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Things being the way they are in Trudeaupia, one day Richard ("I'm not a Nazi, I just play one on the Internet") Warman will be an Officer of the Order of Canada, if not Governor-General. So I would like it on the record that he is out of his tree. The Ottawa Citizen called him up seeking a reaction to the Moon Report, and this is what Dame Lucy warned would happen if Section 13 were repealed:
"There would be a far greater number of people calling for the genocide of their neighbours, without any real threat of being held accountable," Richard Warman said.
Hyperbolic, moi? Was there a big problem with calls for neighbourly genocide before Section 13 existed? Is neighbourly genocide a pressing concern in Canada, or just an utterly preposterous threat that Dame Lucy has managed to turn into a lucrative hobby? He continues:
"It would mean a complete gutting of Canada's commitment to fight hate speech and the ability of citizens to take action when the state refuses to, or can't, fulfil its obligations."
"The ability of citizens to take action"? That "s" on the end of "citizens" must be a typing error. Only one individual citizen has taken action under Section 13, and served as a complainant on every case before the Tribunal in the last six years: Richard Warman. Section 13 is Warman's Law. The remaining 30 million Canadians have no need of it. In America, his 100 per cent share of the Section 13 market would be the subject of an anti-trust investigation. But, even in Canada, the fact that only one "citizen" ever uses Section 13 tells you how necessary it is to the Queen's peace.
What a vainglorious twerp this cardboard hero is. Without Lucy to hold them "accountable", Canadians' deeply ingrained urge to perpetrate genocide on their neighbours would be given full rein. Only he stands between poor little you at 27 Strathcona Gardens and the genocidal maniac at Number 29.
As readers know, I'm not a believer in "hate speech" laws, but it's hard not to conclude that Mr Warman's words are, indeed, "hate speech", implying a profound hatred for Canadians, and one (as he would say) likely to expose them to contempt. Taken with Bernie Farber's ever more frantic insistence that, without Section 13, Canadians would be itching to perpetrate a new Holocaust on their Jewish compatriots, it's not hard to see who the real haters are in this debate. Well-connected political busybodies who've elevated contempt for their fellow citizens into an ideology are a bigger threat to the peaceable kingdom than any two-bit loser with a website.
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