Audio: Mark Steyn on the end of free speech in Canada
posted at 9:30 pm on February 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Twenty minutes with Shire Network News, starting at 13:35 of podcast 115 in the right-hand sidebar. The persecution of Ezra Levant is being carried out by a single Star Chamber; the persecution of Mark Steyn is being carried out by three, an unnecessary redundancy given that the defendant is always guilty in these Kafkaesque situations. There’s a lot to unpack but pay particular attention to his point about what a society free of offense requires of the state. Hence the polite banality of Levant’s interrogator and the “smiley face” to which SNN refers in its post as Canada transitions: A spoonful of sugar makes the, er, medicine go down.
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There could be worse things than Mark Steyn having to make a home in the US.
We’ll hold the line against Islamic umbrage – at least for a while.
drjohn on February 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM
I like Stalin. Always did like being told what to do and when.
Starlink on February 6, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Love American Style
Canada Libel Tourism Sytle
Kini on February 6, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Freedom is the freedom to say “Islam sucks.”
The “1 + 1 = 2” of the post-Orwellian world.
Without the ability to offend the offensive there is no meaning to “freedom”.
profitsbeard on February 6, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Whereas the Canadian house passed a law allow for unlimited detention of terrorist subjects so is still some hope.
New canadian anti terror law
William Amos on February 6, 2008 at 9:55 PM
My country,slowly going down the river with no paddle!
canopfor on February 6, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Thanks AP for highlighting this. I would have missed this otherwise.
Spirit of 1776 on February 6, 2008 at 10:04 PM
How is that a good thing, if they define free speech as “terrorism?”
Of course there has always been “unlimited detention” for people caught red-handed planting and setting off bombs. The new laws apply only to the people who criticize that sort of behavior.
logis on February 6, 2008 at 10:13 PM
You will tolerate the intolerance.
jukin on February 6, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Kafkaesque should be good for asylum.
Speakup on February 6, 2008 at 10:20 PM
America Alone should be mandatory reading!
arizonateacher on February 6, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Europe—->Canada/Australia—–>the U.S.A
Entelechy on February 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM
The only one acquitted was the Canadian Nazi party and that’s because it didn’t exist.
How insane has Canada become and why?
TheBigOldDog on February 6, 2008 at 10:39 PM
lol, what’s with they “what’s up ladies?” photo of Steyn on the main page?
RightWinged on February 6, 2008 at 10:45 PM
I think he does live in the US. Doesn’t he live in New Hampshire?
TX Mom on February 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM
It’s better than that scary one they used to always use. He looked like some kind of crazy mountain man.
TX Mom on February 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Yes, Canadian citizen living in N.H. Maybe this will be the push he needs to become a US citizen.
Splashman on February 6, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Great interview. Honesty has become dangerously radical.
Beagle on February 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM
I have seen the future, and I don’t like it!
oldleprechaun on February 6, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Somehow I don’t think the HRC’s are looking forward to their inquisition.
This has a much better chance of a common sense ending than a Kafka ending.
If I am wrong than all is lost….:o)
BL@KBIRD on February 7, 2008 at 12:52 AM
Thanks for the link…. If you have any comments on the interview or the rest of the show for that matter, we’d be happy to hear them!
We will have part two of the interview with Mark Steyn next week.
brianoflondon on February 7, 2008 at 3:11 AM
It feels more and more like we’ve all fallen down the rabbit hole.
Rod on February 7, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Fools. If people are not free to say what they think then how will we know what they think.
frreal on February 7, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Hey Brian, thanks for the consistantly great job Shire News Network does covering the really important news of the day with sharp wit and humor. Much appreciated.
techno_barbarian on February 7, 2008 at 9:17 AM
The trend is truley frightening and I don’t see the course changing.
brtex on February 7, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Free speech is an indulgence of one’s self, an exclusionary indulgence of the individual at the expense of the overall interests of society. Society must protect its diversity and the rights of its oppressed minorities from speech that perpetuates their victimhood by being judgemental.
I remember when this was a free country.
petefrt on February 7, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Awesome post, thanks for that. That sure beats listening to some of the local liberal drivel I get the radio.
cat-scratch on February 7, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Shire Network News Podcast – a MUST LISTEN!
RushBaby on February 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Steyn sums it up best: Of course we can claim the right to not be offended. The only problem is that if we gain that right, we will lose ALL other rights.
logis on February 7, 2008 at 2:46 PM
Yes. I meant to add that his America Alone is available now in audio edition, so you can listen to it while you drive. IMO, it’s the most valuable book I’ve read in the last year or so.
petefrt on February 7, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Thank goodness the Muslims are so foolish when picking their battles and their opponents. We couldn’t ask for a better champion for free speech than Mark Steyn. Isn’t it time that some investigative reporters hunted down the Muslim perpetrators and grilled them? Wouldn’t this make a fabulous 60 Minutes segment?
The bigger this gets, the better. It will educate the slumbering masses about the Islamic contempt for free speech and build up the resistance against Muslim encroachment on our liberty.
Tantor on February 7, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Everyone who hasn’t already should check our IowaHawk’s superb parody of this.
GreenBlade on February 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM
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