Comments on: Toronto Star editorial on sex clubs

By: Daniel M. Laenker

Daniel M. Laenker — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:33:51 +0000

Thanks much.

Unrelated tangent: it’s fascinating how willing O’Reilly is to co-opt Jews into his war on secularism precisely until they tell him how much offense they take at being presumed to celebrate Christmas.

Then they “gotta go to Israel”. Not surprising, just fascinating.

By: Big Fat Hairy Dave

Big Fat Hairy Dave — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:55:27 +0000

Bullneck is correct. The plaintiff in criminal cases is the Crown.

“R.” stands for either Regina or Rex depending on the sex of the monarch.

By: Bullneck

Bullneck — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:39:19 +0000

“R.” may stand for “Regina”, which would be Latin for Queen, and thus representative of the Crown’s legal authority. No idea if that’s correct though as I’m unfamiliar with Canadian law.

By: Daniel M. Laenker

Daniel M. Laenker — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:24:11 +0000

Another ignorant procedural question: Is “R.” the same plaintiff in each case? If so, does “R.” signify the state, or…?

By: Mr. Bill

Mr. Bill — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:30:10 +0000

And why shouldn’t the court’s harm-based approach extend to making marijuana legal, on grounds that it is relatively harmless, at least when compared to legal stimulants such as alcohol and tobacco?

Other than thinking this is a good, indeed, interesting question, the Star is using a time honored conservative tactic of conflating unlike or dissimilar behaviours because it culturally dissapproves of them,. Gay sex, drugs, prositution, are all related in their scheme, and any easing up on sanctions will result in a tidal wave of sin, butt fucking, cats living with dogs, turtle sex (vis. Texas Senator Cornyn).
They are even going after Christmas, according to Fox News Bill O’reilly and John Gibson:
O’REILLY: See, I think it’s all part of the secular progressive agenda –

GIBSON: Absolutely.

O’REILLY: — to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square. Because if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious- based, usually.

GIBSON: You have France or you have — or you have Holland, you have legalized prostitution, you have drugs. All those things come in which religious organizations tend to oppose.-From http://mediamatters.org/items/200511210003

To this mindset “Harm” is anything they call ‘bad’..