More than 100 Canadian-Arab Christians are listed on an al-Qaida affiliated website, apparently targeted because of their alleged role in attempting to convert Muslims.
Some of those named say concerned Canadian intelligence officials have contacted them.
The Shumukh-al-Islam website, often considered to be al-Qaida’s mouth piece, listed pictures, addresses and cell phone numbers of Coptic Christians, predominantly Egyptian-Canadians, who have been vocal about their opposition to Islam.
In a forum on the website, one member named Son of a Sharp Sword, says “We are going to return back to Islam and all of the Mujahedeen (holy warriors) will cut off their heads.”
Three pages of the fundamentalist, Arabic-language website titled “Complete information on Coptics” sets to “identify and name all of the Coptics throughout the world who hope to defame Islam,” The website calls the Coptic Christians living abroad “dogs in diaspora,” a derogatory reference in Arabic.
Among those named on the Shumukh-al-Islam website is Samuel Tawadrous, a Coptic Egyptian living in Quebec.
“This is a direct threat against our lives,” Tawadrous said in an interview.
“They are trying to inform each other in hopes that someone can carry out this threat. They could be in Egypt and they could be here. Our names and our pictures are listed.”
Tawadrous’s picture and cell phone number were listed on the site.
Don’t worry though - threatening the infidel is part of their culture, and we take people’s cultural beliefs very seriously here in Canada. Same with raping and killing of teenage girls. If it’s part of your culture, it’s all good.
These poor Copts come to Canada to escape the Islamic nonsense in their own countries, and instead, they are hunted around the globe by these 6th century mutants.
Islam is evil, and civilized countries should ban it outright for the death cult that it is.
Connie and Mark Fournier have been battling Canadian human rights weasel Stormin Richard Warman for years over their alleged “hate speech”, wherein Warman & Co went to questionable extremes to persecute them.In turn, the Fourniers sought to protect the anonymity of their forum users - the so-called “John Does”.
In pushing back - something so few people do in this country, the Fourniers won in a real court of law, and were even awarded costs from Warman himself.
From Mark Fournier, via email (Mark, please forgive me. You & Connie have had soooo many run ins with Warman, it’s hard to keep track!)
Thank you for posting the news about the great decision in our appeal. This has to be a kick in the ‘nads for Warman. One thing though, our fight with Warman hasn’t been about hate speech, it is about defamation. He first went after us for reporting on his activities at the CHRC but he has never accused us of hate speech. The MSM often, and intentionally, confuses the two issues to imply that we are somehow a hate site.
The film Fitna will be shown and a diverse coalition of community leaders will speak, including Rabbi Jon Hausman from Boston, a close associate of Geert Wilders. On Wednesday, January 20, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Toronto Zionist Centre, 788 Marlee Ave.
LIVE VIDEO STREAM www.jdl-canada.com AND www.canhindu.com
Speakers
Kathy Shaidle – Five Feet of Fury
Rabbi Jon Hausman - Ahavath Torah, Boston
Ron Banerjee - Canadian Hindu Advocacy
Bjorn Larsen – Geert Wilder Supporter
Meir Weinstein – Jewish Defence League of Canada
Wednesday, January 20
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Toronto Zionist Centre,
788 Marlee Avenue
Jewish Defence League of Canada
www.jdl-canada.com
416 736 7000
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) gave a speech on the senate floor yesterday to push for “Rosa’s Law”. Rosa’s law is a piece of legislation that mandate the phrase “mentally disabled” be used in place of “mentally retarded” when referring to such citizens on health and education paperwork.
“In changing the language, we believe it will be the start of new attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities.”
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This madness must end. America is in the middle of two strenuous wars, and we have an economy on the brink of total collapse, yet we have a senator who seems preoccupied with the use of a certain descriptor used in government documentation. Yet again, another bleeding heart Democrat who is more concerned with feeling good, rather than doing good for the nation as a whole.
Now, before I get chastised for being heartless by those who would accuse me of standing in the way of a little girl’s supposed happiness, I would like to disclose the following:
I am physically disabled. I have Cerebral Palsy, which prevents me from walking without the assistance of an orthopedic device or another person. I have been called many things, such as “disabled”, “differently-abled”, “handicapped”, “handi-capable”, “crippled”, and a few other words along the way that can’t be shared here.
Guess what?
In spite of all the labels that have been assigned to me and others like me, one thing has remained constant:
My condition has never changed. People need to learn that while words do have meaning, which is important, context is also a key component in this equation. For instance, “retard” means to slow or hinder. It does not mean “stupid”, and the modifiers “mental” or “mentally” refers to the type of impediment. It is not, in and of itself, an attempt at ridicule or character assassination. Referring to someone as “mentally retarded” in official paperwork is not the same as yelling it in anger toward the person who cut you off at the intersection. It just isn’t. The words have a benign meaning. It’s the context in which they are used that can change them.
Quite frankly, when one looks at this objectively, this proposed law is nothing more than a time wasting exercise by those in our legislature, which will change nothing, except maybe making a few self-loathers feel better about themselves.
For the Record, the namesake of this legislation, Rosa Marcellino, has Down’s syndrome. She is, for all intents and purposes, mentally retarded. She is also 7 years old. With that in mind, one could probably say with a high degree of certainty that Rosa has no interest in official health and education paperwork at this point in her life. So, it stands to reason that this crusade was most likely started by a family member looking for attention, and Rosa is to be used as a face for it.
Honestly, that is just sad.
More than that, has anyone thought of the road this could lead us down? This is one step away from thought policing. How long will it be before legislation is introduced which will prevent us from saying certain words? It may very well be just around the corner. Such measures may never pass, but the mere possibility of such things being proposed should frighten any freedom-loving American.
We should be more concerned with today’s truly pressing matters. There are circumstances today which threaten our very way of life, yet some of our legislative officials seemed more concerned with how you feel, and more importantly, how they feel about themselves. The future of America is too important. We shouldn’t be wasting time on this drivel.
Words are just words. The only powers they have to offend are the ones that we decide to give them.
The CHRC has mounted a Kamikaze effort to defend the odius Section 13 (1). It is imperative that we ask those organizations who support 13 (1)’s repeal to seek Intervenor Status in the upcoming judicial review of Warman v. Lemire .
Do your bit, write the organizations listed below, where appropriate ask if they plan to seek official status at the judicial review, offer to assist if at all possible with a donation. Nag Harper, nag Nicholson nag your MP, nag the members of the Justice Committee. Send a letter to the editor of your local daily, or write your favourite columnist.
This is your fight, take a swing and make it count for Free Speech. Let our opponents know that we will not negotiate and we will not beg for what is rightfully ours.
B’nai Brith
15 Hove Street
Toronto, Ontario M3H 4Y8
Tel.: (416) 633-6224
Fax : (416) 630-2159
e-mail: mailto:bnb@bnaibrith.ca
or Michael Mostyn
National Director of Public Affairs
Fuller Bldg. 212-75
Albert Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5E7
Tel.: (613) 598-0060
Fax: (613) 598-0059
e-mail: ParliamentHill@bnaibrith.ca
Athanasios Hadjis adjudicated the Warman V. Lemire case, the decision for which came down today:
I have determined that Mr. Lemire contravened s. 13 of the Act in only one of the instances alleged by Mr. Warman, namely the AIDS Secrets article. However, I have also concluded that s. 13(1) in conjunction with ss. 54(1) and (1.1) are inconsistent with s. 2(b) of the Charter, which guarantees the freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. The restriction imposed by these provisions is not a reasonable limit within the meaning of s. 1 of the Charter.
This case has dragged on forever, but in the end, Member Hadjis did the right thing and stood for freedom. No comment at this time from Chief Kangaroo, Jennifer Lynch.
However, we on the side of freedom offer Mr. Hadjis this token of our esteem for bucking the trend:
While ol’ Jenny has managed to keep her whining trap shut, the other professional whiners at the Canadian Jewish Congress are moaning about their personal hero (and proxy) Richard Warman not getting any booty from this pirating of freedom.
“The Supreme Court of Canada clearly ruled that s. 13 was constitutional long before the penalty provisions were added to it. As such, Mr. Hadjis should have simply ignored the penalty provisions and applied the appropriate cease and desist order against Mr. Lemire,” he added.
It will be interesting to see if the Canadian Human Rights Commission decides to appeal its own member’s decision in a real court, as is their option to do so. However, I believe that Hadjis made the decision he made in order to keep Lemire out of a real court. Marc Lemire has been itching to get in front of a real judge with real mandate, and demand that real rules of discovery be imposed.
Congratulations Marc, on your victory over tyranny. You’re an unusual poster boy and a strange bedfellow for the rest of us free-speechers, but I celebrate with you and for you this day. You have achieved a great victory for freedom in Canada: The CHRC is begining to eat itself.
Jennifer Lynch, for those of you not in the know, is the head of Canada’s “Human Rights” apparatus. She was actually appointed by our Conservative government to stifle free expression - a fact that many of us have made clear we are unhappy with to party fundraisers when they call begging for bucks.
Jennifer Lynch keeps a blacklist of websites she and her commission are maligned on (Hi Jen, I know you’re here!). Canadian lefties who still decry McCarthyism see nothing wrong with Jennifer’s List.
Jennifer Lynch employs people to pose as Nazis on white supremacist websites, in order to draw further “hatred and contempt” towards minorities, so they can then prove themselves useful by prosecuting someone. The Canadian Human Rights Commission is a self-perpetuating cycle of hatred and contempt.
“Hatred and Contempt” are words within our Human Rights Act. In fact, those words form part of the most contemptible piece of legislation I have ever read in the civilized Western world.
13. (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.
Likely. Future crime. Totally subjective and outwith the remit of the courts. Except in Canada.
Blogger Blazing Cat Fur ran a contest when Jennifer’s List came to light in the media. Who could come up with the best t-shirt slogan about ol’ Jenny? The winning entry is the one you see splashed across my breasts above.
$5 from every Lynch shirt sold - from any of the winning styles - will go to the blogger defense fund which includes Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant, Connie & Mark Fournier, Kate McMillan, Jonathan Kay of the National Post, and whoever else may come along to stand beside them.
If you’re very careful not to blink, you may glimpse the mysterious Binks the Web Elf at an upcoming event in Halifax, Sept 25-26:
Canada’s pre-eminent Freedom Fighter Ezra Levant will be our feature speaker on Saturday.
You will also hear from two other champions of freedom: Connie Fournier of freedom blog, Free Dominion, and Scott Brockie, an entrepreneur who was dragged through Ontario’s human rights system by a homosexual activist, but who has lived to tell the story.
At this conference, you will learn about the ongoing assault against our fundamental liberties in Canada. You will learn about the necessary link between our Judeo-Christian heritage and our tradition of liberty. You will learn about the link between the love of one’s child and a parent’s commitment to pick up his sword in this battle.
If you are a freedom fighter, this conference will encourage and strengthen you in this difficult battle. You will hear from motivating speakers and you will be able to network with other like-minded attendees.
LOCATION
321 Main Ave. - Trinity Anglican Church – the new location (at the top of Fairview), Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3S 0B5
get directions
Actually, Barbara, let me elaborate: Please take your politically correct, do-goody-good bullshit and shove it up your big, fat, censorship-loving ass.
Not really much I can add to that sentiment, except perhaps to point out that much of our press in Canada - nay the world - has chosen already not to be free. They have sided time and again with tyrants, to the exclusion of everyone else.
What Hall proposes is merely to put it in writing. Nothing would really change.
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Mike Williams and I have had a wonderful first year creating Brass Balls Radio for your amusement and enlightenment. We can’t thank Mark Steyn enough for agreeing to host our birthday bash for us while we sip our champagne on hammocks in the yard. On behalf of Mike and myself, thanks for listening, and we look forward to another great Brass Balls year.
Believe me, there are a few trolls who serve no other purpose but to insult and demean anyone who doesn’t fall into lockstep with them, and I’d personally love to see them in person and ask them to repeat themselves. Sadly, 99.9% of them are too cowardly for that sort of thing. Most of them won’t even write under their real names.
That said, this bill is nonsense on so many levels. I know the Obama administration has behaved like a bunch of teenagers with Daddy’s credit card at times, and taken the family plane out for a joy ride from time to time, but must we also legislate on the basis of a hormonal teenage girl?
Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant and Salim Mansur were rockstars last night, playing to a packed music house in London Ontario. The evening was moderated by Dr. Christopher Essex of the University of Western Ontario (where Salim Mansur is also a Professor).
Filling a big room in a smallish town in Ontario on a Monday night (after a long weekend) was unexpected, but people drove in from Toronto, Montreal and even Michigan to attend. The topic was just that important - Freedom of speech as it pertains to the Canadian Human Rights apparatus.
I’ve known Ezra for a long time and of course Kathy and I are very close friends, but this was my first opportunity to meet Salim Mansur (pictured here with Doctor Roy Eappen, who came in from Montreal for the event). I promised myself that I would approach Mansur with an open mind out of respect for him and for the evening. However, I didn’t expect any real surprises. After all, I was the one who promised my readership that I could produce a leprechaun before they could produce a moderate Muslim. There ain’t no such thing, right?
Well… now I’m not so sure.
Aside from the fact that he’s a charming and dapper fellow, he speaks truth that I have craved to hear from Islam. On stage, he spoke of how the lights went out in Islam centuries ago, with those who dared to question the approved dogma silenced by imprisonment or death. This is something that continues to occur today, in a so-called modern world. He told the rapt audience of his early years, escaping the Islamist hordes in unruly Bangladesh, and his appreciation for Canada’s freedom, which is being sadly jeopardized by those very same people who cut off hands and murdered people in his youthful Bangladesh.
I have a feeling that Professor Mansur and I are not yet finished the conversation we began after hours in the bar of Ezra’s hotel, where we sat and talked directly to each other, despite the 20 or so other people that vied for both our attention throughout the evening. I may have found my elusive leprechaun, and that turns my thinking upside down. I may be in for my own enlightenment…
I have heard Kathy speak before, and have enjoyed her knowledge and humor. However in the past there have been a lot of “inside jokes” that perhaps other less involved members of her audience may not have got. Last night she was open and witty, educating and entertaining us all. Her book-signing before and after the panel was well attended, and I believe she may have sold out of the copies of Tyranny of Nice she had brought with her to London.
As a personal aside, I met a longtime reader who has always been very kind to me, even going so far as to check up on me by telephone when I was down in Kansas last year, Joe Molnar. He paid me a great honor last night by asking me to co-sign his copy of Tyranny, my signature right alongside Kathy’s. Thank you, Joe.
Ezra was… Ezra. For anyone who has ever caught him on TV or radio, or watched his YouTube videos, you already know how dynamic and entertaining a speaker he is. During the Q&A after the speeches, Ezra was asked by Ted Bellman how Jews can expect to be protected if we abolish Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code (that’s the speech/thought crime section). The crowd had a high Jew-to-WASP ratio, so it was a very relevant question to ask, considering that Canada’s official Jewish organizations have been so instrumental in creating the human rights monster that we rail against today.
Despite being a Jew himself, Ezra has no sympathy at all where Section 13 is involved. He reminded Mr. Bellman of the fact that it is very easy - and that it makes perfect sense - for the enemies of Jews to use this faulty legislation against the Jewish community, as we’ve seen with Ezra’s own case, as well as the case against B’Nai Brith, both instituted by radical Muslims.
Chapters/Indigo, the Canadian book behemoth, sent two delegates with crates of Shakedown
- now going into it’s THIRD printing - for sale and signing. Congratulations to Ezra on the runaway success of his book.
Apparently, last night was the largest, most well attended political meeting London has ever seen outside of an election campaign. Thanks must go to the Forest City Institute for organizing it. And a personal thanks to Josephine and Duke for hauling my ass back and forth to London to attend.
Many thanks to the zillions of great people who came out of the woodwork last week when I asked for a ride to London. I’m really looking forward to tonight’s event.
Hitting the open road shortly on this lovely, sunny spring day. Expect a recap either late tonight or (very late) tomorrow.
PS - Toronto folk, don’t forget Ezra is doing a book signing downtown tomorrow. Another day I’ll be forced to rise before noon, but alas, it’s worth it.
Update: While I’m on the road, be sure to check out my latest at Examiner, regarding the upcoming Tea Parties across the USA. Remember, you click, I get paid. Thanks!
You are sitting in your office, going about the business of your business, when someone presents themselves at reception, saying they’ve come to confiscate your hard drive, your hard files and any peripheral e-storage devices. They have no warrant to back them up, and they don’t need one. They are from the government. They are valiantly fighting for the cause of human rights. You do not have the right to turn them away, and you must give them all they request.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have read Shakedown on a windy, rainy night. Maybe then I wouldn’t have written Ezra with a short email review: Bone-chilling.
While not necessarily the horror of Stephen King, Shakedown is a series of Orwellian tales perhaps worthy of the Twilight Zone. In Canada, Section 8 of our Charter (what passes for a constitution in this country) protects the proletariat from illegal search and seizure. Except when it doesn’t. Like, where the “human rights” commissions are involved.
Operating completely outside the law of the land, these “human rights” commissions and tribunals across the country have no set operating procedure. Every case is different, civil law and the Magna Carta have no bearing, and rules are made up as they go along. In addition, though they portend to be a wall of defense between hatred and the population, their employees and cronies are some of the largest purveyors of hate in the country.
If, for example, you and I were to write about niggers and kikes in an effort to foment hatred and possibly violence, the aforementioned Gestapo of the “human rights” rackets would invade our personal files and steal our computer equipment. Yet if one of their employees - past or present - did the same thing under a pseudonym, it would all be in the cause of fighting hatred.
Tell me, dear readers - especially those outside of Canada - does what I’ve written make you feel like you’ve fallen through the looking glass? Me too. The Queen of Hearts (in this case, Jennifer Lynch) passes judgment on intention and tone, branding people from all walks of life to be outside civilized society. Well, almost all walks. Like, for example, you can’t really be charged if you are a lesbian, or a Muslim. After all, you are one of your precious protected people. You are free to make spurious claims - at no cost to yourselves - against small business owners, private citizens and anyone who you may feel has slighted you. In turn, they must pay and pay throughout the process of being found guilty (for no one is ever found not guilty - ever), and then pay again upon being found guilty.
In Shakedown, Ezra Levant tells us these tales of horror, in his usual witty and bombastic manner, as well as telling us of his own infamous dealings with the Alberta “Human Rights” Commission for daring to report on a news story that Muslims found offensive.
Money quote: You can always ignore a racist. You can’t escape from the government.
Ezra has waged an almost three year battle to denormalize the “human rights” apparatus in Canada and to expose their unconstitutional practices to the sunlight of public opinion. Shakedown is his story, along with the stories of many other less connected Canadians who have suffered at the hands of the Court of Marsupial Magistrates.
Is this a book just for Canadians? No. Any country that subscribes to a politically-correct orthodoxy at the expense of common sense (I’m looking at you, Britain) is at risk of having quasi-judicial bodies break the law of the land in an effort to protect people from being offended.
Shakedown by Ezra Levant is available as of Tuesday, March 24th in Chapters/Indigo branches across Canada, and worldwide via Amazon. You can pre-order it through Amazon today.
UPDATE: D’uh. I thought it was a little odd that the book would be launched on a Tuesday, and I was right. It in fact launches today, Monday the 23rd of March. I actually saw it in Indigo last night after dinner.
Wish I would make it there, but $$ is tight. However for me Ottawa peeps - James, Suzanne, are you listening? - you should get your butts out to this. Hosted by long lost pal Brian Lilley (another reason I’m sorry to be missing it). Barbara Kay and Tarek Fatah are always worth the admission.
Freedom of Speech: Restoring Reason, Truth & Civility to the Public Square
The Neeje Association for Women and Family Presents a Panel Conference
With guest speakers Babara Kay, Robert A. Kenedy, Nicole Scheidl, Tarek Fatah and Panel Moderator Brian Lilley
Friday, March 20, 2009 6:30 to 9:30 pm
The Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Adam Room
Don’t be a dhimmi - get your ass out to this conference, pay attention, take notes. And if you want to do a guest post for me, giving the skinny on the event, you’ll get a t-shirt. Email me!
First, let me apologize for my server issues today. It’s all related to the events of the day, and the traffic coming in from Steyn Online & Five Feet of Fury. Shit happens.
Great days like today don’t happen very often, so let me try to get it all out.
As you know I began the day in Standing Committee for Government Agencies as the Ontario Legislature. Topic of discussion being the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Not the Commission, and not the Legal Support Center - the Tribunal. This is very important, since whatever question the OHRT chair was asked, he deflected by saying it was the remit of another faction of the Human Rights racket. Typical.
The Committee broke at noon for lunch and I hooked up with Kathy Shaidle and the other Cool Kids like Dr Roy and Rick McGinnis. We retired to the basement cafeteria, where I dropped Mark a note on where to join us. He later did, and held court to a passel of his adoring public. Those of us who were in the morning session briefed him about who he would be dealing with inside.
We went upstairs in time for the afternoon session, where Mark was due to speak. This much you already know from my BlackBerry blogging (which is a pain in the ass, by the way, and not recommended except in cases of dire Steynian emergency). Here’s the link to his transcript, thanks to Denyse.
When his part of the hearing was over, Steyn and his Steynettes (us aforementioned Cool Kids) headed out into the hall where he did a small media scrum.
After about an hour of idle chit-chat in which my back began to kill due to the heels I was wearing, I determined myself to be an under-represented minority (one of 4 women in a group of easily 20 men) and insisted we retired to the bar down the street. Our gaggle of right-wing news junkies walked a couple of blocks to an Irish pub aptly named Pogue Mahone. I had passed it earlier in the day, on my way to Queen’s Park, yet I couldn’t place why the name meant something to me. It was Mike Brock who reminded us that Richard “Bravest Man Warren Kinsella Knows” Warman has used the alias Pogue Mahone when he used entrapment on the Stormfront Website. Heh. And yet there all us haters sat having a beer (or in my case a very tasty dirty martini) with Mark Steyn, in a bar called Pogue Mahone. Poetic justice.
We were about halfway through our little drinks-and-idolatry session when I realized that none of us had a clue who t he man was sitting opposite me. Had he accidentally fallen into step with us and suddenly found himself in a bar surrounded by right-wing zealots? Or had he meant to join us and none of us had bothered to get his name beforehand?
Turned out it was the latter. He muttered his name - I didn’t really catch it at first, but I sure as hell placed it later on. Shy and in awe of The Steyn, he was pretty quiet. Whatever - it takes all kinds. Mark had to get to meeting back a Queen’s Park, so our gaggle walked him back to College & University. 99.9% of us piled onto the subway at that corner, but I planned to walk back to Yonge Street.
I turned around and there was “Mutter Something C-y Something Guy”. We began to walk back to Yonge, both of us in exceptionally good moods given the day we’d been having. He began talking more openly, and we decided to pop into Fran’s to continue the conversation. Blah blah Steyn rules, blah blah Conservative government, yada yada 9/11… the typical comfortable Toronto Conservative Underground conversation. He was great fun to talk to. We exchanged business cards and I finally knew his name. Not that my clearly-not-working brain processed the information, but hey - at least I wasn’t just calling him “You There” anymore. It was an improvement.
So, a couple of beers and a club sandwich later, my new friend tells me how he ran in the 2006 election against Taliban Jack Layton in the Beaches riding. Oh, right. I thought I recognized his name. Something… something about the guy who ran against Layton. What was it? Axe murderer? No, that wasn’t it. Something…
“Even my own brother didn’t vote for me! Then again, he’s a poster child for Canada’s liberal entertainment elite, so I didn’t expect him to.”
Something…
“Entertainment? Who…?” Something… the name…
“Yeah, have you ever heard of a band called Blue Rodeo?”
At which point I spritzed Diet Pepsi halfway across Fran’s.
Holy sweet tap dancing Jesus!
Heard of them? Every break up and break down for almost 20 years, every road trip, every solo bender with a bottle or three of wine… Heard of them? Have I ever heard of one of North America’s most prolific songwriters? Jim Cuddy’s voice is as much a part of my life as my own, or my ex-husband’s or my dog’s. My relationship with Blue Rodeo’s music has actually lasted longer than the relationship I had with my late mother, who was only with me for 14 years.
So yeah, that was my afternoon with Loftus Cuddy.
What a day, ladies and gents. What an awesome goddam day. I know I’ve posted this clip before, but it’s my favorite. It’s almost an anthem (though I never thought that part about my house being on fire would ever come true, till it did).
“This is not Israel, where you are allowed to see a lawyer.”
Over the past two years Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been subjected to a systematic campaign of intimidation that has resulted in the death of some and the detention of others.
The campaign, which is being waged by both Hamas and Fatah, has received almost no attention from human rights groups and advocates of the freedom of expression throughout the world.
By contrast, when a Palestinian journalist is accidentally wounded by Israeli gunfire during clashes with Palestinians, the incident makes headlines in major media outlets in the US and EU.
What is most disturbing about the campaign of intimidation is the fact that it’s being spearheaded by the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. This is the same authority that is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from American and European taxpayers’ money every month to build a proper judicial system and promote democracy and transparency among the Palestinians.
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