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Dupayosha of the Week of January 17, 2011   Pauline Marie Portelance

“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.”  Voltaire né François-Marie Arouet

“A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.”  Albert Camus

“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”  Thomas Bolyn Smothers III

 “The Free Thinking Film Society’s showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints — some of them from the Iranian Embassy — that staff thought it necessary to close the entire building at 396 Wellington St. in Ottawa, just steps from the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill at 4:45 p.m., said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance.

“ ‘Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high,’ she said.”

“National Archives cancels screening of documentary on Iran after threats” by Sarah Boesveld, National Post, January 18, 2011

Ed.:  This decision in Canada was subsequently reversed, praise be.  Also, screening is to proceed in the U.S.