amkun on January 18, 2008 at 12:14 PM

I’d welcome Canadians fleeing persecution from the Stalinist Human Rights Commission. Maybe give them refugee status as they flee from the Thought Police.

Buy Danish on January 18, 2008 at 12:26 PM

As long as they bring plenty of Molson’s and bacon.

Traditionally, an “agent provocateur” in the men’s room has to entrap the guy in the adjoining stall into propositioning sex. In other words, the target still has to commit the actual crime. But in the case of the HRCs the agent provocateur can, in effect, commit the crime himself and then charge the target with it.

Nice work if you can get it.

This isn’t a means to an end, its a beginning.

Stormfront is just the worst/first offender, the precedent being set, all anonymous posters are culpable, anywhere.

sweeper on January 18, 2008 at 3:24 PM

If you want to fire the art director for an ugly cover which doesn’t appeal to people who are looking for entertainment, maybe, but how is it that the mere picture of a noose is offensive?

Is the noose the new Mohammad?

Reaction to the noose drew a harsh rebuke from PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem.

“Clearly, what Kelly said was inappropriate and unfortunate, and she obviously regrets her choice of words,” Finchem said in a statement. “But we consider Golfweek’s imagery of a swinging noose on its cover to be outrageous and irresponsible. It smacks of tabloid journalism. It was a naked attempt to inflame and keep alive an incident that was heading to an appropriate conclusion.”

I find it hard to believe that Finchem actually read the issue itself, and it is beyond ironic that the editor is being fired for an issue which discusses Tilghman’s suspension and Al Sharpton’s hand in it.

I mentioned in another recent post on the Alberta Human Rights Commission that these quasi-judicial bodies in Canada only take on cases they know will end up deciding in favour of the claimant; since the commission both represents the claimant and hears the case, such an outcome is pretty much a given.

Frozen Tex on January 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Knowledge. ~1984.

I think the ‘Slumtards have gone too far this time. This will be the stage that free speech will be decided upon for the free world. With Ezra and Steyn representing free speech I think the west will be well served.

Why this knee jerk reaction to write off and then belittle people, countries, continents because of a bit of negative information? Take everything with a grain of salt and assess it’s significance before you all pout and b!tch.

It most certainly is a form of censorship! In this case Golfweek magazine is bowing to the shrieks of race baiting hysterics.

He should have been fired for the crime of idiocy. Let Sharpton and Jackson and any other private citizen complain about speech.
When it comes from sitting Senators than I will worry. (Oh wait)

That’s why parasites like Sharpton and Jackson have an income. That’s why the media, and most Americans, stumble all over themselves so as not to utter such despicable terms as “black” or “homosexual.” You will now kowtow to “persons of color” or “gay” in America.

ThoughtCrime has come to America. The captioned matter should not be read so as to confine it to Canada.

The Socialist States of America will require you to control your own thoughts – before you think them. And, if you utter them, you will be condemned [at the least] and jailed.

The New America awaits, Comrades.

Isn’t Mark Steyn an American Citizen now?

Buy Danish on January 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM

No. He just lives here, in part.

Josephine on January 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM

Not much milder.

Buy Danish on January 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM

I mentioned in another recent post on the Alberta Human Rights Commission that these quasi-judicial bodies in Canada only take on cases they know will end up deciding in favour of the claimant; since the commission both represents the claimant and hears the case, such an outcome is pretty much a given.

This is all very disturbing.

Back to Mark Steyn, I heard a great interview with him a few weeks ago (Michael Medved?) and he said that no defendant has ever won a case brought by the Human Rights Commission. How’s that for a gloomy prognosis?

Here is an excellent companion piece from the 1/15 issue of American Spectator on this topic and the topic of libel tourism.

…the HRCs the agent provocateur can, in effect, commit the crime himself and then charge the target with it.

Surreal.

MCPO Airdale on January 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM

It most certainly is a form of censorship! In this case Golfweek magazine is bowing to the shrieks of race baiting hysterics.

When magazines and newspapers refused to publish the Mohammed cartoons that was not government censorship either (the exception being in countries where the government controls the press); it was editorial censorship and it happened all over the world, notably right here in the U.S.

Luckedout on January 18, 2008 at 12:21 PM

That is positively Orwellian. No one is safe from the P.C. lynch mob.

I think I’ll send Golf Week a letter to decry the fact that they fired the previous editor, Dave Seanor.

If anyone’s interested in joining me, here’s the info from their masthead:

Golfweek, 1500 Park Center Drive, Orlando, FL 32835
Vice President/Publisher: Terry Olson

Reception: 404-563-7000
Subscriptions/Customer service: 800 996 4653

Turnstile Publishing Company:

Chairman: Rance Crain

upinak on January 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM

What’s Alaska’s gun-rights scene like? CCW Shall Issue?

Not that we’ll be leaving anytime soon; my fiance has a job she loves making somewhere in the neighbohood of $40/hr, with pretty comprehensive benefits, and I’m not far behind her. That’s hard stuff to leave.

I’m reminded of J Edgar Hoover’s Klan-busting techniques. Sometimes the leadership and a large percentage of the rank-and-file members of local KKK outfits were either on the payroll of the FBI or outright undercover agents.

Somehow I doubt that Canadian agents are trolling Islamist sites and leaving pseudonymous posts about jihad. That in itself is probably a violation of CHRC rules (such as they are).

Nobody here says that speech is without consequences. What we are discussing is government sanction on speech – that is censorship.

amerpundit on January 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM

Do you know how the person was discovered?