Because I think, given the government's reaction to it, we are headed for years of further reports and submissions and committees and, in the end, nothing much will change.
Moon essentially endorses the CHRC's choices in selecting and pursuing section 13 cases. In fact, he suggests tweaking criminal code provisions such that all of the cases successfully prosecuted under section 13 would also be captured under the new regime that he has proposed. So while you can argue that using the CC for such work is inefficient, and you can argue that the odds of provincial police forces actually setting up "hate teams" is Nil, nothing in Moon's proposals would, in theory, let anyone who has already had a run-in with the CHRC off the hook.
What would happen is that complaints dealing with the kind of material now handled by the CHRC under section 13 would go to the various police hate crimes units (whose workload, Moon suggests, would almost certainly increase). So, while nowadays Connie and Mark, or Mr. Boisson, might get a letter from a government bureaucrat, under the new regime they would most likely get a call from a nice policeman, and this would occur just as their websites (via section 320.1 of the CC) disappeared until said policeman could decide whether its contents met the standard. Since Freedominion occasionally hosts calls for Muslim genocide in its forums, it is almost certain that they would be getting such phone-calls, and might wind up looking at jail-time rather than a fine and rebuke.
How that is supposed to be an improvement, I do not know.
Well I imagine doing some serious jail time would vastly improve the frequency and quality of the Fourniers' sex lives, without them having to acknowlege their desires.
ReplyDeleteA Last Word On The Moon Report
ReplyDeleteWhat? Why would you abandon it when there are so many rich veins of comedy gold to be mined from it.
Handing this over to the RCMP (etc.) has another disadvantage.
ReplyDeleteThe CHRC is better placed to pursue resolutions that fall short of penal sanctions. There have been cases where the matter is settled in conciliation, for example. The criminal justice system is poorly placed to handle that kind of thing.
The speechies blathering on about the costs required to defend themselves at the tribunal... I wonder if they think mounting a defense against criminal charges would be less costly.
ReplyDeleteThey're still going on about the costs? I've never seen one shred of evidence to back up these claims of outrageous expenses.
ReplyDeleteI suspect they're mostly true, since all of this causes dollars signs to show up in the eyes of various and sundry shysters we've come across in this fascinating story, but again, I'm startled by how willing the speechies, like the Nazis of course, are willing to present unsubstantiated claims as documented fact.
"The speechies blathering on about the costs required to defend themselves... I wonder if they think mounting a defense against criminal charges would be less costly." - RB
ReplyDeleteCriminal charges? No worries about that since recent "cases" have been so frivolous as to border on the absurd.
Those HRC cases would have been laughed out of any real court.
There has been a lot of entertainment value to the recent circus events involving HRC's, but still, they are better ways to waste taxpayer's money.
but still, they are better ways to waste taxpayer's money.
ReplyDeleteLike sending you to a Vernichtungslager. No, wait...that wouldn't be a waste.
Heh. Free speach rawks!