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

On hatred, the homeless and HRCs: Even though I'm en vacance, I've been ruminating about that piece in the National Post yesterday revealing that homeless people in Toronto have been flogging a newspaper full of antisemitic crapola. The old Scaramouche,the one who didn't know wasn't fully up on the infamy of the the anti-hate industry and how seriously it compromised our freedom, might have said and done what the CJC has done--i.e. worried about the hatred, lodged a complaint with an HRC and waited for the thought cops and/or  'roos to, at some point, depending on how quickly it got to it (in Ezra Levant's case, it took a whopping 900 days), either dismiss the matter or adjudicate it in a "quasi-judicial" framework, and mete out the requisite punishment to the offender. At the end of which there would be high fives all around and immense satisfaction that another hater had been squashed, and Canadian Jews have been made "safe".

That's the old Scaramouche. The new Scaramouche says, "Hold on a minute. In the annals of Judenhass, this has to be one of the most pathetic stories ever. Here you have a pathetic old cancer-ridden Jew-hater who's in the grip of the same old pathetic delusions about "the Jews" controlling the global monetary supply pushing that line in pathetic "newspaper" flogged on downtown street corners by pathetic homeless people. Will I as a Jew feel "safer" if the whole sorry lot of them are "punished" by commissar Barbara Hall's wacky, Orwellian "court"? Not on your life."

You see, it's not the free floating Judenhass that alarms me--the pathetic chatter in the pathetic Stormfront chat rooms that Tammy and Co. labour so hard to shut down. As a student of history I have come to understand that free floating hatred is a permanent feature, a given given Judaism's place in the pecking order of monotheism. The free floating hatred--that's everywhere, all the time. (One example: recently, my 10-year-old son was told by some kids at the yacht club where we have our modest sail boat that they could tell he was Jewish because he "had a Jewish nose." The thing is, my son is adopted, and has the button-nose of his Kentucky forebears. Obviously, these kids had heard that "the Jews" are noted for their probosci--even, it seems, the Jews who don't have even a trace of Jewish blood in them.) It's the Judenhass that's tied to political agenda we have to worry about; the hatred on display in Arab newspapers that's tied to an agenda of obliterating the Jewish state in the same way that the hatred in Nazi newspapers was tied to an agenda of liquidating the Jews of Europe.

That being said, how sad is it that the only way a homeless person can make an "honest" buck is by purveying this tommyrot? And why has it taken so long for the contents of this loathesome rag to be exposed?

As well, one must note the disparity in the way Commissar Hall reacted to this instance of hatred versus her reaction to the case that got away--Mark Steyn and Maclean's. Babsy, as you'll recall, never got to adjudicate that matter since, alas, it didn't fall within her purview. Deprived of the opportunity to conduct a B.C.-style show trial, she worked herself up into a frenzied--one might even say hysterical--state, declaring Steyn and Maclean's "guilty" of flagrant "xenophobia" and "Islamophobia". Compare that to her reaction to the homeless rag, which really is vile and hateful (as opposed to the Maclean's pieces, which were truthful about, albeit criticical of, the jihad). Babsy's low-key reply: Ho hum; no biggie; wake me up when someone says something nasty about a Muslim so's I can spring into action.

Dare we call that the commissar's "disproportionate response"?

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