Friday, July 20, 2007

Canada hates free speach

Canada's Human Rights Commission Used to Target Conservative Website With "Hate Speech"
Free Dominion website not yet given any details


By Peter J. Smith

OTTAWA, July 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Free Dominion, Canadian conservative web forum, has been targeted via the Canada's Human Rights Commission (HRC) over allegations the conservative site promotes "hate speech."

"We have been waiting for six and a half years and the day has finally arrived, somebody is going to try to silence Free Dominion using the Canadian Human Rights Commission," Mark Fourier quipped in posting the letter. "Somebody has likely decided that because they can't defeat some argument presented by someone at Free Dominion they will instead try to silence the whole site. It isn't going to work."

A redacted copy of the letter sent by the HRC has been posted on the Free Dominion website (freedominion.ca) informing the conservative site of the complaint and that it has the option to settle before the investigation proceeds further. http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=84457

While the right of citizens to exercise free speech used to be a hallmark of free democracies, Canada's Human Rights Commissions have taken to determining what ideas Canadian citizens may communicate with each other or with whom Canadians may freely associate.

Connie Wilkins of Free Dominion spoke with LifeSiteNews.com about the human rights complaint filed with the HRC by a certain"Ms. Gentes" accusing the site of promoting "hate speech" although the HRC has refused to say what protected groups are offended.

Wilkins told LifeSiteNews.com that the HRC claimed it sent the full complaint via Canada Post on June 9 with signature required. However, Free Dominion had received no word of this complaint until yesterday evening, when they received a second letter from the HRC telling them to respond to the complaint of "Ms. Gentes" by July 18, the very day they were required to respond.

After explaining the situation to an HRC official, Wilkins was told only that Free Dominion was accused of "hate speech" under Sec. 13 of the Human Rights Act and that they would resend the original complaint. While the officer said there were specifics in the complaint, he refused to mention them and said they would be found in the original complaint which they should receive Monday.

"It's frightening," Wilkins said commenting on the way the HRC has used allegations of "hate speech" to shut down the viewpoints of conservatives and Christians, such as Christian printer Scott Brockie and other individuals with smaller resources to defend themselves than Free Dominion. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04041604.html

Wilkins explained that Free Dominion (freedominion.ca) is "an online meeting place for conservatives across the country to get together, strategise, plan, and do everything."

"They prefer it when conservatives are isolated from one another and can't talk and organise" to oppose the leftist agenda, Wilkins continued. One Free Dominion project was helping organise Canadians to vote to abolish abortion as the number one wish for the CBC's Great Canadian Wish Contest done in cooperation with Facebook. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07070305.html

"I think the most significant thing about this is how much in the dark we are being kept," said Wilkins. "I mean you would think that if you're being charged with something and there is an allegation against, the first thing that they would do is tell you."

"There have been a lot of people rallying around us already," said Wilkins. "I think that it will be good if people start reporting this and show what the [Human Rights Commissions] do. A lot of Canadians don't realise this. They hear hate crimes laws and think that's a really good thing. They don't understand it's used as a club."

Wilkins said Free Dominion will fight the complaint all the way.
See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:

"Abolish Abortion in Canada" is the Top Canadian Wish, CBC Announces
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07070305.html

Scott Brockie Loses Decision at Court of Appeals, On the Hook for $40,000
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04041604.html

Friday, May 18, 2007

Globe & Mail Endorses Commie Trudeau

Another Great Literary Piece By Peter O'Donnell

The sociopath who is truly loyal to the beef marinade will neither admit nor deny artichoke hors d'ouevres

Opinion

Justin Trudeau -- better than nothing

The Mop & Pail is pleased to announce that Wellington Boote-Daley, for many years an occasional correspondent and chief columnist of the Brandon Swill and Fornicator, will now take up the duties of chief mouthpiece for Canadianism at the nation's leading journal of official thought and an approved substitute for logic. Today, Wellington Boote-Daley explains why Canadians must succumb to Trudeaumania one more time before all critical brain functions cease.

Wellington Boote-Daley, 58, is a certified practitioner of Global Warming Containment Therapy, a licensed breeder of bull, and a collector of pictures of the break-up of civilization.

Today, I celebrate the fact that the Mop & Pail have turned to me for sage advice and timely prevarication, by suggesting to the nation that they abandon all critical brain functions and embrace a second round of Trudeaumania.

I know that female voters have missed the opportunity to achieve a mild form of orgasm just thinking about the man they are giving a big fat X, a sort of political game of Xs and Os that many thought would replace conventional marriage in the 1970s.

Since the death or at least repulsive aging of Pierre Trudeau, Canadian women and gay male voters, as well as really stupid men without working brain functions, have had only such role models as Jean Chretien and Paul Martin to vote for. Now, these men were as incompetent and dangerous as P.E.T., but arguably lacked his charisma and sexual prowess with women voters.

Thus it was that Canadians turned, reluctantly, to Stephen Harper, who claimed to be a conservative, something that many Canadians had read about in books and their weekend newspapers, without necessarily understanding what it meant.

But now there is another Trudeau on the scene, and man, is he relevant.

He is hip to the jive of global warming, a sort of Gore with More, and very much in tune with the recycling wave, something he probably learned from papa who often recycled his inner circle of friends.

He is as good looking as he is intelligent, and a sensitive man of the modern age, which happens to be a decade without a name, so to speak.

He has swept the public opinion polls and is favoured by 52% to replace Stephane Dion whenever the current leader happens to walk past a dark alley in Montreal. It is no coincidence that 52% of Canadian voters are women. But there are women who probably won't vote for Justin, not because they aren't in a high state of sexual arousal just thinking about how easily he will screw Canada, but because they are grown ups, so their places have to be taken by adoring male voters, like, to be frank, myself, an easily led sort who is just looking for a new political messiah to put the west in their place (poverty, basically).

Here in Ontario, where I breed bulls and prance about like a ballet dancer on drugs, we are frankly sick and tired of the west always whining about how they want to have a democracy and free enterprise, all those American things that Mop and Pail readers know are dangerous for Canadianism here in Canadia where Canadians live and vote.

Stephen Harper threatened to change the very foundation of our nation, until he was told by some friend of Brian Mulroney to fughedaboudit, but who cares, he isn't the sort of Canadian that Canadians could Canadianize in their Canadianess.

For all of those reasons, if you don't mind me using the word reason in this context, you should surrender your will to Justin Trudeau. Just because he's an immature commie twerp doesn't mean he won't lead this country into a new era of Canadian Canadianess that will out-Canadian even what his Canadian canoe-paddling father Canadianized in the halcyon days of pre-modern Canadiana.

A maple leaf just floated down and hit me on the head. Seems kind of fitting somehow, I plan to roll a big doobie and think of how wonderful communism has been since Trudeau brought it in and called it the just society.

Just society my ass, but that's just the sort of little secret that we don't share with the robots here at the Mop & Pail.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Fresh Off The Presses, Liberals Are Still Thieve

From The Western Standard

CAUGHT RED-HANDED
A new generation of Liberals is proving itself no better than the last

IT’S NOT QUITE WATERGATE, BUT THE LIBERAL theft of Conservative files is serious business— a violation of privacy laws and the Criminal Code (see cover story, page 26).

It’s less serious than Watergate in that the Liberal party did not actively break and enter into their opponents’ locked offices. Instead, when the Liberals swapped offices with the Conservatives after losing the election last year, Liberal staff took 30 boxes of files the Conservatives had packed for Parliament’s movers. It’s still theft, but it wasn’t particularly premeditated.

In other ways, though, it’s more serious than Watergate. To this day, the Liberal party has no compunction about what it did. Liberal operatives brag about how they spent a year going through the documents—including 174 personnel files of Conservative staff. The Liberals held a press conference to describe their "research" and made a video of the whole affair, brazenly posted to the official Liberal website. The video highlights various confidential personnel files, revealing the names of some of the staff who had their most private matters inspected for political grist. Perhaps a secretary was having problems at work because she was going through a divorce; perhaps a clerk asked for help in dealing with a substance abuse problem. Whatever private details were contained in those human resources files were read by voyeuristic Liberal "researchers" looking for dirt. That’s not called being Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. That’s called being a Peeping Tom.

The Liberals chose 32-year-old MP Mark Holland as their point man for the press conference and the star of the video. That’s because Holland has consistently shown poor judgment as an MP, and doesn’t demur from dirty politics. Western Standard readers will remember Holland as the one who threatened Alberta oil companies if they didn’t obey his particular environmental plans. Less well known is that, on the eve of Holland’s showboating tour to the oilsands, someone leaked a report by the House of Commons’ natural resources committee, breaching parliamentary confidentiality. Every MP on that committee was asked to swear an oath that they were not the one who broke the rules; Holland and one other refused to swear that oath.

"Holland’s legal threat is an important part of this story:
when the Liberals are caught doing something wrong,
their instinct is to bully their opponents"


That rough touch was what the Liberals needed and Holland complied, telling reporters that he felt "absolutely" no obligation to return the files.

As I write, the Speaker of the House is considering a complaint against Holland by Scott Reid, a Conservative MP whose files were amongst those rifled by the Liberals. But Holland isn’t the root of the problem, he’s just a branch; it was the Liberal leader’s staff who worked through the files for a year.

You would think that the party of Adscam would have found a new moral compass by now. That a young Liberal MP thinks the best way to get ahead is through unethical behaviour suggests the new generation of Liberals is no better than the last.

When I wrote a column about Holland in the Calgary Sun and Toronto Sun, he threatened them and the Western Standard with a defamation lawsuit, though his chief quibble was that he didn’t personally rifle through all the stolen files—Liberal staff did and then briefed him on their findings. That’s hardly an excuse. Imagine a corporate CEO blaming his underlings that way. But Holland’s legal threat is an important part of this story: when the Liberals are caught doing something wrong, their instinct is to bully their opponents. Which brings us to Holland’s threatened suit against this magazine.

The Western Standard didn’t cower before much scarier Liberals like Alfonso Gagliano and Jean Chrétien when we published our cover story in 2005 about the Libranos. And we didn’t go wobbly in 2006 when Muslim radicals threatened to murder anyone who reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.We’re still fighting against two "human rights" complaints in the cartoon kerfuffle, thanks to our readers’ support for our legal fund.

When an MP brags about 30 boxes of stolen documents, our readers can expect a news story about it. And if that MP tries to censor us with a lawsuit, well that just makes the story a little bit more interesting.


With your appetite now hopefully whetted,
follow the links to the full story as well as Holland's
brazenly arrogant: threatened us with a lawsuit