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Rights organization dismisses complaint against Maclean's
(CHRC drops charges against Mark Steyn)
National Post ^
| 6/27/2008
| Joseph Brean
Posted on 06/27/2008 12:38:52 PM PDT by mojito
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A nice victory for Steyn and free-speech. These "Human Rights" Commissions are star-chambers that should be abolished.
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:41:01 PM PDT
by
mojito
To: mojito
IIRC, this makes Steyn and Amiel the only people brought before the CHRC to ever not be found guilty.
To: mojito
We’ll break out the bubbly (Sparkling Apple Cider) and pork products tonight! Congratulations to the defenders of free speech & truth! Cheers for Mark Steyn!
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:45:14 PM PDT
by
oneamericanvoice
(Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
To: mojito
To: mojito
Outstanding! Sad, though, that we're so happy for an outcome that should have been a no-brainer. I guess they wanted to clear the decks at the CHRC to take on that lesbian-baiting comedian.
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:48:16 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
To: mojito
Apparently, you’ve got to hire a lawyer and go to court in order to exercise your right of “free” speech in Canada.
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:49:30 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: mojito
The ruling means the CHRC does not want its Stalinism exposed to the light of day.
To: mojito
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:52:03 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
(They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
To: mojito
Whoops, pays to read carefully ...
The third was heard this month by a British Columbia tribunal, which is now deliberating.
Heather's not done with him yet.
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:53:31 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
To: mojito
They(the commission)couldn’t take the heat could they? I think Mark is the only one that ever beat these idiots and he is probably the most famous also.
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:54:16 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: mojito
Time for a countersuit, Mark.
To: Slings and Arrows
That's what I was thinking too. I remember reading that these kangaroo councils had a 100% "conviction rate" (or whatever they call it). It is to be certain that this was dismissed not on the merits, but because (A) CHRHC is hugely embarrassed over the Internet publicity given this case and (B) wanted to be spared the exposure of being roasted at an appeals trial.
I don't know anything about Canadian law -- do MacLean's and Steyn have any process where they can sue CHRC for defamation, wrongful prosecution, etc.? Or at least sue to recover their costs?
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posted on
06/27/2008 12:59:31 PM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: mojito
To: NewJerseyJoe
There's no compensation system there I've ever heard of with these CHRC cases. On the other hand Steyn and company could approach the Parliament for a private bill to deal with their expenses.
It is, after all, Canada's Parliament that is the cause of all this nonsense.
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posted on
06/27/2008 1:13:01 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
To: mojito
Canada is a horrible, broken country that probably can not be fixed on this issue. This supposedly good news contains this amazing statement "a recent order of the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission that a pastor refrain from "disparaging" comments about homosexuals in his internet postings and private emails. "
The Government in Canada is now telling people what they and cannot say in private communication. Not since the heyday of Communism has the state interjected itself is such a way.
How very, very sad for Canada and Canadians.
To: mojito
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posted on
06/27/2008 1:18:44 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: mojito
Steyn won’t be beheaded then? Bravo!
To: mojito
So Free Speech won (this time.)
What happens when the body reverses itself next time?
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posted on
06/27/2008 2:36:21 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
To: NewJerseyJoe
The big thing is that they forced the defendants to spend time and money having to deal with this kangaroo court. Win or lose, they will make you pay for your Political Incorrectness
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posted on
06/27/2008 2:40:19 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
To: PapaBear3625; muawiyah
I wonder if there are going to be Muslim riots across Canada now.
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posted on
06/27/2008 2:50:26 PM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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