Dispatches from District 48
Via Steven Green at Instapundit, comes this story of a comedian getting fined $42,000 by Canada for telling a joke:
Canadian comedian Mike Ward was fined a whopping $42,000 by Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal for jokes he made about a disabled boy.
The child, Jérémy Gabriel, who suffers from Treacher Collins Syndrome, is a bit of a national celebrity in Canada after he sung for the pope in 2006 essentially because everyone thought he did not have long to live. Ward’s joke was a rant about how the child was supposed to die, that he “stole a wish” and is unkillable.
Hmm, I believe I have made this same joke about Keith Richards at least a hundred times in the context of messing up my dead pools. I better not travel to Canada.
Maddog:
Talk of tightly wound bloomers!!! Mon Dieu!
August 19, 2016, 11:42 amMark
ErikTheRed:
Every time you smoke a cigarette, an hour of your life is taken from you and given to Keith Richards. This is the only explanation that makes sense.
August 19, 2016, 12:58 pmJ_W_W:
This is why the First Amendment is so God damned important.
And why anyone's attempts to erode it should be met with abject scorn.
August 19, 2016, 2:18 pmjdgalt:
President Obama could generate some serious goodwill by offering political asylum to Mike Ward.
August 19, 2016, 5:33 pmjoe:
You will have it with Hillary - just look at Stevens dissent in CU, same with his dissent in mcdonald and dissent in heller
August 19, 2016, 5:49 pmsteve:
I bet the kid doesn't even get any of the money.
August 19, 2016, 5:50 pmklgmac:
I was going to rebut that Keith Richards isn't disabled, but I don't know, there's something going on there.
August 22, 2016, 7:03 amCorky Boyd:
Do they have jury trials in Canada? Common, decent Canadians can laugh at a joke. The thought police can't. Just ask Mark Steyn about his battles with the Canadian human rights commission.
August 22, 2016, 7:20 pm