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Monday, 17 August 2009

Lynch looks to lawyers: Jennifer Lynch, Q.C., SWMBO (Queen Censor, She Who Must Be Obeyed) wants lawyers to come to the defence of Canada’s teetering “human rights” apparatus. From the Vancouver Sun:
DUBLIN -- Canada's lawyers, academics and law school deans were urged here Saturday to come to the defence of federal, provincial and territorial human rights commissions and tribunals under attack by conservative critics.
Jennifer Lynch, head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission since 2007, told the Canadian Bar Association's annual meeting that opponents of rights bodies have successfully created a "chill" that makes it difficult for anyone to defend those bodies without also becoming a target.
Lynch, saying some criticisms have been "troubling" and "at times scary," also read out a graphic anonymous letter she received stating that she should be shot dead.
"I'm here to ask for your help," Lynch told CBA members, noting that academic experts, law school deans, and senior lawyers are among Canada's "most trusted sources of information" on public policy matters.
She urged them to write "letters to correct misinformation," encourage other experts to participate in the debate and promote public education of the role of rights commissions and tribunals in the justice system.
She said rights bodies have been under attack since 2007 after the Canadian Islamic Congress filed complaints against Rogers Communications over an essay published in Maclean's magazine, a Rogers publication, by conservative commentator Mark Steyn.
The complaints filed to the Canadian, Ontario and B.C. rights commissions were all eventually dismissed, though criticisms by those commissions against Steyn's published views about Islam prompted accusations that his right to free speech was being violated.
While she didn't identify her critics, Lynch has complained previously about attacks against her by Steyn, commentator Ezra Levant, various other bloggers, and politicians such as B.C. Conservative MP Russ Hiebert.
Critics have argued that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which prohibits the spreading of "hate messages" on the telephone and internet, violates the right to free speech. Some say hate crimes should be dealt with by the Criminal Code.
Lynch told the CBA that rights commissions represent an important component of the justice system, giving society's "most vulnerable" minority groups access to a mechanism to deal with alleged rights violations.
I have often wondered why it is that, as a group, lawyers have been so supine, so unwilling to condemn the “human rights” system. After all, they operate within and are guardians of a grand judicial tradition dating all the way back to the Magna Carta, a tradition which upholds essential, inviolable values such as the presumption of innocence, rules of evidence, fair comment and due process. You would think lawyers, of all people, would be sickened by the existence of a parallel universe--the “human rights” apparatus--which rubbishes the principles they hold so dear. Where’s their anger? Where’s their outrage? Why is it that Jennifer Lynch thinks she can count on lawyers to rush to her defence? In a sane world, lawyers should and would be in the vanguard of protest, calling for her dismissal and the dismantling of her shady apparatus--a system that has made Canadian “justice” a laughingstock in the free world.
My love for the many honest, reputable, hard-working lawyers within my immediate family precludes my saying that their silence can in part be attritubuted to the fact that many lawyers earn good coin from Jen’s appalling racket.

Update: Ezra weighs in on la Lynch in Dublin.

Update: BCF rounds up the usual suspects.

Update: A song for Jen's Irish sojourn (on the taxpayers' dime):

In Dublin’s fair city
There’s a junket so pretty
It attracted the likes of Ms. Jennifer Lynch.
As she flogged her dead pony
She spoke lots of baloney,
Crying, “Save me, ye lawyers, for I’ll never flinch.”...

Posted by: scaramouche at 11:43 | link | comments (1)


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#1  18 August 2009 - 20:25
 

Lynch told the CBA that rights commissions represent an important component of the justice system, giving society's "most vulnerable" minority groups access to a mechanism to deal with alleged rights violations.

That statement is laughable when you consider that the group making the most of the repressive HRCs are Imams and their sycophants (sock puppets as Steyn calls them). They are hardly vulnerable since they scare the crap out of most average citizens because of their well demonstrated violent nature and fatwas against their enemies which are just about everyone who is not them.

Another group that uses the Roos on the triumvirates is the gay community who also use terror tacticts in their own right and have general support in our limp wristed, politically correct society.

The only other (and most successful serial user) is that gay caballero himself, Richard Warman ... Sue City Sue are he.

The real vulnerable in our society are those with opinions that Lynch and company don't like and who happen to be too poor and un-famous to put up a defense.

The people at the HRCs are a swine flu pandemic of their very own.
 
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