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Thursday, August 04, 2005
Free speech for the favoured many
So, let's see if I understand this correctly. On the one hand, the B.C. courts have just ruled that B.C. teachers have the right to post politically charged notices in school because "their political expression benefits society as a whole."
But on the other hand, the B.C. courts have also ruled that one particular B.C. teacher, Christopher Kempling, has no right whatsoever to express his opinions about about homosexuality, even in letters to the editor written on his own time, because his political expression might be seen to be discriminatory. Seems like a perfectly Canadian position on free speech to me.
Posted by Terry O'Neill on August 4, 2005 in Current Affairs | Permalink
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I eagerly await the first teacher to exercise his/her political opinions in a meeting with me.
Though that's unlikely because my children only attend private schools, where a solid education comes first and the union's desire for yet more holidays -- oops, I mean professional development days -- comes a distant second.
Posted by: chip | 2005-08-04 8:50:38 AM
Free speech to the point of death by Islamist murderers: Google News Ghouls... Displaying the corpse of murdered journalist on their front page: aiding and abetting the enemy is treason.(Has the image been removed?)
Google News Ghouls
>>http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com
Is anyone surprised that Google News is featuring the AP photograph of Steven Vincent’s corpse prominently on their front page, with a pronounced anti-American slant?
Posted by: maz2 | 2005-08-04 9:08:38 AM
Well the courts are liberal lap dogs should this surprise anyone?
Western separation might cure it!
Posted by: ghollingshead | 2005-08-04 12:39:52 PM
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