"Fags from Jersey"

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 3rd, 2010

That’s the subject line on the latest missive from Nic Roy (see posts below). The body of the email goes like this:

next week I’m coming out with a you tube video were I draw a picture of ‘muhammad’ being ass-raped with a plugged-in curling iron, then ripping it in front of a table full of muslims, then saying:”take me to a tribunal”.
your troops would love it..

Cryptic.

We’re not sure what Roy’s getting at here.

It’s mystifying on more than one level.

Why, if Roy is some sort of shock comic (and his videos seem to indicate that he thinks so), is he willing to help out a governmental outfit that seems bent on persecuting comics such as he?

How does defending free speech (and simultaneously condemning the aforementioned governmental body) make us a target in Roy’s mind?

Why would we and our “troops” love a video depicting Muhammed being abused? (And why does he refer to our readers as “troops?”)

Does he think we would “love it” because of the sadistic (and sacriligeous) nature of the content? Or because it depicts him taunting the BCHRT?

Either way, we’re confused.

When we assailed the BCHRT, we never made any judgement on the content of Guy Earle‘s speech, we merely say that it deserved protection because it’s the speech of a comedian in the context of a performance and therefore deserves protection.

If Roy thinks that makes us fans of comedians who call lesbians “cunts,” then he’s confused. On this, we remain neutral.

But we are most certainly alarmed when a body such as the BCHRT agrees to air the grievances of a drunk comedy club patron and, in the process, ventures into territory that they ought not be in.

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