Dear ND Media ....

[The Sicatoka]

Dear ND (and National) Media,

In your idealistic pursuit of destruction of the "Fighting Sioux" moniker, you've lost sight of the only thing keeping you in business: The First Amendment.

Destroy that, by demanding made up rights such as control of public domain words to select groups, and you threaten your own freedom and existence. And your co-conspirators in this are "academics", another group that should be defending The First Amendment, not tearing in to it. The irony here would be laughable if not so dangerously stark.

Destroy free speech? Can't happen you say? Look north.

Including the darkest of those predictions: that intellectuals and the Canadian media simply would not care about defending even their own freedom.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage...mark_steyn.html

Today's version of the Canadian "Human Rights Tribunal" is called the NCAA Executive Committee. And tomorrow brings another day, and another chip at the base of your right to exist.

Enjoy, for when free speech and thus free press falls, I will not speak out for no one spoke for me.

Signed,

A "Fighting Sioux" fan (for as long as I can still legally say that)

[PCM]

Here is the Alan Borovoy column from the Calgary Herald to which David Warren refers.

Here's a "be careful of what you wish for" column on Borovoy's human rights commissions by George Jonas.

Speaking is a constitutionally protected freedom. Not having others say hurtful things to us is, at best, an understandable ambition. Confusing the two is the human rights fallacy.

[The Sicatoka]

Two great quotes, one from each piece (in order):

A free culture cannot protect people against material that hurts. It can't even morally condemn the material simply because it hurts. But, if it gratuitously hurts, such condemnation becomes appropriate.

Enforcing an ambition against a freedom is tyranny.

Myles Brand, David Gipp, and the rest of their ilk have an ambition ....