Today, we are all Ann Coulter

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Whether you or I like it or not. Today, we are all Ann Coulter. They are coming for all of us. It won't stop at public speeches, or blog postings, or letters to the editor or magazine articles. It is coming for sermons in churches, private conversations at home, words to our kids, our sacred books, jokes in a bar, words shouted out a window, answers to teachers, paid advertisements, and free speech on a street corner. It won't stop until all speech conforms to the Borg or until the Borg is defeated.

Not the Canada you grew up in, is it now?

I used to believe that if I could get most Canadians involved in the political process we could take the country back from the politicians. Bad laws came from ignoring the will of the people. If the people's will was enforced, then we could have good government.

My first vote was during the 1992 referendum. From then on, I toiled away in the Reform Party. Democratic reform was the main reason why. I believed that we were led badly, we just needed more democracy. However, within a decade I realized that Trudeau, Mulroney and Chretien had changed the country, not just the laws, but its people.

To really change the government for the better, would require changing society and the culture. Yesterday's events at U of O show me that people are changing all right, but it's for the worse. Not only was Ann Coulter's speech closed down by "radical students", that action has received widespread support from Canadian politicians, newspapers and letter and comment writers. Comments are implying violence against her. Charges of hate speech mixed with actual hateful coments about her are everywhere. Cries for her to be shipped to the US and banned from re-entry are everywhere. For what? "Ride a camel."

If you wonder why the CHRC has waged a jihad against free speech, it is because they have massive public support. Free speech is for liberals. Fines and jail time is for conservatives who oppose society's drift leftwards.

All the rules and freedoms in place that allowed liberals to take over society, are now being removed so that conservatives will have no place in this new society.

I'm not waving a white flag of surrender. I'm just saying this fight isn't what I used to think it was. For instance, Ezra Levant being another former Reformer of the same age as myself, still holds to his belief in the people. He wants to de-normalize the HRCs. He wants to hold up the Left to public ridicule. He wants to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the PC enforcers. He wants to shine a spotlight on the work of the HRCs. I believe he is wrong to believe there is this massive constituency waiting to be awakened and rally to his cause.

We are in for a long, tough slog. One mind at a time. Most of the major channels of influence, for instance universities, are controlled by our opponents. This will take a lot of persuasion exercised on multiple fronts.

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