Posted on 07/15/2015 9:18:51 AM PDT by rightistight
Greg Elliott faces up to six months in prison. His crime? Disagreeing with "two Toronto female political activists, Steph Guthrie and Heather Reilly," three years ago.
Elliott has already lost his job since his arrest.
It is not alleged that Elliott threatened Ms. Guthrie or Ms. Reilly in any way, nor is it alleged that he sexually harassed them.
The original source of the arrest came when Ms. Guthrie tweeted that she wanted to “sic the Internet” on a video game programmer who created a game in which virtual people punched a feminist. Guthrie contacted employers to tell them not to hire the programmer and said she wanted "hatred on the Internet to impact his real-life experience."
Mr. Elliott, disagreeing with this tactic, said the actions that Ms. Guthrie was taking "was every bit as vicious as the face-punch game." They then responded to each other on Twitter several times.
Ms. Guthrie has since pressed charges against Elliot, claiming that she was in fear for her safety. Mr. Elliott's lawyer says this is not the case, however, as Ms. Guthrie and Ms. Reilly "convened a meeting of friends to discuss how Elliott should be publicly shamed," "bombarded their followers with furious tweets and retweets about him," and accused him of being a pedophile.
To allegations that she is trying to silence Mr. Elliot over a disagreement, Ms. Guthrie sarcastically apologized that "she wasn’t “a perfect victim” who behaved like a conventional victim."
“They were not vulnerable,” Mr. Elliott's lawyer said. “They are very accomplished, politically savvy women. If they can’t handle being mentioned in the tail end of a political discussion (on Twitter), then they’re in the wrong business.”
Feminist website Jezebel has a different perspective, saying Elliott's arrest is "a heartening development for women whose professional and personal lives are heavily taxed by the specter of online abuse."
To liberals all dissent must be crushed. My tagline.
There is nothing feminine about feminism and this helps prove that point. Real ladies don’t do things like these two evil lesbians do.
Somewhere deep in Hell Mao and Stalin are kicking themselves for not having come up with this quick and easy Politically-Correct-Feminist path to Fascist totalitarianism.
Canadian feminazis are as bad as their American counterparts. Danm them all!
So let's see. This exchange starts out with the "feminist" threatening to "sic the internet" on the the programmer. "Sic" being the traditional command to have a guard dog attack someone. And the guy gets thrown in jail.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Canada has been ahead of the US in using lawfare to make political correctness enforced by criminal prosecution. Examples are Free Dominion and Mark Steyn.
When liberals control the levers of justice, very little justice is done. Tyranny is the usual result.
Canada goes in for that “Kinder, Gentler” Fascism. Eh?
Like a certain Canadian once sang, “We got a kinder, gentler, Machine gun hand.”
just read articles on this going back over a year. insanity. If this woman isn’t prosecuted in turn for wasting the courts time then anything that comes out of this case won’t resemble justice.
I once had confidence in being an American with the 1st Amendment privilege that this could not happen down here BUT that feeling is feeling very thin these days. If the religious freedom specified can be interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean freedom to sue by gays for being offended, what certainty remains?
Remember, genetic dead-ends are useful idiots that don’t increase the population. We breeders are the danger to the world dontchaknow.
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