From far and wide, O Canada, To ISLAM WE TURN?
"We have a heritage of free speech that we inherited from Great Britain that goes back to the year 1215 and the Magna Carta. We have a heritage of eight hundred years of British common law protection for speech, augmented by 250 years of common law in Canada. “ Mr. Levant
Wait till you see the expression of being totally lost on the face of the woman asking the question. Total bewilderment.
on 01/14/2008 at 10:19 AM
Yeah, Ezra’s my hero. You will find him linked on my blog. Really should watch the videos of his interrogation.
BTW, his crime? He said nasty, but true, things about Muslims.
You got this from Vilmar? Give a link or email to him!
Vilmar has gone his own way. Even though he started this blog, he never comes by any more.
“The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on”.Maybe he just visits anonymously. We have no stats on when he last logged in, which is interesting in a Secret Squirrel kind of way. That’s Ok, I respect his privacy.
Ezra was the owner of the now defunct Western Standard, a bi-weekly magazine devoted mostly to issues in western Canada. When the Danish cartoons came out, he decided to publish them in his magazine, prompting the usual suspect Muzzies to file a human rights complaint against him. Those of you in the US have freedom of speech, we in Canada do not.
Ezra’s argument is that 800 years of common and natural law has given us the inalienable right to free speech and some bureaucrat in a quasi-judicial commission isn’t going to take that away from him. Over 200,000 have viewed the videos of his “interview” and he is being acclaimed as a hero for finally taking these idiots to task. I urge you all to go to http://www.ezralevant.com and get acquainted with the issue and of course, view the videos.Posted by Gerry Atric
01/14/2008 at 12:51 PM
What message? I looked in the ‘sent’ files and didn’t find anything sent to peiper in the last week. Sorry. Please to try again. BTW, you’d know if it ‘bounced’. It would come back to you. My ‘bounced’ messages do. Unless…
I’m being monitored under the FISA Act. Quickly, everyone who emails me should insert the word ‘bomb’ in their message.
Yeah Chris, me too. My response got an Undeliverable error, but your mail got to me. Grrrr.
Now Drew, I got your message. Did not bounce. I’m saving it, I’ll just change the names to Drew and Christopher… since Vilmar is not here any longer and the Skipper is deceased.
Hey, Mr. C? How about letting Vilmar back in?
Just for peiper and Drew: (and anyone else who’s interested)
my email is
also, my website is http://www.somethingsrotten.com
Very simple.
I have heard so much about Vilmar, I would love to hear some of his opinions and see his writing. I arrived here after his departure, but have still heard a great deal, mostly tinged with regret.
As far as the basic post: Be afraid, be very afraid. There are times when the differences between our laws and those of cousins in Canada and Britain stand in stark contrast. I’ve no doubt that in the future, there will similar attempts to stifle speech here, but we have the First Amendment. As many have complained, it almost seems rigged to encourage attacks on religion. Let’s see what happens.
What I can’t understand is where are the ‘average’ Joes (and Jills) citizens in the UK, Canada and US when this crappola (hrc) go on? Is it that the msm really does cover up these abuses to freedom or that I’m in a daze believing that the average J/J really doesn’t give a damn.
I know I’ve been out of the ‘civilian’ loop for decades, living inside the Fortress since 1975 - but hey, I spent 3 years in CA, hobnobbing with some real self-respecting (key word there is real) hippie types (which got me interested in Whole Foods, pharma malfeasons etc) - and I’ve spent 9 years in KY where I always said (bless their hearts) that a HS diploma was viewed as ‘higher education’. . .even lived overseas twice.
I have attempted to keep my vote and voice in politics - even voting absentee 99.9% of the time - during those 29 years. I’ve gone from living on $300/month (try that now days) to much, much more. . .
I’ve been at home, worked from home and been a Government civilian employee (2 times). . .Done the Soccer mom, the PTA, and the Scout mom deal. Even did a turn on the Church Parish Council -
So why are there times I feel like one of the few people who gives a damn, sees the intrusion of government into our Freedoms (not to mention our wallets)? If it weren’t for BMEWS and a couple of other Conservative sites - I’d think I was alone in the Wilderness.
Why aren’t people standing up and stopping this crap? Does it really take it to be a personal attack - before people give a damn anymore? I’m not stupid, I know then - it will be too late. Way too late.
Sad state of affairs. Thank God there are men like Mr. Levant willing to slay the dragons out there. . .along with our young men and women in Uniform. Too bad there are hardly any politicians also with those guts and backbones anymore. And that is the biggest part of the problem.
Wardmama, you’ve hit the nail on the head, and figured out why the political blogosphere actually exists. Sad to say, but most people are sheep. They pay no attention to politics and government at all. At best they remember to vote once in a while. Maybe. If they have nothing else to do that day.
It used to be said that the definition of a Conservative was a Liberal who had been mugged. Yes, it usually does take a personal attack for most people to wake up. Sometimes it takes two or three, because they view the first one as an anamoly and go back to sleep. Most folks are so tightly focused on their own little “me” reality that they don’t even know a bigger picture exists. And that’s the smart ones. God alone knows what passes for thought in the minds of the less bright, but I’ve always thought it would sound a lot like a dial tone.
I can’t prove it, but what I *think* it is....
Yeah, the MSM says what it wants and suppresses what it dislikes, but enough gets out where people know anyway. And yeah, they bitch. But I believe there are 2 major factors operating:
1) Most people don’t care about it like they care about whether the bills are paid. They may gripe, but in nearly all cases trying to DO something about it means committing your time (and thus your ability to pay your bills) for months or years to make a dent at all. Regardless of whether you win or lose, you’ve kissed your career goodbye by the time you know, because you’ve taken time away from job/bills/etc. for too long. If you didn’t win, you’ve just effectively thrown your life away and gained nothing. If you *do* win, someone comes along a year or two later and makes the whole point moot, like the DoJ saying that no, you don’t have a right to defend yourself. Or like the BATF deciding everything except a single-shot is now a machine gun.
That’s something I’m quite certain the government has done intentionally, just as they make sure it isn’t in your interest to fight a traffic ticket. They may not have had taking your freedoms in mind, they just wanted to streamline the system and avoid “unnecessary” hassle. Nonetheless, the result is the same.2) Few believe their vote actually makes a damn anymore. I mean, in addition to the “I’m one guy in 300 million, what can I do” defeatism that’s been around my entire life, now people have the additional defeatism of believing that elections are rigged anyway, the guy whose political machine is most effective in the back rooms will be the winner, and who voted for whom isn’t going to have a damn thing to do with the “official” tally.
I mean, seriously… if, for example, Fred ACTUALLY got 50% of the vote in a primary somewhere, do you honestly think all the bought followers of other candidates would let it lie? Or would there be people trying to make up things to show that no, some of those weren’t valid, and a lot of other people’s votes never got counted, and etc. etc. Do you think no one would take it to court and fight it tooth and claw? For that matter, do you think the MSM would ever report it accurately in the first place? As long as they had any other choice, I mean.I really do believe most people think elections are now much like playing poker against someone with marked cards, where you’re using real money and he’s using chocolate coins, and there are all kinds of obscure rules to this version of poker that he knows and you don’t.
To a great extent, that’s how I feel. Given that, I can’t really blame anyone for folding without even bothering to look at their hand. At least you only lost your ante, and you don’t have to throw away your time and attention in addition to everything else it’s costing you.The average J/J is out there every day trying to keep body and soul together, working and fighting to keep their heads above water. They don’t have the luxury of spending time analyzing issues and never think that an insidious commission is incrementally taking their rights away. Never that is, until it directly affects them or a family member. For most of my working career I was guilty of that as well. Now that I’m older and retired I have the time to do the aforementioned and quite frankly I am afraid of what’s happening out there.
If you are so inclined, drop a few bucks off at Levant’s website. If that’s not possible, go to http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a-free-dominion-against-the-hrcs.html and sign the petition. Although it is a petition for the Canadian Government, international signatories are encouraged as well.
It’s gotta start somewhere folks.Posted by Gerry Atric
01/15/2008 at 11:34 AM
I think I got it now… Grumpy Old Fart is really Vilmar. He’s BAACCKK!
Seriously, when this country was founded there was no right to vote. Period. At least in Federal elections.
How about we just go back to the voting qualifications in say 1789? You had to be: a) male, and b) a landowner.
Since I satisfy both requirements, I’m all for it. Especially b). As a landowner, I’m very touchy on local issues like property taxes. If you are on the public dole (social security, medicare, medicaid, WIC, etc,) you don’t get to vote. Because you will just vote yourself more of my personal property! NOT YOURS you slimy parasites.
God, I’ve wanted to say that for years. I feel better. Sigh.
I’d be okay with waiving the gender requirement, of course. Gender, race, religion, whatever. As I have said many times, “I don’t care if you’re purple with green spots and have no genitalia at all.” When thinking about the other one, my first reaction was okay, either a deed, a mortgage, or ownership of a business. But on second thought, strike business ownership. Some guy who owns 50 apartment complexes, lives abroad and hasn’t seen any of his “property” in over a decade… no. Not good enough. If you don’t own property *you are living on*, you don’t have enough of a stake in making sure it’s right.
I note that under these rules, I am not eligible to vote, never have been, nor am I ever likely to be. I’ll be lucky to break even before age catches up with me, much less buy a home. And I’m okay with that, that is as it should be. I don’t have enough at stake.
01/14/2008 at 10:43 AM
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