WAR ON WORDS

If you doubt for a minute that Canada would prosecute and persecute bloggers for posting information despite a publication ban on details of the Adscam testimony, consider the case of Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew.

Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew told his hate trial Tuesday he still believes Jews were the cause of the Second World War.

Did you read that right? Hate trial? Yes. He is charged with "promoting hatred against an identifiable group." For planting bombs? For conspiracy in gathering followers to harass and injure an "identifiable group?"

In a Big Brother trial where members in the public gallery shouted "racist," Ashenakew appeared before a judge who will determine his guilt or innocence. No jury will hear his case. Just a judge. And the crime? Ashenakew spoke to Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter James Parker who gleefully reported the interview.

"How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?" Ahenakew told the reporter. "The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war. That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe.

"That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the God-damned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries."

The Globe & Mail were ecstatic with this headline: "Ahenakew admits anti-Semitic words" He's guilty of using words.

This is a great example of the three "C's" of politics. First, corruption when the undeserved steal public office through fraud or trickery, then coercion when they run out of ideas and discontent sets in with the electorate, then Communism when totalitarianism is the only way to continue in power. Coercion includes the search for public virtue by virtueless politicians and serves up a public indecency, an assault on freedom that is an insult to western values. That Liberalism has come to that is a tragedy. That it should be tolerated for one minute by free people is despicable.