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.
Syrian blogger jailed
May 14, 2008
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.
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