Nosferatu200 wrote:Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee: Part IIIs there a bit of a trend going on here?
This past week a federal court heard arguments for and against Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Although it's a bit of a simplistic dichotomy, we'll say that on one side was the CHRC and Richard Warman (and their allies) who spoke in favor of Sec. 13 while on the other side Marc Lemire (and his allies) spoke in favor of repealing Sec. 13.
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Attending the hearing were a number of the Free Dominion crowd, including Mark and Connie Fournier who have argued, on principle they claim, that Sec. 13 is an violation of the freedom of speech and expression and that
anything that would deny people their right to freedom of speech and expression are an affront to human dignity. The following quote is found on Mark's profile on Free Dominion:
Mark Fournier wrote:"If it takes force to impose your ideas on your fellow man, there is something wrong with your ideas. If you are willing to use force to impose your ideas on your fellow man, there is something wrong with you."[/i]
However, even Mark has limits. There are some beliefs and forms of expression that are so dangerous that those who dare utter the offending words must be dealt with in the harshest manner possible short of execution.
As Mark and the rest of Free Dominion
support the rights of virulent racists and Holocaust deniers the right to express their views, you gotta know that those views must be especially reprehensible of Mark feels that those who hold them and advocate for them must be severely punished. Right?
What are those terrible, horrible, evil points of view?
A belief in global climate change:
Mark Fournier wrote:Man-made global warming and it's supposed effects is the biggest fraud in human history. Those who perpetrated it must be prosecuted for both their deeds and as a warning to the next set of fraudsters contemplating the next big scare. They should all be striped of every penny they made from their crimes and imprisoned for life.
So, to sum up and
to paraphrase what looks to be Mark's position:Nosferatu183: "I believe that Jews are the spawn of Satan who run the media."
Mark: Well, I don't agree but I support your right to hold those views.
Nosferatu131: "Blacks are subhumans who should be shipped back to where they came from."
Mark: That might be offensive but we shouldn't do anything that would hinder this kind of speech.
Nosferatu88: "The Holocaust is a lie."
Mark: That's just an opinion and everyone is entitled to their opinions even if I don't agree myself.
Nosferatu197: "I believe, based on rigorous scientific inquiry, that human activities have had an adverse influence on the global climate and we should do something to mitigate the harm we are doing."
Mark: BURN HIM! BURN THE WITCH! HERESY! TOSS HIM IN PRISON AND LET HIM ROT THERE!
Or, you know, something like that.
Posted by Nosferatu200 at 9:05 PM
Labels: Connie Fournier, Free Dominion, Lemire, Mark Fournier