Okay, like Maxwell Smart, I missed it "by that much," but well worth publicising and supporting anyway.
It is a cause for grave concern that some of the most serious threats to free speech, as Mark Steyn found out in Canada, come from within our own societies in the form of an intolerant and militant political correctness, increasingly given teeth in the form of human rights and equal opportunity commissions that can judge you on charges that they have brought against you and then punish you once they have found that their own accusations have been proved.
It’s four years (and a couple of days) since Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published several cartoons, leading to widespread Presbyterian unrest. Mark Steyn:
To mark the anniversary, the International Free Press Society, with which I am honored to be associated, has declared September 30th International Free Press Day. In the four years since their publication, I have learned at first hand how imperiled true freedom of the press is in a western world by now almost congenitally disposed to pre-emptive surrender. So I am happy to support International Free Press Day, and I hope it will become an annual event.As Steyn wrote at the time: “The Danish cartoons story was a test, and the civilized world failed it.” The media especially. International Free Press Day is at least an attempt to learn from that test.
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