Running Scared
It was the most bizarre moment in an unusual conference call with three senior CHRC staff, who had mustered for the beleaguered agency’s first public relations offensive, a calculated effort to rebut the “misinformation” that is turning some public opinion against them, and inspiring high-level demands that their powers be severely curtailed.“The reality is we read the papers. We know about the current debate, we know the parameters, if you will,” Mr. Fine said. “If you think that we’re concerned, upset, from time to time discouraged with some of what we’ve been hearing and reading in the press, you’re right, we are. national post
Good.
The objective is the elimination of s.13 and the imposition of reasonable standards of Tribunal and investigative procedure on an out of control agency. It is to substitute a view which takes the primacy of free expression as the guiding principle and views any attempt to censor speech with the utmost suspicion.
The CHRC is scared enough to mount a “public relations offensive.” Good. Drawing them out into the open is vital.
And now the CHRC is, itself under investigation by the Privacy Commissioner for alledgedly wardriving a member of the public’s internet connection during a Jadeware “investigation”.
Update: Ezra dissects the CHRC public relations push at length. Here’s one pithy bit among many:
But I immediately thought—as I’m sure Brean did, and as I’m sure you do, dear reader—that when it comes to anonymous, typo-ridden bigotry sent over the Internet, there’s a pretty fair chance it was written by the CHRC’s own staff to suit their purposes. Again, three months ago even I wouldn’t have believed that—it just sounds too much like a black helicopter/tin foil hat conspiracy theory. But that was before I learned about the corruption of the CHRC, and how their operatives like Dean Steacy, Richard Warman and others go online and spew the filthiest venom under pseudonyms.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:38 am
This makes 2 bleating solipsistic pleas from these insular grubs.
I love seeing the upside down surreal bizzaro world these mooks operate in..they are sooo unearthly…and they don’t even realize this so they arrogantly incriminate themselves with the Candian public by spewing their dreamlike cosmology in “defensive” rants and further distancing themselves from mainstream Canadian values and thinking.
This stuff just writes itself Jay…put these insular freaks on display and do it often.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:01 am
So basically the Interview yielded nothing, in fact it left me feeling cold. They can’t justify the existance of Section 13 so they quote hate posts that could very well of been posted by their own employees. They appear like programed automatons, they just repeated more of the ole socialist dogma whilst trying to justify the unjust. I’m sure most people will be left feeling cold inside when they read the part where they skirt around Warman and them pat themselves on the back for a 100 percent kill rate (military term for 100 percent success). I have even less repect for the HRCs now that these men have made it clear they embrace and support the methods employed by their employees. How utterly shameful of them. Honour and Integrity will have to be legislated into the HRCs it appears. They apparently accept no mea culpa at all, what a disgrace.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Does anyone know if the CHRC can be searched by Freedom of Information requests?
April 6th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
OH BTW: we note the Post’s interview was by a teleconference call to whitch there were multiple audio mutes and whispering sessions from the CHRC crew….open candidness? Not a chance. Sincerity and validity?...flush that with the stage-managed “spontaneity” in which they conduct a PR interview…with the same controlled secretive esoteric conventions they do a CHRC prosecution. ;-)