[Fart-man] is taking legal action against Britain’s Ministry of Defense because he found pornography in a jail toilet.

Fartoosi is accused of masterminding a bombing campaign against British troops in Basra.

The offended terrorist further gripes that he could hear a porno movie playing on a soldier’s laptop. Also, he bumped his arm when being put in a vehicle, the lights in the corridor bother him when he’s trying to sleep, and his cell isn’t sufficiently air-conditioned. The horrors this put-upon villain have been made to endure are downright Gitmo-esque in their ghastliness.

Were the caves of Crapistan really that much better? Perhaps we ought to lock them up in caves, then. Apparently, they must be air conditioned.

Who knew that the “negative public attitudes” toward Muslims came from us Christian folk? I mean, really, I woulda thought it came from, oh, maybe Muslims who blow things up and kill innocent people! Shame on me for being so misguided.

The Government ’should take energetic measures to eliminate this phenomenon and ensure that authors of such acts of discrimination on the basis of religion are adequately deterred and sanctioned’.

The committee expressed concern over the Government’s plans to extend pre-trial detention of terrorist suspects from 28 to 42 days. Suspects should be brought to court ‘within a reasonable period of time, or released’.

Those suspected of being involved in terrorism and subject to control orders and curfews limiting their movements should be ‘promptly charged with a criminal offence’ and their lawyers given access to the evidence against them, it added.

The committee also called on the Irish Republic to open up its largely Roman Catholic primary school system to secular-education.

Ah ha, the real crux of the matter. It has nothing to do with protecting the terrorists, it has to do with banning Christianity. The Brits are trying once more to turn Ireland away from Catholicism, and this time they are using the threatening interloper to do it.

Whatever the reason, I doubt very much that the bulk of Britons will be any nicer to the undeserving Muslim population than they already are. I would say Britain has been more than tolerant of an influx of people who come to their shores to wreak havoc and take over. If the politically correct and human rights pimps keep pushing, that backlash the Muzzies are always on about may just come to fruition.

If you are contributing to the economy and enjoying a quiet meal, you will be removed and perhaps arrested. If you are passed out in the street in a pool of your own vomit, surrounded by your dirty needles and used condoms, you will be protected.

WTF?

Starting immediately, uniformed and plainclothes police will routinely patrol restaurants to kick out known criminals.

The Restaurant Watch program is similar to the bar patrols police already do to weed out undesirables, Supt. Warren Lemcke said.

“It is to send a clear message to people involved in organized crime and gang activity they are no longer welcome,” said Lemcke.

Sounds good on paper, I suppose, but when Vancouver announced this yesterday, the whole thing becomes a farce.

The complaint filed against the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association and Civil City commissioner Geoff Plant claims the program, established in May, 2000, to patrol the downtown area and address “street disorder,” further marginalizes a population that already struggles with poverty, addiction and disabilities.

The complaint asserts that by telling people sleeping or loitering on the street to “move along,” and by identifying and monitoring “undesirable” people, the security guards acting as downtown ambassadors impair the dignity of aboriginal people and people with disabilities who comprise a disproportionate number of the city’s homeless and addicts, and deny them equal access to public space.

So now some thug gets tossed from a restaurant (providing he goes in at all, given the signage) and that restaurant burns down under mysterious circumstances a few nights later. No skin off the thug, who had nothing more than a brief moment of embarrassment to deal with, while the poor restaurant owner loses his livelihood. Nice.

And while Fat Tony is figuring out where to get his next dose of Marinara, people shopping or pushing strollers have to contend with streets covered in filth, drunken harassment, puddles of biohazard and much more. All in time for the world to watch during the 2010 Olympics. Not to mention that those on the streets are once more left on the streets, instead of being put in rehab or social housing (which these poverty pimps are forever going on about, just to keep themselves in a job. no good for them to be on the streets!). And Fat Tony gets a little bit richer keeping the indigent hooked on his crack.

Excellent planning, folks.

Syed Soharwardy apparently has had a change of heart. This is the Imam that first went to Calgary police when Ezra published the Mohammad Cartoons, then filed a human rights complaint against him. Suddenly he has decided that the commissions are too heavy handed. It took over 20 years of living in Canada and two years of harassing Ezra Levant for him to come to this conclusion. I smell taqiyya, but perhaps - just perhaps - he is sincere.

When I initiated my complaint against Mr. Levant, I saw human rights commissions as a non-violent means of resolving differences among Canadians.

I was not aware of the controversies between the commissions and Canada’s faith communities. I am thinking specifically of my friend Fred Henry, the Roman Catholic bishop of Calgary.

Upon learning about the difficulties he and other faith communities have encountered with the commissions, I withdrew my complaint against Mr. Levant.

One of the reasons I chose Canada as my adopted homeland is because of our country’s great respect for religious freedom.

In Canada, I am free to be good Canadian and a good Muslim. There is no contradiction between the two.

In listening to the experiences of Bishop Henry and Pastor Boissoin, I realized how precious religious freedom is to our country and how easily freedom is lost.

It was founded on the principle, in fact.

Stephen Boisson, Alberta Public Enemy #1 and recipient of future-crime complaints because of his Christian stance on homosexuality, brings us a surreal conversation with a Human Rights Commission employee.

He said the following recommendations were the responsibility of the people who invited me, not my responsibility.

2. Ask the church to get a signed consent form from everyone, parents and children, everyone, stating that they are not forced to attend and are there of their own free will. Later he added that this consent should be drawn up by a lawyer who is familiar with the Human Rights Laws.

3. The weekend retreat is considered one-occasion situation and that a license was probably not required.

4. The church needs to contact the education people and take a curriculum of the program and demonstrate that it is an educational program that is not unwelcome by the group there and everyone is there by consent. Also, the church needs to ask the education people if a license is required. At this point Ralph was uncertain and seemed to think a license would be helpful if problems occurred.

5. The church needs to contact the police to make sure they do not view the program as bordering on criminal activity—need to show them the curriculum so they know what is going on and do not arrive on the scene.

WTF? With the exception of the occasional 8-year-old who would probably prefer to be at home playing Wii, people are usually at church or any church program by their own free will. There aren’t people herding them in at gunpoint.

I then told Ralph that the church had already distributed a CD of mine to each of their families to prepare for the retreat that had some statements on it about homosexuals. He said that they needed a consent form from each family that this was not unwelcome material and that their kids would not be talking about any of it in the schools.

He said, “You may have a problem with the CD if it is seen as gay bashing and if anyone who has it displays it before the public, i.e., talking about it in a classroom. It needs to be used by a select group who consented to receiving the material. Religious material must not be forced on anyone who is not a part of the group who consented. If a student did this, and the person complained, you would be liable and it would not matter that all the safeguards were in place.”

Again, that free will thing. But even more worrying, what is this about keeping teachings secret and not talking about them with others? Is it now official policy of the Alberta Human Rights Commission to drive Christianity underground? Are we in Iran, where Christian teachings must be done in basements and behind closed curtains, never letting the neighbors know? Is this still Canada?

This is absolutely terrifying, if you stop to think about it. Whether you are Christian or not, you must agree that it is heinous that the main religion of Canadians is being forced into hiding by these Commissions. Is this what was originally intended when our government drew up the Charter? Nowadays, kids go to school and learn about every religion except Christianity. No one is allowed to complain. But if one of these kids attending the workshop goes to school and tells his friends about it, all hell will break loose. It has to be kept a secret. The founding religion of the modern world: Now a dirty little secret for backrooms and speakeasies.

Good God, the plaintiffs are quoting Martin Luther King Jr. in their summation. Well guess what? I have a dream, too. A dream that all you bastards go back to the 7th century where you belong. How’s that for a dream? No amount of multi-cult preaching from our secular gods in Canada can ever make up for the fact that you - as Muslims - are everything I believe you to be. Dangerous, conniving, thin-skinned, lying, and brainwashed by the hatred of your Death Cult. Go back to the mountain - we don’t want you here.

We’re back, and the first item for business is Joseph demanding an apology for yesterday’s “scaredy-pants” outburst, which he says is causing his client “stress.”

Habib (the scaredy-pants in question) takes the stand.

2:39 PM I’ve just noticed Steyn is here. Not sure how long he’s been sitting there. I suspect things are about to get interesting.

Yesterday, I called Kathy and asked her if she was able to stay on top of all the news coming out of the Show Trial. She admitted that she had to step away from the computer to clear her head. My own noggin was spinning, my eyes nearly crossed. Reading the Lewis Carrol dispatches from Coyne and Levant, as well as Kathy’s source and whoever else Binks was linking to - it’s all too much. I doubt I would feel it weighing on me so much if it were in a real court, with a real standard of evidence, where truth is a defense. But alas, the Queen of Hearts does not work that way, and neither does the Human Rights Commission.

The fact is, our evidence is solid, our counsel is top notch, and the points we make are more than valid. But we are not in a court of law - we are on some kind of quasi-psychiatric couch, having the plaintiff talk about their feelings and emotions. How Canada ever decided to legislate based on such subjective evidence is beyond me. Somehow, despite the defendant’s case being more solid than that of the plaintiff, the plaintiff will still be awarded victory and damages. Because they were offended. Because their feelings were hurt. Because they loved themselves a little less after reading Mark Steyn’s article in Maclean’s.

I will do my best to stay on top of things, as well as to offer my own subjective opinions here at GOTR. But for the blow-by-blow, continue reading Coyne:

10:00 AM Maclean’s counsel Roger McConchie is working through her c.v., perhaps in an attempt to poke holes in her credibility. Personally, I think she’d make a fine human rights commissioner.

Her dissertation, he’s pointing out, was in Indian cinema and identity construction, and not, say, stereotyping of Muslims in Canadian national weekly current events magazines. Now going through her publications in refereed journals (sample title: When Local Meets Lucre: Commerce, Culture and Imperialism in Bollywood Cinema.) Other articles deconstruct Queen Latifah, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and … still more Bollywood.

10:20 AM He’s still working her over. Her master’s thesis, on Afghan women, looked at whether western media concerns with women’s oppression under the Taliban was merely a pretext to justify the war.

McConchie sums up for the tribunal: getting a PhD from a “reputable Canadian institution” — I believe he’s talking about Carleton — is a worthy achievement, but she hardly has the expertise claimed, particularly as she’s barely started her career.

Faisal Joseph for the complainants begs to differ. She was recommended by a world-renowned expert, Karim H. Karim, to make a presentation to a conference in Melbourne, which was supposed to deal in part with stereotyping issues. (Although in the end she only had seven minutes so it didn’t.)

The panel retires to consider.

10:55 AM They’re back, and they’ve decided they’re going to hear her evidence. Buffy scholars everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.

In other HRC news, SoCon or Bust posts a letter to Justice Minister Rob Nicholson.

11:45 AM The hearing now turns to readings from various blogs I’ve never heard of: The Brussels Journal, some Catholic blog and… oh, the late Western Standard! Not obscure, just obsolete! (The mag, I mean — the website is still in business.) The Western Standard reference: a blog post by Ezra Levant, the defunct magazine’s former publisher, dated Dec. 2 2007. This is slightly surreal: he’s sitting in front of me as I write this, laptop in hand, writing about being spoken about with reference to something he’d written about … this case. This is getting so meta I’m losing track…

McConchie on his feet. Leafing through some of the other bloggers in the complainant’s file; ConradUSA, Holographic, Templar… I think they left out the Raelians and the guy outside the liquor store who swears he invented Silly Putty, [but] I’m not sure.

Into Orwellian Hell.

The first rule of HRC is don’t speak against the HRC.

The second rule of HRC is there are no rules to HRC.

Coyne has moved on to Part Deux of today’s hearing.

2:46 PM
Roger McConchie is making a kind of “prior history” argument, i.e. the complainants are saying that the other 20 articles provide “context.” But the complaint has to do with just the Steyn article. Just as a defendant’s prior record cannot be used against him (except as “similar fact” evidence, to show a modus operandi), so Maclean’s prior articles can’t be used to prove the harm caused by Steyn’s piece. The common thread: you have to prove guilt based on the facts of the case at hand. If the argument is that the earlier articles provide an interpretive filter through which to read the Steyn piece, well maybe they do—but the contention in the complaint is that the Steyn article exposes Muslims to hatred by itself. So they’re contradicting themselves.

2:58 PM
Coda to the preceding: this all assumes normal rules of evidence apply. Or indeed, any. But as they don’t in this case, well, we’re about to hear the tribunal’s ruling.

3:00 PM
Glory glory—they’re ruling prior articles (i.e., prior to Steyn’s Oct. 23 2006 piece) out of bounds, but allowing subsequent articles. Solomonic, or incoherent? I report, you decide.

To catch the start of the Mark Steyn/Macleans’s showtrial in British Columbia.

Coyne is live-blogging. Hit refresh every few minutes for updates.

The Covenant Zone bloggers will be demonstrating in support of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine, and against the ludicrous operation of “human rights” law in this country, when Mark’s hearing in front of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal kicks off, next Monday, June 2. We will meet at 8 AM in front of the Provincial Court House at 800 Hornby where, according to the BCHRT website, the hearing will take place.

We welcome all bloggers, readers, and informed and outraged citizens to join us. (Also: we will be discussing this tomorrow at our regular Thursday evening meeting in the atrium of the Vancouver Public Library, central branch, 7-9 pm, in front of Blenz Coffee - look for the blue scarves.)

Today’s idea for a sign. How about:

FIRE. THEM. ALL

The Covenant Zone bloggers will be demonstrating in support of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine, and against the ludicrous operation of “human rights” law in this country, when Mark’s hearing in front of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal kicks off, next Monday, June 2. We will meet at 8 AM in front of the Provincial Court House at 800 Hornby where, according to the BCHRT website, the hearing will take place.

We welcome all bloggers, readers, and informed and outraged citizens to join us. (Also: we will be discussing this tomorrow at our regular Thursday evening meeting in the atrium of the Vancouver Public Library, central branch, 7-9 pm, in front of Blenz Coffee - look for the blue scarves.)

Today’s idea for a sign. How about:

MACLEAN’S IS GUILTY OF SPREADING TRUTH

I hope they make a decent showing.

The Covenant Zone bloggers will be demonstrating in support of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine, and against the ludicrous operation of “human rights” law in this country, when Mark’s hearing in front of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal kicks off, next Monday, June 2. We will meet at 8 AM in front of the Provincial Court House at 800 Hornby where, according to the BCHRT website, the hearing will take place.

We welcome all bloggers, readers, and informed and outraged citizens to join us. (Also: we will be discussing this tomorrow at our regular Thursday evening meeting in the atrium of the Vancouver Public Library, central branch, 7-9 pm, in front of Blenz Coffee - look for the blue scarves.)

I have an idea for a sign. How about:

I HAVE THE RIGHT TO CARRY THIS SIGN

I hope they make a decent showing.

From the Nat Post:

Whenever I think of Canada’s Human Rights Commissions, which has been frequently of late, Hamlet’s exclamation “O my prophetic soul” rings in my ear. I’m not talking about my soul, but The Bard’s. It’s hard to believe Shakespeare foresaw the adventures of Canada’s social engineers, but there it is. Looking far into the future is what visionaries do.

Remember how Hamlet and his former schoolmates, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, were supposed to board a ship and deliver the letter of Hamlet’s uncle, King Claudius, to the King of England? Okay; think of the letter as the Canadian Human Rights Act of 1977. Then think of Rosencrantz as the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), and of Guildenstern as the Canadian Jewish Congress.

While I was out today, the story of the RCMP investigation into the Human Rights Commission’s illegal use of a citizen’s wireless IP address broke. I was over at Kathy’s when the word came out about it being on CTV news, and she read her emails about it out loud to me.

This is a huge step forward in our fight to show the rest of Canada just how illegally the HRC’s operate. They have no codes of conduct, no oversight, and a seemingly limitless supply of arrogance that they are doing the right thing (by way of Trudeau’s work). Their policing of thought to build a utopia is social engineering that even Margaret Sanger would be appalled by. And their blatant disregard of this country’s other laws - real laws - are a worldwide embarrassment.

The victim of the CHRC’s illegal hacking, Nelly Hechme, told reporters that she was “completely shocked” by the CHRC’s conduct. Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, who has jurisdiction over the CHRC, is now investigating the matter.

But not even the CHRC’s most passionate critics could have imagined that the Mounties would be investigating the CHRC.

According to this letter written two weeks ago by the Ottawa Police Service, a criminal complaint filed against the CHRC by Marc Lemire has now been referred to the RCMP’s Integrated Technological Crime Unit. Here is the key excerpt from that letter:

After a full consideration of all aspects of the matter, it is our opinion that this matter falls within the jurisdiction of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We have discussed this matter with the RCMP and the matter has been assigned to Cpl Stephane Turgeon.

I expect that the RCMP will be in touch with you…

This investigation will blow the lid off the criminality at the CHRC, expose Richard Warman as a con artist who has made his living playing the “hurt feelings” lottery system and off the Commission’s payouts; and it most likely expose the infamous Ann Cools post that led the the lawsuit against Ezra, Kate, Kathy, Jonathan Kay and the Fourniers.

It has taken the work of bloggers, and of course Mark Steyn and his publisher Ken Whyte of Maclean’s Magazine, as well as the tireless Ezra Levant to push the HRC’s out of the shadows and into the light.

We sat silent when the HRC went after neo-Nazis and Holocaust-deniers who lived in relative obscurity, even though their hateful speech should have stood for itself, exposing those people as the idiots they are. But we will not sit silent while the supposed “Human Rights” Commissions threaten to shut down press freedom - including the freedom formerly allotted to bloggers such as myself - in our democratic nation.

Quick, tell me where I fill out a Human Rights Commission complaint! I went to a little Chinese restaurant on Yonge south of Eglington with Mr. Right this evening. The food was great, the service was great… but at the end of the meal I noticed that the Chinese party at the table next to us had been given chopsticks, while Mr. Right and I had eaten with the supplied forks.

It’s racism, folks. Institutional racism. Whitey couldn’t possibly figure out how to eat with the wooden sticks. Where’s Babs Hall when you need her?

Today, Athanasios Hadjis, the chair of the tribunal hearing the matter, threw out the CCF’s request to join in as an intervenor. Hadjis’s brief ruling is a repulsive blend of arrogance, laziness and prejudice. Let’s be honest: Hadjis is bored, and doesn’t want to waste time going through the motions of a fair hearing, and the CCF means he potentially has hours of extra reading to do.

Throughout the March 25th hearing, Hadjis repeatedly sighed “we’re done” — even when the lawyers of the case weren’t done. I wasn’t there, so I don’t know how many times Hadjis looked at the clock, but I’m sure it was in the dozens. But can you really blame Hadjis? The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has a 100% conviction rate for section 13 thought crimes. They’re just going through the motions anyways. Can’t they just hurry up, so he can declare Lemire guilty?

Ezra’s post points out many crimes of which the HRC and Hadjis himself are guilty of.

Favoritism for the prosecution, yet bias against the privately funded defense. Laziness and ennui. Withholding information from the defendant, even though obligated by his commissions own rules to forward that information. Providing information to the press before instead of providing it to the defendant. The corruption is so inherent that it has become a cancer. And sadly, the government has chosen to turn away from the problem, instead of stepping up and culling the disease. Section 13(1) is the cancer, and it needs to be removed.

How something like this can happen in a civilized Western country continues to astound me. Oh well, at least I got a cool mug out of it… It arrived yesterday.