Rex Murphy woodshed the trout
The concept of human rights, real human rights, has been long with us. But only in modern times did we learn what immeasurable darkness falls on the world when they are nullified. The butcheries of Auschwitz and Buchenwald followed as a straight and bitter line from Hitler’s assumption of absolute power in 1933 and his cauterization and extinction of the concept of freedom in the German Reich. Nothing less than the Holocaust underwrites the modern understanding and appreciation of human rights. They are as profound and central a concept to the democracies of the world as we have.They constitute the core of human freedom. They are the antidote to tyranny. They are fundamental.
Of late, in Canada, however, this most painfully acquired understanding has been utterly unmoored. The various provincial human-rights commissions and their federal godfather have been cutting away at the core of, and extending into utter fatuity the term, human rights. They are capricious, agenda-riven, a great mishmash of political correctness and “right thinking” bulldozing away at the basic freedoms of thought, speech and expression while they, under some osmotic impulse, investigate, prescribe and torment with zealous and self-righteous abandon. rex murphy, globe and mail via ezra
Ms. Lynch, aka, the trout, looks a complete fool having tried to piggyback on Rememberance Day. S.13 is going down. The question now is whether it will take the CHRC with it.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
There’s footage floating around of a news crew in Florida covering gay protesters’ attack on a little old lady. While free speech, individually, may still be a theory in the U.S., the fact that this story hasn’t been blared by national news sources reminds me that suppression of news is an easy way to curtail free exchange. The liberal illuminati don’t want footage seen of a “marginalized” group attacking an old lady, so the mainstream media looks the other way.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I hope it does take the CHRC with it. We need real law where real cases meeting real standards can be argued by real legal professionals before real judges.
Anyway, one down, several more to go, but lets hope the CBC is next in line.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
An excellent column by Rex. Utterly devoid of facts, rich is historical and legal distortion, it manages to make the argument that unless we allow Nazis to attack Jews on the internet, our soldiers died in vain, the six millions are forgotten and it is as if Hitler won the war.
Nice to see your attracting paranoid nitwite like Louise to your site, Jay. I suspect she wouldn’t know “real law” or “real legal professional” if either one ran her over with a truck.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
truewest
You are quite boring, still.
Cheers
November 16th, 2008 at 9:18 am
J.M
Facts are tedious, especially when compared to rhetorical flights and paranoid delusions. Learn to live with it.