5 Feet of Fury

Mark Steyn: ‘Australia’s Section 18 is very roughly analogous to Canada’s Section 13’

Mark Steyn on the travails of columnist Andrew Bolt.

Allan Borovoy is also quoted, making all kinds of reasonable and even courageous sounding noises.

However, as I’ve said for years:

Alan Borovoy was against hate crime laws before he was for them before he was against them!

Alan Borovoy is either an idiot or a liar.

During the Section 13 fights, he was quoted as saying:

During the years when my colleagues and I were labouring to create such commissions, we never imagined that they might ultimately be used against freedom of speech…

Well, this lowly shiksa who didn’t go to university but who did see Fahrenheit 451  on TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies once “could have imagined it,” but nobody asked my opinion, did they?