Glenn Bahr
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Glenn Bahr is a Canadian neo-Nazi and was one of the founders of Western Canada For Us
(WCFU), a now defunct racist group based in Edmonton
, Alberta
. While it was in existence, the WCFU had active members from and opened chapters in such locations as Winnipeg
, Manitoba
, Red Deer
, Alberta, Calgary
, Alberta and was about to begin a British Columbia
chapter when the group was disbanded. The group operated a website
and web forum with members from across Canada
and the United States
, including Ciaran Paul Donnelly, Jessica Beaumont, Terry Tremaine (all of whom currently have cases against them with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
) and William Noble (currently charged with violating Canadian hate crime laws).
While the WCFU was active, Bahr organized a meeting for WCFU supporters and like-minded individuals. At this meeting, fellow White Nationalists
Paul Fromm and Melissa Guille
of Ontario
were the guest speakers. Bahr later organized a demonstration in support of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel
in front of the Edmonton constituency office of Anne McLellan
on March 28, 2004.
On May 2, 2004, Bahr appeared on the Peter Warren
Show, a Canadian social affairs radio programme heard in a number of Canadian radio
markets. Although Bahr had intended for his appearance on the programme to garner public support for the WCFU, Peter Warren instead systematically exposed the group's links to the Ku Klux Klan
, Aryan Nations
, Canadian Heritage Alliance
and the Northern Alliance
. Bahr faced further problems when Peter Kouba
, the co-founder of the WCFU whom Bahr had pushed out of the group in a power struggle, called into the programme using the name "Richard" and divulged Bahr’s online pseudonym SS-88 that Bahr used when posting both on the WCFU’s forums and those of Stormfront
and Blood and Honour
, both White Nationalist sites.
On May 7, 2004, Bahr’s residence was raided by the Edmonton police
where they seized computer hard drives, Nazi flags, and books promoting white supremacy
. The WCFU website was also shut down on this day. Soon after the raid Bahr disbanded the WCFU. He then moved back to live with his parents in Langley, British Columbia
.
On January 10, 2005, members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes Unit travelled to Langley to arrest Bahr. The preliminary hearing against Bahr began on January 23, 2006 and adjourned on January 27. The criminal case is expected to continue the week of October 2, 2006.
Bahr also has a complaint that has been brought against him before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal by Richard Warman
. The hearing before the CHRT began May 23, 2006 in Edmonton and adjourned two weeks later. Bahr’s advocate during the CHRT hearing was Paul Fromm. Part of the complaint against Bahr is derived from his posts on both the WCFU forum and Stormfront forum where he refers to First Nations
peoples as "vermin":
Advocated killing homosexuals and the mentally disabled:
And spoke of his admiration for Hitler:
In a decision on December 1, 2006, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found Bahr and his group Western Canada For Us both guilty of violating the Canadian Human Rights Act prohibition against distributing hate propaganda through the Internet. Each were fined $5,000 and permanent injunctions were issued against them prohibiting such conduct in the future backed up by the Federal Court's power to punish through fines and imprisonment for contempt of court. The decision is online here:
Western Canada For Us
Western Canada For Us was a short-lived Alberta-based white nationalist group founded by Glenn Bahr and Peter Kouba in early 2004. The WCFU was formally dissolved on May 11, 2004, four days after Bahr's residence in Edmonton, Alberta, was raided by members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes division...
(WCFU), a now defunct racist group based in Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
. While it was in existence, the WCFU had active members from and opened chapters in such locations as Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
, Red Deer
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer is a city in Central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's third-most-populous city – after Calgary and Edmonton. The city is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills...
, Alberta, Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
, Alberta and was about to begin a British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
chapter when the group was disbanded. The group operated a website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
and web forum with members from across Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, including Ciaran Paul Donnelly, Jessica Beaumont, Terry Tremaine (all of whom currently have cases against them with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is an administrative tribunal established in 1977 by the Canadian Human Rights Act. It is directly funded by the Parliament of Canada and is independent of the Canadian Human Rights Commission which refers cases to it for adjudication under the Act.The Tribunal...
) and William Noble (currently charged with violating Canadian hate crime laws).
While the WCFU was active, Bahr organized a meeting for WCFU supporters and like-minded individuals. At this meeting, fellow White Nationalists
White nationalism
White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people. White separatism and white supremacism are subgroups within white nationalism. The former seek a separate white nation state, while the latter add ideas from social Darwinism and...
Paul Fromm and Melissa Guille
Melissa Guille
Melissa Guille is a white supremacist and the leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance. Founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, the group, which has been characterised as white supremacist, was accused of having links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener based Tri-City Skins.In 2001,...
of Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
were the guest speakers. Bahr later organized a demonstration in support of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel
Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
in front of the Edmonton constituency office of Anne McLellan
Anne McLellan
|-...
on March 28, 2004.
On May 2, 2004, Bahr appeared on the Peter Warren
Peter Warren (radio)
Peter Warren is a Canadian investigative journalist, private investigator, former talk radio host and member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
Show, a Canadian social affairs radio programme heard in a number of Canadian radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
markets. Although Bahr had intended for his appearance on the programme to garner public support for the WCFU, Peter Warren instead systematically exposed the group's links to the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
, Aryan Nations
Aryan Nations
Aryan Nations is a white supremacist religious organization originally based in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Richard Girnt Butler founded the group in the 1970s, as an arm of the Christian Identity organization Church of Jesus Christ–Christian...
, Canadian Heritage Alliance
Canadian Heritage Alliance
The Canadian Heritage Alliance is a Canadian white supremacist group founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Detective Terry Murphy of London's Hate Crime Unit alleged that the group had links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge-based Tri-City Skins.Its leader, Melissa...
and the Northern Alliance
Northern Alliance (White supremacist organization)
The Northern Alliance is a far right, white supremacist organization based in London, Ontario, Canada. The group started in 1997, and has been involved in a number of public controversies. The group's leading members include Jason Ouwendyk, Tyler Chilcott, Dave Ruud, and Tomas Szymanski...
. Bahr faced further problems when Peter Kouba
Peter Kouba
Peter Kouba was one of the co-founders of the now defunct Alberta-based white nationalist group Western Canada For Us . Kouba, along with Glenn Bahr started the group in February 2004...
, the co-founder of the WCFU whom Bahr had pushed out of the group in a power struggle, called into the programme using the name "Richard" and divulged Bahr’s online pseudonym SS-88 that Bahr used when posting both on the WCFU’s forums and those of Stormfront
Stormfront (website)
Stormfront is a white nationalist and supremacist neo-Nazi Internet forum that has been described as the Internet's first major hate site.Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being established as a website in 1995 by former Ku Klux Klan leader and white...
and Blood and Honour
Blood and Honour
Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and political group founded in 1987 with links to Combat 18 and composed of white power skinheads and other white nationalists....
, both White Nationalist sites.
On May 7, 2004, Bahr’s residence was raided by the Edmonton police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
where they seized computer hard drives, Nazi flags, and books promoting white supremacy
White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...
. The WCFU website was also shut down on this day. Soon after the raid Bahr disbanded the WCFU. He then moved back to live with his parents in Langley, British Columbia
Langley, British Columbia (city)
The City of Langley is a municipality in Metro Vancouver. It lies directly east of the City of Surrey, adjacent to Cloverdale, and surrounded on the north, east and south by Township of Langley.-History:...
.
On January 10, 2005, members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes Unit travelled to Langley to arrest Bahr. The preliminary hearing against Bahr began on January 23, 2006 and adjourned on January 27. The criminal case is expected to continue the week of October 2, 2006.
Bahr also has a complaint that has been brought against him before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal by Richard Warman
Richard Warman
Richard Warman is an Ottawa-based lawyer who is active in human rights law. Warman worked for the Canadian Human Rights Commission from July 2002 until March 2004...
. The hearing before the CHRT began May 23, 2006 in Edmonton and adjourned two weeks later. Bahr’s advocate during the CHRT hearing was Paul Fromm. Part of the complaint against Bahr is derived from his posts on both the WCFU forum and Stormfront forum where he refers to First Nations
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
peoples as "vermin":
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- This is crap! Maybe writing something in the newspaper about this will get attention. When the heck are we gonna stop giving these vermin the easy way out!.
Advocated killing homosexuals and the mentally disabled:
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- I believe no matter how or why you are a homosexual your life should be terminated. This is not right. Nature intended for us to breed in order for us to continue our race. There is nothing natureal about being a hoimosexual, it is for purely sexual reasons. They should be terminated along with retards and any other degenerates that nature would do away with in the wild. What gives us the right to prolong a life that would have been terminated by nature... Nature intended for males to mate with females anything else is a perverted sickness that needs to be destroyed.
And spoke of his admiration for Hitler:
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- Because I believe in the Nazi ideals. To me it is a symbol of my beliefs and lets everyone know what I stand for. I am not ashamed of wearing a swastika but proud to wear that symbol. I am prepared to fight for my beliefs. I take my shirt off every summer and my SS [tattoo] is revealed and sure I get looks. But I am proud to have the SS on my skin, to me it is a great honour. I take gret honour in the fact my grandfather fought in the german army. This is why I will get the swastikaSwastikaThe swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form in counter clock motion or its mirrored left-facing form in clock motion. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient...
, because dead or alive Hitler is my führerFührerFührer , alternatively spelled Fuehrer in both English and German when the umlaut is not available, is a German title meaning leader or guide now most associated with Adolf Hitler, who modelled it on Benito Mussolini's title il Duce, as well as with Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also...
. Heil Hitler!
- Because I believe in the Nazi ideals. To me it is a symbol of my beliefs and lets everyone know what I stand for. I am not ashamed of wearing a swastika but proud to wear that symbol. I am prepared to fight for my beliefs. I take my shirt off every summer and my SS [tattoo] is revealed and sure I get looks. But I am proud to have the SS on my skin, to me it is a great honour. I take gret honour in the fact my grandfather fought in the german army. This is why I will get the swastika
In a decision on December 1, 2006, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found Bahr and his group Western Canada For Us both guilty of violating the Canadian Human Rights Act prohibition against distributing hate propaganda through the Internet. Each were fined $5,000 and permanent injunctions were issued against them prohibiting such conduct in the future backed up by the Federal Court's power to punish through fines and imprisonment for contempt of court. The decision is online here: