Could This Be The Death Knell For The NHL?
Published by BG on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 9:11 AM.Hugh Hewitt at Townhall.com::Blog
I don't resort to boycotts often. In seven years on the radio, I have urged exactly one: Against Target, for throwing the Salvation Army from its doorways. I still maintain my refusal to enter Target, and hope you do as well.
Looks like Boycott #2 is on the horizon. I thought the Human Rights Commission complaint against columnist-to-the-world Mark Steyn was a joke, or a nuisance filing that would be rejected by the Canadian bureaucrats in a nanosecond.
But it isn't turning out that way.
If Canada can't defend the free speech of its most talented native son, then it shouldn't be getting even our devalued tourist dollars.
According to statistics I just made up, Canada's largest exports to the US are mullets and salmon, both of which can still be found in quantifiable amounts up in the Pacific Northwest. If Hugh Hewitt isn't willing to spend his money buying the NHL League Pass on Dish Network and keeping his refrigerator stocked full of Nova Scotia lox, I think it's safe to predict the Canadian economy will be brought to its knees in relatively short order.
Just so those Frenchy bastards don't misunderstand good ol' Hugh, lemme put it in terms they can understand: Viva Le Boycotte!
By the way, just so we're clear I'm not opining on the reason behind the "boycott" being somehow illegitimate. This is what happens when you take the theory of hate crime legislation and apply it in reality. It's all well and good to support the idea that we should all hate one another for the content of our hearts and not the color of our skin, but it's entirely another to have a referee standing in the middle who is supposed to approve your opinion on someone else as legitimate or illegitimate. That being said, so long as the strip clubs in Canada continue to feature TOTALLY ALL-NUDE performers and alcohol under the same roof, I'd find a boycott to be a difficult proposition, at best, to support.
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