Thread by @elisahategan

You have no idea how fast your life can be erased and destroyed when money, power & influence are at stake - even when you shut down Canada's most dangerous neo-Nazi group.
I need to raise $8000 in the next 3 weeks to continue my legal fight against Bernie Farber. Please help me.

Any amount will help - please help me fight to get my life back. paypal.com/paypalme/elisa…

Wanna know the dark humour in all this? A few years ago, when I was trying to fundraise researching my family's Jewish roots in eastern Europe, I asked Bernie for a dollar, or just to share the link on his wall. He declined to help under the pretext I wasn't a registered charity.

I spent years researching my Jewish father's past and connecting with Jewish cousins found on 23andMe, Ancestry & other places. When I finally inputted my family tree to Geni, their family-builder bot showed I am related, at least by marriage, to the guy. How's that for irony?

I didn’t lose my case on appeal. Farber blocked it w/ a Security for Costs motion. Anyone who reads my Notice of Appeal can see grave errors that threatened his case. I was going to win the appeal. But now I face an insurmountable financial barrier blocking my access to justice.

Bernie Farber and his group earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in govt funding & donations after claiming, among other things, that I was not single-handedly responsible for the fatal blow that killed the Heritage Front. I tried to correct his lie, and my life was destroyed.

So I come to you all with the same request I sent Bernie Farber, once upon a time: "Sorry to be begging for money, but I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t necessary. Even a single dollar will help. Even a share of my link on your wall. Please consider it."

Please help me get justice.

Care to make a contribution? @csiscanada @Safety_Canada @jyangstar @spaikin @tvo @TheAgenda @CBCNews @TorontoStar @globeandmail @OttawaCitizen @realsarahpolley #cronyism

This morning someone asked me if I accepted e-transfers - yes, absolutely. I also promise to refund everyone if target isn't met. My email is:

[e-mail]

Infinite thanks to all who contribute to my legal fight against Bernie Farber. #cdnpoli

I get it, you don’t know me. Why rock the boat and stick up for a nobody?
Maybe you hoped to get cash from Farber’s group
Maybe you don’t want to get in trouble w/editors
Maybe you’re scared of antisemitism accusations
Maybe you just don’t care
Let me tell you why you should care

We live in an age of cowardice, where people take cues from influencers, not facts.
In this world, the weight of truth depends on the perceived worth of those who speak it
Optics: well-decorated ex-CJC director Farber VS ex-Nazi, riffraff, poor female making trouble for good men

But there is ONE difference between us - as a teen, I risked my life to shut down a terrorist group with NO help from authorities.

At age 11 I fled communist Romania. At 16 I was recruited by Canada’s most dangerous white supremacist group in modern history, the Heritage Front.

At 18 I spied on the Front for 4 months, defected, gave 30 affidavits to police, testified against 3 leaders who were convicted & jailed, exposed CSIS mole Bristow’s criminal activity & led to the shutting down of the Heritage Front.
Denied Witness Protection, I went into hiding.

Dozens of anti-racist activists, LGBT community members & POC were terrorized & harassed as a result of Bristow's IT Campaign, a harassment campaign that targeted Front opponents. Following the escalation, firebombings began, skinheads beat up immigrants, a black woman was raped.

Despite all evidence, Farber vouched for Grant Bristow as CSIS hid him out of province.

In a @TorontoStar piece by @jyangstar whitewashing Bristow's crimes, Farber admits he STILL considers him a friend:"He was actually a man who wanted to do something real good for his country"

As Bristow's silence was ensured by a CSIS package worth hundreds of thousands, I was homeless and on the run for my life.
At barely 19, I was homeless, slept in women's shelters and dumpster-dived for food across Canada. I survived thanks to generosity of strangers (mostly POC).

While I struggle to survive, a teen girl hunted by grown men wanting to kill me, CBC producers research my life & make a film with @realsarahpolley. Approx 80% recreates my trauma from press/trial transcripts.

I'm not credited, paid or thanked. Farber is thanked in the credits.

Despite all the pain, fear & exploitation, despite all I endured in my life - beatings, abuse, poverty, danger & threats from neo-Nazis I'd betrayed - I KNEW I had made a difference.

Alone, I shut down the Heritage Front.

Until Farber decided to lie about it and enrich himself.

I was rewritten out of history and nobody cared. Nobody fought for me in my whole life so I don't expect anybody to care whether I live or die.

Please just read this. What is truth worth to you?
@ShreeParadkar @CANADALAND @JesseBrown @CIJAinfo @bnaibrithcanada @cbcfifth @CTVW5

So I ask again @csiscanada - sure you can't make a contribution?
You covered up your assets' crimes. Escaped justice after Indigenous activist Rodney Bobiwash died before he could sue you.
Can you spare a dollar for someone who's messed with your operations since 1993? #cdnpoli

Since my deaf parents dragged me to Canada in hope of a better life, I've experienced only exploitation & cover-ups.
At least Romanians KNEW we lived in a corrupt system where people were bribed/bought to rewrite history & silence dissent.
Here, people choose to become deafmutes.

What more can you do to me, Bernie? Gag me, threaten me, throw me in jail?

Your friend’s CSIS handler, as quoted by @cbcfifth: "We'll tear her to shreds."

So what now? What can you do to someone who has nothing left?

I was executed at age 11, the day I arrived in your country.

Farber couldn't have profited from my trauma without Canadian media's complicity. You endorsed fraud by:
1) cowardly looking away
2) being afraid to cover my evidence
3) promoting him as expert, despite his lies
4) staying silent as he monetized my life

TELL THE TRUTH #cdnpoli

Of all the journalists in this country, you @spaikin @tvo @TheAgenda @jyangstar should be the most ashamed at what you created. You could have corrected what you know are lies. Instead, you looked away. How do you sleep at night?

My blood is on your hands too.

Nobody ever fought for me in my life - I am as worthless as my deaf mother, who was underfed, slept in a barn & herded sheep barefoot as a child. Only after being raped by village boys around age 12 did a priest intervene & sent her to a Deaf state school incognitopress.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/the…

I'm as worthless as my deaf father, beaten by vicious boys, called the village idiot for being deaf. The cruelty seeped into his bones & passed to my mother & me. He went from garbage to President of the Deaf Association of Romania but couldn't scrub the village out of his blood.

The fact that I survived, let alone shut down a terrorist group with no help from police, was a miracle.

But we live in a country where a young girl who risks her life to shut down a violent terrorist group can have her life exploited by a man who knows he can get away with it.

The sum total of who I am is not just my name - it's the combined sum of my lived experiences: my trauma, my courage, my fears, my faith, my troubled youth & formative events I lived through & survived, the threats I endured & challenges I overcame. All of these form my identity.

Farber not only profited financially but stole my self-worth, my faith in justice, and the thing that I was most proud of - that as an 18-year old girl with no family & no govt protection, I risked my life to shut down the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in recent Canadian history.

Nearly 30 yrs ago my life was saved by kind strangers across Canada who opened their doors and hearts to a scared teenager on the run from the neo-Nazi group I had betrayed.
Today my life is on the line again. I'm begging all of you to help me get justice.

https://twitter.com/elisahategan/status/1348702631653474306

Many thanks to all who helped so far, I can't do this without you. Unfortunately I need to raise $7000 more this week or my appeal against Bernie Farber is dismissed. PLEASE consider even $5. I'll refund you if my goal isn't met.

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