~ COYNE LIVE II: “Liveblogging the BC Human Rights Tribunal—Part I” …. (macleans.ca)
~ MARK STEYN’S WEEK-LONG SHOW TRIAL begins today; Michelle Malkin’s readers weigh in …. (5fof)
~ COYNE I: Trial of the century year week: “All the dense legalese, with twice the politically correct jargon!”; A double shot of At Issue. Fresh updates will be here …. (macleans.ca)
~ HEAD’S UP: Trial of the Century will be Live Blogged …. (dustmybroom)
~ SOCON.CA— The Final CountDown of Freedom of the Press in Canuckistan …. (socon.ca)
~ ROBERT JAGO: “The Steyn Rally at the BC Human Rights Tribunal” …. (rjjago)
~ CATFUR: Mark Steyn – The Roo Warrior! …. (blazingcatfur.blog)
~ DAILY BAYONET— “Steyn/Maclean’s Trial Day” …. (dailybayonet.blog)
~ CANADA: Human Rights Tribunal Against Macleans’s Over “Anti-Muslim” Article Starts Today …. (Wz)
~ JAY CURRIE— Tie My Kangaroo Down Coyne …. (jaycurrie)
Scaramouche: “It’s show time!” Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Redux
When are we gonna fight back?
When are we going to know
We should have stuck with our laws,
We shouldn’t have listened to P. Trudeau?
You know “human rights” is a smokescreen.
A redistribution of power.
As long as those HRCs still function
We folks are losin’ our rights every hour by hour
(ah ah ah; ah ah ah ah ah; ah ah ah).
“So goodbye freedom of speech”–
What the lovers of freedom should howl.
We can’t stand hacks in out courtrooms.
It’s time they throw in the towel.
A pack of self-righteous and clueless old ‘crats.
A pack of dhimmified hounds.
Oh, it’s time we decided no future lies
Without our freedom of speech.
How did we let this happen?
I bet we were all asleep.
It’ll take us all plenty of jeers and letters
To put ‘em on the refuse heap.
You know we don’t need a replacement.
Our genuine courts will do.
Courts were the truth still matters
And British Common Law values do, too.
Mark Steyn Previews The BC Human Rights Tribunal Facility
~ THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: “Since the first political trial in modern history — that of Charles I in 1649 — not a single one has ended in the aquittal of the accused. That tells us everything. In no other category of trial would a perfect record for the prosecution be conceivable.” ~ Robert Stewart in this week’s Spectator reviewing a book on political trials, not the Section 13 prosecutions of the Canadian Human Rights Commission …. (spectator)
~ COUNTDOWN TO CONVICTION: IT’S COME TO THIS — “The Independent/s Johann Hari stands shoulder to shoulder with former disc-jockey. The big show trial starts this morning at the Robson Square courthouse in Vancouver, so check in with star court reporter Andrew Coyne, who’ll be blogging all the action live – and, depending on the quality of the room service breakfast, may even get to court in time for the demonstration at 8am Pacific. The Province’s headline gives an interesting glimpse of what we’re up against: “BC Muslims Seek Redress For ‘Inflammatory’ Article“. That should be “BC Muslim”, Singular. So what are the odds? Heads you lose, tails you lose.” Meanwhile, America Alone, Mark’s US bestseller and Canadian hate crime, is just released in paperback and back in the Top Ten, but read it “while you still can“, advises Mark Lardas in The Galveston Daily News: Don’t forget, you can order your personally autographed copy exclusively from the Steyn Store …. (Steynianism)
~ STEYNIAN PLOT UNFOLDS— Dogs more valued than Babies in the United States …. (MaD)
Steyn: Take Me On.. I’ll Be Gone
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~ DEBORAH GYAPONG— Why the mainstream media is not all over the Steyn and Levant HRC cases; Interesting pre-papal visit analysis; A chimp “son” to get human rights but an unborn child, uh unh; John Allen Jr. interviews Canada’s Apostolic Nuncio …. (deborahgyapong.blog)
~ HURRAY! WE DON’T SUCK! We’re 14th! Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs – June. Freaky. Wow. What’s off is that there appear to be few liberals really topping the list, and that Warren Kinsella is ten places behind little old FMS. Thanks, everybody– you did it! Remember to check in with everybody else on the list, too, and bookmark the best, if you’ve not seen them before …. (MaD)
~ SO LITTLE TIME, SO MANY people to silence & enslave to our ideology! “CHRC Spokesman Will Not Say if Christian Teaching on Sexuality is “Hate” …. (lifesitenews)
~ WE ARE ALL Investigating the CHRC – Write Your MP! …. (dailybayonet)
~ FREEDOM-SNEERING Mystery journalist [ Richard Cleroux ] unveiled; not so sure about this “free speech” thing …. (fivefeetoffury)
~ ANTHONY ESOLEN: How to Tell a Barbarian, Part 1, Part II, and Part III. “My family and I are preparing to go north for the summer, where the people of Canada have had the liberties of their small communities snatched from them by a bad constitution and a tyrannical court. They are, as one defender of liberty has put it, a Nation of Bastards, wards of the state. This novel kind of barbarism does overgo the barbarism of Persia, though, because the ancient Persians were willing enough to grant their outlands a measure of home rule; witness Cyrus’s humane returning of the Jews to their homeland. Chief Justice McLachlin of Canada will not allow such local variations for a Calgary or a Thunder Bay. When it comes to detaching Canadians from the very culture that gave rise to Canada in the first place, only a mockery of debate is allowed. And only the shreds and patches of political opposition, too” …. (merecomments)
~ MAGISTATS— “Cop declares Birmingham Muslim area “no-go” zone for Christian preachers” …. (magicstatistics)
~ GET YOUR HATE ON! June Callwood, racist! ASSEMBLE THE CADRES! …. (dustmybroom)
~ WORLD FROM THE OSTMARK: Bruce Anderson in Vienna ponders post-Christian Europe …. (independent)
~ TONY BLAIR’S Britain: Where Muslims aren’t allowed to preach in a No-Go Zone Exclusive Christian …. (SDA)
~ EN FRANCAIS— Accommodements religieux: Libéralisme nord-américain plutôt qu’étatisme républicain, par Jean-Jacques Tremblay. “Au Québec, le chaos identitaire engendré par l’immigration et la politisation de populations culturellement et géopolitiquement incompatibles – même si francophones – donne, au grand et secret plaisir de certains, une nouvelle caution au rôle interventionniste et même autoritaire de l’État. Au menu : régulation des identités, grand bal des experts en vivre-ensemble, gestion d’un mélange surréaliste de Klingons et de Vénusiens, censure, etc. Le libéralisme s’évapore tandis que l’État et le judiciaire envahissent le champ social.” 1er juin, par Annie Lessard, Marc Lebuis …. (pointdebasculecanada)
~ FREE SPEECH, except during elections? Gerry Nicholls, National Post. Via …. (nationalpost, sda)
~ INSTAPUNDIT– “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN ENGLAND: “A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham”.. “If you come back here and get beaten up, well you have been warned.” …. (PJs, Hotair)
~ STOP THE ACLU: “More student bigotry in Canada” …. (stoptheaclu.com)
~ ON THE OTHER HAND— Liberal MP Brent St. Denis has tabled Bill C-543, apparently to counter the bill C-484 …. (MaD)
~ A RANDOM WALK Through Trudeaupia: “Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller – the spiritual and intellectual guru of my childhood and early adolescence – observed near the end of the 1986 classic film: “Life goes by pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” As true now as it was during the Reagan Administration. The full joy of Trudeaupian Canada is missed without paying close attention to the trivia of everyday life” …. (godscopybook.blo)
~ U.S. CHRISTIANS are in a much stronger position partly because of the willingness of their Catholic bishops to push back against political creep …. (WaTi)
~ GLOBAL WARMENING has a new Witch-Finder General: “Anglican bishop: ‘We are all as guilty as Josef Fritzl‘” [ the Austrian child torturer ]. All of us. As Fritzl. These people are evil …. (timescolumns, spiked-online)
~ FEEL THE LOVE: “Apparently making good on threats made in April by Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri after the republication of the infamous Danish Motoons, a large car bomb blasted the Danish embassy in Islamabad, killing at least 5 people” …. (mypetjawa)
~ THE INCREASINGLY VILE YouTube Hosts Jihadi Murder Video– “There is something really rotten at YouTube; they pull any videos critical of Islam (often within minutes), but apparently see nothing wrong with snuff films showing the murder of US troops” …. (lgf)
~ THE US IS PAYING Palestinian Commanders for Every Operation Against Hamas, Islamic Jihad. Most Just for Show …. (Wz)
~ NYC NO-GO ZONE– ASSAULT/BATTERY AT BROOKLYN MOSQUE— “Last night, Paul Williams, Bos Smith and a couple of other great Americans met me at a watering hole to tell me what happened when they returned to the mosque where they had been previously restrained” …. (atlasshrugs2000)
~ MELANIE PHILLIPS— “Terror and appeasement” …. (spectator)
~ HARLOT WIMMINS! UNBAGGED!! Shock and Horror in Kuwait! Islamist Lawmakers Walk out After Seeing Women’s Hair …. (Wz)
~ MILITANT WHACKJOBBERY— Can Muslims control themselves? …. (rjjago)
~ ACLU ADVICE for Muslims Under Surveillance …. (stoptheaclu.com)
~ AUSTRALIA: Muslims Leaving Victoria Over Lack of Mosques …. (Wz)
~ MEMRI.ORG— “Saudi Human and Women’s Rights Activist Wajeha Al-Huwaidar Speaks Out Against Honor Killings” …. (memri.org)
~ MUSLIM TUG-OF-WAR? “Malaysian Islam offers up a good news/bad news situation. While the Malasian courts back a fairly liberal constitution, the government pushes back” …. (cjunk.blog)
~ HATERS: “The World Council of Churches and the Zionist Catastrophe” …. (frontpagemag)
~ CLAIMS THE NYT: If Only we Stopped Calling Them “Jihadis” the Muslim World Would Support us Against al-Qaeda. What– “Our New Benevolent Mohammedan Overlords” would calm it all right down? …. (weaselzippers.net)
~ STINKING INFIDEL Kafirs Must Be Thankful to Jihadists for Murdering, Enslaving and Raping Them, by Abu Taleb …. (islam-watch.org)
~ PRAGUE: Mohammed Cartoons Plastered Throughout City …. (weaselzippers)
~ ISLAM WATCH: Heil Hitler, Heil Muhammad, by Sujit Das …. (islam-watch.org)
~ MORE DEAD PEOPLE.. The excuse this time? More Cartoon Rage– Suicide Bomber at Danish Embassy Kills 8; Fogh: “An Attack on Denmark” …. (gatewaypundit, gatesofvienna)
Fresh Blood-Sacrifices Unto Allah
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