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2008-10-10 Great White North

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-10 17:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It is sad that in "free" and "western" societies, the issue was even brought up and the verdict in doubt.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-10 19:55|| 2008-10-10 19:55|| Front Page Top

#2 A creepy country's creepy Star Chamber lets one of the West's best minds off on a technicality. Happy for Steyyn, but despairing for what Mark so rightly called the thin and fragile veneer of civilization

Posted by regular joe 2008-10-10 20:15|| 2008-10-10 20:15|| Front Page Top

#3 "Steyn; not guilty this time"

There - fixed.

/leftists assholes

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-10 20:40|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-10 20:40|| Front Page Top

#4 From MacLean's editor,

Aw Nuts, We Won

More comment to follow once Ive read the thing, but be clear on this: it is no victory to be told by a shadowy government agency that you will be permitted to publish. This ruling only preserves the tribunal from utterly discrediting itself, and as such keeps alive the possibility that some other complainant can drag Macleans or any other media organization through yet another travesty half-a-continent away, at great expense of time and money. It also prevents Macleans from appealing the tribunals decision to an actual court, wherein it might have had the relevant section of the B.C. human rights laws thrown out on constitutional grounds. (Or does it? Can you appeal when you win?)

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2008-10-10 21:24|| 2008-10-10 21:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I read about 25 pages of the 50 page doc before I grew too disgusted to continue. The long and short of it is that the HRCs will decide whether what anyone says will be "discriminatory" and will "expose them to hatred and contempt." They need to do this, they say, because, "presented properly, individuals can be made to "believe anything."" These people don't think anyone should be able to write anything bad about any issue at all because it's so terrible to expose them to "hatred and contempt."

That means that when there really is something worthy of hatred and contempt--like murderous Islamic fascism, for example--no one can really tell the truth about it for fear of being charged by the HRC.

Canada's in deep trouble.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-10 21:48|| 2008-10-10 21:48|| Front Page Top

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