Flipping The Bird A ‘God-Given Right’ Rules Canadian Judge; Giving Middle Finger ‘God-given right,’ Not a Crime: Judge

Flipping The Bird A ‘God-Given Right’ Rules Canadian Judge:

Giving someone the middle finger is a God-given right according to a Canadian judge.

In a 26-page decision reported by The Guardian, judge Dennis Galiatsatos dismissed a case against a man who allegedly harassed his neighbor in a Montreal suburb.

“To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger,” he said in the Feb. 24 ruling. “Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian.”

In May 2021, Neall Epstein was arrested by police for uttering death threats and “criminal harassment” against his neighbor, Michael Naccache, in Beaconsfield, Quebec.

But judge Galiatsatos instead laid into Naccache, whose complaints were “nothing more than mundane, petty neighborhood trivialities.”

“It is deplorable that the complainants have weaponized the criminal justice system in an attempt to exert revenge on an innocent man for some perceived slights that are, at best, trivial peeves,” reads the ruling. —>READ MORE HERE

Giving middle finger ‘God-given right,’ not a crime: judge

Giving the middle finger may not be nice, but it is people’s “God-given” right, a Canadian judge has ruled in clearing a man of harassment charges in a neighbors’ quarrel.

In his often-hilarious 26-page ruling cited by the Guardian on Friday, Quebec Judge Dennis Galiatsatos unequivocally proclaimed that displaying the rude gesture does not constitute a criminal act.

“To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger,” the judge wrote in his recent opinion. “Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian.

“It may not be civil, it may not be polite, it may not be gentlemanly. Nevertheless, it does not trigger criminal liability.”

In May 2021, police in the Montreal suburb of Beaconsfield arrested 45-year-old Neall Epstein, a local school teacher, on charges of uttering death threats and criminal harassment after he “flipped off” his neighbor, Michael Naccache.

The two men had been feuding, and on that day Naccache, 34, allegedly hurled profanities at Epstein and raised a drill at him in a “menacing way.”

Epstein later testified that Naccache called him “f—ing crazy” and “dips–t,” and told him: “you’re f—ing dead.” —>READ MORE HERE

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