Mohamed ELMASRY advocates terror against Israelis

Mr. Mohamed ELMASRY, Professor of Engineering at University of Waterloo ON launched 3 HRC complaints against Macleans Magazine for the Danish Cartoons.

Is this what we want our HRC to defend? If so let all other groups file suits as well.

Overlooks Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez .... but not this?

This was excellent - Mark STEYN you do us proud.

Some gems:

• The president of the United States may be reluctant to condemn Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez or that guy in Honduras without examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes there are outrages so heinous that even the famously nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to power.

• Gates then told him, "I'll speak with your mama outside." Outside, Sgt. Crowley's mama failed to show. But among his colleagues were a black officer and a Hispanic officer. Which is an odd kind of posse for what the Rev. Al Sharpton calls, inevitably, "the highest example of racial profiling I have seen."

• Last year I had a minor interaction with a Vermont state trooper, and, 60 seconds into the conversation, he called me a "liar." I considered my options:
  

• Option a): I could get hot under the collar, yell at him, get tasered into submission and possibly shot while "resisting arrest";
• Option b): I could politely tell the trooper I object to his characterization, and then write a letter to the commander of his barracks the following morning suggesting that such language is not appropriate to routine encounters with members of the public and betrays a profoundly defective understanding of the relationship between law enforcement officials and the citizenry in civilized societies.
• I chose the latter course.

• Was the cop right? I dunno. I wasn't there. Neither was the president of the United States, or the governor of Massachusetts or the mayor of Cambridge. All of whom have declared themselves firmly on the side of the Ivy League bigshot. And all of whom, as it happens, are African American. A black president, a black governor and a black mayor all agree with a black Harvard professor that he was racially profiled by a white-Latino-black police team, headed by a cop who teaches courses in how to avoid racial profiling.

• My advice to professor Gates for future incidents would be to establish his authority early.

• "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Victims are black, Like 2 Live Crew."

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Black History Month - Tuskegee Institute

Yesterday President OBAMA made his first foreign "state visit" to Canada to meet with Prime Minister HARPER. This has been always been a great tradition, reflecting the unique relationship we have been fortunate to form with The United States of America but in typically Canadian fashion to my knowledge, we have never stood on ceremony about this issue. Nonetheless, it was a historic meeting and one much celebrated in the press. I think Martin Luther KING Jr. would have been enjoying the moment when OBAMA was greeted by Governor General Michelle JEAN and they both strolled down the carpet.

However invoking the name of MLK was not what I intended to focus on for Black History Month. It was this story that I came across at the U.S Center For Disease Control website.

U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee

From 1932 to 1972, the Public Health Service conducted a study on black men with syphilis, who were not offered treatment. In 1972 the US Government started a health benefit program for participants and families and in 1997 apologized for the study. The last widow receiving benefits died last month (January 2009).

In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University), began studying syphilis in a group of black men in hopes of learning more about syphilis and trying to justify treatment programs for blacks. The study initially involved 600 black men – 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. The study was conducted without the benefit of patients' informed consent.

During the study, participants were told that they were being treated for "bad blood," a local term used to describe several ailments, including syphilis, anemia, and fatigue. In truth, they did not receive the proper treatment needed to cure their illness.

In the wake of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and other studies, the federal government took a closer look at research involving human subjects and made changes to prevent the moral breaches that occurred in Tuskegee from happening again.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton made a formal apology to the survivors and the wives, family members, children and grandchildren of study participants. He said, "The American people are sorry -- for the loss, for the years of hurt. You did nothing wrong, but you were grievously wronged. I apologize and I am sorry that this apology has been so long in coming."

This is a chilling reminder that many of the "eugenic" theories and practices which were fairly commonly expressed in America, Canada, England, Europe and elsewhere - became the Jewish "Final Solution" under the Nazi's. And it is also a sad reminder of the extent of racial abuse in American History, but I admire that the Americans have faced it and do not "sweep it under the rug".

This is the honourable purpose behind commemorating Black History every February.