VIDEOS: It’s “Man-Up with Ezra”™ Time [UPDATED]
Aside from our huge talent and Award-Winning Humility, we just keep that news a-coming, don’t we? Enjoy: WebElf Blogroll News, Sunday, January 13th, A.D. 2007.
It’s morning again in the Great White North, and time to stand up and say that we are proud to be Canadians.
Ezra has stood up, and spoken.
A real man amongst us, speaking the truth in the face of an unelected, unaccountable tribunal– truly the banal smiling face of soft fascism come to Canada to steal away our freedoms, and chill our voices and thoughts.
It may be recently “unCanadian Behaviour” to have heroes, but when faced with an abyss of evil, Mr. Levant has boldly and publicly chosen truth, whatever the cost. Let us remember and honour and tell the story of what he has done, and is doing. He has given us the gift of his courage.
It’s time to man-up with our brother Ezra.
Binks
1. Opening statement
2. What was your intent?
3. Violence in Alberta
4. I don’t answer to the state
5. “You’re entitled to your opinions”
6. The limits of free speech, and the power to order me to apologize
January 13, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Go Ezzra! You Rock! Tell it to her!
Canadian HRC is a fascist farce and should be deported to Cuba or Saudia Arabia!
January 13, 2008 at 2:39 pm
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January 13, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Am confused. Mr. Levant says he does not recognize the legitimacy of the HRC. Why, then, following her instructions, is he trying to explain himself and plead his case?
January 13, 2008 at 10:19 pm
First, permit me to self-identify. I am a lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama, of an age by which many of my profession retire. My legal experience, while diverse, has been primarily commercial, but occasionally it has involved me in controversies governed by the sacred safeguards of the United States Constitution, and such is now the case with respect to a pending petition to the United States Supreme Court seeking justice for a man who has been denied the historic remedy for a libel because he is alleged to be a “public figure” and must therefore prove “actual malice” (i.e., publication of a libel with knowledge of its falsity). This high standard of proof represents the current constitutional balance between the right of an individual to protect his reputation and the right of Americans to be informed by robust and untrammeled public discussion of every conceivable issue of interest to their society.
Under certain circumstances I have questioned whether this absolutist commitment to free speech may have been carried too far in the United States. The current attempt by Canadian Muslims to undermine the traditional freedom of the west by pretending to be endangered or insulted by the opinions of Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn has forever banished from my mind any doubt about the unyielding rigor with which freedom of speech is protected in the United States. While I confess that fairly close attention to the statist drift of Canadian society over the past fifty years has persuaded me that little is to be learned from Canada but negative lessons, the present absurd - one might say, even suicidal - infatuation with “political correctness” is a negative lesson of such terrifying portent that one should be grateful for the opportunity to be awed by it at a distance and to learn from it vicariously without being burned directly. The overwhelming majority of Americans, I among them, are utterly appalled at the soft totalitarianism of Canadian “human rights comissions” with their power to use public resources to harass anyone for the expression of a political opinion to which someone else takes offense, unless of course such opinion directly incites to violence or transgresses other reasonable limitations that have historically evolved along with freedom of speech itself. Even then such limitations ought only to be enforced by a court of law governed by the historic protections of due process.
The infinite touchiness of Muslims about their “rights” in the west derives from their determination to bend the host society to their own retrograde and intolerant value system. Apart from the utter stupidity of allowing morally relativistic “political correctness” to be a weapon that Canadians turn on themselves in furtherance of their own destruction, how is it possible that Canadians think so little of the glorious heritage of freedom that they are mindlessly sacrificing on the altar of multi-culturalism?
I have admired Mark Steyn for a number of years as one of the most gifted journalists writing today. I am awed by the reach of his knowledge, his understanding of the threats confronting the survival of western civilization, his incomparable wit - the more biting the better - and his astounding productivity. Before becoming acquainted by this shameful assualt on the freedom of both Messrs. Steyn and Levant, I was unfamiliar with Mr. Levant. A small benefit of this controversy is that this loss on my part has been remedied, for I have been thrilled by Mr. Levant’s eloquent, principled and utterly defiant defence of his right to be a free man in modern Canada and to uphold the heritage that so grandly distinguishes the English speaking people from those with a less fortunate experience the world over. For the sake of freedom worldwide and for the future good of Canadians, I hope that this controversy is resolved not merely by dismissing the contemptible complaints against Messrs. Steyn and Levant, but by convincing the Canadian people of the imperative need to wake up from their self-imposed stupor of “political correctness” and return to their historic loyalty to true freedom of speech.
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January 17, 2008 at 8:47 pm
William M. Slaughter, I love you. I’d like to reproduce your comments in full on my blog. If you read this, please respond here, or email me at oldweesie at sasktel dot net.
January 17, 2008 at 8:51 pm
He is using her as a prop in a carefully planned and brilliantly executed expose of a stupid institution that has to be stopped. The reason why you are able to see the whole encounter via YouTube is so that the sham that is the Human Rights Commission will be exposed to the world.
January 20, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Oh yeah, because the U.S. has accomplished such a better job of including its large populations of blacks and Hispanics.
Let’s follow the American model people! Pick up guns, step on anyone that gets in your way (especially if they are darker), and scream free speech at the top of your voice! (it doesn’t really matter what you scream; it’s free!)
January 23, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I am just shocked at this. Apparently there are no free speech in Canada or you will be persecuted for your views.
Good luck in your fight.
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