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# Kathy : 2008-05-13 15:25:55 EDT

 

Get your "INFIDEL" hats today -- share of proceeds to our defense funds

Besides showing Mark Steyn talking to me (or rather, to my Porky Pig's Girlfwend-like hand), as well as the back of Rick McGinnis's head, this photo shows those amazing red "INFIDEL" ball caps that Richard (pictured in the middle) brought to the Mark Steyn Indigo event.

These hats are very good quality, and sure to annoy everyone you meet!

Here's Richard's info:

richard@proformacanada.com
or call Richard at 416 798 4499 ext34

Hats will be $20.00 each plus shipping.
There will be at least $10.00 of profit to go to the defense fund at that price.

# Kathy : 2008-05-13 16:30:14 EDT

 

Steyn ex machina

Primetime Poliitcs has posted video of Mark Steyn's appearance on the Canadian television program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Steyn is followed by the three complainants in the Ontario human rights commission case against MacLean's Magazine.

The complainants alleged that MacLean's committed actionable hate speech when it published an excerpt of Mark Steyn's America Alone. The commission found Steyn guilty of Islamophia, but dismissed the complaint for lack of jurisdiction. Its decision is accessible here. I'm not sure that even Steyn himself could have conjured a more absurd outcome.

During his interview at the outset of the show, Steyn challenged the complainants to debate him on the air. The complainants demand 15 minutes alone with Paikin, and then Steyn is brought in from the wings to save the show, a sort of Steyn ex machina. There follows an instructive discussion bearing on the fate of free speech up against determined opponents seeking in the best Orwellian style to exploit the language of human rights superimposed on the legal machinery of the administrative state.

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Justice Minister confirms: truth is no defense for "hate speech"

"I guess that's why the new totalitarians equate Oriana Fallaci a journalist who told the truth, with Ernst Zundel an anti-Semite who lied because truth does not matter.

"I feel like a coup d'etat has taken place and I have awakened to the aftermath. And this egregious affront to civil rights and to the freedom to speak the truth in Canada is being perpetuated now by the Conservative government.

"Woe is us. I have this awful, awful feeling that we're too late."

Indeed.

Ernst Zundel was convicted of "spreading false news."

On June 2, Mark Steyn will be convicted of "spreading true news."

What a difference twenty years makes. And we have liberal self-aggrandizing bathroom Nazi hunters and cowardly, careerist Conservative hacks to thank for this, not just arrogant, ignorant Muslim beligerents.

Those of you who've been placing your trust and hope in electoral party politics -- and not just on this issue -- are deluded. By all means continue to write letters and sign petitions, but bear in mind that they will mostly be either ignored or will not be able to change the minds of a sufficient number of time serving cowards.

However, you can always live as we've already won:

Write and draw what you will. Step out in faith. Don't ask for permission first or apologize later.

Change the culture -- the Law will catch up later. Or not. But we can't afford to wait.

You can always get another job. But you only have one conscience.

# Kathy : 2008-05-13 14:51:26 EDT

 

CHRC files - Gag Me with a Crackpot, Part IV -- Professor Desai has provided a new link to his review at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which he describes as a "comprehensive scholarly repository" allowing you to conduct keyword searches should you wish to access additional resources.

I highly recommend you read Professor Desai's criticism.

CHRC files - Gag Me with a Crackpot, Part III
CHRC files - Gag Me with a Crackpot, Part II
CHRC files - Gag Me with a Crackpot, Part I

 

Alexander Tsesis: a sound debunking...so why does the Department of Justice Canada cite this guy again?

"Desai's article -- extensively researched and annotated, impeccably logical, eminently reasonable -- simply demolishes the whole rationale for hate speech statutes."

 

We need another $3000 to keep the legal boat afloat [ 1, 2, 3 ]  --We're at $1950!
Thanks SO much, everyone! We were feeling kind of overwhelmed, but you are blowing this away in short order for us!

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Me on CFRB Radio this afternoon?

Just got a call from John Moore's producer. They want me to talk for a few minutes after 4PM EST, about that dumb Department of Justice document.

Ugh. Oh well, you can't really say no to this XXX. Hope I don't act too stupid. Moore gets on my nerves but I have a feeling he may be semi-ok on this issue. [UPDATE: I was right, he gets it. That wasn't entirely horrible. And the two callers were properly outraged.]

John Moore And Kathy Shaidle · 9.21 MB