CRAZY CANADA UPDATE
Posted on June 27, 2008
The Canadian double standard
As Mark Steyn has discovered, in Canada today you cannot say anything critical of Muslims without risking a summons to appear before a “human rights” tribunal. The same does not apply to Muslims, however. They can utter all the hate-speech they like:
“You know what is the really sobering thing about that ongoing terror trial in Brampton?
Clue: It’s not that there was a plot to attack Canadian targets. And of course there was; the court has heard evidence up the ying-yang that there was just such an enterprise afoot. Was it the finest plot ever? Oh hardly. Were its members variously bumblers, what those who hang around courts call “yutes” or raving hotheads? Absolutely. But there was a plot.
It’s not even the hate, chiefly for Jews and Americans, that one of the group leaders preached at the drop of a hat and the top of his lungs with almost magnificently ungrammatical, near-illiterate, Koran-ignorant hysteria. It’s that he felt so free to preach it.
It’s that he felt comfortable enough to hand out jihadist CDs outside at least one Toronto mosque and to occasionally turn up in combat fatigues at another. It’s that he giddily talked to one of his alleged co-conspirators about the obligation to kill Jews whenever one finds them. It’s that the leadership of the group regularly met at a half-dozen mosques in the GTA, usually on Fridays, the day of communal prayer. It’s that within minutes of meeting Mubin Shaikh, a fellow Muslim-turned-CSIS informant-turned-paid-RCMP agent, he was openly verbally indulging his bloodlust and “recruiting” Mr. Shaikh: Their shared religion was enough.
Another naughty Canadian
The lesbians could dish it out but they couldn’t take it. So they went crying to Momma:
“A Canadian stand-up comedian will face a human rights tribunal hearing after a woman complained she and her friends faced a “tirade of homophobic and sexist comments” while attending one of his shows.
In a decision released this week, the B. C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled there is enough evidence to hear the case of Vancouver woman Lorna Pardy against Toronto comedian Guy Earle. Zesty’s Restaurant in Vancouver, where the May 22, 2007, show took place, has also been named in the complaint.
Ms. Pardy could not be reached yesterday for comment. However, the tribunal’s decision says she alleges she was discriminated against over her sex and sexual orientation when Mr. Earle made public comments “intended to humiliate her.”
The ruling says Mr. Earle and Ms. Pardy “have very different versions of who was to blame for the incidents, how it came about and how it escalated.” There is also a dispute over what role alcohol played in the incident.
“Mr. Earle does, however, admit that he used comments which he now regrets,” says the tribunal. “Those admitted comments may go to establish discrimination.”
Reached yesterday, Mr. Earle said he was the show’s emcee when Ms. Pardy and two of her friends walked in, sat in the booth closest to the stage and began heckling him and other comics. “Two of them started making out, flipping me the bird and saying I hated lesbians,” he said.
Mr. Earle was reluctant to repeat the remarks that led to the human rights complaint. “Everybody wants to know what I said, and I invite people to come see me on stage because you can’t take it out of context. And that’s exactly what’s happened here. “The reader or the listener or whatever has no feeling for the environment of the comedy show that is triple-X, edgiest-show-in-town, controversial and offensive, so when you walk in there you’re making an agreement to be a party to this controversial show.”
“They were drunk, they were being jerks and I was very rude and visceral to them because, like I said, if you have a heckler what you want to do is put them in their place by offending them, so I tried to hit them where it hurts and the only thing I had to key on was the fact that they were lesbians. “I don’t care if they’re lesbians, heterosexuals, homosexuals or giraffes.”
Mr. Earle said the complaint is an attack on comedians’ right to perform. “I would never have expected it would get escalated to a philosophical battle.” He added it’s been more than 40 years since controversial U.S. comic Lenny Bruce was jailed for obscenity over his comic material– “and we’re still fighting the same battle. I know it’s a fight I can never win. But I’ve got to keep fighting.”
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As an update for the Mark Steyn case, the HRC dismissed the case. Chalk one up for ‘the people’.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080628.wMacleans0628/BNStory/National/home
Greetings from Canada’s Left Coast. In support of Mr. Earle, I put together this video.
Canada a country prone to paranoia, and facisim ( s.i.c. )
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
2009HSD0059-000505
October 19, 2009
Ministry of Housing and Social Development
OUTSTANDING WARRANTS TO BE INELIGIBLE FOR SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
VICTORIA – The provincial government will restrict access to income assistance and disability assistance for people with outstanding indictable arrest warrants in B.C. and other provinces, as well as arrest warrants under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada).
Indictable offences are the most serious types of offences and include a wide range of crimes such as assault, breaking and entering, drug trafficking, murder, assault with a weapon, and assault causing bodily harm.
“Our intention is to ensure those charged with indictable offences take personal responsibility and resolve the serious charges against them before being provided social assistance in this province,” said Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social Development. “Our government is committed to providing assistance to people most in need, and we do not tolerate any abuse of the system.”
Exceptions will be made for dependent children and highly vulnerable people, such as those who are pregnant or who are in the last stages of life.
If an adult in a family has a warrant, the family is still eligible for assistance, but assistance will only be paid for the family members who do not have a warrant. No assistance will be paid to the warrant holder.
“This amendment will help ensure social assistance goes to those most in need and to ensure we are fiscally accountable to B.C. taxpayers,” Coleman concluded.
The proposed amendment is expected to be in place by early 2010.
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