Two Weekend Stories

The Gateway Pundit reports that the Dictator Chavez claims to have won.

CHAVEZ WINS!!!
Aljazeera reports:

Hugo
Chavez, the Venezuelan president, is heading for victory in a
referendum on allowing him to remain in power as long as he keeps
winning elections, two government-linked sources said citing exit polls.
Reuters reports that “Government Sources” have confirmed that Chavez has won.

Sky News and China News are reporting the win for Chavez.
Ahmadinejad ought to be calling soon for congrats.

Daniel in Venzuela says it is not yet over- the mess is growing.
Miguel is reporting that the Chavistas have withdrawn their congratulatory ad for the papers tomorrow.

Also, we have further proof that human rights hate crime laws are a threat to free speech as they try to quiet Mark Steyn.

Canada’s largest non-profit Islamic organization launches complaints over Mark Steyn’s article, “The Future Belongs to Islam”

The
Canadian Islamic Congress–Canada’s largest non-profit Islamic body–has
launched two human rights complaints against Maclean’s and its
editor-in-chief, Kenneth Whyte. The complaints’ subject is “The Future
Belongs to Islam,” an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone:
The End of the World as We Know It,” which appeared in the magazine’s
Oct. 23, 2006, issue.

Complaints were submitted to Human
Rights Commissions in B.C. and Ontario on the grounds that “the article
subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt,” according to a CIC
press release. In the release, the CIC labels Steyn’s article as
“flagrantly Islamophobic.”

Faisal Joseph is the CIC’s legal
counsel on the matter. “In Canada, we have 750,000 law-abiding
Muslims,” he says. “When you read that article, it sounds to some
people [like] there’s an attack from the ‘Muslim’ world against the
‘non-Muslim’ world. We take real issue with that type of
characterization and the implications of it.”

In response, a
Maclean’s spokesperson provided the following statement: “Mark Steyn is
a thoughtful and experienced journalist, and the piece was a commentary
on important global political issues. It was not in any sense
Islamophobic, and Maclean’s is confident that the Human Rights
Commissions will find no merit in the complaints.”

TheSource is here.

I guess no one sees the irony that muslims are using human rights laws to censor a human rights. (free speech)

And I just want to remind you of this story crossposted from Conservative Thoughts

From The Midnight Sun
– Just north of the U.S., in Canada, a waitress is in danger of being
imprisoned for posting non-PC Bible verses on the net. The Canadian
Human Rights Tribunal has actually threatened to imprison 21-year-old
waitress Jessica Beaumont for posting Bible quotations online. Although
Ms. Beaumont’s home has been raided by the police, she has not yet been
criminally charged for her politically incorrect views, because she has
broken no laws. That’s why the Tribunal was utilized to keep her mouth
closed — by throwing her in prison for “human rights” violations if
necessary. Beaumont’s impermissible opinions were accompanied by two
Bible verses frowned upon by liberals:

Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. –LEVITICUS 18:22
If a man lies with man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done
what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on
their own heads. –LEVITICUS 20:13

The
CHRT has barred her from posting similar remarks, even on websites
hosted in other countries. By simply posting biblical scripture, she
could be jailed for up to five years. How’s that for a precedent? We
might want to stop worrying about human rights in Pakistan, and pay
some attention to what’s going on just over our northern border —
especially since we’ve been traveling down the same road.

People
just love to give stuff away. Here in Maryland we vote to give away
more and more of our money. In Venezuelan way too many idiots voted
(with the help of voter fraud) to give up their rights. And here in the
US way to many Americans stand by while our very Freedom of Speech is
being threatened.

Stupid.