From Gates of Vienna
The one bright spot on the landscape for citizens who love freedom has been the advent of the internet. At no time in North American history have ordinary citizens had as much political power as they do today. Words written by the stay-at-home mom, the computer nerd or the diesel mechanic are being thrust under the noses of politicians and pundits who have previously been able to whitewash the opinions of those who had no public platform. Christians and social conservatives have been learning to use the technology very effectively, as was demonstrated when they won CBC’s “Great Canadian wish contest” last year with “abolish abortion”.
The conservative internet, however, is under attack. The Canadian Human Rights Commission has already been used on many occasions to shut down websites and to place lifetime speech bans on webmasters who have been hauled before its tribunals.
The human rights commission attacks on Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have made a lot of people aware of the danger of allowing these government bodies to regulate the speech of Canadians, and the internet has been abuzz with stories of bureaucratic abuse. The fight for free speech has begun. (emphasis mine)
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A chill wind is blowing in this nation. …
Every day, the air waves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent. And the public, like so many relatives and friends that I saw this weekend, sit in mute opposition and fear. [...]
Susan and I have been listed as traitors, as supporters of Saddam, and various other epithets by the Aussie gossip rags masquerading as newspapers, and by their fair and balanced electronic media cousins, 19th Century Fox…
Two weeks ago, the United Way canceled Susan’s appearance at a conference on women’s leadership. And both of us last week were told that both we and the First Amendment were not welcome at the Baseball Hall of Fame… Tim Robbins 2003 (Source)
Boo-Fucking-Hoo, Timmy. Sorry that it was so damn hard for you to take verbal bullets for your so called convictions. As it happens, our soldiers have been taking real bullets to protect the likes of you and one can only thank god that their ranks are filled by men with far more moral fortitude than you will ever likely muster.
Like an agitated rooster Robbins strutted across stages and pounded on podiums, squawking doom and cackling about his threatened rights. Well, Mr. Robbins was never silenced. He and his Hollywood comrades were rejected, spurned, and the recipients of contempt, but neither Robbins nor any in his pathetic community of Ameri-phopes were ever in any danger of being sued, imprisoned, or murdered, let alone censored. They have freely continued to produce movies, give speeches, write books and fling every eschatological laden epithet their febrile little minds could manufacture against America - all without consequences beyond what the free market dictated.
So, did frightened little Timmy get a warm and fluffy blanket to protect him from that damn chill? Because, given the lack of commentary, he and his ilk seem not in the least bit chilled by any of the free speech battles being fought across the globe since his impassioned pleas to safeguard the same.
I’m not even going to get into the slaughter of Theo Van Gogh, muslims rioting and killing over cartoons, Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Geert Wilders and the countless others who live with very real, religiously sanctioned, publicly proclaimed death threats over their heads.
We’ll keep it simple for now and just just go North of the border to Canada.
Richard Warman, the man who has been the plaintiff in half of the section 13 “hate-speech” cases brought before the Canadian Human Rights Commissions (CHRC), has now launched a sweeping lawsuit against some of the most prominent conservative publications, journalists and bloggers in Canada. Warman is suing for libel, alleging in particular that the defendants falsely accused him of posting a racist screed on the white supremacist website Freedom Site.
The list of the defendants in Warman’s lawsuit reads like a who’s-who of conservative journalism and blogging in Canada, including: The National Post Company, Jonathon Kay, Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Fivefeetoffury.com, Smalldeadanimals.com, Catherine McMillan, Mark Fournier, Freedominion.ca, and Constance Wilkins-Fournier.(Source)
This, rightfully so, is getting much attention amongst bloggers and I would encourage everyone, left or right, to keep laser focus on how this progresses. Post on it, write letters, email friends. More importantly, donate to the bloggers who must defend against this assault. Michelle Malkin is facilitating such efforts and each blogger has a pay pal button on their site.
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Free Dominion
National Post
five feet of fury. (now with added lawyers.)
small dead animals
Richard Warman has sued me — and other conservative bloggers - Ezra Levant
We all know assaults on speech are going to continue to accelerate. The intent of Progressives socialists in America to stomp out talk radio and strangle the internet are not at all new. Those efforts, in conjunction with those of their muslim allies , make it an imperative to organize one hell of a united front and considerable cash.
We have had warning shot after warning shot fired across our bow, especially in view of all of the aggressive measures to silence speech in Europe, and even yet, we have no real rapid response apparatus in place; no Soros, no Open Society, no Heinz, no media. But their media and propaganda models are there for all to dissect and replicate.
This latest flurry of suits in Canada have the potential to bring more to the fight, resulting in new alliances.They ought not be temporary, but seeded and nurtured to grow a cohesive coordinated body. It would seem that all of these disparate groups and individuals could be organized and deployed more effectively, thwarting the passage of more”hate” legislation, dismantling existing laws on the books and going face to face with these Orwellian apparatchiks and using every tactic cunning and honor will allow.
If speech is lost, the road ahead will be far more harrowing and arduous than can be imagined, but then, Huxley and Orwell already have.
Related Reading:
Righteous crusader or civil rights menace?
Who is Richard Warman and Why Isn’t Someone Photoshopping His Face Into a Bazillion Embarassing Photographs?
The Canadian Sentinel: The ‘Libel’ Chill Suit By Richard Warman:The Ominous Fallout
Human rights complaint costing Catholic Insight
People wonder why I quit university teaching
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