Lynch my information

Jennifer Lynch, of, you guessed it, Canadian Human Rights Commission fame, has apparently decided that the gravest threat to human rights in this country today is a small gang of recalcitrant bloggers:

The Commission has seen this first hand. We have spent considerable energy trying to repair our reputation after bloggers – who misrepresented the Commission and the administrative justice system as a whole – were able to influence the tone of the discussion.

Outraged that the Commission even received the complaint, some began describing the Commission and its employees as “thought police,” “fascists,” “neo-nazis,” “totalitarian” and “the politburo.” The Tribunal was described as a “kangaroo court” and a “Star Chamber.”

Here are some examples of how the mainstream media later portrayed the Commission:

* “Human rights commissions have been set up as a kind of parallel police and legal system, yet without any of the procedural safeguards, rules of evidence, or simple professional expertise of the real thing.” – Andrew Coyne, Maclean’s, April 6, 2009 (online April 2, 2009)
* “…our human rights commissions have flown under the radar of public attention for too long, ignored by … a judiciary that has inexplicably allowed these pseudo-courts to flourish under their very noses.” – Andrew Potter, Ottawa Citizen, April 12, 2009, page B1.
* A former Cabinet Minister recently wrote: “His [Ezra Levant] story of the terrible abuse of power at the Canada Human Rights Commission is a bone-chilling horror story. God help you if you get caught in (a human rights commission’s) crosshairs, because if it investigates you, the ordinary rules of justice don’t apply, including the normal legal protections for the accused.” - Monte Solberg, Sun Media, April 14, 2009.

This new reality is also having an influence on public discourse. And so, today, two years after the complaint was dismissed, the credibility of human rights commissions and tribunals continues to be threatened.

Well, lord knows we can't allow that to happen. Speaking as one of those recalcitrant bloggers ( Hell's Bells, I started a blog called The Lynch Mob that routinely attacked the woman - and it's still running ), I can tell you that nothing would make me prouder than to have helped make Human Rights Commission a dirty term in these here parts.

Mark Steyn comments:

I don't think the CHRC's "credibility" is really in doubt, is it? Take those three quotations from Maclean's, The Ottawa Citizen and the Sun papers. Is Commissar Lynch something is inaccurate in those statements - and, if so, what?

Meanwhile, Blazing Cat Fur breaks outside of his usual silent mockery with a nice, long post on why Jennifer Lynch is such an idiot misinformed person:

I'm thinkin it's time you moved to friendlier pastures Jen. This whole democracy thing, well it's just making you too sad. How about North Korea Jen? They might not trust you either sweety, but they'd sure appreciate your methods and your understanding of Free Speech.

You know, I think Jen might even have a tough time in North Korea. After all, you think we're ungrateful. Try some starving peasants. Now there's ungrateful.