Free Speech

Featured News

Archives and the Memory Hole

Archives and the Memory Hole

Nikolia Ivanovich Yezhov was not a nice man, but for a time he was an important one. He was a favourite of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and head of the NKVD, the USSR’s secret police. As such he was responsible for the arrests, tortures, and executions of his...

Canada’s “Schauprozess”—Show Trials

Canada’s Human Rights Commissions are akin to “show trials” that have long existed in other, less free countries and to which Canadians once thought we would always be immune. Dr. Barry Cooper from the University of Calgary, Cooper advises Americans to learn from Canada’s poor example on free speech, and for Canadians to both beware of and ridicule the “human rights” bodies that are now the proper object of scorn.

Sidney Green

Sidney Green

“I support the general law. Namely, that it is unlawful to bribe a politician otherwise I do not support laws with respect to financing because one, it is contrary to freedom of speech and secondly, because it is impossible to enforce them and it makes dishonest people out of honest people because they will find and seek out ways to get around stupid laws.”