Posted on 01/14/2008 4:08:10 PM PST by UnklGene
“It’s my BLOODY right to do so!”
by Baron Bodissey
A Motoon Ezra Levant is the publisher of Western Standard magazine, whose print version — now defunct — published the Danish Mohammed cartoons two years ago.
On Friday Mr. Levant was summoned under protest to be interrogated by a “human rights officer” from the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The reason? Khurrum Awan, an imam from the Canadian Islamic Congress, filed a complaint with the HRC against him.
Mr. Levant was required to appear before this extra-judicial body — no one on the HRC is a judge, and the panel is not a court of law — to answer questions about his exercise of his constitutionally protected right to free speech. If he is convicted (or whatever the negative outcome is called in a kangaroo proceeding such as this one) he will be compelled by the state to apologize to Mr. Awan — and presumably to 1.5 trillion other Muslims — for his offense against their Prophet.
Mr. Levant was justifiably furious about the proceeding, and insisted on taping it. He refused the HRC’s request to keep his video recording private, and has posted the tape as a series of YouTube videos on his blog.
A visit to his site to watch these videos is well worth your time. His opening statement is particularly compelling, and the text is published in its entirety, also on his blog. - - - - - - - - - It’s telling that after he finished his statement, the first question his inquisitor asked him was what his intent was in publishing the Motoons. Either the question was meaningless, or there must be acceptable and unacceptable reasons for printing the cartoons.
Freedom of the press? Ha! Not in Canada, not any more.
At the end of one sequence, the HRC officer said, “You’re entitled to your opinions.”
Mr. Levant responded, “I wish that were the fact.”
He showed remarkable poise and presence of mind throughout the whole process, and one can only hope that the Canadian authorities are embarrassed enough to drop the entire sordid case.
What about the compulsory apology?
Ezra Levant says, “I simply won’t comply.”
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Make me apologize. Make me
Canada has not had freedom since the Charter with its disgusting notwithstanding clause was shoved through. If ever a people needed to overthrow a government it is Canada.
What are the possible penalties?
He also ate pork chops while he sodomized chickens. You forgot that.
Human Rights Commission = HRC
Hillary Roddamn Clinton = HRC
Coincidence? I think not.
It would be rather delicious if the HRC ordered him to issue a public apology for his actions, and he were to do so, taking the word ‘apology’ in its primary sense: a justification or defense of an act or idea, from the Greek apologia.
(Definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology .)
I thought this occured in denmark. WHy is the hearing in canada?
Here’s the proper link...http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
Thank Eleanor Roosevelt for Human Rights.
Beheading and a few others.
The youtube link is here
See www.steynonline.com today. Good stuff on Ezra Levant on “Youtube.” Why must he apologize? The non-governmental tribunal will say he must not offend a muslim. Their edicts have teeth and as such Christian radio/tv cannot publish nor preach or print certain passages in the old and new testaments of the Holy Bible.
Because the Western Standard is a Canadian publication that reprinted the Danish cartoon.
Hmmm. Years ago, when I was a law student in Kansas City, an Iranian medical doctor (scumbag) who lived above me used to beat his American wife on a regular basis. At these times she would often seek shelter in our apartment. I begged her to call the cops, but she was too frightened of him. Anyway, she told us that his friends would come over and they would all have sex with live chickens. I took this with a grain of salt until I read your post. It all makes sense now. The poor thing! I hope she cut him into little pieces and flushed him to Allah.
So why should the cartoon author give a * about that? WHy did he even show up?
I heard that the difference between “kinky sex” and “perversion” was that kinky sex sometimes involved the use of feathers, while perversion involved the whole chicken.
But, seriously, I think the muslims in Canada are trying to see if they can impose their barbaric standards through the use of things like this so-called “human rights commission”. If they can’t, they’ll just kill the guy - and it will become the guy’s fault for refusing to apologize.
Don't the muslims have to apologize for 9-11? I liked those people. I liked the WTC towers. Where's my @#$% apology?!
UG - I don’t get the article from your link. Instead I get:
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You know, it’s not exactly the most exciting video I’ve seen, but it certainly is one of the most moving. I can’t say how impressed I was at his composure - something I doubt I could have mustered under the circumstances.
Thanks for the link.
I have been looking for this movie version of the novel for ages. I see the image is a DVD sleeve. Can you you point me to a source?
The woman representing the HRC has probably never been talked to like that before in her entire life.
Evra stated that in Canada even a Judge cannot force
mass murderers to apologize to their victim`s families, yet the “human rights commission” can !
This is like something out of science fiction. Really scarry.
I just google imaged for the picture, I never saw teh movie.
Did this crap start with Trudeau?
Kinda like the Committee For Public Safety in France a good while back eh ?
Pretty much.
We thought that we had it bad with Clinton; y’all had to endure Trudeau from 1968 to 1984.
I hope they never invited you over for a chicken dinner !!! :-)
The guy that showed up before the council in Canada, Levant, is a Canadian publisher who reprinted cartoons drawn by a Danish artist. This article doesn't indicate that the original author of the cartoon appeared.
They might do that, except the people have largely allowed their government to disarm them, haven't they?
This apology isn't going too well...
I wasn’t able to find your specific image but, now knowing it was out in DVD, I went to eBay, entered “1984 DVD,” - e voila! - 4 copies came up.
Thanks.
There ain't a trillion Muslims.
There's barely a billion Muslims. Why, they just keep killing each other, besides everyone else, so there can't be a billion Muslims, let alone a trillion.
Come to think of it, if the Muslims continue to kill anyone not them, then maybe we need 30 minutes from Minot and half a billion Muslims.
Just sayin'...
5.56mm
Welcome to the Brave New World.
No dinner! The chickens were all sent over to the Palestinians for sloppy seconds.
Apology I would gleefully make: “I apologize for not having sent you to Allah sooner!”
There ain't a trillion people. Point of fact, I don't think that all the people who have ever lived add up to a trillion.
I have clipped some of the comments by Ezra from each video - the ones I was most impressed with. Just cursor down after the article. They will be in red.
http://www.socon.ca/or_bust/?p=545
This is a subset of the problems faced by our Canadian sister site:
-A lawsuit has been served against our Canadian "sister" site, Free Dominion.--
The National Post also had some stuff about this HRC in Canada. Their aim is to censor all who criticize islam it seems.
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