(Emphasis mine)
I called it "huge news" when Keith Martin, the British Columbia MP, moved a private member's motion to rescind section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act -- that's the thought crime provision that has snared Mark Steyn. Martin's move was big because it meant the issue had leapt from the "undernews" of the blogosphere into the House of Commons, skipping the middle step of the mainstream media altogether. That's interesting in itself.
More proof, obviously, that the MSM is irrelevant. The blogosphere, run by regular, ordinary folks like Ezra, myself and others (YOU can be part of it, too!) took care of the reporting pretty much all by itself. We now know that the press isn't really "free" after all, that it's frequently influenced by special, revolutionary, militantly extreme interests more than it is by what should be its primary goal of getting critically important, truthful information to the people. The Nazis and the Communists, plus also the Islamofascists, ought to be impressed with the ease with which the press of the "Free World" suppresses critically important information, leaving the People in the dark about matters which really do concern them.
Thank goodness for the internet and the blogosphere! Those of us who care about truth and what's material to us don't have to any longer worry about whether we're missing anything. No wonder the Far Left wants to "regulate" (censor/control) the internet, as do the Chinese Communists and the Iranian mullahs, amongst other fascists!
Martin's little snowball has started to roll and is growing, generating reaction from those who have heretofore been able to ignore the issue. I believe it will not be long before the Conservative government itself will be asked for its opinion on the subject. That will be a moment of truth for the party's conservative base. Will the PMO decide that this is an issue, like cancelling the court challenges program, that will offend all the right people and impress all the right people?
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Martin's motion sent Warren Kinsella into apoplexy. Kinsella railed that the motion would "gut" and "dismantle" human rights law in Canada. That's a telling statement: does Kinsella really think that regulating political speech and thought is truly the guts of human rights law? Isn't protecting people from real discrimination based on race, sex, religion, etc., supposed to be the guts of human rights law? The political censorship provisions Martin is targeting were only added recently -- a late addition, since the era of the Internet. To Kinsella, that really is the heart of the law, because it's the part most susceptible to political abuse, Richard Warman-style; war-room style; Liberal-style.
Read on for the rest, incluging Ezra's reporting on the MSM's biased behavior, the reactions from the Liberals, etc...
This isn't going to go away. It's only going to snowball down the slippery, snowy hill and grow, grow, grow...
The Far Left is going to fight dirty on this one. As dirty as they've ever fought, if not even dirtier than ever before! Who knows; they might even take away our rights! Oh, wait... they already have!
But Ezra, I, and many others will fight back, and fight fire with fire! We want our rights back!
Sic semper tyrannis!
