Comments on: Human Rights: Freedom of Expression http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/?nucrss=1 The law school blog and podcast from Canada Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:48:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lessons from history « BumfOnline http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-878 Lessons from history « BumfOnline Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:13:05 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/#comment-878 [...] information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn [...] [...] information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn [...]

]]> By: lawiscool http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-372 lawiscool Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:12:22 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/#comment-372 DWPittelli: Yes, when this occurs domestically, this action usually follows. The citation of the Criminal Code was in response to his site, "Free Mark Steyn," as his freedom is not at stake. The hypotheticals you propose are not at issue. Ron: all it takes is one. Vince P: Thank you for the links. This is a Law 101 site, so we will humour you a brief answer. Statements in Iran are obviously ultra vires to any tribunal in Canada. The context and delivery of these statements also appear markedly different than the ones in question here. ActualLawyer: Appears from your IP address that you are from the US, like all the other readers here. As one of the other readers noted above, we do have slightly different perspectives about "free speech" in Canada. DWPittelli: Yes, when this occurs domestically, this action usually follows. The citation of the Criminal Code was in response to his site, “Free Mark Steyn,” as his freedom is not at stake. The hypotheticals you propose are not at issue.

Ron: all it takes is one.

Vince P: Thank you for the links. This is a Law 101 site, so we will humour you a brief answer. Statements in Iran are obviously ultra vires to any tribunal in Canada. The context and delivery of these statements also appear markedly different than the ones in question here.

ActualLawyer: Appears from your IP address that you are from the US, like all the other readers here. As one of the other readers noted above, we do have slightly different perspectives about “free speech” in Canada.

]]> By: Bill Corr http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Bill Corr Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:26:52 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/#comment-360 It is, perhaps, surprising that the EU country with the largest percentage of nominal Muslims, Turks and Bulgarian Muslims [decendents of Slav converts to Islam] and Tatars and Circassians, the Republic of Bulgaria, has been spared Islamist extremism [so far as I am aware - a while ago there WAS a one-off report that a "Bulgarian" Muslim had been implicated in a terrorist plot in Germany but the story then sank without trace.] In Bulgaria, the party identified with the Turkish-minority interest, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, is part of the unweildy but functioning governing coalition and the Deputy Prime Minister [and Minister with Responsibility for Disasters] is a woman of that minority - she sometimes wears a headscarf and sometimes she is bareheaded. If there is a model for the integration of Muslims into European society, it is just possible that Bulgaria, the poorest and shabbiest member of the EU, might provide a model. On the other hand, an outspokenly xenophobic anti-Turk, anti-Roma, anti-Eu, anti-NATO party, ATAKA, has the support of 10% - 26% of the electorate [the higher figure was obtained when they ran the only opposition candidate for the Presidency and there was a low turnout at the ballot box due to a general feeling of boredom with politics of any kind.] Bill Corr Dobrich, Bulgaria billycorr@hotmail.com It is, perhaps, surprising that the EU country with the largest percentage of nominal Muslims, Turks and Bulgarian Muslims [decendents of Slav converts to Islam] and Tatars and Circassians, the Republic of Bulgaria, has been spared Islamist extremism [so far as I am aware - a while ago there WAS a one-off report that a "Bulgarian" Muslim had been implicated in a terrorist plot in Germany but the story then sank without trace.]

In Bulgaria, the party identified with the Turkish-minority interest, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, is part of the unweildy but functioning governing coalition and the Deputy Prime Minister [and Minister with Responsibility for Disasters] is a woman of that minority – she sometimes wears a headscarf and sometimes she is bareheaded.

If there is a model for the integration of Muslims into European society, it is just possible that Bulgaria, the poorest and shabbiest member of the EU, might provide a model.

On the other hand, an outspokenly xenophobic anti-Turk, anti-Roma, anti-Eu, anti-NATO party, ATAKA, has the support of 10% – 26% of the electorate [the higher figure was obtained when they ran the only opposition candidate for the Presidency and there was a low turnout at the ballot box due to a general feeling of boredom with politics of any kind.]

Bill Corr
Dobrich, Bulgaria
billycorr@hotmail.com

]]> By: lawiscool http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-358 lawiscool Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:12:13 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/#comment-358 Jez, when Canadian citizens characterize our tribunals as "dark and dank recesses of these ‘Human Rights Commissions’ and their absurd PC bias," I think you make the case that these two should have been challenged a long time ago. Jez, when Canadian citizens characterize our tribunals as “dark and dank recesses of these ‘Human Rights Commissions’ and their absurd PC bias,” I think you make the case that these two should have been challenged a long time ago.

]]> By: Jez B http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Jez B Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:59:02 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/#comment-357 It could be that these 4 have done us all a favour. By picking on Steyn and Macleans they've comeup against a pairing that won't back down and consequently we're going to get some light shone into the dark and dank recesses of these 'Human Rights Commissions' and their absurd PC bias. I hear the sound fo backfiring. It is a nice sound. More, please, more. It could be that these 4 have done us all a favour. By picking on Steyn and Macleans they’ve comeup against a pairing that won’t back down and consequently we’re going to get some light shone into the dark and dank recesses of these ‘Human Rights Commissions’ and their absurd PC bias.

I hear the sound fo backfiring. It is a nice sound. More, please, more.

]]> By: Pau Huedepohl http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Pau Huedepohl Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:49:48 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/2007/12/20/human-rights-freedom-of-expression/#comment-354 Here's a tip to the 4 students- start your own mag! Who told you you have the right to demand that privately owned media is at your beck and call? Macleans isn't the CBC. Here’s a tip to the 4 students- start your own mag! Who told you you have the right to demand that privately owned media is at your beck and call? Macleans isn’t the CBC.

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