Syrian blogger jailed
tagged Associated Press, CHRC, Ezra Levant, HRC, human rights, human rights commission, Maclean's, Mohamed Elmasry, National Organization for Human Rights, Osgoode Hall, Syria and Tarek Bayassi
And then on trumped up charges, by the sound of it:
A human rights group says a 24-year-old Syrian blogger has been convicted and sentenced to three years in prison on charges of undermining the prestige of the state and weakening national morale.
In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday, The National Organization for Human Rights in Syria condemned the verdict issued the day before as “outrageous” and called for Tarek Bayassi’s immediate release.
In a way, is what is happening in Canada all that different from this circumstance? Under the guise of protecting human rights, are not the human rights commissions basically punishing those whose words go against what the HRCs — in their capacity as organs of the Canadian state — deem to be acceptable?
In a sense, are not people like Ezra Levant and publications like Maclean’s magazine being accused of in some way undermining the prestige of the state for their refusal to, say, subscribe to the “look the other way” multi-culti attitude that the likes of Mohamed Elmasry and his Osgoode Hall sock puppets are counting on the rest of Canada to demonstrate, and which the CHRC is demanding that all Canadians demonstrate?
The difference is only in degree. Syria jails bloggers who publish things that the state deems unseemly. Canada just forces them to a) pay a steep fine, in addition to the legal fees they incur, and b) cease saying what they have been saying.
