A counterfeit court

I've spent the morning in a fetid room at Vancouver's court house, at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing. It's a counterfeit hearing in so many ways -- starting with the fact that the building we are in was built for a real court of law, but this kangaroo tribunal is anything but a real court.

Let's start with the three-member panel, chaired by Heather MacNaughton. As Jay Currie points out, MacNaughton is a not a judge -- far from it. Like the other two panellists, she is a radical activist, a social engineer of the first order, which is precisely why she was appointed to the Tribunal. She sits under a Herald with the motto, "Dieu et mon droit". It's the motto of British monarchs; it means God and My Right. It's fitting for a court house in a province called British Columbia, with a capital called Victoria. How disgusting that it presides over a rogue panel, prosecuting an Islamic fatwa in the Queen's name. Disgusting.