Everyone at FR should reflect the deeper meaning of these actions against free speech. Will assembly be next? We are born, where we are born.....freedom of speech is not an abstract idea. The fight will be long and hard.
God save us all.
Excerpted from wiki:
..."He's had an enormous impact," says Michael Geist, the Canadian research chair in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa. "In a sense, he's got the mechanics of how we deal with online hate up and running. It's fair to say no one has been as effective or persistent." The result is a body of jurisprudence that leaves little doubt Canadian law applies to online hate speech that originates in this country. The decisions, says Geist, "have sent a clear warning to those who engage in hate speech that this is not a no-law land."
another excerpt:
Blogger and former magazine publisher Ezra Levant, who is being sued by Warman and others for libel, has argued that Warman's actions as a plaintiff before the Canadian Human Rights Commissions are tantamount to censorship in the name of human rights.[56] Levant also says the Warman's libel lawsuits generally are "nuisance suit[s]" that are part of Warman's "maximum disruption" policy.[57] Maclean's, which had been the subject of an unrelated human rights complaint concerning hate speech, has reported that "Richard Warman says he's fighting hate. Critics say free speech is the real victim." That article included commentary or allegations that ...[T]he slam-dunk quality to Warman's Section 13 cases are a cause for worry, symbolizing the drift of human rights commissions into the boggy territory of covert investigation and speech control.
Completely illegal. Typical. They troll for statements under freedom of speech and then they repress leaving only the other side with a nicely padded list of statements in a monologue vacuum. Parasites of free speech which then destroys its host aftef feasting on it.
FASCISM...PURE FASCISM.
I used to post on FD and FR alot more than now. I been busy with real life issues. Just wanted to chime in and let you guys up north know we are with you all. Allies and conservatives till the end.
I bet the commies would love to do that to this site.
bttt
Everyone at FR should reflect the deeper meaning of these actions against free speech. Will assembly be next? We are born, where we are born.....freedom of speech is not an abstract idea. The fight will be long and hard.
God save us all.
I hope they go off shore.
Let’s give her a BTTT- 273 replies is impressive....
Just BTW? The good folks at FD were kind enough to host “Miss Emily has died” when I lost my young bride of 25 years.
Later, I started “Letters to Miss Emily” which was first about her but became my daily slog thru life. I write there each day.
Disgrace, conniew. Has Mark Steyn contacted you, or vice versa? (Haven’t read the whole thread yet.) Somehow he prevailed against the HR popinjays.
OK; there is your post about Steyn right at 22. Sorry about that.
Canada does not have the First Amendment nor protections for free speech. It’s why pastors there will eventually be jailed for proclaiming the gospel.
Very sorry to hear of this, conniew. ‘Get’s soetoro thinking.
w, s ping....
For those of us in the United States: This is why American conservatives need to remember the importance of the First Amendment. Liberals can be very annoying, and their attacks on conservatives in office can be disruptive and even dangerous, but it is absolutely essential that citizens have the right to criticize their government. That means we need to defend the right of anyone, even liberals, to spout nonsense and make idiotic attacks via the public press.
The John Peter Zenger case in colonial New York, via jury nullification, established the principle that truth is an absolute defense against libel. Subsequent case law worked out the implications of that principle, including that opinion cannot be prosecuted because it can't be proved true or false. Therefore, attacks on people, even when very strongly worded, cannot be prosecuted if they are statements of opinion.
Liberals are wrong on a lot of things, but defending freedom of speech and of the press is not being “liberal” — it is being faithful to the clear original intent and written words of the Constitution.
Let's never forget that.
Seems to me the FR could possibly offer them a forum in exchange for chipping in to FR’s site. And the domain itself could be made to redirect into that. Canada can’t do anything about what’s administered from the USA.
But it’s ultimately up to Canada whether its people want to keep on in that manner. Canada is much colder towards God than America is, with some localized exceptions. That takes a spiritual toll in cowardice.
I was an early member who drifted away over time.
Richard Warman is clearly not a nice person and almost certainly a totalitarian. He clearly does NOT believe in human rights.
Please go to http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anonymous-troll-could-send-us-to-jail and help our friends at Free Dominion to appeal.
.....The online political forum, Free Dominion, has shut down after a wholesale defeat in a libel case brought by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman....
Ah, yes! Those pesky “human rightsers”!!!!
PHOOEY!!!!
How much have I missed Free Dominion? I have switched to Free Republic to get my dose of the “real” news. I will miss the Canadian content- my grandmother was a Canadian.
I will donate to your court case fund and I will pray for you and your family.