More on high-handed suppression of free speech by Canada's Human Rights Commission.
The Canadian reader who alerted me to the violation of political liberty by the Canadian Human Rights Commission emailed this follow-up:
Following on the heels of the charges against Mark Steyn was the charge and investigation of another mainstream conservative journalist - Ezra Levant.
His crime: Republishing copies of the infamous "Danish Mohammed Cartoons" (you know the ones people said "THAT's what all the riots are about ???) along with editorial review of the reasons why western newspapers were failing to act in the public interest to report the news.
Ezra took a very proactive stand against his inquisition - he videotaped his initial interrogation and published it on YouTube.
Even Americans should be reminded of how traditional freedoms and rights can be undermined by modern conceptions of rights.
Check out this website! http://www.ezralevant.com/
Canada's arbitrary infringement of the right of free speech is reminiscent of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. More than 70,000 French citizens were murdered in the name of the Revolution. Rationalizing that atrocity, the Assembly’s Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety announced, “It is wholly necessary to establish briefly the despotism of freedom in order to crush the despotisms of Kings.”
The philosophers of the French Revolution were aware that controlling public opinion via censorship was essential to imposing their conceptions of political order. That necessarily meant preventing expressions of dissent.
In that tradition, Canada, along with European Union nations, is busily destroying liberty in the name of abstractions called diversity and sensitivity.
Copyright by Thomas E. Brewton
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776 http://www.thomasbrewton.com/
