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In the dying moments of our Socktastic Sockquidation Socktacular, I'd like to thank all the folks who swung by in these past 23-plus hours to buy a book, CD, mug or T-shirt and help support Ezra Levant, a great fighter for freedom. Fittingly enough, our biggest-selling item today was the SteynOnline Free Speech Special, containing three books - my own Lights Out, Ezra's Shakedown, and Kathy Shaidle & Pete Vere's Tyranny Of Nice - that the state censorship lobby doesn't want you to read.
I've been immensely heartened by the support for Ezra from all corners of the globe, from Finland to the Philippines, from Sydney to Sao Paulo, from Monte Carlo to Moose Jaw. Tomorrow we'll announce the winners of our special prizes, but for tonight's closing remarks I like what the Closet Conservative says:
I think there are several lessons to be learned from this event... Ezra Levant, Canadian Zhooooo Extraordinnaire publishes Danish Mohammadoodles, gets investigated by Kanadian Kangaroo Kourts, and then posts his interrogation on the intertubes and BAM! Support and donations roll in from all over the world.
Steyn, from his Secret American Lair, with the enthusiastic help of fellow hatemongers all over the intertubes, gets a massive fundraising campaign going to help Ez fight the global jihad via its insidious lawfare tactic.
This says to me that there are many good people willing to fight, write cheques, write words and write songs to grind those bastards down.
There are. Khurrum Awan is the last sock in Mohammed Elmasry's drawer - and, as one reader put it earlier today, "Awan is the loneliest number." But he's symptomatic of the larger struggle - of the freakshow alliance between Islamist intolerance and statist social engineering. If he ever sincerely wanted to "start that debate" he's always on about, he must know by now that he'd lose. So all he has left is semi-illiterate litigious bluster.
That leaves the debate to our side. And we're winning it.
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