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Another instant classic, "Canadian Radio Classics: Warman of the Royal Canadian Mounted Human Rights Police".

In case you're not checked out on Canadian political correctness (makes our stateside version seem a bit weak, for now) just know that what you say or blog (or even think, huh?) can be used against you in a kangaroo court. No matter what it is that you say, print or post, the threshold for (in)tolerance is very low. A single complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission can bring down the stuffed shirts with an axetogrind...

Marc Lemire is a computer whiz, and also past-president of the late Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi organization. That is to say that while a quick glance at his freedomsite.org looks mostly concerned with free speech, he is not the ideal poster boy for it.

Enter Richard Warman, a former CHRC employee but now a serial complainer to it with a seemingly boundless vulnerability to offence. He complains about offensive comments on Lemire's web page.

Lemire is then charged under Section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which makes it illegal to disseminate material on the Internet "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt."

For Warman, it is a familiar evolution; he has done this a dozen times before with other people, and is so far 12 for 12.

Lemire, however, suspects the commission itself may be the source of some comments.

Sure enough, at the tribunal, two CHRC employees admit logging in under false names to post provocative comments.

Including Warman himself, posting under the handle 'axetogrind'.

It's a big complicated mess. I'm just glad I don't live in Canada; they can keep their restrictive clauses and trumped-up overlawyered injustices up there. And in Massachusetts. Our own liberals here in the U.S. have a desire that we be just like the Canadians, with their poor-quality socialized medicine, their absolute gun control, and this nearest thing to thought crime since Orwell put a camera in every TV set.

Oh. Back to Iowahawk's post.

You'll find, of course, Waxman and...Reconstructed Eagle. This character had my characteristically stoic half-smile turn to an actual, well, grin.

If you can believe that.

;D

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