"Section 13 Rises from the Dead" by Mark Steyn and "Remembering Roberto Martin Perez" by Ninoska Perez Castellon

While the Obama/Biden Junta Spies on Journalists Here, Justin Trudeau-Castro Silences Them Up There

“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”–Bradbury’s chief book-burner, Capt. Beatty, in “Fahrenheit 451” –the temperature at which “book paper” auto-ignites.

"Ich kann gar nicht soviel fressen wie ich kotzen möchte’ (‘I could not possibly eat as much as I would like to throw up.’)"--German Jewish painter Max Liebermann when he learned that Adolf Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany in January 1933

Again?

Section 13 Rises from the Dead :: SteynOnline

Mark Steyn: "The "free world" barely pretends to favor free speech these days. The triggered interns who infest the big publishing houses openly demand their employers pulp the latest manuscripts from J K Rowling and Jordan Peterson. The totalitarian wankers of the British police sit around the station all day monitoring Twitter for transphobic quips, which is far more congenial labor than getting off their flabby arses and catching criminals. The woke billionaires of social media boast openly of their success at "fortifying" the US election by memory-holing unhelpful content.

Beyond those specifics, there are few takers for the principle of "free speech". For most people under thirty - forty? fifty? - freedom of expression takes a back seat on ever more issues. On climate, Islam, race, immigration, LGBTQWERTY and of course ChiCom-19, there is one correct position and it is entirely legitimate therefore to quash any dissenting views.

In such a world it is no surprise to find that Justin Trudeau's ministry is preparing to restore "Section 13" of the Canadian Human Rights Code. The repeal of that vile law represents one of my few victories in the political realm. As the saying goes, there are no permanent victories in politics, and I would have a tougher time winning that battle today: The principled lefties (Margaret Wente) who offered support have themselves been canceled, and the queasier ones (Neil Macdonald) who objected on the grounds that all the attention was merely helping me sell even more books have been supplanted by more committed warriors who feel that, with Zuckerberg and Bezos at your back, there is no one so lofty he can't be brought low. 

...Until (in the wake of our exposure of the racket) the tenacious Marc Lemire won his landmark victory in 2009, Section 13 prosecutions had a three-decade 100 per cent conviction rate even the Soviets might envy.

That wasn't even the most basic affront. Until Maclean's intervened in 2008, Lemire's Section 13 trial was scheduled to be held in secret. I couldn't quite believe this... Secret trials are for Beijing and Tehran, yet in the name of "human rights" they were introduced to Ottawa.

The line that sums up my objection to the racket was formulated by the Toronto blogger Kathy Shaidle:

You're too stupid to tell me what to think.

...In the intervening years we have reached the stage where free speech is now openly mocked as a weird fringe right-wing obsession. The left feels it has no need of freedom of expression because it controls the culture, and therefore in the new world of "approved speech" they're the ones who grant approval, so what's the problem?

Still and all, I am glad I won a decade ago. It taught me a lot about framing issues and shifting opinions, and those skills will surely come in useful in the dark years ahead.".......

Read it all while you can.

Like Father, Like Son

Roberto Martin Perez: Remembering a hero who devoted his life to freedom in Cuba | Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)

His beloved wife Ninoska Perez Castellon: “He was one of the first to oppose the regime of Fidel Castro, he spent 28 years in Castro’s prisons as a Plantado, [a defiant political prisoner who rejected indoctrination and compromise with the dictatorship]. He saw his friends die on hunger strikes, fall riddled with bullets before the firing squad, he was hungry, cold, angry and in pain with his brothers. He survived torture, inhuman punishments, lack of medical attention and they never managed to break him down. He never considered himself a victim. When, after an intense international campaign, he was released, General Manuel Noriega, doing Fidel Castro a favor, sent an official delegation to Cuba to look for him. He told them that he did not accept freedom because there were 200 other prisoners who were in worse condition and the plane returned to Panama without him. It was after several days of the prisoners asking him to come out and advocate for them that he left the prison with the commitment to continue fighting until he was free and he did.”

Despite 28 years in a Castro gulag, Roberto Martin Perez never gave up his courageous fight for freedom in Cuba and the end of communist tyranny that oppresses the island nation.".......

Oh, Canada--Why?

 

UPDATE: And now he's burning churches, too.

Trudeau Says Anger 'Fully Understandable' as Churches Burn Down (breitbart.com)