Eddie Greenspan on the sock puppets
I had wondered what other Osgoode Hall law grads might think, and it is good (h/t Ezra), to see one of Canada's most prominent lawyers, speak up on this.
I've never before been embarrassed by a fellow Osgoode Hall Law School graduate until now.
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I'm no fan of Steyn's, having personally experienced false vitriol from him. But I cannot comprehend that the complainants are soon to be lawyers in our democratic society and yet are seeking to force a publisher to print a lengthy response from these complainants. For good measure, if they get their way, the complainants also insist on control over the cover of that issue of the magazine.
I wonder if these students appreciate the great irony that always occurs when censorship is involved: As a result of their case, undoubtedly more people have sought out and read the supposedly denigrating articles than would have ever done so in the normal course of events. There is perhaps no surer way to get people to read something than to tell them that they should not be allowed to read it.
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We have a positive moral obligation to be thick skinned.
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The thing is, I understand how the complainants feel. They probably feel the same way I and other Jews feel when we go to the Canadian Islamic Congress website and read "editorials" with headlines such as: "Zionist Israel at 60 -- A History Built on Ethnic Cleansing" and "Israel: An Armed Ghetto by Choice."
I think all Canadians should feel a deeper embarrassment that we have any institution pretending to be a law school that has apparently graduated the pseudo-complainants. It is only slightly less shocking that Elmasry, the puppetmaster in this story, is at an institution I once thought more of, the University of Waterloo, but engineers are notoriously cranks outside their domains of knowledge.
Labels: Greenspan, HRT, sock puppets
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