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Friday, September 05, 2008
Bubble Zone law upheld
At a time in Canada when battles over free-speech rights are being waged on what seems to be a daily basis, a B.C. court rules on the side of diminishment and upholds a restrictive law put into place by the former NDP government and sustained by the current B.C. Liberal administration.
See the Vancouver Sun's story, buried on B5, here. (The Sun has never made free-speech issues a high priority.) See the complete ruling here.
Posted by Terry O'Neill on September 5, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink
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While working in the forest industry during the "war in the woods", it always intrigued me that the government felt compelled to buffer abortion clinics from protesters while allowing (actually sanctioning) anti-logging protests (physical blockades) by forcing workers to go home while the industry went through civil court procedures - getting court orders, serving notice etc. all while operating legally within provincial and federal laws and permits. I guess the message was that it was more PC to kill unborn humans than big old trees and replace them with young growing trees. Now that I look back, it was consistent pure Green theology.
Posted by: John Chittick | 2008-09-05 9:33:40 AM
Of course! Women and their issues are not judged according to the same stringent criteria that men's issues are and never have been. Of course, by demanding special protections and exemptions from what should be universal law, women are only ensuring that men will never take them seriously or accept them as equals. Politicians only pander to them because they are important swing voters.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2008-09-05 9:38:37 AM
John Chittick - I had the same thoughts about the contradiction. One could also add Native blockades of roads and highways. Interesting that the killing of the unborn is sanctified in Canada.
Posted by: Alain | 2008-09-05 12:25:45 PM
What I find interesting, Alain, is that those who support abortion tend to oppose capital punishment. Ironic, isn't it, that an unborn infant is a greater threat to someone's existence than a Paul Bernardo or a Clifford Olson?
A big part of the problem women have breaking through the glass ceiling is that, for many, seeing beyond their own little world is a burdensome prospect. Add in the fact that with women it's all about the relationships, not the goal, and it's easy to see why they have a reputation for nonobjective thinking.
Bottom line: Women will not be accepted as equals until they stop seeing themselves as special. Some have already done so and it's surprising (and refreshing) to see how much easier and happier life is for them. Those who remain bitter and narcissistic and play the victim remain on the fringes because no one wants to accept them, and since they see this as further victimization, it becomes a self-feeding and self-fulfilling ideology.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2008-09-05 12:38:27 PM
I think the trick to understanding the contradictions in government issued laws is that
First: Laws don't need to have anything to do with "justice".
Second: The contradictions are there to keep us all guessing at what law really means, we aren't supposed to know or actually understand them.
Third: As long as we are confused and mystified by ambiguous, ill defined, man made laws they can be enforced any way at all.
I'm generalizing quite a bit I know, but its hard not to see that we no longer live under the Rule of Justice...but rather the Law of Rule.
Posted by: JC | 2008-09-05 12:46:29 PM
I think it's much simpler than that, JC; it's a simple matter of the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Of course, when Roe vs. Wade was passed, a lot of women could crowd the streets without missing work because they didn't have any. To a lesser extent, that's true today. That's why Right-wingers don't protest as often--they're too busy creating wealth for the underemployed Left to confiscate for the cause du jour.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 2008-09-05 1:23:50 PM
Yes indeed Shane, I noticed long ago how the pro-aborts are almost to the last one anti death penalty. I must admit that I am not one who supports making abortion in all circumstances illegal but do strongly oppose the no holds barred abortion at present. Secondly I strongly object to the refusal to allow people to know and to see the hard facts of what abortion entails.
You mention the problem with women demanding to be treated as equals and special at the same time. I suggest that the problem with being equal has been changed by the hard core feminists into being the same. They seek to defy biology which is impossible of course. Any parent having children of both sexes can confirm that boys are not girls and girls are not boys. The difference is more than physical. Having two young adult daughters I have also noticed that they and their friends do not identify with the feminist ideology and actually find them pretty disgusting. Their take, right or wrong, is that these are bitter "old women" who were incapable of attracting men. I suggest that the feminists are in fact a dying breed and they know it. They want however to make us believe they represent the majority of Canadian women while knowing they do not. Being ever more desperate they push harder for meaningless women's studies programs in universities, affirmative action, pay equity, special laws, etc.
Posted by: Alain | 2008-09-05 3:00:00 PM
I think it's much simpler than that, JC; it's a simple matter of the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Posted by: Shane Matthews | 5-Sep-08 1:23:50 PM
Could well be, Shane.
Yes indeed Shane, I noticed long ago how the pro-aborts are almost to the last one anti death penalty.
Posted by: Alain | 5-Sep-08 3:00:00 PM
As George Carlin put it...its all in the timing.
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