‘He’s dead, by the way”

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Update: It’s like an IQ test for the HRC-cheering section of the Canadian leftosphere, really. When even Glen Greenwald gets it, it speaks volumes about those who don’t;

Here are the noxious fruits of hate speech laws: a citizen being forced to appear before the Government in order to be interrogated by an agent of the State — a banal, clerical bureaucrat — about what opinions he expressed and why he expressed them, upon pain of being punished under the law. This is nothing short of stomach-turning…

156 Replies to “‘He’s dead, by the way””

  1. Wow!!
    The note scribbling professional(all do respect) is really at a disdvantage.Ezra has it!He’s doing a Canadians a huge favour here! Great that this is available for our viewing!

  2. That was great! Watch her pretending to take notes – but she is absolutely a deer in headlights.

  3. Apparrently, the lady’s name is Shirlene McGovern.
    I’m sure she doesn’t want the job, so be gentle,
    However, I am also sure you can find her on canada411 or elsewhere. give her a call.

  4. He is correct…but sadly aware of the cameras he himself brought along. Nonetheless he is correct.
    I almost hope the AHRC ruling goes against him so that this can go to the Supreme Court AND that it hit the legislatures.
    It is offensive that the ask him what his intent was. Although if only judged on effect then he loses…someone was offended….but that just begs the question of whether it should even be judged by effect….tough area.
    Once again, part of me hopes he loses so that it hits a larger stage and we can resolve this problem of creeping control.

  5. Kangaroo court yes what other way can you look at it. The THOUGHT POLICE to the rescue of canada. The human Lites commission must go.

  6. The best defense is a good offense.
    Not giving an inch is also a good policy.
    I think they’ve got their hands full.
    I can’t wait for the lawsuits against the HRC and the Imans.

  7. Got ahold of those “hatefull” cartoons.
    The bombskull would make a GREAT tattoo… on my ass!
    Hmm, need to find a tatoo parlor.

  9. Levant mentions a Jordanian Islamic chap who torched his (Ezra’s) synagogue. Was this fellow ever charged with a “hate crime”?
    Anyone know?
    btw, way to go ,Ezra, I’m a former reader of his mag, and wish him all the best in his trial by Star Chamber.
    We have to start using the activists own weapon, the HRC’s, against THEM, when they spout hatred, as they do daily.
    I know it’s distasteful, but use of these HRC’s can be a two edged sword.
    Who was the chap that said every Jew over age 18 was a potential target for killing? Was that hateful?

  10. That was Elmesery(sp), on the Michael Coren show….and Ezra dicusses him in one of these vids.

  11. Ezra mentions the hate crime of his synagogue being firebombed…
    Who knew?
    Did it make the MSM?

  12. What Ezra is saying here is what really has NEEDED to be said for along time. Good on him for taking this most principled stand. There will eventually be hell to pay for not standing up for the principles Levant is basing his arguments on. It is high time to let our governments know that we will not be sh-t on like this with these BS so-called Human-rights commissions.

  13. This is a great moment for people who have waited so long for a voice against the faceless bureaucracy that enforces the culture of entitlement and victimhood in Canada.
    But.
    But..
    But..
    I would advise that people do NOT harass, spam, or bother the HRC in any way. The only way they are going away or their reach limited is through the court of public opinion fortifying political will.
    I can just see the first article a week from now about how this poor functionary of the HRC has been scarred for life by abusive email, online threats, etc. And she was only doing her job, like all the other good jobs she did…. etc.
    We want the public to see the banality and vacuousness of the process, not to feel sorry for the functionaries.
    We don’t want the public to think that those who oppose the HRCs are lunatics and irrational angry people.
    Keep calm.
    Let Ezra do his work.
    Support the man.
    Write your MP, write the PM, write the local papers and the national papers.
    Sign the HRC petition
    http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a-free-dominion-against-the-hrcs.html
    Post “Ezra Levant – Google it” everywhere you go on the internet, on the Globe and Mail discussion forms, the Macleans forums, the National Post forums, etc.
    But do not undo the moment with foolish things like harassing public officials and stupid threats. You will only be fortifying the social engineers then!!!!

  14. I am now wondering how deep ‘saudi’ influence goes into helping these commissions “feel” they can help deny the right of law to any Canadian just because some well connected fascist is offended?
    Just like these demanding head scarf adolescent ‘voices’ for the “right” to break and/or ignore established rules regulations that are for EVERYONE.
    Ironically their rules forbid anyone of their group, to ever question THEIR version of Islamic rules including any iman saying anything he wants to, just insane…
    In Iran they are murdering a 13 yr old girl for having sex outside of her (likely forced) marriage… or the young girl recently murdered by her father and brother in Toronto, because she didn’t wear a head scarf in a free society?
    WHERE IS HIS OUTRAGE AT THIS?
    Killing apostates?
    Honor killing?
    Odious indeed.
    Pisses me off to the max.
    We’d better stop these dangerous and ignorant people with such heavy handed authority over us before we are all beholden to the fascists that these authoritative figures now obey.

  15. The moment she says “…this kind of Section 3 case takes a lot of analysis….”, she is admitting she is on a bureaucratic path of fabrication to create case precedent from whole cloth.
    She is the mother of invention. No disrespect to Mothers and Inventors.

  17. I can’t see how hassling Ms. McGovern is going to do any good, and it could do some harm. She is a low-level functionary conducting a preliminary review. This is not the actual hearing, which if it goes that far will be open to the public (at least as I understand the statute).
    As I mentioned in the other thread, this is not an abstract debate, it’s the real thing. This is a situation that will play out over time; it may even end up at the supreme court. This is a situation that will require us to provide long-term support to Mr. Levant in his defense of our fundamental freedoms, not simply some short-term ranting and venting.
    So while carefully considered letters to politicians, and yes, even the MSM, are not in my opinion a problem and are even a good idea, running around screaming and babbling isn’t going to help anyone. Not that I’m suggesting anyone is doing the latter. Moreover, it’s not my place to tell you what to do. I just ask that y’all think carefully before you act.

  18. Ezra links the appeal judgement about the fire bombing at his website.
    The original sentence was 10 months and 3 years probation I think. The appeal court upped it to 2 and half years in prison, due to its hate crime and terrorist links.

  19. Help me out here, I’ve adjusted everything I can think of on my computer and still can’t hear a thing. Whatever, go for it Ezra!!! You owe this hag and her pay source nothing.
    The bombskull would make a GREAT tattoo… on my ass!
    ….and vanity plates. I’ve said this before that on a pre-selected date, we – here in the US, Canada and the EU – should start our insurrection to this socialist pc crap by affixing that image on our cars via vanity licence plates. Mass arrests, I think not.
    Hey, here in the US, God forbid, we are one, maybe two, possible election cycles away from being Canadianized by the Dems, here’s praying the CHRC goes down in flames.

  20. The HRC is going to regret the day they took on Levant and Steyn. Hopefully they will manage to kill the hrc off and sue them for damages.

  21. The thing is Vitruvius, is that he cannot allow a single stage or part of this farce to go by without completely challeneging the process and all those involved.
    If that means some mid level bureurcrat gets dumped on, then so be it. No one forced her to accept the job. Ya pays yer money, ya takes yer chances.

  22. Understood, Jim. I’m not trying to proscribe anyone, I’m simply asking that we all take do care considering what the most effective responses are. I’m meeting with some people tonight to discuss how best to respond publically to this situation, in order to best support Mr. Levant and our broader argument in favour of our free speech human rights; perhaps I’ll have more to say later.

  23. Consider for a moment the possibility that those inside the HRC want to see the whole thing collapse. Don’t they have the authority to dismiss the complaint even before it came to this point? Are the bureau-weenies that petty and narrow minded? Can’t they see that taking on a publisher and an internationally recognized author will bring them under such intense scrutiny that the HRC in Canada will come to screeching halt and (by the way) back handedly help the Conservatives in a coming election?

  24. Further to JIM, 8:48. I doubt whether Stalin or Hitler personally killed anyone. The millions of people who died were killed by all of the citizens of those countries “just doing their job”.

  25. Thank you Ezra, it is about time this came to a head. If these people are so sensitive about thier religion and laws, mabey it is about time that it is front and center. I do not think that the MSM will print these hearings on the front page unless Ezra is charged with hate crime. I personally think that we should be taking advice from Austrailia, if you do not like our way of life or freedom of thought, move back to where you came from. Thanks for the Blog Sites, more and more people are reading Blogs like this everyday. Merle Underwood

  28. Mark Steyn’s update on Ezra’s video at the HRC at the Corner:
    Ms McGovern, a blandly unexceptional bureaucrat, is a classic example of the syndrome. No “vulnerable” Canadian Muslim has been attacked over the cartoons, but the cartoonists had to go into hiding, and a gang of Muslim youths turned up at their children’s grade schools, and Muslim rioters around the world threatened death to anyone who published them, and even managed to kill a few folks who had nothing to do with them. Nonetheless, upon receiving a complaint from a Saudi imam trained at an explicitly infidelophobic academy and who’s publicly called for the introduction of sharia in Canada, Shirlene McGovern decides that the purely hypothetical backlash to Muslims takes precedence over any actual backlash against anybody else.
    Thus the unending valse macabre of our times, as the supposedly progressive forces of tolerance are whirled around the floor by the avowedly intolerant. Ezra is rightly contemptuous of these “human rights commissions”. Canadians should be ashamed of this show trial.

  29. We can all hope that this does end up at the Supreme Court. However, a win there is only a partial win. The fundamental problem is not the decisions that these HRCs are making; it is the process itself.
    Therefore, the only win is to either have the HRCs abolished or to have their powers curtailed back to their original mandates.

  31. Sweet Baby Jeebus!! Ezra Levant makes me want to take to the street and…cheer him on! Thank you, thank you, thank you Ezra. You are a patriot for Canada the likes of which we have not seen in a while. He twists this bureaucrat and clearly demonstrates the low level of performance that Canadians pay a premium price for.
    I cannot even think clearly I am so happy for what Ezra is doing for this country.

  32. Therefore, the only win is to either have the HRCs abolished or to have their powers curtailed back to their original mandates.
    The only win is eliminating the perceived need for such bodies. Until everyone considers themselves of value as they exist this type of board will plague humanity.

  33. I wonder if “human rights agent” Shirlene McGovern understands how ominous it is to interrogate a publisher about their intent regarding freedom of speech? Many people would fall for it: answer the question reasonably, get a pat on the head and hope for a favouably ruling. Ezra knows better. The process is the punishment and he, like Mark Styen, is forcing the issue.
    Thanks and congrats to all sites who have posted these clips, it’s great to shine light on these sinister little functionaries. Can’t remember who said it, but there’s a quote about the “banality of evil” and it applies to the commissioners.

  35. There’s another video up at ezralevant.com entitled “I don’t answer to the state”. Mr. Levant’s strategy here is brilliant ~ if they take him down on this then he becomes a martyr, which they probably don’t want. Ezra says ten more videos over the weekend.

  36. This goes to show what happens when you let bureaucrats rule vs. common sense. We already had anti hate crimes in place before the hate law became a curse on us -like the so called Charter of Rights and Freedoms (but the charter for whom. They were the libel and slander laws which had a higher standard of proof than the current standard that Lieberal appointees could understand or make up in their kangaroo courts.
    When we abolish these “courts” then we will have immediately raised the intelligence level of all Canadians buy a factor or 10.

  37. dean spencer – fox, dead on, isn’t the real point to this Stalinesque show trial nonsense afoot here, which should stop those of us that love democracy dead in our tracks, is that a commission like the CHRC would even take on these cases. The outcomes are almost less important to the fact that these liberal fascists thugs can’t/won’t dismiss the obvious assaults to free speech. That’s what makes it all so ominous and disgusting.
    Amazing, isn’t it, that at is point in history when fascist Islam would love to mass murder us, we are forced to beat back their Useful Idiots among us first.

  38. I moved my commment from the other thread, as discussion seems to have moved here:
    I can’t believe that there are those who council that the HRC not be spammed or harassed. Don’t issue threats or profanity, but anything else you have to say in voicing displeasure should be said again and again and again.
    If you stay quiet, you are doing exactly what the Muslims want. If you stay quiet, you will become England, or Holland, or France. Silence is absolutely the greatest enemy of freedom. Legal arguments to and fro with all sorts of complexities also are the enemy, for it is in that complexity that truth always gets lost. That’s why Ezra is keeping is simple and hard hitting.
    Imagine, the complainants in this case incur no cost, while the one defending themselves incurs all the cost … and that includes you and me. Each and every one of you who pays taxes in Canada, is paying for the persecution of Ezra Levant. Imagine what a powerful state control instrument the HRC is when it let’s complainants off without legal costs, yet those defending themselves must bare all their costs. Unbelievable.
    Make noise, write, email, spam … let it be known that you and I have the right to bitch, complain, and criticize Islam, Christianity, Liberals, neo-cons, conservatives, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, and even Don Cherry. If we lose that right … we lose.

  41. Quote “There’s another video up at ezralevant.com entitled “I don’t answer to the state”. Mr. Levant’s strategy here is brilliant ~ if they take him down on this then he becomes a martyr, which they probably don’t want. Ezra says ten more videos over the weekend.” Unquote
    If they try to silence him and prevent him from taping or publishing the clips they reinforce the fact that they are against free speech.

  42. I need to send twenty bucks to Ezra……………..Where is his defence fund?
    we all should do that

  43. So, help me get this correct. Some radical imam shoots is HRC arrow straight in the air and thinks he can blame anyone (but himself) if the arrow hits him.
    For those of you that haven’t had this “O Sh*t” moment … you lose sight of the arrow … gravity should let you know it’s coming down … whether you believe in gravity or not.

  44. Paul2 – we agree. I am not saying to sit quietly by and watch Levant do all the work.
    Go after the institution, not the clerks and functionaries.
    Don’t make it personal and don’t make it sound nutty. Make it loud and rational. Angry is OK. Hateful is not.
    Approach the right people. Emailing the HRC itself and saying “you are scum” is pointless and possibly counterproductive. Emailing a federal or provincial minister and sending a newspaper letter-to-the-editor saying “the HRCs are sham courts that have strayed outside their original role and become a tool for suppression of speech” is not.

  47. Where are the trolls? Even the albatross’ of the world realize that Ezra has pulled the rug out from under Big Brother, and they don’t know which government program is going to be next.
    This is going to be fun.

  48. Let’s shine a little light on those who brought this complaint. Maybe they won’t like having their dirty little views exposed to the light of day.

  49. One heck of a warm-up act for Maclean’s and Mark Steyn. This is reverberating throughout the conservative blogosphere today and it’s not over.
    I wouldn’t be surprised if the HRCs try to find some way to extricate themselves from the mess they’ve gotten themselves into with Steyn.
    If and when they do, some of us will be very disappointed.

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