Oh, dear ... a little birdie tells me that Lloydminster's Patrick "Lord Baron Twatrick von Loadenhosen" Ross has spent several hours bad-mouthing me on Twitter, particularly related to my ongoing legal slapfest with professional fundraiser Ezra Levant. Patrick has much to say on the subject (all of it wrong), but perhaps this tweet most aptly characterizes Patrick's mendaciousness:
This is not the first time Patrick has lied about what this is all about. I could go into detail here but those who are unfamiliar with what happened are welcome to read, in detail, about a single aspect related to Ezra's 2016 lawsuit against me. Here, help yourself:
As you can see at those 2019 blog posts, I did not -- as Patrick so dishonestly bloviates -- simply try to criminalize someone who was selflessly trying to help forest fire victims. No, I was pointing out how Ezra was misleading and deceiving donors; a claim that, as you can see, I proved with numbers, and which was confirmed by the Red Cross' Susan Larkin. But here's the truly sad thing about Patrick's dishonesty:
He knows all this.
I've written about this legal action at length over the past few years, in precisely that kind of detail, and I know Patrick has read it. Patrick knows he is misrepresenting what happened, but he just doesn't care. Patrick knows that my criticisms of Ezra Levant's 2016 fundraiser are based purely on the deception and misrepresentation contained therein, but he just doesn't give a shit, and continues to lie about it. And here's the real irony:
It's lying about me that got Patrick where he is today -- an undischarged bankrupt without a trustee that now owes me around $120,000, is about to have the collection enforcement arm of the Saskatchewan sheriffs descend on him like a million-pound shithammer, and is potentially facing criminal charges for filing a knowingly fraudulent Statement of Claim against someone else.
And yet ... and yet ... Patrick simply cannot stop lying. He can't. And he wonders how his life has turned into such utter shit.
The answer is not hard to see.
BONUS TRACK: At the appropriate time, I am going to start blogging about the upcoming trial (still a ways off), but regarding the matching issue mentioned above, there is one point I want to emphasize, and that is that Ezra's lawyer lied to me -- flat-out fucking lied to me -- when, during questioning in late 2016, this happened:
That would be Ezra's lawyer, assuring me that his client had indeed "matched" all donations when he absolutely knew that that was not true. He knew it wasn't true.
I'm not going to identify Ezra's lawyer but, trust me, the fact that he flat-out fucking lied to me during questioning is not going away, and I am going to make goddamned sure it comes back to bite him in the ass.
That's a promise.
BY THE WAY, it's amusing that Patrick continues, to this day, to claim that I suggested that Ezra Levant was, in any way, breaking the law, given that, at the very beginning of the aforementioned fundraiser back in 2016, I published quite openly that I was unaware of any lawbreaking:
It should come as no surprise, then, that Patrick's inaccurate tweet above is pretty clearly defamatory, but there's probably little point in suing him again.
As anyone who’s ever dealt with Patrick Ross knows full well, he is the most dishonest debater imaginable. Patrick’s shtick is to argue in bad faith. By that, I mean that Patrick is never, ever, ever interested in an actual, honest exchange of ideas. Rather, Patrick’s M.O. is to hideously distort whatever you say or write, then attack the distortion. Patrick Ross has never been interested in discussion. Patrick Ross has only ever been interested in winning, and a couple examples will demonstrate that quite nicely.
Consider, if you will, the case of Andrew Meyer. As you can read, Meyer was the dumbass who was Tasered at the U of Florida for being an obnoxious, belligerent troublemaker [at a John Kerry talk] who physically scuffled with security until they’d had enough and Tased his sorry ass. Given his behaviour, I and many others opined that, frankly, anyone that much of an idiot deserved to get a good Tasering, and I for one had no sympathy.Patrick Ross’ rebuttal was as rapid as it was idiotic — “CC thinks people who disagree with John Kerry should be Tasered!!”See what Patrick Ross did there? Totally stripped the context, and dumped on me for something not even remotely close to reality or what I’d written. And lest you think that was an isolated incident, let us continue.There was also the case of anti-choice crusader Ed Snell. But Ed Snell was no ordinary shrieky fetus fetishist, oh no. As you can read here, Snell was a delightfully ambitious dingbat, who went to the trouble of building a car-top platform, from where he could continue to howl Scripturally at women even after they’d entered the grounds of an abortion clinic. Once again, a number of people (including myself) really couldn’t muster up any pity for Snell once someone lost it and booted Snell’s ass off the top of his car.You know what’s coming, don’t you? Yes, you do: “CC encourages violent physical assault of senior citizens!!!!!”See how Patrick works? To a miniscule grain of reality, Patrick Ross wraps multiple layers of exaggeration, distortion, misrepresentation and utter bullshit. This is what he does. This is how he argues. Invariably. Anyone who has dealt with him for any amount of time knows precisely of what I speak.
8 comments:
Twatrick is like Sheila Gunn Reid. A mixture of stupidly, sociopathy and willful ignorance.
I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect description of Patrick's debating style than what you wrote above. That is exactly the way he argues with everyone.
I'm pretty sure that when Patrick reaches the place of being a doddering old fool (he only has to add 'old' to that), he will be blaming you for the shitshow that his life became. At no time will he ever have that moment of insight where he realizes that his own actions played a significant role in this.
Instead, his own inner pack of lies narrative will surface and pave it all over. He'll be _The_Guy_ in the old folks home that sits in a chair raving about how the world conspired to fuck him over at every turn.
It's really kind of pathetic when you look at it that way - and yet objectively, it's hard to find much sympathy for him.
I used to co-blog with Stageleft, a now-deceased web partner whose views on censorship and edition were libertarian in the extreme - he would never edit, block or delete anyone, no matter how foul or dishonest their behaviour. Against my vehement objections, he once insisted we allow a long string of racist, scatological obscenity to stand in the comments because "we don't censor anyone".
The one exception he made was for Patrick Ross.
Ross would initially pollute a thread with his usual strategies, well known to everyone here. Our readership was pretty smart, and the classic "don't feed the trolls" comment worked fine; Ross would do his best to provoke, elicit no response, declare "victory", and give up.
Then the strategically obsessive side emerged. He began to actually engage in civil debate for a response or two, just enough to hook an unwary respondent into a conversation, and then go into full troll mode. I never figured out whether his goal was actually to ruin the experience of our site for everyone, or whether it was simply a sociopathic need to build a little imaginary universe in which was dominants. But it won him the distinction of being the first, last and only ever blocked by the infinitely patient Stageleft.
Yup, that's our Patrick, particularly the part where he walks in and takes a steaming rhetorical dump in the middle of the living room, and when people tell him to take a hike, he crows about having vanquished everyone and declares "victory."
I could not have described it better myself.
This is how Patrick describes himself:
Author of the forthcoming novel Dragon Gold. Podcaster: 100 Degrees coming soon! Warrior. Actor. Director. Producer. The whole F'n threat.
Warrior? We know he can't fight.
Actor? Since when?
Producer? Lol, sure.
Podcast? You mean the 9 people who've liked his channel?
The only way he's the who f'n threat is if he co-owns anything because Robert Day is about to take his stake in everything.
Oh, nothing delivered today. I've channeled him to post it, but I'm guessing he won't.
For the record as well. Spoke to the lawyer I've retained, and Patrick hasn't served a proper notice of libel to anyone, so we're going to get it kicked for that reason. We will of course notify the court of his status (Already have up in GP) as trusteeless undischarged bankrupt and he failed to inform the court.
They've informed me it on him, 100% on Patrick to inform the course of his status BEFORE filing. He simply wouldn't have been allowed to.
So no proper notice of libel. Didn't inform the court of his status because he would have never been allowed to file without a trustee attached. He's trying to make up the law as he goes, we we're doing as little as possible because we know when we're awarded costs, we won't see a dime of that money.
RogueNerdOne: If it's not overly onerous, would it be possible to have Patrick charged criminally for *knowingly* filing a meritless and defamatory action? As a criminal charge, I would think it wouldn't be your responsibility to pursue it; that would be the job of the Crown, no?
He could he charged with a criminal charge. He can also be found in contempt of court.
If he failed to inform the court of his bankruptcy status while filing his statement of claim, I'm going to get him labelled a vexatious litigant. We've all seen him waste the court's time with useless motions only to be handed his ass by judges.
It's time he faced consequences for all his horseshit. While you're backing up the Prius to take all his worldly possession into a single box, I'll ensure he doesn't do this to anyone else without the court's leave to do so.
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