Today, Greenwald wrote in support of Ezra Levant, who is being persecuted by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission in Calgary — at the behest of Islamist grievance-mongers — for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons in Canada’s Western Standard.
Granted, given that his primary claim to fame as a First Amendment expert is his defense of Illinois neo-Nazi Matthew Hale, it would be difficult for him to reach a different conclusion on the free speech issues involved. But he did not have to write a defense at all, let alone repost the video of Levant confronting the intimidation of his government. Thus, despite the fact that he used the piece to indulge in some of his patented paranoia of the US government, I applaud him for giving the case attention to Salon readers who otherwise might have missed it.
It is also somewhat cheering that most of the comments on his piece tend to agree on the speech issue, though it is of course impossible to determine how much of that is blind fealty to whatever Greenwald writes, let alone how many of the comments were written by Greenwald.
Gotta wonder how many of the supportive commenters followed the links/watched the video and realized just what the speech in question was.
GG was pretty clear that it was all about the neocon war-mongering.
Can we mark this event as the turning point, the apogee of Political Correctness?
If not, how much longer do we have to wait?
Stopped clocks….
I hate Illinois Nazis.
That is exactly why I specified Illinois.
Isn’t everything?
And it took nearly three hours before anybody noticed. C’mon, people, look alive here.
“This is nothing short of stomach-turning”
Gleen’s either got a weak stomach, or this is just more of his typically overwrought prose.
I’m guessing both.
Remarkably un-self-aware, this Greenwald. It’s almost as if he’s completely immune to irony.
It’s almost as if the only thing wrong with such laws are that they can be turned around and used against The Good Guys, who is (and always shall be) us. No moral issues, just the little problem with turnabout.
I’m wondering if he would have been outraged even to the point of a couple of sentences, if it hadn’t been a radical muslim that filed the complaint.
-Glenn Greenwald
He supposes that advocacy of rancid ideas should be battled, rather than the ideas themselves. Battled, but not like this, by some other, unspecified means?
“Why this thing is awful, it’s almost as bad as in America, which… doesn’t… do that…”
What a maze that mind must be!
As if executive powers should be determined by whether or not you like the guy in office. It’s not like he has a job to do! He’s just so icky.
Limitless, I tell you! His powers span the seas, roil over the march of history and ARE NOT DIMISHED BY SPACE OR TIME.
HE SEES ALL! HE IS IN MY MIND! BUSHITLER1!!!!!
It’s very, very sad when someone is unaware of their own self parody.
Speaking of Illinois, I remember when the Illinois Bureau of Industry, Tourism, and Entrepeneurship (IBITE) came out with that catchy slogan, “Make some noise in Illinois (but keep the “S” silent)!