The 2003 book argued that the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada have surrendered their independence and their intellectual integrity to a postmodern orthodoxy, which, rather than the law or the constitution, determines the outcome of cases before them. The 2012 book argued that Canada today can best be understood as a "totalitarian theocracy," a country completely in the grip of a secular state religion of equality which defines the behavior of all state organs, including the courts, to such a degree that all other considerations, including free expression, must give way to the relentless pursuit of equality. This book contains considerable analysis of "human rights" commissions and attempts (pp. 412-413) to set out a series of propositions to describe the state of free expression after the depredations of these bodies.Anyone who puts quotation marks around the words "human rights" is a man after my own heart, and I will now endeavor to put my hands on his two books, The Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada has undermined our Law and our Democracy and Free Expression in Canada: Surrendered to Diversity and Muticulturalism.
In the wake of the ruling, I have been trying to work out why it is that mainstream Jewish leadership, which unanimously supported it, cannot seem to wrap their heads around the issue of free speech. My conclusion: it has to do with the Holocaust, and how the fact of the Holocaust has rendered them incapable of seeing things clearly and thinking them through. The reflex, because of the Holocaust, it to put limits on free speech, so that "Nazis" won't say terrible things about us Jews, and so that we can nip a new Holocaust in the bud. That's it. That's the full extent of their thinking--and of their gross misreading of history which more or less blames free speech for the Holocaust. (The formula was even written into the Supreme Court's Whatcott decision: free speech leads to hate speech, which can ultimately lead to genocide.) But here's the kicker: plenty of Jews who really should know better don't really care if free speech is kneecapped is because they figure Holocaust education will compensate for the loss and inoculate Canada--and the world--against the recurrence of another such genocide. So the loss of free speech isn't really seen as a loss at all, especially when Holocaust lessons can compensate for it, and keep Canadian Jewry safe and sound.
While I have nothing against Holocaust education per se (although I do worry that it can set up a false dichotomy between "good Jews"--those who were murdered during the Holocaust--and "bad Jews"--Israelis/Zionists of today), to count on it to "keep us safe" in age of resurgent jihad and raging Khomeinists celebrating Al Quds Day at Queen's Park is not only delusional, it is downright dangerous.
John Milton knew what he was talking about when he said: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." Alas, because of the Holocaust, Official Jewry has officially aligned itself with the enemies of liberty, to the detriment of Jewry and Canadian society as a whole.
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The irony, of course, is that the Weimar Republic was planted thickly with laws curbing free speech, for reasons of what we would now call "political correctness" and "multiculturalism." The Nazis, upon taking power in 1933, quickly availed themselves of said laws to squelch opposition to their rule.
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