March 8th, 2008
Warren Kinsella links to this virtually incomprehensible, altogether self-negating post at Agoravox.
The right to free speech comes with responsibility, just like driving a motor vehicle. Use your vehicle in an irresponsible fashion, and you will lose the privilege of driving it. The same is true of free speech: This right must be exercised with great care and responsibility because speech has a huge potential for fender-benders and complete write-offs.
So is it a right, or a privilege? Let me clear that up for you, Werner: it’s a right. I don’t need a license to exercise it. I don’t have to carry insurance.
And Werner, apparently, never heard of Michelle Malkin before she joined the fray on this issue:
Now, one of the site founders is crying foul because Warman has launched even more lawsuits, as has Warren Kinsella, if she is to be believed. Whether the extent of this latest round of blogosphere litigation is accurate or not, it was enough for US blogger Michelle Malkin to sound the alarm and warn against a massive attack on the Canadian (conservative) blogosphere.
Malkin, of course, is blowing this all out of proportion. It is doubtful that she ever actually looked at the stuff some of those bloggers have written about Warman. For if she did, she would understand why he feels the need to drag them before a judge and jury - Malkin herself would doubtless sue anyone who said just half those things about her.
If he had heard of her before, he would have known that she is regularly called a whore, when her sole crime is being a Filippina (not to mention the amount of times she has to hear revolting references to “ping pong balls”). She’s been told, live on television by Geraldo Rivera that he would spit on her. She had to move house, because she and her family were being harassed.
Does she really sound like the kind of woman who goes running to a Kangaroo Court to solve her problems?
Kinsella is bored of the issue now. Well, bully for him. That probably means he knows - like Syed Soharwardy - that he’s on the wrong side of the debate, and just wants it to go away.
Or it means that the very rights that generations of people have fought and died for mean nothing to him.
Enjoy your vacation Warren. Sounds like you really need it.
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