Murphy asks Freiman some questions

Brian Murphy read my book, Shakedown. And he read Freiman's review of my book (which I had meant to post, and I'll do so later). And he notes that Freiman in that review acknowledged that the CHRC had flaws needing reform.

He asks Freiman whether or not hate speech laws could stop genocide.

And Freiman answers: no. He's honest enough to know that hate speech laws couldn't stop a Holocaust.

Freiman said something quite sad: he said that the great leaps forward that minorities have made in the past fifty years are at risk, and that censorship laws are what's protecting that.

Does he really have such a low opinion of his fellow Canadians? Does he really think that, were it not for the CHRC, his neighbours would throw him into the ovens?

Perhaps Freiman is using the CHRC as some sort of personal psychological therapy. That's fine -- we've all got our demons, and Freiman likes to point out that he was born in a displaced persons camp in Europe after the Holocaust. The man has issues.

And that's when Burny pipes up: invoking the Holocaust, and showing pictures of swastikas on Jewish headstones. It was a showy, maudlin display -- Burny's specialty. The fact that it was intellectually vacant is par for the course. Vandalism, mischief and trespass are already covered by the Criminal Code. Section 13 doesn't apply to that. But don't bother Burny, he's having another one of his victimology moments.