Two groups of protesters met in Calgary yesterday: 25 members of the "Aryan Guard" white supremacist group, and 150 assorted leftist urchins, led by Bonnie Collins, the Communist Party candidate and spokewoman for the often-violent group, Anti-Racist Action.
A pox on both of their houses, I say.
And that's the point. I despise them both.
In fact, it's those "leftist urchins" that are the strongest indicator of the obsolescence of the CHRC and other assorted thought crimes laws. Upon hearing that the Aryan Nations people were going on a march, civil society conjured up a corrective of sorts. No violence (though there might have been without the police there). Just a show of strength on the part of right-thinking non-nazi types.
And not to belabour the point, but there were 25 AN marchers and 200 counter-protesters. That's 8:1 on the side of civil society [Just as Calgary hits the 1,000,000 mark, the city's "resurgent" white supremacist community managed to muster a whole 25 people for it's social event of the season]. When Canadian society can solve it's own problems like it did in Calgary on the weekend, why then do we need the CHRC to repossess some of our free speech rights in order to protect us from 25 doofuses with bad (if any) hair?
