They Took All The Rights, Put 'Em In A Rights Museum

"...and charged the people a million and a half to use 'em."

With apologies to Ezzy et al who've been caught up in the struggle.

don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...

It looks like the moron Truther mentioned in Black Rod's article was trying to claim the 9/11 attacks might not have taken place had the Durban Conference Against Racism taken seriously some of the charges presented there against Israel and/or the Jews. Which is just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. That conference was one of the most racist public events in recent history. The sequel is coming up in 2009, and thankfully the Canadian government is avoiding it on principle.

I see he's a university professor and the coordinator of "Globalisation Studies". Why does this not surprise me?

I'm the LAST person to jump on the "conspiracy" bandwagon, but (stop me if you've heard this before...)there's something rotten in Canada. Every time there's a Human Rights discussion the Lawyers start popping out of the woodwork, and for the most part, they're on the wrong team:
http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=231&too=100&eve=8&dat=10/31/2008&npa=18030
Why isn't there a hue and cry from the legal profession? Those that do take a pace forward are the rare exception and seem to be treated as rogues.
In all seriousness, are we missing something? Is there some undercurrent to a Law education that the rest of us drones just don't get?
Is this something that Shakespeare saw clearly?
Please, enlighten me.

Perhaps one of those guiding principles will be:

"Steel melts."

"Is this something that Shakespeare saw clearly"

No, it isn't. That line from the play is stated by one of a group of what we would call terrorists who were intent on overthrowing the government. They planned to rid the country of laws and the people who knew the laws, therefore they had to kill all the lawyers.
I seriously doubt any of the millions of illiterates who quote this line have any idea what they're saying and that obviously includes you.
You may consider yourself enlightened.
BTW, I am a lawyer, as is Ezra Levant, and thousands of others who don't use their skills for stupid and misleading causes.

Blazing Cat Fur wrote about the connections between 9/11 Trootherz and the HRC a while back:

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2008/12/chrc-un-report-stakeholder-canadian.html

PS, Dean is correct. "Shakespeare" never "saw" or "said" anything, but his characters did. My fave are the dorks who quote Polonius ("to thine own self be true" etc) without realizing that Shakespeare put all that "wisdom" in the mouth of the play's well-meaning dimwit

"she is far from alone in her more general position that many intelligence services had prior knowledge that something very drastic was about to happen"

What a remarkably empty group of words strung together like pearls to dazzle the ignorami.

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the scary thing is... this guy's got
plenty of like-minded friends.

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The 9-11 "Truthers" should, for the sake of accuracy, be renamed the "9-11 Delusionists", and maybe a special meeting of the American Psychiatric Association should be convened, to decide how to treat these people.

They could hold it in Durban, if they want.

Why would a museum of this sort even be considered as neccesary? What does the "Museum for Human Rights" mean other than an attempt at a feel-good-group-hug aren't we enlightened now phsyco-babble bullfeathers. It is another attempt to waste taxpayers money on meaningless drivel, and why in Manitoba, a province that relies on aprox 40% of their provincial budget coming from "HAVE" provinces every year without fail. If the socialist kingdoms of Canada had to pay their own way a lot of these esoteric ideas would not survive incubation. Perhaps KILL EQUALIZATION RANSOM. This fellow mentioned (professor) is a product of the TRUTOPIAN world of 45 years of feel-good liberal-socialist rule. Remember NAZI'S were socialists as well that is why these tactics seem familiar.

Why would a museum of this sort even be considered as neccesary?

Posted by: uuess

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Because it's needed to be used to club White Western people over the head with their so called Racist,sexist,colonialist....etc,etc, past.

I wonder if there will be a wing in this 'museum' documenting the violation of farmers rights to sell their own grain in western Canada by the Canadian Wheat Board. But then again that's not a conspiracy theory, in Canada it's an actual law.

Exactly what I was thinking Mr.G.

This museum will promote group rights and group guilt.

Victim groups = groups favored by progressives.
Oppressor groups = everyone else.

Will the CMofHR explain natural rights and its link to human rights? Give a balanced view of the Christian church as victims, oppressors and promoters of human rights? Feature capitalism's role in advancing freedom? Explain how war is often essential for preserving and establishing human rights? Survey the atrocities of communism and how it inevitably leads to the suppression of rights?

Not Likely.

A museum! Outstanding! I hope to see an exhibit featuring this startling example.

Mr.(awe)g--- Hateful rhetoric does not an explanation make. Why do you ass-ume that it is White Westerners to blame for the worlds past sins and not off-white Torontonians?

DaninVan: "In all seriousness, are we missing something?"
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Yes. A government with balls.

Mr.(golly)g---Perhaps you could petion the Sudanese or Saudi governments to build museums of this theme in their respective countries as they still employ the "clubs" you describe. How odd that you ilk prefers to moralize in a safe environment instead of going to these hotbeds of intolerance and fight the good fight where needed.

A museum is where you put relics of history, things that don't exist any more in general use. Like butter churns.

Canadian human rights are like that, something not seen outside a museum.

I cant believe the Jewish people would suffer the fate that they did under the German Socialists and the Russian communists then support socialists.What am I missing?

I heard the museum will have some wax figures of the two twin girls who had to go to MHRC to be allowed to play on boys team...

My thoughts are the reason for locating the Canadian Museum for Human Rights west of Ontario, the province where I reside, is to try and dampen the ubiquitous Political (usually offbase) Correctness. Cheers

dean fox; As I said, "Those that do take a pace forward are the rare exception and seem to be treated as rogues."
Having contributed to Ezra's defense fund several times, while listening and watching in VAIN for the outpouring of support from Law Societies and lawyers in general, I feel less than charitable towards those in the profession who haven't come out in support of those 'rights' the rest of us peons thought were cornerstones. More like clay; wet clay.
Don't take issue with me, Dean, take it up with your peers.

I had no idea that the Legal Industry had an ongoing PR campaign to refute Shakespeare's exhortation! Thank you Dean; I wouldn't have thought to Google it.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/issues/display_story.html?id=962

there are many good and rich lawyers

but there FEW honest lawyers, there in lies the problemo

We certainly have no shortage of nutters in Canada, but what I truly resent and find unacceptable is the federal government throwing our tax dollars at this private museum of Aspers. If they want one and pay for it (which they can well afford to do), I say go for it. However they are milking us without our consent for this white elephant. Also seeing how distorted the whole concept of human rights has become, I suspect it will more likely be a museum of indoctrination.

In my small opinion, the rules that govern a society should not be so complex that we need a whole class of 'professionals' to interpret them for us.

viggin; to add insult to injury, we have to pay them handsomely to do that!

Please get it right people.The Aspers are "Jews" in name only.They looonnnggg ago gave up the Jewish faith.They are now just leftard socialists,stealing the taxpayers money.And before some troll says it,yeah,I can wear a doily on my head and call myself a Jew also!

it is my right to be free from such stupidity.

NV53,

I disagree that Canada is avoiding Durban 2 "on principle". They're avoiding it "for convenience", the principled stance would be to do what Ezra does and fight back.

while they are at it , they should put the global warming museum in Winnipeg. Manitoba , land of many contrasts.

here is a good one for the proddies. maybe not so fun for the KOC.

http://www.grandlodge.mb.ca/mrc_docs/Masonic%20Interpretation%20of%20Manitoba%20Legislative%20Building.pdf

Justthinking, you are correct about the Aspers, much the same as George Soros. As a Jew, myself, I do not care what or who they are, for it can never make a wrong a right. Who gave the federal government the mandate to throw our money (yes our money not the government's) to anyone to open a private "museum"? Imagine anyone wanting to build a museum to show the facts of abortion, does anyone think the person would get federal funding? Personally I oppose government funding for any private enterprise no matter what it is or who is behind it.

I hope they put Aqsa Parvez's unmarked gravestone in the Museum

http://tinyurl.com/54wtc8

Probably the worst aspects of the whole "human rights" con job is there is no "right" to be free of political manipulators and kleptocrats...but seeing how this was the core faction which drafted the original document and now propagates the pirated HR orthodoxy the omission IS understandable.

old white guy said: "it is my right to be free from such stupidity."

No its not. That's one of those former rights of your's that the museum is being built to house.

This is Canada. We don't have rights here. You want rights, move to Buffalo.

The sad thing about "human rights" in Canada is that they've become a money-making industry for designated "victims" and those who "help" them--and a money (and rights) losing proposition for groups designated as not-victims, aka "historically privileged" groups: read Christians, whites, males, etc..

The other day I got tagged by two young people on the street collecting for Amnesty International. I asked them what they knew about the Canadian Human Rights Commissions. Their answer? Zilch, nada, rien.

I told them to Google the CHRCs, Ezra Levant, and Richard Warman. I told them that human rights begin at home and that I wouldn't be giving to any Canadian human rights organization that knows nothing about what's going on with our CHRCs and that doesn't know who William Sampson is. They, of course, knew who Maher Arar is.

Too bad the Aspers couldn't put their money somewhere else, like maybe into the building of a Judeo-Christian Museum which could serve as a reminder of just where our human rights have come from in the West and as an encouragement to preserve Judeo-Christian values rather than trash them.

The sad thing about "human rights" in Canada is that they've become a money-making industry for designated "victims" and those who "help" them--and a money (and rights) losing proposition for groups designated as not-victims, aka "historically privileged" groups: read Christians, whites, males, etc..

The other day I got tagged by two young people on the street collecting for Amnesty International. I asked them what they knew about the Canadian Human Rights Commissions. Their answer? Zilch, nada, rien.

I told them to Google the CHRCs, Ezra Levant, and R*****d W****n. I told them that human rights begin at home and that I wouldn't be giving to any Canadian human rights organization that knows nothing about what's going on with our CHRCs and that doesn't know who William Sampson is. They, of course, knew who Maher Arar is.

Too bad the Aspers couldn't put their money somewhere else, like maybe into the building of a Judeo-Christian Museum which could serve as a reminder of just where our human rights have come from in the West and as an encouragement to preserve Judeo-Christian values rather than trash them.

I often use the "first, kill all of the lawyers" line. I am not ignorant. I have three, usually, and sometimes up to six lawyers collecting fees from me. I use the quote advisedly. If as a lawyer you are really trying to help the image of your profession, I would suggest maybe a little silence.

Where's a worm hole when you need one? It would be a pleasure to watch this Infernal Rights Museum sucked away. With all the inverted devotees to this Inquisition to an orbit a million light years away. With no way back. What a waste of money on the celebration of the persecution of Canadians. That the Conservatives are letting this be built is disquieting. This has nothing to do with rights & every thing to do with suppressing them. So why the monument?

A museum is where you put relics of history, things that don't exist any more in general use. Like butter churns.

Canadian human rights are like that, something not seen outside a museum.

Posted by: The Phantom

You win hands down for comment with those lines. lol, Perfect.
JMO

Birds of a feather .... The Aspers are JINO's.

Wearing the cloth of the tribe when it suits them.

This tribute to Izzy's ego stinks to the core with daughter Gail beating her breast to have the Citizens of Winnipeg or Manitoba and of Canada pay the tab.

Izzy left an endowment that would easily cover the cost of his personal memorial. Not good enough for daughter though .... she must have her cake and eat it too.

I'd like to see Harper tell her to take hike ... but he's already caved in to the BS demands of these liberal parasites. Shame!

Sadly, I'll second that. Not laughing though.

Perhaps a shinto-like shrine will be included for "the first head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Gordon Fairweather". His ascension to "the first head" was the work of PET who is interred in the PET Cemetery. Cerberus, the three-headed watchdog, will not allow PET's bones to be moved to the "museum".
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"Social conscience Gordon Fairweather, dead at 85
Allan Hustak, Montreal Gazette
Published: Friday, December 26, 2008

As the first head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Gordon Fairweather argued that "so long as there is discrimination against any member of our society, we break the promises about equality and fairness that we have made to our children, to our fellow citizens and to the world at large."

The former Progressive Conservative member of Parliament, who was appointed to the post in 1977 by Liberal prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, died on Christmas Eve in Saint John, N.B. He was 85." (montgaz)

neo @ 9:29 a.m. Dec. 29:

That link you provided contains horrendous examples of anti-Semitism. Shouldn't Bernie Farber et al get right on its case?

Interestingly enough the official website for this museum states that "Canadians want it" and then provides a link to a poll conducted on the matter. Apparently 34% of Canadians can not name a human rights violation. http://www.canadianmuseumforhumanrights.com/resource/File/Pollara_Press_Release.pdf

I love the "butter churn" and "wormhole" comments.