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...and, to be honest, I wish he'd stayed in the Witness Protection Program instead of unleashing 50 pages of sentimental and ahistorical twaddle:
The triumphs of Fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany through audaciously false propaganda have shown us how fragile tolerant, liberal societies can be.
No Canadian who had a proper respect for the history of his country could write that sentence. Which is why it alone is a good example of why we need free speech. Nobody who gave it ten minutes' study would think that the Dominion of Canada, one of the oldest, peacefully evolved, constitutional democracies on the planet, is as "fragile" as the Weimar Republic or the Kingdom of Italy. So the most obvious "audaciously false propaganda" on display there is from the audaciously false propagandists on the Justice Department payroll. As to the general accuracy of the thesis, see my Maclean's piece on the proto-Trudeaupian "hate" laws of pre-Hitler Germany.
Ezra Levant dismantles the Nicholson Report pretty thoroughly. What he doesn't address is how the government's "audaciously false propaganda" strikes the fellows suing him and Maclean's and now The Halifax Chronicle. If you were Elmasry and his Sock Puppets, wouldn't you read the Justice Department's nonsense and feel the wind at your back?
Next month the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, encouraged by the squish Nicholson and the polytechnic lite-Marxists his department "consults", will take unto itself the right to micro-regulate the content of Canada's oldest and biggest-selling news weekly. It will, thus, reward the "audaciously false propagandists" of the Canadian Islamic Congress for their thuggery. Kathy Shaidle is "pissed off", and you can see why. As I always say, the CIC lawsuits objecting to America Alone's thesis in fact confirm it - that in the long run free societies are at risk not from fellows flying planes into skyscrapers but from a misbegotten alliance between the likes of the CIC and bovine western "progressives" only too willing to sign away ancient liberties.
I don't know why any self-respecting person would want to work in the "journalistic" environment Nicholson and Co are creating, a world in which audacious propagandists will be free to use "human rights" courts as a threat to browbeat the press into serving as spineless pliable propagandists. Personally, I'd rather be Eliot Spitzer's hooker. The principles are the same, but the hourly rates are higher.
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