Canada's Western Standard magazine charged for publishing Danish cartoons

Western Standard via e-mail ^ | March 30, 2006 | Ezra Levant

[Crispus Attucks Patriot]

McCain/Feingold?

Wait until it gets a re-hearing here:


...now that...

...and...


....are on the court.

[opinionator]

What did he expect, living in a fascist country?

[proud_yank]

Was a lawsuit ever filed over the 'capitalist pig' cartoon at the Univ of Sask? (I think that was the school)

It is 'tolerant' and perfectly acceptable to attack Christianity though.

[proud_yank]

[GMMAC]

"Thank GOD we have THIS down here.... " (The 1st Amendment)

Couldn't agree more !!!
(see my FR homepage)

God Bless America & Patriots who defend & uphold her magnificent Constitution !!!

[Supernatural]

A counter-suit for a frivolous lawsuit comes to mind here.

[fanfan]

The problem is that the Human Rights Commissions are funded by taxpayers here, so either way we are fubared.

[Supernatural]

Perhaps a counter-suit with the same commission would force the muslim to defend himself and waste his time, effort and resources. Then maybe both sides could drop their suits.

If there a right to free speech in Canada? I don't know the rules there.

[Snowyman]

God Bless America & Patriots who defend & uphold her magnificent Constitution !!!

All well and good. Personally I think Ezra was right and pubishing them was about news. How many American newspapers published the cartoons? I don't know but I don't think very many. Why? Not publishing isn't defending anything.

[GMMAC]

Personally, had I been in a position to, I wouldn't have published them on the basis of my acceptance of the "Golden Rule" & not favoring public mockery of my own Faith.

However, I also believe in free speech, a right far more clearly defined & guaranteed under America's Constitution than within Canada's Liberal imposed Charter of alleged Rights & Freedoms.

[concrete is my business]

Re; "And they seem to be immune to the prerogative writs remedies such as certiorari or quo warranto and because of that the common law principle that a tribunal must afford natural justice is honoured in the breach"

Whoa, you lost me on that one. What does that mean? Do all the provinces and territories have these tribunals?

[Dont Mention the War]

Perhaps the Charter of Rights that guarantees our freedom of the press should be banned, too.

Doesn't the Charter of Rights have an "out clause" buried in it somewhere that pretty much allows the government to render every right invalid whenever they feel the need?

[Brian Allen]

<< ... when [we] ... were "labouring to create" such "commissions," we never imagined [their employment by the state] ... against freedom of speech," wrote ... the Canadian "Civil 'Liberties'" Association. Censorship was "hardly the role we had envisioned for human rights' commissions ..." >>

Bloody fasciSSocialists lurking about their lairs dreaming up schemes of bastardry to leverage into unearned lusted after power uber alles, never heard of an unintended consequence they couldn't rationalize and/or justify and/or refuse responsibility for.

Liberalism is a deadly dangerous psychosis and a liberal one who would neither afford himself the dignity of taking responsibility for the consequences of his own actions nor take up arms in his own defense. (BA with thanks to Anon)

BUMPping

[GMMAC]

Yes, plus & just as ominously, it has a "not withstanding" clause which allows both the federal & provincial governments to evade, (typically judicial activist) Court interpretations of the Charter. Trudeau was compelled to include it to "sell" the document to several of the provinces.
Always the hypocrites, the Liberals claim every word of "their" Charter is written in stone & yet boldly stated, during our recent election, they wanted to do away with the "not withstanding" clause since it would permit Parliament to run roughshod over "rights" the Charter is imagined to include by the legal hacks they've appointed to our Supreme Court. (not surprisingly, such imagined "rights" including virtually every item on the agenda of radical feminists & homosexuals)

Note: since the Charter was enacted in 1982, the "not withstanding" clause has rarely been invoked by provinces & NEVER ONCE by our federal government.
Given a majority government next time out, the Conservatives must either rectify this past political cowardice and/or dereliction of proper Parliamentary duty or concede that Canada is in fact a Judiocracy: a dictatorship by unelected, unaccountable Judges.

[Billthedrill]

Shut down your Canadian operations and move your operations to Montana or Idaho.

Oh, great. Now I gotta move the cement mixer out of the toolshed and turn it back into a bunkhouse. Think Ez is gonna want indoor plumbing? I could cut an extra key, I guess...

[Brian Allen]

<< Perhaps the Charter of Rights that guarantees our freedom of the press should be banned, too.


Doesn't the Charter of Rights have an "out clause" buried in it somewhere that pretty much allows the government to render every right invalid whenever (it feels) the need? >>

Absolutely.

Like all British-descended law, Canada's effectively extends its provincial and feral gummints' grants of priviledge and favor to its subjects.

United States Founding Law is unique in all of Human Experience in that We the People grant favor and priviledge to our gummints.

Never before and nowhere since has any even remotely similar Nation, the likes of our beloved FRaternal Republic, been anywhere inspired nor created.

Thank You, Dear Lord! Amen.

[fanfan]

Bump

[devolve]

[Hank Rearden]

--to ad we don't have a Congress and Supreme Court that can read the first five words in context---McCain -Feingold comes to mind--

Or a president with principles and balls who'd have torn it up and thrown it in the trash instead of signing the damn thing. Or a political party with the principles to not pass it in the first place.

Thanks, Republicans.

[rellimpank]

--yeah--Bush started losing me when he failed to veto McC-F on national TV with a copy of the First Amendment displayed with the first five words bold and highlighted--