I want my rights back!

I'm going to nominate Bernie Farber, Canadian Jewish Congress head as the most annoying person in Canada. Every time someone opens their mouth criticizing the Israeli government he waves his axe trying to get hate crimes charges issued or a human rights complaint issued. This is similar to an American trying to get hate crimes charges filed for complaints against George W. Bush. His latest complaint was against anti-Israel protests on the weekend. He believes the protests were hate crimes.

It would be so easy to stop there. But for months Muslim groups were launching complaints against Canadian media outlets for reprinting controversial cartoons depicting Muhammad. The cartoons wouldn't have become an international issue and be reprinted if there weren't worldwide riots. Some of the cartoons were in poor taste (I've seen them) but people now had a right to know why there were riots going on. There were also complaints about an article written by Mark Steyn in Maclean's. Yet for some reason a man who yells at a woman and hits her in front of her child for being a lesbian, as happened in Oshawa, Ontario recently, this is not a hate crime.

I think it's time to revamp our laws and allow people's freedom to reign supreme, while actually going after those committing hate crimes, so people won't have to live in fear of the Bernie Farbers of the country. Disagreement should not be a crime. People should be allowed to dissent and not hear the hurtful label of "racist."