Sunday, February 10, 2008

Levant to the Rescue

Blogger alert. Read this and support Blazing Catfur by featuring and linking to him. The next Islamic lawfare suit could be against YOU.
FROM ATLASSHRUGS:
Levant to the Rescue
This is exactly what Steyn and I spoke of in our remarks to CPAC.
Ezra Levant is taking it one step further. He is going to protect and defend free speech
(hat tip Norman)
Ezra Levant has set up a legal defense fund to assist bloggers against threats to their freedom of expression.
"When I mused about a mutual aid society for bloggers, I immediately received several requests for help. Even though I haven’t set up the structure for the Union of Bloggers yet, I’ve accepted two of them, and I have permission to write about one of them: It’s Warren Kinsella’s absurd threat against a blogger named Blazing Catfur.

What did Blazing Catfur do? He engaged in satire, which is the deadliest weapon against humourless censors. He demonstrated the foolishness of Kinsella’s logic that: Dr. Keith Martin — a Liberal MP, human rights activist, and visible minority — wants to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act;
Some white supremacists want to amend the CHRA too;
Therefore Martin’s idea is tainted by association.
I thought Blazing Catfur’s satirical deployment of that absurd guilt by association logic was far more powerful than any stern criticism. And I think Kinsella did, too, or else he wouldn’t have threatened a lawsuit against Blazing Catfur and another blogger, Mike Brock, who engaged in a simlar satire.
So the Union of Bloggers — before we’re formally incorporated — has a case."