Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for - your opportunity to vote for the most hilariously overblown, hysterically exaggerated description of the BC Human Rights/MacLeans Tribunal.

The sharp-eyed bunker readership combed the blogs and culled the following samples of commentary, ranging from the dim to the delusional. The ballot is at the bottom. Enjoy, and invite as many folks as you can to join the voting - and the hilarity.

Loony 1: From the comments section of Pajamas Media:

A group of rag-tag militiamen gathered on Lexington common facing a line of British regulars. The year was 1775. A British officer stepped forward and ordered the rabble to disperse. Someone yelled back, “get the hell off our land.” Somebody else pulled the trigger on his musket and ignited a revolution based on a belief in liberty. We don’t know their names, but these patriots were priveleged to stand on the fulcrum of history.

Today in Canada a handful of patriots stand also on the fulcrum. Liberty is under assault yet again. As before the answer must be defiance. The face of tyranny arrives as a mild-mannered clerk. Orwell warned us this would be the case. Yet the stakes are the same as they were at Lexington. Mark Steyn, Kathy Shaidle and a handful of others have the privlege of standing athwart the bridge facing tyranny.

So fight, damn you! Think not of exile. There is nothing so dear as liberty. I shall contribute with a hundred U.S. dollars. But you are the ones who must take the fight to the enemy. And you must be victorious. History warns us that acommodation to tyranny always leads to more bloodshed in the end. Stand tall and proud. And fight!

Looney 2, courtesy of Melanie Phillips

It is no accident that it is uber-‘liberal’ Canada, which worships at the shrine of human rights law, where this medieval inquisition is taking place. The fact that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission are to conduct this kangaroo hearing is grotesque but not in the least surprising. The belief fundamental to human wrongs law, that minorities are sacrosanct and that to criticise them is proof of rampant prejudice, is part of the mindset which has turned truth, morality and freedom inside out. If a writer who tells the truth about Islamists spreading hatred and contempt for the west is himself hauled before a court charged with spreading hatred and contempt by telling such a truth, then the Orwellian nightmare has well and truly arrived. –Melanie Phillips

Loony 3, one Wes Vernon (nice picture, Wes)

CHRC is an ersatz judicial body that resembles nothing so much as a kangaroo court whose tolerance for freedom of expression is on a par with the tribunals that handed out assembly-line death sentences during Moscow’s “purge” trials in the thirties. Steyn notes that there is “no presumption of innocence” in CHRC’s “hate” cases, other than for the so-called “Canadian Nazi party,” which “got off scot-free on the quaint grounds that it did not exist.” CHRC has not sent anyone to the gallows — yet — preferring fines and the equivalent of cease and desist orders. –Wes Vernon

Loony 4, the ever reliable David Warren:

Most of the victims of these neo-Maoist tribunals have been “little people,” with nothing like the resources Maclean’s magazine has put in play to defend itself and Steyn, and no media reporting whatever. They have been persecuted, stripped of their livelihoods and savings, demonized among their neighbours, made to endure humiliating “re-education” programs - without lawyers, without assistance of any kind — all for exercising rights that any Canadian would have taken for granted a mere generation ago. I want justice for Mark Steyn. But I also want justice for all these little people, who have been crushed under the jackboot of “political correction.”

Loony 5, American Thinker:

Canada’s greatest gift to the contemporary world of letters — Mark Steyn — is being persecuted for free speech in his home country. Columnist Steyn is being hauled before something called the “Canada Human Rights Tribunal,” a parallel legal system to the normal Canadian courts, without all the bother of due process, the presumption of innocence, a defined and limited legal venue, and protection for free speech.

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Forget the Spanish Inquisition. They’re so five centuries ago. Today Canada’s Stalinoids can simply punish people for speaking their minds. The Left rediscovered its Stalinist roots in the 1970s when the Boomer brigade conquered the culture. That’s when Canada’s farcical “Human Rights Tribunals” were created. Today, eighty percent of American college campuses have speech codes prohibiting politically incorrect speech. The ghost of Stalin stalks the earth, looking remarkably healthy.

Loony 6: Standing in for all those who referred to this procedure as the…

Show Trial of the Century.

Loony 7, Free Mark Steyn, is always a reliable source of hilarity.

That the Hitlerian-Stalinite showcourt of the BCHRCT was taking place in (sic) the same time as we remember the costly victories of D-Day and beyond only highights the evil and injustice and traitorous nature of those who are trying to tear down and throw away that very civilization which was only preserved against one form of Leftist totalitarian evil by battles on sea, land, and air by hundreds of thousands of Canadian, American, and British troops, planes, and ships.

Loony 8 from the equally hysterical Free Dominion:

“Mark Steyn is a god in Canada right now. I had the pleasure of his wit and drollity for 30 minutes outside the Kangaroom in Ottawa at the Warman v. Lemire Hearing on March 25.

30 minutes with Mark Steyn! Better yet, why not a whole evening? “A Dinner with Mark Steyn. Can I start the bid at $2000?”

What would that kind of thing go for at a Freespeecher fundraising auction, do you think? Presumably a hell of a lot more than you would pay for dinner with Rob Nicholson, no doubt, or even Stephanie, himself.

I’d rather have dinner with Mark Steyn and his wobbling fromage than I would Rob Nicholson and his peanut butter crackers any day of the week. I’m sure 95% of the members of the Conservative Party would too.”

Loony 9, from a moist Right Girl:

But put me in the vicinity of an Alpha Male, and my ovaries stand up and salute! They sing the Star Spangled Banner. Five minutes with an Alpha, and I’m picking out names. Hawaii was a nightmare for a child-phobe like me - surrounded by the very best America has to offer in the form of Army, Navy, Marines and yes, even the Air Force. Not to say that every one of them is an Alpha - far from it. But the available percentage was much, much higher than under normal circumstances. So there I was, in Paradise, surrounded by Alphas, with Mark Steyn screaming from my nether regions. When it comes to my biological makeup, I’m no better than a cat. Gross.

Loony 10, Everyone’s Favourite Fool, Canadian Sentinel:

“Many people are indeed genuinely afraid of fundamentalist Islam and fundamentalist Muslims with great, undeniable justification, just as we also fear, say, Neo-Nazis, who actually, in my view, look like a miniscule number of insignificant, stupid-as-stupid-does, wimps and pussies compared to radical Islam, which we know is extraordinarily powerful, well-organized, well-funded and has its hands on the puppetstrings of Free World Liberal Fascist State Apparatchiks, such as those who have been appointed by radically extreme Leftist politicians like Ed Stelmach to Canada’s “Human Rights” Commissions. Ok, I guess now I’ll be next up in the KKKangaroo KKKourts… Bring it on, eh? Make a political martyr of me if you wish. Me and many others who need to be protected from fascism, who yearn for equal rights, for freedom and to be free of persecution! Sic semper tyrannis! Stop the latter-day Hitlers and Stalins!”

Loony 11: Yet another contribution from David Warren, making him a doubloony:

I had better tread carefully today, for I am going to write disparagingly about an entire class of sentient beings — and we should all know what has happened to Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, Kathy Shaidle, Kate McMillan, Jonathan Kay, Fr Alphonse de Valk, Mark and Connie Fournier, Marc Lemire, and a bewildering, quickly growing list of other Canadian writers hauled before the so-called “human rights” commissions (or more precisely, humanoid rites commissars), and shaken down with frivolous but financially ruinous sue-and-stall court litigation, on the suspicion that they may have entertained “hateful,” politically-incorrect thoughts.

The group I intend to slur today are the Extraterrestrials. I’m not sure how the courts will interpret “hate-speech” and “hate-thought” towards this group, which is not yet specifically protected under any of Canada’s awkwardly-worded “rights” codes. Arguably, any attack on Extraterrestrials could be taken as personal attacks on members, former members, outriders and hangers-on of the HRCs themselves, and therefore provoke the next round of vexatious lawsuits.

And finally, Loony the 12th, the usually sensible Ghost of a Flea”

“Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Jackson and Kathy Shaidle are right.”