AnotherReason Hate Speech Laws Are Silly

The Ontario Provincial Police hate crimes and extremism unit had been investigating Salman Hossain – whose writings included a call to kill Western soldiers “so that they think twice before entering foreign countries on behalf of their Jew masters” – for willfully promoting hatred toward the Jewish community, but the case was recently closed.

“The OPP [...]

Oh No! Skippy is off the Rez again

Re. Obama and gay people…

Furthermore, he did it with an opposition Congress during an election year. He also did it when those forces were facing hundreds of thousands of nuclear-armed communists across the German plain, who were generally accepted to be a whole lot more dangerous than some disorganized jihadis.

And blacks then were a whole [...]

Take that clump of sticks

Which takes us back to the rules: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

The general public has taken note and, in showing solidarity with the Black Eyed Peas, has retroactively displayed displeasure with Mr. Lavandeira’s reprehensible actions toward the beauty contestant as well as his countless other offenses. andrew breitbart

I am not [...]

Iran - Wither the Left

Good for the Tyee for printing Terry Glavin’s well sourced excoriation of the left and Iran. (And yes Dawg, I am still waiting for your first post.)

“After Venezuela’s president and left-wing icon Hugo Chavez rushed to Ahmadinejad’s side with regurgitations of the ayatollahs’ claims about shadowy imperialists, the pile-on was in full swing.

James Petras, a [...]

A distinction

(I posted a version of this over at Dawg’s comments and it pretty much sums up my own views as to HRCs in light of Hudak’s election as Ontario Conservative leader.)

I am not a fan of dumping the anti-discrimination work of the Commissions into the Courts for many of the reasons tw cites. This work, [...]

Denouncing the Winners in the “Be Mean to Jennifer Lynch” T-Shirt Contest

Come on over and Celebrate Thought Crime in anticipation of Canada Day.

The winning slogans are the 1st items being offered for sale to the general public in our “Jennifer Lynch Line of Censorware Apparel” – Fashion that speaks your mind.

Very unhelpful indeed

What’s really rather remarkable, is that since 2000, the rates at which CO2 emissions and concentrations are increasing have accelerated. According to Canadell et al. (2008), fossil fuel and cement emissions increased by 3.3 percent per year during 2000-2006, compared to 1.3 percent per year in the 1990s. Similarly, atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased by 1.93 [...]

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Not quite getting it

So, “Last year, Victoria police and Langford RCMP boarded buses and searched passengers for alcohol, triggering an investigation by the RCMP Public Complaints Commission. The commission determined that the searches went beyond what is permitted by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

So this year BC Transit, “Police will be searching buses if they are [...]

Smart

I like smart rock gods. Ian Anderson is smart.

On the Run….

Mark Steyn in Macleans this week,

“The Dominion of Canada has been reduced to complaining that Blazing Cat Fur is out to get it.”

Well, to be fair, it is not just the heroic kitty who has been kind enough to post a pre-print of Mark’s withering column.

Shark jumping in America

The loony “cap and trade” (unless you are exempt or privileged or have a pal in Congress) comes up for a vote today in Congress. There is every chance it may lose which would be a very good thing for the American economy and good news for Canada as well. The Wall Street Journal considers [...]

Ezra Scares me says Scary Gay Guy who wants to get rid of Section 13 (1)

We’ve never, in the history of human communication, made an idea unpopular by making it illegal. Weimar Germany had some of the most aggressive anti-hate-speech legislation the West has ever seen. If censorship worked as a tool to prevent hate, we would never have witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust.
Censorship, in fact, makes hate worse. [...]

A happier remembrance

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Just Deserts For A Truther

Hughes said she has been shunned, scorned and ridiculed, and has suffered mental distress and humiliation. winnipeg free press

Good.

h/t BCF

A problem the Stazi didn’t have

Section 3 of the Act defines personal information as information about an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, information relating to race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, marital status, education, medical, criminal or employment history, identifying numbers, fingerprints, blood type, personal opinions, etc.

Section [...]

You have a file eh, coward

Once in a while I refer to the coward Lynch’s little operation as a Cheka after the post revolutionary Russian internal security organization. But now I realize I was inaccurate, the CHRC is much more like the Stasi – the East German internal intelligence operation:

“Please, please, look. We have experienced 16 months of invective hurled [...]

An Amis (pere), Larkin moment

The young Mick Jagger is there and I think I see Marianne Faithful but I might be wrong. But it is the orchestra which seals the deal. Old soaks with talent, girl troubles and the certain knowledge that the world is about to change beyond all recognition. Brilliant.

Chilly

My often pal Dawg suggests that, really, the only people the CHRC has ever actually successfully prosecuted (and sorry about the criminal language coward Lynch but that is actually what Commission counsel does before the Tribunal) are a bunch of Nazis. Now, leaving aside the Catholic priest and a few others, let’s give the Dawg [...]