Posted on 09/17/2009 9:49:18 AM PDT by JLS
This month, with Judge Hadjis’s Marc Lemire decision, the wheels fell off the CHRC racket
“Nice to see you all,” said Athanasios Hadjis, the Canadian “Human Rights” Tribunal’s vice-chair (i.e., judge), as he surveyed his courtroom in Ottawa last year. “More of an interest than there was before.”
Indeed. The packed benches that greeted him were a rare sight at a CHRT trial, and especially at the Marc Lemire trial, where the prosecutors—the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission—had demanded that everyone other than them be banned from the courtroom, including the defendant, who would be graciously permitted to watch proceedings by video. That doesn’t sound quite like the right to confront your accuser in open court. But hey, given all the other safeguards of Canada’s judicial inheritance the Dominion’s “human rights” regime trashes, what’s one more faggot on the bonfire of liberties?
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.macleans.ca ...
fag·ot also fag·got (fāg'ət) n. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
Steyn ping opportunity.
“...what’s one more faggot on the bonfire of liberties?”
Can you say that about Barney Frank (yes, I know what MS meant!)?
A lot of people are going to need the definition of the f-word
Steyn is great. This is a major issue in Canada. I’d sure hate to see Canadian-style “thought crimes tribunals” get a foothold here.
The comments after the article are good also.
Mark Steyn is a genius.
BTW, Mark Steyn is a genius (have I said that before?)...
You can't say that, Mark. You really ought to be more niggardly in the use of that sort of language.
BUMP!
Steyn always has gems of universal application. Ironically this should be from an article on basic freedoms in a free society, but...
Might not the quote above apply to a few of our current domestic "troubles" here in the U.S.? Santayana's warning seems to be in play here, with a vengeance.
Steyn responded to a comment on this article:
“Oh, bugger off, you useless tosser. And I mean that most non-petulantly. Here’s why:
First, dredging out the old fire-in-a-crowded-theatre routine is not, as you suppose, a sign of the sophisticated nuanced thoughtfulness you bring to the debate, but a plonking cliche serving only to advertise in neon that you haven’t thought about it at all.”
Read the comment and the Steyn’s full response here:
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2455/128/
Darn it, I forgot one !
Hookers and Eunuchs ... Mark Steyn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342762/posts
Cheers,
knewshound
Canada is barmy. They drag Steyn into court for hate speech because he was critical of Islam, Yet The DOC (dept of communications) says they can do nothing about some canadian putz who regularly jams international shortwave frequencys with vile vulgar rants about how Americans suck.
The idiot prerecords his lunacy on tape loop and will jam 5 frequency’s at a time with his hate speech, and DOC says there is nothing that can be done.
The Fasces go back to the Roman Republic. They were carried by the lictors who accompanied the Tribunes.
As to not "muddying" a "reasonable" debate with "polarizing hyperbole", why do you think Judge Hadjis caved and issued a ruling in the Lemire case entirely at odds with the one he issued in the Beaumont case? Precisely because Ezra Levant and I and a few others clobbered Canada's "human rights" regime with "polarizing hyperbole". If we hadn't done, Section 13 would still be a goer, and Mr Lemire would have been convicted. It's only because we went Magna Carta on Jennifer Lynch's medieval ass that we succeeded in dragging received opinion, inch by painful inch, away from this racket. Being "reasonable" about an abomination only makes it respectable - as Section 13 was until two years ago. Left to the likes of all the "reasonable" types, Canadian liberty would drift incrementally but remorselessly off the cliff.
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It’s about time, I think everyone let things get to far out of hand and it is swinging back BIG TIME!
Huge reliefs of these fasces are placed on the wall behind the Speakers Chair in our House of Representatives. I don’t know who or when they were placed there.
Kind of unsettling, given that our Congressmen now believe that they are our betters and our rulers.
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