“This bitch does not speak for me.”
And with that I concur with “Gordon”, who sent this clip along. “Ann Coulter got what she deserved”

I’m starting to think the not-showing-up-to-riot is a failed conservative policy.
(Coulter updates here, including news that the Calgary venue has been changed, “to accomodate increased demand”.)

See? You can yell “fire” in a crowded theatre after all!
Via Rightgirl – “…word is coming out of Ottawa that the Coulter event had to be canceled because volunteers were attacked by “anti-racists”.
Details at the Ottawa Sun. Update: It’s just hit Drudge, making this in all probability, the biggest publicity coup of Ann Coulter’s career.

Congratulations, Ottawa! She couldn’t have done it without you.

“I dunno. A camel?” . Shaidle was there.
I disagree with the majority of right leaning freespeechers on this point – I believe we need more of this. “Either what (Mr. Houle) did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is BS.”
Update: And another poll goes horribly wrong….

Via Gay and Right I learned that the Swedish MSM have taken a stand.

The money quote from the referenced link:

Gunilla Herlitz, the Dagens Nyheter editor-in-chief, defended the reprinting of the cartoon as a legitimate part of the story of the day. “I believe that, in this case, the cartoon is a part of the news and therefore we would like to show the readers what this is all about. But the cartoon is published in a context and is not the leading picture on the page.”

Now, where have we heard that before?

Course, in the CDN version, the small magazine wasn’t three national newspapers and so couldn’t compete with the big gov’t HRC apparatus and it’s desire to destitute.

This one wonders if the Swedes have an HRC. If not, by Allah (MHNBP), they’d better get one!

Cheers,
lance

Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: The left is facilitating islamization. Leftists, liberals, are cheering for every new shariah bank being created, for every new shariah mortgage, for every new islamic school, for every new shariah court. Leftists consider Islam as being equal to our own culture. Shariah law or democracy? Islam or freedom? It doesn’t really matter to them. But it does matter to us. The entire leftist elite is guilty of practising cultural relativism. Universities, churches, trade unions, the media, politicians. They are all betraying our hard-won liberties.

His speech to the British House of Lords.
More here – “Today in London – All Kinds of Crazy”

Brussels Journal;

Yesterday’s local elections in the Netherlands resulted in a victory for the Freedom Party (PVV) of opposition leader Geert Wilders. On June 9th the Dutch will again be called to the voting booths for the general elections. Yesterday’s outcome reinforces the PVV’s momentum, which may result in a political landslide next June with repercussions all over Europe.
In yesterday’s local elections – the first ever in which Wilders’ party, established as recently as 2007, participated – the PVV became the biggest party in Almere and the second party in The Hague, two of the country’s major cities. The PVV won 21.6% of the votes in Almere and 16.9% in The Hague. The parties of the left had mobilized Muslim immigrants to come out and vote against Wilders. Many of them did so.
[…]
A poll taken yesterday by Dutch state television NOS predicts that Wilders will gain 24 of the 150 parliamentary seats next June. This would make the PVV the third biggest party in the country, after the Christian-Democrats (CDA) of the current Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende, and Labour. There are, however, other polls, such as the De Hond poll, which many consider to be the Netherlands’ most respected, which predicted yesterday that the PVV is to become the biggest party with 27 seats.

Rob Breakenridge; (link fixed, sorry!)

Last year an Alberta judge overturned Boissoin’s conviction and had some harsh words for the way the case was handled, especially how the human rights panel incorrectly interpreted Alberta’s human rights legislation.
Last week, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal did much the same thing in overturning Whatcott’s conviction. The ruling states the tribunal “failed to apply” some key principles of the law, and warned of the “danger that censorship can occur.”
The ruling even found there was no “attempt to balance the protection for freedom of expression”.

Via

The Australian;

In a trial that began last month, Wilders is being prosecuted for offending a “group of people”, for incitement and discrimination against Muslims. The summons describes scenes from his film Fitna as reason enough to put the leader of the Freedom Party in prison for up to two years.
In a sign of how twisted our Western antennae have become, the violence incited by Fitna is not against Muslims. Instead the film shows footage of Muslims preaching violence against the West. Yet Wilders is on trial for his opinions.
That said, Wilders does have harsh things to say about Islam. He likens the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and wants it banned. No doubt this is hurtful to Muslims. No doubt this offends them. It may even be hateful. But in June 2009 Dutch prosecutors declined to act against Wilders because “freedom of expression fulfils an essential role in public debate in a democratic society. That means offensive comments can be made in a political debate.”
Flexing its activist arm, the Dutch appeals court decided to prosecute Wilders anyway. Make no mistake. This is a political trial.
Wilders’s Freedom Party is presently the most popular political party in The Netherlands. In last year’s elections for the European Parliament, it won 17 per cent of the vote, second only to the ruling Christian Democrats on 19.9 per cent.
Wilders, who has made no secret of his views about Islam, could well be the next prime minister if that popularity is maintained. In other words, the Dutch seem interested in having a debate about what Wilders has to say about Islam.

Elections are June 9th.

“Let My People Go!”

“Who is the most important European alive today?”

Canadian Taxpayers Federation;

The Canadian “Human Rights” Commission (CHRC) has “placed itself in a position of deemed refusal” according to the Information Commissioner of Canada in response to complaints filed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). After months of wrangling with the federal government’s chief censorship body, the CTF was able to obtain records from the CHRC revealing that Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch spent much more on flights and hospitality than she revealed online, and that what she disclosed was at times nearly half of the actual cost.
The CTF filed three separate Access to Information Requests in August of 2009 to obtain details on Lynch’s expenses. The CHRC refused to provide information within the legally allotted time frame as it would “unreasonably interfere with the operations of the [Commission],” but finally bowed to pressure and released the documents more than a month late.

h/t BCF, who has this highly related item.

“It is irrelevant whether Wilder’s witnesses might prove Wilders’ observations to be correct”, the ‘Openbaar Ministerie’ stated, “what’s relevant is that his observations are illegal”.

Read the whole thing.
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Related: “JDL Solidarity Rally for Dutch Freedom Fighter Geert Wilders”, Wednesday, January 20 at the Toronto Zionist Centre. Details here.

TOLERism: The Ideology Revealed – by Canadian author Howard Rotberg. “How did we get into this mess that so many people think that Tolerance is a more important value than Justice?”

Via email;

I strongly recommend that as many of you that have wide-spread contact lists, urge your friends and readers, to look up the relevant embassy in their home country, or in as many countries as they can handle, and write/fax/email the Ambassador and/or Consular staff on the travesty of Geert Wilders’ upcoming trial on January 20 2010.
There are fax numbers, addresses and in many cases, email addresses in the above list that can be used with great results.
You may want to mention the following 2-3 main points to be addressed
– We note that Holland has always been a staunch ally of the West in its protection of Free Speech, now however, it seems that the old traditions have been abolished
– We abhor the decision of the Dutch Government and Justice Minister E.M.H. Hirsch Ballin to prosecute Hon Geert Wilders for hate speech on January 20 2010
– We urge the Government to immediately drop all charges and FREE GEERT WILDERS

We need voices like his, now more than ever.

… is so frickin’ large, it would make Al Gore green with envy. Did you know that the taxpayer’s of Canada pay all of his travel and accommodation expenses for him to travel from his home in Manitoba to Ottawa, on a weekly basis, so that he can “conduct regular business at Commission headquarters? Uh?

On the bright side I’m told by reliable sources that Cuban hospitals are world class.

(click the cartoon for story)

It’s time for the Infidel Blogger Awards, recognizing “the very best in Non-“Canadian Human Rights Commission” approved blogging & punditry and of course further our goal of offending the Kommissars of the Human Rights Kult and their politically correct enablers in the MSM, Judiciary, NGO community & Government.”

“Look who took time off work!” and more – just keep scrolling. My God, that man must type fast.
For a summarized version, see Miss Marprelate’s event blog.
Youtube videos of Lynch and other testimony, courtesy Mississauga Matt.
Drop any related links or reports you may have in the comments.