Posted on 07/17/2018 10:36:14 AM PDT by jerod
A civil liberties group is urging the Canadian government to end the "unjust and immoral" imprisonment of Monika Schaefer, a German-Canadian woman on trial in Germany for publishing videos denying the Holocaust.
The Ontario Civil Liberties Association says it's concerned about Canada's apparent unwillingness to come to the aid of Schaefer, who it describes as a Canadian "political prisoner" who was charged under a German criminal law that does not exist in Canada and is contrary to international law.
In a letter signed by executive director Joseph Hickey, the association calls on Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to act immediately, starting with appointing a consular observer and direct contact for Schaefer.
"We ask you both to do everything you can to save Monika Schaefer from her ongoing unjust and immoral imprisonment in Germany," the letter says. "Every day that Canada refuses to act or acts ineffectively is a day that Ms. Schaefer spends in a foreign jail. Therefore, we express the required urgency."
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So free speech isn’t an inherent right to you?
So is Canada going to arrest people who deny the existence of God too? And if not, why not??
My understanding of the article is that Germany threw a Canadian Holocaust denier in prison, and a Canadian civil liberties organization wants to get her released.
>>’Fake’ news is apparently fine with the Ontario Civil Liberties Association, as long as it’s news denying one the most documented and proven atrocities in human history.<<
You either have free speech or you don’t.
As bad as it has become here we have it..
Canada does not.
Nor does Europe.
If the Holocaust is so well documented and proven then where’s the threat in someone challenging it?
I mean should it also be illegal to argue that the world is flat?
But to criminalize claims that it didn't occur is going at least a bit too far,IMO.
Once you accept the principle of jailing people for their political opinions it is only a matter of time before you yourself end up on the wrong end of it.
Would you advocate for some foreign national who violated American laws while visiting just because they believed differently? Muslims with multiple wives? Honor killings? Genital mutilation?
"Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time" Baretta.
Better to let the crazies say their piece than have them, and shortly thereafter all the rest of us, restricted to "approved thoughts" only.
Having multiple wives is not a God-given, inherent right. Honor killing is not a God-given, inherent right. Genital mutilation is not a God-given, inherent right.
Only in America
What’s next ? Locking up Flat Earthers ?
No problem, you go ahead and try the free speech is an inherent right from God defense in foreign countries when you break their speech laws............good luck with that!
Just because there is no legal defense to something doesn't make its prohibition correct.
Want to rail about something, rail about the God given rights that were enumerated in our Constitution that our government has stolen from us, not about some lunatic spouting off in Germany.
Just sayin.
I’m not railing about anything. I’m merely pointing out that we don’t have freedom of speech because of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights merely describes inherent rights, and those rights are shared by Germans. The US government has indeed refused to acknowledge our rights, and that should be more important to us as Americans. However, it is important to understand where our rights come from. They weren’t “given” to us by anyone, and they don’t exist because some piece of paper says so.
Have fun.
Problem is Canada, under the human rights tribunals, have a penchant for shutting down freedom of speech. It is all done on the basis that there is some army of holocaust deniers out there that need to be put in their place.
If you truly believe in free speech, we should support even the right of a holocaust denier to have an opinion. Some dirty fat old man behind a key board is hardly a threat.
Alberta human rights tribunal passed an injunction on a pastor who wrote an anti-homosexual article in a newspaper. He is forbidden to write ever again on the topic.
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