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Re:The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada by Kudzu_Bob on Sunday April 28, 2013 @02:35PM (#5622202)
The other restrictions aren't aimed at any particular group, and therefore harbor at least the potential to silence Our Sort. But by their very design, hate speech laws only target a bunch of misfit losers who most definitely are Not Our Sort.
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Re:The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada by dmix on Sunday April 28, 2013 @02:50PM (#5622251)
And similarly anti-terrorism laws only apply to terrorists. So we shouldn't care that they can be held for 3 days without charge.

http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/924121--ottawa-...

Regarding hate speech laws in Canada:

> "Although it's true that they have nailed some genuine hatemongers with it, it has nevertheless been used or threatened to be used against a wide variety of constituencies who don't bear the slightest resemblance to the kind of hatemongers that were originally envisioned: anti-American protesters, French-Canadian nationalists, a film sympathetic to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, a pro-Zionist book, a Jewish community leader, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and even a couple years ago, a pro-Israeli speaker was briefed about the anti-hate law by a police detective before he went in to make a speech."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commissio...

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Re:The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada by aclevernickname on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:07PM (#5622322)
If I were a canadian, I would be looking through the Criminal Code of Canada to see what things _aren't_ considered an act of terrorism now. Since Harper's been in, the Canada Gazette has been full of changes.

(is a canadian, has looked through the criminal code, knows what is or isn't terrorism)

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Re:The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada by Kudzu_Bob on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:45PM (#5622461)
Rightly or wrongly, those who employ capitalized phrases such as "Our Sort" and "Not Our Sort" often fancy themselves ironists.
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