This blog is a special project to link to resources, news-stories, and actions concerning the current troubles of journalist Mark Steyn, under attack from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and an Islamic Advocacy group, the Canadian Islamic Congress.
Free speech is not optional in a free society.
Freedom is not free.
~ SIGN THE PETITION! “A Free Dominion Against the HRCs.” Via. Official petition discussion. Here are more actionables.
~ Mark Steyn/Maclean’s support buttons for your blog (Collect All Three!) via The Conservative Hipster – FACEBOOKERS: “Defend Free Speech in Canada – the case of Mark Steyn” — sign on now!
~ THE BEST RESPONSE? Support Macleans magazine in their defense of free speech against their current adversaries …. (Macleans)
~ STEYN: Fearmongering Islamophobe speaks… Presumably the Canadian Islamic Congress will be suing this guy, too. And “The enforcers” …. (nrotc)
~ THE TEXT of the Canadian Human Rights act is here; the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is here …. (FYI)
~ ‘LAW IS COOL‘ or something like that– lots of remarkable recent anti-Steynianism there. Quite a site, don’t’cha think? It pays to read all sides of an issue. Do heck out the comments section, and contribute, if you feel called to do so (no rants, please). This is the guy who apparently thinks I’m actually secretly Mark Steyn, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, and that I (Mark-I, not the real I) started this block to defend myself as Mark-I. Or.. something like that. Now: call not-Mark-me a fogey, but aren’t cool law-loving lawyers supposed to live up to a higher standard of evidence and proof, as professional law-persons? And disrespecting WebElves (is that a hate-crime? Oh darn— I’m not a recognizable group since I lost all that weight a while back). Just asking …. (rightwingnews)
~ ANOTHER ISLAMOPHOBE— Stand By Steyn. By: Robert Spencer– “Is the Canadian Human Rights Commission justified in penalizing a non-Muslim for reporting the rhetoric of Muslims?” …. (Frontpage)
~ A STEYNIAN COMMENTS: Here’s a webpage with useful information on the CIC lawsuit against Maclean’s. It’s run by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS). Link: SAFS’s statement on the issue is here: Thanks, Steph! …. (safs)
~ JASON KENNY on CIC/Steyn; Elmasry Defends Hezbollah Terrorists …. (kafircanada.blog)
~ THE AGGRIEVED: These guys are studying to be lawyers? “I shudder to think that these men will ever practice law in Canada. They seem determined to misunderstand the character and import of Canada’s constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and the press” …. (magicstatistics)
~ MARK IS PRE-DOOMED— “No Defendant Has Ever Won” at the CHRC Kangaroo-courts, where a conservative person is obviously guilty until proven guilty (at tax-payer’s expense). A fair trial, and then the hanging, as they say …. (belmont.blog)
~ MAGISTATS— Free Mark Steyn! “It’s a groundswell; no, it’s a movement!” …. (magicstatistics)
~ PONDERING THE Conspiracy Theory, by Mark P. Shea …. (insidecatholic)
~ REFORMED PASTOR: Growing Repression in the Frozen North …. (reformedpastor)
~ SHAIDLE: “First thing we do, let’s give all the lawyers spell check”; Magazine apologizes, averts HRC complaint;”Free speech is not a human right in Canada” …. (rightwingnews)
~ PAUL TUNS: “Human rights commission strikes again”.. support Catholic Insight against the forces of Shut Up. Saith Tuns: “It doesn’t matter whether you agree with Catholic Insight, it matters whether you believe we have the right to disagree with one another” …. (soberingthoughts.blog)
~ SHOTGUN— Faceoff: Watch Your Mouth! Should freedom of speech extend to those who spread hatred? Western Standard’s apology averts Islamic protest …. (shotgun, canada.com)
~ KRAALSPACE: The Titmice are still squeaking …. (kraalspace.blog)
~ NEXT UP AGAINST THE WALL: Canadian Catholic mag targeted by Human Rights Commission …. (shaidle)
~ MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT: “Western Standard responds to new human rights complaint” …. (shotgun)
~ SMALL DEAD ANIMALS: “The Richard Warman Conundrum.. Try your luck with this Skill Testing Question” …. (smalldeadanimals)
~ IN RELATED NEWS, The Steamroll continues. Liberals show their true colours re: petition. Revolt against the Star Chamber …. (socon.ca)
~ KAFIR CANADA: Islamic Circle of North America …. (kafircanada.blog)
~ ONE MORE EPICYCLE: “The recent attempt by several members of the Canadian Islamic Congress to silence the inimitable Mark Steyn — not by disproving his thesis that because of demographics Islam is on the way up, of course, but by charging him with blasphemy before the Inquisition — enrages and disturbs on every level” …. (onemoreepicycle)
~ PRYDAIN— A very important subject: “Free Mark Steyn” and freedom of speech in Canada …. (prydain)
~ REVISIT— Stifling Mark Steyn, part III: Fight back …. (michellemalkin)
~ JUST GO AND RE-READ THIS GOLD— “This is the saddest and most pathetic thing I have ever heard.” …. (smalldeadanimals)
~ HERE COMES the InstaLanche.. greetings to all the new visitors! Thanks to the other linkers, too …. (instapundit)
~ O, THE CLUELESS WHO SAY clueless things– Mark Steyn did not start this blog. I did. Binky, High Lord WebElf of Classical Christian bloggers, author of the WebElf Report, and before that 
(since 1998) the CaNN (Classical Anglican Net News) and so on. So there. Neener neener neener. Get over it. Mark Steyn isn’t a jewish name, so it’s not one of those infernal international Zionistical cabal things, either. Mr. Steyn isn’t paying me in books, tees, mugs, enviro-bags, tea-cosies, or even those seductive Anglican chicken dinners. In fact, we’ve never chatted, even by e-mail. Surely the conspirazoids can work out something less lame than “The All-Powerful Steyn Did It”. I mean READ THE BLOG, people: I’m not even worthy to wipe The Steyn’s pen, when it comes to writing ability. Maybe.. just MAYBE I’m supporting Mr. Steyn because I’m a conservatively-minded old-style liberal and loyal Canadian, who believes in the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion (something else under attack by the CHRC & the legions of malcontents who want illegitimate and undue power over others), in the face of the global religious war with theofacism now underway. Just maybe? …. (Various)
A Swift Sunrise 
I don’t think anyone who refers to themself as High Lord WebElf of Classical Christian bloggers can be taken seriously; it’s sufficient to attribute the site to his fan base, and personally endorsed by him.
Ouch! Dear Omar– I can’t be taken seriously: just all the top-flight content I’m offering. Even gave you a linkback (see above).
Hey lawiscool,
You’re really not that cool after all. I went there after you’d banned all comments so I left this in the next thread:
” It’s quite fitting that you closed comments on the Steyn post. You remind me of this:
“Labour today is so deeply anti-creative, so organically and instinctually lacking in any positive impulses, that it actually likes banning things or people, for its own sake. It’s motto is: accentuate the negative. To ban, to boycott, to embargo, to exclude, blacklist, close down, shut up, silence, censure – these are the things which now come naturally to it, perhaps the only things it really knows how to do.”–Paul Johnson
Good luck with your careers in Book Burning.
Nazis.”
I checked back while later and you were claiming that it wasn’t censorship to ban comments. I wrote:
You are right; it is not censorship to ban comments here–that is merely lame and effeminate.
What is deeply offensive is your wish for Mr. Steyn to be incarcerated, a refreshing call to create real political prisoners (as opposed to the thugs who shoot cops in the back and then write a kid’s coloring book.)
Surely this site originates in Saudi Arabia or some other human rights hell-hole. You simply can’t be related to those people who fought at Normandy or today in Afghanistan.
What you are doing is not law, but anti-law, “The two lines above my name” as Saddam put it.
Merry Whatever It Is You Believe In , my Nartzees of the North Opinion-Police.”
I also see that you have the MSM programming trick which allows you to delete comments without it being known to the commentor. Nice try, Future Show-Trial Lawyers of Canada.
Saith Binks: Caught with their proverbial pants down. Well done, then!
Yo, LawisCool: Don’t mess with what you obviously know nothing about. The Binkster is The Man in Classical Anglican circles, a Seriously Cool Dude whose work on behalf of historic Christianity has been exemplary, and whose Web work has been a delight for countless readers over the last several years. So there!
Saith Binks: Your check is in the mail, Dave-old-buddy.
Hopefully it will get here before the America Express bill! 🙂