It CAN Happen Here

[jordan179]

Courtesy of erudito, the following update by Ezra Levant on his persecution by the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission

Comments

[eric_hinkle]

I'm kinda surprised to see anyone speaking in defense of Ernst "Hitler is alive and well inside the Hollow Earth, and oh yes, the Holocaust is a Jew lie" Zundel -- though I think it's better to have these guys out in the open where you can see them. And besides, Zundel is such a sorry fool.

And nailing someone for airing a foolish opinion is a very bad idea. As I've told friends of mine who support banning opinions they find disagreeable: what happens when someone with the authority to make it stick decides that YOUR opinion is worthy of nothing but a prison term?

[autobeast]

what happens when someone with the authority to make it stick decides that YOUR opinion is worthy of nothing but a prison term?

You know as much problem as the left has had with right-central authorities (both real and imagined), you'd think they'd get that.

[mythusmage]

That's the problem, control is more a progressive thing than a conservative. As a matter of fact, when it comes to controlling people's public behavior conservatives are actually more liberal than progressives are.

[eric_hinkle]

Yes. I've also sad as much to some of my fellow Christians who tend to be to knee-jerk in their responses to everything they dislike. "If you give goverment the right to suppress speech and behavior we [Christians] all despise, then what happens when they use that very same law to suppress opinions of ours that someone dislikes?"

I so wish that American schools emphasized thinkng over feeling...

[headnoises]

"What the government gives, the government can take away."

Classic, but accurate?

"What the government gives, the government can take away."

[eric_hinkle]

So make sure YOU run the Government and can never be overthrown.
By any means necessary.

That's what it comes down to.