Given that the court is scheduled to pronounce sentence on the perpetually law-breaking "Pastor Art" Pawlowski today, it behooves us to make a couple predictions. First, recall that Rebel News seems to have raked in more than a million bucks exclusively for the hysterical, emotionally-charged defense of Pastor Art, whose potential sentence would seem to max out at just several thousand dollars and three weeks in jail:
This suggests that, at worst, he will have to turn over $17,000, so the stunning amount hoovered up by the "Save Artur" fundraiser would seem to have been a bit over the top, and should leave the lucky Rebelers with a mosh pit of cash to swim around in:
Even more, it's entirely possible that jail time will be reduced due to "time served," so it might be that the good pastor spends no time in jail whatever, making that fundraiser even more ridiculously lucrative. So what are the predictions?
Well, if things break Pastor Art's way and he gets a slap on the wrist, there will be much rejoicing from the hacks at Rebel News, insisting that it was only due to the steadfast belief and support of its donors who stood up for freedom and democracy and against communism and yadda, yadda, yadda, that sort of self-congratulatory onanism.
On the other hand, if Pastor Art is sentenced to even one more day in custody, there will be a monstrous hue and cry as to the crippling injustice of it all and, by God, Ezra will not stand for this, and there will be an appeal, which will undoubtedly cost $17.4 million so go to "savethegriftingpastor.ca" and donate. Yes, NOW!
Either way, it appears there will be a lot of dosh left over, which the mysterious "Democracy Fund" will, at some point, have to account for in detail and, no, we're not done with them yet.
In any event, let's watch.
P.S. It's still not clear how Pastor Art's case falls under the umbrella of "strategic litigation," since it seems to be a simple contempt of court case, which in no way represents any sort of larger legal principle.
P.P.S. Even with all the legal wrangling done and only sentencing left, the professional grifters at Der Rebel are still aggressively driving the crowdfunding bus for Pastor Art:
But note carefully the wording: "The decisions made in court will set a legal precedent for other pastors in Canada ...". That would be an obvious nod to Rebel's insistence that this is -- for the purposes of CRA tax deductions -- an example of "strategic litigation," and not a run-of-the-mill contempt case. So if the ruling is little more than a fine and some jail time for obvious contempt, where is the precedent? What value would this have strategically?
If I was Rebel News, I would be sweating bullets over the possibility that the end result of all of this grift was a simple fine for contempt that provided absolutely squat in the way of useful precedent.
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