...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

We owe it all to socks: Poor Khurrum Awan and the sockettes. After the sorry spectacle of the B.C. show trial, and in light of a federal probe and unfamiliar public exposure, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has decided not to entertain their sockmeister’s complaint against Maclean’s magazine.

Woe is them.

Ezra Levant is certain that, as instinctive self-preservation kicks in, the British Columbia virtue tribunal will tell the sockmeister and the kids to take a hike, too—which would be a first for thought crime prosecution in the p.c. courts. I’m not so sure about that. However, I do know that before everyone does a happy dance, we need to get a grip and realize there’s still a long way to go. The fight won’t be over until the human rights vipers have been legally—and permanently—defanged.

That being said, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Khurrum, Syed and the other Islamic aggrieved. Without their hurt feelings, Canadians might never have become aware of the internal totalitarian threat; without them, we might all still be sleeping.

Thanks, socks. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Posted by: scaramouche at 11:10 | link | comments (2)

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#1  27 June 2008 - 12:01

 

Bad result. Canada needed the SCC to determine that a) there is no de facto law against blasphemy in Canada, and b) that there is no right not to be offended in Canada.

Rogers' financial capabilities could have been used to establish this as law. Now, heaven help all the bloggers being assailed by the CIC et al., now that Rogers is out of the game.

Anonymous

#2  27 June 2008 - 13:00

 

Take heart. I have a feeling that the BCHT will come through and convict. Even if it doesn't, the rock has been turned over and the human rights racket has been revealed in all its inglory, so it's too late to go back to our former ignorance. I would also note that, since it wasn't a Stalin or a Hitler behind this totalitarian system, but we, the people (who were sleeping and/or complacent, but aren't any more) there's a good chance that the whole shaky apparatus can be knocked down.

scaramouche

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