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The Attorney-General's memorandum is a grim read, wallowing in Orwellian bilge such as this:
History teems with examples of times when lies, distortions and propaganda empowered groups like the Nazis to repress speech.
In other words, we need to "repress speech" because otherwise someone worse will come along and "repress speech". This horrible report is the product of a supposedly "Conservative" government but reads like the most cobwebbed cliches of any campus Marxist. Deborah Gyapong writes:
I feel like a coup d'etat has taken place and I have awakened to the aftermath.
And this egregious affront to civil rights and to the freedom to speak the truth in Canada is being perpetuated now by the Conservative government.
Woe is us. I have this awful, awful feeling that we're too late. The war has been won by the other side and there are just mopping up operations left...
I had a similar feeling on the TV Ontario show. At one point I looked across at the Sock Puppet Three and thought: It's not about who wins the argument. They're the future of this country, and that's that. Kathy Shaidle adds:
What a difference twenty years makes. And we have liberal self-aggrandizing bathroom Nazi hunters and cowardly, careerist Conservative hacks to thank for this, not just arrogant, ignorant Muslim belligerents.
Those of you who've been placing your trust and hope in electoral party politics -- and not just on this issue -- are deluded. By all means continue to write letters and sign petitions, but bear in mind that they will mostly be either ignored or will not be able to change the minds of a sufficient number of time serving cowards.
In June, the first Canadian Islamic Congress complaint comes before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Shortly thereafter we will lose and Maclean's will appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench or whatever it's called. And at that point every Rob Nicholson type in the Canadian parliament will be able to say: "Well, I gather these matters are presently before the courts, so it would be inappropriate for me to comment." And that will be that.
The cravenness is not even self-serving. The Trudeaupianization of the state is one reason why Conservatives wind up fighting every election within a Liberal frame. The policing of speech exemplified by Section 13 is a big part of that: it ensures that difficult issues can only be discussed within the parameters of "Liberal values". So the Nicholson brief doesn't even make sense even in terms of self-preservation. But for now it's the only public position a Conservative government is willing to take, and it condemns Canada to restraints on liberty incompatible with a free society.
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