Wake Up! Productions wrote:Bill Lumbergh wrote:Did you miss s.2(b) of the Charter?
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication
Freedom of expression = freedom of speech
Point taken. Still un-learning my freeman "education".
To help with that un-learning, a critical question for you to consider. For sake of that critical question, let's pretend the wording wasn't actually explicitly part of the Canadian Charter of Rights And Freedoms. To recap, the poster stated:
cookipuss wrote:Total nonsense. canada does not protect free speech.
The critical question for you to consider is:
- Have you personally witnessed a person being arrested and thrown in jail in Canada for posting such a negative public statement? Or in the alternative, if someone has claimed such a breach, have they been able to provide a verifiable record showing such a situation occurred?
If your answer to that is no, then exercising free speech certainly isn't being punished. And it's not being stopped. Not direct proof that "free speech is protected" but it's certainly allowed.
And therein lies the key with helping correct all you learned from the "freeman/opca education": apply critical thinking. Don't trust the documentation the "guru" provides you. If said "guru" makes some kind of claim on something like the Canadian Charter of Rights And Freedoms, pull up an original copy from the "horses mouth".
The Source you should be trusting:
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-15.html
Read it for yourself, then compare with what the "guru" told you. If there's a conflict, then trust in the official source. And the more often the "guru" is incorrect in their representation and/or their conclusions - the more you should question both their facts and their conclusions.
And if they present something and then draw a conclusion that can not be realistically drawn from their previous statement: absolutely treat them with heightened suspicion. For example:
- Birds fly - so it stands to reason that Farmer John killed his horse because the dog broke the horses leg
A conclusion based on incorrect facts is incorrect. Even with correct facts, the conclusion can still be faulty because the facts are insufficient. These are two basic inescapable truths.
If someone looks at 3 apples on the table and tells you 2 + 2 = 5 and concludes there are 5 apples -- you should reasonably conclude you can't trust that person to be giving you reliable facts or conclusions - whether it's because they're being deliberately incorrect or there's something they don't know doesn't matter.
If they give you a situation where the cause-and-effect relationship simply cannot exist - like the conclusion drawn about the horse on the fact birds fly - then you should absolutely expect them to be up to no good.
Just my humble opinions based on my own life experiences.