February 25th, 2008
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Ezra Levant reports receiving a libel notice from Lucy Warman’s lawyer. Who just happens to be the liar Kinsella’s lawyer of choice.
Well worth reading the letter - which Ezra characterizes as a “letter to the editor” - as it suggests that Lucy Warman is prepared to fight on the “90sareover” comments vis a vis Senator Cools. Ezra doesn’t think much of Warman’s willingness to fight on the issue, “I’ll bet you a dollar this subject doesn’t find its way into any suit against me, either.”
We’ll see when the pleadings are filed. As I have said before, the pleadings will frame the discovery and the discovery may very well be the end of the CHRC in any form. Nbob has rightly pointed out that discovery is confidential unless the material is used in Court…which will make for a very interesting trial.
It will be particularly interesting to learn more about Lucy’s activities during the time he worked for the Commission, who supervised those activities and the basis upon which he left the Commission.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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Yo, Warren,
These are alarming developments which require some explanation. Some of it has to do with the resilience of anti-Semitism, to the way in which it is able to mutate, to take different forms and shapes over time, to adapt to changing circumstances by integrating new elements (such as a grossly disproportionate anti-Zionism, in which Israel and the Jews who support it, however critically, are singled out for special opprobrium) into an existing stock of “ideas” and rearticulating them in a new combination. Part of the problem here is the denial of many on the left that this is or indeed can be the case. Rather they insist that there is no connection at all between different bouts of anti-Semitism over time, as if each instance appears from nowhere and can only be explained as a product of specific factors at a particular moment. Philip J Spencer engage journal
Go read Spencer and then check out who your allies are. The Left’s anti Zionism fell over the edge into antisemitism a long time ago. Your real friends are over here on the free speech right. You won’t see any righties sponsoring Israel Apartheid weeks at te U of T. An event you seemed to have missed on your blog.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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Far from being “collateral damage” — that is, women and children killed by accident in the attempt to kill an armed fighter — women and children within Palestinian society can and will become the targets to be murdered by other members of their society. Recall the three little children — Palestinian children, not those “worthy of death” Jewish children –who were gunned down on their way to school as a message to their father:
Balousheh’s three children — 3-year-old Salam, 6-year-old Ahmed and 9-year-old Osama — were in the family car on their way to school when gunmen opened fire from two vehicles. The three were killed along with their driver. Doctors said one of the boys was hit by 10 bullets to the head. Dr. Yael Kaynan, PJ media
Quite a message. Gaza is tragic; it is also redeemable if its inhabitants are willing to forsake the gunmen.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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“Oscar is 80 this year, which makes him now automatically the front-runner for the Republican nomination.” _ Jon Stewart. newsweek
And we now have the official line on McCain this year.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Fresh from his triumphant outing of Boys Room Nazis, the lair Kinsella saddles up and rides to the rescue in Edmonton:
In the brave new Canada favoured by the National Post, PEN Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and Steyn’s Crusaders, no one really gives a sweet damn.
Suck it up, Pakistani community! It may make you feel like dirt, but that’s the way it is, now, in the New and Improved Canada!
I don’t think the National Post, PEN Canada or anyone else on the free speech side has suggested that vandalism - racist or otherwise - should be protected speech.
Back in the glory days of Kinsella’s washroom photography I wrote:
Hanging s. 13 on a bit of nasty graffiti shows just how intellectually bankrupt its defenders are. They want to justify its existence as a prophylactic against the one sort of speech it almost certainly cannot control. To give up free expression to better suppress graffiti is a bargain most of us will not make…*
Signs are defaced and ripped and knocked over in political campaigns. Some pretty nasty things are written on signs. S.13 and its provincial counterparts will do nothing whatsoever to to prevent that. Enforcement of the vandalism laws might.
Time to find another strawman, Warren.
Written by jay on February 25th, 2008 with 9 comments.
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