The flea posts that LiveLeak has improved its security and now has Fitna back on line.
Dr. Dawg has seen the movie and didn’t like the tie in between the Koran and the ongoing Islamic terrorism which Wilders’ film underscores. Dawg drags out the hoary idea that the Bible has blood curdling passages too, so there. Which explains all the headlines we see about Anglicans beheading the infidels and Biblically inspired Amish hostage takings. I don’t have time for a point refutation of Dawg and I doubt it is necessary - the best example he can come up with is Fred Phelps who, one must admit is pretty horrible and has a following which numbers in the tens none of whom, so far as I am aware, has crashed a jet into a building while singing “Onward Christian Soldiers”.
Written by jay on March 31st, 2008 with 16 comments.
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Dr. Dawg and the Liar Kinsella posted a pic they stated was Marc Lemire standing behind Ernst Zundel. Lemire is calling bullshit.
That picture is not me at all. In August 1992, I had never met Ernst Zundel.
In August 1992 I was only 17 years old.
I searched around, and haven’t yet found a picture of me in 1992, but did find one a year later in the summer of 1993. Sadly the red-eye reduction wasn’t working that day 
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Comments gents? Did you properly source the photo?
I have noticed that Marc Lemire tends to be right about stuff like this.
Update: While I think the pictures speak for themselves I have sent an email to Nizkor asking for more information on the Zundel photograph. I’ll report any response.
Update IIKen McVay from nizkor has replied to my query as follows:
Lemire may be right, and I no longer identify the image as his because
of his insistance that it isn’t him.
I haven’t seen Marc for 11 years, so cannot contest his assertion that
it isn’t him.
Not proof either way but nizkor is certainly not standing behind the attribution.
Update III: Dawg graciously withdraws his assertion that Lemire is in the frame with Zundel:
**UPDATE: (March 31) As noted here, Nizkor cannot vouch for the authenticity of the photograph. Obviously, in that case, neither can I. I withdraw, therefore, the assertion that Marc Lemire is pictured in the photograph above. dr. dawg
A gentleman. Now we can, of course, anticipate the liar Kinsella’s retraction….Yeah, right.
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Update 03/29: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemns Fitna - a film she almost certainly has not seen - and calls for “appropriate restrictions” on all forms of freedom of speech. Perhaps the crocodile will eat her last. (emphasis added) ghost of a flea
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Ed Driscoll pages me to weigh in on Kathryn’s post below, about Islam overtaking Catholicism in worldwide adherents. But I’m not sure I’ve got anything to say I haven’t already been taken to court over. (my emphasis)I had the bizarre experience earlier today of watching the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview a young Muslim about my “flagrant Islamophobia”, as evidence of which he cited my appalling habit of accurately quoting prominent Muslims. mark steyn, the corner
That bastard Steyn….imagine quoting the Islamists. Thank God we have the CHRC to prevent this profanity.
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The liar Kinsella is a flaming shitheel (possibly from Hell) but he is one hardcore political analyst. He runs the ten reasons why Dion is not catmeat. A few good points:
1. After many months of crappy headlines and no shortage of bad luck, the polls reveal that Dion’s Liberals and Harper’s Tories are still… tied, mostly. It’s a fair question to ask: if all of Dion’s critics are right, then why is Dion still competitive? Because voters - particularly female voters - still have a lot of a reluctance about penciling an “X” beside the Conservative candidates’ name. In politics, it’s always good to be underestimated by your opponent. The polls say [the Tory] team is underestimating Dion. Big time.
There are lots of reasons but the fact is that Harper has not been able to open up even a tiny gap.
3. Dion is no dummy. He knows the Tories want to run a campaign about “leadership” - they’ve been telegraphing that for months. So Dion need only do what Chrétien did in similar circumstances in 1993: step back a bit and emphasize plan and team. And he’s got a Hell of team: Hall-Finlay, Rae, Dryden, Ignatieff, Kennedy, and so many others. It is a powerful front bench, one with a lot of name recognition. Can the Tories say the same thing?
Even if Harper was a half decent Leader, which he is only relative to Dion and Layton, the team theme can work. Quick, name a federal cabinet minister who could take over if PMSH was hit by a bus.
4. The Tories have a message deficit. They can’t run an “outsider” campaign - they’re the incumbents. They can’t run a “scandal” campaign, thanks to Mr. Mulroney. So they will run a campaign about “leadership” - but leadership is an exceedingly woolly concept. Voters like meat and potatoes platforms (which is why Harper won in 2006, by the way). If I were Dion, I’d do a campaign on government services - making ‘em better, and not just eliminating them, the way Tories always do. Mix in some environment, some fiscal federalism, and voilà!
Yup. The problem with running a message free operation is that, well, there is no message. Dion can campaign on whatever he likes, Harper seems to be committed to campaigning on thin air.
Say what you like about PMSH, he is certainly in no danger of being called a “conservative”. He is in no danger of being called a “socon” or a libertarian. So what is he, exactly? What has he delivered? His Finance Minister has been bright enough not to derail the Martinite fiscal policy which makes Canada the envy of the OECD. Other than that, name a policy or a position which the CPC has adopted which could not have been adopted by the Grits.
9.The media remain distinctly less-than-friendly with the Harper folks. They may not love Stéphane Dion, but – during the campaign – you can expect to see them cuddling with him more than once, if only to get back at Harper’s PMO. It’ll be ugly, as love triangles always are. But Dion will benefit.
It is one thing to put the media in their place, it is quite another to run a press operation which antagonizes the media without running the other side, the end run, which marginalizes them. Harper showed willing to put the boots to the dullards in the Parliamentary Press Gallery; but he failed entirely to make the moves - on the net and in the non-MSM - which would have marginalized them. Bad advice and a very limited capacity to think outside the box.
The liar Kinsella expends some pixels on Jim Flaherty’s fight with McGuinty. It is probably important because the Harper folks think they might win a few more Ontario seats and they probably won’t as a result of this. However, the smartest thing Harper can do is to write off TO and enviorns and look to Quebec and the rest of Canada for his majority. Sadly he seems entirely incapable of ignoring “vote-rich” Ontario.
Dion, despite being possibly the worst leader the Liberals have ever foisted themselves with, could quite easily maintain the status quo and, with a couple of breaks, shift a few seats and form a government. This will not be a Dion win, it will be a Harper and CPC loss.
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the main reason I liked the report was that it started and ended with Alan Borovoy, the head of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The documentary showed historical footage of Borovoy being one of the founders of these human rights commissions; then it quoted him — more than anyone else was quoted, in fact — as being a very concerned critic of the commissions straying into censorship. He was set up as the neutral, father figure of the documentary — me, Lund and Awan were the partisans. Borovoy was the go-to man for analysis; he was “the expert”.
The fact that he — rather than a human rights commissioner — was set up as the arbiter of reason is quite dramatic, given how much of a free speecher Borovoy is. ezra levant
The HRCs are getting hammered. When the CBC runs a report in which Borovoy gets a look in it is pretty clear that the MSM is lining up with the speechers and rejecting the narrow claims of the censors.
This would have been unthinkable three months ago.
Free Dominion, Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant, Small Dead Animals, Keith Martin - and, yes, Marc Lemire - have, along with hundreds of us little people, begun to push back.
If the CPC could somehow grow a spine s. 13 could be toast by summer. To help with that growth, CPC dudes, you are not going to win any 416 seats…understand that and pay attention to the area codes where you might well win.
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