In a previous post on the Warman affair, I took a simplistic, perhaps vindictive, approach to the libel suit that now faces Kate, Kathy and Ezra Levant.

The Conserv-o-sphere is full of those calling for folks to make an end of the whole Lekiwiski thing. He said stupid and bigoted things and got caught they say, he apologized they say, let it die they say — and their party followed suit… at least where one of their own is involved, for others it’s a different story.

From around the blogosphere

Voodoo: Goats and zombies and such

Sharpe Markers: Oh the horror!!

The American police state: You’re not really surprised are you?

Happy Birthday peace sign: Yer look’en pretty darned good for 50

Subtitled: DNA is your friend - especially if you’re an authoritarian government

God bless Her Majesties Benevolent Government ^tm ‘eh…. always looking to protect her loyal subjects, even if it’s at the expense of the privacy of future loyal subjects who may, or may not, ever commit a crime [let alone a violent one] in their entire lives but who will end up in the policeman’s database anyway.

All I can say is that it’s a darned good thing I didn’t have a mouthful of hot coffee when I read about the western worlds greatest proponent of secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, arbitrary detention, torture, wiretapping, eavesdropping, domestic surveillance, the unending war, and biometric national ID cards, use the word Orwellian….. otherwise I’d be needing (at the very least) a new keyboard.

Movie Directed by: Stephen Harper
Produced by: CPC Morality Police
Written by: John Q Public
Edited by: Stockwell Day
Movie made possible by the generous funding and intense scrutiny of the Ministry of We Know What’s Best for You.

In a special report to Parliament, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the Mounties broke the law and their own policy by unnecessarily squirrelling away files or keeping them longer than they should in what are known as “exempt” information banks. “What we found when we took a close look at the RCMP’s exempt data banks is disturbing and important to Canadians,” Stoddart told a news conference yesterday.

Be afraid, be very afraid, the paper tiger is growling.

Do the good citizens of Vancouver actually believe they have some sort of absolute right to service? What about the right of the business or the business individual? It’s obviously not good practice to refuse a paying customer, but should they not have the right to do so if they choose?

Halifax police are claiming there’s more to the story, but it would seem to me that if the arrest of a teenage girl was unlawful to begin with that the tasering of the teen should also be unlawful…. don’t ya think?

– Pappa Dion knows best.

Personally I think it’s a weird name for a kid, but then again I’m not the one who gets to choose it - the bigger parts of this story are (a) laws requiring city hall employees in Italy to report “odd names”, and the right of a court to force a set of parents to change their child’s name.

Police fired a 50,000-volt Taser into the head of a 45-year-old company director who later proved to be unarmed and innocent. Daniel Sylvester, the owner of an east London security firm employing 65 staff to guard council offices, pubs and nightclubs, was driving home on October 20 when he was stopped by armed police because of “firearms related intelligence”.

This is what the upper-right-quadrant calls a got ‘cha?

It’s over whelming, really.

Lawyers for a British resident who the US government refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of photographs taken by CIA agents that they say show their client suffered horrific injuries under torture.