Free Speech in an Age of Ideologues
There seems to be a bit of a right/left thing going on (Internet-wise) with the Free Speech brigaydos (anti-choice, social conservatives in favour of government censorship of the arts via Christian Fundamentalist lobbyists, REAL, as in NOT, Women and assorted Islamophobes, White Supremacists and ProWarOnTerrorists) and the Canadian Human Rights brigahdos (politically correct, finger-wagging, sanctimonious, long-nosed, insulated elitists and government insiders).
My problem, as none of the above, but as a Feminist having more in common with the CHR brigahdos (I'm not bragging), is that:
a-z) I find nothing to support in their argument that a group of government bureaucrats should be taking complaints from John Q Public about what Suzie Q Public said, particularly if it was on the Internet, and then assessing, investigating, prosecuting and judging that complaint.
Nothing.
Because here's the thing - what if Stephen Harper, New Conservative Prime Minister of Canada-at-large, decides to stack the CHRC with ideologues like he's stacked our Canadian judicial selection panel with ideologues, giving yet more power to Christian Fundamentalist government lobbyists - like Charles McVety (just to pick a random good ol' boy name out of a fat cat hat) - to censor the "Just Society" that brought about the CHRCs in the first place? Eh? Sooey - always' t'inkin'.
