FRONTPAGEMAG
by Paul Gottfried
March 5, 2013

Last week a ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court upheld a very broad hate speech law in the province of Saskatchewan, a law that exists in even more extreme forms in other Canadian provinces and perhaps in the most extreme form in the Canadian Human Rights Act, which makes it a criminal offense to preach something called “hate.” The Saskatchewan resident who was found guilty of this outrage was a religious Christian who had distributed pamphlets declaring homosexuality to be a sin. If this gentleman, William Whatcott, had expressed the same view over the Internet, he could have been arrested under a federal law prohibiting “homophobic” speech. In 2008 in the Canadian province of Alberta a Protestant minister was arrested for delivering a sermon that was critical of gay marriage; and the same fate befell an Evangelical printer in Ontario two years ago who refused to produce invitations to a gay wedding. In Ontario it is now a punishable offense to put up a billboard that “discriminates,” a grievous offense that courts have been left to define and decide.

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http://frontpagemag.com/2013/paul-gottfr...ch-in-the-west/

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Three concluding points may be appropriate here.

One, the current war against politically incorrect speech throughout the Western world is ultimately far more destructive than the attempts to quiet dissenters that are pursued under authoritarian governments like China.
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Two, almost all political attacks on intellectual and religious freedom that I’ve recorded are directed against what is perceived as the “far right.” There is no other presumed threat that the government and leftist establishments in Canada and Europe are interested in silencing. But more significantly, this allegedly rightist enemy has come to embrace anyone who dissents from the left’s program of control or imposed ideology
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Three, there is no one-to-one relation any longer between governments that permit some degree of economic freedom and those that refrain from throttling politically insensitive opinion

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Two notable quotes in a fascinating article...

Needless to say, Muslim extremists are hardly ever touched by this draconian legislation and are usually quite free to rage against Christians and Jews.

We've all seen this dynamic at work here in the US.

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One might also note that the banning of “rightwing” hate speech in every form has allowed communists and their sympathizer to remove from public discussion any mention of communist mass murder. In France, Germany and Italy any awkward attempt to bring up this matter, particularly after the publication of the Black Book of Communism in 1997 detailing the grisly killings committed by communist governments, elicits charges from the entire left, and not just communists, about diverting attention from pressing fascist threats.

It's always been disturbing to me that Nazi atrocities get a just response of horror, but that Communist atrocities (worse and more numerous) are all but ignored.

This has been part of the radical leftist educational agenda to convince younger Americans that being "right wing" (like Hitler, in their view) is evil, but being "left wing" (like Stalin) is not. Part of the reason that Obama is so popular among the young is that pointing out that he is a Marxist is no big deal to an entire generation. Communists have convinced them that Communism is a good thing and that only "right wingers" are dangerous.

That's why WE need to be silenced, while they (Leftists and oddly including Muslims) have the freedom to attack Conservatives and Christians at will.

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It's always been disturbing to me that Nazi atrocities get a just response of horror, but that Communist atrocities (worse and more numerous) are all but ignored.

This has been part of the radical leftist educational agenda to convince younger Americans that being "right wing" (like Hitler, in their view) is evil, but being "left wing" (like Stalin) is not. Part of the reason that Obama is so popular among the young is that pointing out that he is a Marxist is no big deal to an entire generation. Communists have convinced them that Communism is a good thing and that only "right wingers" are dangerous.

That's why WE need to be silenced, while they (Leftists and oddly including Muslims) have the freedom to attack Conservatives and Christians at will. [/quote]

ABSOLUTELY INDEED. Hideous. The traitorous DOUBLE STANDARD STUFF reeks with the odor of hell.

Communists killed, IIRC, UPWARDS OF 130 MILLION between Russia, China and a number of others.

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #2

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Three concluding points may be appropriate here.

One, the current war against politically incorrect speech throughout the Western world is ultimately far more destructive than the attempts to quiet dissenters that are pursued under authoritarian governments like China.
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Two, almost all political attacks on intellectual and religious freedom that I’ve recorded are directed against what is perceived as the “far right.” There is no other presumed threat that the government and leftist establishments in Canada and Europe are interested in silencing. But more significantly, this allegedly rightist enemy has come to embrace anyone who dissents from the left’s program of control or imposed ideology
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Three, there is no one-to-one relation any longer between governments that permit some degree of economic freedom and those that refrain from throttling politically insensitive opinion

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VERY SOBERING STUFF. THANKS.

Given such FACTS as the above . . . it still boggles my mind that many folks STILL do NOT see the BILLBOARD SIZED handwriting on the walls.

Hitler was not rightwing, the father land, was all about big government and unions.