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Ezra Levant Shakedown (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Shakedown : How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
- Publication Name
- Shakedown
- Title
- Shakedown
- Subtitle
- How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0771046197
- EAN
- 9780771046193
- ISBN
- 9780771046193
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Genre
- Political Science
- Topic
- Human Rights, Civil Rights, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Freedom
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 27/10/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 6.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Winner of the Writer's Trust of Canada / Samara's - Best Canadian Political Book of the Last 25 Years Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions. "On January 11, 2008, I was summoned to a 90-minute government interrogation. My crime? As the publisher of Western Standard magazine, I had reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed to illustrate a news story. I was charged with the offence of "discrimination," and made to appear before Alberta's "human rights commission" for questioning. As crazy as it sounds, I became the only person in the world to face legal sanction for printing those cartoons." As a result of this highly publicized event, Ezra Levant began investigating other instances in which innocent people have had their freedoms compromised by bureaucrats presuming to protect Canadians' human rights. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases, such as the tribunal ruling that an employee at a McDonald' s restaurant in Vancouver did not have to wash her hands at work. And the human rights complaint filed by a Calgary hair stylist against the women at a salon school who called him a "loser." In another case that seemed stranger than fiction, an emotionally unstable transvestite fought for -- and won -- the right to counsel female rape victims, despite the anguished pleas of those same traumatized victims. Human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things. The book is a result of Levant's ordeal and the research it inspired. It shows how our concept of human rights has morphed into something dangerous and drastically different from its original meaning. Shakedown is a convincing plea to Canadians to reclaim their basic liberties.
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McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-10
0771046197
ISBN-13
9780771046193
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74166069
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shakedown : How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Human Rights, Civil Rights, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Freedom
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
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"I was at a low moment, and beginning to fear that our adversarial culture was dying and the open society was losing its will to resist, when Ezra Levant showed that every citizen has the birthright of a little spark, and a grown-up duty to kindle that spark into a flame. Let the bureaucrats do their worst: the tongue and the word are chainless and nothing is sacred except this freedom above all." - Christopher Hitchens, author ofGod is Not Great "If we're not careful, if we force the Ezras in this country to shut up, our freedom of speech could be next." - Rick Mercer, in a "rant" from theRick Mercer Report "We are not yet three months into 2009, but Ezra may well have written the most important public affairs book this year." -The National Post "I readShakedownand I am awed at Levant's persistence and powers of endurance." - Rex Murphy, in theGlobe & Mail "Why is Ezra Levant the flavour of the month? Dare I say because he deserves to be?" -Metro Vancouver "…eloquent and powerful…" -London Free Press "…puts everything on the line in the way the best Canadian journalists always did." -Ottawa Citizen "Let me put in a plug for Levant's new book,Shakedown, which lays out, in example after example, how government-appointed human rights bodies warped the noble mission for which they were created." -The Halifax Chronicle Herald "...By the end of Levant's book, readers will be left wondering whether it is enough to prune back the commissions, or, as he prefers, to weed them out altogether." -Macleans, "I was at a low moment, and beginning to fear that our adversarial culture was dying and the open society was losing its will to resist, when Ezra Levant showed that every citizen has the birthright of a little spark, and a grown-up duty to kindle that spark into a flame. Let the bureaucrats do their worst: the tongue and the word are chainless and nothing is sacred except this freedom above all." - Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great "If we're not careful, if we force the Ezras in this country to shut up, our freedom of speech could be next." - Rick Mercer, in a "rant" from the Rick Mercer Report "We are not yet three months into 2009, but Ezra may well have written the most important public affairs book this year." - The National Post "I read Shakedown and I am awed at Levant's persistence and powers of endurance." - Rex Murphy, in the Globe & Mail "Why is Ezra Levant the flavour of the month? Dare I say because he deserves to be?" - Metro Vancouver "…eloquent and powerful…" - London Free Press "…puts everything on the line in the way the best Canadian journalists always did." - Ottawa Citizen "Let me put in a plug for Levant's new book, Shakedown , which lays out, in example after example, how government-appointed human rights bodies warped the noble mission for which they were created." - The Halifax Chronicle Herald "...By the end of Levant's book, readers will be left wondering whether it is enough to prune back the commissions, or, as he prefers, to weed them out altogether." - Macleans, "I was at a low moment, and beginning to fear that our adversarial culture was dying and the open society was losing its will to resist, when Ezra Levant showed that every citizen has the birthright of a little spark, and a grown-up duty to kindle that spark into a flame. Let the bureaucrats do their worst: the tongue and the word are chainless and nothing is sacred except this freedom above all." -- Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great "If we're not careful, if we force the Ezras in this country to shut up, our freedom of speech could be next." -- Rick Mercer, in a "rant" from the Rick Mercer Report "We are not yet three months into 2009, but Ezra may well have written the most important public affairs book this year." -- The National Post "I read Shakedown and I am awed at Levant's persistence and powers of endurance." -- Rex Murphy, in the Globe & Mail "Why is Ezra Levant the flavour of the month? Dare I say because he deserves to be?" -- Metro Vancouver "...eloquent and powerful..." -- London Free Press "...puts everything on the line in the way the best Canadian journalists always did." -- Ottawa Citizen "Let me put in a plug for Levant's new book, Shakedown , which lays out, in example after example, how government-appointed human rights bodies warped the noble mission for which they were created." -- The Halifax Chronicle Herald "...By the end of Levant's book, readers will be left wondering whether it is enough to prune back the commissions, or, as he prefers, to weed them out altogether." -- Macleans
Table of Content
Foreword by Mark Steyn Introduction Chapter 1 A Beautiful Idea - That Failed Chapter 2 Where Did We Go Wrong? Chapter 3 How Could We Let This Happen? Chapter 4 The True Meaning of Free Speech Chapter 5 The New Breed of Human Rights Activist Chapter 6 Easy Targets: Human Rights Tribunals and Lawfare Chapter 7 The Danish Cartoons Chapter 8 An Army of Davids Chapter 9 Reforming the Human Rights Commissions, or How Ordinary Canadians Can Fight Back Acknowledgements Appendix A: Forty-six Questions and Professor Richard Moon Appendix B: Inside Stormfront.org Appendix C: The Third Complaint, Wells v. Levant
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
323.0971
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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