~ THE RIGHT NOT TO BE OFFENDED— Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth …. (steynonline)

Ezra jackboots the Alberta HRC

UPDATE— Hot, Fresh EzVids: Opening statement; and What was your intent?; and Violence in Alberta …. (Ez.com)

~ MUST-READ: Ezra jackboots the Alberta HRC: “I have just returned home from my session at the kangaroo court, called the Alberta human rights commission. Here is my opening statement that I delivered at the interrogation. I will post more details about the interrogation soon” …. (socon.ca)

~ ARE CANADA’S “Human Rights” Commissions just slo-mo Kristallnachts? …. (fivefeetoffury, wiki)

~ COMMENTER comments, politely takes Steyn to task a bit: “Arthur Topham Says“, responding to this. Do read the original stuff, too– very interesting …. (radicalpress)

~ UPPITY JEWISH GUY Ezra Levant addresses the Alberta Human Rights Commission Interrogation; here’s Ez in the Post; Star Chambers Confirm Their Character …. (Various)

~ SHAIDLE: “Should the occasion arise, I’ll just use one finger… Zero Mostel’s master class on How To Behave In A Star Chamber” …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ EZRA LEVANT: What was your intent?; and “Some press coverage” on the case of this man + Alberta Human Rights Tribunal versus former magazine publisher Ezra Levant. CBC-Calgary Video link (still working, runs 30:39 to 32:43). Says Levant: “Soharwardy went to the police and asked them to arrest me. The police politely threw him out of their offices. Peacefully disagreeing about contentious matters such as politics and religion is not a crime in Canada”. Via JihadWatch: “Mr. Soharwardy has to realize he is in a free country now.” Here are more of Mr. Soharwardy’s views …. (Various)

~ LAW-R-KEWL: Online Hate and the Law. Are law-dweebs now a protected class? Osgoode Hall students? …. (lawiscool.com)

~ WESTERN STANDARD— Your love, my right– “When human rights compete, then they can’t by definition be universal,” By Kevin Steel (Free Registration Req’d) …. (westernstandard.ca)

~ SOCON.CA— Canada is more appointed than free; Boycott the CPC …. (socon.ca)

~ FOR YOUR READING LIST— Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, by David Horowitz. Don’t like our book choice? Well, leave your suggested titles in the comments section below. Unlike certain other websites, here at FreeMarkSteyn we don’t appear to prevent or shut down fair comments for views different from our own, or possibly even put words in your mouth when we don’t entirely like what you have freely chosen to say. Nor do we sneak around— troll-like– on the sites of others. We stand to be corrected, of course, by any member of the L.I.C. Lederhosen Posse. And even if we HAD done (or appeared to do) any such gutless & nellified things– well, we’d have no real choice but to man-up, apologize profusely, and then make sure we never ever EVER abused your freedoms like that again, cross our hearts and so help us God. But– that’s just us …. (Various)