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September 13, 2008
Saturday
 
 
A nice rant for the weekend
Perry de Havilland (London)  Opinions on liberty

An agreeably splenetic Pat Condell video to get you in the right mood for the weekend...

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Looks like Pat and I are on the same page here!

http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/spring_08/edwards_spring08.html


Posted by Steve Edwards at September 13, 2008 03:53 PM

Yes, that Paine quote requires endless repetition Steve, thanks for the reminder... [pokes the Illuminatus into action]


Posted by Perry de Havilland at September 13, 2008 04:46 PM

Pat Condell says so eloquently what desperately needs to be said. He is the best! Thanks for posting this.


Posted by Laird at September 13, 2008 05:32 PM

Condell is OK. I've seen a few of his videos. He's fairly amusing but he does tend to overdo the "which is a bit like..." joke-construction, which can grate at times.

Perhaps the best speech I've ever seen on the topic is pasted below. Unsurprisingly, it's by...:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379618149058958603


Posted by Steve Edwards at September 13, 2008 06:24 PM

How does this guy not get shut down by the stasi, almost every day?


Posted by David Davis at September 13, 2008 07:25 PM

How does this guy not get shut down by the stasi, almost every day?


Posted by David Davis at September 13, 2008 07:27 PM

Giss a link!
Go on!
Giss it!
I could have a laugh then.
Just like the rest of you.

Why do I get the message

Rich media blocked

When I run my cursor over the picture?


Posted by RAB at September 13, 2008 11:38 PM

"Welcome to the UN Conference on Human Rights, jewboy!"


Posted by The Sanity Inspector at September 14, 2008 12:14 AM

Bravo Pat, bravo.

Will the US follow Canada's example and boycott this farce of a conference as well?

I wish someone with enough balls would ask this question to both of our candidates.


Posted by Anne C. at September 14, 2008 02:10 AM
Why do I get the message Rich media blocked When I run my cursor over the picture?

Almost certainly a browser setting you need to change. Do you have security set to ULTRA SUPERDOOPER HIGH?


Posted by Perry de Havilland at September 14, 2008 04:18 AM

Can a person who follows Sharia be a citizen? Aren't they really a citizen of Dar al-Islam who is displaced to Dar al-Harb? No matter what they do outwardly, aren't they committing apostasy if they acknowledge the demands of citizenship to a non-Muslim state?


Posted by Wishkah 39 at September 14, 2008 07:47 AM

The Canadian government is up for election, sneered at by the "Economist"of course - just as it backs the submissive person for the post of Prime Minister of Israel.

It is up to the voters of Canada to decide whether they want to stand with Harper or not - if not then Canada will join the "ban hate speech" "multiculturalism" movement again. After all it has long been involved in it.

"Could not happen in the United States - we have a First Amendment".

Almost every American university is against "hate speech" and in favour of submission to Islam "multiculturalism". And a few appointments to the Supreme Court (two actually - as one person on the Supreme Court just blows with the wind) will bring bans on "hate speech" and cooperation with the "interantional community" to the whole nation.

And the American veto on the United Nations would be become pointless - as the American government would support its policies.

Game over.

As for Islam:

Any religion founded by a person who was a rapist and a murderer, and who became a rapist and a murderer AFTER he founded the religion, is likely to have some problems with it.


Posted by Paul Marks at September 16, 2008 01:19 PM
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