Posted on 06/18/2019 10:29:15 AM PDT by Twotone
"No monarch, no parliament, no government, and certainly no bureaucratic agency operating the pseudo-law of section 13 can claim jurisdiction over my right to think freely, to read freely, to speak freely and to argue freely."
Those were the closing words of Mark Steyn's testimony before parliamentarians on the Canadian House of Commons' so-called justice and human rights committee just two weeks ago.
His call fell on deaf ears.
Yesterday, the justice committee tabled its report on "online hate" in Canada's parliament.
The report laid out nine recommendations, one of which being that government should provide a "civil remedy for those who assert that their human rights have been violated under the Canadian Human Rights Act, irrespective of whether that violation happens online, in person, or in traditional print format. This remedy could take the form of reinstating the former section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, or implementing a provision analogous to the previous section 13 within the Canadian Human Rights Act, which accounts for the prevalence of hatred on social media."
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The USA is the only country with a guarantee of freedom of expression, and the guarantee is null and void when your words involve a protected minority, a dark skin color, a non-standard manner of reproducer, abortion, or a non-Christian religion.
We can still do crucifixes in urine and Marys in dung, tho.
Voltaire bookmark
That’s not a quote from Voltaire.
Oops! Oh, goodness me. Mark Steyn — I think it was-— credited it as such. But it’s a good quote anyway. Who DID say it?
A neo-nazi named Kevin Alfred Strom who was convicted of possession of child pornography (you can see why some people might not want to attribute a catchy quote to him).
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
Yeah, because Google has accurately logged everything Voltaire said into a searchable database. If it isn’t there, he never said it. /s
If I were a betting person, I'd bet he stole it from somebody smarter than he was.
Gee, wouldn’t that be something? Imagine if we lived in a world where the works of classic authors had actually been converted into searchable digital data?
It would almost be like an “information age” or something. Crazy.
/s
If the government creates a commission of any kind, that commission is going to be staffed with true believers in the cause and it will always find more reasons to expand the definitions and its purview. It will push the envelope without even questioning its premises and theses.
At least in the USA we have numerous checks and balances, though we are not immune to some of the craziness. The Supreme Court made a grave error when it allowed government to force people to buy a product. While not directly tied to that question, the issue of that baker who has been sued 3 times is a good example of nonsense. Whatever happened to live and let live? That baker apparently gets accosted weekly with requests to make cakes that are offensive to his beliefs - not just gay issues, but all kinds of things. He won’t do Halloween cakes for example. But he gets asked to do stuff with Nazis on them, characters engaged in sex acts, etc. People now provoke him and cause him emotional and financial harm. Somehow though, in this upside-down world we’ve allowed to fester, the baker is the perpetrator.
While possible I’d think that quote originated before the 1990s.
As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Never trust quotes you find on the internet.”
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