Latest cartoon complaint could be the tipping point

The latest human rights complaint against an editorial cartoon in the Halifax Chronicle Herald could prove to the the tipping point. When people see groups complaining of an anti-Islamic hate crime concerning a cartoon of a particular individual who actually looks like the cartoon, then we could see a MASSIVE swing in public opinion that that has been smoldering beneath the surface.

The Chronicle Herald is a mainstream, middle-of the-road newspaper if there ever was one, in a province that likes is social programs and is definitely no Alberta. Sucking the Herald and its cartoonist into the "human rights" commission maw is a huge miscalculation. I mean, some people don't like Ezra Levant or Mark Steyn because they are conservative voices, so they might think, oh, well, I don't read their stuff and maybe there's something to the complaints, let the human rights system run its course. But the Chronicle Herald? Puhleeze.

It is as if the people (of all sexes, religions, hues and backgrounds) who want to undermine Canada's freedoms are emboldened by the silence, emboldened by the paralysis of political correctness. Maybe they sense weakness or appeasement and want to move in for the kill.

I think what they are guaranteeing is a huge Conservative majority in the next election.

Even though many bloggers are impatient with the Tories and the public silence on the whole human rights commissions issue, most of us know in our heart of hearts that there probably is not a Tory MP or potential candidate who would defend what is going on right now before human rights commissions.

Remember the Ontario election and John Tory's plan to bring fairness to school funding? Well, publicly a lot of the talk was about the risk of Christians teaching creationism in private schools, but what many of the candidates were actually hearing on the doorsteps had to do with fear of Islamic schools as breeding grounds for terrorism. Yeah, it ain't fair, (I personally support fairness in school funding for religions though I was not crazy about Tory's specific plan) but unfortunately, the behavior of Islamic groups is not reassuring people that their fears are unfounded. Average voters see them acting like victims an when, the voters themselves feel like victims of their hatred, intolerance and hypersensitivity. They saw the evidence in the smoking ruins of 9/11 that killed 24 Canadian citizens.

They may stay silent, but just as Conservative candidates got shredded on the doorsteps over the school funding issue, in the next election any candidate, Liberal (because there are many good ones who are also alarmed by what's going on) or Conservative who does not support freedom of speech is going to get turfed, save for some illiberal candidates of those Trudeaupian strongholds in Toronto.

There is a growing gap between what can be said publicly and what is being said privately, but what is said privately is growing more and more important and soon the public facade is going to shatter.

But publicly it is as if there is choke-hold of political correctness that prevents people from saying what they mean or what they are really concerned about. Of course it doesn't help that saying certain things publicly can land you a human rights complaint. But you better believe those unspoken concerns will manifest themselves at the ballot box.