A veritable free-speech cyclone has been violently swirling over on the other side of the Pond for more than a week now. And all of it revolves around the man known as Ezra.

Ezra Levant, the ex-publisher of the Western Standard magazine, who was brought up on charges with the Canadian province of Alberta's Human Right Commission for his past publishing of the infamous Danish Mohammed cartoons in that same source.

Before you go any further, bang this, and have a e-gander for yourselves as the Albertan free-speech warrior launches headfirst into the Mohammedan fray with Glen Becker.

No matter what you think about the propriety of publicizing the Prophet Mohammed cartoons, you've just got to love the way Levant presents his case. And you're going to be doubly delighted from how he reads riot act to the hapless female HRC commissioner; how he tells her he has a right to "...publish whatever the hell [he] want[s], whenever the hell [he] please[s]."

This is a man who truly knows his rights, and anyone who refuses to stand on the Czech equivalent of "Ja se omlouvam pani doktorko" anebo "Vazeny pane inzenyre, ale nezlobte se..." false modesty horsehit gets top grades in any journalist's book, especially mine.

Note how the inquiry was sagely recorded from start to finish (running the length of 3 -- count 'em! -- YouTube streaming clips), and pay close attention to Levant's foresight. No he-said-she-said rubbish to be found here. No Goebbels-style editing job, neither.

And people say that Canada can be such a boring place...

Why I think this is of interest to you, and of even greater interest to Cesko, more generally, is that we could learn a thing or three from Levant's idiosyncratic brand of activism.

We could take due lessons from his forceful debate-cum-argumentative approach, or the manner in which he'd prepared the HRC inquiry like an iron trap.

Get a load of the way he continues to assertively promote his case in the media -- especially south of the Canada-US border -- the "mother of all media meccas."

Culture is culture, sure. But I pose the question to you: would it be entirely out of character if a person of the Czech persuasion (be they Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian, so-called "Czech-Slovak" from the border region who wasn't forcibly repatriated to the Slovakian Motherland post-Velvet Divorce, or a former Trans-Carpathian/Rusyn) if the radar issue -- and the Czech citizenry's right to voice their complete displeasure with it -- were argued with such forceful aplomb?

But, wait, I have even more specific examples!

Take the case of a close colleague of mine who spent her exile years in Canada with her Czech ex-spouse, during the worst part of normalizace. In the late '90s, when they'd returned to the Czech Republic post-Wall Fall, they went their separate ways. With the one critical detail left to be decided -- who would own the ex-husband's contruction business which they jointly built up from zilch.

More details...toss in a bumpkin female lover twenty years younger than her ex, a pair of new kids with his new "secret family," and a clandestine transfer of assets under said lover's name -- oh, and did I mention he cut off the power and water to the ex-wife's Prague apartment to force her to move out -- plus a kitbag of other ignominies, this woman is now in the throes of a 3-year long divorce struggle.

Here's the point: when it comes to divorce in this country, the laws of the former regime reign supreme.

A woman is virtually deemed to be the chattel of her (philandering) male spouse, and her recourse to the Czech courts to enforce her rightful share to the plentiful family assets are a joke, at best. That's mainly because the lion's share of today's sitting judges were appointed by the old KSC cabal.

Where is this woman's human rights tribunal?

What if she were to launch a massive campaign highlighting the injustice of her position, running a self-styled Czech YouTube and blogoshere campaign a la Ezra Levant to garner support for her situation?

Would she retain any hope of enforcing her rights?

Would she gain the sympathy or succor of the local populace, not to mention the all-critical female voting constituency in this country?

Or what if she were as overt as Mr. Levant? What if she was interviewed by prominent cable talk show hosts in Western Europe and/or the US, highlighting the unjust farce she's been compelled to undergo daily as a citizen of this EU Member State? Would she succeed in having the antiquated laws repealed? Would anything change?

What's definitely 100% clear is that things aren't going to be the same over in Canada once Ezra Levant's tribunal runs its course.

The "invisible line" which Muslim complainants of the extremist variety are permitted to cross in my birth country in enforcing the practice of their religion, with the human rights commissioners, in this case from Alberta, adopting a "see-no-evil" approach in enforcing the double-standard for the Islamic faith, will once-and-for-all be exposed. The hijack will be no more.

And, maybe -- just maybe -- Levant's sharp oratory will convince Czechs of the tapped-in set, those like you who are regularly and happily online, that a path to grassroots change in the Czech Republic is indeed possible.

Provided you kick and scream loud enough, that is.