Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Twilight for Canuckistanian Free Speech?
Regardless of your political stripe, I’m sure you’ll agree that free speech and free press are vitally important to any liberal society. You might not like the things I say, but, knowing this crowd, most of you believe in my right to say them.
Andy says things about Christians and Christianity that don’t always sit well with me. Mr. Lady has political beliefs that stump me. The late Acidman said things that I thought were brutally offensive. It has never occurred to me that I should try to silence their speech with lawsuits because the law doesn’t exist to ensure that I go through life with my delicate sensibilities and fragile opinions completely unaccosted by the Godless, left-leaning, and rude-as-hell masses.
Which is good because if the law did take such a stance, I would most certainly have been sued into insolvency long before now. Every once in a while I manage to offend even myself--which takes some work.
Apparently Canada is taking a different view on free speech now, though. I’ve been watching this since Mark Steyn’s well-documented problems began and I keep expecting some grown up in Canada to stand up and put a halt the idiocy--apparently the late Mr. Buckley’s unique history-thwarting talents are in great demand up there.
For the record, a few years back I met one of the defendants (Kate from SmallDeadAnimals.com) when she came through Denver for, if memory serves, a dog show. Not only was she smart, funny, and nice, but she was far from the most offensive person at the table. In fact, she might have been the most polite person there.
Anyway, this would be a good time to put aside politics and rally around free speech and these bloggers who are being sued by a free range idiot.
Michelle Malkin is talking about it, I found out from the Corner, and I’m sure there are a million other links to be found.
Branching Update: Of course, free speech at American colleges seems to take big hits regularly. Some day the kids that are learning to hate free speech at placed like Colorado College will learn to hate free speech in the wild. And when those kids start making the rules, people will start getting ticketed for saying completely innocuous things in their own front yard. Oops. Too late.
Update: Kindly linked by Mr. Lady--who--after running away to the great white eh?--has found her own list of issues. And, let me tell you, the girl has issues.
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Andy says things about Christians and Christianity that don’t always sit well with me.
And, this, of course, is why you must be silenced.
How can the Evil Atheist Conspiracy achieve its aims if we let you speak freely?
Hasn’t Ben Stein’s “Expelled” taught you anything??
OK, I’ll stop now.
P.S. That movie has given me more laughs and joy than anything in recent memory - and I haven’t even seen it!
P.P.S. There is no god. How did that sit, pal?
Hasn’t Ben Stein’s “Expelled” taught you anything??
Sadly, no. I still love the guy, though, and I’m going to give him a pass (which is zomby-speak for “hide my eyes and pretend it didn’t happen).
PS- You’re going to hell.
It’s horrifying, and wrong, and it is perhaps the single most annoying thing about living
in Canadain this very remote suburb of Seattle?I was warned by my cousin (born and raised up here) when I moved. She basically told me to think before I said ANYTHING in a public setting of ANY sort, because freedom of speech does not exist here.
I hope someone counter-sues that fucktard.
PS: We really need to honestly talk politics someday. Our views are not as different as you think.
Yeah, but she’s hot, right?
On another website, some Canadian told me that I didn’t know what I was talking about, that since his college professor wore a KKK outfit to class once to “prove” that Canada had free speech ... viola it did!
This is the problem with allowing government to be a self-perpetuating class. We see this in Britain, Canada and Europe because those countries are more likely to have a bureaucratic class that feeds into its political class. In the US over time, we’ve been better at avoiding too much of that but the trend is against us.
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IMHO is Warman is acting like a certified fascist? Canada is now a fascist country? I bet American, European and Australian bloggers can mock Warman right into a straight jacket. Everyone in Canada must hear about this Warman and the HRC injustice!
This fellow in the HRC, Richard Warman, sounds like a totally wonderful human being who doesn’t have a huge chip on his shoulder or one evil bone in his whole fair-minded body.
He doesn’t at all sound like a sick and demented bastard who is angry
and bitter because he got his butt massively kicked in those elections years ago.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe likes
human rights commissions
that violate human rights
while claiming to protect them
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe hates
real freedom of speech
an American concept
which is NOT for Canada
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Why Does Canada Allow This?
All real freedom starts with freedom of speech.
If there is no freedom of speech, then there can be no real freedom.
http://www.richardwarman.com/
http://haltterrorism.com
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