82 Replies to “Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?”
So is anybody surprised by the ignorance, incivility or ineptitude of the average INM adherent? Some idiot yelling “Ezra is up on human rights charges in Alberta!”…Another going on about the Jooos…What a clusterfluck.
Ezra has stones but I worry about his safety.
Wow I love Ezra.
Levant is incredible. He’s alone, wades out into that hostile crowd, talks calmly. Amazing. These people are not exactly known for thein non-violent philosophy.
Just wow.
I’ve tried to discuss (argued) with idiots before too. You’re better off chewing on a hammer.
These protesters are so, like, articulate and everything. Good thing I watched because now I know exactly what they want.
Ezra printed the Danish Mohammed cartoons when no one else would, and he has been exposing the BS behind INM since it started. As a taxpayer, I’m sick to death of supporting freeloaders who are more interested in being victims than providing for themselves and their families. Shame on Ezra? Good grief, get a grip.
And not a single one of the “protestors” missed a day of work being there. Especially the guy in the olive green coat. I doubt he could hold down a real job seeing as he seems to be drunk or high in the video.
Kudos to Ezra for standing up to these goons. It looks like there isn’t anyone in INM who can string three coherent words together. Their tactics are simple: smear your opponents as racists and justify your actions with neo-Marxist jargon.
Hey Ezra you can’t hide we can see your racist side. How clever, how long do you suppose they took to come up with that? You have to hand it to them it is catchy. I may have to sing its a small world after all to get that outta my head. Anyway Ezra is brave, calm, level headed throughout. It is truly sad to see how worked into a frenzy this mob gets, devoid of logic and rational constructive discourse. I used to wonder what a useful idiot was but not anymore.
Why did the cops pull him outta there?
Trying to talk to any member of the radical left is like trying to talk to a belligerent drunk, pre-armed with a rolodex-arsenal of inane, culturally-absorbed retarded slogans, who just stuck his head in a paint-shaker.
That’s why it’s so great that Ezra went out there to try to talk to them. Normally the “enlightened” class of limousine liberals at the CBC, the Star, etc., speak on their behalf, in pseudo-academic language, and we don’t get to see the representatives of the “noble” cause for what they are: idiotic, brainwashed, emotionally incontinent drones who shout “racist!” in the same way that 1950s Alabamans shouted “n****r!”
Gotta love Ezra, and Adler and Lilley and Coren, and Sun TV, for, ummm, de-filtering the truth.
…”de-filtering the truth.”…that’s brilliant EBD, and the rest is spot on also.
” You’re a racist,you’re a racist ”
What have I said that could possibly lead you to say that?
” It doesn’t matter,we all know that you’re a racist.”
These people vote and breed when not picking nits off of each other. That is scary.
Love the paint shaker blast. Magnificent.
much as I hate lawyers , are there any out there that will launch a lawsuit against Jabba the Spence and the band on the behalf of the taxpayer to get about 80 million back?
EBD, you describe them well. However it would be a mistake to underestimate them or those who are using them.
Have to hand to Ezra, he has a couple of brass ones.
Maybe it is time for citizens and organizations to start suing the various police forces that abuse their power or don’t enforce the law. Probably time for the lawsuits to fly….including personal suits against the Commissioners.
Ezra Levant. The Andrew Breitbart of the North.
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One is not popular when one tells the truth hence the hate-on for Sun News and Ezra Levant. They are certainly doing something right!
Not only should exposes be done but letting these emotional retards spew out their garbage for all to hear is fantastic. Let everyone know what the left looks and sounds like (but not smell).
Three cheers for Ezra for wading into a sea of Welfare Warriors. He’s got the Jubilee medal, he should get the Medal of Bravery too. As for the 100 or so goons and miscellaneous rabble rowsers, not a coherent adjective among the lot of them. And let’s not forget the cops failing to cover themselves with glory.
Why don’t we the taxpayers start protesting against the Indian act? Oh right, we have jobs which kinda get in the way of protesting.
I just learned something new: Just because a person has Aboriginal roots doesn’t stop them from being a Leftist thug.
The thugs may have set a new Canadian record for screaming the word “racist” more times per minute than I’ve ever before seen.
I worry about Ezra and his lack of a sense of danger.
Some of those people are under the influence of synthetic and/or natural substances; whatever these substances are, it’s creating more than a sugar/caffeine rush. When that happens, there is definitely an elevated risk of violence.
As you all know, he doesn’t mind asking the needed questions and pointing out the truth.
Will love to see Monday’s show.
Aboriginals can start walking back to Asia anytime now…
There was a time not so long ago that I had much respect for the police but that respect is rapidly fading. If those 6 so called police officers in the video are suppose to instill confidence in the public I fear for the future of Canadian society. Ezra was very civil and respectful and spoke without raising his voice while the mob insulted, yelled and physically assaulted him so naturally the pacifist police spent all their time warning Ezra and completely ignored the gang of lawless thugs. And these people in the funny head gear and yellow garments dare call themselves cops.
What a joke.
I’ve tried to discuss (argued) with idiots before too. You’re better off chewing on a hammer. Posted by: Jason
It’s pointless to discuss anything with an idiot, they always try to bring it down to their level in an attempt to win on experience.
More like street bums looking for a handout.
Was watching the MSM the other day showing the Idle No More idiots idling away on some train tracks in front of an oncoming train (slowing to a stop of course, this isn’t India for gosh sake) – anyway it stuck me that the “idle’ees” were waving a big red communist Chinese flag, stars and all.
I couldn’t help but think “what would the Chinese do if it was thier train”?
You know you lost when your protest suspiciously takes on the whiff of OWS.
Great job Ezra!
I don’t know, Dastardly. I do take your point, but cops necessarily have different considerations than the rest of us. If they can sense an assault coming, where the potential assaultee is vastly outnumbered, it’s not entirely irrational to protect and temporarily, ummm, relocate that one person – the sane and rational person, in this case – as opposed to fruitlessly trying to remove forty or fifty irrational, emotionally incontinent idiots.
I don’t think the cops were siding the political views of the mouth-breathers in this case.
Issues/concerns about mob rights versus individual rights are entirely valid in a political/societal sense, but I don’t necessarily fault the cops in this case, particularly when Ezra had already made his point. It would be an entirely different issue if they’d have stopped him from doing his thing in the first place, but they didn’t; they reacted using their best judgement in the moment.
I just watched the video of Ezra explaining why the Toronto Police siphoned him off away from the dregs, ‘Because it’s easier’.
I tried to hear Ezra speak at the University of Ottawa a few years back with his special guest Ann Coulter. When I got to the hall there were 8 students standing in a circle chanting “hey, hey, ho, ho, (something incoherent) has to go”. Obviously Ottawa U’s finest English lit majors were incensed about something. When I tried to enter the hall, a police officer stopped me and said the event had been canceled. Later I learned it was the Ottawa Police who canceled it.
It appears that the uninformed have the uniformed running interference for them. I don’t think that is a good thing.
Typical lefty tactics. Whenever someone uses logic, fact, data, common sense, the response is to shout him down.
I’d say by the looks of the “protesters” that the cops probably knew each of them by name, and vice versa.
Sort of a “hey bob” “hey” kind of morning.
I wonder if any of that mob would have the guts to go out into a hostile crowd alone, as Ezra did?
I suppose they’re too stupid to see the fallacy of their chant”yak yak you can’t hide…” The guy wasn’t hiding,he was right there facing about 100 of you down, with just a camera man.
What a pack of FREAKS.
I admire Mr. Levant s restraint, I would start using my steel boots on that crap-show. I would be wearing my leather WORK gloves.
douche-nozzles
dwright
I wonder if any of those “well informed intelligent” demonstrators would appear on Ezera’s show to make their point of view known.
There was more Jew bashing in a few moments with this rabble than at a Saudi university debate club.
Oh, how delicious the irony of hearing these utter idiots calling Ezra a racist while calling him a Joo and the Sun a Joo owned business.
Posted by: dmorris on January 20, 2013 2:33 AM
The only way I would deal with that level of hatred would be with my heavy leather ranch gloves and steel-toe boots.
Ezra has more restraint than me, I tend to punch creeps that speak out of turn.
dwright
i do not remember who said it but…..”there are certain topics or arguments that one should not bring up in the presence of children or those with little understanding”. the idle indians fit the profile.
When are the sane going to speak up against these nonsensical people.
They want their country back – with nothing developed.
And they would look after mother earth. Not a chance.
People come here to get rid of this kind of danger.
I fear for our wonderful country because they are spewing things promoted from leftie loons.
We will soon have to call the military since the police cannot help.
Ezra…when your ready to do legal battle against the bozo’s and their police escorts start a Paypal or similar legal fund. I would be the first to contribute and every Canadian that works for a living would follow.
Maybe we could start a “Silent No More” movement, dress down, dumb down our vocabulary, infiltrate the mob and even up the odds should you need help that the police will not provide you.
Be careful out there.
This whole Idle No More Rent-a-Mob “protest” was appalling, right down to the police detail.
Cross-posted at Blazing Cat Fur:
Fourteen minutes of pure hatred. “Hey, Ezra, you can’t hide. We can see your racist side,” as he’s come out to talk to the crowd …
These people (sic, more like animals) say they’re for human rights? What a bunch of jackasses. I hope the cops are making a few mental notes of the kind of deranged lunatics they’re supporting when they refuse to apply the law equally. They’re largely responsible for this kind of rumble. The guy yelling, “We should get rid of your property rights, Ezra!” doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. His hero, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, got rid of property rights. There are no property rights enshrined in Canada’s Charter of Rights [sic] and Freedoms [sic]. This rabble-rouser’s too dumb to know that.
Un-bee-lee-va-bull, a woman, when asked by Ezra to be specific and give an example of his “racism,” says, “I need to give you an example? Just look at all the people [here].” Uh huh. If a bunch of horses’ asses show up to yell at you that you’re racist, then you’re racist. End of story. No need to justify your slurs. She finishes with, “Racism is racism is racism.” She gets an A+ ~ and probably did over at RyHigh.
The other guy that gets an A+ is the one who yells at Ezra, “You’re a fu**ing piece of **it, Ezra” and repeats it as he walks away from Ezra’s questions. Such eloquence in these folks, especially the guy who’s yelling at him, “You’re up for violating human rights in Alberta.” ‘Guess this idiot doesn’t know how that turned out, how Ezra turned the tables on the corrupt AHRC … Another A+ goes to the clown who keeps saying, “Don’t talk to him” and the dunce who intones “Don’t feed the troll, don’t feed the troll.”
The ignorance of this crowd is beyond belief. The Sun’s inciting hatred?
The piece de resistance is the cops “apprehending” Ezra. Instead of talking to members of the rabble, who are clearly threatening Ezra’s safety by their shouting and their
obscenities, and pulling them aside for their hate speech, they pull Ezra aside. Wow. When the cops become cowards and won’t apply the law equally, we’re in big, big trouble.
EBD, I usually agree with you. But not in this case. Have you watched the video Blogwrath took of the “protest,” all 14 minutes of it? http://www.blogwrath.com/
It’s clear that the cops — I used to call them police officers — should have been dealing with some of rabbles’ spewing heavy-duty hate speech. There are laws against hate speech while Ezra was operating within the law, unlike a lot of the jackasses braying hatred.
The cops admitted to Ezra that they took him aside because “it was easier” for them. When policing comes down to what works for the cops, with little or no regard to the equal application of the law, then we’re in big, big trouble.
The safety and security of Canadians is in big, big trouble.
The whingnuts are accusing Sun of being racists whilst some of the nuts are spewing pure anti-semitism. I’d bet money liberal media won’t report the vile antisemitism that is rife in the rent a mob progressive crowd.
I’d agree with EBD. The role of the police was to prevent violence not to side with one or the other points of view.
As noted, Ezra had already ‘said his piece’ and it was also obvious that the Other Side had no intention or even ability to engage in rational debate with him. What would be the inevitable result of such a group that operates anyway by emotion rather than by reason, being ‘forced’ to listen to someone whose words they rejected? Violence.
The police, for example, were most definitely against the OWS crowds who took over St. James Park in Toronto a year ago. They could do nothing, despite this being an infringement of municipal bylaw against tents and overnight occupation of parks, until the city politicians allowed them to move in and remove the OWS rabble. Until then, their role was basic: prevent violence.
ET, the issue here is not that the police officers should “side with one or the other points of view.”
The issue here is the enforcement of the law. What Ezra was doing was within the law. What the protesters were doing was against the law: spewing hate speech. I’m not saying that the police should have “forced [the mob] to listen to someone whose words they rejected.” I’m saying the police should have apprehended individuals who were spewing hate speech.
Yes, inevitably, there would be violence and the cops’ job is to apprehend and charge violent protesters. Every time the cops allow the mob to take over and spew hatred with no consequences they in effect encourage more and more of this kind of anarchy.
The police’s job is not to “prevent violence.” Their job is to apply the law equally and to enforce Canada’s laws. They didn’t do this.
batb, the fact that many in the crowd were yelling comments against Ezra, accusing him of being racist, of comments against Jews, etc, is not, legally, ‘hate speech’. It’s certainly hateful but that’s quite different.
Under the constitution’s freedom of speech, their speech is legal. It’s irrational, ignorant, obnoxious and so on, but, it’s their right.
The hate speech laws (section 318 of the Criminal Code) we have in Canada refer only to public advocation of genocide of an identifiable group. That’s it.
Given that this rabble are immune to reason, facts, debate, discussion, then, this event of Ezra going in and calmly asking for reasons for their views – when their views have no foundation in facts or reason – would only have led to violence. On their part, not on Ezra’s part.
Therefore, I’ll side with the police. Their role is not to enter into the debate (what debate?! Impossible) but to prevent violence.
I have come to the conclusion that some people are actually hard wired to be controlled like puppets; sad but true.
“Issues/concerns about mob rights versus individual rights are entirely valid in a political/societal sense, but I don’t necessarily fault the cops in this case, particularly when Ezra had already made his point. It would be an entirely different issue if they’d have stopped him from doing his thing in the first place, but they didn’t; they reacted using their best judgement in the moment.
Posted by: EBD”
I think you are wrong, EBD. It is not the place of the Police to decide when I have made my point well enough that they can now take away my rights to free speech and freedom of association in order to make their jobs easier. It was certainly not Ezra who was in danger of getting out of hand in that clip, so why should the police curtail HIS rights in the name of ‘preventing violence’?
I do think you are right that it was not politically motivated, it was motivated by a desire to make their job easier, coupled with a lack of respect for the rights of law abiding citizens.
Enkidu – what lack of respect for the rights of law abiding citizens? What rights are these?
Ezra has the right of free speech. So do the rabble. We then move on to the ‘right to HEAR (much less debate) this speech’. There is no such right.
We must then move on to the results of having to hear this unwelcome speech. Well, we can ignore them, and there are many examples of people ignoring OWS and the NMI crowds. They are, essentially, totally identical, made up of the same sets of leftists, unionists and natives.
Just recently, a crowd of NMI/OWS marched along King St in Toronto, accompanied, heh, by the police. They then proceeded to form a dance circle in the middle of a busy intersection and thus hold up traffic. The police gave them their two minutes and then, the cacaphony of car horns from people who did not wish to hear or see this performance, ended the performance and they were forced to move on.
Certainly, the OWS and NMI crowds aren’t interested in hearing the rationale of other people. So, what’s next?
If you insist on making them hear you, the quite possible result is violence on their part. How does that help?
I think the police were absolutely right. Ezra had made his point. The next step for him is to publicize their irrational hate-filled reaction. And then, to have the genuine debates on the issues in the media, carried out not by rabble who are unable to debate but by people who actually know the laws, the history and the issues – and most of these marchers haven’t a clue.
I agree with EBD and ET. Unless I have clearly misread the mob’s hostility they were about to get physical with Ezra and it might not have ended well. Look at the video again and note the point where the police shuffle Ezra aside. That aside Ezra is one brave Canadian
citizen.
So is anybody surprised by the ignorance, incivility or ineptitude of the average INM adherent? Some idiot yelling “Ezra is up on human rights charges in Alberta!”…Another going on about the Jooos…What a clusterfluck.
Ezra has stones but I worry about his safety.
Wow I love Ezra.
Levant is incredible. He’s alone, wades out into that hostile crowd, talks calmly. Amazing. These people are not exactly known for thein non-violent philosophy.
Just wow.
I’ve tried to discuss (argued) with idiots before too. You’re better off chewing on a hammer.
These protesters are so, like, articulate and everything. Good thing I watched because now I know exactly what they want.
Ezra printed the Danish Mohammed cartoons when no one else would, and he has been exposing the BS behind INM since it started. As a taxpayer, I’m sick to death of supporting freeloaders who are more interested in being victims than providing for themselves and their families. Shame on Ezra? Good grief, get a grip.
And not a single one of the “protestors” missed a day of work being there. Especially the guy in the olive green coat. I doubt he could hold down a real job seeing as he seems to be drunk or high in the video.
Kudos to Ezra for standing up to these goons. It looks like there isn’t anyone in INM who can string three coherent words together. Their tactics are simple: smear your opponents as racists and justify your actions with neo-Marxist jargon.
Hey Ezra you can’t hide we can see your racist side. How clever, how long do you suppose they took to come up with that? You have to hand it to them it is catchy. I may have to sing its a small world after all to get that outta my head. Anyway Ezra is brave, calm, level headed throughout. It is truly sad to see how worked into a frenzy this mob gets, devoid of logic and rational constructive discourse. I used to wonder what a useful idiot was but not anymore.
Why did the cops pull him outta there?
@ 11.54 in the video, “The Revolution will be Televised”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised_(film)
The entire left is connected. Their goal is control of you, of me. The means of production, the media.
Step out of line, feel their wrath.
Trying to talk to any member of the radical left is like trying to talk to a belligerent drunk, pre-armed with a rolodex-arsenal of inane, culturally-absorbed retarded slogans, who just stuck his head in a paint-shaker.
That’s why it’s so great that Ezra went out there to try to talk to them. Normally the “enlightened” class of limousine liberals at the CBC, the Star, etc., speak on their behalf, in pseudo-academic language, and we don’t get to see the representatives of the “noble” cause for what they are: idiotic, brainwashed, emotionally incontinent drones who shout “racist!” in the same way that 1950s Alabamans shouted “n****r!”
Gotta love Ezra, and Adler and Lilley and Coren, and Sun TV, for, ummm, de-filtering the truth.
…”de-filtering the truth.”…that’s brilliant EBD, and the rest is spot on also.
” You’re a racist,you’re a racist ”
What have I said that could possibly lead you to say that?
” It doesn’t matter,we all know that you’re a racist.”
These people vote and breed when not picking nits off of each other. That is scary.
Love the paint shaker blast. Magnificent.
much as I hate lawyers , are there any out there that will launch a lawsuit against Jabba the Spence and the band on the behalf of the taxpayer to get about 80 million back?
EBD, you describe them well. However it would be a mistake to underestimate them or those who are using them.
Have to hand to Ezra, he has a couple of brass ones.
Maybe it is time for citizens and organizations to start suing the various police forces that abuse their power or don’t enforce the law. Probably time for the lawsuits to fly….including personal suits against the Commissioners.
Ezra Levant. The Andrew Breitbart of the North.
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One is not popular when one tells the truth hence the hate-on for Sun News and Ezra Levant. They are certainly doing something right!
Not only should exposes be done but letting these emotional retards spew out their garbage for all to hear is fantastic. Let everyone know what the left looks and sounds like (but not smell).
Three cheers for Ezra for wading into a sea of Welfare Warriors. He’s got the Jubilee medal, he should get the Medal of Bravery too. As for the 100 or so goons and miscellaneous rabble rowsers, not a coherent adjective among the lot of them. And let’s not forget the cops failing to cover themselves with glory.
Why don’t we the taxpayers start protesting against the Indian act? Oh right, we have jobs which kinda get in the way of protesting.
I just learned something new: Just because a person has Aboriginal roots doesn’t stop them from being a Leftist thug.
The thugs may have set a new Canadian record for screaming the word “racist” more times per minute than I’ve ever before seen.
I worry about Ezra and his lack of a sense of danger.
Some of those people are under the influence of synthetic and/or natural substances; whatever these substances are, it’s creating more than a sugar/caffeine rush. When that happens, there is definitely an elevated risk of violence.
As you all know, he doesn’t mind asking the needed questions and pointing out the truth.
Will love to see Monday’s show.
Aboriginals can start walking back to Asia anytime now…
There was a time not so long ago that I had much respect for the police but that respect is rapidly fading. If those 6 so called police officers in the video are suppose to instill confidence in the public I fear for the future of Canadian society. Ezra was very civil and respectful and spoke without raising his voice while the mob insulted, yelled and physically assaulted him so naturally the pacifist police spent all their time warning Ezra and completely ignored the gang of lawless thugs. And these people in the funny head gear and yellow garments dare call themselves cops.
What a joke.
I’ve tried to discuss (argued) with idiots before too. You’re better off chewing on a hammer. Posted by: Jason
It’s pointless to discuss anything with an idiot, they always try to bring it down to their level in an attempt to win on experience.
More like street bums looking for a handout.
Was watching the MSM the other day showing the Idle No More idiots idling away on some train tracks in front of an oncoming train (slowing to a stop of course, this isn’t India for gosh sake) – anyway it stuck me that the “idle’ees” were waving a big red communist Chinese flag, stars and all.
I couldn’t help but think “what would the Chinese do if it was thier train”?
You know you lost when your protest suspiciously takes on the whiff of OWS.
Great job Ezra!
I don’t know, Dastardly. I do take your point, but cops necessarily have different considerations than the rest of us. If they can sense an assault coming, where the potential assaultee is vastly outnumbered, it’s not entirely irrational to protect and temporarily, ummm, relocate that one person – the sane and rational person, in this case – as opposed to fruitlessly trying to remove forty or fifty irrational, emotionally incontinent idiots.
I don’t think the cops were siding the political views of the mouth-breathers in this case.
Issues/concerns about mob rights versus individual rights are entirely valid in a political/societal sense, but I don’t necessarily fault the cops in this case, particularly when Ezra had already made his point. It would be an entirely different issue if they’d have stopped him from doing his thing in the first place, but they didn’t; they reacted using their best judgement in the moment.
I just watched the video of Ezra explaining why the Toronto Police siphoned him off away from the dregs, ‘Because it’s easier’.
I tried to hear Ezra speak at the University of Ottawa a few years back with his special guest Ann Coulter. When I got to the hall there were 8 students standing in a circle chanting “hey, hey, ho, ho, (something incoherent) has to go”. Obviously Ottawa U’s finest English lit majors were incensed about something. When I tried to enter the hall, a police officer stopped me and said the event had been canceled. Later I learned it was the Ottawa Police who canceled it.
It appears that the uninformed have the uniformed running interference for them. I don’t think that is a good thing.
Typical lefty tactics. Whenever someone uses logic, fact, data, common sense, the response is to shout him down.
I’d say by the looks of the “protesters” that the cops probably knew each of them by name, and vice versa.
Sort of a “hey bob” “hey” kind of morning.
Ezra discuses police tactics.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/01/20130119-171019.html
I wonder if any of that mob would have the guts to go out into a hostile crowd alone, as Ezra did?
I suppose they’re too stupid to see the fallacy of their chant”yak yak you can’t hide…” The guy wasn’t hiding,he was right there facing about 100 of you down, with just a camera man.
What a pack of FREAKS.
I admire Mr. Levant s restraint, I would start using my steel boots on that crap-show. I would be wearing my leather WORK gloves.
douche-nozzles
dwright
I wonder if any of those “well informed intelligent” demonstrators would appear on Ezera’s show to make their point of view known.
There was more Jew bashing in a few moments with this rabble than at a Saudi university debate club.
Oh, how delicious the irony of hearing these utter idiots calling Ezra a racist while calling him a Joo and the Sun a Joo owned business.
Posted by: dmorris on January 20, 2013 2:33 AM
The only way I would deal with that level of hatred would be with my heavy leather ranch gloves and steel-toe boots.
Ezra has more restraint than me, I tend to punch creeps that speak out of turn.
dwright
i do not remember who said it but…..”there are certain topics or arguments that one should not bring up in the presence of children or those with little understanding”. the idle indians fit the profile.
When are the sane going to speak up against these nonsensical people.
They want their country back – with nothing developed.
And they would look after mother earth. Not a chance.
People come here to get rid of this kind of danger.
I fear for our wonderful country because they are spewing things promoted from leftie loons.
We will soon have to call the military since the police cannot help.
Ezra…when your ready to do legal battle against the bozo’s and their police escorts start a Paypal or similar legal fund. I would be the first to contribute and every Canadian that works for a living would follow.
Maybe we could start a “Silent No More” movement, dress down, dumb down our vocabulary, infiltrate the mob and even up the odds should you need help that the police will not provide you.
Be careful out there.
This whole Idle No More Rent-a-Mob “protest” was appalling, right down to the police detail.
Cross-posted at Blazing Cat Fur:
Fourteen minutes of pure hatred. “Hey, Ezra, you can’t hide. We can see your racist side,” as he’s come out to talk to the crowd …
These people (sic, more like animals) say they’re for human rights? What a bunch of jackasses. I hope the cops are making a few mental notes of the kind of deranged lunatics they’re supporting when they refuse to apply the law equally. They’re largely responsible for this kind of rumble. The guy yelling, “We should get rid of your property rights, Ezra!” doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. His hero, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, got rid of property rights. There are no property rights enshrined in Canada’s Charter of Rights [sic] and Freedoms [sic]. This rabble-rouser’s too dumb to know that.
Un-bee-lee-va-bull, a woman, when asked by Ezra to be specific and give an example of his “racism,” says, “I need to give you an example? Just look at all the people [here].” Uh huh. If a bunch of horses’ asses show up to yell at you that you’re racist, then you’re racist. End of story. No need to justify your slurs. She finishes with, “Racism is racism is racism.” She gets an A+ ~ and probably did over at RyHigh.
The other guy that gets an A+ is the one who yells at Ezra, “You’re a fu**ing piece of **it, Ezra” and repeats it as he walks away from Ezra’s questions. Such eloquence in these folks, especially the guy who’s yelling at him, “You’re up for violating human rights in Alberta.” ‘Guess this idiot doesn’t know how that turned out, how Ezra turned the tables on the corrupt AHRC … Another A+ goes to the clown who keeps saying, “Don’t talk to him” and the dunce who intones “Don’t feed the troll, don’t feed the troll.”
The ignorance of this crowd is beyond belief. The Sun’s inciting hatred?
The piece de resistance is the cops “apprehending” Ezra. Instead of talking to members of the rabble, who are clearly threatening Ezra’s safety by their shouting and their
obscenities, and pulling them aside for their hate speech, they pull Ezra aside. Wow. When the cops become cowards and won’t apply the law equally, we’re in big, big trouble.
EBD, I usually agree with you. But not in this case. Have you watched the video Blogwrath took of the “protest,” all 14 minutes of it?
http://www.blogwrath.com/
It’s clear that the cops — I used to call them police officers — should have been dealing with some of rabbles’ spewing heavy-duty hate speech. There are laws against hate speech while Ezra was operating within the law, unlike a lot of the jackasses braying hatred.
The cops admitted to Ezra that they took him aside because “it was easier” for them. When policing comes down to what works for the cops, with little or no regard to the equal application of the law, then we’re in big, big trouble.
The safety and security of Canadians is in big, big trouble.
The whingnuts are accusing Sun of being racists whilst some of the nuts are spewing pure anti-semitism. I’d bet money liberal media won’t report the vile antisemitism that is rife in the rent a mob progressive crowd.
I’d agree with EBD. The role of the police was to prevent violence not to side with one or the other points of view.
As noted, Ezra had already ‘said his piece’ and it was also obvious that the Other Side had no intention or even ability to engage in rational debate with him. What would be the inevitable result of such a group that operates anyway by emotion rather than by reason, being ‘forced’ to listen to someone whose words they rejected? Violence.
The police, for example, were most definitely against the OWS crowds who took over St. James Park in Toronto a year ago. They could do nothing, despite this being an infringement of municipal bylaw against tents and overnight occupation of parks, until the city politicians allowed them to move in and remove the OWS rabble. Until then, their role was basic: prevent violence.
ET, the issue here is not that the police officers should “side with one or the other points of view.”
The issue here is the enforcement of the law. What Ezra was doing was within the law. What the protesters were doing was against the law: spewing hate speech. I’m not saying that the police should have “forced [the mob] to listen to someone whose words they rejected.” I’m saying the police should have apprehended individuals who were spewing hate speech.
Yes, inevitably, there would be violence and the cops’ job is to apprehend and charge violent protesters. Every time the cops allow the mob to take over and spew hatred with no consequences they in effect encourage more and more of this kind of anarchy.
The police’s job is not to “prevent violence.” Their job is to apply the law equally and to enforce Canada’s laws. They didn’t do this.
batb, the fact that many in the crowd were yelling comments against Ezra, accusing him of being racist, of comments against Jews, etc, is not, legally, ‘hate speech’. It’s certainly hateful but that’s quite different.
Under the constitution’s freedom of speech, their speech is legal. It’s irrational, ignorant, obnoxious and so on, but, it’s their right.
The hate speech laws (section 318 of the Criminal Code) we have in Canada refer only to public advocation of genocide of an identifiable group. That’s it.
Given that this rabble are immune to reason, facts, debate, discussion, then, this event of Ezra going in and calmly asking for reasons for their views – when their views have no foundation in facts or reason – would only have led to violence. On their part, not on Ezra’s part.
Therefore, I’ll side with the police. Their role is not to enter into the debate (what debate?! Impossible) but to prevent violence.
I have come to the conclusion that some people are actually hard wired to be controlled like puppets; sad but true.
“Issues/concerns about mob rights versus individual rights are entirely valid in a political/societal sense, but I don’t necessarily fault the cops in this case, particularly when Ezra had already made his point. It would be an entirely different issue if they’d have stopped him from doing his thing in the first place, but they didn’t; they reacted using their best judgement in the moment.
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I think you are wrong, EBD. It is not the place of the Police to decide when I have made my point well enough that they can now take away my rights to free speech and freedom of association in order to make their jobs easier. It was certainly not Ezra who was in danger of getting out of hand in that clip, so why should the police curtail HIS rights in the name of ‘preventing violence’?
I do think you are right that it was not politically motivated, it was motivated by a desire to make their job easier, coupled with a lack of respect for the rights of law abiding citizens.
Enkidu – what lack of respect for the rights of law abiding citizens? What rights are these?
Ezra has the right of free speech. So do the rabble. We then move on to the ‘right to HEAR (much less debate) this speech’. There is no such right.
We must then move on to the results of having to hear this unwelcome speech. Well, we can ignore them, and there are many examples of people ignoring OWS and the NMI crowds. They are, essentially, totally identical, made up of the same sets of leftists, unionists and natives.
Just recently, a crowd of NMI/OWS marched along King St in Toronto, accompanied, heh, by the police. They then proceeded to form a dance circle in the middle of a busy intersection and thus hold up traffic. The police gave them their two minutes and then, the cacaphony of car horns from people who did not wish to hear or see this performance, ended the performance and they were forced to move on.
Certainly, the OWS and NMI crowds aren’t interested in hearing the rationale of other people. So, what’s next?
If you insist on making them hear you, the quite possible result is violence on their part. How does that help?
I think the police were absolutely right. Ezra had made his point. The next step for him is to publicize their irrational hate-filled reaction. And then, to have the genuine debates on the issues in the media, carried out not by rabble who are unable to debate but by people who actually know the laws, the history and the issues – and most of these marchers haven’t a clue.
I agree with EBD and ET. Unless I have clearly misread the mob’s hostility they were about to get physical with Ezra and it might not have ended well. Look at the video again and note the point where the police shuffle Ezra aside. That aside Ezra is one brave Canadian
citizen.