Mark Steyn's Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Also, Mystic, I'm not paranoid. Check out the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. This type of stuff is all over Europe, Canada and Israel. Hell, the UN Sec Gen went after the creator of "Fitna" while the UN has continually cowered to terrorist nations.

Oh, I know as well as anyone how quasi-judicial commission can do silly things. I've seen more than my share of them. I don't know much about the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, but I'm assuming that the First and Fourteenth Amendments, including the due process clause, still apply to Pennsylvania and any commission it may create.

As for Mark Steyn, I don't know anything about him, but he wasn't the person I was referring to when I said, "the writer's tone leads me to discount him as someone whose representations I would accept at face value." I was referring to the writer of the article to which you linked. His style reminds me of many writers, conservative and liberal, in whom I have little confidence as far as getting an accurate picture of the story.

And perhaps I wasn't careful enough in using "paranoia" -- my point wasn't so much "paranoia" in an of itself as it was "conservative paranoia." Liberals have no monopoly on stupid ideas. My reference to Joe McCarthy was intentional. What he led was in many ways the conservative doppelgänger of the PC-ruled hurt feelings tribunals we would both find intolerable.

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Oh, I know as well as anyone how quasi-judicial commission can do silly things. I've seen more than my share of them. I don't know much about the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, but I'm assuming that the First and Fourteenth Amendments, including the due process clause, still apply to Pennsylvania and any commission it may create.

As for Mark Steyn, I don't know anything about him, but he wasn't the person I was referring to when I said, "the writer's tone leads me to discount him as someone whose representations I would accept at face value." I was referring to the writer of the article to which you linked. His style reminds me of many writers, conservative and liberal, in whom I have little confidence as far as getting an accurate picture of the story.

And perhaps I wasn't careful enough in using "paranoia" -- my point wasn't so much "paranoia" in an of itself as it was "conservative paranoia." Liberals have no monopoly on stupid ideas. My reference to Joe McCarthy was intentional. What he led was in many ways the conservative doppelgänger of the PC-ruled hurt feelings tribunals we would both find intolerable.

Conservatives have plenty of stupid ideas. However, the ones I'm referring to with this thread, are promoted almost exclusively by liberals.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Conservatives have plenty of stupid ideas. However, the ones I'm referring to with this thread, are promoted almost exclusively by liberals.

Concedo.