Yoiks…Time to Rethink
June 16th, 2008
| Tags: free speech
I have not agreed with a word the Toronto Star has printed in, what, thirty years? And now they suddenly grab a clue:
Does society need to cast more of a chill on press freedom in order to combat discrimination? Polemicists such as Steyn are better countered in the marketplace of ideas. Readers who feel ill-served are free to go elsewhere.Parliament and the legislatures should rethink laws that have the effect of targeting opinions rather than actions. the star
As regular readers might guess I am revisiting my position on free speech…OK, done, the Toronto Star, for the first time in thirty years is, dare I say it, right.
(I feel dirty, I need to shower.)
Go through the archives of the Star, and they are usually wrong, with the Star the sky is always falling, back in the ‘70’s we were all going to die of starvation by the 80’s, in the 80’s we were going to get blown up because of Ronald Reagan, and in the 90’s there would be hoards of refugees descending on Toronto due to a world wide depression, and so on.
Kinsella’s list of neo-nazis grows longer. Now the Star, and over at the Sun, Eddie Greenspan…
Put this down to a cynical lefty rag knowing what keeps their bread buttered. While they may support crap like public gag orders in elections and “reasonable limits” ob free expression, they a fully gung ho on a free press. Propagandists know that press regulation will kill their little game game dead.
On a brighter side it’s good to see a classic liberal like Eddie Greenspan taking a dump on Osgoode’s social engineer incubator and the sock puppets it manufactures.
One wonders now that Greenspan has come out, where his sometimes nemesis Clayton Ruby stands on the issue…