I'm loving this government. First the long gun registry is up for death by uselessness. Then the CWB loses it's monopsony power to jail our western farmers. They of course, like any good lefties, are whining to the courts, with our tax dollars. Violent criminals might actually get enough time in jail to understand that they did something wrong, thanks to a crime bill the lefties can't stand, because those poor, poor criminals didn't really mean to rape that women, or shoot that kid. Now, the next piece has fallen into place, the striking of the offensive section 13 from the HRC book of tricks. No longer will people get persecuted for free speech because someone is "offended"!
The problem for censorshipminded activists is that proving hate speech in court is hard. Courts tend to abridge Charter rights such as freedom of expression only in the most extreme cases. It is unlikely that an antiimmigration screed on the Internet or a controversial editorial cartoon would prompt a real judge to shut down a website or fine a blogger. That's why most activists prefer to rely on Sec. 13 of the CHRA and its provincial counterparts (which should also be written out of the law), instead of the criminal code.
Now, real judges will hear real cases of hate speech, not the biased HRC employees. Now, a blogger stating their opinion on an issue will not have to worry about being hauled before the HRC for someone with "hurt" feelings. Kudos to this government for acting on this issue. Now, if "Red Ali" wants to keep Conservative votes, she will get rid of this odious section in Alberta's HRC, but I'm not holding my breath, not with what I have seen of her so far.
Twice in one day, Susan Cole goes on FOX News and disgraces Canada. That means over 40 million Americans now know how stupid she is, and they think ALL Canadians are just like her.
Bill O'Reilly totally makes her look like a fool, but I bet she is such a leftard that she thinks she did a good job.
Someone should ask her if she was okay with the Jewish Hate Week that the UofO just had. A Houle and Cole make a good pair, both think only lefties should have free speech in Canada.
Most interesting is this actual clip of the Muslim who asked Ann a question:
Now Ann was being nice until the lefties in the audience kept shouting "answer the question", so she did. Some interesting details about that innocent little 17 year old Muslim girl have since come to light:
Fatima Al Dhaher that poor thing who was offended by Ann Coulter's camel comment, just happens to be a fan of a Facebook group that offends everyone - It's Called Palestine Not Israel!
Dear Fatima, Gotcha sweety even though you have deleted the reference to your little hate group;)
Update: Frumpy has a pic of the outraged Muslima reading her "question" to Ann Coulter from a blackberry, leading me to suspect that like the Maclean's sockpuppets this kid did not act uninstructed.
Funny, it seems she joined a HATE group! But she is a victim? A victim of her own stupidity maybe, but that's all our fault!
I am getting sick and tired of minorities yelling at us taxpayers about how hard done by they are and then finding out that we have been scammed. How about we de-fund the University of Ottawa, and make these radical students pay their own way. Ann was right, she should start wearing a burka, that would make the lefties crazy. You can not in Canada attack the Muslim faith, no matter how many honour killings occur in the name of their faith.
I wonder if FOX picked the most rabid lefty they could find to show Americans what might happen to their country in a few years under Obama.
If her baby was pro-choice, it would be dead, but she is too stupid to realize that.
Free speech for them, but none for the presenter. Within 2 sentences of this pro-life speech, anti-free speakers rose up and disrupted a speech.
WHY? It was in support of death. Don't bother watching more than 2 minutes of the whole two hours. It was about some juvenile protesters subverting the rights of a speaker on pro-life. Anyone remember this photo?
Take my hand, not my life.
The parents did everything they could to save their baby. The baby reached out it's tiny little hand to grasp the surgeons fingers. This is a stunning and inspirational picture. A tiny little life is saved.
Those protesters on Youtube want death and their fifteen minutes of fame. They want women to choose, but not life. Abortion good, baby bad. I "suspect" like global warming is "maybe" happening, that most women who support abortion have had one themselves. A BABY is not a maybe happening in 2050. It is a fact, and lefties just can't handle facts. That's why they still scream about abortion, even though Canada allows women to kill their babies up to and including birth. Why are they protesting, they have EVERYTHING THEY WANT!!!!! These little hussies are free to have all the sex they want, and they can have all the TAXPAYER paid abortions they want. SO, why are they disrupting this lecture? Why do they need to even bother? THEY HAVE WON YEARS AGO!! If they want their baby killed at 40 weeks, it's legal in Canada, so why try to suppress free speech on the issue? GUILT!
We are the only developed country I know of that allows full term 40 week old babies to have their brains bashed in, sucked out and dumped into a bin. That is just so sickening that the pro-choice idiots don't want us to see it. They want us to think that abortion is just a minor inconvenience. Freedom of speech, only for these a&&holes, not for the actual speaker.
Funny McGill gets federal government funding, my tax dollars, to operate, maybe I should withdraw my tax dollars because I think this "institution" is in need of medical and educational reform. Free speech? My tax dollars say go ahead, speak all you want, just not on my dime. Oh, if you little McGill flakes don't like that, how about you come work in the oil patch in Alberta? HA!
These little "my body, my right to kill" idiots, think they have something to do with equality for women, when they themselves are advocating killing the most innocent of all, babies. They yell about seals being killed with a bullet, but, a human baby chopped into pieces, is okay with them. Sickos. Seriously, it has nothing to do anymore with woman's rights, they could have the baby and give it up for adoption if they wanted, but that is just too "inconvenient" for them. The ones who yell loudest are those who are most guilty.
Here is their evidence of why women need to kill their babies....
In Remembrance: Women Who Died from Illegal and Unsafe Abortions
Clara Bell Duvall Dec. 23, 1896 - March 27, 1929
Ruth Irene Friedl Aug. 24, 1901 - Aug. 21, 1929
Vivian Campbell December 12, 1925 - May 6, 1950
Geraldine Santoro August 16, 1935 - June 8, 1964
Rosie Jimenez 1950 - Oct. 3, 1977
Becky Bell August 24, 1971 - Sept. 16, 1988
Wow, so back in 1988 as the last example, a women died from a back street abortion. Ladies, it's 2009, soon to be 2010, time to find a new cause. Feminists are just sooo 1980's.
Look ladies, you have the PILL now, it is 99.98% effect at preventing pregnancy, or you have the Morning after pill...that you can take it the morning after if you aren't too lazy to get your sore butt out of bed. Are you too STUPID to understand the instructions? You have no excuse to have an abortion. This is not 1929 or even 1988, even if you get pregnant there is no social stigma anymore.
These McGill protesters are stuck on stupid, are they your children? Maybe it is time to cut them off of child welfare, parent style. They are so immature, they think they are important and making a point. They sadly have no point to make, except hate for a position they do not agree with. They silence free speech, and think they have won. What intellectual dumbbells, maybe McGill should rethink these students eligibility.
Next they will be protesting a bad mark from their professor. They are just that limited in their thinking.
“I got into work, I was met by my supervisor and told that there had been multiple complaints, that people found the flag very offensive and it had been taken down," McLucas told FOXNews.com.
"I went to the office to retrieve it and found the flag wrapped around the pole, sitting in the corner on the ground. I was speechless."
McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, had displayed the 3-by-5-foot flag in the office she shares with the hospital’s three other supervisors. McLucas said one of her colleagues, a woman who immigrated to the United States from Africa 14 years ago, complained about the flag to upper management, and the hospital decided to take down the flag.
"I was told that as long as my flag offended one person, it would be taken down," McLucas said.
Funny how one complaint can have that much power. Political correctness totally disrespects our freedom of speech. Even my Friday funnies got attacked today because I had some jokes about rednecks.
We also had Ralph Goodale and his sidekick Jennings yapping about tar babies being racist. I think Ralph got confused and thought Pierre was referring to those black licorice candies called "n**ger toes". We of course don't call them that anymore, but Ralph is getting up there in years so maybe he can be forgiven, but for Jennings to use her blackness to call someone racist, just lowers the bar for what is true racism, she should know better.
It's getting so bad, you can't even pray together anymore!
Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.
"On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county." David Jones told FOX News.
"We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all," Jones said.
A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited "unlawful use of land," ordering them to either "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit," the couple's attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.
The lefties attack free speech and religion because it doesn't agree with their tiny little minds, no room in there for thought nor the ability to understand different viewpoints. Progressives, those who understand only their point of view. Ban Bible studies but allow swingers clubs? Right, that probably makes sense to a progressive, because morals are to be sneered at and denigrated.
If I say lefties trolls are "offensive" and I want them removed from my blog, do you think the HRC's would hear my case? HA!
This ruling by an Ontario judge needs to be taken out into the light. You can be tracked down and sued, even if you are an anonymous commenter on a site! Funny what got me looking into this was an incident today when a faux commenter took over the name of a very frequent poster on this site. They were able to do this by registering their name as Wilson, with a capital W, as opposed to the real poster, wilson. This led to some confusion at first but the fake poster was quickly exposed.
What if I can monitor IP addresses of my posters and someone posts something offensive to someone reading the comments? The ruling this judge just brought down says that I must reveal the information and IP address I have for the poster, during discovery. In other words, if I understand it correctly, before any evidence has been presented that the posting was in fact offensive. This is not the HRC's that have made this ruling, it is a real judge in a real court case. Check out the details here.
An Ontario court has ordered the owners of the FreeDominion.ca to disclose all personal information on eight anonymous posters to the chat site. The required information includes email and IP addresses. The case arises from a lawsuit launched by Richard Warman, the anti-hate fighter, against the site and the posters. The court focused heavily on the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure, which contain a strong duty of disclosure on litigants.
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According to the defendants in the case, they are unsure if they have the resources to appeal. This particular decision feels like a judge anxious to order to disclosure, despite the weight of authority that provides some measure of privacy protection for anonymous posters. Indeed, the public policy issue is characterized as "we are dealing with an anti-hate speech advocate and Defendants whose website is so controversial that it is blocked to employees of the Ontario Public Service." Leaving aside the fact that sites blocked to employees of the Ontario Public Service is not much of a threshold (Facebook is blocked to the OPS), the public policy issue is not the merits of the particular website. Rather, it is the privacy and free speech rights of the posters to that site.
This should concern all bloggers and posters of all political stripes. You can post something on-line, and according to this ruling, the site you posted it on will be forced by law to give out your IP address. It also sounds like a site being hosted in the US will not protect you.
Now, I do have a site meter that records the last 100 IP addresses of everyone who accesses this site, but I do not keep those addresses and they are not the full IP address, so I couldn't track anyone down even if I wanted to. I would imagine that blogger.com does keep some sort of record, I'm not sure about it though. Maybe someone more computer savvy would know.
The point. No blogger or poster to a blog site is safe from an individual who's feelings have been hurt by someone who reads your comments. If that doesn't scare you, I bet you were busy listening to banned foreigner Galloway and screaming about his right to free speech, forgetting that here, in our own country, those freedoms are being taken away by HRC's and now judges!
This is an individual that didn't like comments made about him on a conservative website, and he has now taken the owners of the site to court. That is not enough for him though, he is going after anonymous posters who posted comments about him as well. The judge has ruled that those anonymous posters have no right to privacy, even though no ruling against them has yet been made by that judge. It appears that the HRC's have crept into the real courts and influenced real judges.
Don't think it couldn't happen to you because you are anonymous. It appears you have NO right to be anonymous anymore!
We hear "my body, my choice" constantly from the feminists. They yell and scream that we can not take choice away from women because it is their right to decide what they do with their body. Soon, parents in Alberta can take up this cry: My Kids, My Choice! How can the lefties argue against us, they would have to argue against their own arguments.
Power to the parents. Changes to Alberta human rights law will likely include more than just protecting free speech.
Parental rights are also said to be a part of the makeover.......
It would entrench the rights of parents to decide what their children will and will not be taught in school.
Though there is some coverage of this issue under existing rules governing schools, the decision of parents would now be recognized as a fundamental human right.
Parents would be given the opportunity to opt their kids out of instruction surrounding human sexuality, sexual orientation and other lessons counter to a family's religious convictions.
Details obviously still need to be worked out as to how all this would work.
I wonder how the teachers union is going to like this little development. Personally, because my kids are in the Catholic school system, I am comfortable with what they teach. Tolerance is part of the curriculum, but it's not reduced to being tolerant of just one group such as gays. Religion is also a component of their education, and prayers are allowed, they even have Priests come in for special celebrations. I know many families that are not Catholic who send their children to Catholic schools because of the quality of education.
I would not want for my children to be forced to remain in a class that is teaching something contrary to my beliefs, such as abortion as an option for birth control. I have explained abortion to my boys, and you can bet that the words "my body, my choice" did not enter into the discussion. Taking responsibility for your actions and understanding the consequences of those actions was high on the discussion list. I want the choice to be mine when it comes to what my kids are learning over and above the 3 R's. So I applaud Minister Blackett for bringing this issue back into the control of parents. "My kids, my choice". This is going to drive the lefties crazy, especially because it sounds like Blackett is no pushover.
"When we ran as a party in the last election we ran on family values, we ran on families and communities. That's what the premier led the last election on," says Blackett.
"As a government we talk about safe communities and all the members who make up that. At the core, has to be parents in the household."
............"Alberta is the most tolerant province in the country but we still get this redneck label," says the minister, who is also responsible for the province's cultural policy.
"In fact we're more open to things. We don't want them thrown in our face necessarily but we're open. We're tolerant. Just because we don't have a gay pride parade with 50,000 people in it, does that make us less tolerant? No. Absolutely not."
Blackett also repeats his commitment to free speech while opposing those who stir up hateful acts.
"If you have an opinion you have the right to have your opinion and somebody has the right to have the contrary opinion and they both have the right to be heard. And, you know, sometimes you just have to suck it up and have a little bit more faith in the tolerant Albertans we are.
"We want to move past the hurt-feeling stage. But we want to emphasize that those people who deliberately incite hatred, they're not going to be tolerated. If you're going to do that, you should be punished to the full extent of the law.
"There's no reason we should tolerate a swastika on a synagogue. There's no reason we should tolerate a burning cross anywhere."
This human rights debate is going to push some people's buttons. But, to his credit, Blackett does not wimp out when democracy gets messy.
"I have a 10-year-old and an eight-year old kid and I don't know how long I'm going to be in politics. For the time I'm here, I will always be able to look my kids in the eye and tell them I did the best I could and I made a difference. So I've got to go at it full-bore.
"The human rights stuff has been neglected for 12 years because people were too afraid to tackle the issue. But if you take a common-sensical approach and think what it means to your family and your community and look through that lens, the decisions are real easy to make."
We'll see how easy in the coming weeks.
With a huge majority, the legislation will pass. It looks like the lefties might have just met their match with this Minister! Free speech AND parental choice? Am I dreaming? I need more information, but from the sounds of it, my support is with what this Minister and what the government is trying to accomplish. Maybe my email to the Premier had an impact!
