Posted on 08/02/2008 9:51:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber
I think the battle for freedom of speech is going pretty well, even though it's summertime.
Human rights commissions are being ridiculed on an almost daily basis in the media; their coalition is starting to fracture under the stress, as evidenced by the defection of the B'nai Brith; and the "lawfare" being waged against me and other critics of the HRCs hasn't worked, largely because of the broad public support expressed through the Internet (thank you, again). As the Canadian Human Rights Commission's stunned chief commissioner, Jennifer Lynch, admitted in June, her industry just didn't expect the "velocity" of criticism that her abusive, corrupt, censorious tactics had generated........
In other words, instead of discussing the issues of censorship, multiculturalism, Islam, pluralism, international law, etc., some of her friends went on ananti-Ezra tirade. Here's her blog entry on the subject.
What's so funny about her blog is that a handful of leftist apologists for HRCs set out to... well, I'm not sure what, but they certainly proved her point. Many of responses to her blog post, 284 of them right now, are about my innate evilness, or whatever. (Granted, most of them are written by the same half-dozen kool-aid drinkers, many of them anonymously -- which leads one immediately to suspect a Richard Warman-style fake Internet persona at work either directly from the CHRC, or from one of their surrogates.)
The Fascist Canadian Ministry of Speech...err..HRC needs to go ASAP and Forthwith, it’s a blight on Canada’s otherwise conscientious history, and it should be abandoned as simply an experiment that failed as the people of Canada may like to discuss what they prefer to discuss.
Too many treat freedom like it’s something that can be replaced when lost. They better learn to treat it like it’s their life.
God bless the Canadians.
Uhm.. Columbia.. Peru.. Argentina? I think one of those countries down there respects freedom, just not sure which one.
Lol... I was thinking the US smart a$$ :)
I see this starting here with reintroduction of a fairness doctrine and then expanding when the speech complainers begin their work.
Politically correct poker...d@mn, spot on.
Ezra is a smart man.
What amazing comments. From well educated people. They write well. But have huge holes in their logic. Intelligent but illogical and despise the free speech right of Ezra Levant. It’s obvious Levant is the victim. At minimum for having to spend big big money on lawyers while his Muslim accusers pay nothing. The Government lawyers do their dirty work over bogus human rights accusations
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