Freedom Party’s Robert Metz and Marc Emery at Fraser Committee Hearnings on Pornography (1984)

 All, FPO Featured
Feb 091984
 

1984-04-xx.metz-thumbVIDEO – DESCRIPTION:

In the early 1980s, members of a radical feminist group called the London Status of Women Action Group sent out a letter to London businesses falsely claiming that child pornography was being sold at stores in London. When a federal commission on pornography and prostitution (the Fraser Committee) held a hearing in London, Ontario on February 9, 1984, Freedom Party president Robert Metz and Freedom Party action director Marc Emery testified. Emery offered $500 to anyone who could find child pornography being sold in a London store. Nobody ever claimed the money. The “child porn” false allegation was being used in an effort to censor adult erotica magazines. Continue reading »

Emery and Metz versus the Ontario Board of Censors’ Chair, Mary Brown

 All, FPO Call-in
Feb 061984
 

1985-fpo-radio-thumbAUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

It’s early February of 1984, and everyone’s talking about pornography and censorship in Canada. Federally, the Fraser Committee on pornography is holding cross-Canada hearings. On this particular date – estimated to be February 6, 1984 – the Chair of the Ontario Board of Censors, Mary Brown, is the guest of Wayne McLean’s talk radio program on Radio 98, in London, Ontario. She fields calls from the show’s listeners, including Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery and Freedom Party president Robert Metz. Both take on Brown over censorship.

 

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Flyer: Maybe Politics

 All, Various Flyers
Jan 011984
 

1984-xx-xx.maybe-politicsA Freedom Party of Ontario promotional flyer used by the party for years. On February 18, 2013, Freedom Party of Ontario president Robert Metz’s best recollection was that this flyer may have been designed and used as early as January 1, 1984. Freedom Flyer #12 mentions that the “Maybe Politics” flyer was being distributed in the summer 1988. Three versions have been found in the archives so far. All three have Freedom Party’s original Richmond Street address in London written upon them. Freedom Party left that address in late January of 1994. Continue reading »

Bill Paul Interviews Marc Emery (December, 1983)

 All, Pre-FPO Featured
Dec 151983
 

1980-xx-xx.emery-thumb2AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

Before Freedom Party of Ontario was founded in 1984, one of the founding members of the party – Marc Emery – was the publisher of the London Metrobulletin, the owner of the City Lights Book Store in London, Ontario, and a recent candidate for alderman in that city. By 1983, his activism and publishing had made him a well known proponent of individual freedom in the London area.

This is Bill Paul’s first interview of Marc Emery. Emery discusses his political orientation, feminism, libel laws, his 1980 founding of the London Tribune newspaper, his newer London Metrobulletin tabloid, Ayn Rand, and more. The exact date of the interview is not known, but Paul and Emery discussed the fourth issue of the London Metrobulletin, which issue included a reproduction of a passage from the December 2, 1983 Ontario Hansard, which indicates that this interview was recorded in December of 1983.

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London Metrobulletin (Issue #4)

 All, London Metrobulletin
Dec 151983
 

Published by later-to-be Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery, four issues of the London Metrobulletin were published in 1983 using equipment purchased from the defunct London Tribune newspaper (formerly owned by Marc Emery, Robert Metz, and others).

Contents of Issue #4:
What is the issue in Grenada? (Mark Pettigrew); Youth against war: So who isn’t?; A letter from the Publisher; Content quotas on automobiles (Peter Kennedy vs. Alex Beretta); Rebuttals to our last issue’s subject: Abortion (L.L. De Veber vs. Marc Emery); London Survey Shows Voters Want Prudent City Government; Stealing in the name of the Lord (Robert Metz); Should libraries pay royalties to Canadian authors? (Herman Goodden); Is socialized medicine a sacred cow? (Murray Hopper); Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a bird.., it’s a plane, its…garbage! (John Cossar); London’s project: Energy from waste; Best of Queen’s Park; Are we all just going to blow up, or what? (Ken Jones); In defence of hate literature and other passions of the mind (Marc Emery); Weep not for the elderly: They never had it so good (Marc Emery); Lessons in Censorship I: Pornography again? [We’re sick and tired of hearing about it too] (Robert Metz); Lessons in Censorship II: Feminists; Lessons in Censorship III: The law; The best of Parliament Hill; Abortion: a need for private care (Kathleen Yurcich);

SPECIAL 24 PAGE INSERT – 1984: CANADA AS IT IS AND HOW IT OUGHT TO BE. Continue reading »

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