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?
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