DANISH CARTOONS: FREE SPEECH ON TRIAL, again

Everything we live for, everything we stand for, the very reason for the founding of this great country is on trial.
Ezra Levant is the publisher of the Western Standard. He is currently on trial
at the kangaroo court of the Alberta Human Rights Commission for publishing the
Mohammed cartoons. These are some of his opening remarks.  hat tip Norman

Alberta Human
Rights Commission Interrogation

Opening remarks by Ezra Levant, January
11, 2008 – Calgary

My name is Ezra Levant. Before this government
interrogation begins, I will make a
statement.
When the Western Standard
magazine printed the Danish cartoons of Mohammed two years ago, I was the
publisher. It was the proudest moment of my public life. I would do it again
today. In fact, I did do it again today. Though the Western Standard, sadly, no
longer publishes a print edition, I posted the cartoons this morning on my
website, ezralevant.com.

I am here at this government interrogation under
protest. It is my position that the government has no legal or moral authority
to interrogate me or anyone else for publishing these words and pictures. That
is a violation of my ancient and inalienable freedoms: freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, and in this case, religious freedom and the separation of
mosque and state. It is especially perverted that a bureaucracy calling itself
the Alberta human rights commission would be the government agency violating my
human rights. So I will now call those bureaucrats "the commission" or "the
hrc", since to call the commission a "human rights commission" is to destroy the
meaning of those words.

Very powerful stuff – you can find the rest at
his website.
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