Freedom of the Press

Mark Stein and McLeans’s have become the targets of persecution not by the police or CSIS but by the Human Rights Tribunals of Canada and British Columbia. Jack Layton has sent a letter of support not to Stein or McLean’s in support of freedom of the press, but in support of the Canadian Islamic Congress, according to its lawyer. Tommy Douglas and David Lewis would both be ashamed.
Douglas believed, for instance, that separatists deserved the protection of the law against the War Measures Act. He thought civil liberties were not something you picked and chose for people just because you liked them or not. It was precisely when speech was inconvenient and annoying and a little offensive that it was in need of protection the most in a free society. Mr. Layton forgot. Disgraceful.
The best you can say about Mr. Layton is that he is a vote-mongering politician like all the others. Even his own colleague, Robin Sears, understands how dangerous this situation is, especially regarding the Elections Canada issue. Other have forgotten about that because is concerns the Conservatives who got raided. I wonder how they would feel about being raided themselves.
These are attacks on our civil liberties that are occurring and just because the victims aren’t popular doesn’t make it anything less than an attack on all of us. People should understand that freedom of the press means a different thing in Canada than it does in Syria or Iran, and it has to be that way. The weeping press that sheds crocodile tears for terrorists can’t see it and loathesomely takes advantage and suggests that the election was not legitimate.