OS correctly discerns my indifference to the NHL, but that’s about it:
I suppose he’s entitled to that, as well as his ignorance of America’s good friend and steady partner, Canada. Mind you, when so many Canadian families are mourning the loss of their young soldiers, blown to pieces in Afghanistan, it’s tough to swallow the
‘irrelevance’ vomit spewed out by the likes of Vox Day.At least Condi Rice and President Bush have the good graces to thank Canada, one of the few countries who have sent many young men to their death alongside US soldiers in that Taliban hellhole. It also seems they are appreciative of the huge and reliable supplies of uranium, petroleum and electricity that come from Canada to feed America’s industries, heat its homes and power its nuclear weapons.
You know Vox, we’ll never be a ‘big gun’ like the USA. I mean, we’ve only got a population the size of California. Still, we do our bit and America has always been able count on us, military misadventures notwithstanding… but a MENSA member like you should know that.
Then again, maybe the standards for MENSA admission in America are just a little lower than elsewhere…
Yes, I’m deeply impressed by Canada’s willingness to aid George Bush in his war on liberties which Canadians do not possess, to say nothing of Canada’s noble altruism in supplying a giant market with its exports. I’m sure Canadians do it out of the goodness of their hearts, unlike, for example, the Chinese, who only sell their exports out of evil capitalist greed.
Meanwhile, Canadian lawyer GW, shockingly, tries to pull a fast one:
It might be a whole lot easier to take the arguments of writers like Vox Day seriously if they didn’t employ incendiary headlines like “Heil Canada.”…. Regarding the article itself and a tiny point of accuracy, while Mr. Day’s statement that “there is no Canadian First amendment” is technically true (as our free speech guarantees are not nested in a constitutional amendment), his readers should not be misled.
Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms affords constitutional protection to freedom of expression in Canada:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Mr. Wise neglects to mention the preceding paragraph, which qualifies these “rights” with open-ended strictures such as the sort which have been applied in Canadian law since 1970.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Similar limitations are placed on the “rights” supposedly guaranteed by the United Nations and the current European charter that currently applies to its European signatory states and will be adopted by the European Union once it claims sovereign status.
And while RB didn’t take offense on behalf of the nation of Canada, he was apparently upset that I was insufficiently respectful of the greatest writer that ever put pen to paper regarding matters political:
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know that, judging from the ample evidence of both of your many columns, you are not fit to sharpen Mark Steyn’s pencil. He is considerably more knowledgeable than you on every topic you mention your last column. He has a grasp of real life politics and policy, unlike your Google-happy, MENSA obsessed, web-trolling egg headed know-it-all posturing. He actually travels to the places that you Imagine you understand. You embarrass yourself by trying to high-horse an intellect as strong as Steyn’s but, then again, you embarrass yourself almost every Monday, so I’m not surprised by this latest example. You are too smart by half. Or less.
Yes, this would be exactly the sort of individual I had in mind when I wrote about Steyn being overrated. He’s not bad, as nominally right-wing commentators go, but he’s not in my top ten either.