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Mark Steyn: ‘One reason why I admire Ezra, Kathy and Kate…’

April 1, 2009 By admin

…is their willingness to take the heat under their own names.

Throughout the last year, I encountered far too many Canadian politicians who said, “Oh, of course, I’m behind you 100 per cent, but please don’t mention my name.”

I’ve also encountered, discreetly, a bunch of Hollywood bigshots who say, “I loved America Alone. Er, but please don’t mention it to anyone.”

(…)

But at some point Canadians – and Britons, Americans, Australians, Europeans – are going to have to stand up under their own names, or they will lose their freedoms to an administrative tyranny that, in a technological age, has both the means and the urge – as Justice Kershman has demonstrated – to hunt down even the most piffling anonymities.

Live free or die!

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