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Michael Coren writes for the Sun
newspapers and does some radio work in
Ontario. Never met the guy. On occasion,
though, I have seen his portentous
scribblings. And then I switch on the
Internet and see that he has been
talking about me — although not by
name — he having seen my item on Izzy
Asper's now being the biggest force in
the Canadian media.
Of partly Jewish descent himself, but
a Christian, Coren asks what is so
special about Jews, that they occupy so
much attention. As he says, they come in
many shapes, right wing, left wing, good
and bad.
Shylock put it rather better in The
Merchant of Venice:
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a
Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses,
affections, passions?...If your prick
us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us,
do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we
not die?"
Yes. But it is also true that Jewish
organizations still want their pound of
flesh, in the form of power used to
stifle dissent. When I wrote a column
headed "Hollywood Propaganda"
the Canadian Jewish Congress bitched
mightily and I found myself up before a
so-called human rights tribunal. Other
columns led to a second complaint from a
B'Nai B'rith freedom lover. Both groups
saw my stuff as "hate
literature" but didn't dare make
complaints under the hate provisions of
the Criminal Code. They preferred a
kangaroo court that takes account of
"hurt feelings".
As for the Aspers, they recently
fired the newspaper publisher and his
executive editor who had defended my
right to free expression. This even
though I had retired from print
journalism. (Never forget, never
forgive.)
The story was broken in another paper
under the headline "Welcome to
Izzy's world", that world being, as
the writer reported, one in which my
name should not be mentioned in the
North Shore News, and in which editors
across the country had been told what
they could publish and what they could
not.
Coren admitted that he didn't know
what it was all about, which leads one
to ask why, in that case, he would write
about it. Nevertheless, he suggested
that certain baddies were beyond the
pale, and seemed to forget that the
Aspers had apparently put Israel and the
CRTC on the "do not disturb
list", Izzy being pro-Israel and
having big broadcasting interests.
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So
much for Coren's views on media freedom.
Nor does it worry him that groups who
claim to speak for Jews are the biggest
single threat to free speech in Canada.
They also lust to control the Internet.
How terrible that the peasants should be
able to avoid the censorship and biases
of the Aspers!
Here in what used to be British
Columbia, Jews had a major role in
setting up the most menacing anti-free
speech laws in the country. It was
thanks to their efforts, too, to that
our Canadian federal hate laws came into
being thirty years ago.
What is hate? It's what the pressure
groups and their allies say it is. Mind
you, it's all right for some people to
be hateful but not for others.
Over sixty years after the start of
World War Two, octogenarian Germans are
being hounded as war criminals, a
process encouraged by Immigration
Minister Elinor Caplan, a Jewish gal who
likes to castigate members of the
opposition party as racists, bigots, and
holocaust deniers. Which makes me wonder
why she ain't up for hate, too. And
let's not forget the Jewish philosophy
prof who told my second tribunal that I
am the spokesman for the (non-existent)
neo-Nazi movement in North Vancouver. He
and Hedy Fry probably take tea together.
Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish author
and academic who wrote the block-busting
book, The Holocaust Industry, is
denounced by a World Jewish Congress
spokesman as a Jewish anti-Semite. His
offence? Exposing holocaust financial
claims as a racket. Lucky thing for him
that he isn't a Canadian. If he were, he
would find himself in court or up before
the rights maniacs.
That reminds me. There has recently
been a big fuss in North Vancouver about
A.R. Butz's The Hoax of the Twentieth
Century being in the library. A Jewish
gent wanted it burned, or at least
tossed into the garbage can. He said it
was hate literature, even though there
isn't a hateful word in it.Conversely,
his kind see nothing wrong with the book
"Hitler's Willing
Executioners," in which all Germans
are seen as killers.
Hear this, Coren old boy. The right
to say the "right things" is
no right at all. And when you next take
up this subject, try to find out what
it's all about.
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