In case you have not been following the outrages that the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) have been committing across our northern border, you need to start paying attention. A good place to get up to speed is Ezra Levant’s blog and his inspiring YouTube videos.

Canada, as cute as they are (you’re a gooood little democracy, good), doesn’t have the equivalent of our First Amendment even though they have a tradition of free speech and a free press enshrined in their “Charter of Rights”, which as I understand it is somewhat less vigorous than our Bill of Rights.

The power and reach of the CHRC is jaw-droppingly astonishing. One of the biggest abuse of their powers recently was the use of a private citizen’s WiFi connection (without permission) to post racist remarks on a target website in order to stir up some evidence with which to prosecute. Yeah, that’s right, take a minute for that to sink in… [shutter]

The reports that the private citizen’s network was unsecured not have been shown to be false.

Hechme disputed an initial media report that her wireless Internet access was unsecured and therefore easily hacked. In fact, she said, it required an encryption key that could not have been guessed or casually cracked.

When she forgot the key, even she couldn’t access the connection, she said.

“It was so secure to the point I couldn’t get into it (so) I’m not sure how they got into it. It’s very bizarre.”

It’s bad enough to fire up your wireless card and casually look for an unsecured network to leech bandwidth and identity, egregious but not white hard standing on end scary. The report that the CHRC has the means to hack a secured network and the lack of morals to use that hacked system to further their personal vendettas is something that puts me at a factor 5 freak-out.

Be alert Americans! This is not too far away for us. Support our Canadian friends.