Canada Charges Comedian with Not Being Funny
One would think that Canada’s HRCs would be too busy to deal with a drunken, juvenile encounter at a late night comedy club. After all, when they aren’t taking author Mark Steyn to court for “blatant Islamophobia” or prosecuting publisher Ezra Levant for reprinting the Danish Mohammed cartoons, they’re banning a Christian pastor for life from ever quoting portions of the Bible — and that’s just this year alone.
But charging a comedian with “hate speech” and “homophobia” for heckling some hecklers is a made-to-order case for the Human Rights Commissions.
Over the past decade, the HRCs have made a mockery of 800 years of British common law: in HRC tribunals, truth is no defense; guilt, rather than innocence, is assumed; and defendants are often bankrupted while plaintiffs have all their legal fees picked up by taxpayers. It isn’t unusual for HRC employees to troll “white supremacist” websites under assumed names, post racist remarks, and then charge the site owners with publishing “hate speech.” Bloggers who’ve questioned these tactics have been sued.
The HRCs have made Canada a laughingstock with their tone-deaf cases against Steyn and Levant. Guy Earle is just one of the many not-so-famous victims of the Human Rights Commissions. But ironically, his profile is on the rise, thanks to his current travails.
Both Steyn and Levant — both of whom have dedicated followings and influence (Levant just testified before a Congressional caucus about “soft jihad” and “lawfare”) — have adopted Earle’s case as a new cause. Levant started blogging about the story last month:
I lament this further loss of freedom and loss of common sense. I lament the fact that one thin-skinned radical lesbian activist is perpetuating the new stereotype of gays as intolerant of any criticism or dissent. I’m sure that EGALE would oppose this lawsuit, because they know it just looks bad, bad, bad on their community, who themselves use transgressive art, including comedy, to deal with difficult issues. What do you think Rosie O’Donnell would have done — whine to the government, or heckle back?
But, as I’ve said before, in this battle, the worse the better. Just days after George Carlin died — the comedian who broke boundaries about what could or couldn’t be said in comedy — we have this stunning example of censorship. Not just censorship, but a clear swipe at the entire theory of comedy, the anything-goes realm where society’s foibles are mercilessly poked and prodded — and where connoisseurs of humor freely attend, knowing they’ll likely have an ox or two of their own that’s gored. If comedians are no longer allowed to offend — let alone respond to rude hecklers — then comedy will cease to exist.
Meanwhile, Steyn mentioned Earle on the Hugh Hewitt Show and elsewhere:
You know, if you’re Don Rickles, you don’t want to be booking any stand-up appearances in the Dominion of Canada anytime soon, because the joke police are in full flight up there.
Steyn should know: one of the complaints against him during his own BC Human Rights Tribunal was that he’d panned the unfunny CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie.
On July 19, Earle and dozens of his fellow stand-up comics will headline the “Comics for Freedom Rally” at Toronto’s Comedy Bar, billed as “an evening that embodies our right to free speech (while we still have it).” The fundraiser will help cover Earle’s legal fees, which could be crippling. (Ezra Levant has spent $100,000 on lawyers in the two years since the complaint was brought against him.)
But it’s also a chance for Guy Earle to fight political correctness and censorship the best way he knows how: through in-your-face comedy.
He has no plans to take things lying down.
“Clear the bed,” he told Pajamas Media via email, “‘cause I wanna bounce on it.”
From the same country that gave The Order of Canada to an abortionist.
Why anyone would want to move to Canada is beyond me!
We should be grateful that the Human Rights Commissions in Canada continue to provide us with all the ammunition we need to have them shuttered permanently.
In Canada, as in the U.S., straight white males have no human rights. Understand now????????????????
These comments are ridiculous. No one decides to move to or from a place because of hate speech laws. You guys probably don’t understand why the whole world isn’t part of the US. Canadians could make a whole laundry list of better reasons why they wouldn’t want to move to the US. The list would be pretty easy you could start with the worse economy, crime and US foreign policy.
policalreacharound:
Well, stay there with the dykes, polar bears, and Santa Claus, eh?
And just what is YOUR sexual orientation, I wonder??
Aside from a few more insults I could throw…
You’re BORING!
“Two of them started making out, flipping me the bird, and saying I hated lesbians,” he said.
Is making out in public a way for lesbians to be in your face ?
Once, in church (admittedly, a Unitarian church), during the sermon, two girls in the front row started making out, rather enthusiastically.
I was wondering why they had to come to church to do that. Couldn’t they have stayed home in bed? Then, I realized, their intent was to be shockingly provocative in a public setting and to draw attention to themselves.
Might the BC HRC investigate intent to disrupt by audience members ? Oh no, wait, people acting out are “victims” with full protection of the laws, such as they are.
You should be a comedian politicalreacharound.
If I were this stand up comic I would take the lesbos to court and sue them for everything they have to teach them to not inflict their morals on anyone else…..
Oh wait….we can only do that to white male Christians….my bad…carry on
Human Rights Commission? What about the comics human right to be able to work? Obviously the lesbos started the trouble by deliberately swapping spit in the front seat. That is not the normal behaviour most intelligent folks do in public.
Shocking to me is that Canadian taxpayers sit still and allow their government to pay for this at their expense… certainly shows you who is responsible, and to blame, for this to happen. Not unlike the myriad abuses of our own U.S. Government and their agencies, which we love to point to and blame, while we pay for it with our tax dollars. In the end, every single one of who is a taxpayer and allows these kinds of abuse to continue is to blame. When will you and I say, “enough is enough” and get involved to make it stop?
I can see it now: millions of people fleeing another failed country on our border, willing to mow our lawns and clean kitchens just for a taste of freedom and opporunity. It won’t take long for us to get sick of them, too.
Canada is a beautiful country with too many liberal socialist “progressives” living in the major population centers. Unfortunately, due to the “progressives,” this country now has more internal problems than the United States. Perhaps, they should have deported some of our “progressives” that they inherited during the VietNam war
Mr. Earle, I have a suggestion.
Next time someone starts “making out” and otherwise being obnoxious, invite the audience over to watch them – they’re “doing it” in public. Obviously they want an audience. Give them one.
Hopefully that’ll get them to slink under the table.
For Guy to even link himself up with Lenny Bruce is laughable. So Guy thinks that an act should be all about social commentary? So bashing two women on the basis of their sexual orientation is supposed to be cutting edge and provocative? Guy has been at this for 20 years with only a few subscribers on his youtube channel. I read that this ‘champion of free speech’ originally tried to fob off responsibility to the restaurant owner. The sad thing is that Guy will mistake his temporary importance with talent.
If the CHRC keeps up this Stalin-esque vitriol they will eventually end up a defunct organization. I know that Canada is dominated by a liberal ideaology, but with the recent kangaroo court victories for Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant, they are putting themselves into a position, hopefully, that will cause their ultimate demise. Canadians need to stand up to this politically correct den of man haters. Canada, get invloved with this organization http://www.aynrandinstitute.ca/
Being nice and polite are inherently Canadian characteristics. They are an integral part of their inheritance, thir national identity, their patrimony. This so-caled comedian was not only committig the vilest of hate crimes, he was directly attacking these national principles, in a traitorious and unpatriotic manner. He has no manners!
We can only hope, here on the dark side of the moon, that a future Pres. Obama can corrct our own national faults and make us behave more like Canadians.
Oops, I thought Al Franken got arrested.
Good Ole Charlie
Homophobic much?
schnargley – there is nothing “nice and polite” about two people – be they gay, straight or otherwise – making out anywhere other than the privacy of their own homes. Indeed it is the height of ignorance.
There is nothing more disgusting than trying to enjoy a nice meal, movie, museum (yes I have had to endure that!), etc, and having that going on next to you.
These women are nothing but jerks. They can do what they want, show zero respect and then go boo hoo-ing to the courts when someone stands up to them. When will people learn if you can’t take it, then dont give it. Jerks
Perhaps, they should have deported some of our “progressives” that they inherited during the VietNam war.
Yes, they stayed up there in Canada and bred. Especially in BC.
On a more hopeful note, one of our “progressives” was extradited back to US soil just last week. A guy who had beat feet to Canada, following in the footsteps of his Vietnam era precursors.
A Canadian court acknowledged that the guy joined the military voluntarily, made his own bed & didn’t want to lie in it.
Signs of intelligent life in the universe.
shnargley said: “Being nice and polite are inherently Canadian characteristics. They are an integral part of their inheritance, thir national identity, their patrimony. This so-caled comedian was not only committig the vilest of hate crimes, he was directly attacking these national principles, in a traitorious and unpatriotic manner. He has no manners!”
You’re kidding, right? Please tell me you’re kidding.
policalreacharound:
“Good Ole Charlie
Homophobic much?”
Nope, but sorry to disappoint you…
Another strawman bites the hay…or whtever…
It’s still cool to boo the US Natl. Anthem at hockey games though.
Sadly Amrap you are correct, a smug, though entirely baseless, sense of superiority is central to the identity of many Canucks, it shames me to admit.
try him at the Hague and try him for war crimes while you’re at it.
then “torture” him with lesbian panties on his head.
Shnargley; I hope that was tongue incheek;if not,the US has a built in remedy to PC Stalinism whether attempted by Obama or anyone else:It’s called the second amendment.
Essence of the case as stated by Kathy Staidle: “The sorry situation sounds like a matter for the management, or maybe the police.”
Yes, why should a brawl between some (provocative or not so provicative) lesbians and a (funny or not so funny) comedian be a human rights matter? Why should a state-sponsored commission enter into a bar room dispute like this?
Those of you who are in favor of institutions like the CHRC, please consider the consequenses before it is too late. Your own precious freedom could be done away with.
The PC police are relentless in the US as well, and too many of our own lawmakers are on board.
(Nice website, “Mr. Fur”)
I have a couple of Friends, really talented guys, who are ex Canadians. I am sure that the strong and the virtuous from Canuckistan are improving our U.S. society immensely while the natural distillation process of the tin-pot fascists of your cheezy “sensitive society” feed you your daily diet of Stalinist crap, you whining pussies. So while the good guys head south, please stay up on the ice sheets, where you penguin f++kin’ Maoist, terminally ADHD clowns belong.
If only we could get Nancy Pelousi and the entire Duke University Liberal (F)arts department to head north. They could squat along side you as you squeeze out your best intellectual rationalization for “Human Rights” to suppress free speech, you robotchek, pathetic cowards. Sgt. Preston, indeed.
Is canada a country?
Yeah Amrap it may be cool now to boo the American Anthem but wait till I file with the CHRC for Americanphobia. Besides all the good Canadian players come to America to play. How many pro hockey teams in Canada??
The important question is this – were the lesbians hot? That would change everything.
They shoulda been filmed and popped right onto youporn.com.
“off a cough:
The important question is this – were the lesbians hot? That would change everything.”
Good point.
No one decides to move to or from a place because of hate speech laws.
I emigrated from Canada in part because of such laws.
Canadians could make a whole laundry list of better reasons why they wouldn’t want to move to the US. The list would be pretty easy you could start with the worse economy, crime and US foreign policy.
Economic motives were a significant contributor to my flight south. The current situation has only held for the last two years, and is due almost entirely to the commodities boom. For the preceding fifteen years, however, Canadians thought they were doing well to have an unemployment rate only 2-3% higher than in the States.
Or, the short version: “politicalreacharound” is an ignorant idiot.
” …Yeah Amrap it may be cool now to boo the American Anthem but wait till I file with the CHRC for Americanphobia. Besides all the good Canadian players come to America to play. How many pro hockey teams in Canada??… ”
Paul, that would be the first case the CHRC would lose.
First of all, let me state that I am not homophobic. I have lived with gay people (when I was a Jesuit seminarian)and worked with gay people. A cousin of mine, who is gay, is also a close friend. So, what I am about to state does not come from contempt of gays. Yet, it has to be said. Too many of them are narcissistic exhibitionists who angrily shove it in our faces. They behave outrageously in gatherings of mostly non-gay people. And when we, who hold ourselves to higher standards of behavior (we would NEVER act like this with our wives and girlfriends in public)are affronted by this militant idiocy and when we complain about it, we are the ones who considered the bad guys. It pisses me off.
I sense a jeremiad out there among the Leftist gay people. They attack our civilization. They attack our religions (Christianity and Judaism). They undermine our education system and they infuse our public discourse with nihilistic, post-modern nonsense. And then they have the gall to use a system like Canada’s ridiculous “Human Rights” Commission to provoke conflict and to attack freedom of expression, the press, and freedom of thought.
If these people are looking for a fight, I say we give it to them. But it’s their choice, as most of us are live and let live people. They, and their Marxist and Islamist allies will overplay their hand and some day they will all go down together in defeat.
tanstaafl Thank you, humbly;)
politicalreacharound
Canadians could make a whole laundry list of better reasons why they wouldn’t want to move to the US. The list would be pretty easy you could start with the worse economy, crime and US foreign policy.
1990-2004 Canadian immigration to US: 222,598
1990:2004 US immigration to Canada 77,634
When you consider that US population is about 10 times that of Canada, the movement of Canadians to the US becomes even greater.
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/countrydata/data.cfm
Take my lesbians, please.
Politicalreacharound: funny you should mention crime…but ignore the crimes of the state against the individual. Not all crime is robberies, although your cities have more than enough of that, including child prostitution in Mannitoba.
But in any event, the ommision of the crimes of the human rights commission on your part is interesting, no? I would very much use opression of freedom by the state in any decision to move to a country.
Watch the reaction in Canada when the US puts Canada on it’s human rights watch list!
Before we get on Canada’s case for this idiotic PC garbage we should remember that the so-called “fairness doctrine” is just an election away. I think we might be seeing our future.
“You guys probably don’t understand why the whole world isn’t part of the US.”
That was a queer thing to say. With the whole world immigrating to the US, I’m beginning to feel like it is. Have another Molson and lighten up a bit PoliticalReachAround.
Off A Cough is right. The statutes are clear on this, at least in the US. I believe it was Justice Burger who coined the term “Fit Test” in Malloy vs Oregon. If the lesbians were fit (hot, banging, smoking) then they are fully protected by the law. If not, they can eat their own birkenstocks. Legal note: if they’re bisexual they automatically lose for being fence sitting teases.
“”"”"We can only hope, here on the dark side of the moon, that a future Pres. Obama can corrct our own national faults and make us behave more like Canadians.”"”"”
Oooohhh ! ! ! I guess “schnargley” really told us, didn’t he? Way to reveal what a totally authoritarian, smug lefty prick you are. Thank you also for showing that you are a loyal, bad-Kool-aid-drinking follower of the Obamabot and his motormouth-shrew wife. Remember, she told us months ago that we must obey her husband’s commands.
Have you any notion of what a parody of the neutered pop-people who believe this ninny-nanny “thought-crime” crap you are?
As for Canadian “politeness” being some sort of virtue, it is meant as a put-down of Canadians, you moron.
Roderick,I think you forgot to enable your sarcasm detector on Schnarley’s post.
Check your shoes dude, you just flamed yourself.
“can corrct our own national faults and make us behave more like Canadians”.
I disagree with the idea, but I’ll provide lessons..and they won’t be cheap. I’ll just teach you the political ideas and attitudes i had to grow out of.
Any Human Rights Commission is Despised Far Left Marxism in reverse .
But the effects are in fact more than Equal . Both are at War with our Founding Fathers Principles and ethic .Freedom of Speech Means Freedom of Speech .As is burning our Flag I hate !
If you will recall The Feared NSKBG and The KBG has commissions on what could said even in your even in your Family , Friends and Co workers had to SPY on each other .Mao did the exact same thing as well .
Comics are equal in speech to Gays . Throwing Drinks in his face and Eyes is Phy. not words .He should say He can’t see well how and is harmed for life ! Don’t get mad Oh No GET EVEN !
It appears quite simply Gays , Perverts , Moslem’s are right and normal tax payers white males are not .
This is what happens when Leftist take over any country .
For the few Mericans who have responded smugly don’t be to smug lads and lasses, in California little girls and boys are required to convert to Islam for a week as a lesson plan in Diversity and Cultural Class. Angry Parents filed suit and they lost, losely quoted the Judge stated seperation of state and religion wasn’t violated because the forced converstion was a Cultural lesson.
California also passed a new law resently where no child shall be assigned gender, they can pick the sex they feel they are and they can also enter any public bathroom, shower etc based on the gender they “Feel” they are. Now the rapist are going to love this new law, so shall the pedophiles. Moving on to foot baths, a religious symbol paid for by taxpayers is slyly refered to a “Safty Issue”. Muslims have been washing their feet safely in the US for forty years and NOW it’s a safty issue? Cough cough stupid is as stupid does.
Didn’t San Gaysico recently issue an edict stating Catholic Doctorine is hatefilled and bigoted?
I won’t be mowing any lawns in the US in the near future, but please don’t insult my people because of one’s lack of knowledge about your own country. The US appeases and panders to Muslims in the most sickening fashion, at least we’re fighting the Poltical Islamists not promoting their ideology. Having CAIR train the FBI in “Muslim Sensitivity and diversity” is absolutly the most assine policy I can think of, but that’s what your Pres is doing.
Submission isn’t a Canadian trait, we’ll fight until we win. Or die of ole age wearing depends whilst screaming down with the commiesssssssssssss.
Rose,
We Americans have no choice, vis-a-vis the examples you cite of what is happening inside the U.S. It is being FORCED on us by politicians, judges, and lawyers. We don’t enthusiastically embrace the nonsense. And you don’t have to bring these things up as a way of defending Canadian honor.
Western Civilization is under assault by Marxists-morphed-into-postmodernists and their allies the Muslims. They also manage to rope in a lot of dopes who know next to nothing about what is going on.
Rose-what process would be required for Cananda to abolish the Human Rights Commissions? Would simple legislation be sufficient? It would be a welcome step and might help us down South here in our fight with these PC idiots.
Can we all agree that political correctness, left-wing fascism, and Marxism has the USA and Canada both screwed? That’s what I think. I just think that right now, Canada is a half step ahead of us. Don’t worry, with the influx of uneducated, non-english speaking hispanics from socialist countries that expect to live off the gov’t invading us, we’ll catch up and surpass you Canadiasn.
Ugh. We need another huge Boston Tea Party. And a more violent one if we don’t want our nation to crumble from within.
my 5 cents:
i am a big fan of Jamaican ragga music
what i recently learned: ragga stars are banned to perform in Canada(also had problems with us and UK tours on the same grounds)
because in their lyrics the supposedly say aggressive things toward homosexuals
Jamaica is a world leader in number of churches per capita
As far as lyrics: i never new what exactly they sing because it is about the MUSIC more then anything else
the way they sing makes it very hard to de-sypher the lyrics))
communist so called “international anthem” calls for violence not toward just a tiny minority of perverts but to ALL OF YOU who have property
and it is allowed almost in every country
if Canadian or any other state laws have a hate speech clause-
any sign of communism or socialism MUST be severely banned, as an ideology that is responsible for murder of hundreds of millions of innocent human lives, including but not limited to toddlers, children, pregnant women, old people, just people, perverts of any kind- u name it
BAN THE COMMUNIST SPEECH if u got a hete speech law
Bill Hocter:
not PC idiots, but enemy under the smoke screen of PC
In the long run Canada is a good country and the people are good.They are allies and our biggest trade partners. They are a free country and pretty well managed. Yes a bit socialistic but hey that’s where all the king’s supporters fled to anyway to set up their system.We can be tolerant of each other yet be critical without getting nasty. I would say relations are pretty good and I hope it stays that way…That said Canada is letting muslims get away with murder and there are far to many being let in and the HRC is ridiculous.
Mike Weir, the professional golfer is the only thing that Canada has to be proud of. Hey, in every other aspect Canada is frankly a joke.
Canada is the best country in the world. America is a country filled with fat, cigarette smoking, beer drinking red necks.
The only they are good at frankly, is having troops killed over seas.
Let’s see here.
Canada is better than the US in Baseball.
Steve Nash, is a two-time NBA MVP.
Justin Morneau is an MLB MVP.
Jealous Americans.
Canada, Take off eh. Maybe get a bill of rights?
The Canadian Mounted Thought Police…………………..
Okay Beaver-the fat, cigarette smoking, redneck comment can be taken in good fun but the only thing we’re good at is having troops killed oversees? Give me a break! We are fighting everyone’s muslim extremists battle for them and for this we can’t even get a heartfelt “Thank-you”. You guys are good neighbors and in spite of what you hear in our liberal media we aren’t all overweight rednecks.
Please do not lump the US in with Canada. In the US there is still something called freedom of speech and Americans (oh, excuse me, United Stateans) actually practice dissent instead of damage control on behalf of their government.
Does this mean that all the 60′s draft dodgers and radicals will come back to the US. Heaven help us
Is Canada going to arrest Kathy Shaidle because she can’t write?