The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Hat Tip: Thanks to Committees of Correspondence for informing me of this news.

If you haven't heard, The Western Standard - the only Canadian magazine with balls enough to publish the Mohammed cartoons - is being sued.

Presently, the magazine is seeking donations and subscription support to subsidise their legal fees, and they have emailed their subscribers in an attempt to acquire more help. Although I will share the web address to help them, this article is not about that.

I'm merely writing this to show you all that apparently Canada has 'tards who sue for no reason, too. (Or, at least it appears to be for no reason. I don't know the other side of the story to be sure).

I would hope to some extent that The Western Standard had prepared for this, because if it were me, I would have seen it coming a mile away, what with it being such a controversial subject and all.

Although, with my wages and debts, my attorney wouldn't be costing me $75,000; I could only afford to hire a Lionel Hutz-type attorney, or worse (Hutz: I move for a bad court thingy. Judge: You mean a mistrial? Hutz: Right!! That's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talking guy. Judge: You mean the lawyer? Hutz: Right).

:-D

Anyhow, what this is all about is some guy, Syed Soharwardy, or as The Western Standard calls him, a radical Calgary Muslim imam, or as I ignorantly refer to him as Snidley Whiplash (its just easier that way for me), wrote a complaint letter to the magazine suggesting that he was not only insulted by the Danish cartoons, but he was upset that the Western Standard defended their position in publishing the cartoons.

The Western Standard's defense:

"the cartoons were the central fact in one of the largest news stories of the year, and we're a news magazine. We publish the facts and we let our readers make up their minds."

"In Soharwardy's view, not only should the Canadian media be banned from publishing the cartoons, but we should be banned from defending our right to publish them. Perhaps the Charter of Rights that guarantees our freedom of the press should be banned, too."

So, the guy moved on to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, which has taken the case more seriously (for some stupid reason) and now there is a lawsuit.

So, great, does this mean we will begin to have more wackos up here suing left and right for no frickin' reason, too?

I really hope the Canadian government thinks hard about this and is determined to uphold all the freedoms of our country, and don't back down to some sniveling human rights committee like so many others have done thusfar.

For more information on wimps who won't stick up for freedom, check out Daimnation. To read the full Western Standard email to its subscribers, check out AbbaGav. And, Michelle Malkin has more on the topic.