Mark Steyn has experienced Thought Crimes from the inside. Steyn was subjected to the Canadian form of extra-judicial trial by tribunal to determine if his thoughts were punishable. The basics of Steyn's situation are located Here.
The Canadian tribunals have no legal process that gets in the way of their "administering justice" in the pursuit of protecting anyone from any material that might be offensive to them, even if they had to search high and low to find it. To be charged is to be convicted; the tribunals are 100% on that count. But Steyn's charges were ultimtely dismissed, possibly due to the high profile of Steyn and the reflection on tribunals brought about by the massive publicity Steyn's trial produced.
Steyn knows what it means when one's thoughts are charged with criminality, and what it means when an adjudicator says that "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.” —Canadian “Human Rights” Investigator Dean Steacy, responding to the question “What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate?” Freedom of speech is sacrificed to the new freedom from being annoyed.
In the USA it is possible now to conceive of the FCC assuming tribunal-like functions as it regulates the internet, phone conversations, radio and TV opinionations. Or perhaps "bad thoughts" will become a federal felony to be added to local sentences.
Now Steyn addresses statism in an address at Hilldale College. He outlines the five stages of progressive socialism (that's what "progressive" means, btw). It's worth the time it takes to read it.
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