Mob Rule on Campus

This is really what it is like, folks.

"True-blue conservatives have no trouble arresting neo-Nazis who threaten violence, but lib-left peace-mongers find it hard to arrest neo-Red Guards."

"It's simpler to silence protested speakers. No wonder the left's book burners are emboldened. When they riot, their opponents are read the riot act.

"Fertilized by the warm manure of left-wing culture, flowers of hideous hues bloom in the groves of academia, from anarcho-terrorist black to eco-fascist and Islamist green, while helpless taxpayers and hoodwinked philanthropists fork over fortunes to the gardeners."

Teh Steyn Secretly Cranks Out New Book!

With little fan fare, the mysterious blog ad appears on the web site of notorious, short, outspoken hater Five Feet of Fury.

To the great consternation of Allahphobic, terrorphobic bloggers around the world, they click and click on the image-but the publisher has thrown no bones, not a single bone to the Islamophobic, Zionazi, Rethuglican masses.

No plot summary, no chapter breakdown-nary a crumb to the devoted minions

Perhaps this is one of those Seeekrit Mossad Plots, ie: 'I could tell you what's in the book, but then I'd have to kill you'?

It's a developing story...stay tuned.

Teh Steyn Ain't No Rosa Parks

Apparently, some whiny squiggly blogger thinks that it is a major bummer that Mark Steyn has become the Rosa Parks of free speech, or something like that.

Well, that is really, really whacked.

Liberals should really try to open a book once in a while, and not get all their tired, stupid talking points from television and the mealy-mouthed media. If they actually read some books, they might learn something about things called "historical facts", which tend to inform current events. I know-what a concept.

So, other than the fact that Mark Steyn is not a black, female martyr for the cult of Holy Martyrs of Anti-Segregationists, he has been crusading for free speech spontaneously-and not as a part of an organized political movement.

Do you like Tammy Bruce? She's amazing. A lesbian, pro-choice, pro-gun, American patriot, and former chair of NOW in Los Angeles who was thrown under the feminazi bus for daring to actually questioning their preposterous, orthodox Marxist doctrines on critical issues for women. Oh, she also sided with Dr. Laura when the LGTQ2SPXYZ community went after her for "homophobia".

Anyway, Tammy has a few things to say about Rosa Parks, and you should read this article if you want to be better informed the next time a liberal tries to shove yet another example of leftist 'spontaneous' political activism up our collective wazoos.

Fight the myths with facts.

Mark Steyn: Islamophobe Bigot JOOOOOOOO!

What an endorsement!

I can't believe Mr. Rehmat is not Teh Steyn's "Reader of the Day".

This testimonial should definitely be put on any future reprints of Steyn's fabulous new book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West.

Nice catch, Blazing Cat Fur!

You Will Listen!

To Teh Steyn guest hosting Brass Ball's Radio's first anniversary show.

It's more fun than reading America Alone at a Code Pink meeting and stronger than the First Lady's biceps. More leg tingly and thrilling than Chris Mathews at an Obama presser and the craziest mix of tunes since Celine Dion covered AC/DCs "You Shook Me All Night Long"

The show relays ancient secrets of famous composers slipping Steyn the tongue, pissing off Paul Simon, mind-boggling reviews of Canadian "micro-tyranny" and has added, bonus insensitivity training encouragement.

Give it a listen! You will laugh-perhaps a politically incorrect cackle or Zionist giggle and who knows where that could lead to...

And don't forget: always read the great Wendy Sullivan's Girl on the Right web site on a regular basis.

Glenn Greenwald, Salon Wag Begging for Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant Smackdown

Glenn Greenwald, not exactly well-known for his cyber-integrity or honesty in the blogosphere seems to have some issues wtih Steyn and The Ez.

It's never pretty when you take on Steyn, but it's certainly in the works. Ezra is no shrinking violet either. I'm going to make popcorn.

Book Review: Lights Outs-Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West by Mark Steyn

So I just finished reading Mark Steyn’s Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West. Reading anything by Steyn is the second most fun you can have by yourself. This book is essential reading for the Islamophobic, hatemongering Westerner among us-but more importantly for those who think otherwise. If you have even the slightest concern about free speech, the sharia creep into our society and the West’s increasingly stealth suicide march off a caliphate cliff, you need to read this book.

Judeo-Christian culturecide is a terrible thing to witness, and as Steyn notes, few in the West seem to be bothered or even aware that they are experiencing it in real time.

My favourite essay in the collection is The Bombay Massacres: Who’s vulnerable? It’s simply a masterpiece and shows that while the leftist-jihadist collective can fool much of the world with its propaganda, there are righteous and courageous individuals like Mark Steyn who call it like it is. In my second favourite essay, Gaza West, he aptly describes the Palestinian “culture” (and “Islamist” culture by extension) as one that’s chief success is “marinating their infants in a sick death cult in which martyrdom in the course of Jew-killing is the greatest goal to which a citizen can aspire”. Have you ever heard it put better than that?

There are those who have given their lives protecting our freedom (a number of striking examples are given in the book), and Steyn says that the least he can do is stand up to the bullying and Jew-hating creeps such as Mohammad Elmasry and the various monstrosities known as Ontario and Canadian Human Rights Commissions. He rightly notes that currently, “Jew-hating isn’t the problem, only certain types of Jew-haters…The Fuhrer isn’t coming out of retirement and, even if he does, there aren’t enough Jews left in Europe to man a decent genocide". Then he spells it out: what other than Hitler is our society prepared to make a moral judgement over? “Where,” he asks, “is our ideological offensive”. Good question.

There are lots of laughs and insights and the usual, predictable collection of fantastic turns of phrase that only Steyn could invent. I wonder if he ever sits in his own living room, in all his hateful glory, rubbing his hands together saying: damn-that was funny. But, I digress.....The main message is that this battle is about left and right, it’s about “free/not free” and is a call to action. We all need to do something, and that’s why I’m in the ring, too. I have to be able to look my kids in the eye when they ask me: Mommy-you knew what was happening, so what did you do about it?

Order your copy at the Steyn store.

New, Fresh Steyn Book!

How excited am I? A fresh, autographed copy of Mark Steyn's new book "Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West" arrived at my doorstep. I am enjoying every sentence, and feel rather devious reading it in public. I will post a review as soon as I'm done. You can get your copy at the Steyn store at www.steynonline.com

Fighting Our Own Battles

Mark Steyn has painted an accurate, and depressing snapshot of the state of individual courage and the timid state of passivity that exists in Canada specifically, and in the Western world in general. He describes the beheading of the innocent, young Tim McLean’s on a Greyhound bus, and reviews the way passengers ran away, and police just sat by, and describes the macabre police play by play of the subsequent horrific murder at the hands of the allegedly mentally ill Vincent Li. It was a scene where nobody made an attempt to stop the evil. He contrasted the scene to Virginia Tech, where elderly Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu used his body as a barrier to prevent the gunman from killing his students. Again this week, Western society is relying on elderly World War II veterans to denounce the evil in the UK, whereby British "Asians" (a.k.a Muslims) demonstrated against British soldiers returning from duty. The core of Western civilization rests upon a belief in the freedom, the value and the power of the individual. These individuals come together and together, we agree at times to even sacrifice our own lives, and our own children's lives (through military service) to protect our greater society, and to ensure the freedom of future generations. Without individual responsibility and action, there can be no democratic society and we cannot protect our own families and communities. The events detailed by Mark Steyn are a clear rallying cry: each of us living within this glorious free world has to stop thinking 'someone ought to do something about that' and actually be the someone who does it. Each of us, with the weapons at our disposal-the pen, the computer, the internet, the military, public policy, public service, voluntarism, has to do our own part. It is pathetic and inexcusable that the veterans who won the last world war, are being forced-by acclamation-to be the ones publicly name and fight the evil in our midst . It is outrageous that a Holocaust survivor is the one who shielded our children with his body. In the future, historians may well point to these very events as the kind of seminal moments that marked the complete and potentially irreversible undoing of Western Judeo-Christian society.

Yelling "Fire" In A Crowded Theatre and Other Liberal Scare Tactics

Much has been said and written about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. He was a Harvard law scholar (hey-just like Obama) and was even a soldier in the war of 1861. In 1899, he was appointed chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

But Holmes is also probably best known for his declarations on free speech and his statement that “the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic”. Liberals always trot out this quote to prove that there are good reasons for limiting free speech, and that the state must surely be employed to make sure crazy people don’t go yelling fire or ‘jihad’ in theatres or something like that.

Anyway, the great Mark Steyn addressed this issue yet again at the Ontario legislature earlier this month. At the post-testimony Steynette scrum, Mark reminded us about how his lawyer, Julian Porter, pointed out in his summation during the Maclean’s case that the operating word is ‘falsely’. If there is a fire burning and there is an imminent threat, one is actually obligated to yell fire and warn others. Accurate quotations from Holmes can be found in both The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, ed Max Lerner (Garden City, NY: Halcyon House, 1943) and several of Holmes’ Supreme Court decisions.

So, to make a long story longer, I started reading a fantastic book-the War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, by Edwin Black. It’s really chilling stuff. I’m turning the pages at a furious rate, aghast at the history of the eugenics movement in America, when guess who pops up in the chapter called “The United States of Sterilization”? Right! Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It seems like our friend Oliver was quite a nasty bastard and quite the proponent of eugenics. Under his watch, the “feebleminded” Carrie Buck was eugenically sterilized by the state after being raped. Here are the words that concluded his opinion on the eugenic sterilization of an American citizen (see Buck v. Bell 274 U.S 200, 1927 for verbatim transcription):

“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate off-spring, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continueing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

All this is to say that liberals should be more aware of who they are quoting in defense of restrictions on freedom of any sort-from freedom of speech and thought to reproductive freedom. They should consider the source of their fantasies on restriction any of our human freedoms. They should take a look in the mirror and make damn sure that they aren’t diabetic, epileptic, asthmatic, folicularly challenged (that's BALD in politically correct-speak) or 'feebleminded' (liberalism is after all a mental illness), because they would be on Dear Oliver’s hit list, too.

Anyone who uses the ever so tired ‘fire in a theatre’ quote better damn well know who it came from, and what he stood for because it ain’t pretty. Not only is the quote misused, but there is needs to be far more discussion on the totalitarian beast behind the quote that liberals try to use to scare free-speechers. Your thoughts and freedom of speech are clearly, only the beginning.

Steyn: Happy Warrior and Major Mensch

So, I was one of the free speech groupie "butt plugs" who went to hear Mark Steyn at the Ontario Legislature. There has already been excellent and thorough coverage of the presentation by some of Canada's most fantastic bloggers-and a round up can be found at SteynOnLine. So, I would just like to add a few modest observations about the afternoon and the after-party. I really hope that the panelists digested Mark's observation that Ontario is promoting a system of judgement where the verdict is both assumed to be guilty always, and simultaneously irrelevant. As he rightly pointed out, the entire process is the punishment. In addition to the totalitarian ability to silence people's free thoughts-one of the only naturally G-d given rights we have, the process can crush innocent people financially and spiritualy. Everything goes back to individual rights, individual property rights and the power of freedom which is vested in our individual thoughts. Group rights must never trump this right. Mark emphatically stated that if you don't believe in free speech for the people you loathe, then you don't really believe in free speech at all. It's that simple. He suggested that if "Kommisar Hall" wants to persecute people for their beliefs, she should do it on her own dime. That uppity Steyn also had the nerve to suggest that the burden of proof be on the accuser! He questioned the integrity of the OHRC, noting that for people supposedly interested in "hate speech" and hurt speech, they didn't seem particularly interested when a raging, frothing crowd of keffiyeh-wearing Muslims called for a new and improved genocide against Jews in downtown Toronto. That had to hurt. Where was the OHRC when a man, of no particular race, religion or creed, was calling for the beheading of a Canadian government official? Crickets... One of the funniest parts of Mark's presentation was the way in which he continually refered to Barbara Hall as "Komissar Hall". I don't even think the pannelists actually caught the reference, they didn't flinch actually, but it was really hilarious. I am delighted that it will be transcribed as such in the official record. Afterwards, Mark hung around and answered some reporters questions. Then, he graciously agreed to go out for a drink with the groupies, and we walked to a nearby pub on an unusually mild and sunny February day. He was entertaining and inquisitive, and knew something pretty much about all the people in attendance, from having either read their blogs or their letters to the editor or perhaps letters to him. The conversation easily switched from the demographic time-bomb in Europe, to the perils of shaving goat butts, to the potential popularity of said shaved goats in the Middle East, to the dangers facing the Jews of England and France, the humourless militants lesbian activists we work with to Maclean's and back. He listened to our stories, shared his own insights with us as equals and even insisted on picking up the tab. Mark Steyn is intelligent, hilarious and gracious-a jack of all media trades with a clear handle on the big picture and a solid moral centre. The Jews in particular, and the Western world in general, are lucky to have such a giant on our side. This issue brought together a pretty crazy mix of people...the Indian Canadian, the Jew, the Catholics-the homo and heterosexual fans of Steyn-all because despite our backgrounds-we understand what is at stake. So thanks again Mark, for a really fantastic afternoon and keep up the good fight always.