6/11/2008

I hope each and every one of you visits this particular Mark Steyn page. The establishment liberals in Canada are all lining up against him and against free speech that doesn't conform. This is an Orwellian lesson for all of us. No bureaucracy is accountable to anyone other than themselves, and in this case Free Speech in Canada is basically toast even if Steyn prevails. They have shown they will go after anyone they choose and cannot be stopped. Now the Human Rights Commission of Canada is going after AMERICAN web sites. Don't just lie there....

Canadian thought police examine American web sites, reports The Washington Times; "Ghastly" and "anti-democratic," says The Arizona Republic;
And below is a verbatim copy of Canada's National Post article. It's coming here and the Liberals will love it. Enactment of a "Fairness Doctrine" will be their job #1

TORONTO -- Muslims must "demand that right to participate" in national media, Khurrum Awan, the primary witness in the Maclean's magazine hate speech hearing, told a weekend conference of the Canadian Arab Federation.

"And we have to tell them, you know what, if you're not going to allow us to do that, there will be consequences. You will be taken to the human rights commission, you will be taken to the press council, and you know what? If you manage to get rid of the human rights code provisions [on hate speech], we will then take you to the civil courts system. And you know what? Some judge out there might just think that perhaps it's time to have a tort of group defamation, and you might be liable for a few million dollars," he said.

On a discussion panel with Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star, Mr. Awan described his increasingly high-profile struggle "against particular elements in media that are misusing and abusing their responsibility" in writing about Islam.

And here's the American support for suppression of free speech from a few of the usual suspects. To Arms.

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