He Who Laughs Last Is an 'Expert' Flown in to Analyze Mark Steyn's Jokes for a Canucki Kangaroo Court

To the enforcers of a state ideology, be they Ayatollahs or Canadian "human rights" Commissars, there is nothing as disconcerting--and, potentially, as subversive --as the sound of laughter. Hence the dismay elicited in certain quarters by Mark Steyn's "tone". Writes Michael Coren (who had Steyn on for a whole hour on his TV show this past week):

...Still, back to Steyn. He's perceptive, witty, brave and funny. "But how funny?" he asks. "They flew experts in at one of my human-rights trials in Vancouver to analyze how hilarious my comments were. If they were too funny they may have been offensive and thus unacceptable under Canada's laws preventing free expression." 

As absurd as this sounds, the last laugh is on you, because public money funds the various human-rights commissions who seem to be on the speed-dial list of numerous Muslim groups, followed by gay, Jewish and other organizations who feel so offended so often. 

"This idea that informed, honest and accurate criticism of identifiable groups in itself constitutes hate speech, or even bias speech and is illegal, is apparently the liberal, multicultural state trying to protect itself.

"But the most organized, dangerous enemy of that very same liberal, multicultural state is the same radical Islam that repeatedly uses Canada's human-rights legislation and human-rights commissions to try to silence people like me."

Canada's "human rights legistlation and human rights commissions"--that's the biggest joke of all, and the joke, alas, is on us.

To quote a late expert on both comedy and coitus with fleecy critters, "Cry and world cries with you; laugh and you laugh alone."

Or something like that.

That old Reader's Digest saw was right: laughter is the best medicine--for deflating the pompous, the self-important and the dangerously "nice," and for maintaining an individual's and a society's good health.