Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Thankfully, both sides of this debate get equal space in one of Canada’s largest newspapers. No one is likely to get shot, bombed, run over, beheaded, or tortured over it. Words will fly, we “ordinary” Canadians will make up our minds (or not) regarding the “vitriol,” “hate mongering” and “slander” and both Mr Fatah and Dr Sultan will be welcome to go at it again in person or in print without fear of any to life and limb. Gotta love the Great White Up.
And yes – truth is the only defense to allegations of slander since slander by definition is a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report.
^damage^ to life and limb.
No. I think if you commit a thoughtcrime, they take you to the Ministry of Love and strap rabid rats to your face.
Or maybe that was just a movie.
The Human Rights Commissions have disallowed the use of the truth as a defense. Ask Mark Steyn sometime. He just barely dodged a bullet up there.
When rule of law obtains, the truth is an absolute defense against slander. Canada has only a losse association with the rule of law, just like the US, although ours is a bit more firm than their’s. However, not by too much.
And Canada’s Constitution contains no equivalent of our First Amendment.
QM’s right — Canada’s HRC make the Thought Police look like the Keystone Cops.
We ‘ordinary’ Canadians think of the HRC as the Gestapo of Political Correctness. I concede the painful truths proffered by my fellow Lex fans.
It pains me to call attention to them.
Ah, sadly us Canucks only have this, as one of our many, constitutionally guaranteed rights.
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
So that would be different from your First Amendment how, BillT?