It's time for the Canadian govt. to allow citizens with a good conscience to keep it

by not letting our tax dollars go to artists who glorify our enemies and demonize our soldiers.  This is just like how the majority of the members belonging to both the public and private sector Unions feel guilty when their money is  spent on projects and activism that they don't agree to in all good conscience.  This collective harvesting of our tax dollars for subsequent showering on the kind of activities that most taxpayers would NEVER ever want even to donate a dime to,  is unethical, macabre and very wrong.  It has to stop. 

Ezra Levant writing at SunNews:
Does freedom of speech include the freedom of Canadian rappers to make music videos glorifying Taliban terrorist attacks on Canadian troops?


As odious as that is, the answer must be yes.


Manu Militari, a Montreal rapper, has done just that. It's almost as sick as the snuff movies allegedly made by Luka Magnotta. Of course, Militari didn't actually kill anybody. He just indulged his fantasy of it happening.


Which is about as sick.


But that's the thing about freedom of speech. We have to give it to people we despise if we want it for ourselves......


.....Once upon a time, there might have been a business incubator-type rationale for grants to artists. Equipment was expensive, marketing was expensive, life was hard - as it is for any other entrepreneur.


But those excuses for government intervention don't exist anymore. Anyone with a smartphone now has a high-definition camera. Anyone with a laptop now has studio-quality editing software. Anyone on the Internet can upload videos or sell their own songs on iTunes. Anyone who is promising can raise their own money through PayPal.


Technology has set us free - made it impossible to censor us. It has also made it unnecessary to subsidize us.


Militari doesn't need our $110,000. He probably could raise that much if he put up a PayPal button - it would be a big hit amongst Taliban and al-Qaida web surfers the world over.