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For eight years, this environmental leader has called for the imprisonment of those who disagree. Why is he still welcome in polite society?
David Suzuki is a disgrace. I say that as a former vice president of the same civil rights organization with which he was once affiliated. From 1979 to 1991, Suzuki was a famous face on the board of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), this country’s largest free-speech advocacy group.
Back then, the CCLA distributed literature during classroom visits that included commentary attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller. One of the reasons totalitarianism took hold in pre-World War II Germany was because people with independent views were systematically silenced:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist;
then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was…
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