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Our title today comes from Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin:
Poor Jenny!
Bright as a penny!
Her equal would be hard to find...
These days it's Jenny who's hard to find. Chief Commissar Lynch of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission was unable to join Ezra and me for our testimony to the House of Commons Select Committee because, apparently, she had a prior engagement. In Geneva. Please, no tittering. No doubt it was an invaluable opportunity to exchange fraternal greetings with the Chief Commissar of the Sudanese Human Rights Commission.
At any rate, the nearest thing to a laugh during Monday's proceedings came during an exchange about the CHRC's stated determination to "abolish hate" - not "hate crime" or even "hate speech" but just plain old hate. I pointed out that hate is a human emotion and that it beats, to one degree or another, in every breast. And I suggested to the honourable members that I sometimes got the impression from her public remarks that even Jennifer Lynch harbours just a teensy-weensy itsy-bitsy soupçon of hatred for me and Ezra.
Speaking of which, Marc Lemire, the first man ever to be acquitted in a Section 13 prosecution, recently filed a Freedom of Information request regarding Jennifer Lynch, QC's summer junket to Dublin, where Canada's Queen Censor informed her audience yet again that she and her fellow censors were the real victims here - victims of "reverse chill" from out-of-control bloggers. Or, as I put it in Maclean's, the Dominion of Canada has been reduced to complaining that Blazing Cat Fur is out to get it. The documents obtained by Mr Lemire are a revealing glimpse into the Queen Censor's mindset. For example, this e-mail to the Canadian Bar Association:
I have wanted to follow up with you in any event about my remarks to be made to the Council in mid-August. My plan was to update the presentation I made to the board and to expand on our Special Report to Parliament now that it is out. As for updates, for example Mark Steyn has now posted on his blog, "Is Jennifer Lynch a drunken pedophile serial killer' ? - and more of what I call 'reverse chill' is going on daily.
Actually, I wrote: "Is Jennifer Lynch, QC a drunken pedophile serial killer?" I'm always very respectful of her post-nominal. As to why I raised the question, see here. Blazing Cat Fur wonders, in response, "Is Jennifer Lynch a tone-deaf witless hack?" Could anything be more pitiful than the government's Chief Censor whining about being criticized? In her speech in Dublin, Commissar Lynch complained:
Much of what was written was inaccurate, unfair, and at times scary:
Maclean's magazine ran an article with the title: Kangaroo court is now in session, by Mark Steyn.
And yet Commissar Lynch doesn't provide a single example of an "inaccuracy" in that column. She did, however, note:
Steyn describes human rights commissions and their employees in this way:
• "Gestapo of the ...Canadian Human Rights Commission"
• "human rights racket"
• " the whacky world of Canadian human rights."
• " (i)t sounds like a fetish club for servants of the Crown"
• "a secretive and decadent institution"
"Gestapo of the ...Canadian Human Rights Commission." Hmm. Wonder what's in the ellipsis? Let's go to the source:
As Mr. Baker sees it, before I became the metaphorical Nelson Mandela metaphorically tasered into metaphorical submission by the metaphorical Gestapo of the sadly non-metaphorical Canadian Human Rights Commission, I was an amusing fellow prancing gaily through the flotsam and jetsam of the culture...
Close enough for State Censorship work! Why, Jenny's speeches are beginning to read like those letters home from the Gulag with two out of every three words blocked out. I take it all back. What we should be asking is: Is Jennifer Lynch, QC a drunken pedophile serial-killer ellipsis-junkie?
You begin to see why Commissar Lynch is so reluctant to face her critics across a House of Commons committee room.
RELATED: You're hooked, you're cooked, you're caught in The Jen Lynch Trap - plus: In search of intervenors
ALSO RELATED: Even the lefties over at The Rabble don't want Commissar Lynch in their lives:
Notwithstanding the slimy and repulsive ideologies of Steyn and Levant - who would gladly see not just Section 13, but real human rights legislation revoked - Section 13 must be repealed. It is bizarre, unnecessary, and offensive to freedom.
The last part is absolutely correct (and, in a bipartisan spirit, even the bit about my slimy repulsiveness is not without merit).
ALSO: A theory of the case - with additional commentary from the Binksmeister, Aloud In The Street, BC Vote, and Chrome Beach
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