Comments on whig: In Favour of M-446

Never though I would high five a whig ;) Enjoyed y...

2008-02-06T01:18:00.000-08:00

Never though I would high five a whig ;) Enjoyed your post
I wrote about this issue also,but from another angle.That being the propensity of some to throw the Nazi word around,in regards to those that dare question the HRA and section 30(1).
http://engagedspectator.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/enough-all-ready-with-the-nazi-angle/

A bit long, a bit florid, but in the end well said...

2008-02-05T18:30:00.000-08:00

A bit long, a bit florid, but in the end well said.

I used to ride an egregiously misnamed horse by the name of Honey. She would use any excuse to bolt back for the barn - a passing car, a dog, a bride, whatever.

Many of those who would restrict Canadians' freedoms seem like that. A couple of death-metal punks with swastikas in their mother's basement? Bring down the legislation! An Alberta school teacher who can't keep to the curricula? Speech codes all around!

One would think that democracy and human rights in Canada are such terribly fragile thing that they are incapable of withstanding even the mildest assault upon her.

I have a more faith than that in the Canadian people.

Nonsense. Levant's grandstanding is in this case ...

2008-02-03T20:01:00.000-08:00

Nonsense. Levant's grandstanding is in this case precisely appropriate. He is treating the HRC with the open contempt it deserves, holding it up to appropriate and withering scorn. No free people should tolerate such government meddling with a magazine, and any agency that does so should be shown up as a band of brain-dead busybodies.

Excellent post.

2008-02-03T13:45:00.000-08:00

Excellent post.

A good post, Jack. While I support Levant here, I...

2008-02-03T04:29:00.000-08:00

A good post, Jack. While I support Levant here, I admit his grandstanding has made my support somewhat more qualified. You make a couple of errors of fact, I think.
You quote Johann Hari on “second generation” Muslims. Well in UK and France, we are well into generations three and four, plenty of time, one would think, for secularisation and procreational restraint to kick in. Instead we find the opposite, namely an inverse correlation of youth and secularisation (the most radical group of all are 17-24). As for the other, British Pakistani women are having 4.9 babies (vs. the national average of 1.7). Add to that the tendency to bring over spouses from the sub-continent for arranged marriages, and we have the makings of a serious problem for our children. Hari has long said that because Steyn’s worst projections will probably not come to pass, then we have nothing to worry about. Well even if some of them come true, they will be worrisome enough. Putting it in a context you would probably understand better, some pretty inflated claims are made about climate change, but they do not invalidate the entire argument.
Secondly you said that the HRC was “required” to take up the complaint against Levant. To my knowledge it was not. By letting it through the first gate, the HRC was exposing Levant to considerable expense of time and money. That in itself is an abuse, even, or especially, if it goes no further. As I wrote at Dawg’s, if it should be stopped at gate 2, why let it through gate 1?

Well said.

2008-02-02T21:42:00.000-08:00

Well said.