Well then we’d be like the Soviet Union or most other commie crap holes.

Clearly you cannot just yell “Fire!” while watching a movie over at Empire Theatres just for fun. For one thing, it will get you arrested. There are costs involved to rolling out the fire trucks, and there is the possibility of people getting hurt in the stampede towards the exits — so most of us would argue that this is a really good law. It protects the public interest, makes sure the fire trucks are available for the actual blaze; and besides, is based on a children’s book we all read, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”

What if when I tried to write about vegetarianism the meat lobby had me shut down. What if the coffee federation silenced me when I said we should pay more for a cup of coffee because the labourers don’t make enough? What if the government brought me up on charges when I suggest that detainees are being treated unfairly in military prisons?

If you have been reading Maclean’s magazine this year you will realize that Canada has such a thing as a Human Rights Court, which is not really a court in a standard legal system, but a court where any individual whatsoever can bring charges that you have somehow written or published hate literature against some group.

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Me thinks people are waking up, he doesn’t wade through the absolute power corrupts absolutely, stuff altering evidence lying under oath etc but,…