This matter may remind readers of Mark Steyn's current free-speech related troubles:
CTV.ca Writer says he wants to lose human rights case
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What a waste of time and money, not to mention the chilling effects on speaking one’s mind.
So these two lesbians walk into a bar...
Don Rickles ... Please call your office.
Is truth an absolute defense in Canada?
Sticks and stones...
BAD LANGUAGE ADVISORY
So these two lesbians are mad because he was making a joke about mad lesbians.
More Human Rights Tribunal action.
Human Rights Tribunal hearings are an insult to a democratic society, but I’d hold off on taking sides between the comedian and the two ladies. This story smells wrong.
Consider, normally when a comedians slaps down a heckler, the audience LOVES it. Here the audience sided with the women. The crowd got up and walked out. Does that sound right to anybody? The story is incomplete.
I considered emigrating to Canada when I left the UK in 1969.
I chose the States instead and I am more thankful every day that I did.
Guy Earle should file a counter-complaint against the two female hecklers on the grounds that they were creating a hostile work environment for him. Then the whole case will become one of "Insulted Lesbians versus Insulting Lesbians".
The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival. As I predicted last week on the Michael Coren Show, that instinct would cause them to drop the complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s. And so they did.
With an RCMP investigation, a Privacy Commission investigation and a pending Parliamentary investigation, they’re already fighting a multi-front P.R. war, and losing badly. Not a day goes by when the CHRC isn’t pummelled in the media. Holding a show trial of Maclean’s and Steyn, like the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal did earlier this month, would be writing their own political death sentence.
4) Professional comedians may be heckled by patrons who are not amused and/or offended.
5) Professional comedians who cannot handle hecklers without losing control should find a new line of work.
This is sick.
A true human rights organization should only be able to deal with abuses by governments against their citizenry.
Individuals whom are seperate from the government cannot violate human rights - individual actions are regulated through government laws. I see nothing here that is worthy of being labeled as a “crime”.
It deeply scares me how international organizations that were once intended for purposes of protecting individuals from governments are now being turned on individuals themselves. That was, of course, the game plan all along... but it sure is ugly when you see it.
Two things:
1) Why is it some people need for the whole world to know their sexual orientation?
2) I haven’t heard anything about this case except for the article posted here on FR, but I get the feeling this could be a set-up.
Canada is definitely losing its civil liberties. Not as badly as the loss of democracy in Venezuela or Zimbabwe, but a human rights disaster nonetheless.
The Canadian “Human Rights” commission are pure Orwellian misnomers.
And don’t think for a second that it could not happen in the USA, especially if Obama wins.
Earle says he got back up on stage later to say goodnight and that when he walked past their table a second time, the same woman splashed another drink in his face and then stood in front of him as if she wanted to fight.”
Is it illegal to defend yourself in Canada? He was essentially assaulted. Twice!
Straight, so automatically guilty.