From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 5

The March 25 hearing was a disaster for the CHRC. Its staff had to admit, under oath, that they routinely went online under false identities to provoke reactions from neo-Nazis. The CHRC admitted that it had no controls over who had access to these CHRC neo-Nazi website membership accounts. Despite dozens of objections made by CHRC lawyers - apparently to run out the clock on the one-day hearing - the CHRC's dirty laundry was aired in the national media. (p. 39)

Well, it's really hard for an old-fashioned kind of person like me to "not" see how that would eventually become a cloak for corruption, if it hasn't become one already. Anyway,

The dirtiest fact of all: the CHRC had logged on to a neo-Nazi website by illegally hacking into a private citizen's wireless Internet account at her home. It was a means to cover the CHRC's tracks, so that the identity of the originating, government computers would be hidden. That staggering revelation came from Alain Monfette, a Bell Canada security officer, who had been subpoenaed by Lemire to find out who had gone on online as "Jadewarr," one ofte CHRC's neo-Nazi codenames. Monfette disclosed to a stunned courtroom that jadewarr's posts had been made thorugh the Internet account of Nelly Hechme ... (p. 39)

who happened to live around the corner from the CHRC.

Well, just so you know, recently, the government blew Hechme off, and she was forced to abandon her complaint. In Trudeau's heirs' Canada, you do not have the rights you thought you had grown up with. You have only the bones they will throw you after their feast. And those bones might be unspeakable, unfit for human viewing, let alone consumption.

To some, yes, it is dirty laundry. To others, it is just the way their business is done. But why are Canadians funding it?

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From Mark Steyn's "Introduction" to Ezra Levant's "Shakedown"

Mark Steyn introduces Levant's work by pointing out how social engineering was snuck into Canada on the basis of largely non-existent problems:

Before they made the strategic miscalculation of going after Ezra's Western Standard (p. xiii)

See also: Ezra Levant's Shakedown: A Preliminary Note

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From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 4

It's hard to believe, but government bureaucrats, paid with tax dollars, who are supposed to be promoting human rights and interracial relations, are spending their time becoming members of neo-Nazi websites and writing bigoted comments n the Internet. Their goal is to goad Canadian citizens into replying with their own hateful comments - which the human rights investigators can then prosecute as human rights abuses.

That would be like a police officer setting out lines of cocaine at party, snorting a few himself, then inviting other people to do the same - and then arresting them when they take him up on his offer. (p. 31)

I wish I could find all this as hard to believe as Ezra Levant says he does. He can't really, truly find it very hard to believe, because he must have grown up in the shadow of Trudeaupian authoritarian government. However, even if you grew up with the rot, plumbing the depth takes some work, of course.

A country that puts enormous faith in government to be more moral than the rest of us - well, what would you expect? No government is more moral than the citizens who elect it, except by the merest chance. And that certainly didn't happen here in Canada.

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Shakedown - 3

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 2

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 1

From Mark Steyn's "Introduction" to Ezra Levant's "Shakedown"

Mark Steyn introduces Levant's work by pointing out how social engineering was snuck into Canada on the basis of largely non-existent problems:

Before they made the strategic miscalculation of going after Ezra's Western Standard (p. xiii)

See also: Ezra Levant's Shakedown: A Preliminary Note


Shakedown.

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 3

Disclosure in the B.C. human rights trial of Maclean's magazine was even zanier, if that's possible. The Canadian Islamic Congress gave copies of some of their documents to Maclean's the night before the hearing - not weeks before, as they had been ordered to do. At one point in the trial, proceedings had to stop as everyone waited fir the CIC's documents to be printed out at a local Kinko's. Then they were rushed to the court - which is when lawyers from Maclean's got their first look at them.

Maclean's magazine eventually won its case in the BCHRT. But the fact that it even ad to go through a trial after having the identical complaint dismissed by both the federal and Ontario human rights commissions shows the abusiveness of the system. Unlike most targets of th HRCs, the popular magazine had the money to run a five-day show trial, and had it lot, appeal its case to a real court that would apply real constitutional principles, such as freedom of the press. That's likely the very reason why Maclean's was acquitted: the human rights mandarins knew that the national media would kick up a huge uproar if an established natoinal media outlet was censored abased on the complaints of a few thin-skinned complainers-of-fortune.

Maclean's wasn't let go because it was "innocent." It was let go because it was too big and powerful for the BCHRT to crush - for now. It took forty-seven pages of legal acrobatics for the BCHRT to try to explain why Maclean's should go free, while other B. C. Publications that had written similar critical essays had been convicted. (p. 27)

I've already told you: Buy the book. You need to know how out of control our justice system is in Canada, thanks to "human rights" commissions. It's all pretty clear if you get one thing straight: If you are important, rich or powerful, you are entitled to your opinion. Otherwise, nada.

Of course, we could change this. We could go back to the traditional Canada where people were allowed to have their own opinions, in general.

(Not to say that that is necessarily the high road to popularity. For example, if your opinion is that everyone should eat a half litre of worms every day or that every woman who happens to live on your street should consider herself free for a date - for religious reasons - well ... most Canadians just won't join your religion. In which case, you must learn to get along with unbelievers ... )

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From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 2

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 1

From Mark Steyn's "Introduction" to Ezra Levant's "Shakedown"

Mark Steyn introduces Levant's work by pointing out how social engineering was snuck into Canada on the basis of largely non-existent problems:

Before they made the strategic miscalculation of going after Ezra's Western Standard (p. xiii)

See also: Ezra Levant's Shakedown: A Preliminary Note

Shakedown.

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 2

Okay, I am providing you with nice quotes, but, for heavens' sakes, buy the book! It's about how you - or anyone - could be shaken down, even if you are no reasonable person's idea of a bigot.

Not a Canadian? Hey, if you don't help stop it, this idea will spread!

The main reason that today's human rights commissions feel so un-Canadian is that their operations violate the most basic principles of natural justice. As soon as a human rights complaint is filed, the deck is stacked against the accused. For most of Canada's HRCs, taxpayers foot the bill so that government-paid bureaucrats can investigate complaints and government-paid lawyers can prosecute them. The targets of those complaints, on the other hand, don't get any government help. Many are too poor to hire lawyers and private investigators. So they must fend for themselves against an army of public paper-pushers.

(A study of the cases in which the Canadian Human Rights Commission investigated allegations of hate speech, for example, foujnd that 91 per cent of the government's targets were too poor to afford lawyers and appeared either on their own or with representation by a non-lawyer volunteer.) In other words, it's a turkey shot for the government, with poor, intimidated targets fighting against the unlimited resources of the state. (p. 19)

Levant invites us to contrast this with the careful practice of Canada's real criminal courts, where defendants who cannot afford a lawyer are assigned one - courtesy either of the government or of a charitable society aimed at rehabilitating criminals.

Of course, that makes sense. Real judges in real courts will not waste time in disputes with a citizen who knows nothing of English common law. In a real court, common sense would surely require that - if the accused wants counsel but cannot afford it - he will simply have counsel appointed for him by the court. It is a bit of expense, but saves everyone time in the long run.

Remember, the accused is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.

By contrast, these "human rights" cases seem aimed merely at getting convictions; otherwise, they would long ago have adopted this critical safeguard for justice.

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From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 1

From Mark Steyn's "Introduction" to Ezra Levant's "Shakedown"

Mark Steyn introduces Levant's work by pointing out how social engineering was snuck into Canada on the basis of largely non-existent problems:

Before they made the strategic miscalculation of going after Ezra's Western Standard (p. xiii)

Ezra Levant's Shakedown: A Preliminary Note

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown - 1

From Ezra Levant's Shakedown:

By the time the battle against bigotry was being decisively won in the late 1980s and 1990s, the human rights industry spawned by Canada's HRCs had become too big to fold up and throw in the recycling bin. And so new, previously unknown brands of discrimination had to be found for yesterday's anti-racists and their newly recruited colleagues.

That's where things went of the rails: these once-honourable institutions aimed at correcting historic injustices slid into farce. More and more of the complaints that came their way were from crackpot narcissists, angry loners, and professional grievance collectors. Their disputes had nothing to do with human rights as we know the term. But in the absence of legitimate human rghts cases, the HRCs took on their causes - with disastrous and sometimes Kafkaesque results. Ironically, an institution devoted to human rights has now become the biggest threat to our core liberties - most notably, freedom of speech. (P. 8)

Yes, that is the country I know. And to me it feels immensely liberating to just hear someone recount to a wide audience what has really happened, instead of all the distortions created by "protecting" people's feelings, and "agreeing with" claims of grievance in order to stay in business - that is, after all, the signature tune of the "human rights" racket.

We do have real problems in this country. People are losing their jobs right and left, and are uncertain how to get another job that pays a living wage. It's not clear how we will fund our excellent health care system in this environment. About the last thing we need is grievances fronted by people who may well have too much time on their hands to think up reasons to be at odds with their neighbours, as recounted in Shakedown.

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From Mark Steyn's "Introduction" to Ezra Levant's "Shakedown"

Mark Steyn introduces Levant's work by pointing out how social engineering was snuck into Canada on the basis of largely non-existent problems:

Before they made the strategic miscalculation of going after Ezra's Western Standard (p. xiii)

See also: Ezra Levant's Shakedown: A Preliminary Note

From Mark Steyn's "Introduction" to Ezra Levant's "Shakedown"

The more I dug, the more I discovered that my interrogation at the hands of the government wasn't unusual. Every day, Canadians from coast to coast are trapped in these Alice in Wonderland commissions, where bizarre new human rights are made up on the spot, and where regular legal procedures don't apply. Sometimes, it feels like Saudi justice; sometimes, it smacks of the old Soviet Union; sometimes, it sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch. Rarely does it feel Canadian. (p. 4)

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Shakedown: The book you need to buy to understand Canada today

Ezra Levant's Shakedown: A Preliminary Note