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Great minds. Eco-fanatics want to control climate and put a controlled thermostat on dear mother earth. The 'Obamed cult' and the technocratic elite see no market, transaction or personal action which should not be managed by a mommy-state. And of course we have the Hate-speech crusaders who desire to regulate thoughts, emotions and define what can or cannot be said in public or posted in private forums on-line. Such an idea is pathological – you can't control emotions or thinking – and predictably the consequences of trying to do so mean a reduction in freedom and liberty.
The hypocrisies of Human Rights Tribunals are legendary. Formed in the wake of the political-correct, flower-child, pass-the-bong revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, these state indoctrinated commissions exist to 'police' speech ensuring that any written or spoken word does not 'instigate violence or hate' against an identifiable group; or hurt someone's feelings who is a minority. It is of course a complete nonsense. It is the state after all who will define 'hurtful' speech and it is the state which will protect some groups but not others.
It is not a coincidence that in 30 years of HRC rulings only whites have been charged with hate crimes. That is a statistical fact. Muslims, Arabs, Black power fanatics, Gays, anti-Christian zealots and those who insult the so-called majoritarian culture are not targeted by the state, nor charged. In fact it is these groups which are protected by the state. It is highly unlikely that a Jew who went to the HRC protesting Muslim web sites located in Canada which demand the annihilation of Israel, or instruct on how to cut off a Kafir's head would be able to launch a HRC probe. The state would simply not care.
And that is the right answer – but it is not applied evenly. So the inevitable distortion arises. The state will view some groups as vulnerable and others as oppressive. It thus chooses winners and losers. This is anti-constitutional and immoral. No unelected, unaccountable set of bureaucrats has the legal or constitutional right to define and limit speech; nor do they have a divine power to grant some groups protection or favored status whilst denying it to others.
Last week the Supreme Court of Canada finally recognised the unlawful nature of HRCs – a decision which will hopefully spell the beginning of the end for these statist and unnecessary witch burners. For 6 years Marc Lemire a so-called Neo Nazi and one time owner of a racist website, was investigate by the CHRC for online racist postings and anti-Gay comments. But Lemire defeated the charges. As SC Judge Hadjis stated:
"I have...concluded that s. 13(1) in conjunction with ss. 54(1) and (1.1) are inconsistent with s. 2(b) of the Charter, which guarantees the freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression.
"The restriction imposed by these provisions is not a reasonable limit within the meaning of s. 1 of the Charter."
Hadjis said that because the Tribunal is not capable of actually repealing section 13, "I will simply refuse to apply these provisions for the purposes of the complaint against Mr. Lemire and I will not issue any remedial order against him."
Lemire told LifeSiteNews.com that he is pleased with the Tribunal decision, and is looking forward to getting back to normal life after the long case. "I want to get back to my life," he said. "These people have stolen six years of my life, where I had to dedicate myself to fight these absolutely groundless charges. ... So I want to get back to my life now, and I want to help anybody else that is currently before any of these tribunals."
There is no doubt that Lemire's views are inflammatory and at times overtly racist. But so are many other views shared and posted online or in various journals and papers. Lemire was singled out as an easy target – a white male, who had obvious racist leanings and anti-minority sentiments. But many non-white Lemire's exist in our world. Whole organisations of Blacks, Arabs, Muslims and other 'minority' interests exist which are racist and supremacist. The entire Koran is a litany of hate speech for instance, but no one has been persecuted by the HRCs for spreading its message of intolerance and supremacism.
Lemire was a lone white man who looked to be easy prey for the HRC wolves. Now that he is acquitted the statist control freaks will have a tougher time imposing state limitations on thinking and freedom of expression. Simply put you cannot legislate 'right' thinking; mental and emotional conformity nor emotional management.
Hate is a natural emotion and a necessary one. It is not entirely destructive either. Hate and the venting of natural frustrations is part of the human experience. Without hate you are not alive. It does not mean that the hate can be directed into violence. But loathing something like for example, the killing of unborns; smoking; widespread poverty; unclean water; or cutting off of Jewish heads does have positive side effects. The 'hate' leads to actions to limit the object of the hate. Everyone can benefit from hateful emotions properly directed.
You can even learn from hate speech. Why is Mein Kampf banned but not other hate material ? Mein Kampf should be a necessary read – not an outlawed far-left book of fascist intolerance. The ideas in it are loathsome and instructive. Mein Kampf shows the damage that a pathological cultural zeitgeist, married to the rantings of an illiterate mediocrity can produce. It is an instructional manual on how not to think rather than a book that we should be afraid to open.
Outlawing Mein Kampf shows up the hypocrisy of the state's arbitrary attitude towards hate speech. I would argue with a lot of proof, that the Koran is hate speech. I can also go and find Black racist websites, ezines produced extolling the virtue of killing of whites, Jews, and others; and I would have no problem in finding Gay statements inciting violence against church-goers who go to churches which are not sufficiently gay-friendly. These offensive and extremist positions are ones not to be shut down, but to be disclosed for what they are – the rantings of uncivilised and immature minds.
You can't control the climate. You can't regulate every transaction and decision. You can't legislate the arrestation of emotions. Government has no business selectively deciding who can say what and how. Life is full of conflict and hate. And that is good. It makes living more interesting.
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