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Read the whole thing…Rex Murphy: Please don’t call it ‘human rights’. Actually, George Jonas refers to it as “Human Ambitions.” By some crude osmosis, or just from the luxuriant carelessness of our pampered lives, we have overturned one of the great concepts of all human law. The concept of human rights, as experience and history [...]

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Mark Steyn on CHRC Commissar Lynch’s ‘balancing act’

by Tasha on Thursday, November 12, 2009, 4:13 pm · 3 comments

It truly was a balancing act trying to appear normal while explaining the concept of state-sponsored censorship. Did Lynch believe nobody there had ever read 1984? Read: Spare me the therapeutic platitudes The Queen Censor spoke to the Select Committee with the same weirdly fixed smile on her face for the full hour. Presumably she [...]

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