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When George Galloway, the pro Palestinian British MP was banned from entering Canada, well known Uber Conservative high forehead (lol) Ezra Levant had this to say:
“But that’s not my main point: my main point is that Galloway has no “right” to come to Canada. He’s not Canadian.
I’m all for his free speech — elsewhere.”
It’s sort of like my position with the Canadian Islamic Congress and their nuisance complaints against Maclean’s magazine. They demanded five or six pages of Maclean’s magazine in which to write their pro-Islamist propaganda. They have the right to express that propaganda all they like — but not in Maclean’s magazine. It’s not a matter of free speech, it’s a matter of property rights — they don’t own Maclean’s, and don’t have a right of access to it.
I just don’t think that Canada needs to be open to any dime-store bigot from around the world. It really is an immigration matter.”
Now Ann Coulter, also not a Canadian, and possibly the other side of the Galloway coin is on a speaking tour of universities in Canada, Levant is leading her band of cheerleaders. He had this to say when Coulter’s security staff shut down the affair in Ottawa:
“At a university, instead of free speech, censorship,” said Ezra Levant, a Canadian conservative writer, lawyer and blogger who was scheduled to introduce Coulter.”
So, in Ezra’s erudite logic, free speech for the guys on my side and a muzzle for those who I don’t like. Hmmmmm.
Coulter is famous for wanting the US to “Crush Canada” for not participating in the US invasion of Iraq, praising Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing, and telling Islamic women that they shouldn’t be allowed on airplanes and should use a flying carpet or alternatively a camel to get around.
The difference between the aborted Galloway visit, and the current Coulter tour is that the Weight of the Government of Canada was used to prevent the visit of Galloway, while Coulter was welcomed by the Canadian government. Therein lies the dangerous hypocrisy (or Harpocrisy if you prefer)
Personally I would love to see Galloway and Coulter in the same room, debating the issues. We could make it a cage match. Ultimate fighting indeed!
Thank you Left Hand! I was going to weigh in later today in further detail with that whole George Galloway as well as the banning of that Palestinian Nobel Prize nominee (for the life of me, I forgot his name; Dr Dawg blogged about that not long ago) if I had any downtown time at my office.
We seem to be of a minority here, Canadian Cynic also weighs in on that hypocrisy as well.
However, I am wondering if the organizers, Ezzy and Kathy Five feet of fecal matter Shaidle set this whole thing up? That this was deliberate?? I wonder how U of O got selected in the first place? Even Western seems to be somewhat of a stretch, although definitely more sympathizers of that whole National Pest: Fox News crowd. Calgary; definitely a captive audience. But U of O?? That was kind of asking for trouble; same as if they would set it up at Concordia Or University of Toronto.
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you must, but it don’t mean I’m wrong, especially if one followed media whores-self loathing Jews like ol’ Ezzy and Shrieking shrews like Kathy Shaidle, who couldn’t get a real job if her life depended on it.
I disagree. I wouldn’t want to see Coulter v. George Galloway. But I do think that Coulter’s schtick is getting tired and stale. What I would like to see is Coulter v. Dame Edna. Two old drag queens clashing on stage. Now that’s entertainment.
I agree it may have been a publicity stunt to sell a few more books. After all it was Coulter’s own security detail, not the Ottawa or Campus cops who shut it down. Observers (and participants) I know at the scene tell me there was no threat of violence just a lot of noise: Levant’s much vaunted “free speech”.
@Kim Feraday: the mind boggles…Then Giggles.
Mustafa Barghouti.
ck Reply:
March 24th, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Thanks Dawg!! As usual, you know when I need help!
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