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Tuesday, 03 June 2008

“Law” and disorder: All told Canada has 13—count ‘em—13 sets of thought cops. Most of them consist of two parts: the human rights commissions, which investigate “offenses”; and human rights tribunals, which adjudicate them. (One exception: the province of British Columbia, which has a tribunal but no commission—the reason why an aggrieved sockthingy from Ontario would be inclined to head all the way west to kvetch about Maclean’s and Mark Steyn.)

With that in mind, it’s time to rewrite the line that opens every episode of “Law and Order”:

In the human rights “justice” system, the people are harassed by two separate yet equally important groups: the thought police who investigate the thought crime, and the hack bureaucrats, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories...

Posted by: scaramouche at 20:58 | link | comments

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