In Today's Politically Correct Society You Have To Wonder...

...if the action taken by the police would have been the same if the "protestors" had been black, gay, indians, muslims, etc.

Today’s letters: Free speech does not come with free wall space

Aaron Lynett / National Post Anti-abortion demonstrators in Toronto hold signs showing a dead fetus.

Re: Graphic Fetus Images Protected Under Free Speech, letter to the editor, Oct. 6.

The concept of freedom of speech is philosophically simple and easy to understand. It provides an individual with the right to express their opinion or belief in a manner that they choose without the fear of forceful reprisals from other individuals or the state. Letter-writer Rene Leiva seems to have difficulty understanding this concept; he fails to grasp what freedom of speech does not provide.

It does not provide an individual with the right to express their opinions with someone else’s microphone, radio station, magazine, newspaper or wall space. Just as one individual has freedom of speech rights, the other individual has property rights. Read More »

Posted in: Full Comment, Letters Tags: Israel, abortion, Carleton, David Chen, citizen's arrest

Police agents of state


By MICHAEL COREN, QMI Agency

In Ottawa this week, police arrested five university students for displaying a pro-life exhibition. They were peaceful and merely expressing an opinion and showing the realities of abortion.