This is an onimous statistic indeed.
Posted on 06/11/2008 6:06:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Usually, when a journalist is censored in a Western nation, American news organizations respond with collective outrage.
But as a major attack on press freedom unfolds in Canada, America’s mainstream media are silent. Neither the TV networks nor the major newspapers have reported on hearings last week at what amounts to a Stalinesque show trial in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mark Steyn, a Canadian journalist who now lives in New Hampshire and whose column appears in National Review magazine as well as several U.S. and Canadian newspapers, is facing charges before British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal.
His crime? Spreading “hatred.”
The evidence? A 5,000-word excerpt of Steyn’s book America Alone that was carried as an article, “The Future Belongs to Islam,” in October 2006 by the Canadian magazine Maclean’s, which is also a defendant. The hearings, which were held June 2-6, amount to a star chamber with the rules of evidence constantly changing according to the whims of the three commissioners. A verdict is expected in September.
Steyn and the magazine are also expected to be charged with a hate crime by the national kangaroo court, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and another such tribunal in Ontario. Not a single defendant has ever prevailed before the national board in its 31 years of existence. To be accused is to be guilty, Soviet style.
The Canadian press has been all over this story, but it has not registered a blip in the United States, except for an AP brief, an article in The Washington Times and on conservative Internet sites and talk radio.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Give it to me straight, Doc, liberalism will never go away, will it?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I would love nothing better than to testify at this ‘trial’.
Why should Liberals care that a conservative writer is being censored, when that is what they would like to do with all conservatives? Expect something similar to happen if Obama wins and restores the “Fairness Doctrine” to the media.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
They've already pulled FR into this trial. Apparently after the Steyn article appeared, one of the Moslem claimants came to FR to find evidence that the hatred was spreading. They brought back our "hateful" comments to prove Steyn was spreading hate.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Why am I not surprised Canadian media are adopting the
“shhhhhhhh the neighbors will hear you” attitude...
They are so busy documenting all of the faults of the U.S. they leave no room for their own dirty laundry.... eh?
Jim, it is an honor to reply to your post and it is welcome news to see you are feeling well and back on line!
The New York Post had an article on the
CHRC by Rich Lowry yesterday on June 10 that I posted here. That has been the major extent of MSM reporting. I have been trying to post periodic updates from Ezra Levant’s site. The lack of reporting is almost absolute proof that liberals are fascists including the liberal media.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Seems reasonable to me. Freepers tend to despise evil and to comment harshly about evil.
(Thank goodness for our Constitution; our freedom of speech rights are far more robust than in Canada or Europe.)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A highlighted piece of the case was a comment from an imam, Mullah Krekar, that Steyn drew from an interview in a Norwegian newspaper:
‘“We’re the ones who will change you,’ the cleric said.”
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—IIRC, the MSM made more of a fuss -(still not much)—over the Obama of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez when he attacked the only opposition outlets there-—
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“one of the Moslem claimants came to FR to find evidence that the hatred was spreading”
That’s kinda funny. I have no hatred for Muslims, not even terrorists. Anger at terrorists yes, hatred no. But good god I do hate socialists.
Islamic terrorists only want to kill us, socialists want to indoctrinate us and enslave us in their lowest-common-denominator version of philosophic slavery.
Better dead than red.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “British Columbia’s hate crimes law requires only a “reasonable determination that the excerpt did express hatred and contempt toward Muslims, and likely caused it to spread,” according to the National Post. As evidence, complainants cited postings from two California-based Websites, FreeRepublic and Catholic Answers.”
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