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  1. andrew keynes – what warren is doing, is stating that the Law is purely random.
    If someone finds what another person has said to be ‘offensive’ – then, the conclusion is that the statement IS legally offensive.
    If someone finds what another person has said is ‘NOT offensive’ – then, the conclusion is that the statement is NOT legally offensive.
    This reduces a legal system to pure randomness. A legal system is supposed to operate within normative standards not randomness.
    Furthermore, to operate within normative standards, the legal system has to move out of subjectivity into objectivity. It cannot define a legal or illegal action on the basis of what an individual subjectively ‘feels’; it must only deal with objective facts that are observable as such by a reasonable number of people.
    And, of course, to outlaw any discourse that mind ‘offend’ people is to freeze a people into a regressive anti-civilization, a people who lack the ability to doubt, to question, to explore, to examine, to compare, to evaluate. That’s what censorship does – it denies the mind. And that mind is the basic property of our species; it is what sets us apart from all other species.

  2. Funny how the lefties think some library or school or store deciding not to carry a certain book constitutes “censorship” but the heavy hand of the government coming down on an individual citizen (as in the cases of Steyn/Levant and the Truth Tribunals) is just fine and dandy.
    Where did the left go to school? Oh yeah, Bolshevik U. Ward (Big Chief Shitting Bull) Churchill, Dean of Victim Studies and Numb Chumpsky, President.

  3. If someone finds what another person has said to be ‘offensive’ – then, the conclusion is that the statement IS legally offensive.
    The Greeks had the Hippocratic Oath: First Do No Harm.
    Canada has the Human Rights Mantra: First Hurt No Feelings.
    Since it’s right-thinking leftists who’ve stocked the HRCs with like-minded leftists, their own speech by definition, or at least by the judgment of their peers, is inoffensive.
    Their thoughts and motives, unlike yours and mine, are pure and guaranteed not to cause pain and hurt and hate and so on…

  4. Yet another Islamic destruction of History – the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
    “Iran plans to inundate the tomb of the king who liberated the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, but an Iranian organization is demanding that the International Criminal Court take action against those responsible.
    A young Iranian, code-named “Cyrus,” who has secretly been in contact with the Omedia editorial board for several months, directed our attention to an interesting campaign related to the Persian king who his code name was based on.
    The young man claims the ayatollah regime in Iran is endeavoring to sever the link between the Persian people and its historic heritage through measures including the destruction of archaeological sites that are significant to this heritage.
    The Iranian government is in the final stages of constructing a dam in the country’s south that will submerge the archaeological sites of Pasargad and Persopolis – the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. The site, which is considered exceptional in terms of its archaeological wealth and historical importance, houses the tomb of the Persian King Cyrus. It was Cyrus who liberated Babylonian Jewry from their exile in the famous Declaration of Cyrus (which is mentioned in the book of Ezra in both Hebrew and Aramaic).”
    “We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains.” Ishaq 587

  5. drained brain – heh, yes, the HRC are, in themselves, violating the HRA. They are promoting hatred against people who think and who freely express those thoughts.
    However, back to my point that the Islamic texts are themselves, if you use the HRAct, in violation of that Act. They specifically promote hatred against specific groups of people based on an ‘identifiable property’, namely, their religion, Jews and Christians. [Irwin Daisy has posted many excerpts from the Islamic texts so I won’t repeat them; he knows the texts far better than I do.]
    But, these texts also promote hatred and contempt for Muslims, because the Jews and Christians will, justifiably, if one reads the texts and listens to the Islamic sermons, feel afraid of the stated murderous intentions in those texts and sermons.
    And, Jews are a minority.
    So- why doesn’t the HRC find these texts, and sermons, offensive?
    We are back to ‘square one’. The Islamic texts refer to a social and political mode of militancy that emerged in the 7th century as a reaction, I claim, to the expanding agricultural settlements of the Byzantine empire. This social and political mode was then FROZEN by its being redefined as a religion. And, moreoever, a religion whose axioms were defined as ‘direct from God’ and removed from debate, interpretation, dissent, discussion, analysis. That froze the Muslim society; and froze its mind.
    They have to break out of this – and it’s not an easy task, when you have set yourself up within a knowledge base that is frozen in the 7th century. Some Muslims are trying to do this – and frankly, they require the help of the West. If we assist the fundamentalists in retaining Islam as a frozen knowledge base, by rejecting our freedom of speech and thought – then – we are assisting them in their onslaught against us.

  6. Muslim gangs in London. Murder, rape, theft, everything is blessed by Allah.
    “21-year old Winston had been “converted” in prison. He said: “Now we all go to mosque together. If I refuse, they blow [shoot] me, innit. I pray twice a day: before I do crime, and after. I ask Allah for a blessing when I’m out on the street. Afterwards, I apologise to Allah for what I done.”
    “Winston, who claimed to support Osama bin Laden, described his love of knives and spoke casually of the arsenal of guns possessed by gang members. These included Mac-10 machine pistols. He boasted of the money that the gang made from robberies, and said: “Then, after midnight me and my bruvs go to mosque to pray.”
    speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=13590&t=Muslim+gangs%3A+Coming+soon+to+a+town+near+you

  7. I gotta give CTV their props on this one – they actually called these clowns “left-leaning”. Is it a sign of the Apocalypse?
    ——————-
    Recently announced tax cuts could end a decade-long streak of federal surpluses if even a slight economic downturn materializes in 2008, a new report suggests.
    A study released by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on Monday says the government’s October economic update does not take into account the possibility that Canada’s economy will slow down.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080114/deficit_call_080114/20080114?hub=TopStories&s_name=

  8. Is it just me or has the Liberal party in the last few years (since not in the power seat) attracted more and more radicals and the lunatic finge?
    Reading Liblogs makes me just shake my head, These are fellow Canadians and we must love them but the hatefullness and spite and namecalling and outright lies and visciousness scares me a lot.
    These radically HATE conservatives (that’s millions and millions of fellow Canadians). It has gone way beyond political discourse in my opinion.
    And every radical anti establishment or communist/socialist group in this country is rallying to the Liberals. They used to go NDP as the communist choice but the Liberals are now the home for the close minded hateful special interests.
    Not to mention pretty well any Liberal who was somehwat credible and balanced in Dion’s caucus has announced they are quitting. The “front runners” are novices with no political or public service experience whatsoever like Ignatieff, Dryden, Hall Findley and the Liberals “stars” are also the spiteful showboats like Brisson, Turner, Dhalla.
    Can you name ANY credible experienced balanced non radical Liberal who will be left in the caucus when the election is called?

  9. Lorraine,would Ralph Goodale qualify??? Maybe it’s time he pulled the plug,before his head explodes on one of his fake outrage rants.I’ve often wondered how his head stays attached,and that finger-pointing he does is highly annoying.Can’t wait for The Braaaaaaaaaaaawdcast’s spin on the Rambo-GI Joe tour to Afghan.

  10. John McCullum is another Liberal ex-cabinet minister who comes across as totally unglued. He rants and spits a lot like Ralph Goodale and often appears like he is drunk or on drugs or something. Can you imagine – we entrusted this man to be the country’s finance minister at one time???? Gawd.
    The other ranting Liberal looney who really comes across as unglued and not quite living in reality is Sue Barnes. Along with Anita Neville and Hedy Fry these women give a bad name to female politicians for over blown rhetoric and screeching and not letting the facts get in the way of a good tantrum.
    Who really IS left in Dion’s Liberal caucus that would not embarass the country or who could function reasonably in a boardroom?

  12. I agree totally. I tried to post on this topic all day, and 4 different posts disappeared never to be seen again.
    Such wit, such sarcasm, lost forever. It is to cry.
    _______________________
    The Globe and Mail has a piece on Saudi Arabia cracking down on bloggers.
    Go there and try posting anything asking why they don’t report on the HRC and Ezra, somehow very few of them get by the moderator.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080114.wcomment0114/CommentStory/International/home#commentLatest

  13. Keep checking out Ezra’s blog for updates on the AHRC case.
    I think it’s important that Ezra is a lawyer and that he has really done his homework. He can rebut the misinformation of the AHRC, he can challenge them on their invalid allegiations.
    Again, where is our MSM on this important case? Not a word out of them. Silent – while our freedoms are eroding.

  14. I think an important point re Ezra’s case and the AHRC is that if Muslims were offended by the cartoons they were free not to purchase the magazine. As a woman, I am offended by some of the nastier porn available, but this type of thing is still published, and 18+ are still free to purchase. It would have been different if the images had been displayed on TV — which is in everybody’s livingroom and thus the images could have been accidentally viewed. But the Western Standard was available through subscription or via newsstands where it was not always easy to locate. No Muslim could have been offended had he/she not gone out of their way to obtain the magazine. Re the question of whether or not non-Muslims seeing the cartoons are inspired towards hate — surely the cartoons (which most Westerners found to be quite innocuous) are not nearly so provocative as the attempt of this Muslim group to squelch free speech.

  15. ET: “Again, where is our MSM on this important case? Not a word out of them. Silent – while our freedoms are eroding.” — I have concluded that the answer is that the MSM is not interested in the issue of freedom of speech and assumes that the Canadian public is indifferent to it as well — they could be right.

  16. ET,
    “irwin daisy, with regard to your postings of selections from the various Islamic religious texts – isn’t it the case that these texts and their supporters could be brought to the Canadian HRC?”
    I more than agree. They must be brought forward.
    As I’ve stated on many occasions, the Islamic ideology, as expressed in the trilogy (Quran, Hadith and Sira) is the impetus for violence against non-Muslims, specifically Jews, as well as women.
    Islamic defence, to this point, has been the typical, ‘out of context’ charge. Which is a ridiculous claim since the Quran is not chronologically ordered and it has absolutely no context without the Hadith and Sira. The commands and rewards for violence do not have period, or place limitations either.
    The other defence typically used is ‘kitman’ (telling half truths in order to deceive).
    The Quran is divided into two periods. The early period was when Mo was in Mecca. The verses attributed to this period are moderate and some even seem reasonable (ie, “there’s no compulsion in religion…” and, “to you, your religion and to me, mine…” etc.). Which sound nice and fuzzy. Although, when put in context, often the meaning changes. For example, the second verse refers to Mohammad’s acceptance (the Satanic verses) and later his rejection to worship the other Meccan gods along with allah, in order to make peace. This changes the meaning from the way Muslims typically use this verse. “See, Islam is tolerant of other religions,” they say. When in actual fact, Mohammad used those words in breaking a peace pact.
    To make matters worse, the violent verses from the Medina period abrogate the earlier Meccan verses. For example, Quran 9:5, “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem” abrogates no less than 124 less violent verses.
    Islam is dualistic, because the Quran is dualistic. A Muslim can hold two verses that contradict each other to be true. So, depending on what a Muslim wants to believe, or more importantly – wants the infidel to believe – they have a choice.
    Regardless, there are literally hundreds of verses in the trilogy, especially to do with Mohammad’s words and actions, that can be proven to have been used throughout history, up to the present day, to incite unbelievable hatred and violence.
    Those in glass mosques, I suppose.

  17. ET, the Canadian MSM in giving coverage to Ezra would be shining a light on their own cowardice. He boldly published the cartoons feeling it was a free speech issue while they spinelessly censored themselves. Aside from a few perfunctory op-ed pieces, I’m sure they hope he’ll fade away as soon as possible.
    LindaL, I wonder how much Canadian indifference is simply being uninformed. 200,000 hits to Ezra’s You Tube site had to include a lot of Canadians thirsty for news on this issue.

  18. “200,000 hits to Ezra’s YouTube site had to include a lot of Canadians thirsty for news on this issue.”
    I’d bet that the overwhelming majority of those hits come from Americans, directed there by the LGF coverage.
    For a Canadian to care about this they would have to be engaged in current events here and abroad, and to feel some sort of imminent threat to themselves. Neither one of these is the case sadly. The people who post here, and on Ezra Levant’s site, and on BloggingTories, do not represent the average Canadian. Not even the average Conservative Canadian. Sad, but I believe true.
    A single event like Ezra Levant’s amazing performance and broadcasting of the HRC interview cannot reverse decades of decay.
    However, it is the persistence of the message that we get out there that can win in the long run. This single event won’t do the job. Steyn’s thing will be another. I’m sure there will be more. The cumulation of months and years of us hammering home the message that Canada is evolving into much less than what it used to be might eventually break through the “hear no evil” public and self-serving media.

  19. the event?
    A public funeral service will be held for the seven teenagers killed in the accident this Wednesday at 2 p.m. AT (or 1 p.m. ET). CBCNews.ca will be carrying the event on a live video stream

  20. Republicans not conservative. From the amicus brief in DC gun ban, pp. 20-21:
    …Given the unquestionable threat to public safety that unrestricted private firearm possession would entail, various categories of firearm-related
    regulation are permitted by the Second Amendment
    under that constitutional understanding, as illustrated by the existing federal laws regulating firearms…

  21. A gem from Dippity Layton press conf.on now…he suggests that there is no need to go and work in that filthy oil-patch in Alta (for that izzy money)..you can just go down the street and work on Mrs.Smith’s house!Is he on crack???? I’m sure in small town Manitoba you patch boys(of which my son is one) can make the same wage doing home-repairs,and minor reno work,as you do in Fort M.I can see the rush for plane tickets outta Alta asap.
    Found article at the Telegraph.co.uk,stating that eco-warriors(terrorists) are the worst polluters.Will Mansbridge cover this?

  22. And here is the cornerstone of the DC gun ban amicus brief, p.21:
    …Such a categorical approach would cast doubt on the constitutionality of the current federal machinegun ban, as well as on Congress’s general
    authority to protect the public safety by identifying and proscribing particularly dangerous weapons…

  23. To add to your list Lorraine,I think Cotler is another Lib that’s reached his best before date..and don’t even get me started on Holland,and Omar.I find this duo especially revolting.You can throw in Dalton’s bro as well.

  26. ET,
    Dr. Dawg is shitting all over the comments section at David Thompson’s blog.
    You’ve had excellent observations on the HRC, especially to do with section 13, if I remember correctly.
    Perhaps you might post over there, just to muzzle the mutt.
    If you don’t, I hope you won’t mind if I copy and paste one of your posts.

  32. I think it is wise to remember that Levants present issue is a specific rebuttal of the posting of the cartoons in his publication, however the greater and more important issue here is the role of the HRCs and their impact on free speech in general. Let’s not get too tied up in the Muzzie thing and ignore the broader ramifications this may hopefully have.

  33. FREE ALBERTA!
    you have nothing to lose but the green ‘ouse gizzes.
    oh, and the tax base, and the tranfer payments and the gas supply , and the oil supply, and the employment , and the youngest healthiest most educated population base, and ……

  34. irwin daisy – sure, you can copy my posts. I’ve read Dawg’s comments on David Thompson’s blog; thought about commenting and decided not to.
    The reason is that Dawg is not amenable to logic or reason or facts. What he’s doing on Thompson’s blog is akin to the Pigs’ soothing down the concerns of the animals in Orwell’s Animal Farm.
    Dawg is trivializing the issue, informing us that after all, the HRC isn’t actually a court and making it almost akin to a chat in the local coffee shop. It isn’t; you are called to appear by an official regulatory body of the provincial and Canadian governments. You can be fined and charged by this body; it’s no inconsequential coffee conversation.
    Dawg is furthermore, informing us that it seems quite reasonable to have ‘first level’ bodies that sift through conflicts – making these HRC something like a secretarial vetting before one goes to the Official Legal System. Wrong again. These HRC operate and make final judgments, with no appeal process, according to an official Act and are not the ‘first step’ in a sifting legal process.
    And, Dawg is ignoring the fundamental right and necessity of free speech.
    I very much doubt that he, a confirmed leftist and a member of the Cloud Dweller Set, will be able to see practical and rational reality.

  35. More delusional crapola from lefties …. Dawg’s been all over the bloggosphere dropping turds (of leftard wisdom) and carping about non lefty hosts…. what a jerk!
    H’e obviously been busy with google on the topic ….. I think he should go back to licking his *ss.

  36. Recommendations:
    #1. No carbon taxes.
    #2. Sell AECL/CBC in their entirety. Apply the proceeds to income tax cuts for Canadians.
    #3. Cut expenditures; e.g., disband CIDA.
    #4. Tear down bilingualism/multiculturalism.
    More; and, faster. …-
    Canadians Asked to Give Federal Budget Input
    15:02 01/14 (CEP News) Ottawa – Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is asking the Canadian public for help in drafting this spring’s federal budget.
    “A national budget affects all Canadians,” Flaherty said Monday in launching an online budget forum, “and I encourage everyone to take part in these pre-budget consultations.” […]
    Canadians have until Feb. 11 at midnight to take part in the online survey, which can be found at http://www.fin.gc.ca/activty/consult_e.html. Last year, nearly 8,000 Canadians participated in the online consultation process. http://tinyurl.com/2kbr7w (economic news)

  39. STOPIGGY says: We didn’t get it done, Stéphane. We didn’t get it done.
    Citoyen Dion replies: “This is unfair. You don’t know what you speak about.”
    “Our leaders knew what the Liberal] position was when Mr. Dion and Mr. Ignatieff met them,” Samad [Afghan ambassador to Canada] said in an interview Monday.
    …-
    Diplomatic niceties aside, Karzai utterly rejects Liberal Afghan policy
    Behind their courteous pleasantries, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his senior cabinet reject the Liberal position that Canada should end its combat mission in southern Afghanistan by February 2009.
    Following Saturday’s visit to Kabul by Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and deputy Michael Ignatieff, the Grit notion that Canada’s military mission can somehow be changed to focus less on combat and more on diplomacy and development simply didn’t fly with the Afghan government.
    Karzai spoke of the need to continue fighting terrorism “head on,” while his foreign minister and parliamentary house leader emphasized the need for the Canadian Forces to stick to their primary purpose in Kandahar – fighting the Taliban insurgency. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2te9uf (ottawa citizen)

  43. (Via The Times Faith Central) ‘Islamic Jesus’ hits Iranian movie screens
    A director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the ‘common ground’ between Muslims and Christians.
    Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, ‘Jesus, the Spirit of God,’ as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ which he praised as admirable but quite simply ‘wrong’…

  44. Paying for A Play on Putin’s Name
    Coining a new word can carry a heavy price these days.
    A Vladimir television journalist faces a hefty fine or even prison time after referring to a local meeting of supporters of President Vladimir Putin as a “puting” and the supporters as “Putinists.”
    Local prosecutors questioned the journalist, Sergei Golovinov, on Monday as part of an investigation into whether his use of the two words on his program on TV-6 Vladimir television had insulted a public official — a crime punishable by a fine of up to 40,000 rubles ($1,600) or a year of forced labor…

  45. ‘White flight’ increasing, race chief says
    The flight of the white middle classes from the inner cities is accelerating, the Government’s race relations chief has said.
    Trevor Phillips said so-called ”white flight” – an American phenomenon now increasingly seen here – was deepening racial segregation…
    But his use of the emotive term ”white flight” will fuel the controversy triggered by the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester.
    He said last week some Muslim enclaves were “no-go areas” for Christians and there was a need for greater integration…

  46. The 8th and it looks like last video is up from Ezra. This one is his final remarks.
    And I called. He wants them to convict him, so he can take it the the real court system.

  47. The biggest shock I got from reading comments re Ezra, from canadians was how many of them did not know these courts existed, or that they could fine people or what was considered a hate crime.
    Do you think that female commissioner would have dressed up and had her hair done if she knew she would be seen by over 200,000 people from all over the world.
    I would like to know the real reaction of the AHRC, or HRC’s across Canada when they discovered that they are being exposed to the world.
    We should be thankful for small favors. We did not have to watch stars, winners and presenters making political speeches last night.
    Also, poor Greenpeace, caught by a japanese whaling ship which will keep them there until they run out of fuel.

  49. Hi Kate- voted for you for the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards today – which kind of threw me as I thought we just had them a while back. Didn’t see a vote polling mechanism gizmo here so I voted for you on Jason Cherniak’s site. Love your site.

  50. Just how does a HRC impose a fine? Court order? Which court? What happens if I tell them to stuff it?

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