5. Wente's gloss: Flanagan opposes 3 to 6 months in jail for "someone caught with an obscene Japanese comic book.
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6. Wente's gloss is false. Flanagan was talking about photos of children being raped, not "a Japanese comic book."
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7. A proper discussion of these issues would make distinction between works of imagination (which do no harm) and photos (which do)
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8. A photo of child being abused is in fact a photo of a crime, circulation of which is reasonably seen as a harm to victim.
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9. Wente and Flanagan both conflate censorship with criticism. Fact that people strenuously criticized Flanagan is not in fact censorship.
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10. One legitimate free speech issue is University of Calgary's actions. Should not have criticized Flanagan but said has right to opinion
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12. Wente alludes to Flanagan feeling contrite for his role in all creating political culture of personal destruction but is it true?
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13. I haven't read Flanagan's book yet. Does he specifically apologize for smearing Paul Martin as supporter of child porn?
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14. As I was usefully reminded, Flanagan does say attack on Paul Martin was "demagogic." So that's good.
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15. Child porn does raise important issues, so deserves academic study (which Wente opposes).
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16. The political attack dog who has a late life "come to Jesus" moment and disingenuously repents. Lee Atwater or Tom Flanagan?>
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16. Wente: "20 years ago, there would have been no story, no incident. There were no cellphones to capture casual remarks, no YouTube...."
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