Free Mark Steyn

Not that he's in jail, but what seemed like an annoying case of excess is actually an important battle in the defense of freedom of speech. Stanley Kurtz writes:

Connect the dots and you will see that the attack on Mark Steyn in Canada is part and parcel of a world-wide assault on free speech that has already reached well into America. This is our battle. It is essential that there be widespread public condemnation of the attack on Mark Steyn. Not only does this "human rights" complaint have to fail, it has to fail miserably and with embarrassment. Otherwise, whatever the formal result, the chilling effect will be one more victory for the forces trying to destroy our rights.

He's right. ninme connects even more dots. Let's take a page from American Catholics in 1938 and raise our voices, not in mad hysteria, but in firm indignation, against libel tourism and ideological bullying. Who's going to file the counter-claim for violation of Steyn's rights?