[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Canada enforces Sharia law

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Canada enforces Sharia law
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1198794879.shtml


   ..through their "Human Rights Commission". Ezra Levant describes
   Canadian efforts to [1]intimidate journalists and publishers:

     Here is an exchange between me and Officer McGovern. I talked about
     the chilling effect that human rights complaints have not just on
     the victims -- e.g. the people and companies named in the
     complaints, like we were -- but on other media who see what could
     happen to them if they dare upset thin-skinned whiners. It's
     similar to the phenomenon of libel chill, except it's worse. Libel
     chill is when reporters are worried about writing a story for fear
     of being sued. But that's not much more than a healthy fear -- if a
     story's facts are true, it's defensible in defamation law. More
     than that, any would-be plaintiff would have to finance his own
     lawsuit, be subject to well-known rules of court, and have to pay
     the costs of any failed nuisance suits. None of those restraints
     are checks againt "human rights commission chill": truth is not a
     defence; plaintiffs complain for free; taxpayers pay for the
     prosecuting lawyers; rules are arbitrary; legal precedents are not
     applied consistently; and instead of judges, tribunals are stacked
     with activists, many not even lawyers.

     The worst part is that there is no deterrent to spurious complaints
     -- there is no cost to making false accusations. That's where the
     "human rights chill" comes in: why would any rational publisher or
     editor report on sensitive subjects (read: radical Islam) if they
     knew they would be tagged with a no-win complaint?

     That's the point I was making. And after I made it, Officer
     McGovern said "you're entitled to your opinions, that's for sure."

     Well, actually, I'm not, am I?

   Videos of Levant's Ring Lardneresque response to the Canadian
   bureaucracy [2]here and [3]here.

   Speaking of bureaucracy, in Bayonne a meter maid recently got in got
   in trouble for [4]holding up two plainclothes detectives who were
   actively trying to pursue a drug dealer.

   The detectives forgot to feed the meter and she wouldn't let them get
   in their car until she finished writing them a parking ticket, even
   after they showed her ID and explained the situation.

   Maybe not coincidentally, that meter maid looks a lot like the lady
   interrogating Levant. Years of just following orders probably gives
   people like her that banal, potato-ish look.

References

   1. http://ezralevant.com/2008/01/you-have-the-right-to-your-opi.html
   2. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28582_Outrage_of_the_Week-_Canadian_Publisher_Persecuted_for_Mindcrime&only
   3. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28587_Another_Canadian_Mindcrime_Video&only
   4. http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1198087624.shtml