Steynianism 48.0

On Steyn & Levant:

“There should be a very heavy burden of proof on any effort to restrict freedom of speech. I strongly oppose the measures you describe. I do not think the burden of proof is even approached, let alone met. In this respect I agree with the US Supreme Court, which, in the 1960s, set what i think is a proper standard for protection of freedom of speech.”

~ Noam Chomsky ~

WSTV: Mark Steyn on Martin’s bill

~ REMEMBER your actionables: write, call , speak out, letters to the editor (and remember to mention the url FreeMarkSteyn.com in all of them). The ‘Echo-Chamber’ effect of the blogosphere is not enough to bring about real-world change. It’s our country, and our freedom to lose. Get to work. And remember MP Keith Martin, too …. (FreeMarkSteyn.com)

~ ANGLICAN Archbishop Forgets Last Three Millennia of Struggle for the Rule of Law. In other news, A Muslim woman replies to the Archdhimmi of Canterbury.. “Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: What he wishes on us is an abomination“; Archbishop, with sharia it’s all or nothing; and wisdom from KraalSpace: “Away, slight man“…. (trinitariandon.blog)

~ FRESH STEYN on Barney Rubble: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make defend Section 13. Unlike Ezra Levant and I, who are famously “against human rights“, Warren Kinsella is a crusader for the rights of minorities and the vulnerable and a champion of progressive values” …. (SteynOnline)

~ STEYN SAYS MUSLIMS WILL DRINK YOUR BLOOD! Elmo’s sock puppets are back with more desperate misrepresentation – plus the puppeteer himself …. (torontosun, Macleans, gyapong)

~ CHOMSKY ON THE STEYN AND LEVANT CASES: Really. But Alan Shanoff says relax, and Mark Milke wonders what about treason? …. (rjjago.wordpress.com, canada.com)

~ THE UMBRAGE INDUSTRY: Michael Coren on the liberal censors – and Omar Soliman on the “right to offend” ideologues; plus: Terrence Watson weighs in …. (Various)

~ STEYN— “The little mosque that couldn’t: We’re so boundlessly tolerant we tolerate endless dreary shows about how intolerant we are” …. (macleans.ca)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS on Rowan Williams: Dhimmi or Just Dim? “The man doesn’t even have the courage of his lack of convictions. Far from defending what he actually said about sharia law, the Archbishop of Canterbury is fighting to save his job by frantically back-tracking and claiming he has been misunderstood” …. (spectator.co.uk)

~ SHOTGUN BLOG “Do people have a right not to be offended? Should hate speech be tolerated in law? When does hate speech constitute a physical threat? What about defamation? Do we really own our reputations? It’s been a great discussion, but we missed something – treason” — “In today’s Calgary Herald, Mark Milke writes: “The public debate on that concept, including whether it should be robustly resuscitated in public policy, law, and punishment, has not yet begun.” …. (Various)

~ THE SOCKPUPPETS: “Group seeks an extreme makeover of labels – By NASEEM MITHOOWANI, KHURRUM AWAN AND MUNEEZA SHEIKH” …. (torontosun)

~ THE CURIOUS AFFINITY Of The Left For Islamism, Explained. And “Some Of My Best Friends Are Lawyers“; and Tort Wielding Mob? “In Islamabad, police battled with hundreds of lawyers…” …. (The Kate)

~ THE GYAPONG: “O Canada, the land where all the big debates are settled!” And worth a re-read: “Where’s the beef?” …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SELF-MARTYRING VICTIM Warren “Bathroom Stall” Kinsella quits National Post— but for how long? Or is he being hired on somewhere for the Liberal Election War-Room as a dirty-trickster, and is choosing to bow-out as a bit of free publicity? Hard to say with this one: he’s like an onion– many layers, all of which make any normal person cry. There’s what he says; then, what he wants you to think; and of course there’s what he wants you to think he thinks; then there’s how what he thinks and wants you to think and wants you to think he think makes him look. For he’s a mysterious, sophisticated, complicated, dangerous man is our secret agent, backroom operater, baffroom Nazi-buster, and eminence grise Warren “The Fixer” Kinsella. In other news, “Learn to argue the Warren Kinsella Way” ™! …. (Various)

~ DAVID WARREN: “…a vote for Obama is a vote for Osama” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ NOT THAT Mark Steyn is being proved correct by forbidden facts and reality-based research, or anything, but demographicwinter.com …. (socon.ca, demographicwinter.com)

~ SOCON.CA— The New Rome & The Coming Economic and Demographic Collapse; More Quashing of Free Speech; More Gay indoctrination at school for your children …. (Various)

~ EPHEMERIS: “Just So We Hit All the Sore Spots” …. (myephemeris.blog)

~ WARREN KINSELLA hopes Omar Soliman will be Prime Minister some day. Soliman certainly has an impressive resume, but his recent attack on what he calls the “right to offend” movement is badly flawed …. (shotgun)

~ BOOK LIST— Reclaiming Honor in Jordan: A National Public Opinion Survey on “Honor” Killings”, by Ellen R. Sheeley. Shhhh! “UK police: 17,000 victims of “honor”-related violence every year” …. (amazon.com)

Ezra News Links

~ FRESH EZRA— Defamation and blogs; “Be not afraid!“; and “Lionel Hutz alert!” And remember: ‘Announcing the Union of Bloggers” …. (ezralevant.com)

 

~ CULTURAL “Climate Change” Watch …. (5fof)

~ LIBEL CHILL In Blogger Land: Have you, as a blogger, been threatened with a specious Libel Suit? “Never Give In” – The Union Of Bloggers …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ TART CIDER: “I’m not sure I’ve seen Kinsella or Levantsteyn’s other opponents really propose a solution to that problem at all. Kinsella, for one, just seems to prefer the status quo because the Criminal Code prohibitions against hate speech are so infrequently used that they “may as well not even exist”—that is, they offer insufficient protection to the Canadians who ostensibly need it. But that’s glossing over a different problem, surely” …. (tartcider.com)

~ CANADIAN Louise Arbour and human rights– “In an unprecedented reversal, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has backed off from her earlier endorsement of an Arab text calling for the “elimination” of Zionism”, all thanks to the busy bad people @ website …. (DhiWa)

~ THE SHAIDLE ASKS.. “If you can’t yell ‘death to Jews’ in an Irish pub, where can you?” And “A Jihad for Love”: documentary about gay Muslims” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ KATE @ SDA: “Sinister Looking Man Who Posted Swastikas To Website: No longer employed by Jew run* media” …. (sda)

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