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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Ann Coulter is a great example of how easy it is to lose our free speech rights.


Coulter's visit, finally, did have one permanent utility. It was another vivid illustration of how elastic and feeble, at least in certain quarters, the Canadian understanding of free speech has become. The idea, evidently held by certain of the protesters, that merely to call something "hate speech" licenses an attempt to halt that speech is depressing because it has become so common.



Canada and the US are not that culturally different. The Obama administration and the US media is trying to turn us into "Canadians" at a rapid pace. For exhbit "A" check out this. and this.

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