I started the day today with Toronto's Number One morning man John Oakley, talking about Tsar Putin, the Malaysian jet, Quebec's war on the hijab, and more. Simply click below for your listening pleasure:
~My weekend free-speech special with Ezra Levant was such a hit that Sun News re-broadcast it again last night. If you haven't yet caught the Mark'n'Ezra show, you can watch it here. For a flavor of me and Ez batting things back and forth, see this excerpt of what the transcriber calls an "awesome" exchange.
Then again, Peter Jackson of the Newfoundland Telegram also saw it, and didn't care for it:
Yes, You Have A Right To Speak — Now Shut Up
Mr Jackson explains:
Furthermore, I wouldn't always defend their right. I'd say, no, he can't say that. That's going too far. Someone slap a muzzle on him.
Human rights can't exist in a vacuum.
No one should be free to do or say whatever they want with immunity.
I think the word he's looking for there is "impunity". Either way, Mr Jackson continues:
To suggest that debate over climate science is being suppressed is ludicrous.
It's the personal, unsubstantiated attack that's in question.
Oh, I don't know about that. One side of the debate is demanding "immunity" from criticism, and ever more explicitly:
We have good reason to consider the funding of climate denial to be criminally and morally negligent. The charge of criminal and moral negligence ought to extend to all activities of the climate deniers who receive funding as part of a sustained campaign to undermine the public's understanding of scientific consensus.
"Undermine the public's understanding of scientific consensus"? So dissenters from the official groupthink should be jailed. Millions of people think such sentiments are entirely reasonable. That's a problem in supposedly free societies. But I wonder if Peter Jackson ever tells philosophy professor Lawrence Torcello to "shut up".
~Fortunately, there are still some things we're allowed to say. For example, if you're a senior advisor to the US Department of Homeland Security, you're allowed to express your enthusiasm for the Muslim Brotherhood.
~If you'd like to be part of my pushback against the "consensus" enforcers, you can order personally autographed copies of my free-speech book, Lights Out plus Ezra's book together exclusively in our SteynOnline Free Speech Special. Be warned: Purchasing these books to support my end of the upcoming Mann vs Steyn showdown is likely to render you "criminally and morally negligent" in the eyes of the Bureau of Climate Compliance.
