Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro: birds of a feather
There’s too much bad nooze out there today for one reporter to cover, so I’ll leave you with this monstrosity coming out of Canada.
If the Online Harms Bill C-63 is passed by Parliament, Canada will have its own ex post facto law (https://revolver.news/2024/04/canada-introduces-blood-curdling-new-thought-police-law-that-would-make-even-stalin-blush/)! Wow! Canadians will be criminally liable for posts they published years and years ago… and for things the government thinks they might say in the future!
Are we in North Korea, Toto?
Our American Constitution (God bless our country’s founders!) forbids the government to enact ex post facto laws–any law that holds a citizen criminally responsible for things he did or said before any law forbidding them was passed.
But it’s not enough for Parliament to reach way back into a targeted citizen’s past. They also want to dip their claws into the future, too. Under this bill, you can be placed under house arrest for any “hate speech”–defined whimsically by Parliament–you might indulge in years from now.
What will it take to preserve free speech in Canada?
A miracle?
Holy smokes!
Unbelievable to think normal people could come up with garbage like this. On the other hand, who says they are normal.
I really, really, really don’t understand how Trudeau stays in office.
This law may not be on the law books in America, but we do have something almost as effective, it’s called cancel culture. The latest in culture canceling is Gov. Noam of So. Dakota from having any chance of being chosen for the VP position in 2024 because in her latest book (again, another book about herself) she tells the story of shooting one of her puppies who was “untrainable.”
Do you remember Judge Bork’s confirmation hearings? They dug up stuff he wrote as a college student.