Comments on: Peak: Free Speech not our only right http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/ Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: An Engineer http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/comment-page-1/#comment-39278 An Engineer Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:52:58 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/#comment-39278 No, thanks.

]]> By: Ian http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/comment-page-1/#comment-39277 Ian Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:53:55 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/#comment-39277 When you’re willing to give your full name and a real email address, I’ll be willing to consider your opinion.

]]> By: An Engineer http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/comment-page-1/#comment-39276 An Engineer Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:23:14 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/10/22/peak-free-speech-not-our-only-right/#comment-39276 Your shoddy riposte is little more than argument by vigorous handwaving. You characterize all protests at abortion clinics as nothing more than events where “the goriest pictures” are used to “harass troubled women in a time of crisis.” As a consequence, all forms of protest must be prohibited in the so-called “buffer zones” outside abortion clinics in BC.

RSBC 1996 c.1 is a shoddily-constructed law which tramples on Charter freedoms ostensibly for the purpose of prevention of “harassment.” Considering harassment is already illegal under the Canadian Human Rights Act, what is the need for the provincial law?

Consider a (i) silent, (ii) peaceful, (iii) non-obstructive (physically) protest outside an abortion clinic, where the only expressed message is a single sign which reads, “abortion alternatives: .” This type of protest is made illegal under RSBC 1996 under 2(1)(b).

It’s shameful.

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