Madcap Blasphemers
Okay. Here's the thing. It doesn't matter if the complaints against Levant and Steyn will be thrown out anyway (and the latest news which is apparently quite old is that Steyn's wasn't). We should not be living in a State where one citizen can go to a Human Rights Commission and make a complaint against another citizen and that second citizen has to cross his fingers that the employees of the HRC will exercise good judgment and throw out the complaint before it proceeds and he has to appear before the State - at his own expense - to defend himself. It's wrong, wrong, wrong and I doubt many Canadians knew we were living in such times.
But now that we do know we are living in such times, take a good look at the people defending this system. There's a word for people who want to live in a State where citizens can accuse other citizens of giving offence and then have the full weight of the State on their side. Right now, the excuse is that it's all necessary to fight the White Supremacists. Tomorrow the excuse will be that it's all necessary to fight the dissenters to the War on Afghanistan.
It's not a slippery slope. It's a seriously flawed system operating autonomously that has no place in a modern democracy. Who it's meant to fight right now is irrelevant because the people running it can change with the breeze, anybody can make a complaint against anybody else, and the result can be that an individual must go before the State to defend himself at his own expense - and 100% of those citizens who are ultimately told they must - lose.
It sounds Fascist because it IS Fascist, Dear Reader.
