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On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Like Peel, I'm from Alberta. I went to university at the same time as Ezra Levant, and while I don't think we were ever formally introduced, we were involved in the same all-party political functions on a number of occassions. He's a blowhard and a grandstander, as can be seen on the video. "My ancient and inalienable rights, 800 years of common law" blah blah blah. Furthermore, he gives the impression of being on some sort of rapturous moral crusade, whereas the more politic approach in that situation would be to play it cool, and allow his opponents to come off as the foaming ideologues. But playing it cool has never been Levant's talent, to say the least.

Having said that, these hearings are a joke. The cartoons were published by three other newspapers in Canada: a Jewish community paper, a university paper in the Maritimes, and a francophone daily in Quebec. To my knowledge, none of them have been hauled up on human-rights charges. It's possible, I suppose, that there is no one in those other provinces who felt like pressing charges, but I find that unlikely. More plausibly, Western Standard was singled out because their "rednecked yahoo" reputation made a more tempting target.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

I've just been watching the other video that Peel posted. Levant looks at the woman and says(referring to her and another woman)...

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Ezra said(roughly)...

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

I agree with OTOH's assessment of Levant. But, even if (and this would actually make me quite happy) an arch-leftist was under the same circumstances, I would be equally outraged.

My disgust with this is entirely unrelated to the man that was pulled in front of that HRC. There is a larger principle in question.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

The imam is now threatening a defamation suit.

stillnotking · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Location: Oregon, USA

Who or what Ezra Levant is, believes in, or publishes is irrelevant. The man's a free citizen of a theoretically free country and can say whatever he wants.

Canada's dalliance with hate-speech laws is a travesty and was one of the primary reasons I decided not to move there. (America finds other ways to infringe our civil liberties, so I'm not really happy here either, but whatever.) I hope Canada can come to its senses and get rid of these laws before it's too late.

Mosley · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

OTOH: You know, mate, I seem to recall that many moons ago, you accused me of painting w/a very wide brush. Yet you show precious little hesitation in characterizing the WS readership as "bible-thumping yokels" who care squat for free speech.

Well, as a WS reader I can assure you that I'm no bible-thumper(agnostic, if anyone must know) and I am very much concerned about free speech. That's why I support the right of Marxists to spout their bile(I am against their "right" to do that while on a public payroll, but hey, that's another issue all together).

As for being a "yokel": yep, I be one. And a hick, bumpkin, hillbilly and a redneck too. Those ain't insults in my backwoods haunts. Smile

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Well, I feel like ranting now.

I read the Western Standard too. The Canadian media was described by the Economist last week as "stuffy and politically correct". I'd add to that "utterly useless". On every issue that matters, meaningful discussion is politically incorrect at best and a "hate crime" at worst. Think Abroigional affairs, crime, immigratoin, poverty etc etc.

Take Aboriginal affairs, for example. The Europeans steal a nation, kill off a bunch of them and stick the rest in assimilation schools. Those fail (and are full of sexual abuse) and the reserve system of voluntary apartheid is born. Out of this comes mass sexual abuse, addiction, criminality, deviance from school, fatherlessness (and even mass motherlessness) and a totally destroyed people (Whites did it). It is not their fault. This system keeps the Natives out of mainstream Canadian life and in a worse situation than even Black Americans in Baltimore and yet to EVEN DISCUSS IT (other than to proclaim how more welfare is the solution) is deemed racist. Good grief. Canada is just not a serious country. The Globe, Star and the rest of the Suns/Journals never even touch the problem. To discuss it honestly gets you fired. I worked for the government near a reservation for 3 years, apprehending kids who had been sexually abused. Canadians have absolutely no idea how bad it is. When ever I head them going on about USA this and that, I put those little smug prats in their place. But how could they know? The media pretends we are just a "multicultural" paradise (despite a lilly white supreme court and government).

My closest friend was a journalist at a mid-sized paper in Western Canada who was disciplined for calling the Department of Indian Affairs the Department of Indian Affairs at a staff meeting. He has left the profession. The hippie took offense to the word "Indian", despite that being the proper name of the department. Political correctness. The 90's never ended in Canada.

The National Post used to be a voice of dissent and it is now right-of-Liberal and the WS is all that is left. macleans is improving under Ken White, though.

Unfortunately, it looks like the Liberal establishment is going to use the criminal code to codify in law the vapid intellectual climate that PC created.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Well, let em'.