Posted on 01/14/2008 9:36:33 AM PST by rightthinkingwoman
It's been a busy few days since my "human rights" interrogation on Friday afternoon. As of yesterday, the video clips I uploaded were viewed nearly 200,000 times, making them the 5th most watched "channel" on YouTube. I'd like to thank the blogosphere for covering a story that has been under-reported by the mainstream media, and I'd like to thank generous visitors for their financial support for our legal defence via PayPal.
For new visitors to this site, here is a quick summary of the facts.
In February of 2006, the Western Standard magazine, of which I was publisher, reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. We were immediately hit with two "human rights complaints". These are a strange species of lawsuit, inimicable to Western liberal traditions of rule of law and freedom of speech. A real court would have thrown these complaints out as baseless, but Alberta's human rights commission has proceeded. Friday was the day of my interrogation. I videotaped it.
You can see the hand-scrawled complaint against us here. You can see our written reply here.
I have uploaded several video clips from Friday, each with written commentary. The first video clip is my opening statement. There are seven clips so far, and I'll upload a few more, including my closing comments.
I recommend scrolling down to the bottom of this blog page, and working your way back up -- that's roughly chronological in terms of the video clips, and my written commentary makes more sense that way, too.
I'm truly heartened by the moral support that I have received on the blogosphere, in my own blog's comments, via e-mail and even on the Facebook support group. I promise I will continue to fight this battle to the end, even if that means appealling it all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
See what happens when you don’t check your work.
Meant to say, “Also available on youtube.”
Good luck with that Ezra. But beware, the supreme court can arbitrarily refuse to hear your argument before you even appeal your case to it.
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