There's a New Sharif in Town (Mark Steyn)

The Corner on National Review Online ^ | June 2, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[EveningStar]

...Omar Sharif saying that, when he has a problem with some guy, he finds it far easier to go to the neighborhood sheikh to sort it out than to have to mess around with all that western legal mumbo-jumbo. He'll be happy to know they've introduced a similar system in British Columbia: The sheikhs sit on a "human rights" tribunal and lay down the smack without any time-wasting rubbish about rules of evidence, presumption of innocence, etc.

Andrew Coyne is live-blogging the first day of the Steyn/Maclean's show trial from the Robson Square courthouse in Vancouver, and from the Omar Sharif perspective it seems to be going swimmingly. The Canadian Islamic Congress lawyer says that freedom of speech is a "red herring"...

[EveningStar]

The Trial of Mark Steyn (Hugh Hewitt)

Liveblogging the BC HRT, Day Two: A Day That Will Live in Entropy (Mark Steyn, and Macleans)

Iowahawk: Canadian Radio Classics: Warman of the Mounted

[EveningStar]

ping

[rightthinkingwoman]

Ezra Levant at ezralevant.com is also liveblogging. Mind blowing stuff.

[metesky]

A third-rate bureaucracy that tells everyone from McDonald's to Maclean's magazine how to run their affairs can't even organize a show trial with minimal competence.

Mark skewers them again. Love it.

[Moose4]

“Say what you like about Saddam’s justice system, but at least I’d be dead by now and out of my misery.”

Steyn strikes again.

}:-)4

[AreaMan]

The official mascot of the Canadian Legal System

[bluerose]

Brigitte Bardot Convicted in Racism Case

AP
Posted: 2008-06-03 11:15:34

PARIS (June 3) - Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.

A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.

[metesky]

Thanks for the tip. Mindblowing doesn’t even begin to describe it!

[Dr. Sivana]

The chairman of the panel is Heather Mcnaughton. I find that to be extremely funny, because of the legal history of

The M'Naghten Rules (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) were the first serious attempt to codify and rationalise the attitude of the criminal law towards mentally incompetent defendants.

(from Wikipedia, but also in some form in first year law books).

The lunatics really ARE running the asylum!