Nouvelle sur ce blog, j'ai vu la belle publicité sur le droit d'expression à Rawdon dans le Journal de Montréal du 8 février.
Hé oui les débats devraient se faire a la salle du conseil. Dans ce cas une bonne partie des $500,000. devraient servir à agrandir la salle.
Je n'ai pas vu les messages précédents, mais d'après mon expérience personelle j'ai une bonne idée de comment les gens sont traités a Rawdon.

Ce message est mon opinion personelle et n'engage en rien l'administrateur de ce site.

il serait important de trouver une solution qui permettrait à tous de coexister sans avoir toujours besoin d'avoir recours aux tribunaux. Parce que sinon à ce train là, on va être une méchante gagne au palais de justice

Hi Friends:

So the way the government/establishment takes care of a website that may or may not be disseminating the truth is by joining together - Municipality of Rawdon, Courts, Journal (l'Expression) - to inhibit the website from being critical; shutting down the website! On February 5th 2008, the courts shut down a website for things that were said, by anonymous users, in 2004, see the article attached. What a great way for Governments to, once more, take over our freedoms, that we have gone to great lenths to establish, most recently, on the internet.

If anyone were to take 5 minutes and think about this they would realise that the courts don't have the right to shut down a site for anything said on it. Who is judging if what was said was the truth or not? Is it possible that this site is being shut down because it is telling the truth? This has happened way too often in history. Let us, the citizens of Rawdon, decide whether or not what was said was defamatory or true, and if it was defamatory make the site owners write an apology, don't close down the site, our place to tell our truths.

If we were to shut down a newspaper every time it defamed someone, we wouldn't have a newspaper in print until tomorrow, and that one would probably be shut down the day after.

It's time to wake up, everybody! This is no longer the game of establishment versus population, this is a question of it being time for establishment and population to be the same. All part of the same body. Shutting down websites seems to be the latest global game (Paypal is also starting to experiment with this) and guess what, it's in our town, Rawdon. If we, the cybernauts, allow this to happen, without protest, it will start happening all over, all the time. There was no trial, no jury, just judgement; close down the site.

I wish every time we were dissatisfied with something we could just shut it down. How much fun must that be. Lets close down the school, one of the teachers taught our children a lie and told them it was history. Lets take this judge from his/her bench as they made a judgement that was not correct. Lets take the mayor from his/her chair as they wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars this year. That would cause too much havoc you say. But when it comes time to deal with the commoner...; SHUT them down!!! That doesn't work any better.

I highly recommend that a tribunal be formed, of 12 citizens of the town, chosen by a disinterested party, without bias, to judge if the statements were defamatory or true, and what should be done at the level of the website if in fact some comments have been found to be defamatory. Too much power to the people, you might say... Shame on you, I say... Lets start the next 2 millennia on a new path of truth, honesty and clarity. This means that the so called governing bodies, do not have dictatorial powers over the people. It also might teach the people how to express themselves with greater finesse, it takes a little of that too sometimes. Not to the point of inhibiting the truth, however. - Brian Morin

great idea Brian... we'll now have the Rawdon Apostles led by Rpbin Millette in the role pf Jesus. The young scribe can play Magdaleine Solo could be the Holy Ghost, we just need someone to play God.

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J'ai lancé un nouveau Forum pour les citoyens de Rawdon et des environs. Notez qu'il y a une conférence de presse lundi à Montréal sur les SLAPP.

Si le site est déjà fermer, purquoi la ville continue avec leur poursuite? ceci est le premier endroit qui parle de Slapp. Les gens devrais boycotter les commerces qui annonce dans le journal de Joliette, tout le monde sortirais gagnant. Les gens lierais les articles, et les journalistes pourrais faire leurs travail au lieu de faire des copies coller de tracts envoyer par les villes.

have you noticed that the www.rawdon-qc.net is offline? since friday evening ... I'm wondering how far this is going to go.

What makes it interesting is it's only words written on the internet. and now they have been magnetized. As requested.

more to come

From what i hear, things aren't going to well for the city of Rawdon in this whole cyberdefamation fiasco.

Do keep us up to date with the procedings.