I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
The CHRC plans to desecrate Remembrance Day
November 10, 2008
Think I’m overstating the case?
Jennifer Lynch, Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), plans to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa tomorrow. This despite the fact that she and her department are committed to the very antithesis of the ideal of freedom for which so many Canadian men and women gave their lives in war.
(And, as Ezra Levant points out, despite the fact that the CHRC is essentially the biggest purveyor of neo-Nazi rhetoric in Canada today, which only gives additional insult the the memory of the men and women being commemorated who gave their lives in the cause of defeating Hitler’s dark regime and ideology.)
The kicker in all this, though, is that Lynch plans to lay her wreath to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN’s “universal declaration” concerning human rights. Which includes the right to freedom of expression. Which is the right that Lynch and her ilk seek to deny to Canadians.
So she’s not even laying the wreath because its Remembrance Day, nor is she laying the wreath to mark the sacrifices that we are supposed to be remembering on the solemn day that is November 11th, Remembrance Day. She’s laying it to mark the ratification of a UN document that most UN member states ignore anyhow, and which she herself does not fully give heed to.
This warrants a letter of complaint to an MP, methinks.
Update: For the record, the declaration of human rights was ratified by the UN on December 10, 1948. Not only is Lynch’s gesture tone-deaf, it’s just plain incorrect.
