Glenn Bahr
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Glenn Bahr (born ca. 1975) was one of the founders of Western Canada For Us (WCFU), a now defunct racist group based in Edmonton, Alberta. [1] 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 Zundel in front of the Edmonton constituency office of Anne McLellan on March 28, 2004. [2][3]
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. [4] 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. [5]
On January 10, 2005, members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes Unit travelled to Langley to arrest Bahr. [6][7][8] 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.[9][10] The hearing before the CHRT began May 23, 2006 in Edmonton and adjourned two weeks later. [11] 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:
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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 [sic] about being a hoimosexual, [sic] 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. [14]
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 of 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 [sic] honour in the fact my grandfather fought in the german [sic] army. This is why I will get the swastika, because dead or alive Hitler is my führer. Heil Hitler! [15][16]
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: [17]
