Time to wake up.
Mark Steyn has put more on the line more to protect the fundamental principle of free speech than any other living writer. In Canada, his long battle over an article published in Maclean’s magazine greatly increased Canadians’ freedom by contributing to the repeal of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Now, Mr. Steyn is going to court in the United States, having been sued by warmist poster-child Dr. Michael Mann, over an article Steyn wrote in National Review. Dr. Mann created the debunked “hockey stick” (see also), and was one recipient of the “hide the decline” email in the Climategate email scandal.
Forbes had this to say about Dr. Mann:
Mann’s career is dependent on taxpayer handouts. He draws his salary from a public university, Penn State. He solicits government grant money to carry out special research projects. Government officials, who are accountable to voters for how they spend the tax money they collect, occasionally follow up on taxpayer concerns that government funding recipients appear to be misusing government funds. This, apparently, makes Mann furious.
Steyn’s legal expenses are, naturally, large. You could help defray them and score some of Steyn’s writings at the same time. However you may feel about prevaricating climate ‘scientists’ who decline to share their methods, or account for their expenditures, it’s your freedom of speech, too.
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
-John Milton
“…there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.”
-John Stuart Mill
A man blessed with intellect, wit, and education now proves to also be blessed with principle and courage.