Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network

Sidney Allinson is a Victoria-based communications consultant, Canadian
news correspondent for Britain’s The Army Quarterly and Defence, and
the author of Military Archives: International Directory of Military
Publications and The Bantams: The Untold St

Anyone who’s ever wondered if our national yearning to be uniformly
tolerant is not a little overdone would find his or her suspicions
confirmed by this catalogue of Nazi-nostalgics, anti-Semites, and racist
paranoids who are allowed to flourish in our midst. Early on, the author
lists a dozen serious crimes, from assault to murder, committed in
Canada in recent years, as evidence of a vast neo-Nazi conspiracy. This
is overstating the case. The groups identified by Kinsella seem to be
preoccupied mainly with chiseling money out of those gullible and
disturbed individuals who subscribe to their nonsensical racist
newsletters. Web of Hate brings to mind Margaret Thatcher’s shrewd
observation that terrorists—and, by extension, all extremist
groups—are nourished by the media.