Canadian free speech at risk

Canadians who do not like their hate-speech policy, it turns out, are not free to call censors unflattering things.

Let me rephrase. Canadians are not free to call censors "enemies of free speech." Even if, by the clear meaning of the English language (as well as by American standards) that's what hate-speech censors are, just because they're censors: Enemies of free speech.

. . . [A Canadian] judge ruled that a government official working from duly enacted government policy cannot be an enemy of free speech. That's just unthinkable!

Yes, in Canada you may not speak the truth about free speech to its official enemies. In Canada, the reason why we [Americans] must defend even the most vile speech and writing becomes clear: because suppression of it eventually leads to the inability to criticize government.

You know you've lost your freedom when you cannot call a censor a censor.

-- Paul Jacob, townhall.com, 12/9/07