Round up
- Free Mark Steyn has been on fire lately. If you like reading about real civil rights vs. fake "human rights" of the human rights commissions, check out Binky's page, here.
- The Globe and Mail's news pages have been very light on the HRC issue, but their editorial line has been excellent. As it is again, in the wake of the dismissal of the cartoon complaint against me. Read it here; the comments are generally good, too. I like the fact that they realize it's not enough for the high profile cases like mine to be acquitted -- for that just victimizes those who don't know how to be noisy. (And those who can't afford lawyers. Fact: 91% of section 13 hate speech targets at the Canadian Human Rights Commission are too poor to hire lawyers.) The Globe calls for a repeal of the hate speech laws. Good for them.
- Columnist Naomi Lakritz embarrassed herself last week with her support for government censorship. But Lakritz's saner colleagues at the Calgary Herald have redeemed that newspaper's reputation. I refer in particular to Nigel Hannaford and Mark Milke. (I haven't seen the paper today, so I don't know if there are more.) And then there's the incomparable George Jonas, in the Post, here.
- The Canadian Association of Journalists, which has been excellent in the fight against HRCs (they even offered to intervene in my hearing) has issued this press release. I like how they call HRCs "language nannies."
- I got some interesting comments in response to my debate (argument? shouting match?) with Syed Soharwardy. My favourite was a suggested retort to Soharwardy's threat to me that I'd "pay" very soon: "like Robina Butt did?" Butt, of course, was beaten to a pulp in a home invasion, and her attackers told her not to criticize Soharwardy's mosque again. That would have been a delicious come-back, but in fact I couldn't even hear Soharwardy make the threat, there was so much cross-talk and general excitement. That said, I'm going to make sure my doors are locked extra-tight, and my fire alarms work!
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