Posted on 06/12/2008 4:59:08 AM PDT by Earthdweller
The pen is reputed to be mightier than the sword -- and probably is, over the longer stretches of history. Over the shorter stretches, the sword is definitive; or, as that great Leftist sage, Mao Tse-Tung, expressed it: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." With its monopoly on power, the State is equipped to suppress the truth. And yet the truth will not die, no matter how many people are punished for expressing it. They may die -- or be imprisoned, fined, compelled to publicly recant, or otherwise silenced and humiliated -- but the truth will survive.
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(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Rev. Boisson has now been ordered to desist from communicating his views on this subject "in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the Internet" so long as he should live. He has been ordered to pay compensation to Darren Lund, the anti-Christian activist in question, and further to make a public recantation of beliefs he still holds.
Meanwhile, Fr Alphonse de Valk, editor of the magazine Catholic Insight, is being prosecuted by a gay rights activist in Edmonton, for having upheld both sides of the Catholic teaching on homosexuality in the pages of his magazine over more than a decade: that homosexual behaviour is sinful, but that we are nevertheless to love the sinner.
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What the heck is going on in the Great White North? Instead of hassling folks over their free speech, concentrate on finding a block of ice for thos poor polar bears, eh!
......"and when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out."
Born and raised in Calgary, he has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is creator of the popular on-line Diversity Toolkit. Darren has been recognized with a number of honours, including being named a Killam Resident Fellow, Exemplary Multicultural Educator of the Year, and a Readers Digest National Leader in Education.
I hope he has a happy social life wherever it is that people like him gather to meet. I can't imagine any real men who would associate with such a person, nor can I imagine that a woman would talk with him or that he would have any interest in women for that matter.
[I]t was a Canadian who pointed out to me that while the United States is famously dedicated to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, the equivalent Canadian goals, expressed in the North America Act of 1867, are the less exciting trinity of “peace, order and good government”. It sums something up about Canada, he laughed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/jan/07/conservatives.uk
Title of article where I found the quote:
Let me tell you about Canada. No, really, it’s very interesting
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I lived in Canada for twenty years, and this distinction accurately illustrates the docile nature of Canadians - who constantly ‘go along’ with ever more restrictions on their freedom.
<<< Peace Order and Good Government >>>
unless
they are leftwing activists who use this slogan to increase government control over others.
Ping the list for no media coverage...
In September 2008, the Department of Education in British Columbia intends to introduce the mandatory teaching of SSM [same-sex marriage] from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in provincial schools. It is a first for a province in Canada to claim the right to determine moral teaching in schools when the vast majority of its citizens reject it as unscientific and contrary to the common good.
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Not so many years ago, people were warning of the domino effect, or the slippery slope, with regard to scrapping laws against abortion; they were dismissed as crackpots when they said the state would soon legitimize abortion for gender, abortion without parental consent, abortion of full term babies, infanticide, and euthanasia.
And with regard to scrapping laws against sexual perversion; people scoffed at predictions that the day would come when homosexuals could adopt children and marry one another.
Hate speech legislation was never going to result in priests recanting or going to jail, and certainly journalists would never have anything to worry about.
Once, a long, long time ago, income tax wasnt supposed to take anything you could really feel being torn out of your pockets.
Does anyone think there are enough people in this country today who will kick up a serious fuss if free speech is smothered by hate crime law or rights commissions? If gun ownership is slowly strangled until one day (very soon) it becomes everywhere illegal? If mandatory civil service for high school diploma becomes more fair and everyone is required to serve the state, whether or not they want a diploma or already have one they didnt serve for? If energy companies are nationalized?
There is no going back from here. Not enough people know what theyre missing. Not enough people know what America originally was. And too many people are getting government handouts.
2A is not going to save 1A. The firearms will soon have no ammunition. And thanks to public education, free speech is already very deficient in ammunition.
2A wont save it, conservatism hasnt the numbers, capitalism is crawling on its belly, and there are more traitors than patriots in the media, the schools and the legislatures.
Its just a matter of time now.
When and where are they speaking out against the chattel-like status of Muslim women?
When and where are they speaking out against the rape trees that dot the landscape from Mexico to the U.S. where illegal immigrant women are forced to submit as part of the price of coming here?
Ping the list for no media coverage...
I agree.
This is not a stable situation; freedom of speech and broadcasting in the US must inevitably be either eroded in the same way by the Fairness Doctrine, or else Canada must inevitably either backtrack, or become hostile to us.
Absolutely agree. They haven’t killed any journalists or commentators as the terrorists have in Brussels but they are silencing them none the less. It’s totalitarian.
Self-fulfilled prophet you are. I'm a pre-rapture millennialist. We are more optimistic. I'll bet we have fewer heart attacks as well. LOL.
That's one I'll remember for a long time.
BTTT
Wow. Sounds like the USSR was replanted in Canada.
Wow again. From the article online that your post mentioned.
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