SansPretense

You’ve got to be fu…ok, I’m going to try to bite my tongue on this one because I’m linking to all these nice peoples blogs…

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! (that’s the only one - promise):

TORONTO — A woman caught up in a mysterious Internet hijacking scandal that has sparked a federal privacy investigation into the Canadian Human Rights Commission says she was shocked, angry and confused at suddenly finding herself publicly associated with white supremacists.

Speaking out for the first time, Nelly Hechme told The Canadian Press she was appalled to learn commission investigators might have hacked her Internet connection to post messages on supremacist websites.

“It’s horrible,” Hechme said. “You never want something like that attached to your name.”

Last month, an investigator with the Human Rights Commission told a hearing into a hate complaint that he made postings on websites under the password-protected pseudonym “Jadewarr.”

In response to a subpoena, Bell Canada linked “Jadewarr” to Hechme’s personal Internet account, and provided her address and telephone number at the public hearing.

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So far, the commission has not explained why or how its investigators might have commandeered Hechme’s connection or offered any alternative explanation for how Hechme and “Jadewarr” became linked.

Ian Fine, senior general counsel with the rights commission, said he was unable to comment on the specifics of the case in light of ongoing investigations but denied any wrongdoing.

“We are quite confident that, at the end of the day, it will be established that the Canadian Human Rights Commission has done nothing untoward, nothing wrong, in this whole scenario,” Fine said.

Read the full article here. Hat tip to Small Dead Animals.

That’s considered legal and appropriate behavior for a government official? Why didn’t the CHRC investigator simply create their own online persona if they needed to entrap go undercover to prove their “case”? Hell, it’s not that hard to do. (more after jump)

This whole Human Rights crap coming out of Canada is getting more and more ridiculous. Ezra Levant is apparently getting sued again for libel by some super-sensitive nutcase (emphasis mine):

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I mean, seriously, look at why Vigna says he’s going to sue me. On page three of his threat, he’s underlined what he says makes him really mad at me. He complains that I made fun of his courtroom antics, when he told a tribunal chairman that the whole hearing had to stop because Vigna didn’t “feel in a serene state of mind”. I compared Vigna’s lame series of excuses – a discussion that went on for twenty pages of court transcripts! – to a student who pulled the fire alarm to get out of writing an exam.

You’d think that Vigna would want to forget about that awful, awful day when he turned the tribunal hearing into his own therapy session. But not Vigna – he says he’s going to sue me for calling his drama audition a “farce”.

Alright, readers, skip the next few paragraphs. They’re a private message from me to Vigna, barrister to barrister, and friend to friend.

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Make sure you read the whole story; it’ll piss you off.

On top of that, apparently the conservative party is passing a law allowing some inspectors to come in and do what the hell they want in the name of an investigation without a warrent. I have no idea why this is something they need to do considering the bill is an amendment to the “Food and Drug Act” (whatever). Hat tip to Five Feet of Fury for these links.

The scariest part about all this is that so many on the Left in the US point to Canada as a model of a “progressive state.” Are these people stupid? I’ve never understood how taking 10 steps forward in terms of the rights of citizens since the Middle Ages and 11 steps back can be considered “progress.” These are the same people who believe communism was a good thing and fly the communist flag while working on Presidential campaigns (hat-tip Conservative Grapevine). They’re the ones asking “what’s so wrong with communism?” and making protests of the Iraq War resemble something you’d more expect to see from a middle school class when their substitute teacher has a breakdown (those were the good ole’ days), and getting high school kids involved.

How long will it take before these people wear down the masses with promises of a utopian society that can only exist through a total brainwashing of the people and constant “social engineering” to reprogram humans to be - dare I say - less than human? The Canadian Human Rights Commissions and all the other Left-wing initiatives to curb “hate” is aimed at doing exactly that. I do not believe that hatred, selfishness, debauchery, infidelity, and any of the other “sins” are inherent in human nature. I believe that human beings have, instead, an inherent ability to rise up above these more animalistic tendencies to be something greater - that defines us as being superior to the animals. However, I don’t believe, as the Left seems to, that a person can be forced to do this. What sets humans apart from the animals is this thing called free-will, which includes the choice to love. Leftists believe we can circumvent this by whitewashing our differences and denying us the Freedom to judge one culture better than another. They believe that by putting up layers of facades between people and denying the “haters” their right to “hate” (aloud) that they can make their utopian society: by quenching the spread of an idea they can erase its memory from the fabric of civilization. This is wrong. Subconsciously, those ideas and emotions get redirected elsewhere and the children eventually pick them up again. The only way to change society is through debate and through confrontation - preferably peacefully. It is only through the exchange of ideas that society grows. Hopefully the trend gets stopped before it’s too late.

More than that, it is a personal growth that comes from facing opposition in life. This whole Canadian HRC rhetoric along with all the Leftist propaganda in the US is rooted in a desire to never have to be offended. Show me someone who brings a complaint to a CHRC and I’ll show you someone who is more insecure in themself than the one who is willing to stand in front of the commission and declare that it is unlawful and a travesty of justice. The fact that both parties in Canada and both parties in the United States are latching on to the belief that big government can make people and life better is an indication that more trouble is coming. Tyranny has a way of rising again and again, and it is only in the strength and convictions of a truly free people that it can ever be defeated.

On a closing note, since this rant is getting too philosophical for its own good, there is an excerpt from Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo that I believe to a good summary of the human existance. More people should take note of it:

…Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

As for you, Maximilian, here is the secret of my conduct toward you: there is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death, Maximilian, in order to know how good it is to live.

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
–The Count of Monte Cristo, (abridged) Alexandre Dumas

Hang in there Canadian Bloggers and keep fighting. You’re not alone.