{"id":1955,"date":"2008-01-14T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2008-01-13T00:57:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T05:57:31","slug":"i-am-here-under-compulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s My Bloody Right&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is in the process of <em>trying  <\/em>to do to free speech what they&#8217;ve done with their health care system; gut it.<\/p>\n<p>In the video clips on Little Green Footballs, we see Ezra Levant, the publisher of <em>The Western Standard<\/em>, called on the carpet by the ironically-named &#8220;Alberta Human Rights Commission&#8221; at the behest of a radical imam for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=28582_Outrage_of_the_Week-_Canadian_Publisher_Persecuted_for_Mindcrime&#038;only\">testifying in what amounts to an interrogation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I watched all three clips. It reminded me of my various hearings with Saint Paul Public Schools figures.<\/p>\n<p>Inquisitor asks what the paper&#8217;s &#8220;intent&#8221; in publishing the cartoons was.<\/p>\n<p>Levant:  &#8220;&#8230;the only thing I have to say to the government about why I published them is because it&#8217;s my bloody right to do so&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s a compliment to neither of the groups.<\/p>\n<p>Watch all three vids.<\/p>\n<p>Ezra Levant;  if you&#8217;re in town for the RNC, the first beer is on me.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MzBhYmNiMTUxMTM2NDIxMzdjYjRiNzFjNTI2Yjc0ZTc=\">More on the Corner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/canadian_fury_a.html\">Samizdata<\/a>, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/ezralevant.com\/2008\/01\/kangaroo-court.html\">Levant&#8217;s blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is in the process of trying to do to free speech what they&#8217;ve done with their health care system; gut it. In the video clips on Little Green Footballs, we see Ezra Levant, the publisher of The Western Standard, called on the carpet by the ironically-named &#8220;Alberta Human Rights Commission&#8221; at the behest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}