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Gun control ad
February 21, 2013 — xanthippaThings are getting interesting with our southern neighbours. For example, Clear Channel refused to air this patriotic ad:
It is the obligation of citizens to arm themselves with as effective weapons as their governments’ armed forces posses, in order to be able to depose any government that turns tyrannical. That is the meaning of the US Constitution’s 2nd amendment and that is the legacy of the Magna Carta.
We must never forget that with the privileges of citizenship come the responsibilities of citizenship.
Free Dominion is under attack and needs our help!
February 17, 2013 — xanthippaFree Dominion is in the forefront of the battles for the freedom of speech and for the freedom on the internet, Their path has not been easy, but they are determined and brave and understand just how important freedom is. They have already won some important rulings in court regarding privacy on the internet, which is why they made it to Michael Geist’s list of internet achievements of 2012!
However, legal battles are expensive.
Very expensive.
If Mark and Connie, the people behind Free Dominion, run out of funds, no amount of determination will help. The wanna-be-oppressors know this. That is why, just as Mark and Connie announced their new fund-raising campaign, they have tried to keep the word from getting out by hitting their site with a DDoS SYN attack…
Please, help spread the word!
And, if you can, chip in a bit…
From Connie Fournier:
‘As many of you know, Mark and I are fighting three trials this year related to issues of online freedom of speech. We just started our largest fundraiser because we need to raise $50,000 to cover the cost of all of those trials.Almost immediately, the Free Dominion website was attacked by hackers. We are fighting what is called a DDoS SYN attack where dozens of computers are sending messages to our server in an attempt to overload it and shut it down. We keep blocking IPs, but new ones spring up almost immediately and the attacks start again.Sometimes we will have periods where the site is accessible to read, but many people cannot post. Then they come back and increase the attack until the site becomes inaccessible again.We desperately need help!We can’t get the word out about our fundraiser because many of our regular readers can’t get into our site to find out about it.We really need people who care about free speech to circulate this email, tell your friends, or post it on your blogs.Somebody doesn’t want us to meet our fundraising goal, but we have to do this. Internet freedom depends on it!Here is the link to our fundraiser, please pass it around! http://igg.me/at/internetThanks so much for your help!Connie’
H/T: Andrew
I’m with Tarek Fatah on this one!
February 7, 2013 — xanthippaI have long held that it is simply wrong for people to have multiple citizenships and that we must put a stop to it.
In my never-humble-opinion, it is not possible for a person to be loyal to multiple countries. Sure, they may be allies now, or they may share a monarch at this time, but that does not mean they always will. If you don’t wish to pledge your loyalty exclusively Canada (and her queen), then we can do without you, thank you very much.
Canada is a great country and people from all around the world wish to move here. We should be able to select only those new immigrants who are willing to repay Canada by pledging their undivided loyalty to her!
And it does not matter what race or creed (or absence of creed) they are, as long as they are indeed willing to accept our secular laws as fully binding on them – and only if they are willing to be bound by our secular laws!
There are many Muslims who are fleeing from the political system known as Sharia: there is a big difference between Islam as a religion, and Sharia.
Sure, ‘Sharia’ is known as ‘Islamic law’ – but Sharia as such is a political and judicial system derived from Islam, the religion. And just as not all Christians are adherent to the Roman Catholic canonical interpretation of Christianity and would never wish for a return to the days when the Roman Church imposed its laws on all the poor souls trapped under its tyranny, so many Muslims do not wish to live under the yoke of Sharia. And just like we do not permit those who wish to return to the days of the Holy Inquisition to impose Christian laws on other Christians, we should not permit those who wish to live under Sharia to impose Sharia rules on other Muslims!
And one of the core tenets of Sharia is the complete rejection of secular laws in favour of forcibly imposing Sharia on all – Muslims and non-Muslims alike!
We do not permit religious laws to trump our secular laws – and we should not import immigrants who will not respect that – much less ones who openly promote the supremacy of religious laws over secular ones and intend to impose them on others.
Regardless of which religion those laws are derived from!
And, our law-enforcement agencies must not fail to protect anyone, regardless of race or creed or gender, from another person or group of persons who are breaking our secular laws. That is what rule-of-law and equality-before-the-law mean, and we must never forget it or violate these principles in the name of political correctness, for the fear of offending one special-interest group or another, or indeed in the name of ‘keeping peace’.
Because in the long term, the only peace that will be left if rule-of-law is not fully and equally implemented will be the ‘peace of oppression’.
Ai Weiwei’s First Major U.S. Show Has Everything but the Dissident Artist Himself
February 6, 2013 — xanthippaHaving also grown up as a child of a publicly labeled political dissident, actively persecuted by a totalitarian regime, I have much empathy for Weiwei…
Gavin Boby spoke in in Ottawa tonight
February 4, 2013 — xanthippaThanks to CAIR-CAN’s protest against this event, Gavin Boby’s talk in Ottawa tonight was well advertised – so, together with some 60-80 other Ottawans, I decided to go check it out.
And, we were not disappointed.
Though I missed the protesters outside, I spoke to others who got to see them being interviewed by CBC. I guess that a February night in Ottawa with temperatures well below -20 degrees Celsius, most outdoor protests will tend to be brief and limited to the length of the interviews…
Mr. Boby spoke for an hour or so and then took questions from the audience. I will write it all up for tomorrow, when I hope Vlad Tepes will have a teaser video up.
Let me just say that it was a very positive message of reasoned restraint and the rule of law to maintain civil society. He unequivocally condemned anger and hate as motivators. If you happen to find yourself in Montreal on Tuesday, the 5th of February, 2013 or in Toronto on Wednesday, the 6th of February 2013, it is definitely worth it to go hear Mr. Boby speak.
UPDATE: Here is Brian Lilley interviewing Gavin Boby:
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