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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Ezra Levant is a happy man.
“My lawyers have just received a copy of a letter from the Alberta Human Rights Commission dismissing the complaint of ‘discrimination’ filed against me by the radical Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities,” he blogs.
He’s referring to to the fact that after 900 days, the AHRC tossed out the complaint lodged against him and the now-defunct Western Standard magazine for republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in 2006.
“The two complaints cost Alberta taxpayers in excess of $500,000 and, according to access to information documents, involved no fewer than 15 government bureaucrats,” he says, going on:
“What a scam – on the part of the complainants, who were able to wage ‘lawfare’ against an infidel without paying a cent; and on the part of the HRC, as a make-work project.”
“I was punished first, then acquitted later. It was a mockery of justice.”
Join the club, Ezra. Happens all the time with Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG victims.
In 1938, “Alberta became an international embarrassment when it attempted to regulate newspapers through its unconstitutional Press Act,” says Levant.
“It’s seventy years later, and the province is once again becoming an international laughing stock.”
He was the only person in the free world facing charges for publishing the cartoons, he says.
Last month Levant appeared before the US Congress to testify about the threat to freedom of speech posed by human rights commissions.”
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blogs - Punished first, acquitted later, August 6, 2008
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