Bloggers now have a legal defense fund against baseless suits from bored lawyers.

Thank you, Ezra. You are an inspiration. How it would be possible to lump you into the same profession as the likes of the Osgoode Four, Kinsella or Cherniak I do not know. We lucked out with you!

By the way, Warren: Saying "fuck you" to someone is still legal in this country, even if that person's feelings get hurt. No need to have me served over it.

Labels: Blogging, Human Rights, Legal Defense Fund, Warren Kinsella

Now that Sharia law seems to be influencing what our "free" press can and can't say about Islam, this is something future Ezra Levants and Mark Steyns can look forward to:

Afghan journalist sentenced to death

An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.

The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam

Don't think it could happen in Canada?

What if I'd asked you twenty years ago whether you thought journalists in the country my grandfathers went to war for would ever have to sit in front of "human rights" interrogators? What would you have said then?

Labels: Afghanistan, Ezra Levant, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Kangaroo Court, Mark Steyn

It was the same question at the end of every class.

"Yes, but is there really a free press in Canada?" asked a young Russian student slouched in the front row of my journalism and public policy course at St. Petersburg State University.

"Can Canadian reporters really write what they see?" a young woman asked at the end of a lecture about political reporting.

Each time I said yes, there was a tiny groan and students rolled their eyes. Some things don't need translation. The concept of a free press seemed as far-fetched to these Russian journalism students as the tooth fairy, or Santa Claus.

When I was invited to teach at the journalism school of St. Petersburg State University as part of a program run by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, I knew that things were bad for journalists in Russia, but I did not appreciate quite how bad.

No comment on the Steyn or Levant cases. Perhaps that will be in a forthcoming article? Or perhaps they will ignore it. After all, the Toronto Star is on the same wavelength as the PC thought police, so it is unlikely they will ever have to feel the wrath of those who wish to silence our "free" press.

First they came for the conservatives...

Labels: Ezra Levant, Human Rights, Mark Steyn, Toronto Star

Mr. Levant Goes to the Kangaroo Court.

His statement at the interrogation of the Alberta "Human Rights" commission is stirring and succinct. On more than one occasion, Ezra has stood up for my right to say what I want, often coming under fire himself. And though I'm two thousand miles away, I am proud to stand for Ezra.



Give 'em hell, man. Do not let them silence you. Your complainants, as Muslims, have the right to call for your death as a Jew. But when you point out their hatred, or even just shrug it off with ridicule, you are dragged before a kangaroo court for sensitivity hearings.

Canada's slippery slope has turned into a raging mudslide.

Labels: Ezra Levant, Human Rights, Islam, Kangaroo Court

Looks like he has some competition for being the jackpot winner at the Canadian Human Rights kangaroo courts. His competition is a transexual.

A lawyer from Quebec City says she was dumped as a federal New Democratic Party candidate because she is transgendered.

Micheline Montreuil alleges she was told by an NDP official that her sexuality hindered party attempts to woo new Quebec candidates into the fold.

When I began reading, it looked as if Layton & Co. may have some hypocrisy omelette stuck to their faces. But alas, turns out this "lady" has played the HRC Wheel of Fortune before:

Meanwhile, if Ms. Montreuil heads to court, it wouldn't be the first time.

Last month, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled the Canadian Forces discriminated against Ms. Montreuil in 2003, when it passed her up for a job as a grievance officer.

The tribunal ruled Ms. Montreuil's sexuality was the real reason she didn't get the position and awarded her $40,000.

She won a similar case in 2004 when the same tribunal ruled against the National Bank for failing to hire Ms. Montreuil as a customer service representative.

Good thing, too. Sex changes and hormone treatments can be expensive, and s/he seems to have a good plan for getting it all paid off...

Labels: Human Rights, Montreuil, NDP, Richard Warman

So they finally admitted it. The Canadian Human Rights Commission finally admitted what they are really about: Censorship.

And, he says, when he had a conversation with a Commission employee, mediator Bob Fagan, about the specifics of the allegation, he was astonished at what he heard.
"I told him that it seemed to be an abuse of the Human Rights Act for someone to try and use it as an instrument of censorship. And when I said that, on the phone, there was a pause and then he said, in a somewhat astonished tone: 'But the Human Rights Act is about censorship'. Then it was my turn to be silent on my end, because I found that breath-taking. For the Human Rights Commission's own mediator to acknowledge that censorship was the purpose of their Act."

From the horse's mouth. So can we now, in good conscience, allow it to continue? We've basically been told that - like under communist regimes - our speech and opinions are being silenced to the whims of political correctness.

Kathy wrote about this issue yesterday:

I hope Emmanuel isn't counting on getting support from the cowardly, careerist "conservative" male bloggers in this nation, who time and again have revealed themselves to be more interested in watching Family Guy than fighting for what's right.

It's true. The likes of the Blogging Tories and their ilk are more interested in preparing graphs and poll numbers, visions of party wonk jobs dancing in their uninspired heads, to bother to stand up and shout for the very things the party is supposed to represent.

Kathy, Kate and I can be out there shouting like Canadian Coulters, drawing attention to issues that affect us all and getting people talking, and all the while the men write us off as "too controversial" and kick us out of their clubhouses. When one of us gets a death threat, we only have each other to depend on - Stephen Taylor et al are too busy agreeing with those who seek to silence us, so that maybe they'll be seen as progressive enough score a policy job.

To be clear, we don't expect every conservative in Canada to agree with us - heck, we don't even agree with each other half the time - but when we're out there stirring up the bigger issues that affect not only this country but civilization as we know it, we would very much appreciate it if you would quit slagging dead-horse Stephane Dion long enough to defend our right to say the things we're saying, instead of just knee-jerking us in the balls you are oh so jealous we possess.

Labels: Communism, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Human Weakness

04/24/06 "I can't figure out why the homosexuals I ran into are on the side of the Muslims. After all, Muslims who practice Sharia law tend to advocate beheading homosexuals."

03/09/06 "I defy Islamic censorship and speak about what I believe is the truth
about violent Islamism and its threat to religious liberty in Canada."

"How many of us pay nothing but lip service to the Muslim threat here in Canada?"

"Probably everyone want to jail a Muslim."

"I have to ask why we are importing them here?"

"Islamic fundamentalism and its threat to Canada's religious and civil liberties."

Fuck you, Human Rights Tribunal.

This blog stands with Connie Wilkins of Free Dominion. The Human Rights courts are a sham and a disgrace, and a blatant misuse of taxpayer money. Speak out (while you still can).

I am Spartacus.

Labels: Canadiana, Connie Wilkins, FreeDominion, Human Rights, Kangaroo Court, Spartacus