More on high-handed suppression of free speech by Canada’s Human Rights Commission.
The Canadian reader who alerted me to the violation of political liberty by the Canadian Human Rights Commission emailed this follow-up:
Following on the heels of the charges against Mark Steyn was the charge and investigation of another mainstream conservative journalist - Ezra Levant.
His crime: Republishing copies of the infamous “Danish Mohammed Cartoons” (you know the ones people said “THAT’s what all the riots are about ???) along with editorial review of the reasons why western newspapers were failing to act in the public interest to report the news.
Ezra took a very proactive stand against his inquisition - he videotaped his initial interrogation and published it on YouTube.
Even Americans should be reminded of how traditional freedoms and rights can be undermined by modern conceptions of rights.
Check out this website! http://www.ezralevant.com/
Canada’s arbitrary infringement of the right of free speech is reminiscent of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. More than 70,000 French citizens were murdered in the name of the Revolution. Rationalizing that atrocity, the Assemblys Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety announced, It is wholly necessary to establish briefly the despotism of freedom in order to crush the despotisms of Kings.
The philosophers of the French Revolution were aware that controlling public opinion via censorship was essential to imposing their conceptions of political order. That necessarily meant preventing expressions of dissent.
In that tradition, Canada, along with European Union nations, is busily destroying liberty in the name of abstractions called diversity and sensitivity.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
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amfortas said,
He makes points which are transferable to the Family Court System. Not only does he outline the outrageous overturning of 800 years of legal principle initiated by Magna Carta, but he brings up to date the massive confidence trick of nomenclature, designed as George Orwell predicted :
“Denormalizing the commissions is important, especially since most people have never heard of them, and when they do, they hear three positive words: “human rights commissions”. It’s sort of like the old Communist countries, like the “German Democratic Republic”, which was neither Democratic nor a Republic, but it sounded good. Same thing here.”
So, the everyday person hears ‘Family Court’, which destroys families. The Anti-family system changes meaning and flouts reason and judicial Principle, truth and evidence in its unholy pursuit of wiping out our civilisation’s safeguards.
The legitimacy of the HRC and the anti-Family Court relies on the ignorance of the people and by being hidden behind a cloak of secrecy. It is a faux-legitimacy resting only on Fiat. It MUST be defied.
He also makes a strong point about acceptance as a weapon; one made also by John Murtari who went to prison and onto hunger strike when condemned out of hand by a wicked Anti-family Court System:
“The logical conclusion of denying the legitimacy of the commission was to demand its worst. The point of civil disobedience is not to get off scot-free, but to willingly accept the punishments of an unjust system, to shame that system into reform.”
Would that we could all be as articulate and courageous when faced with the full bewigged weight of the anti-family court.
Lessons for us all. Defy and tell them to do their worst, but don’t ever accept their faux-legitimacy.
Defy with words today. Keep your guns oiled for tomorrow.
January 20, 2008 at 9:14 pm