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from National Review:
FANTASTIC NEWS! [Mark Hemingway]
The national Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped its complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine
The complaint that was heard in the B.C. Human Rights Commission is still pending, however, so they're not out of the woods yet. There's also the very real problem that these commissions might sidestep penalizing Steyn and Maclean's out of self-preservation. They know that in going after high profile targets they've bitten off more than they can chew — any action against them would likely stir political action to do away with the commisions altogether. If they drop the complaint against Steyn, the political pressure will simply go away and they're free to continue zealously violating the rights of lesser known individuals and organizations.
Well, whether or not Steyn and Maclean's have their complaints dropped, the tyranny of these bureaucratic star chambers needs to end. And the sooner the better. As Ezra Levant likes to say: Fire. Them. All.
06/27 12:12 PM
LittleGreenFootballs:
FIRST TIME in 31 years of persecutions.
Friday, June 27, 2008
The Canadian 'Human Rights Commission' Caves
Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:00:57 am PDT
Ezra Levant reports that the Orwellian star chamber known as the Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped their ludicrous persecution of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine: The Canadian Human Rights Commission blinks.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival. As I predicted last week on the Michael Coren Show, that instinct would cause them to drop the complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s. And so they did.
With an RCMP investigation, a Privacy Commission investigation and a pending Parliamentary investigation, they’re already fighting a multi-front P.R. war, and losing badly. Not a day goes by when the CHRC isn’t pummelled in the media. Holding a show trial of Maclean’s and Steyn, like the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal did earlier this month, would be writing their own political death sentence.
So they blinked. Against everything in their DNA, they let Maclean’s go. That’s the first smart thing they’ve done; because the sooner they can get the public scrutiny to go away, the sooner they can go about prosecuting their less well-heeled targets, people who can’t afford Canada’s best lawyers and command the attention and affection of the country’s literati.
swhitebull - sanity is slowly returning to the Great White North, with egg droppings on many faces that deserve to have it drip.
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