Toronto police threatened to arrest a Canadian reporter
after he referred to now-deceased Iranian General Qassem Soleimani as a
“terrorist, The Blaze reported recently. Apparently, a “candlelight
vigil” attended by over 200 people was held for Soleimani outside of a Toronto
courthouse. David Menzies, a reporter for Rebel News, walked the crowd
and spoke with those gathered, using the word “terrorist” when referring to
Soleimani. A video extant shows Canadian law enforcement officers approaching
Menzies and advising him to cease and desist using the word “terrorist” when
speaking of the bloodthirsty Iranian general. Menzies logically responded by
asking, “I can’t call a terrorist a ‘terrorist?’” To which an officer replied,
“Not in this sort of environment, no. You can’t. That’s going to incite a
breach of the peace and that is Canadian law. Am I clear? It’s a breach of the
peace. You
will be placed under arrest.”
Menzies
then said, “So I can’t call Osama Bin Laden a terrorist?” The officer answered:
“If I hear another word like that, you’re coming with me. You are not to use
that word again here in this environment. Do you understand me? It incites a
breach of the peace and you will be put under arrest.” Menzies averred that he
had free speech rights protected by the Canadian Constitution, in that Section
2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms says that all Canadian
citizens have the right to freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression…but
this didn’t have a noticeable effect on the authorities.
There
are a couple of points to be made here. First off, it is now the victims
of violent protests and crime that have to watch what they say. If Ben Shapiro
or Dennis Prager wish to speak on a college campus, in the most erudite, truthful
and non-inflammatory way, they are somehow held responsible for any untoward
or violent behavior in which chuckleheaded ignoramuses and/or antifa thugs may
engage. Secondly, and even more frustrating—and frightening—is the fact that
stating or acknowledging many simple, demonstrable, irrefutable truths is now against
the law.
There
is a new kind of terrorist afoot, one we did not anticipate and one for which
we are therefore less prepared. That terrorist is infinitely deadlier, and
ultimately more effective, than any we’ve seen before. Because that terrorist welcomes
all others into his country without expecting that they assimilate. That
terrorist has internalized his enemies’ disdain of his homeland. He has become
tolerant of absolutely everything…except for the traditions and mores of his
own country and people.
That
terrorist…is us.
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“The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”—Edmund
Burke
“The further a society drifts
from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”-- George Orwell
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