Steynianism 39.5

“Constituents of mine brought it up to me recently and they’ve shown me the legal implications of what’s been going on. And I think the debate over freedom of speech must happen in our country and really I think it’s fairly simple. We have hate crimes legislation thankfully in our country. If something is deemed to fall under hate crimes then it should go into a court, it should be dealt with through the courts and be dealt with accordingly. Anything else that is not deemed to be a hate crime people should be allowed to say whether you agree or vehemently oppose it.

Thankfully, we have a country
where we’re allowed to speak our mind.”

— M.P. Keith Martin, Recent Ottawa Scrum

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Speak Out Now, or forever hold your peace!

~ IN THE CORNER: THE GREATEST LIVING CANADIAN– Keith Martin, principled Liberal …. (steynian)

~ THE CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS vs MACLEAN’S: YEAR ZERO IN TRUDEAUPIA– Law in the present tense – plus: Shagadelic, Nazi baby! …. (steynian)

~ A RECENT LETTER to uppity MP Keith Martin, with a reply. Don’t forget to write to Mr. Martin to thank him; to write the PM and MPs in support of Motion M-446, and to spread the word about the situation (and about our website, too) …. (steynian)

~ SOCON.CA— Keep the Pressure On! “Your time and the cost of a few stamps are what is required at this time to keep the pressure on. Free speech may be free but its protection is not.” …. (socon.ca)

~ A CTV VIDEO interview with one of the Elmasry-4, Khurrum Awan, if you didn’t get enough of him saying exactly the same things at the Ryerson Forum …. (CTV.ca)

~ CATHOLIC INSIGHT: “Governments must reform Human Rights Commissions” …. (catholicinsight.com)

~ MP KEITH MARTIN Ottawa scrum on freedom of speech …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ ELMASRY’S CIC: trying to run our Canada for us: “As the Canadian Islamic Congress’s) national executive director in Ottawa, I have met several high government officials, including one cabinet minister, and have clearly communicated our concerns about Canada’s domestic and international issues” …. (toyoufromfailinghands.blog)

~ DR. ROY— “Four young Muslim lawyers dupes of anti-semite Elmasry?” …. (torydrroy.blog)

~ BIG DADDY ELMASRY’S CIC: trying to run our Canada for us: “As the Canadian Islamic Congress’s) national executive director in Ottawa, I have met several high government officials, including one cabinet minister, and have clearly communicated our concerns about Canada’s domestic and international issues” …. (toyoufromfailinghands.blog)

~ SHARES IN Kinsella Gas Nosedive! – Hit new all time low! Babblers & BigCityLib – Two sides of the same. Kinsella – When peevishness clouds your perception of cool …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ WERNER PATEL— Free-thinking spirits: The principle of freedom of speech is being put to the test in Canada — yet again! …. (agoravox)

~ FRESH Mike Brock: Occam’s Questions, My Answers …. (noncogent.blog)

~ LIFESITE: Socially “Progressive” Liberal MP Launches Motion to Stop HRC Abuse …. (lifesite.net)

~ PUNDITA: “Listing of citizen rights violated under administration of Section 13 cases” …. (pundita.blog)

~ THE RELIGION OF PEACE.COM Presents: Is the Qur’an Hate Propaganda? …. (thereligionofpeace)

~ MISS POLITICAL: Important stuff happens in Canada, too …. (misspolitical)

Why doesn’t the Left care about violence
done to women in the Muslim sphere?

~ TALKING BACK to the Youtube Jihad: “Well yes, I do. I am called a kuffar in the Qu’ran. Under Sharia law I would be a blasphemer. I will never submit to your “religion” called Islam and the penalty is death for that” …. (mypetjawa)

~ THE RISE OF MORDOR: Archbishop of Canterbury calls for criminalizing of inadvertently thoughtless speech …. (pundita.blog)

~ FAUX SUFFERING: “Vanderleun has a fascinating post that compares and contrasts the pretensions of the “let’s pretend we’re all oppressed” social elites in America to the real oppression lived through by others, like the proprietor of The People’s Cube, Oleg Atbashian, from the Ukraine”; via …. (Various)

~ A GLEEFUL WARREN— Through the raging snow storm comes word that CBC Radio, Canadian Press, CanWest and the Toronto Star are all asking why a Liberal MP is out to eviscerate the Canadian Human Rights Act. Way to go, CBC, CP, CanWest and Star!” Because as we all know, Warren, what the original framers of the Human Rights Act & Commission meant was precisely your beloved unelected judicial tribunalism crushing the rights & freedoms of ordinary Canadians, and entertaining complaints from the likes of your close, close personal friend, Richard “The Pieman” Warman. Oh– wait: Alan Borovoy says they DIDN’t forsee or want that. Oops. Oh, and did we mention he implies that only Nazis could be really happy over all this? …. (Various)

~ TIME IMMORTAL: “This is the sort of advice that needs to be spoken more often” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ SHAIDLE— Jason Cherniak: Twit. His link. And “Nazi, er, “sympathizer” Johann Hari is extremely confused” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ CIVILIZATIONAL DEATH: Tony Blair’s Britain; and “Pim Fortuyn saw all this coming years ago“…. (sda)

Ezra Items

~ BC LOCAL NEWS: “An erosion of our freedom” …. (bclocalnews.com)

~ TIME IMMORTAL— All things Ezra at the beginning of February; and “Odd bedfellows” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ SOME BOOKS on “You Fascist!” What Fascism is and What Fascism is Not …. (amazon.com)

~ THE SWAG— Ezra-Palooza Continues: Buy Ezra Levant Gear Here, Profits Go To Legal Defense Fund …. (thenoseonyourface)

~ A NEW BOOK— Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong.. by Congressman Jim DeMint, and Professor J. David Woodard– “Our republican form of government depends on a robust exchange of ideas. Liberals and conservatives alike have a stake in keeping that exchange both vigorous and free. Senator Jim DeMint and J. David Woodard boldly challenge the politically correct tendency to restrict speech just where and when we need it most. Why We Whisper is a clarion call to exercise our First Freedoms in a time of moral confusion. Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council” Buy via Amazon, through the Shaidle …. (Various)

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