Friday, May 23, 2008

Vancouver: Fighting the Thought Police

This is an ongoing series of reports from Covenant Zone in Vancouver.


Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value. ---Dean Stacy, Canadian Human Rights Commission

It's Thursday in Vancouver, Canada, and that can only mean one thing: The Blue Revolution comes again to the public library to meet openly and as subversively as possible in the atrium outside Blenz coffee bar. We don't do this to upset the thought police in the country, but as soon as they clear their roster for trials against Mark Styne, Erzra Levant, Kathy Shaidle and co, I suspect they'll find a way to bring us up on charges too. We meet once a week here in Vancouver to talk about, among other things, free speech, which as you see above, is an American thing. What you might not have known is that according to the CHRC, that means it's not a Canadian thing. And who or what is the CHRC? Damned if I know.

They're the thought police here, but what is that? What, aside from a group of quasi-judicial provincial and federal government employees with the power to enter your home or office at any time they find reasonable to look for anything they might find of interest to themselves regarding a complaint anyone at all might have made about you being a hate-monger, and then having the power to haul you before their commission to have a hearing, which, by the way, you need a lawyer to defend you from, (while the complaintant has his paid for by the government) and which, unfortunately for you, you have no chance of winning since the government bureaucrats have never lost even one case, i.e they've won 100 percent of their cases against "hate-mongers', you can then get socked with an entirely government backed-up by the police fine of up to $50,000.00. That's part of what the thought police CHRC is. And it gets worse, unfortunately. Worse and worse and worse daily. If you haven't see so far, look at the youtube videos of Ezra Levant for some black humor and more details of this madness. Dean Steacy, as above, he's a government bureaucrat who files charges against hate-mongers. He's one of the thought-police here. I'm not making it up. Crazy, yes, but it's true. And eventually the CHRC thought police are going to come for me and the people I meet with every Thursday evening at the library. When they do we do not stand a chance of defending ourselves against them. No one does.Not ever.

"[F}or an organization that is supposed to promote 'human rights,' the HRC's agents seem curiously oblivious to basic aspects of constitutional law. In one famous exchange during the Lemire case, Steacy was asked 'What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate?" -- to which he replied "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value.' "


I'm living in a foreign country, and this one is so foreign I can't shake my head hard enough to see straight when I encounter the kind of insanity that passes for law and government here. This is Canada, only a few hundred miles from Seattle, only a short drive to America. This place is mad with politically correct thought police run amok. It's a porous border, friend. If you come here, you can be arrested for saying the wrong thing, and you can end up bankrupt for it, criminalized, and ruined. This mad place is coming to you, however slowly, and not so slowly at that.

My friends and I meet in public once a week in the main library to talk about jihad and left dhimmi fascism. We sit in the open, and anyone who cares to know does know that we do so. We face down jihadis, we confront Death hippies who can barely restrain themselves from attacking us physically. We stand up to them, and we sit every week for a couple of hours to show we won't be silenced by this kind of government sanctioned madness. They'll come for us someday. till then, we sit and challenge them to come today. This might be the day. We won't know till they come for us. I'm asking you to sit with us. I'm asking you to face the same danger. To take the same risk of losing and being hurt.

Free speech is an American thing. I don't expect anyone from out of town to actually sit with us this day, but I do ask that you think about sitting in your own city library with your own friends as we do here to discuss the case of free speech in Canada. We're going to talk again this evening about Mark Styne, who'll be here in a few weeks to face his own inquisition before the CHRC's provincial arm, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. you can do that now if you choose to. You can sit with people you meet over the internet or from your daily encounters with people you know. You can do what we do, and with some lesser degree of danger, I hope. Free speech. It's an American Concept. According to many Canadians, it's a Canadian concept too. Even the English have thought it an English concept since around the time of the Magna Carta. The French, much as one might not think them likable, think of it as a French concept, at least since 1789. And many people around the world think it's just plain universal as a concept. But it's one people have to fight for if it's going to be a concept all at.

We're going for coffee and cookie tonight at the library. We could be arrested for talking to each other. We could be arrested for talking about free speech.
We're not exactly wild-eyed radicals here. We're more bookish and tending toward the past 40 demographic. We're dangerous. We speak out loud in public and people know about it. We aren't political or religiously motivated. We're just folks who believe in democracy and other American things like free speech. We're creating a revolution here. We'd like you to join us in it. Meet some friends for coffee at a library. Talk. Share ideas and books and internet tips. You'll scare the hell out of the Death Hippies if you do.

Tonight we'll talk about Mark Styne; about the the al-Dura hoax, about a 15 year old English boy arrested for referring to Scientology as a cult; about retirees threatened by the city government for speech violations; maybe about homeless people barred from city shelters for being suspected of blogging.

Mostly we'll sit and have coffee and talk and wait....


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Yalla, Dag

Covenant Zone meets every
Every Thursday evening, 7-900 p.m, at the main public library in the atrium outside Blenz coffee bar they meet to discuss current events regarding jihad and Left dhimmi fascism.

If you are in the Vancouver area, you are welcome to join them.

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