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June 04, 2008
Political correction
David Warren comments on the Mark Steyn show trial. I quote his introduction as this news bears repeating; most Canadians - the same Canadians who complain about the supposed abuses of Gitmo and the PATRIOT Act - still have no idea they had fewer rights under Canadian law as it stood before 9/11 than Americans have to this day. These "human rights" tribunals are an obscenity. Worse still is our complacency. RTWT (via Five Feet of Fury).
I wrote “obscene” advisedly. Before Canada’s “human rights” tribunals, a respondent has none of the defences formerly guaranteed in common law. The truth is no defence, reasonable intention is no defence, nor material harmlessness, there are no rules of evidence, no precedents, nor case law of any kind. The commissars running the tribunals need have no legal training, exhibit none, and owe their appointments to networking among leftwing activists.
I wrote “show trial” advisedly, for there has been a 100 percent conviction rate in cases brought to “human rights” tribunals under Section 13.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 4, 2008 07:24 AM
Comments
You have a sense of the distaste for which we on the tolerant right have viewed McCain-Feingold?
It is within the words of Lincoln's second inaugural address that we finds this credo:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
It is Lincoln's guidance which serves us as we view McCain's potential presidency. For many of us on the tolerant right, McCain-Feingold is testing our tolerance. Any attack on free speech is to be defended against. Especially, and the most abhorent part of McCain-Feingold, political speech. It is hard to temper our malice for this law and at the same time control our temper for Senator McCain.
Fruit and tree, neh?
Good luck with your freedom. Has anyone mentioned your freedoms guaranteed under the Helsinki Accords?
http://tinyurl.com/5cf3ne
It does bear the signature of Pierre Trudeau.
Posted by: OregonGuy ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 4, 2008 12:28 PM
Well said. Though as to the Helsinki Accords, I cannot imagine these "human rights" commissions would let a treaty stand in their way given their attitude to the Constitution and a thousand years of common law.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at June 4, 2008 12:36 PM
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