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~ HOT OFF THE PRESS! Hurray! It’s ‘The Tyranny Of Nice’ Day! Binks has read it, and thinks it’s great, and bloody important to spread far & wide. Get some today– send e-copies to your elected representatives: it’ll be the best $10 you ever donated to a politician. Let’s make Soharwardy & Elmasry pay for their own copies. And thanks for the mentions in the book, guys. Remember– It’s The Tyranny of Nice: How Canada crushes freedom in the name of human rights — and why it matters to Americans. ~

~ A PROUD AGGREGATOR AGGREVATOR! When– for various reasons– you have less present skill in word-smithing, one thing you can do is collect the words and thoughts of better writers in one place. The Binks has spent his online life (1995-present in webbing) mostly throwing info and news at the wall, and hoping some sticks; and to let people read ORIGINAL links, as opposed to my own highly suspect and tiresome opinions. Regular blogging is all about the opinions of the blogger– well, people know mine, and I occasionally state them, but the opinions of the bigger and betters are just of more interest (mind you, I still preach a meaner sermon then many can). We’re just so glad all those amazing people are around. Also, this new media circumvents the old media and societal narrative that our elites are on about: may be they are right on some things– but not as much as they think– and there’s always room for improvement, reform, whistle-blowing, and defending our freedom against complacency and from would-be tyrants. It’s just so important to keep the pressure up, even when the HRCites and such think we’d all have packed up our toys and gone home, so they could continue their shenanigans uninterrupted. Let’s all keep kicking ass and taking names, people! ~

Somebody’s Watching You!

~ GOT HALLMARKS? The CHRC is looking for you! By these satndards, any criticism of the HRC could well be hate-speech …. (chrt-tcdp.gc.ca)

[70] In Warman v. Kouba, 2006 CHRT 50, the Tribunal set out a non-exhaustive list of eleven hallmarks of hate messages, accompanied by an elaboration of on each of the hallmarks. These
hallmarks are the following:
(1) The Powerful Menace Hallmark: the targeted group is portrayed as a powerful menace that is taking control of the major institutions in society and depriving other of their livelihoods, safety,
freedom of speech and general well-being;
(2) The True Story Hallmark: the messages use true stories, news reports, pictures and reference from purportedly reputable sources to make negative generalizations about targeted group;
(3) The Predator Hallmark: the targeted group is portrayed as preying upon children, the aged, the vulnerable, etc.;
(4) The Cause of Society’s Problems Hallmark; the targeted group is blamed for the current problems in society and the world;
(5) The Dangerous or Violent by Nature Hallmark: the targeted group is portrayed as dangerous or violent by nature;
(6) The No Redeeming Qualities Hallmark: the messages convey the idea that members of the targeted group are devoid of any redeeming qualities and are innately evil;
(7) The Banishment Hallmark: the messages communicate the idea that nothing but the banishment, segregation or eradication of this group of people will save others from the harm being done by this group;
(8) The Sub-human Hallmark: the targeted group is de-humanized through comparisons to and associations with animals, vermin, excrement, and other noxious substances;
(9) The Inflammatory Language Hallmark: highly inflammatory and derogatory language is used in the messages to create a tone of extreme hatred and contempt;
(10) The Trivializing or Celebration of Past Tragedy Hallmark: the messages trivialize or celebrate past persecution or tragedy involving members of the targeted group;
(11) The Call to Violent Action Hallmark: calls to take violent action against the targeted group.

You bin warned.

Lest We Forget: On Free Speech

“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”

Stephen Harper, 1999

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Stephen Harper, 2007-8

Mark Steyn

~ THE TYRANNY OF NICE: Kathy Shaidle talks to Wendy Sullivan about her new book on the Steyn case and Canada’s “human rights” commissions. More here and at Free Mark Steyn! …. (girlontheright)

~ WOOLLY BULLY— Business as usual in the global meltdown – plus: Self-bailout, Liquid refreshment, Burke’s law, and RIP, The New York Sun; Paul Newman, dressing for success …. (marksteyn)

~ AMERICA ALONE: “Order your autographed copy now! Available in hardback, paperback, English, French, CD and MP3, after two years in bookstores, Mark’s “hate crime” in Canada remains strangely popular” …. (Steyn)

~ CANADA’S fertility rate on the rise, one less reason for immigration …. (MaD)

Ezra

~ OCTOBER 1st! See you in October …. (Ez)

FreeSpeechers

“In London last week, a frightful warning was sounded about encroaching tyranny. At an important conference, speaker after impassioned speaker warned of the peril to Western values posed by freedom-devouring sharia — the Islamic legal code. Like all tyrannies, sharia’s first target is speech: Suppress all examination of Muslim radicalism by threats of prosecution and libel actions, and smugly call it “the rule of law.” But we may already be further gone than the London conferees feared. And without resort to the Islamicization that so startled them. For that, we can thank the campaign of Barack Obama.”

~ Andrew McCarthy ~

~ THE GYAPONG— Here’s a heavenly ticket I would love to vote for; Sarah Palin on Hugh Hewitt’s program …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ PROFESSIONAL WHINER Warman wins once more: “From today’s Calgary Herald: The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has again upheld complaints by anti-racism activist Richard Warman about online hatred” …. (shotgun)

~ RACISTPHOBIA! RCMP asked to investigate Nova Scotia immigrant program …. (theglobeandmail)

~ KRAALSPACE— Still batting 1.000: “Canada’s budget Marat, Richard Warman, continues his unbeaten streak with yet another decision in his favour by the Revolutionary Tribunal. Oops, sorry, wrong Tribunal – the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal” …. (canada.com)

~ FORBIDDEN TOPICS: Media ignore scholarly interest in Christian thought …. (novascotiascott)

~ TUNYA Audain: Reversing Canada’s march to big government …. (shotgun)

~ PETE VERE, SooToday.com editorialist writes a book. About being nice …. (sootoday.com)

~ RIGHT WING RIGHT COAST EXTREMIST: A new blog opens on the far side of Canada. Same old Scott Gilbreath– check him out, and bookmark it! “A move across the country and a new blog” …. (novascotiascott)

~ APPARENTLY, I’m a mouth-breathing, basement-dwelling virgin …. (timeimmortal)

~ A RECORDING of last night’s interview with Rob Breakenridge …. (fivefeetoffury)

Video: Burning Down the House Redux

Now copyright violation free!

~ CHRC: Guille Expanding, Formalizing the Hallmarks of Hate …. (fd)

~ SOME SOCONS are not happy with Stephen Harper …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ LIBERALS fear a world without intense feelings and experiences …. (novascotiascott)

~ HATE SPEECH on Canadian government website (from our bulging “Oh, But That’s Different” files) .. except truth is no defense, right? Someone please file and HRC charge …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ JUST ASKING.. When gun control fails, whom instead shall we blame? …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ CALL THE HRC! ARE LIGHTLY FLESH-TONED MALE PEOPLE INHERENTLY BETTER? RCMP Goes KKK– “Affirmative action at the RCMP, Jump high whitey, jump high. White boys 115, women 96, visible minorities 86”.. obviously by allowing lightly flesh-toned male persons to show their innate lightly flesh-toned superiority, the RacistCMP has taken on White Power principles and become a form of the SS, though lightly flesh-toned male persons may be forced to serve alongside weak women and weaker minorities. LFtMP Forever! First we take Flin Flon, then Musquodoboit Harbour! Onwards march, cadres of RCMP SturmPolice! Or something like that …. (MaD)

The Horror! The Horror! Rick Mercer: RCMP Boot Camp

Take note: All White Male Instructors. Case closed.

~ A FREE SPEECH TEST in Sudbury: “A perennial fringe candidate faces a police investigation for telling high school students that gays and lesbians should be executed: Police are investigating whether an independent federal candidate committed a hate crime by telling high school students homosexuals should be executed. David Popescu was invited to participate in a federal candidates’ discussion at Sudbury Secondary School yesterday. He made the comment after a student asked his opinion of gay marriage” …. (dp)

~ CANADIAN DOCTORS don’t wash hands? No problem, say Human Rights Commissions …. (fivefeetoffury)

Just A Little Chat

~ NEW-LOOK INQUISITIONS want to call doctors in for a little chat. In a world without objective truth, why should governments recognise a right to conscientious objection? …. (mercatornet)

~ $10,000 FINE IF YOU LEAVE A GARBAGE BIN OUT TOO LONG— British local government tyranny …. (express.co.uk)

~ LINDA Gibbons goes free …. (bluewavecanada.blog)

~ HARD LEFT, or moderate Left, or moderate hard Left.. “Experts agree CBC needs variety of opinions” …. (theglobeandmail.com)

~ ABANDONED STUFF: “Aww, isn’t that cute? The Canadian MSM thinks they are bloggers” …. (abandonedstuff)

~ SOCON ON A Ground Zero Breakthrough …. (socon.ca)

~ SHADES OF ADOLF: Austrian Party That Wants to Bring Back Nazi Imagery Wins Big …. (pajamasmedia)

~ EXPANDING & formalizing the Hallmarks of Hate …. (fd)

~ BRILLIANT STRATEGY! Dion turns to Paul Martin team for debate help; “I’m Stephane Dion and I approve this message. Harper = Bush” …. (cnews.canoe.ca, dmb)

~ PROFESSIONAL Hate with that Boutique touch… BlazingCatFur has a new project! …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ BREAKENRIDGE on Juvenile Journalism …. (am770chqr)

~ DOUG ROSS— “I wonder if Richard Cohen’s gonna put some ice on that?” …. (directorblue.blog)

~ TO BE CLEAR: “Not a hate crime. A crime, period” …. (prowomanprolife.org)

~ CATHOLIC SCHOOLS threatened by hostile secularism, bishop says …. (catholicregister)

~ OPEN-MINDED BC Liberal candidate shows true anti-family colours …. (noapologies.ca)

~ THE GREEN PARTY’S continuing Israel problem: emails and blog posts …. (ws)

~ HAVE HATE will travel: Professional hate with that “Boutique Touch”.. Have Your Hate Your Way – with our CHRC Approved “Hallmarks of Hate Menu“! …. (dailybayonet)

~ SAITH CATFOOD: “Batspit Crazy V: Lesley Hughes Responds…yup still crazy”; Hughes responds …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ SOUND FAMILIAR? Spain’s “Movement Against Intolerance”, Or, How the State Funds the Long March Through the Institutions …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ THE DRUDGE of all work: the promotion of female stereotypes in English composition classes run by those inscribed by patriarchal cliches …. (proteinwisdom)

Rick Mercer Report Election Kids

Via

~ WESTERN STANDARD audio: 9-11 “truther” comes to the defence of former Liberal candidate Lesley Hughes; Lesley Hughes responds …. (ws, ti)

~ PUNDITA: “Financial markets rescue package fiasco: Death comes as the end” …. (pundita.blog)

~ DR. SANITY— The Totalitarian Impulse of the Left; The Clever Psychological Disguises of the Left; Totalitarians, Left and Right …. (drsanity.blog)

~ QUICK PICK… who do the Greens think is a “right wing white supremacist” …. (jaycurrie)

~ CATFURZE— Andrew Potter of the Ottawa Citizen, just another smug, lazy, dead tree media hack… unable to conceal his contempt for ordinary citizens; Mouthbreathing…cleaner than the MSM alternative …. (Various)

JANKE: A Conservative Heat-Seeking Missile?

~ BUT WE’RE ARTEESTS! “Many artists, deep down, want to be aristocrats, to have freedom without responsibility” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ BIASED BEEB decides that Iraq-speech plagiarism mini-scandal is one of the five top stories — in the world; NDP reveals another plagiarism shocker; John Moore: It’s not about plagiarism; Barbara Kay, This blog post comes to you as old-fashioned, certified non-plagiarism …. (Various)

CanadaVotes 2008 Propaganda

~ ANYBODY SEEN or heard from ‘Down With Everybody’, recently? Been gone years, in blog-time– did they get taken out at the knees for their recent hot coverage? …. (dwe)

~ ARGENTINIAN media against Government censorship. Can you imagine? …. (blogfreeworld)

~ US TEXTBOOKS: JESUS WAS A PALESTINIAN! Is he wearing a suicide vest? …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ GREEN PARTY antisemitism: Deluded Jewish audience? Green is the new Anti-Semitism this fall; Green Party responds to new anti-semitism allegations …. (Various)

~ ‘HUMAN’ RIGHTS— Swamps Now Have “Rights” in Ecuador. Literally …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ CONSIDERING the vast immigration problems facing Europe as a whole, and Britain in particular, one is left wondering why some who truly earned their right to live in Britain are forced to jump through hoops in order to stay …. (cjunk.blog)

~ THE FENRIS: “The Lex Gladii” …. (dustmybroom)

~ THE EVIL SPREADS.. “I have joined the Western Standard’s Shotgun Blog” …. (rjjago)

~ DICTATOR-CRUNCHY David Suzuki Lives in an Irony Free Zone; All bow to the Kabuki of Suzuki Samurai …. (dailybayonet, dmb)

“A time is coming when men will go mad,
and when they see someone who is not mad,
they will attack him saying,
‘You are mad, you are not like us’.”

~ St Anthony of Egypt ~

The Obama Syndicate & Palinosis

~ OBAMA’S ASSAULT on the First Amendment– “Stifling political debate with threats of prosecution is not the “rule of law” — it’s tyranny” …. (nro)

~ A LOVELY FELLOW: “In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago’s ACORN to run training sessions in “direct action.” That’s the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called “Ninja” loans – no income, no job, no assets – to people who couldn’t afford them”; ACORN’s senator …. (yahoo.com)

~ DEM DECEIT Hits New Low– “Pro-Life Obama” Website Created …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ CONTENTS LABELLED? Time for “Propagandist Buttons” to identify biased “journalists” on air …. (canadafreepress)

~ IDEOLOGICAL PSYCHOPATHY— Here are two examples of ideological child abuse …. (drsanity.blog)

~ THE DAWNING OF THE Age Of Obama …. (sda)

~ THE UNSPOKEN Campaign Message of Obama …. (americanthinker.com)

Ouch! New Ad Levels Obama on Radical-Terrorist Associations

~ HOW FRIVILOUS, demagogic liberalism caught up with America …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ PAM GELLER— More media on Obama’s Foreign, Illegal Contributions …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ CHURCH & STATE? Pah! Obama Campaign Holds Illegal “Get Out the Muslim Vote” Drive At Swing State Mosques!; New Obama Logo Has Star and Crescent …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ IN FRANCE rioting youths-of-no-particular-description have shot a policeman …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ COLUMNIST needs lesson on what “Stalinist” tactics are …. (michellemalkin)

~ BARBARA KAY— Obama’s language envy …. (barbarakay.ca)

Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Dangerous Pals

~ ‘BAMA WORSHIPPERS— Instapundit: The MSM fix is in; Leadership For the Ages: Memorable Barack Obama Quotes from the Mortgage Crisis of ’08; Slow-motion live-blogging the Mortgage Meltdown …. (directorblue.blog)

~ DEMANDING A SARAH PALIN PRESS CONFERENCE: Sure, bring it on — right after Obama takes questions from Bob Owens, Stanley Kurtz, David Freddoso, the Powerline guys, and Hugh Hewitt on the Bill Ayers/Annenberg business. Oh, and maybe a discussion of his Columbia and Harvard transcripts. Only one candidate is being sheltered from tough press questions with the active complicity of the press …. (nrotc)

~ EVITA, MEET OBAMA! Evita, Meet Obama– Eva Peron, socialist goddess. The children sang …. (girlontheright)

~ HANSON ADDRESSES “The One” — From creepy “cult of personality” to arrogant elitism … The O has it all. The worst part? That he’s this close to running the world power in a critical time …. (cjunk.blog)

~ JUST IMAGINE… “Do not fear these changes! Like other similar socialist leaders and thinkers before him—Marx, Lenin, De Leon, Debs, Trotsky, Chavez, and others—Obama seeks to destroy only the most successful among us. You, as a member of the honorable and patriotic middle-class, will only benefit from these changes so that all Americans can enter the middle-class and all equally receive entitlement from our benevolent Socialist government!” …. (littlegreenfootballs)

World War IV

~ RUSSIA HELPS Venezuela go nuclear: Shaidle’s latest in FrontPage …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ RUSSIAN IMPERIAL warships plan Mediterranean show of strength. Darth Putin pleased …. (theglobeandmail)

Jihad

Islamic Crusades 1: The Occupation of Constantinople

~ LEST WE FORGET— Fourteen Centuries of Jihad Against European Civilization – Fjordman …. (islam-watch.org)

~ KOSOVO: Forced to Convert to Islam Centuries Ago, Albanians Returning to Christianity in Droves …. (Wz)

~ ANDREW BOSTOM— Islam’s Jew-Hating Hadith Matter Today …. (andrewbostom.org)

~ SUSPECTED TERRORIST claims he will be tortured if deported, Canadians blow his brains out …. (dustmybroom)

Islamic Crusades: An Introduction

~ THE ATLAS INTERVIEW: LARS HEDEGAARD, PART II “I doubt that America will wake up for what they are in for in until they’re in for it” …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ TOLERANCE FOR WOMEN— Afghanistan: Most high-profile female police officer, killed in Kandahar …. (blogfreeworld)

~ MUSLIMS offended by terrorist puppet. By Real terrorists? Not so much… “Silence ‘silence I keel you’ — or I kill you”; South Africa Bans “Ahmed the Dead Terrorist” Ringtone, “Created the Impression Muslims Would Kill to get People to be Quiet” …. (fivefeetoffury.com)

~ IRANIAN PARLIAMENT Requires Death for ‘Apostates’ As Crackdown Continues. Son of 1990 martyr among Christians arrested last month …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ MUSLIMS FOR OBAMA: Partisan Political Activity in Mosques …. (lgf)

~ JIHADWATCH— “Secularism is as foreign to Islamic theory as is Sharia law to Americans” …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ CHILD BRIDES In Britain …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ US MUSLIM CONVERT and Misguided Muslim Given 35 Years in Prison for Plotting to Attack Illinois Mall With Grenades …. (Wz)

~ HAMAS DEPUTY Chief Settled U.S. Funding Dispute …. (IVP)

~ DUTCH POLITICIAN Geert Wilders Announces Anti-Jihad Summit to Take Place in Jerusalem This December …. (Wz)

~ JIHAD— Somali jihadists destroy Catholic church. Kenya: “Islamists” attack church in northern town in effort to seize land for mosque …. (JiWa)

~ TAREK FATAH: THE OIC DOES NOT SPEAK FOR MUSLIMS– Muslims Face Greatest “Human Rights” Abuse In Their Own Counties! The OIC does not speak for Muslims, Tarek Fatah address to UN Geneva …. (Various)

~ VERBOTEN BOOK ‘The Jewel of Medina’ future uncertain; UK press largely supportive of ‘The Jewel of Medina’ …. (socialcohesion)

~ THE LOVELY PEOPLE of Al-Qaeda Has Used 24 Children (5 of Them Mentally Disabled) as Suicide Bombers in Iraq in the Last Two Years …. (Wz)

~ TIME IMMORTAL: “Muslim child brides…yet again” …. (timeimmortal)

~ SOMALIA: Islamists Vow to Demolish all Non-Muslim Places of Worship, Replace Them With Mosques. Somalia: Muslim Mob Attacks House Church After Cleric’s Son Converts to Christianity, Women and Children Attacked With Spears and Machetes …. (Wz)

~ FITZGERALD: Uzbekistan and “Islamophobia” …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ EN FRANCAIS— Conférence publique de Point de BASCULE: L’islam politique menace nos libertés – Political Islam : A Threat to Our Freedoms. “À Montréal, jeudi le 2 octobre. Vous êtes invités à entendre Salim Mansur, Tarek Fatah et Raheel Raza, des Canadiens musulmans confrontés à des menaces de mort par d’autres Canadiens musulmans parce qu’ils s’expriment ouvertement sur les dangers de l’islamisme, une idéologie totalitaire déguisée en religion. L’entrée est libre./ You are invited to hear Salim Mansur, Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza, three Canadian Muslims facing death threats by other Canadian Muslims for exposing the dangers of islamism, a totalitarian ideology that wears the mask of religion. Free admission.” 30 septembre, par Marc Lebuis …. (pointdebasculecanada)

~ CAIR’S WAR on “Obsession” Grows, Demands IRS Investigate Tax Exempt Status of Clarion Fund …. (Wz)

~ MUSLIM YOOT DAY at Great Adventure …. (creepingsharia)

~ FITZGERALD: Naomi Wolf and the hijab …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ GEERT WILDERS speech to America, and video interview with Atlas …. (creepingsharia)

~ PAKISTANIS Still Protesting Mohammed Cartoons Three Years Later …. (Wz)

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