Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights by Ezra Levant

Author:Ezra Levant [Levant, Ezra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Political Science, Civil Rights, Political Freedom & Security, International, Government, Canada, Droits De L'Homme, Droits De L'Homme (Droit International) - Canada, Civil Rights - Canada, Human Rights - Canada, Droits De L'Homme - Canada, Human Rights
ISBN: 0771046189
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2009-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Translation: Hall is upset that Ontario's human rights statute doesn't permit her to act as censor-at-large, and she wants the province to adopt a more “comprehensive approach” that would grant her the same powers wielded by human rights thought police in other jurisdictions.

Equally frightening is Hall's idea that “with rights come responsibilities” – a superficially earnest-sounding phrase that is in fact quite Orwellian. Think about it: What good is a “right” to free speech if you have a government-enforced “responsibility” to use that right in a government-enforced manner? The Soviet Union, too, safeguarded the right of “free speech” – so long as citizens abided by their “responsibility” to avoid counterrevolutionary topics.

When she was mayor, Barbara Hall had to spend a lot of her time worrying about such banal issues as garbage collection and bus routes – always with the voters' judgment hanging over her head. As an unelected human rights official, she has carte blanche to live out her nanny state dreams. And best of all – no matter how radical her pronouncements – no one can vote her out of office.

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