To further my earlier article on the topic of the fight for Canadians’ right to freedom of expression, I bring you the following...

Via Canada’s most popular blog, Small Dead Animals...

Amazingly, a group of Muslim students who tried to have the Canadian magazine MacLean’s prosecuted for carrying an article they didn’t like, and who lost their bid to have the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission prosecute (persecute, actually, as the “Human Rights” Commissions operate outside of Canada’s constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms, believe it or not!) MacLean’s and controversial author Mark Steyn, are bizarrely attempting to “settle” their action thereagainst, as if they were in a position of strength and righteousness from which to make such a demand. Incredible.

For those curious about Canada, I’d say that following such strange goings-on in this supposedly “developed”, “just” society will lead the beholder to conclude that, indeed, Canada’s reality, as any nation’s reality, is as curious and puzzling as can be, to say the least!

As a Canadian myself, I can easily say that my country and society are rife with contradictions that baffle the mind. There’s no shortage of bizarre, weird double- and multiple standards all over the place. As one can see from following the free speech and “human rights” issues via the links above, Canada has her work cut out for her when it comes to reconciling actual state apparatus practice with what the Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms actually say. In other words, in this example, when Canadians are told by their sacred documents that they have the inalienable right to freedom of expression, it must be enforced that this will actually be the case and that the state apparatus not violate this right. Ditto the right to presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial.

Unfortunately, in the case of the Muslim students, MacLean’s, Mark Steyn and the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission, the OHRC only refused to hear the case, citing “no jurisdiction”, because it was too terrified of the negative publicity certain to ensue should it proceed with the case. If the OHRC had actually felt that it could persecute MacLean’s and Mr. Steyn without any public/media scrutiny/criticism/outrage, they would, I believe, have gone ahead, as “Human Rights” Commissions in Canada have tended to do in the past when they believed they’d be permitted to be above the law, above the Constitution, above the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, above everything, as if some kind of gods...

In a nutshell, if we’re going to have any state apparatus nodes (they’re expensive, by the way, and their existence is highly questionable, as is their raison d’etre in this day and age of great equality and tolerance for which Canada is now famous the world over) purporting to stand up for everyone’s human rights (particularly as explicitly indicated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms), they must actually do so with maximum scrupulousness and equitability and always refrain from violating anyone’s rights. Today this isn’t the case, unfortunately, and this is why Canada is embroiled in this historic civil conflict over our guaranteed rights and the arrogant, maverick, fascist state apparatus nodes and their possibly-brainwashed apparatchik employees who wrongly believe they can violate them.

I believe this Canadian civil conflict can serve as a valuable lesson to all countries in the world as well.