Neither Maclean's nor the Western Standard published materials that incited violence or other injustices against Muslims. They did not violate anyone's human rights. Recognizing this, the commissions should have immediately identified the cases brought to them as nuisance complaints and dismissed them. That they have not done so suggests a change in their mandates is much needed.
(...)they were never intended to serve as thought police, charged with stamping out all unpleasant arguments and ideas.
"It never occurred to us that this instrument, which we intended to deal with discrimination in housing, employment and the provision of goods and services, would be used to muzzle the expression of opinion," Canadian Civil Liberties Association founder Alan Borovoy recently lamented. Yet that is precisely what the commissions are doing (...) It's time to rein them in before further damage is done to Canadians' right to free expression.
That was actually an editorial in the Leftist Globe and Mail!
Now, it's also become a serious political issue in Parliament. We're actually seeing action being debated. Naturally, the Leftist Opposition parties are aghast at the prospect of having a certain draconian subsection eradicated from the "Human Rights" Act whose effect has been, not to strengthen human rights, but rather to take them away, with extreme prejudice. Well, if the Left wants to go on the public record as bizarrely, illogically being opposed to human rights (particularly freedom of expression) in the name of (they claim) standing up for human rights, then no one with a properly functioning brain is going to take them seriously ever again!
When you take away just one right, the rest are sure to eventually follow. It's part of the scary slippery slope phenomenon which the Left has long been proving to be all too real.
When the Left takes away rights whilst claiming to be standing up for them, you know it's time to fight, and fight for your rights. And fight like a tiger, keeping in mind how unhappy tigers appear when forced to live in a cage. We humans don't want to live in virtual cages constructed on our behalf by a Liberal Fascist state apparatus; we want to be free.
The Left does NOT necessarily want us to have any rights, as our rights have proven to be inconvenient to their fascist, extremist, dhimmi, international-socialist revolutionary agenda and they have apparently decided that we cannot have rights whenever and wherever it would tend to be a barrier to the Left's so-called "progressivism". After all, as under all totalitarian regimes, the Leftist regime could never sustain itself as long as everyone has equal human rights, most particularly the right to freely express oneself, even more particularly the expression of opposition to things the state apparatus tries to impose upon us all against our democratic will and against our rights.
We can see clearly that the Canadian so-called "Human Rights" Commission has taken a lead role in the taking away of our rights. While they take rights away from only a few, the effect on the rest of us is to chill our enthusiasm for exercising our rights. When we see people being persecuted for expressing an opinion on a particular issue the Left thinks ought to be protected from fair criticism, we tend to fear being similarly jackbooted ourselves.
The Left figures that as long as they tell us we can keep the limited, soothing but painfully addictive "freedoms" of doing whatever drugs and fornicating however we please, we won't crave real freedoms. So when you see Leftists promoting the legalization of marijuana and other dangerous, addictive drugs and promoting naughty stuff in the media, sex-oriented, exhibitionist-including "pride" parades and bizarre public, hate-speech-including, all-age-inclusive exhibitions such as the Folsom Street Fair, you know that they're trying to slyly entice you with candy so you'll get into their mysterious dark vehicle to be taken to places unknown and potentially dangerous.
We know the difference between corruption "freedoms" and real, fundamental rights and freedoms. We cannot afford to give up our real, fundamental rights and freedoms in favor of corruption "freedoms". To do so is to enter a virtual cage, enticed by a piece of fresh meat, only to turn around to find that we're trapped...
Beware of Leftists promoting corruption disguised as freedom (h/t: David Kupelian, The Marketing of Evil).
