[Dawnsblood]

Lots of really good links at the site. Too bad the Canadian Goverment seems to hate freedom of speech. God bless Ezra, Mark, Kathy and the rest. Freedom is leaving our northern friend and I mourn that.

[IncPen]

John Ross wrote a book called ‘Unintended Consequences’ in which the characters reassert their natural rights.

I wonder if our brave neighbors to the north will find it in their hearts to put a stop to this nonsense.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Between this and the new rules in Europe, I won’t be visiting either one until something changes: They don’t need my tourist dollars.

[Antoninus]

Mr. Boissoin and [his organization] The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. shall cease publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the Internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals.

A ruling like this should make a lot of us begin publishing disparaging remarks about anyone who thinks that they're immune from criticism and protected by force of government.

This kind of stuff should be enough to start a revolution.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Read this if you get a chance. When I wrote it, in 1994, I thought it was satire. Nowadays, satire has no chance against reality.

[Liberty Valance]

This tribunal seems like a runaway train coming to a sharp left curve. Can’t Stephen Harper do anything about this rogue kangaroo court? No checks and balances of any sort.

[dr_lew]

Cf. Plato's APOLOGY ...

Some one will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious;

[RonF]

What if this man simply defies the orders? Will they confiscate the money from his assets? Will they imprision him if he refuses to issue the apology and continues to preach as he pleases?

[wardaddy]

Freedom of Speech is where England and her POMs missed le boat

[R_Kangel]

"See paragraph 357 where the right not to be offended "trumps the freedom of speech afforded in the Charter...."

Paragraph 357 offends me.

[TheWasteLand]

Well, if anything good comes of this, maybe all the folks being persecuted in Canada will apply for asylum in the United States. That way the U.S. gets the best of Canada, and Canada gets exactly what it deserves.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Fire. Them. All.

May need to do more than that.

Free men have a choice, ignore the government or hang them. The government has a choice, ignore the judge or enforce the ruling. It would be best for all to do the former, but it may come to pass that the latter options come to pass.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Freedom is leaving our northern friend and I mourn that."

Same thing is happening here.

[JLS]

Yep, this is really amazing what is going on up there. The Harper government is taking tentative steps about the national tribunal. But it will probably take the courts to reign in the provential ones.

[ChicagahAl]

Does it seem that most of the idiotic judicial rulings come from female judges?

[backhoe]

Lots of really good links at the site. Too bad the Canadian Goverment seems to hate freedom of speech. God bless Ezra, Mark, Kathy and the rest. Freedom is leaving our northern friend and I mourn that.

You're right about the government- and I say that as one who did his damndest to get the current one in office, documenting the foibles of its predecessor here:

-ADSCAM -- Canada's Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open--

I'm one of Free Dominion's original, founding members- number 310, or something like that, and I will continue covering it until there is nothing more to be said:

Click the picture-

[AlaskaErik]

What could Mark Steyn's punishment look like, if he's convicted by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal Kangaroo Kourt?

There, fixed it.

[x_plus_one]

Haven’t they declared the bible to be hate speech also?

[goldstategop]

The Charter Of Rights guarantees freedom of speech, thought and conscience. On the other hand, the Canadian Left and its Human Rights Commission operate in a world where the newly coined "right" not be offended trumps Charter rights. Canada has awoken to a situation in which not only the age old Charter rights have been practically eliminated at a bureaucrat's stroke of the pen, in practice the new right means the Left not only gets to gag its enemies but to coerce them into adopting their point of view and at the same time to pay for the expression of that view. George Orwell's Big Brother never had to go that far to force the people to love him. In short, today in Canada, you are not allowed to say anything anywhere and at anytime of which the Left might disapprove. For the rest of your life. What a terrifying punishment that's Kafkaesque in the extreme.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[livius]

This is amazing. What a frightening story.

[magooey]

Hopefully, the rest of the Anglosphere will see the madness of these Court of Star Chamber "human rights" councils, and abolish them.

Otherwise, we can actually say "blame Canada". /sarc