[ April 20, 2024 ]
This is how quickly free societies can become authoritarian dictatorships. “Mr. Cyril Winter, a 70 year-old senior, was arrested by police in Ottawa on Feb. 7th and 9th. He was carrying signs that read ‘Freedom of Expression and Religion. No Censorship’ and ‘God save our Charter rights’. He was arrested while walking on a public sidewalk, sign in-hand.”
Arrested for calling for “Freedom of Expression.” The irony is off the charts. And the precedent is ominous. Please sign this petition, and if you’re in Canada d0 everything you can to make sure this never happens again. Kathleen Wynne must be voted out of office, so thoroughly that her administration is completely repudiated. If that doesn’t happen, there will be many more Cyril Winters.
“Petition to: Kathleen Wynne & Yasir Naqvi: First Free Speech Arrest in Ontario,” by CitizenGO Canada, February 23, 2018:
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For the first time in Ontario history, a man has been arrested for holding a free speech sign. This is not only a black mark on Kathleen Wynne and her liberal regime, but it is a black mark on our entire province. We all look bad. After all, we don’t live in a military dictatorship, do we?
Mr. Cyril Winter, a 70 year-old senior, was arrested by police in Ottawa on Feb. 7th and 9th. He was carrying signs that read “Freedom of Expression and Religion. No Censorship” and “God save our Charter rights”. He was arrested while walking on a public sidewalk, sign in-hand.
Mr. Winter’s only crime, apparently, was that he had come within 50 metres of the property line of an abortion clinic. A new anti-speech “bubble zone” law came into force on February 1st (the so-called “Safe Access to Abortion Services Act”). Under this draconian law, all personal speech, activity, and even prayer is subject to strict police control and regulation.
You might be on a public street or sidewalk, but if you happen to be within 50 metres of an abortion clinic or an abortionist’s house, you can be arrested by police for saying, praying, or wearing the wrong thing. (And it’s up to them what that is).
Though this law was passed under the pretext of “safety for women”, it is clear now that its purpose is to suppress certain viewpoints and beliefs within the province. This assault on our rights and freedoms was enacted by premier Kathleen Wynne under her attorney general, Yasir Naqvi.
Ironically, Mr. Winter says he had his activities cleared by Ottawa police before he donned his signs. In spite of receiving a green light from Sergeant Martin Groulx, it is reported that the crown attorney ordered Mr. Winter’s arrest when the nearby abortion clinic complained about his signage.
In the past, while it was still legal, Mr. Winter carried pro-life signs in the public spaces surrounding the abortion clinic. Now that this is forbidden, he decided to speak up for free speech. He said, “I really believe in free speech and the freedom to be where I am, in every square inch of Canada…I’m beginning to wonder how free I am.”
This is a clear case of political bullying with police as patsies. This hurts ordinary citizens like Cyril Winter. This hurts the reputation of police. This hurts the women who would like to think for themselves on these issues. This hurts the unborn. This hurts our province. May God help us!
Now that Kathleen Wynne and Yasir Naqvi have claimed their first victim under this anti-speech “bubble zone” law, let’s voice our support for Cyril Winter, an Ontario senior with real guts! We need to let our liberal government know that political suppression is for dictatorships, not democracies.
FOR FURTHER READING…
LifeSite News – https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/70-year-old-man-becomes-first-arrest-under-ontarios-new-ban-on-pro-life-spe
Ottawa Citizen – http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/protester-tries-to-push-legal-boundaries-of-new-abortion-bubble-zone-law
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94 Comments
6 years ago
http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/10/deborah-weiss-m-103-resolution-1618-and-the-oics-war-on-free-speech-in-the-west/ Canadian Resolution M-103 & UN 16/18 forbidds to criticize iSSlam https://quran.com/3/141 -> https://quran.com/8/17
6 years ago
Reply to
Sgtsnuffy
Clearly, Sarge, you don’t quite fit in in the modern world. Remember, “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
Of course, according to many mainstream Moslem clerics, it is perfectly acceptable to call for the murder of Jews and subjugation of Christians. Better get on the wagon, dontcha think, Sarge?
6 years ago
Mr. Cyril Winter, a 70 year-old senior, was arrested by police in Ottawa on Feb. 7th and 9th. He was carrying signs that read ‘Freedom of Expression and Religion. No Censorship’ and ‘God save our Charter rights’.
Funny thing, how few “deplorables” would countenance this sort of badged thuggery, but so many “liberals” do countenance it. As the late, great Margaret Thatcher put it, “It’s a funny old world”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
“Funny” until you or someone you know is arrested for offense to a reprobate fool.
“If you have a right to respect, that means other people don’t have a right to their own opinions.”
Thomas Sowell
6 years ago
Reply to
@The_Moccasin_
Speaking of Thomas Sowell… what a disappointment. He sure knew how to feed us what we wanted to read. He was so full of down right HATRED for Trump that it truly shocked me.
After Trump won and was signed in, he put down his pen and retired? Do you know why he retired? He openly stated that he could not write anything positive about Trump etc…
Thomas Sowell was just anther establishment hack that was black. He was another Michael Steele or Colon Powell all along. ALL of Trump’s
policies should have these “conservatives” crowing with joy. Instead they shun him and shower Trump with HATRED.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Yeah, but at least we can go to these conservative sites without encountering his self righteous rants. So it’s all good…I hope he stays ‘retired’, plus.
6 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
At eighty-seven, he probably doesn’t have that many years this side of the sod.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’m not 87 years old fool. Exactly how long is he supposed to work? At what age can he retire? Do need him to pay benefits your you or your mom?
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
By the way twit. I’m by far more conservative than most. I voted against Hillary. That not good enough for you? SCREW YOU! JERK OFF! I didn’t want ANYBODY running. Go suck Hillarys butthole you filth.
6 years ago
VIDEO: Rep. Michele Bachmann (USA) ‘… Islamic forced spech codes’ http://schnellmann.org/#un-res-1618
6 years ago
ontario is california with bad weather, though the government’s every bit as stupid there as here.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Weather in Ontario 10 times better than in California.
No mudslides…
No crippling fires.
No burning droughts.
No homeless camps
No water rationing.
No scorching heat.
No Big Ones in the forecast..
Only beautiful winters, and paradisiac summers.
….by the way: watch for a Big One this year down there..!
..
6 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
liberals and their tax and burn economics are worse. Mud dries up, fires go out, eventually it rains, winter comes and urban renewal through plate tectonics is not a bad thing.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
here you are , you f**g idiot.
Your own newspaper says ”the worst quality life on US”
Today’s Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/01/california-has-worst-quality-life-in-us-study-says.html
6 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
Don’t believe everything you read, winter in calipornya is not like winter in ontario.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Hmmm, the Donner party were nearly wiped out in the snows of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Western civilization and individual freedom were wiped out in ontario ever since it got the liberal snow job.
6 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
Maranatha, You are foul-mouthed bag of dung idiot who wallows in the trash that only some ultra-sensitive and delusional Canadians can sum up. Weather in Ontario better than California? Have you ever gone out further than your Ontario back yard. pet alone been in California? Ontario climate is utter scheit, winters lousy and summers sweltering humidity, an imbecile in Queens Parks adding to a debt greater than that of California and all other Canadian provinces combined – and a media no sane person believes!
6 years ago
Reply to
RonnieandStephanie Lewis
Hi, RonnieandStephanie Lewis. Yeah, it’s a shame that you’re (not your) a bull bore moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures).
6 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
B.C. is not that bad either.
I have lived in Ontario and Quebec.
But my heart was always in B.C.
Compared with California.
All of Canada is a great country to live in.
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
Don’t knock it; there are good & bad about BOTH, but since YOU ARE RULED BY CHILD RAPING & MURDERING ‘Royal Family’ is say ill take earthquakes over that ANY DAY!!!! The last is best; take a gander at why Canada COULD be better, but CHOOSES instead to be OWNED by YOUR QUEEN who RAPES & MURDERS LITTLE CHILDREN!!
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/oh-canada
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
“All of Canada is a great country to live in.” I wonder if Eric Brazau would agree w/that statement? Or Mark Steyn? I’d say both these men have been prosecuted for violating islamic blasphemy and heresy laws in Canadastan in fact if not name.
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6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Like hell it will! Death to islam! & all the goat humpers!
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
No, you will be dominated! By the way; Trump can ban anybody!
Ever heard of the McCarran-Walter Act Of 1952?
“Suspension of entry or imposition of
restrictions by the President, whenever the President finds that the entry of
aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to
the interests of the United States. The President may, by proclamation, and for
such a period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or
any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose any restrictions
on the entry of aliens he may deem to be appropriate.”
6 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
But has one arrogantly ignorant Lieberal government lead by an insane dyke!
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
There’s already an Ontario in CA, we don’t want or need another one.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
“ontario” means. land of the stupid in several indigenous languages.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Not long ago I watched Toronto Star columnist, Tarek Fatah, testified to a Senate committee in Ottawa that every Friday in mosques across Canada imams pray for the ‘the defeat of ‘infidels by the Muslims’. This is an act of hatred, yet NEVER in this now woefully spineless and unprincipled country is an imam arrested for such acts and none is arrested after expressing hatred of Jews. But when an elderly man holds up a fairly innocuous sign, he is arrested and charged – and the police are stupid enough and Gestapo enough to do this. Pathetic! Canada is degenerating in one big ‘1984’ puke.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
tHAT IS what they say as well in the PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and then they go to school they walk back to class, and smirk at their classmates, knowing full well in their MINDS, what they are here for. REMEMBER THAT.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Used to ride my bicycle from Los Serranos down to Newport or Huntington . Couple of hours to get there , but coming back was uphill all the way .
6 years ago
WHAT CAN WE SAY EXCEPT , SEIG HEIL !!!! (Sieg Heil became the salute of the German National “Socialist” (Nazi) party in the 1920s.) MAYBE CANADA IS HEADING IN THE SAME DIRECTION , HM ????
YA SEE FOLKS, EVEN THOUGH YOU ALL HATE THE USA SO MUCH YOU’D LOVE TO SEE U.S. DESTROYED WE STILL HAVE WHAT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH HAS . A BILL OF RIGHTS THAT PROTECTS SUCH ACTIONS AS MR. WINTER’S !!!! SORRY TO SAY YOU IN CANADA AND ELSE WHERE DON’T HAVE SUCH PROTECTIONS , EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING IN A FREE SOCIETY . OH WELL THE GERMANS THOUGHT THEY WERE LIVING IN A FREE AND OPEN SOCIETY TOO . AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM !!!!
6 years ago
He would not have been arrested if he was a Muslim.
6 years ago
Brave man. We need many more like him.
6 years ago
Left/Liberal/socialist/feminazis have only destroyed countries which they ruled/misruled.
Just Like this Bernie/Dems socialist utopia has collapsed https://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m
6 years ago
This is coming to the U.S.. It is really already here.
Look at Berkely – no freedom of speech there.
6 years ago
Clowns Justin and Kathleen couldn’t wait longer..
..
6 years ago
Who decides what speech is appropriate or not? Who sets the moral standards of speech in Ontario? Sounds just like communism.
6 years ago
Reply to
Sesame Chicken
Hello, Sesame Chicken. You asked, “Who sets the moral standards of speech in Ontario?” The answer is, moslems.
6 years ago
Reply to
Sesame Chicken
We can have all the free speech we want.
As long as we let (shiny pony) Turdeau and his muslum brothers decide what free speech we can or can not have.
6 years ago
What an honor to be jailed in defense of the freedom of your country. Not many men get to be ‘soldiers’ in a war of national survival when they are 70 years old.
6 years ago
Where do I find this petition?
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
If you go to the body of text, directly preceding the article; In red, you will find “CitizensGO Canada. If you will follow that link, then follow that for “First Free Speech Arrest in Ontario”, you’ll be at the petition.
6 years ago
HEY (shiny pony) Turdeau…
Repeal bill M-103…….NOW……..
6 years ago
One more example proving what blithering idiots our neighbors to the north have become. What a shame that they’ve ruined such a beautiful country that could have been a shining example to the world. Better start upping security on our northern border before they start bailing out to the USA.
6 years ago
Reply to
Oh, Canada, idiots R us.
Build the Wall! Build the Wall! Build the Wall! Build the Wall!
6 years ago
Hey, he must not have got the memo to never tamper with a liberal female tramp’s right to murder a baby.
Were are the “human rights’ nazis as after all he is a political prisoner..
6 years ago
We need a CANADIAN Trump…………
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
In the hope that you can do better…. Trump may be fixing to blow the 2nd Amendment right out of the Bill of Rights .
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
https://www.minds.com/blog/view/814532521413689344
http://www.minds.com
you want to watch this
You may also want to subscribe to “minds” in addtion to googgle/fakebook/etc. And maybe slowly
migrate to minds or similar “social platform”
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
Every country needs their own Trump. And if that isn’t enough, then their own Hitler too. Believe it or not, in spite of all the lies about him, that’s a good thing!
6 years ago
Moloch shall not be mocked.
6 years ago
Why did the STUPID police arrest him? They should have refused. The people should have come to his aid and told the cops, “Take Your Stinkin’ Paws Off Him You Damn Dirty Ape!”
That could have become our rallying cry to remove the FATHERLESS MORONS everywhere!
6 years ago
My first instinct was to sign the petition, but then my self-preservation angel whispers there would now be a list with my name on it. I’m not kidding, its getting that bad, we’re not far from getting that fatal knock on the door in the middle of the night.
6 years ago
where is the petition link?
6 years ago
The left are the fascist that they like to call anyone who disagrees with them.
6 years ago
Achtung Sweinhundt ! Achtung Spitfeuer! Gott In Himmel! Teufel! Schweinehund! Hmmmmmmmmm !
And so it begins again.
6 years ago
This is complete freedom in Ontario! That’s what our Beloved Premier.told us. Repeat mantra until it is thoroughly understood.
6 years ago
It takes two genders to create a life. This whole abortion on demand thing while out to do some shopping could be solved with one simple requirement. For every abortion being performed, the responsible male must be on the adjoining table, in the same room, having a vasectomy. Anything less is diacrimination and racism.
6 years ago
Cyril Winter’s arrest is a terrifying precursor to Sharia Ontario courtesy of Wynne, Naqvi, Trudeau and the CBC.
D
6 years ago
The EX-Attorney General of America – ‘l.lynch’ – tried to do this under 0b0z0’s regime. She was SHUT DOWN PROMPTLY. She should have never been appointed. She REFUSED to answer questions relating to the Second Amendment. This alone DISQUALIFIED this closet DemocRATic COMMUNIST party member that hid under the name as a “progressive” (communist/progressive/democRAT/markist are all equal).
6 years ago
This is bs. It appears he was one of those jerks that harasses women outside of abortion clinics. I don’t care where you stand on abortion, nobody has the right to harass women for their choices.
“Though this law was passed under the pretext of “safety for women”, it is clear now that its purpose is to suppress certain viewpoints and beliefs within the province. ” No it does not suppress certain viewpoints and beliefs within the province. People still have all the rights to express their views as long as they do it away from abortion clinics.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ichabod Crain
What this guy did maybe wrong. But look at his arrest as a test case for Bill M-103.
Bill M-103. Will be used to stifle any and all criticism of anything islamic.
Or any criticism that runs contrary the to the agenda of (shiny pony) Turdeau and his muslum brothers. For all of CANADA.
6 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
Mr. Jat – The Safe Access to Abortion Services Act is only provincial law, whereas the dreaded Bill M-103 is federal. The Safe Access to Abortion Services Act provides automatic 50-metre zones around eight abortion clinics in the province, including The Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street. There is no way whatsoever this is some kind of a test case for Bill M-103.
6 years ago
“SIGN THE PETITION: Protest the First Free Speech Arrest in Ontario”.
So WHERE is the petition and the place to sign it?
6 years ago
Canadians need an equivalent of the 1st Amendment to protect freedom of speech from the many politicians and activists who want to restrict it or eliminate it altogether.
6 years ago
Reply to
Lancelot Blackeburne
Ours is kinda beat up and frazzled , I’m sure progressives would give Truedux a good deal on it .
6 years ago
Reply to
aebe
Even a beat up used version would be an improvement on the current situation in Canada.
D
6 years ago
“Under this draconian law, all personal speech, activity, and even prayer is subject to strict police control and regulation.”
Just like 1930’s Germany eh?
