Human Rights Legislation.....

[PoliticalChic]

Human Rights Legislation.....???

What a benign euphemism for censorship, for the fascism of restricting what folks say....


If it hasn't reared its ugly head as of yet, believe me, it's coming to a venue near you....soon.
It is endorsed, sponsored, advanced by Liberalism, the folks who brought you "I'm offended...."and the motto of Feminist, "...that's not funny...."

As we have just 'Ducked' our own free speech issue, it might be instructive to see the bullet we've dodged.....





1. "...the Supreme Court of British Columbia has upheld the right of a bar patron to receive five-figures in damages from a comedian whose performance she alleges gave her post-traumatic stress disorder..... comedian Guy Earle was ordered by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to pay $15,000 to Lorna Pardy, a homosexual woman who said she suffered “lasting physical and psychological effect” after Mr. Earle directed a string of lesbian slurs at her during a 2007 Vancouver open mic night.




2. On Wednesday, the B.C. court ruled against Mr. Earle’s assertion that comedy clubs should remain special places devoted to the “fearless pursuit of free speech” ..... Rather, ruled Justice Jon Sigurdson, while comedy clubs may swirl with “offensive, irreverent and inappropriate” language they are not operating in “zones of absolute immunity from human rights legislation.”

3. .... at Zesty’s, a Vancouver restaurant with largely gay clientele, when an open mic night hosted by Mr. Earle kicked off. The two women decided to stay and watch the show..... Ms. Pardy’s girlfriend had merely pecked her on the cheek when Mr. Earle told the crowd “Don’t mind that inconsiderate dyke table over there. You know lesbians are always ruining it for everybody.”

4. As Mr. Earle told it, however, the couple was passionately kissing in the front row and repeatedly interrupting the set with obscenities when Mr. Earle tried to “shut up” the table with the quip “you’re not even lesbians; no guy will f*** you, that’s why you’re with each other” — thus kicking off the ugly escalation..... Ms. Pardy screaming to restaurant patrons that the owner condoned violence against women, Ms. Pardy took her case to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

5. .... tribunal member Murray Geiger-Adams issued a detailed 102-page tribunal report that pored over diagrams of the restaurant, probed the origins of the weekly open mic night and even examined the Iraqi background of the bar’s owner (“[H]e was a member of both ethnic and Christian religious minority groups, and experienced discrimination himself,” it notes).





6. .... the tribunal ruled that Mr. Earle’s attack had aggravated Ms. Pardy’s “pre-existing condition of generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks, and caused her PTSD.” .... hearing Mr. Earle recount the evening in a radio interview caused her to miss work.





7. When asked why she did not simply leave the establishment, instead of staying until the very end of the performance, “she said she didn’t leave because she was too shocked, and that she literally could not get up from the booth,”.... put Ms. Pardy in a condition where she was unable to immediately formulate a measured, or even rational, response.”

8. In addition to Mr. Earle’s $15,000 penalty, the restaurant was also ordered to pay $7,000 to Ms. .... Restaurant owner Salam Ismail had already spent at least $13,000 in legal fees defending himself before the tribunal.





9. .... Mr. Earle attempted to argue that Ms. Pardy “played a vital and highly dramatic role in utterly disrupting a performance ....“[C]omedy clubs are like no other places, the quintessential element that distinguishes them from vapid mainstream media is the fearless pursuit of free speech.”

10. “In the end...“It is about verbal and physical abuse that amounts to adverse treatment based on sex and sexual orientation.”
Court upholds decision to fine Guy Earle $15K for insulting Lorna Pardy | National Post






This is Canada....in many ways our sister-nation. In America, we see folks get fired for 'tweets,' and voicing their opinions......



Please....don't tell me that it is not the government doing it.....Liberal elites have worked assiduously to move America in this direction.....as in:

U.N. Adopts ‘Religious Intolerance’ Resolution Championed by Obama Administration CNSNews.com December 20, 2011 U.N. Adopts ?Religious Intolerance? Resolution Championed by Obama Administration | CNS News




Real Americans: be on your guard...never give up the fearless pursuit of free speech.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

"According to the later findings of the Human Rights Tribunal, during the show Ms. Pardy’s girlfriend had merely pecked her on the cheek when Mr. Earle told the crowd “Don’t mind that inconsiderate dyke table over there. You know lesbians are always ruining it for everybody.”"

"In the end, the tribunal ruled that Mr. Earle’s attack had aggravated Ms. Pardy’s “pre-existing condition of generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks, and caused her PTSD.” Long after the episode, for instance, Ms. Pardy said that simply hearing Mr. Earle recount the evening in a radio interview caused her to miss work.

When asked why she did not simply leave the establishment, instead of staying until the very end of the performance, “she said she didn’t leave because she was too shocked, and that she literally could not get up from the booth,” according to decision documents. As for the water-throwing, “Mr. Earle’s conduct had put Ms. Pardy in a condition where she was unable to immediately formulate a measured, or even rational, response.”"


To those unfamilar with combat stress and PTSD what this describes seem implausible but it's not. The judgement against the club owner and comedian is very mild. Had it happened down here it'd have been a lot worse for them.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"According to the later findings of the Human Rights Tribunal, during the show Ms. Pardy’s girlfriend had merely pecked her on the cheek when Mr. Earle told the crowd “Don’t mind that inconsiderate dyke table over there. You know lesbians are always ruining it for everybody.”"

"In the end, the tribunal ruled that Mr. Earle’s attack had aggravated Ms. Pardy’s “pre-existing condition of generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks, and caused her PTSD.” Long after the episode, for instance, Ms. Pardy said that simply hearing Mr. Earle recount the evening in a radio interview caused her to miss work.

When asked why she did not simply leave the establishment, instead of staying until the very end of the performance, “she said she didn’t leave because she was too shocked, and that she literally could not get up from the booth,” according to decision documents. As for the water-throwing, “Mr. Earle’s conduct had put Ms. Pardy in a condition where she was unable to immediately formulate a measured, or even rational, response.”"


To those unfamilar with combat stress and PTSD what this describes seem implausible but it's not. The judgement against the club owner and comedian is very mild. Had it happened down here it'd have been a lot worse for them.

I was about to write "Are you nuts???"...

...but that's already been established.



From the article:
"When asked why she did not simply leave the establishment, instead of staying until the very end of the performance...."


There was the opportunity to mitigate damages......

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are those who no longer understand what a "right" is.

Rights are exercised by individuals, and are not given nor ascribed by any person of group, especially governments. It is a grave error to believe that rights evolve due to societal changes.
Realize, expanding the concept of a right to cover desires represents theft, peculation, as the natural and timeless rights of people must be subordinated to the power of government.
Richard Lorenc, “Reinventing The Right,” p.33-34.



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