto journalist anti-fascist activist kevin metcalf now this is an interesting
00:55:54.640guy this kind of shows how the art this anti-fascist site just became con um
00:56:00.880this is you're just gonna this is a fun story we're just gonna have some fun reading this story
00:56:07.100okay now everyone stay with me here metcalf first met avon balgord in 2013 at christina
00:56:14.300freeland's victory party what now in preparation for this article some people might not have known
00:56:25.240who christina freeland is who what she's known minister she's the prime minister
00:56:31.100um her physical attributes just to give people uh an idea of what uh people up here know her for
00:56:39.880i did a google search for christina freeland war crime of a dumper and i wasn't able to find0.98
00:56:48.160anything uh frankly if you're trying to find those of you he got a folder of christina freeland's1.00
00:56:55.480frank inappropriately sized ass it's christia i think but you can call christina i'm sure that0.85
00:57:01.820pisses her off it is christian that we know it's an annoying name to have it really is0.99
00:57:06.160you have no fucking business having this name as he recalls it sometime later balgord who was0.98
00:57:12.580rumored to be toronto ex-mayor john tory's nephew it seems like a rumor you could check0.99
00:57:19.620pretty easily but whatever if you're a fucking journalist right whatever invited him for a beer0.92
00:57:25.760at a bar around the corner from downtown condo his u.s banker parents money was paying for0.98
00:57:31.460for a discussion sent around the dark arts of politics amazing now you know without skipping
00:57:41.520ahead don't look down this sounds gay correct yes yes and i'm just handing out advice for
00:57:48.700everyone here during this episode if anyone in your life there's young guys listening young
00:57:53.980girls listening if anyone promises you insight into the dark arts of anything you turn around
00:57:59.960and you stab them in the back yeah so he goes to this man's this man's condo this elite parent zone
00:58:09.540to discuss the dark arts of this or that according to metcalf belgord had a specific interest in0.95
00:58:15.420twitter disinformation sock puppetry and media manipulation anything aside from being like a0.98
00:58:21.400cool guy people like online you'll notice that guys who've got the fucking beautiful minds0.62
00:58:27.660science in their minds like how do i get followers instead of just like being an interesting
00:58:32.940insightful likable man um after the beers they went back to balgord's place that's when metcalf
00:58:39.640claims that balgord behaved in a way that made him uncomfortable uh-oh
00:59:31.000now metcalf claims that he provided advice and feedback on how to start a non-profit which
00:59:40.080depended on balgord's ability to acquire kurt phillips's anti-racist canada website which
00:59:46.620came complete with a decade-long archive of anti-fascist street cred balgord told me straight
00:59:52.960up that this hinged on co-opting sorry professionalizing arc to give credence to
00:59:57.340statements metcalf's tweet is accompanied by a screenshot of an email where balgord
01:00:01.100does indeed appear intent on a continual arc by morphing it into a canadian rendition
01:00:06.920of the southern southern poverty law center
01:00:09.640so he's just absorbing this anti-fascist blog and trying to add legitimacy to it
01:00:16.060now what gets interesting is down here um
01:00:23.300i'm gonna try and try and keep us going at a good clip here
01:00:27.940now he also claims that warren kinsella bar bernie farber's remember bernie farber from a while ago
01:00:35.420longtime friend and self-admitted brother from another mother was the one to initially connect
01:00:39.800balgord to richard warman dick warman by email after being looped into an email thread related
01:00:46.440to metcalf's assault by the jdl the jewish defense league now i i kept scanning this document and i
01:00:53.480couldn't find more information on that or what they mean by that there was some kind of assault
01:00:59.320occurring with the jewish defense league um let's see here
01:01:04.120on the way home from ottawa evan told me that he needed to reach out to bernie that was two
01:01:12.700months before charlottesville i think bernie just brought the license of the jewish community
01:01:17.500that's when evan stopped trying to dox the adl the jdl so this evan guy was trying to go after
01:01:25.060the jd the jewish defense league was being stopped by bernie farber uh there's no way to account for
01:01:31.100this but belgord didn't respond to the request now here's what's interesting
01:01:36.480things between metcalf and belgord soured after metcalf was fired from the cjfe for releasing a
01:01:45.480public statement condemning israel for the deaths of gaza journalists so this guy metcalf a very0.83
01:01:52.340a naive doe-eyed antifa guy who's just who's gotten in with some some highfalutin jews
01:02:02.020went after the went after israel what happened to him metcalf believes he was blacklisted by
01:02:08.500the cbc and other mainstream press after that khan stopped mentioning metcalf in their articles
01:02:13.200which prompted him to declare he was going to criticize them for being co-optive he was swiftly
01:02:19.520swiftly blocked it's called bad jacketing my follower count engagement plummeting
01:02:24.960um and he just goes into description about like how he lost his career because he went after
01:02:33.540israel and the his new jewish boss just got rid of him right now here here's where it gets
01:02:41.860interesting to this day metcalf remains unequivocal in this characterization of khan0.68
01:02:46.260Quote, this network is a malicious hive mind, which turns friends into enemies in a bid to maintain its hegemony over Canadian anti-fascist spaces.
01:02:56.300That which will not be co-opted or which lacks ongoing utility must be marginalized and defamed.
01:03:03.040They're not just an anti-hate nonprofit.
01:03:05.560They are an unaccountable nonprofit spy agency.
01:03:07.880And I would say with some authority that I believe this was always the goal.