[Rhodes22-list] Free Speech in Canada

[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

WOW!!!

Maybe it'd be good for those of us in the states to consider that this 
travesty is brought to you by the same gov't that has brought the 
Canadian people gun control. Give 'em an inch and they'll eventually 
take a friggin' mile. We need to be careful what we wish for.

Oh, and that imam or whatever the hell he is, needs to go back where he 
came from.

UNBELIEVABLE

Rik

"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein




Brad Haslett wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Here's the guys website: http://ezralevant.com/
>
> You can read the transcript of the recording which in some ways, is even
> more powerful.
>
> I'm attaching what Mark Steyn (the author of "America Alone") had to say
> today. Scary stuff!
>
> Brad
>
> ----------------------
>
> Saturday, January 12, 2008
>
> "The last house of worship torched in Edmonton was my synagogue"   [Mark
> Steyn <m%61%69l%62ox%40%73t%65%79nonl%69%6ee%2ecom>]
>
> I've been in the wilds away from the Internet all day, but I wanted to draw
> attention to this <http://ezralevant.com/> - yesterday's interrogation of my
> old boss Ezra Levant by one of Canada's many "human rights commissions" for
> publishing the Danish cartoons. Much to the irritation of the Alberta
> thought police, Ezra has posted portions of the video at his site (start at
> the top and scroll down - or, if that's too busy, try radio station
> CHQR<http://www.am770chqr.com/station/blog_the_world_tonight.cfm?bid=20830>).
> There are three sections, starting with Ezra's opening statement, which
> points out that his freedom of speech is not the gift of Canadian
> bureaucrats but an inalienable right bolstered by 800 years of English
> Common Law as well as more modish documentation such as the UN's Universal
> Declaration on Human Rights.
>
> Then come two sections - one in which "human rights agent" Shirlene McGovern
> quizzes him on his intent in publishing the cartoons, and another in which
> she raises the fear that his publishing them could lead to violence against
> Muslims "particularly in today's world post-9/ 11 that has made a number of
> Muslims more vulnerable to hatred and contempt".Ezra's answer speaks for
> itself, but Ms McGovern's question reminds me of a passage from Melanie
> Phillips' book *Londonistan*:
>
> Minority-rights doctrine has produced a moral inversion, in which those
> doing wrong are excused if they belong to a 'victim' group, while those at
> the receiving end of their behaviour are blamed simply because they belong
> to the 'oppressive' majority.
>
> Ms McGovern, a blandly unexceptional bureaucrat, is a classic example of the
> syndrome. No "vulnerable" Canadian Muslim has been attacked over the
> cartoons, but the cartoonists had to go into hiding, and a gang of Muslim
> youths turned up at their children's grade schools, and Muslim rioters
> around the world threatened death to anyone who published them, and even
> managed to kill a few folks who had nothing to do with them. Nonetheless,
> upon receiving a complaint from a Saudi imam trained at an explicitly
> infidelophobic academy and who's publicly called for the introduction of
> sharia in Canada, Shirlene McGovern decides that the purely hypothetical
> backlash to Muslims takes precedence over any actual backlash against
> anybody else.
>
> Thus the unending valse macabre of our times, as the supposedly progressive
> forces of tolerance are whirled around the floor by the avowedly intolerant.
> Ezra is rightly contemptuous of these "human rights commissions". Canadians
> should be ashamed of this show trial.
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 8:54 PM, Dan Stromquist <stormy22n7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Wow! Does anyone know the results of this hearing?
>> Dan Stromquist
>>
>> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>>     
>>> This is a little scary - political correctness gone wild in Canada.
>>> Coming
>>> to a theater near you in the USA. Ezra Levant is my new hero!
>>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=AzVJTHIvqw8
>>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=3iMNM1tef7g
>>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=lFXJaEYyYjY
>>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=6n3SdV2cwn4
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