There's No Room For Thought Police

by Howard Galgnov

I apologize in advance for sending out so many editorials (back to back), since I’m certain that many, if not most people receive more than enough opinions from people who believe they have something important to say.

At least with Galganov.com, you can simply remove yourself from the Broadcast Email if you think that you’re being inundated.

THE DONALD STERLING ISSUE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM:

The reason why I’ve written THREE consecutive editorials (including this one) about this Donald Sterling (LA Clippers owner) incident . . . is because it involves the very CORE of what I stand for – AND WHAT I STAND AGAINST.

Donald Sterling, by all accounts is a dreadful human being, but this issue has far more to do with FREEDOMS, than it does with his racist attitude. From everything I’ve read and heard about this man, he is as scummy as it gets, which is probably best illustrated by his abhorrent choice in girlfriends.

THIS WHOLE SORDID EPISODE IS ABOUT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION:

NONE OF WHAT’S GOING ON has anything to do with the miserable character of Donald Sterling, but everything to do with our most basic FREEDOMS, which is our FREEDOM to think the way we want, our FREEDOM to have PRIVATE conversations, and our FREEDOM to make our opinions public.

In Canada . . . FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK:

As I write this, there is a war being waged between our ELECTED majority (Conservative) government, and the UN-ELECTED Supreme Court, which has repeatedly come on the side of RESTRICTING FREEDOM of Expression, of which I’ve fought several cases all the way to the Supreme Court in Canada, which after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars that spanned several years, we were either dismissed as if our demand for GUARANTEED FREEDOMS were no big deal . . . or we won Pyrrhic victories that amounted to no wins at all.

Not that long ago (2 years), a government appointed LEFTIST apparatchik, euphemistically called the Canadian HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, had its wings severely clipped by the Conservative (Stephen Harper) government.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission was established by a far LEFTIST, who was an America and Israel Hating Quebec politician, named Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who became Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 through 1984 with a brief interruption in between.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission, with branches in each of the TEN Canadian provinces was initially established to protect visible minorities from Racial, Gender, and Cultural discrimination in matters of hiring, admission to hotels, restaurants, clubs, housing . . . etcetera. All of which were commendable objectives.

But, like virtually all government agencies . . . these Canadian Human Rights Commissions grew like a CANCER, metastasizing through the Public Body, giving themselves powers far beyond anything the government intended

And without anyone to stop these government appointees, they confirmed upon themselves the STATUS of mind and speech police, to the point that if something someone said, even as an opinion that hurt someone’s feelings, predominantly Moslems, the COMMISSION exercised judicial powers that are even denied to Canada’s Courts

HOW BAD DID IT GET?

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