Ottawa Sun | 29Jun2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/28/letters-to-the-editor-june-29
Human Rights Time Machine
Re: “Albertans can dump kangaroo court,” Ezra Levant, June 28, 2011:
In H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine we find a society divided between
Morlocks, brute cannibals, and the Eloi, genteel flower children, with
the first stalking the second. Imagine now a spinoff tale of Morlocks
hauling an Eloi before a human rights panel to complain of the hurt
feelings they endured from his depictions of their tribe as brute
cannibals. Truth having little probative value before such kangaroo
courts, the Morlocks would surely win their suit, receiving a large
cash award and an abject apology from the defendant. Such being the
typical outcome of cases brought before any of our so-called human
rights commissions. Abolish them, I say!
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore, Alberta
(Well said. These days
we are all at risk of being Elois at the hands of the HRCs.)
Edmonton Sun | 29Jun2011 Orest Slepokura
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/06/28/letters-june-29-2
There oughta be Eloi
Re: “Albertans can dump kangaroo court,” Ezra Levant, June 28, 2011.
In H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine we find a society divided between
Morlocks, brute cannibals, and the Eloi, genteel flower children, with
the first stalking the second. Imagine now a spinoff tale of Morlocks
hauling an Eloi before a human rights panel to complain of the hurt
feelings they endured from his depictions of their tribe as brute
cannibals. Truth having little probative value before kangaroo courts,
the Morlocks would surely win their suit, receiving a large cash award
and an abject apology from the defendant.
Orest Slepokura
(True, unfortunately.)