Section 13: How the battle for free speech was won

[styky]

Section 13: How the battle for free speech was won

Charlie Gillis on five years, two tribunals, a raft of secret hearings, a Supreme Court challenge and a turning point
by Charlie Gillis on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:00am - 0 Comments
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/19/five ... h-was-won/

[Faramir]

We won round one, but I am not even close to declaring Canada a free country. Not while the CRTC still mandates, as Ezra pointed out, that broadcasters shall not open anyone to "hate". Not while it is clear that WESTERN governments continue to pile on Google and others to censor their content. (all done WITHOUT our knowledge). Not while all the provinces, except Sask, continue to give tools and credence to their own kangaroo courts. Not while Tremaine is still being persecuted by legal law enforcement for "hate" speech. And not while Connie and others continue to the victims of a liberal controlled legal system that allows "defamation" laws to be wielded as clubs to suppress freedom of expression.

[Maikeru]

Charlie Gillis' header might better be stated as 'How a battle for free speech was won', as the provinces retain equivalent legislation to Sec 13.

BC was where 'human rights' blasphemy trials first began anyway, when BCHRAct Sec.7.1.(b) was employed by first the CJC, and then Harry Abrams, to tag team octogenarian Doug Collins, grrr, and establish "what newspapers (or other publications) shouldn't do"

Charlie, who wrote the Macleans article on Canada's 'hatefinder-general'
back in 2008, unwittingly scored an own goal when he sought out and published a comment by 'Anti-Racist Canada' in his Section 13 synopsis:

[Faramir]

I've heard rumours that the Harper government is going to let this die in the Senate. Anyone else heard this?

[Connie Fournier]

I've heard rumours that the Harper government is going to let this die in the Senate. Anyone else heard this?

Well, it hasn't received Senate approval yet, so you might be right about that! When does the Senate session end?

[Ogopogo]

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2012/12/2 ... ands-blog/


Lawfare: Canadian Muslims plotting to shut down my husband’s blog
by Kathy Shaidle on Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 | 5 Comments

As we’ve known for some time, Canadian Muslims have been putting together a lawfare case designed to silence my husband’s blog, BlazingCatFur.

Now they’ve admitted this online at a Khomenist site, asking for donations to support The Man Who Is Suing Us in separate actions related to Canada’s Human Rights Commissions.

They specifically say they are targeting my husband because he is a “Zionist.”

(Note too that they spout the usual stuff about just wanting to be good Canadians in multicultural, inter-faith-dialogue Canada — while planning to destroy anyone who dares to criticize them.)

As many of you know, my husband’s investigations uncovered the sex-segregated mosqueteria in a Toronto public school and helped halt government funding to radical Palestine House, to name only two stories he broke which were later picked up by the mainstream media (usually without credit, with Sun News being the lone exception.)

His videotapes of Muslims calling for “another Holocaust” and so forth have been seen by tens of thousands.

Just yesterday, he posted this speech by a Toronto area Muslim schoolgirl, praising the Ayatollah Khomeini and the banned-in-Canada terrorist group Hezbollah. She calls for the defeat of the “Zionist Regime.”

And just last night, outside Justin Trudeau’s address to thousands of “moderate” Muslims in Toronto, Arnie caught this fellow praising Hamas, named on the federal government’s list of banned terrorist groups:

It is no wonder Canada’s radical Muslim population, which is increasingly bold and belligerent, now wants to silence him.

It looks like we will be fighting three politically and ideologically driven lawsuits in the new year.