A Report on the Jews' Censorship Debate

The CJN has an account of the Jews' not-so-great debate this past week between two lawyers: serial Section 13 complainer/basement Nazi hunter Richard Warman and free speech advocate Nathalie Des Rosiers. For the defence: Richard Warman, who thinks all that's required for state censorship to work tickety-boo is a bit of deft tweaking:

“The Internet is not the Wild West in Canada,’” said Warman, adding that people can and should be held accountable for hateful material they post online. 

He argued that “it is the hate propaganda that leads to the acting,” so fighting hate speech online is part of fighting it off line as well.

Warman also argued that for the Criminal Code to be an effective tool in combating hate speech on its own, significant additional resources are needed. Largely because those resources aren’t in place and because there is “an institutional reluctance to lay these kinds of charges,” he said, Section 13 is both necessary and effective.

Sounds like Dick's trying to account for the reason why he (a non-Jew, a proxy Jew) seems to be one of the very few Canadians availing themselves of this Draconian provision. Will adding "significant additional resources" alter that reality? Doubtful. What it will do is further empower the "human rights" racket, thereby stealing away even more freedom from we, the people.

Speaking for the prosecution, Nathalie Des Rosiers of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association concurs with that assessment--sort of. She says

that pursuing hate speech through Section 13 is a misallocation of resources and can chill free speech.

“There will never be enough resources to go after everything that is discriminatory,” she said. “Going after acts may be a better investment.”

She added that although controlling speech was not the intention of the section, it seems to have had that effect. “It is dangerous in any society to leave the government with the task of deciding which points of view can be expressed and in which way,” she said.

Bingo! Set up a mechanism that allows a select few (most of them hack bureaucrats) to lord it over us--even though it's done with the best of intentions--and don't be surprised if that's exactly what they do. That said "going after the acts" won't cut it, either; as our local Clouseaus demonstrate over and over again, there's a distinct distaste for persuing hate complaints involving Islamic Jew-haters. In fact, that should have been the subject of the Town Hall meeting--how, out of fear and in the interest of "outreach,"  the cops (who we think are Jews' friends: aren't they on the scene in a flash when a stray swastika is detected in a loo?) actually serve and protect the interests of the Khomeinists and Islamists among us.