One of our regular readers sent along a couple links that made your not so humble blogger wonder if the world has gone mad.

The Case of Mark Steyn

First of all, it’s the story of Mark Steyn, and Maclean’s Magazine having been summoned to appear before Canada’s Human Right’s Commission on the charge of “spreading hatred against Muslims”.

One of the allegations is reportedly based on “…Steyn’s quotations of lunatic Islamist imams (which) are confused with Steyn’s own assertions…”

What on earth is going on? It appears that the free world is allowing itself to fall prey to political correctness, when freedom of expression is one of the main tenet’s expressed in the founding of many of the countries in the Western World.

What is happening to Mark Steyn and Maclean’s Magazine should be the clarion call for all those interested in preserving the right to free speech.

Read David Warren’s piece for Real Clear Politics titled, Show Trial here… and find out more.

Steyn also has an interesting an funny about his “trial” here…

The Case of the new presdient of the United Nations General Assembly

Then there is the election of Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (the former Sandinista Foreign Minister in Niqaragua) as the new president of the United Nations General Assembly.

In this Wall Street Journal piece they point out that when speaking after his election Father d’Escoto is reported to have:

…called for greater “democracy” at the U.N. – an odd remark coming from a former servant of a communist dictatorship. He also called for the U.N. to take a stand against “acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.” That would be American aggression, not the Taliban’s, the Mahdi Army’s or al Qaeda’s.

As I have mentioned in several posts, it is incredible how leftists don’t have a problem with the Human Rights violations done by people of their own ilk.

Should the so-called leaders of the UN be calling the cards as they see them instead of turning a blind eye to the atrocities carried out by the Taliban or Mugabe or Castro while castigating America for what they consider are transgressions?

It leaves a bitter taste doesn’t it?

Sure seems to me that the world has gone mad.