Book Endorsement: The Tyranny of Nice

This book is a MUST READ for any FREE person in Canada

(who isn't?) who wants to remain FREE.

Selected Quotes from book: The Tyranny of Nice

p. x – “I don’t have as diminished a view of the Canadian people as its rulers do. I think that, as citizens of one of the oldest sustained constitutional democracies on the planet, Canadians are quite grown-up enough to decide for themselves what they want to read.” Mark Steyn

P. xi – “Why surely all sensible persons of moderate bent can agree that in the case of the Nazis “hateful words” led to “unspeakable crimes”? If only there’d been “reasonable limits on the expression of hatred” seventy years ago, the Holocaust might have prevented. There’s just one tiny problem with this argument: Pre’Nazi Germany had such “reasonable limits on the expression of hatred.” Indeed, the Weimar Republic was a veritable proto-Trudeaupia of hate laws, boasting over 200 prosecutions for anti-semitic speech. And a fat lot of good it did. All it meant was that, when Hitler came to power, there was already in place a raft of “reasonable limits” that he was able to use against the folks who’d previously used them against him. (It’s worth noting, by the way, that most of powers Hitler “seized” arfter the burning of the Reichstag – the right to search and seize your property without a warrant, the right to monitor your communications – Canada’s “human rights” commissions already have.)

Mark Steyn

p.18 - “Unlike the province’s “real” courts, AHRC tribunals don’t observe traditional rules of jurisprudence. Remember: in the upside down parallel universe that is the Canadian Human Rights bureaucracy, truth is no defense, intent is irrelevant, one is guilty until proven innocent, and the lucky complainant’s legal costs are covered by the province’s taxpayers – while the accused is obliged to spend thousands on his own defense in the almost certain knowledge that he will lose anyway.”

p. 20 – “ As Alan Borovoy, general counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Asociation, wrote in the Calgary Herald on March 16, in direct response to wht within complaint, “during the years when my colleagues and I were labouring to create such commissions, we never imagined that they might ultimately be used against freedom of speech.” Borovoy wrote that censorship was “hardly the role we had envisioned for the human rights commissions. There should be no question of the right to publish the impugned cartoons.” Excerpt from Ezra Levant’s response to Human Rights Commission complaint

p.24 – “These commissions aren’t normal. It’s not normal to haul publishers before the government to ask them about their political thoughts. It’s not normal for a secular state to enforce a radical Muslim fatwa against cartoons. These human rights commissions are countedrfeits; they improperly benefit from the reputation of real courts, but they also destroy respect for the whole legal system – that’s just what counterfeit currency does amidst real currency.

Denormalizing the commissions is important, especially since most people have never heard of them, and when they do, they hear three positive words: “human rights commissions.” It’s sort of like the old Communist countries, like the “German Democratic Republic”, which was neither Democratic nor a Republic, but it sounded good. Same thing here.” Ezra Levant

p.25 “In it, he wrote: “Sharia cannot be customized for specific countries. These universal, divine laws are for all people of all countries for all times.” --- “His column is clear. He wanted to bring sharia to Canada and even helped found fthe organization that spearheaded the drive to do so. But in our meeting, Soharwardy denied his own column. “I never asked to bring sharia in Canada,” he now insists.”

Calgary Herald’s Lucia Corbella writing about Calgary Imam Soharwardy

p.27 “There’s something ineffable about being a free man, about saying what you want, about not being afraid of what someone else thinks.” Ezra Levant on his website after he republished Rev. Stephen Boissoin’s “illegal” letter to the Red Deer Advocate.

p.32 “Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader’s self-esteem. Maclean’s published a bushel of letters following the article’s appearance: some praised it: others scorned it. That’s freedom of speech: that’s democracy: that’s the messy business we call the exchange of ideas and opinions.” ---- “Maclean’s and its columnists – especially of late – are an ornament to Canada’s civic space. They should not have to defend themselves for doing what a good magazine does; start debate, express opinion, and stir thought. And most certainly they should not have to abide the threatened censorship of any of Canada’s increasingly interfering, state appointed and paradoxically labeled human rights commissions.” Rex Murphy, CBC, The National - commenting on the cases brought against Maclean’s and Mark Steyn in front of 3 Human Rights Commissions.

p. 33 -- “There should be a very heavy burden of proof on any effort to restrict freedom of speech. I strongly oppose the measures you describe. I do not think the burden of proof is even approached, let alone met.” Radical leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky about the case.

p.33 “In the three decades of the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s (CHRC) existence, not a single defendant has been acquitted; not one. The Commission has a staggering 100% conviction rate. Interestingly, more than half of the complaints have been launched by just one person – a former employee of the CHRC.” Liveral MP Keith Martin

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