South Africa’s Jews have accelerated their rate of departure.

From the American point of view the interesting and significant point is that the South African Jewish community was crucially involved for many years in the effort to overthrow Apartheid.

This is food for thought in contemplating the overwhelming support the Hedge Fund community is giving Barack Obama. As I pointed I have pointed out, to a large degree this arises from the heavily Jewish nature of this “industry”.

Unfortunately, as the example of the dying South African Jewish community shows, consensus Jewish political enthusiasms have a history of being disastrously ill judged – and even lethal to themselves.

U.K.: Muslim worker loses case against supermarket that made him transport alcohol on a forklift like any other employee

More uppity “British” Muslims:

Along with smashed windows and doors, the gallery has been receiving “12 abusive phone calls a day and emails condemning the show. Staff had to call police last week after an angry woman came in to complain. ‘She was in a full burqa and was irate and upset. Her behaviour was quite threatening.’”

writes Ghost of a Flea,

…can drag you through Star Chamber tribunals and commissions without the benefit of due process, can bankrupt you, destroy your career and your family, result in lifetime bans on free speech and expression (of the Gospel, no less) and ultimately even lead to imprisonment. Freedom of speech and expression, freedom to practice religion as we choose, are guaranteed by our constitution. For all the good it does us.

And for all the good it will do you once Obama has appointed three Supreme Court Justices.

Ezra Levant writes:

Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think that the filth in Music World should be illegal. I don’t think it quite rises to the criminal code standard of hate speech; I don’t think it quite meets the test of incitement to murder. But I wonder if, instead of saying “Kill the Christian”, it said “Kill the Jews” or “Kill the Blacks” or “Kill the gays”. You could imagine Comrade Andreachuk going nuclear. Well, no need to imagine — just look at what she did to Rev. Boissoin for merely preaching peacefully.

(…) I am unaware of a single non-Christian ever being convicted of a hate speech offense — certainly none have been at the federal CHRC. But the HRCs pick on Christians like a bully pulling the wings off of flies, roughing up Toronto’s Fr. Alphonse de Valk; the Christian Heritage Party; Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry; and, no doubt, a dozen other martyrs who quietly paid off their tormentors with some sort of plea bargain.

But this case, Johnson vs. Music World, is different even than the HRCs’ persecution of Christians. It’s a declaration, in black and white that it is legally impossible for a Christian to be discriminated against. You can chant “Kill the Christian”, and it’s not “hate speech”. If you can say that, you can say anything.  

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“…and have his leg torn off by crocodiles,” writes Jay Currie.

And for fun, pop over the National Post’s Full Comment where Bernie Farber comments on Kevin Libin piece on censorship and has his head handed to him in the comments. I mean the poor bastard even has redacted letters from the chekists at the CHRC thrown at him.

Ezra Levant adds:

National Post online today has this interesting story by Kevin Libin about Internet censorship, mentioning a failed attempt by Bernie “Burny” Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress and Richard Warman [The Guy Who Is Suing Us], Canada’s self-appointed Censor-General, to shut down Internet websites they didn’t like. They had applied, ex parte — that is, with no notice given to anyone on the other side of the argument — to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission to simply order Canadian Internet companies to ban a website that they didn’t like, and to set up a process where they could do the same thing over and over again.

Burny wasn’t asking for permission for any discussions. He was asking the CRTC to ban websites he didn’t like, and that, maybe, Internet companies could complain about it after the fact. And look at that last part: he was asking for the CRTC’s censorship to be “mandatory”.

RE: the latest “racist” nonsense on stilts

Via email:

(transcript)

Question: Prime minister, I will it [sic] off the cabinet topic for today. A little while ago, since the campaign, a lot of Canadians were expecting outrage at a young journalist in Afghanistan going to jail for a long time because of something he (inaudible), not exactly the kind of Canadian value that our troops and money are going to support. So I would ike to ask you first off if this is an issue you have raised with president Karzai and if not, wil you? And also here at home, the issue of the human rights commission, we have seen both federal and provincial human rights commissions taking media organizations, journalists before them to justify what they have written and I was wondering if your government will be touching that topic?

Stephen Harper:  Well, first of all, on the – on the case in Afghanistan, this is obviously a case that is of some considerable concern to us. It has been raised with the government of Afghanistan at the highest levels. You do have to remember though that part of what is at issue here is that this is a process in a court system that does, in Afghanistan as in Canada, does operate independently of political decision-makers. So you know, we will continue to express our concerns and obviously there remain further levels of appeal in this particular case. So we hope that it will – that some of these decisions will be changed, but you know, the political actors in Afghanistan don’t necessarily have any more control over that than I would in our country.  

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HillBuzz bloggers write:

We need to ask for your help. We’re putting together a canvassing trip into Ohio this coming weekend to bring what we hope will be about 70 DeMcCrats for McCain and Young Republican supporters into Ohio to canvass for McCain/Palin in the Buckeye state.

We’re still short of what we need to rent buses for this trip, and cover the accommodations and costs for our volunteers while there. We’re also buying as many DeMcCrats for McCain and other McCain/Palin buttons and stickers to hand out in Ohio as we can. This is a bipartisan effort here in Chicago — and the biggest push we’ve ever made for canvassing. It’s a long ride from Illinois to Ohio, and the bus is expensive.  We’ve all scraped together what we can, but need help covering the rest.

So, if you’ve been a regular here and have enjoyed what we do — if we’ve made you laugh, smile, or helped you stay informed about this election — please contribute whatever you can to make this weekend of canvassing happen. If we raise enough, we can even rent cars when we get to Ohio so we can cover much more ground canvassing, and not have to rely on other volunteers already there. For many of us here at HillBuzz, Ohio is our home state, so we’re especialy committed to winning this state for McCain/Palin…just like we did in the primaries for Hillary Clinton.  

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Kevin Libin writes:

In Australia today, we learn for instance, that the government has set out to implement a AU$125 million filter that will censor all Internet traffic in peoples’ homes to ensure citizens are not exposed to material unapproved by government officials.

(…) advocates for Canada’s Human Rights Commission have already taken a run at the Aussie plan. A couple of years ago, HRC activists Richard Warman [The Guy Who Is Suing Us] and Bernie Farber (of the CJC) actually petitioned the CRTC to filter out certain websites from being seen in Canada.

They apparently wanted to go even further, not just leaving the prohibition decisions up to the whim of state officials, but establishing a process to allow “interested parties” (like them, perhaps?) to have a say in which sites got banned, too. Fortunately, the CRTC rejected the request. Unfortunately, it was on the basis that considering such policy changes would necessarily first involve consultation with Internet Service Providers.

PS:

An American readers considering a donation to my Legal Defense Fund, please note that at least at today’s exchange rate (which of course varies constantly), I receive CDN $1.20 for every US $1 you donate.

Joseph Ben-Ami writes:

On the other hand, social conservatives need to become more active on fiscal policy. They need to understand the relationship between high government spending and high taxes. They need to understand that they have an interest as social conservatives in reducing that spending and cutting those taxes. It’s nice that the government would give allowances to families, but wouldn’t it be better for those families – indeed for everyone – if the cost of living went down as a result of real tax cuts and government reform?

After all, what the government gives, the government can take away – especially if you deviate from that newly minted moral code liberals claim to fear, but can’t wait to impose.

He writes:

Well, news comes from Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs that Zijad Delic, the Canadian Islamic Congress’s executive director and Elmasry’s right hand man, will be giving a lecture at Foreign Affairs’ headquarters in Ottawa. That’s right: the Jew-hating, terrorist-condoning Canadian Islamic Congress will be lecturing Canadian diplomats and bureaucrats, on government property and the taxpayers’ dime.

I blogged about this earlier, but you must read this piece of museum quality excrescense.

Note the alarming frequency with which this program is referred to as “Canadian.”

Funny, my grandfathers’ Canada most certainly did not include unassimilatable non-Anglo Saxons who want the rest of us to die * — but not before they live parasitically on our hard earned money. Oddly enough!

Yes, Jewish immigrants to Canada struggled, too. But they brought with them a 5,000 year tradition of literacy, ambition, gratitude, mutual aid, community building, public service, humor and sound religious faith. If you email me the name of even one Somali Nobel Prize winner in any category, I’ll gladly post their name here.

Another pathetic waste of time, as Jews once again hope against hope that by embracing their sworn enemies, they won’t get killed this time around.

How’s that been working out?

Note too how this project contradicts the CJS’s other main goal — which, once again, doesn’t sound very “Canadian” to me, if by “Canadian” we mean the authentic pre-Trudeaupian definition.

How can Canadian Jews, in sound mind and good conscience, donate money to an organization with such contradictory, unworthy objectives?

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We should vote for those candidates and parties who are sympathetic to Muslims,” a radical Islamic magazine, published in Toronto, said about the recent federal election.  

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