The old Mayor of Clarington, Ontario, John Mutton has been leading a hate campaign against a family with a hobby farm, who just happen to live in The Greenbelt (search Middle Road, Bowmanville - https://greenbelt.ca/maps).
In better news, some decent folk came together to show support for the family and condemn his planned hate rally and it worked. The evil leech immediately claimed he was Just Asking Questions for The People, You’re Making It About Racism, and The Safety of My Wife & Child.
-CBC link for the same news before the hate rally was cancelled
Snips here are from both the insauga and CBC articles:
What started as an online conspiracy theory that an illegal slaughterhouse is in operation in Clarington has rapidly evolved into a “coordinated campaign of white supremacist harassment” that has prompted the National Council of Canadian Muslims to speak out on behalf of a local Muslim family.
The council, along with the Clarington mayor and concerned residents, spoke publicly at a press conference in Bowmanville about what they are calling an “escalating campaign of intimidation, hate, and extremist threats” targeting Mohsin Bhuiyan and his family, who live on Middle Road in Bowmanville. - insauga
Bhuiyan, who has operated a small hobby farm […] for the last year, [shared with CBC that] he and his family have been “terrorized” by those pushing misinformation about his property online […]
[H]is family has faced harassment including drones flying over his property, social media comments calling for his house to be burned and his address being publicized.
Bhuiyan and his wife were also confronted outside their home earlier this week, leaving their family “traumatized,” he said. - CBC
The campaign against the Bhuiyan family has been amplified by a former Clarington mayor, John Mutton, who served in the role from 2000 to 2006 and was in the news in recent years for his role as an insider in the Greenbelt scandal (where he received a two-year ban from lobbying), as the infamous ‘Mr. X.’
Mutton, who has embraced his Mr. X persona, using it in all his social media posts, confronted the homeowner in a video he posted online and encouraged followers to report any “suspicious activity” at the farm. He alleged animals were being mistreated and said that critics were turning animal welfare concerns into a racially-charged issue. […]
Omar Khamissa of the NCCM, who spoke on the matter Thursday with Foster and community members by his side […], said “This is no longer simply a dispute driven by misinformation. The rhetoric surrounding this campaign has become increasingly associated with alt-right and white supremacist ideology. Material circulated online has included crusader imagery calling to ‘send them back," references to the anti-immigrant violence in Belfast as a model for Clarington and the promotion of anti-immigrant organizing.” - insauga