'Full-time Nazi' fined for inciting Internet hatred
CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, October 27, 2007

OTTAWA -- A Calgary woman has been fined $1,500 and ordered to pay $3,000 in compensation to an Ottawa man after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal upheld a complaint about Internet hatred.

In a ruling released Friday, the tribunal issued a permanent order requiring Jessica Beaumont, a 21-year-old Calgary retail clerk and self-described "full-time Nazi," to stop posting hate messages on the Internet.

It fined her and ordered her to compensate Richard Warman for abusive comments she posted about him online after the Ottawa lawyer filed his complaint in January, 2005. Warman said the tribunal's ruling "sends the message that spreading hate propaganda through the Internet is illegal and that people will be held accountable for their actions."

Warman has lodged 15 complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission since starting his one-man crusade against Internet hate six years ago. The human rights tribunal has upheld 10 of them.

© The Vancouver Sun 2007

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