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Originally Posted by Bluesman
But it WILL exist, as long as somebody gets to lord their petty (and sometimes profound) power over their fellow man, whether it be justified or not, and whether they have the legal excuse or not doesn't in any way affect the question of the morality of it, as seen in the context of the natural rights of all human beings.
This is the attempt - no, actually, it's now an established FACT - to criminalize certain THOUGHTS. I gives a good goddam' whether it's legal, in the narrow sense that some bureaucrat can point to a duly-enacted law that gives him the excuse (I did not and would not say the 'right') to violate the freedoms that come to us by the simple fact of our existence.
This is WRONG. It should be resisted, and to any extreme that an out-of-control state wishes to push it. Resistance to the system, NOT counter-use of it, in a misguided attempt to break it. Because I can see what would happen: as a government agency that can prove it's got way too much work, it'll request more people, a bigger budget, possibly even a cabinet ministry eventually. All of a sudden, it's not an on-the-ropes puny little office with make-believe authority, it's a massive bureacratic monster, more powerful and much less answerable than before (and it seems altogether too powerful and unaccountable even at THIS stage).
Furthermore, trying to 'win' your case is not resistance (even if the government's 'win' rate wasn't exactly 100%, as is the case), but the granting of legitimacy to something that should be spit on in contempt, rather than standing meekly before it, awaiting the inevitable unfavorable judgement it never had any natural right to make in the first place.
No, what SHOULD be done is to utterly ignore every single thing that ever issues from its insatiable maw. When they summon you to appear, go about your business as if they had NO standing to order you to do ANYthing - because they should NOT. If this is followed by a warning of consequences, make no attempt to protect yourself - no attorney, no alibi or justification, no deal or plea-bargain. And finally, if they attempt to FORCE your compliance, pull a gun and blow the head off the first stormtrooper that tries to take either your liberty or property, because you refused to bow down to the Thought Police. And prepare to die for a principle that's worth your life to defend.
That's what our ancestors did, and they are immortal for their bravery in the face of unjust power. I admire Lavant because he refuses to be intimidated into asking, please, sir, may I be allowed to apologize, and I swear I'll never do it again. If they take ANY action to silence him, he should re-double the 'offensive' speech in volume, amplitutde, depth, breadth and reach. If they attempt to fine him, he should say come and get it, if you're ready to fight to collect it. If they attempt to make him serve time, he should treat the people that come to get him as mere kidnappers, and defend himself from them.
Those are the acts of free men that do not recognize any government's power over their own conscience, or their rights. THAT is RESISTANCE.
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Does that speech come with free popcorn?
Yes, yes, let us pick and choose the laws that we follow. Because that way, when the gun battle happens and the neighbours tut and say nice things about you to the media - about how unexpected it all was and how you seemed so happy yesterday as sat on the porch, polishing your gun and reading that book on Larry Flynt - nobody will know what the principle was that brought out the guns - unless you went all "a la mode" and put your pre-shooting rant onto YouTube by way of a trailer for the feature presentation. The first time anyone hears about it will be when some wife and child of a salaried employee - just trying to uphold the law and do his bit for his community - becomes a widow and fatherless.
Aye, that is a great response in a civilised society. *******s to all that process, the fact that the people of Alberta could get the law changed if they wanted to. I sympathise that the process is longer winded and would probably only make a deleted hour on the DVD release of your movie but hey that is civilisation - that is why there will always be room for lawyers.
In my opinion Mr Lavant's opening remarks in his "interrogation" were a lot more effective than the polemic from your soapbox above mate - his speech was about how the HRC is infringing not just his perceived rights, but also his rights as enshrined in constitutions and precedant deep within the history of Canada's founding. Whilst i fully agree with your comments about rights over laws, there is nothing as powerful as precedant and he showed loads of precedant for being able to do what he did and why his "integerrogator" has none.
He didn't need some Braveheart nonsense to make his point.
So i will return to my quiet, black and white, made for text, direct to internet, low budget release. Please don't turn the volume up, some of the WABbers are trying to sleep.
The HRC's remit seems to be about jobs, housing; the material facts of living. There seems nothing in it's remit that has anything to do with the complaint it is responding to hence it should have ruled with its rubber stamp when the form came in that "no case to answer" or "not for us - try the legal system". The fact that it didn't shows that the HFC needs to be reviewed (probably disbanded and if reformed given a name such as "Department to ensure all canadians get a chance at a job and somewhere to live." which enshrines what it is supposed to do.
The good that is coming of this is that Mr Lavant is making his objection known and that - instead of wrapping his tie around his head and yelling "I want my country to love me as much as i love it" followed no doubt by "Yippee Kai yay" to cover the generational divide - he made the system look stupid and was sharp enough on his feet to make an effective point about why it doesn't matter what he was thinking when he wrote something and about the proud traditions in Canada and its previous heritage that the "interrogation" was trampling all over.
All of which would have been drowned out by the HE grenades in the cinema release.