This is an onimous statistic indeed.
Posted on 06/11/2008 6:06:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Usually, when a journalist is censored in a Western nation, American news organizations respond with collective outrage.
But as a major attack on press freedom unfolds in Canada, America’s mainstream media are silent. Neither the TV networks nor the major newspapers have reported on hearings last week at what amounts to a Stalinesque show trial in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mark Steyn, a Canadian journalist who now lives in New Hampshire and whose column appears in National Review magazine as well as several U.S. and Canadian newspapers, is facing charges before British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal.
His crime? Spreading “hatred.”
The evidence? A 5,000-word excerpt of Steyn’s book America Alone that was carried as an article, “The Future Belongs to Islam,” in October 2006 by the Canadian magazine Maclean’s, which is also a defendant. The hearings, which were held June 2-6, amount to a star chamber with the rules of evidence constantly changing according to the whims of the three commissioners. A verdict is expected in September.
Steyn and the magazine are also expected to be charged with a hate crime by the national kangaroo court, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and another such tribunal in Ontario. Not a single defendant has ever prevailed before the national board in its 31 years of existence. To be accused is to be guilty, Soviet style.
The Canadian press has been all over this story, but it has not registered a blip in the United States, except for an AP brief, an article in The Washington Times and on conservative Internet sites and talk radio.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Give it to me straight, Doc, liberalism will never go away, will it?
"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
I would love nothing better than to testify at this ‘trial’.
Why should Liberals care that a conservative writer is being censored, when that is what they would like to do with all conservatives? Expect something similar to happen if Obama wins and restores the “Fairness Doctrine” to the media.
"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
"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
They've already pulled FR into this trial. Apparently after the Steyn article appeared, one of the Moslem claimants came to FR to find evidence that the hatred was spreading. They brought back our "hateful" comments to prove Steyn was spreading hate.
"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
Why am I not surprised Canadian media are adopting the
“shhhhhhhh the neighbors will hear you” attitude...
They are so busy documenting all of the faults of the U.S. they leave no room for their own dirty laundry.... eh?
Jim, it is an honor to reply to your post and it is welcome news to see you are feeling well and back on line!
The New York Post had an article on the
CHRC by Rich Lowry yesterday on June 10 that I posted here. That has been the major extent of MSM reporting. I have been trying to post periodic updates from Ezra Levant’s site. The lack of reporting is almost absolute proof that liberals are fascists including the liberal media.
"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
Seems reasonable to me. Freepers tend to despise evil and to comment harshly about evil.
(Thank goodness for our Constitution; our freedom of speech rights are far more robust than in Canada or Europe.)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A highlighted piece of the case was a comment from an imam, Mullah Krekar, that Steyn drew from an interview in a Norwegian newspaper:
‘“We’re the ones who will change you,’ the cleric said.”
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—IIRC, the MSM made more of a fuss -(still not much)—over the Obama of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez when he attacked the only opposition outlets there-—
"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
“one of the Moslem claimants came to FR to find evidence that the hatred was spreading”
That’s kinda funny. I have no hatred for Muslims, not even terrorists. Anger at terrorists yes, hatred no. But good god I do hate socialists.
Islamic terrorists only want to kill us, socialists want to indoctrinate us and enslave us in their lowest-common-denominator version of philosophic slavery.
Better dead than red.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “British Columbia’s hate crimes law requires only a “reasonable determination that the excerpt did express hatred and contempt toward Muslims, and likely caused it to spread,” according to the National Post. As evidence, complainants cited postings from two California-based Websites, FreeRepublic and Catholic Answers.”
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But isn’t that against the freedom of speech clause in their Bill of Rights.. oh , nevermind.
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I understand what you are saying.
It should be noted our freedoms are eroding here in the U.S.A., too.
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We can expect this type of treatment here in the US if Obama takes the White House in November and if the Democrats retain Congress.
I don’t have much hope for McCain, although I do plan to vote for him. My focus is on supporting the Republican Party in retaking Congress in November - we ought to let Democrats throw everything they have in getting Obama elected and steal Congress right out from under them. That is where our resources and support should go.
If Democrats retain or make gains in Congress, we are in for some bad years regardless of whether McCain or Obama wins the main election. If McCain wins, the Democrats will do everything in their power to make sure that oil prices go sky high and that the economy enters a downward spiral. They will pin the blame on McCain and he will be a lame duck from the get go.
And I shudder to think what will happen if Obama wins and has a Democratic Congress to rubberstamp his personal neo-socialist brand of “Change”. The type of things we are seeing in Canada right now are simply the tip of the iceberg of what Obama and his ilk would love to do.
I think this is an excellent point.
I keep expecting somebody somewhere in the US (well, other than here, but we're different) to say something about this or even acknowledge that it's happening.
Canada keeps a low profile and I think many Americans are only vaguely aware that it exists. But really - this is completely insane, and it's happening right next door to us. And no network or other channel even has anything to say about it?
The bias, the dishonesty, the slanted “news”, the propaganda, the disinformation, the voluntary censorship—failing to inform the American people truthfully—all have earned the U.S. mainstream “newsmedia” and its so-called “journalists” the utter contempt of honest and decent people everywhere and for all time.
I don’t like McCain and I thought about staying home. But it ain’t gonna happen now. We have to get out and vote for him. He’ll be bad, but BO will mean the end of our country. And probably, before too long, our lives.
BUMP
A pity that “Robespierre” and “Marat” no longer mean anything to them. They were among the instigators of the French Revolution, and it turned around and ate them. The socialists pushing for “change” should learn from their example.
cmon this is the same socialist state that prevented or at least assisted in the effort to keep fox from being broadcast there. they don’t want their people to know everything, but only what they ‘need’ to know to be good liberal, socialist, tree-hugging, secular or muslim citizens....
but certainly not anything close to Christian
"And we have to tell them, you know what,if you're not going to allow us to do that, there will be consequences. You will be taken to the human rights commission, you will be taken to the press council, and you know what? If you manage to get rid of the human rights code provisions (on hate speech),we will then take you to the civil courts system and you know what? Some judge out there might just think that perhaps it's time to have a tort of group defamation, and you might be liable for for a few million dollars".
In the meantime Canadians can dutifully watch CBC television. We take you to see the bumbling, brooding, "muslim", full of self doubt and a sexually demanding blonde wife.
Little Mosque on the Prairie anyone?
Who will need a Fairness Doctrine?
“Hate Crimes Laws” and “Human Rights Commissions” can do the trick with censoring the media.
There is some good stuff happening in Canada — some awesome Church stuff...but naturally you’re not going to hear about it.
Agreed but the trial is held in Canada and as they have such little riveting news - one would think they would spend hours creating historical newsprint and voice overs
Canadian style.
Not so.
Not even their forums of which there are plenty - hardly a word being exchanged.
Canada has become a hostage nation.
Canadians are also “only vaguely aware” of this event.
My family in B.C. didn’t know about it until I wrote questioning them if they were keeping up with the news and they hadn’t seen anything.
Now they scour the internet for information - of which there is little.
That’s sad. But I think one of their clverest techniques - “they” being the people who want to control us - is to suppress information and to suddenly invoke secrecy for all sorts of formerly common information.
You write: “That’s sad. But I think one of their cleverest techniques - “they” being the people who want to control us - is to suppress information and to suddenly invoke secrecy for all sorts of formerly common information.”
I respond:
The first step towards the loss of our civil rights and independence allowable as individual thinkers - the base of all democracy.
Communication unhindered is one primary reason for success of the great experiment called the United States of America.
Freedoms expected and given and earned.
sharia gag ping
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
Clearly, the thing to do is find anti-homosexual remarks in a Muslim text and start the battle between the two favored groups.
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