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August 14, 2014 — xanthippaEzra Levant – Charges laid against Calgary anti-Israel thugs, more to come
August 12, 2014 — xanthippaFrom Sun News:
From Ezra Levant’s email:
Dear Alexandra,
Today the Calgary Police Service charged three pro-Hamas rioters with assault, and are seeking a fourth suspect.
You’ll remember that disgraceful riot – on July 18th, right outside Calgary’s City Hall, a mob of pro-Palestinian thugs beat up an entire Canadian family while shouting “death to the Jews”.
That was bad enough. But even worse, Calgary’s police were nowhere to be seen. This was right downtown – right outside City Hall. But the police just weren’t there.
For that one moment, it was more like Gaza than Canada – mob rule, not the rule of law.
Calgary’s civic leaders let us down – both the police chief and the mayor downplayed the incident, refusing to call it a riot, and being willfully blind to the anti-Semitic nature of the violence.
So you and I stepped in to fill the gap.
We set up a petition, where literally thousands of Calgarians and other Canadians demanded criminal charges, and a clear denunciation of the riots. It was the largest petition ever received by the Calgary Police Commission.
We raised funds online to hire a lawyer for the riot victims, to help them navigate the police bureaucracy.
We held a massive pro-Canada, pro-Israel, pro-freedom rally on the steps of City Hall – proving that pro-Hamas thugs don’t control the city’s streets.
And, when criminal charges still had not come after two full weeks, we set up a website called www.RiotStoppers.com — based on the Crime Stoppers model. We showed pictures and video of six rioters and offered a $500 reward to anyone who could give us information about their identity.
Within half a day, we received quality tips on four of the suspects that we immediately passed on to police. But we did not make this news public, so as not to tip off the suspects and interfere with the police investigation.
Well, three charges were laid today, and a fourth is expected as soon as tomorrow.
We will continue to hunt for more suspects on our website.
But this is a major step forward in bringing these violent rioters to justice.
I should mention that the two street cops on this file have been exemplary. I’m talking about police who spend their time fighting crime, not playing politics like the chief. They have taken a meticulous approach, and were closing in on these suspects even before we sent in our tips. Our tips merely came from someone sleuthing the Internet – something the police obviously did too.
I’m sure they would have got these suspects. But I’m equally sure that the public message sent by our rally, our petition and us finding the suspect ourselves added positive pressure to the police chief to do the right thing this time – and not sweep this all under the carpet.
So thank you: to Calgary’s finest, for laying the charges. And to Canada’s finest: you, the viewers of the Sun News Network, who have signed the petitions, raised the funds for these projects, and smoked out four of the suspects.
Here’s my special edition of the Source that I taped tonight right after the police laid the charges. And please visit www.RiotStoppers.com. The police haven’t found everyone yet – let’s give them a hand.
Yours gratefully,
Ezra Levant
C0nc0rdance: Individuality by Robert Ingersoll
July 11, 2014 — xanthippaRemember, I am posting this before setting off on my holidays: it may refer to the 4th of July, but, in my never-humble-opinion, this piece is timeless!!!
FIRE Announces the Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project
July 4, 2014 — xanthippaA fitting post for the 4th of July!!!
Presidential Power and the Rise of American Monarchy: Q&A with Author Frank Buckley
July 3, 2014 — xanthippa
Two important videos…
June 27, 2014 — xanthippaAdam Kokesh is a name all freedom-loving people ought to get familiar with.
Yes, he is absolutely adorable – in the same way that a pitbull puppy is: there is an awareness of the power within, but it has not awoken to its full extent. Unlike a pitbull puppy, Adam Kokesh has very intelligent and well-reasoned out arguments to support voluntaryism. I truly believe he will grow to be remembered as one of the great liberty-minded philosophers of our era, on par with Payne and Jefferson.
And, while the following video ostensibly shows how one ought to behave at a ‘sobriety check point’, it contains a most excellent explanation from first principles of the philosophy of voluntaryism. It is not too long, but very powerful:
The second video I’d like to share with you is very, very different – yet no less important for maintaining our liberty.
While Adam Kokesh addresses how to fight the oppressive forces from within our society, Stephen Coughlin addresses the most clear and present danger to our liberty from without – but one which is increasingly infiltrating the power-structures within our society.
Stephen Coughlin is one of the very few people who, based on their understanding of Islam and the political factions in the Middle East, accurately predicted the events of the so called ‘Arab Spring’ , including the rise of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the ‘unrest’ in Benghazi – and predictive ability is the most scientific metric of knowledge, understanding and analysis.
It is a long video – about an hour – but it addresses (and explains in understandable terms) the significance of the whole ‘interfaith dialogue’ movement which culminated in the Vatican inter-faith-prayer between Christians, Jews and Muslims….where the Muslim cleric went off-script and called (right inside the Vatican) for the victory of Islam over Jews and Christians.
Yes, the Vatican tried to put a positive spin on it after the fact, but the event was simulcast to the whole of the Muslim world and it is essential that we understand the implications of this ‘off-script’ prayer – something understood (whether agreed to or not, it was understandable and understood) by the worldwide Muslim audience:
Give us your land for one dollar – or you go to jail!!!
June 26, 2014 — xanthippaPlease, indulge me for a while…I promise I’ll get to the point, eventually.
- If you sent your child to school with a yummy lunch and someone used the threat of force to make your kid ‘sell’ them their whole (and much more valuable) lunch for a dollar – would that be acceptable? How would you react?
- If you (rather than your child) bough a lunch and someone used the threat of force to make you ‘sell’ them your lunch for a dollar – would that be acceptable? How would you react?
- If you bought a pair of shoes and someone used the treat of force to make you ‘sell’ them these new shoes for a dollar – would that be acceptable?
- How about a car – would it be acceptable for someone to use the threat of force to make you ‘turn over’ a new car to them for one dollar?
- What about a house? Would it be acceptable for someone to use the threat of force to make you ‘turn over’ your house to them for one dollar?
- And if you purchased some land and planned to build a home on it – would it be acceptable for someone to use the threat of force to ‘turn over’ that land to them for one dollar?
- And what if you purchased some land and planned to build a more than one home on it – would it be any different? Would it be acceptable for anyone to force you (using threats of violence and imprisonment) to turn the land over to them for one dollar?
Yet, that is exactly what is happening in Ottawa!!!
What is worse, even though I took some time before writing this up to wait for a single news outlet to report this for the travesty that it is, not one of them has.
Each and every one of the mainstream media outlets has interviewed only the people who are doing the forcing – and what is worse, they feel it is righteous of them to do this. Every single one of the reports on this ‘story’ have been deeply empathetic to the bullies and not the victim in this case.
An eternity ago, when I was in high school, we studies a short story called ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’. If you are unfamiliar with it, here is the story in a nutshell: a farmer has bad luck and eventually agrees to sell his soul to the Devil in exchange of 7 years of good luck. The Devil fulfills his end of the contract, even letting the farmer have an extension. Still unwilling to pay the price he had agreed to in the contract, the farmer hires the famous orator Daniel Webster to argue for him in front of a jury. Instead of judging the contract on the basis of facts, Webster manipulates the jury’s emotions to judge on the basis of ‘people=good, Devil=evil’…and gets the farmer off.
When we discussed the story afterwards in the classroom, every single student – excepting me, of course – was happy with the way the story ended, hailing is as a ‘victory of good over evil’. I was not sure what I was more horrified at: that the story permitted the victory of ‘wrong over right’ or that so many of my classmates had been manipulated of their perception of ‘Devil=evil and therefore must be defeated by any means necessary’ and could not perceive that in this situation. the ‘evil’ Devil was actually in the right.
By the way – my hubby had attended a different high school, but he, too studied this short story and he also was the only one in his class to argue ‘right vs wrong’ rather than ‘good vs evil’….
Why do I bring ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’ up in this context?
Because in today’s world, it is difficult to imagine someone more ‘devil-like’ than a land developer…except, perhaps, someone in the ethical oil/gas industry.
In the Ottawa permutation of the story, a land developer had purchased land with the aim of building homes on it and, well, selling them. But, the City of Ottawa had decided that on the property this land developer had legally purchased, there ‘might’ have been some old and/or significant trees….and if the city’s agents deemed that this was so, the developer would be forced to ‘turn the land over to the city for one dollar’.
In other words, the City of Ottawa was both the prosecutor and the judge – and, should they issue the arrest warrant, the executioner.
It was the City of Ottawa who raise the issue and it was the City of Ottawa who would judge if they have the ‘right’ to demand the land be ‘turned over’ to them for one dollar…
Am I the only one who thinks this is not just plain wrong, but truly evil?
Yet, every news source I heard or read is empathetic to the city, not the ‘evil’ land developer….
How does this happen?!?!?
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