Time to get off that fence. Letters to my MP and MPP are typed and ready for the mail.
The Human Rights apparatus was cute and cuddly when they were satisfied hearing employment and housing cases (for which they were originally intended...), but...
.. as readers of this blog know, government everywhere has a voracious appetite for power. Free speech is now on the menu and we must stand up and shout "Hell No".
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And we can eagerly await an Obama administration doing the same if anyone speaks ill of Islam.
This is one more reason why liberals should not be in charge of things. Anywhere. |
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James Marsden
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It is time for a Canadian pastor with Martin Luther’s courage when he said something to this effect when ordered by a Catholic Court to take back his condemnation of the practice of selling indulgences:
I will not recant, God help me. I can not do anything else.
A reformation ensued. |
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Yeah my question is what if the Rev.’s response is ’No’...
This would have to go to actual court, correct?
One that might care about little things like the rule of law. Because as a minister he can’t recant his beliefs and maintain his role as a church leader.
It’s an either or; either he sticks to his guns and stays a minister - even if jailed or forced to leave the country... Or he recants and he surrenders his church since he obviously didn’t believe what he was saying. Let’s face it he’s made clear by going to court that this wasn’t misinterpreted, that excuse left with the start of the trial, so any apology would not only be empty but would leave him unable to lead his parrish.
You know I thought by 2nd grade most kids know you can’t force a real apology... OK maybe only some of us realized that, but then again it’s not meant to be an apology or even sound like one - it’s meant to humiliate and punish. |
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OK,
A little investigation and I did find the good reverend’s response... it’s a photo and should be safe for work, but let’s just say the gnome is pictured offering the appropriate body part for kissing... http://www.stephenboissoin.com/knome.html
So I guess we now get to find out what happens when he say’s ’no’... |
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BIllS
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Utopia requires sacrifices. |
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You cannot have free speech and "hate speech" laws. It is a logical and practical impossibility. Absolutely agree, Dale. Every time I hear the phrase "hate speech" in the news I cringe. I don’t agree with a lot of people, but, darn, they have a right to free speech. |
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Dale, any chance you can link to the article or the complete letter written by the Pastor? |
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Joel C.
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So I guess we now get to find out what happens when he say’s ’no’... nothing good off course. The HRC’s in Canada have more power and fewer restrictions than courts of law. They also have a 100% conviction rate. They can take everything he owns and throw him in prison and the partisan media will cheer on.
This is what happens when you give unrestrained, unchecked power to ideologues. As Lord Acton once said, "Power corrupts,..." |
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There are such fools in Canada.
The government is pathetic.
We in the US are laughing at you all. |
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Scratch that, Dale. It took a while, but I found it. |
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Joel C.
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Is this surprising? Some fool on that human rights panel was asked about free speech and responded by saying, since free speech is an American construct, he disregards it.
The rest is history. Just a matter of how long. |
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We in the US are laughing at you all. I dunno about that... I suspect at least some on the left are looking at that and wondering how they can get a peice of that action... |
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There was (and maybe still is) a blog by an US ex-pat who had moved to Canada and become a farmer there because, he felt, Canada was a "freer" country. I wrote him and asked him if he could provide some specifics: Were you free to keep more of the money you earned? If you had your own business, were you freer from government regulations? Could you own a firearm without registering it? His reply was a weaselly, "Well, I don’t want to go into specifics. . . ." and it soon became clear that the "freedom" was was looking for was the freedom to have his and his family’s medical expenses paid by the Canadian taxpayer. But, he said, in Canada we have much more freedom of speech than under the BusHitler regime! I was dubious about that because I knew from working in publishing that Canada had heavier censorship than the US. But I wonder if Farmer McTrotsky is extolling the virtues of Canadian freedom of speech now. |
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That is the death of free speech. No.
The death of free speech was accomplished when we allowed the government to define hate speech, period.
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Bithead
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Neo-
Don’t laugh too hard....because the multi-culties are hard at work to make sure we get the same result here. |
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It’s not ’hate speech’, it’s ’hate free speech’. |
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Shark: we’re already well down the road, with Human Rights Commissions of our very own hard on the job. |
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A Commission in New Mexico has told a wedding photographer, a private contractor, who declined a contract to photograph a some version of LGBT "wedding" ceremony, that she could not do so and must in fact undertake the job regardless of her convictions, adding the usual fines and penalties to her learning experience of government of the people and by the people. |
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