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	<title>Comments on: Canadian institutions vulnerable to threat of political Islam</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Vardit Feldman</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-16428</link>
		<dc:creator>Vardit Feldman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Frank,
Hate speech has hit another venue and that is in the home between families students versus parents.  It may be difficult for some to understand, however when kids go to universities out of town there is a great deal of freedom, including the freedom to meet people with ideas which are initially antithetical to yours, but slowly and surely your kids are influenced.  So much has been concentrated on the kids and how Jewish organizations help or have tried to help the university kids at some point.  I agree with this help becaue it is imperative.  What is left out of the equation are the parents who are suffering because suddenly thier kids are against you and every fibre of what you stand for.  Your religion, your politics, your way of life.  The kids come home calling you a right winged  bigot or they compalin the Israelis are not exactly kind to the Pals and suddenly they quote Naomi Klein or Judy Rebick and you pray they don't end up like them.  Parents feel isolated and alone in all this and we get no help.  If you think this is an isolated case, I implore you to think again.  Help has to be extended to the parents as well - especially if the kids live out of town  out of our reach.  I look to Bnai Brith to get something started here and maybe I am asking for the moon and the stars , but maybe no one thought about this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Frank,<br />
Hate speech has hit another venue and that is in the home between families students versus parents.  It may be difficult for some to understand, however when kids go to universities out of town there is a great deal of freedom, including the freedom to meet people with ideas which are initially antithetical to yours, but slowly and surely your kids are influenced.  So much has been concentrated on the kids and how Jewish organizations help or have tried to help the university kids at some point.  I agree with this help becaue it is imperative.  What is left out of the equation are the parents who are suffering because suddenly thier kids are against you and every fibre of what you stand for.  Your religion, your politics, your way of life.  The kids come home calling you a right winged  bigot or they compalin the Israelis are not exactly kind to the Pals and suddenly they quote Naomi Klein or Judy Rebick and you pray they don&#8217;t end up like them.  Parents feel isolated and alone in all this and we get no help.  If you think this is an isolated case, I implore you to think again.  Help has to be extended to the parents as well - especially if the kids live out of town  out of our reach.  I look to Bnai Brith to get something started here and maybe I am asking for the moon and the stars , but maybe no one thought about this.</p>
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		<title>By: GINA RAHMAN</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-13476</link>
		<dc:creator>GINA RAHMAN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hate speech isnt free speech because it censors the reality of who a people really are. Andrea Dworkin said the same thing about pornography that it  is hate speech and censors the real being.
It is radical Islam's real and ideological alliance with the Nazis that is problematic to say the least. Maybe someone should remind them what happened to Japan as an axis country aligned with Germany. Obviously it is also the alliance that the Bush, Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller family had with Nazi Germany that affects the way they attack a liberal democracy and liberal ethical humanism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hate speech isnt free speech because it censors the reality of who a people really are. Andrea Dworkin said the same thing about pornography that it  is hate speech and censors the real being.<br />
It is radical Islam&#8217;s real and ideological alliance with the Nazis that is problematic to say the least. Maybe someone should remind them what happened to Japan as an axis country aligned with Germany. Obviously it is also the alliance that the Bush, Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller family had with Nazi Germany that affects the way they attack a liberal democracy and liberal ethical humanism.</p>
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		<title>By: Research Canadian</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-11537</link>
		<dc:creator>Research Canadian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We also need to recognize that Islam is a political system and has failed most countries.

- Egypt(relies on about 2 billion in U.S aid/year)
- Saudi Arabia (exports Wahhabi Islam which results in killings on a global scale)
- Indonesia (ethnically cleanses it's minority Christian populations, especially during crises such as the fall of Suharto's government in 1998.) There was massive rape sprees by soldiers of underage girls living in minority villages. They were blamed because they controlled all the businesses. 
- Turkey (1/3 are Kurds) and the murder of women and the taking of several brides are common(women are now protesting in large numbers so maybe this will change Turkey for the better in the coming decades)
- Sudan and Somolia (human rights disasters...sotnning of women..amputation of limbs as punishment...could you get any more midevil?)
- Pakistan(The world's most dangerous country...recently, 5000 Hindu Pakistanis fled towards India's border only to be sent back).
- Malaysia (conflicts with Hindu minorities...although they fixed it...it's still hard being a Hindu in Malaysia).

Polygamy...honor killings...mutilations of private areas of the females. Hatred of Jews and Christians as non believers and also as pigs and monkeys. 

What a wonderful religion Islam is. They also won't shake hands with a woman either.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We also need to recognize that Islam is a political system and has failed most countries.</p>
<p>- Egypt(relies on about 2 billion in U.S aid/year)<br />
- Saudi Arabia (exports Wahhabi Islam which results in killings on a global scale)<br />
- Indonesia (ethnically cleanses it&#8217;s minority Christian populations, especially during crises such as the fall of Suharto&#8217;s government in 1998.) There was massive rape sprees by soldiers of underage girls living in minority villages. They were blamed because they controlled all the businesses.<br />
- Turkey (1/3 are Kurds) and the murder of women and the taking of several brides are common(women are now protesting in large numbers so maybe this will change Turkey for the better in the coming decades)<br />
- Sudan and Somolia (human rights disasters&#8230;sotnning of women..amputation of limbs as punishment&#8230;could you get any more midevil?)<br />
- Pakistan(The world&#8217;s most dangerous country&#8230;recently, 5000 Hindu Pakistanis fled towards India&#8217;s border only to be sent back).<br />
- Malaysia (conflicts with Hindu minorities&#8230;although they fixed it&#8230;it&#8217;s still hard being a Hindu in Malaysia).</p>
<p>Polygamy&#8230;honor killings&#8230;mutilations of private areas of the females. Hatred of Jews and Christians as non believers and also as pigs and monkeys. </p>
<p>What a wonderful religion Islam is. They also won&#8217;t shake hands with a woman either.</p>
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		<title>By: Research Canadian</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-11536</link>
		<dc:creator>Research Canadian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Free speech is free speech. We should allow talk about how the Prophet slept with a 7 year old child and then took over half the world via by the sword. The crusades came later. We'll deal with these people at the Chapters Bookstores. We don't want to end up like Europe where politicians are now being charged with racism for speaking the truth about Islam. We shouldn't introduce seperate Islamic schools for kids(which are segregated into boys and girls) we also should stop these people at the border. Else, we'll be colonized just like Europe.

Some books you might want to read ==&#62;

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying The West From Within By; Bruce Bawer

Undercover in Little Morocco, behind the closed doors of radical Islam by Hind Fraihi.

"Infidel" By: Ayaan Hirshi Ali

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis  By: Bat Yeor

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide and, both from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. By: Bat Yeor

"Chasing A Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State" By: Tarek Fatah

Among Criminal Muslims A psychologist's experience from Copenhagen. By:  Nicolai Sennels</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free speech is free speech. We should allow talk about how the Prophet slept with a 7 year old child and then took over half the world via by the sword. The crusades came later. We&#8217;ll deal with these people at the Chapters Bookstores. We don&#8217;t want to end up like Europe where politicians are now being charged with racism for speaking the truth about Islam. We shouldn&#8217;t introduce seperate Islamic schools for kids(which are segregated into boys and girls) we also should stop these people at the border. Else, we&#8217;ll be colonized just like Europe.</p>
<p>Some books you might want to read ==&gt;</p>
<p>While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying The West From Within By; Bruce Bawer</p>
<p>Undercover in Little Morocco, behind the closed doors of radical Islam by Hind Fraihi.</p>
<p>&#8220;Infidel&#8221; By: Ayaan Hirshi Ali</p>
<p>Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis  By: Bat Yeor</p>
<p>Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide and, both from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. By: Bat Yeor</p>
<p>&#8220;Chasing A Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State&#8221; By: Tarek Fatah</p>
<p>Among Criminal Muslims A psychologist&#8217;s experience from Copenhagen. By:  Nicolai Sennels</p>
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		<title>By: William Hayes</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-169</link>
		<dc:creator>William Hayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was with great sadness that I read the submission of B'nai Brith to the alleged Human Rights Commissions. Sadness that a civil organization like BB could be so blinded as not to see that they are supporting an abomination of democracy and a civil society. 

First they came for ne-nazis; and no one cared because they are hate-mongers and probably deserve what they get; hatred for hatred. Then they came for devout Christians who wouldn't support gay rights because of their religious beliefs. Then they came for media columnists who, by quoting Islamist zealots with the intent of exposing their hatred, were branded as racists. Next they came for Jewish organizations like B'nai Brith; with anonymous charges creating process that continues 4 years later. Then they came for Ontario doctors; insisting that any doctor who possessed a conscience have their licences revoked.

Today, people in other civil societies fear to tread on Canadian soil for fear of our Commissars. Next will be the Islamist zealots demanding that they be appointed to head these so-called 'Tribunals' in proportion to their representation in society. Imagine tool that you have created in the hands of Islamist zealots! And after all of this, I read that B'nai Brith still supports this growing monster; just some minor tweaking and all will be well. How blinded can one be? 

Weep for your children Canada. We have created the perfect weapon with which to intimidate and ultimately destroy our civil society. The Islamists must be laughing themselves silly to think that it was well-meaning Jewish organizations and other mindless, aethiest 'kuffar' that will be ultimately responsible for creating, empowering, nuturing and defending the beast that will one day undo us all. After reading the B'nai Brith submission, perhaps we deserve what will come if these blots on our society retain their power. Obviously, we are too blinded by our own immediate concerns to see the larger danger.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was with great sadness that I read the submission of B&#8217;nai Brith to the alleged Human Rights Commissions. Sadness that a civil organization like BB could be so blinded as not to see that they are supporting an abomination of democracy and a civil society. </p>
<p>First they came for ne-nazis; and no one cared because they are hate-mongers and probably deserve what they get; hatred for hatred. Then they came for devout Christians who wouldn&#8217;t support gay rights because of their religious beliefs. Then they came for media columnists who, by quoting Islamist zealots with the intent of exposing their hatred, were branded as racists. Next they came for Jewish organizations like B&#8217;nai Brith; with anonymous charges creating process that continues 4 years later. Then they came for Ontario doctors; insisting that any doctor who possessed a conscience have their licences revoked.</p>
<p>Today, people in other civil societies fear to tread on Canadian soil for fear of our Commissars. Next will be the Islamist zealots demanding that they be appointed to head these so-called &#8216;Tribunals&#8217; in proportion to their representation in society. Imagine tool that you have created in the hands of Islamist zealots! And after all of this, I read that B&#8217;nai Brith still supports this growing monster; just some minor tweaking and all will be well. How blinded can one be? </p>
<p>Weep for your children Canada. We have created the perfect weapon with which to intimidate and ultimately destroy our civil society. The Islamists must be laughing themselves silly to think that it was well-meaning Jewish organizations and other mindless, aethiest &#8216;kuffar&#8217; that will be ultimately responsible for creating, empowering, nuturing and defending the beast that will one day undo us all. After reading the B&#8217;nai Brith submission, perhaps we deserve what will come if these blots on our society retain their power. Obviously, we are too blinded by our own immediate concerns to see the larger danger.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Narvey</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-159</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill Narvey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frank, you began this post with:

"I’m interested in knowing what you think."

Obviously that same opening statement implicitly prefaces all of your posted articles and comments.

Those who have taken the time to post their reactions to your comments deserve to know what you and B'Nai Brith think about the comments you have received!

Why should anyone bother following your blog and spend their time responding if we have no indication from you and B'Nai Brith that our comments are taken seriously and that they will have any impact on your thinking and that of B'Nai Brith?

So Frank the question to you is whether the comments you invite in this and your other posted articles means a tinkers damn to you and B'Nai Brith?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frank, you began this post with:</p>
<p>&#8220;I’m interested in knowing what you think.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously that same opening statement implicitly prefaces all of your posted articles and comments.</p>
<p>Those who have taken the time to post their reactions to your comments deserve to know what you and B&#8217;Nai Brith think about the comments you have received!</p>
<p>Why should anyone bother following your blog and spend their time responding if we have no indication from you and B&#8217;Nai Brith that our comments are taken seriously and that they will have any impact on your thinking and that of B&#8217;Nai Brith?</p>
<p>So Frank the question to you is whether the comments you invite in this and your other posted articles means a tinkers damn to you and B&#8217;Nai Brith?</p>
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		<title>By: William Hayes</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-146</link>
		<dc:creator>William Hayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I must add my voice to the unanimous condemnation of the whole HRC 'industry'. They have become a perversion of 'Human Rights'; a twisted 'evil twin' of the real thing.

It is time for B'nai Brith, the CJC; everyone who initially supported these abominations to just take it like a man. Stand up and admit it; "We helped create a monster. We believed that we could control it with the sheer force of our good intent; but it has slipped it's leash and is on the loose. We were wrong; but now we will take the side of freedom and civil society in fighting against our own creation".  That's what needs to be done. No amount of tinkering will change the nature of the beast now. It has tasted blood and will not willingly go back into it's cave.

At the very, very least, the HRCs must be stripped of any actual power. Section 13 must be repealed completely. Their quasi-justicial powers stripped from them; completely. Perhaps they could continue to exist as an investigative body; or even provide prosecutors for HR cases deemed worthy of prosecution. But they must be forced to do so in real courts, with real rules of evidence; where truth is a defence. Where people who think that "freedom is speech is an American value and we don't believe in that here" will be forced out from under their bigotted, intolerant rocks to face the light of day. Where nasty, cynical and opportunistic sleazebags like some former HRC investigators will be put to a real test; and where they will have to pay themselves when caught weaving webs of deceit and false accusation. Where laughing Islamist bigots and theocrats don't get to enjoy watching the devolution of civil western society; at no cost to themselves; using the tools that 'useful idiots' in that same civil society have provided for them.

The HRCs are a sham and a disgrace. In my opinion, they are in fact, evil. An insidious and potentially mortal danger to civil Canadian society. Even now, we have convention groups in the US and other democratic countries wondering whether they should come to a country where Star Chamber Commissars hold sway. Who knows who they're going to go for next? Certainly the Ontario Physicians College is afraid of them already; reference their recently published new 'guidelines' for doctors. 

This madness must stop. And as one of the creators of this monster; no matter how well intentioned at first; I believe that it is incumbent on B'nai Brith and others to step to the forefront of the effort to defang them now that they have shown their true intent. To do less is to tacitly admit that 'you' are as bad as 'they' are; and I don't actually believe that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I must add my voice to the unanimous condemnation of the whole HRC &#8216;industry&#8217;. They have become a perversion of &#8216;Human Rights&#8217;; a twisted &#8216;evil twin&#8217; of the real thing.</p>
<p>It is time for B&#8217;nai Brith, the CJC; everyone who initially supported these abominations to just take it like a man. Stand up and admit it; &#8220;We helped create a monster. We believed that we could control it with the sheer force of our good intent; but it has slipped it&#8217;s leash and is on the loose. We were wrong; but now we will take the side of freedom and civil society in fighting against our own creation&#8221;.  That&#8217;s what needs to be done. No amount of tinkering will change the nature of the beast now. It has tasted blood and will not willingly go back into it&#8217;s cave.</p>
<p>At the very, very least, the HRCs must be stripped of any actual power. Section 13 must be repealed completely. Their quasi-justicial powers stripped from them; completely. Perhaps they could continue to exist as an investigative body; or even provide prosecutors for HR cases deemed worthy of prosecution. But they must be forced to do so in real courts, with real rules of evidence; where truth is a defence. Where people who think that &#8220;freedom is speech is an American value and we don&#8217;t believe in that here&#8221; will be forced out from under their bigotted, intolerant rocks to face the light of day. Where nasty, cynical and opportunistic sleazebags like some former HRC investigators will be put to a real test; and where they will have to pay themselves when caught weaving webs of deceit and false accusation. Where laughing Islamist bigots and theocrats don&#8217;t get to enjoy watching the devolution of civil western society; at no cost to themselves; using the tools that &#8216;useful idiots&#8217; in that same civil society have provided for them.</p>
<p>The HRCs are a sham and a disgrace. In my opinion, they are in fact, evil. An insidious and potentially mortal danger to civil Canadian society. Even now, we have convention groups in the US and other democratic countries wondering whether they should come to a country where Star Chamber Commissars hold sway. Who knows who they&#8217;re going to go for next? Certainly the Ontario Physicians College is afraid of them already; reference their recently published new &#8216;guidelines&#8217; for doctors. </p>
<p>This madness must stop. And as one of the creators of this monster; no matter how well intentioned at first; I believe that it is incumbent on B&#8217;nai Brith and others to step to the forefront of the effort to defang them now that they have shown their true intent. To do less is to tacitly admit that &#8216;you&#8217; are as bad as &#8216;they&#8217; are; and I don&#8217;t actually believe that.</p>
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		<title>By: Wally Keeler</title>
		<link>http://bnaibrith.ca/franksblog/?p=54#comment-141</link>
		<dc:creator>Wally Keeler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“Whatever else, poetry is freedom.”
 -- Irving Layton

Canada’s greatest poet, Irving Layton, grew up in the hardscrabble area of Montreal where Jews had to battle for their rightful place. Irving Layton was not a whiner – he was a fighter. He learned from experience, street experience. He advised me that survival required two punches to the face for every one punch received. Good advice.

He stood up for himself, and by doing so, he stood up for me and for you and for Canada, and by extension, for everyone on this planet who believed in the primacy of the individual over groupism and tribalism, of freedom of speech over  muffled speech. He stood up for himself. He would never have countenanced a government agency standing up on his behalf. He would have rightly regarded that as a weakening of his own survival skills.

Irving Layton wrote: “There is no force more subversive than poetry and that is why tyrants have always feared it and sought to suppress it. But not only tyrants. Everyone who has a vested interest in preventing the individual from discovering the truth of his own self and his own capacities fears the liberating power that resides in poetry.”

Human rights commissions have become the current equivalents of the censorious U.S. House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, which was launched with the good intention of stpping the spread of odious ideas but ending in disgrace and injustice, so much so that President Harry S. Truman referred to it as the "most un-American thing in the country today." 

Human rights commissions are the step-child of the defunct Ontario Film Censorship Board (http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/1234)  set up to protect civilians from smut, pornography and immorality, proselytizing that society needed to be protected from the epidemic of rape and sexual assault that would follow if there were no censorship. The Board ended up becoming an embarrassment of injustice when it banned ‘Not A Love Story’, an anti-pornography movie because it contained images of oral sex, but the violent scenes were okay. The Board was ridiculed by the international community for its continual harassment of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Human rights commissions have become a re-re-re-tread of the zeitgeist of Victorianism, protecting the widespread cultivation of an outward appearance of dignity and restraint while practicing its antithesis; it was quintessential hypocrisy but now with a 21st century style gag. Human rights commissions do not decrease instances of hate; it nurtures them by driving them underground where they cannot be seen, where they cannot be fought in the full light of free speech.

Human rights commissions have become carriers of the infection of the alcohol prohibitionists, of the  marijuana (reefer madness) prohibitionists, of the porn prohibitionists, and now, hate prohibitionists. The carriers of this prohibitionist infection are always the self-righteous, the interest groups claiming to protect society from itself, asserting they know what is best for the good of society while preventing the bad.

These prohibitionist groups have a fundamental mistrust of democracy; they cannot put their faith in the common sense of free speech, or in the historical record of the liberating power of free speech. The prohibitionists view the civilian masses in a democratic society to be intrinsically weak, that Canadians are a hair-trigger away from committing another holocaust. 

The liberation of societies from the tyranny and oppression of the divine right of kings, from dictatorshit, from totalitarianism, did not come about from restrained speech. Democracy owes its existence to free speech. How can the continuity of democracy be assured when it is permitted only one arm to defend itself against totalitarian or ideological enemies, when incompetent human rights commissions tie the other arm with the restraint of censorshit.

The prohibitionists are poetry prophylactics; they prevent the conception and creativity of wit; they disarm the word warriors that are most effective at fighting hate. The prohibitionists are imposing their own bigotry on our democratic society. They are committing textual assault against free speech. It is not freedom of speech that needs restraining; it is the inept bureaucrazy of the human rights commissions that need restraining. They have become nothing more than a mafia of meddling mediocrity rats of the lowest disorder.

I have a developed a deep and profound hatred for the contaminating effects of human rights commissions. I hold the entire group of human rights commissioners in naked contempt for their textual assault on free speech. I will continue to call for their complete liquidation as a group in our society. So there you have it; go shake your rattle tail to the nearest human rights commission near you.

Wally Keeler
314 – 37 Eden Place
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2V6
poetburo@hotmail.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Whatever else, poetry is freedom.”<br />
 &#8212; Irving Layton</p>
<p>Canada’s greatest poet, Irving Layton, grew up in the hardscrabble area of Montreal where Jews had to battle for their rightful place. Irving Layton was not a whiner – he was a fighter. He learned from experience, street experience. He advised me that survival required two punches to the face for every one punch received. Good advice.</p>
<p>He stood up for himself, and by doing so, he stood up for me and for you and for Canada, and by extension, for everyone on this planet who believed in the primacy of the individual over groupism and tribalism, of freedom of speech over  muffled speech. He stood up for himself. He would never have countenanced a government agency standing up on his behalf. He would have rightly regarded that as a weakening of his own survival skills.</p>
<p>Irving Layton wrote: “There is no force more subversive than poetry and that is why tyrants have always feared it and sought to suppress it. But not only tyrants. Everyone who has a vested interest in preventing the individual from discovering the truth of his own self and his own capacities fears the liberating power that resides in poetry.”</p>
<p>Human rights commissions have become the current equivalents of the censorious U.S. House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, which was launched with the good intention of stpping the spread of odious ideas but ending in disgrace and injustice, so much so that President Harry S. Truman referred to it as the &#8220;most un-American thing in the country today.&#8221; </p>
<p>Human rights commissions are the step-child of the defunct Ontario Film Censorship Board (http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/1234)  set up to protect civilians from smut, pornography and immorality, proselytizing that society needed to be protected from the epidemic of rape and sexual assault that would follow if there were no censorship. The Board ended up becoming an embarrassment of injustice when it banned ‘Not A Love Story’, an anti-pornography movie because it contained images of oral sex, but the violent scenes were okay. The Board was ridiculed by the international community for its continual harassment of the Toronto International Film Festival.</p>
<p>Human rights commissions have become a re-re-re-tread of the zeitgeist of Victorianism, protecting the widespread cultivation of an outward appearance of dignity and restraint while practicing its antithesis; it was quintessential hypocrisy but now with a 21st century style gag. Human rights commissions do not decrease instances of hate; it nurtures them by driving them underground where they cannot be seen, where they cannot be fought in the full light of free speech.</p>
<p>Human rights commissions have become carriers of the infection of the alcohol prohibitionists, of the  marijuana (reefer madness) prohibitionists, of the porn prohibitionists, and now, hate prohibitionists. The carriers of this prohibitionist infection are always the self-righteous, the interest groups claiming to protect society from itself, asserting they know what is best for the good of society while preventing the bad.</p>
<p>These prohibitionist groups have a fundamental mistrust of democracy; they cannot put their faith in the common sense of free speech, or in the historical record of the liberating power of free speech. The prohibitionists view the civilian masses in a democratic society to be intrinsically weak, that Canadians are a hair-trigger away from committing another holocaust. </p>
<p>The liberation of societies from the tyranny and oppression of the divine right of kings, from dictatorshit, from totalitarianism, did not come about from restrained speech. Democracy owes its existence to free speech. How can the continuity of democracy be assured when it is permitted only one arm to defend itself against totalitarian or ideological enemies, when incompetent human rights commissions tie the other arm with the restraint of censorshit.</p>
<p>The prohibitionists are poetry prophylactics; they prevent the conception and creativity of wit; they disarm the word warriors that are most effective at fighting hate. The prohibitionists are imposing their own bigotry on our democratic society. They are committing textual assault against free speech. It is not freedom of speech that needs restraining; it is the inept bureaucrazy of the human rights commissions that need restraining. They have become nothing more than a mafia of meddling mediocrity rats of the lowest disorder.</p>
<p>I have a developed a deep and profound hatred for the contaminating effects of human rights commissions. I hold the entire group of human rights commissioners in naked contempt for their textual assault on free speech. I will continue to call for their complete liquidation as a group in our society. So there you have it; go shake your rattle tail to the nearest human rights commission near you.</p>
<p>Wally Keeler<br />
314 – 37 Eden Place<br />
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2V6<br />
<a href="mailto:poetburo@hotmail.com">poetburo@hotmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rod Fraser</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Fraser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am pleased to hear that B'nai Brith feels the HRCs in Canada need reform and your comments are a reasonable attempt to do just that. But I think you are mistaken in your assumptions. THe HRCs are just too political to tweak this or adjust that. What I have read suggests that there are serious investigative abuses, procedural problems, lack of disclosure and a general lack of judgement on the part of the CHRC and many of the other provincial commissions. 

When HRCs are embolded to take on main stream media publications, cartoonists and even comedians, they become an embarassment to this country. They really aren't able to exercise prudent judgement on issues such as freedom of expression. The solution with such a sorry state of affairs is to repeal Section 13 of the CHRA and any similar provincial legislation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am pleased to hear that B&#8217;nai Brith feels the HRCs in Canada need reform and your comments are a reasonable attempt to do just that. But I think you are mistaken in your assumptions. THe HRCs are just too political to tweak this or adjust that. What I have read suggests that there are serious investigative abuses, procedural problems, lack of disclosure and a general lack of judgement on the part of the CHRC and many of the other provincial commissions. </p>
<p>When HRCs are embolded to take on main stream media publications, cartoonists and even comedians, they become an embarassment to this country. They really aren&#8217;t able to exercise prudent judgement on issues such as freedom of expression. The solution with such a sorry state of affairs is to repeal Section 13 of the CHRA and any similar provincial legislation.</p>
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		<title>By: John V</title>
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		<dc:creator>John V</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fire them all. We don't need these scary and creepy people lurking in the shadows of our society pretending they are doing something noble. They are vile scum and I want them GONE.

There are real courts if someone has a real problem with their hurt feelings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fire them all. We don&#8217;t need these scary and creepy people lurking in the shadows of our society pretending they are doing something noble. They are vile scum and I want them GONE.</p>
<p>There are real courts if someone has a real problem with their hurt feelings.</p>
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