Mar 032015
 

ADDITIONAL WORRISOME DEFICITS IN THE DEBATE ON BILL C-51: 1.  (addressed earlier)   2015-02-25   The public debate on Bill C-51 (Secret Police) should include context, the comprehensive SURVEILLANCE that is already in place 2.   “Terrorism” is being used to mean anything.   By definition it is violence aimed at CIVILIAN POPULATIONS.   Terrorists kill and terrorize innocent women, children, […]

Mar 032015
 

I HIGHLY recommend this video.  I would love if every person in Canada and in the U.S. could see it. . . . violence engaged in by Muslims against the West.  (Terrorist)  It’s really just a term to legitimize the kind of violence that we do ourselves and de-legitimize the violence that is used against us. … WATCH:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2Hi_SD8pQ […]

Mar 022015
 
2014-12-03    Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture Please go to the above Wikipedia URL.   There are more tools such as download capability there.  The following is a copy, as it was at 5 March 2015, at 01:23. RELATED AND IMPORTANT:   2014-12-03   Chair Feinstein’s remarks to Senate on release of the Report on Torture   Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture […]

Feb 262015
 

Journalistic coverage of Bill C-51 (SECRET POLICE) should include what is known about SURVEILLANCE of citizens in Canada.  It is critical context for understanding the scope of the threat we face.   Extensive machinery for mass surveillance is ALREADY IN PLACE. 2014-10-23   Edward Snowden interview with Harvard Law School Ed Snowden and Glenn Greenwald (in other interviews) explain […]

Feb 262015
 

The leader of ISIS was held in American prisons for a year, in 2004.  Maybe there wasn’t torture at the particular prisons in which he was held, who knows?   He certainly would have known about what was being done to his fellow countrymen in American prisons like Bagram and Abu Ghraib.   That knowledge would make […]

Feb 262015
 

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/elizabeth-may/2015/02/harpers-anti-terror-law-will-turn-canada-police-state By Elizabeth May    | February 24, 2015 I remember the events of October 22. While I was in lock-down on Parliament Hill, I remember who hid in a closet and who ran toward gun fire. The guy in the closet is now planning to concentrate the powers of the state in his own hands […]

Feb 252015
 

At the bottom of this article on the Huffington Post website are “12 Things Harper Doesn’t Want You to Know”.   I recommend you read them, along with the article, of course!  http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/02/03/edward-snowden-ucc-canada-surveillance_n_6601812.html    Back-up copy of “Edward Snowden Warns Canadians…”:    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed students at a Toronto private school via video link on […]

Feb 252015
 

Was Ottawa “Terror” Arrest Timed to Support Repressive New Legislation? (an edited version of this article appears in NOW Magazine, February 12-19) https://nowtoronto.com/news/features/maximum-effect-terror-threat/ By Matthew Behrens When the RCMP announced an Ottawa anti-terrorism arrest last week, the timing could not have been better for a federal government that appears to thrive on national security hysteria. […]