SIU (Structured Intervention Unit!) . . . My Reply to Tony Doob’s input follows.
From: Anthony Doob
Sent: February 13, 2024
Subject: Re: Words that obfuscate (orwellian), Solitary Confinement and . . .
Hi
Good morning. I do like your friend’s answer to the question “What do these three words — structured intervention unit — mean?
I guess that Canada felt that it had to come up with a new name for solitary confinement, just as other countries have (e.g., “restricted movement”, “restricted housing”, “solitary seclusion”, etc.
The next report from the panel (INSERT: re effectiveness of new legislation for solitary Confinement) should be out within a few weeks. But there are three reports now on the PUblic Safety Website that have received very little attention:
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/crrctns/siuiap-ccuis-en.aspx
See especially the two in early 2023 on Indigenous people and mental health.
Best, Tony
Anthony N. DoobCentre for Criminology and Sociolegal StudiesUniversity of TorontoToronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 3K9 Telephone: 416.946.7429 Home:416.921.5973Criminological Highlights: www.crimhighlights.ca
MY REPLY
RE: a new name for solitary confinement, just as other countries have (e.g., “restricted movement”, “restricted housing”, “solitary seclusion”, etc.
Maybe you know – – I suspect that would be because of the “FVEY” (5 Eye) alliance (the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.) Lockheed Martin provides the “steerage” for the alliance.
Which contributes to the capability for, for example, an amazingly uniform roll out of the Covid Regime around the globe (“Pandemic Preparedness”).
The contracts between the American and Canadian military (2006-8) use 2 key words that show up again in the International Pandemic Preparedness Treaty – – have to have “inter-operability” and “compatible doctrine”. (under Lockheed Martin Steerage). American Military-Industrial-Congressional-Science-Technology-Healthcare Complex.
Lockheed Martin steering the ship?? What do you expect in Canadian prisons? They are “contract interrogators”:
I was in and out of Court for 5 years, charged with non-compliance with the demands of StatsCan. One learns a lot through such experiences! Lockheed Martin, War Economy, StatsCan, Charter Right Privacy, Trial Lockheed Martin Corp is my nemesis.
I will be adding “Detailed files on Citizens” to the “Connected Items” that are markers of a tyrannical/police state.
Personal Information Banks (PIB’s) – – those are Data Banks that the Govt has on you. Several. Not just one. Described on a Govt website (at the next link below). The page Lockheed Martin, War Economy, StatsCan, Charter Right Privacy, Trial has info about Lockheed (surveillance is a specialty, think Ed Snowden’s NSA revelations, etc.)
If one searches my blog for the word “Swift”, the most recent posting re “detailed files” comes up. It freaks out a lot of people. 2023-03-14 The Swift Current video. Govt Vans (StatsCan). Harassing Folks For Blood, Saliva & Urine Testing. Personal Information Banks (PIB’s). History, Lockheed Martin partnered with StatsCan.
StatsCan set up in late winter last year at the Swift Current fairgrounds. Dragged these trailers from Ontario to Sask., to stay for a while. They offered $100, $125 or $175 if people would provide info – – $175 for the big one – – 3 hours worth of data collection. People spread the word fast. The video footage includes a walk-thru of the trailers. I think StatsCan spent a lot of money on the project and got minimal cooperation. They do “trial” runs and then refine their approach for other locations. I have not heard that the Swift Current template was ever repeated. The Swift Current podcast did a nice job of alerting Canadians (and people on the U.S. side of the border who saw the same thing going on.)
Lockheed Martin’s connection to Solitary Confinement. Not much wonder they want to change the name for it! They were/are contractors – – “interrogation contractors” – – for American offshore prisons (where U.S. laws don’t apply. Abu Ghraib, . . . see 2017-06-13 He says Canadians do not have a Charter Right to Privacy & Canadians just don’t care about democracy, CBC The Sunday Edition. And Orwell.
I hope I do not see everything through the lens of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Censuses & Surveys, and the Charter Right to Privacy of Personal Information! For 13 years (2003 – 2016) I have hammered on the fragility of democracy, the reason we need to defend to the death, the Charter Right to Privacy of personal information.
Citizens cross over from civility and thoughtfulness for others, to barbarity, some in short order.
Tatiana de Rosnay says (Author’s Note at the beginning of Sarah’s Key):
. . . It (the novel) is my tribute to the children of the Vel’ d’Hiv’. The children who never came back. And the ones who survived to tell.
My (Sandra’s) Tribute:
The removal and extermination of those children was made possible by detailed census files (ref: IBM and the Holocaust). The appalling treatment of them was done by otherwise ordinary people. From their blood came the Charter Right to Privacy of Personal Information that we have today in Canada.
Does the Charter Right just wither and slither out through our fingers? why? because we are slovenly and ignorant? . . .
Can’t we understand: the depravity of the perpetrators and collaborators sixty years ago has not changed (how about Lockheed Martin, number one Contract Interrogator at American offshore prisons? – – Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo . . . ). The detailed files on citizens are being constructed (Lockheed Martin in charge of the “steerage” for the censuses, Lockheed Martin with its specialty in Surveillance).
The lives of those 4,000 children, their mothers and fathers, were worth something, surely. But only if we are willing to act on behalf of the legacy of those children.
EXCERPT from the letter to PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL at bottom of Official correspondence reveals lack of scrutiny of MI5’s data collection
There is a connection not mentioned in the article. You may know it, but just in case you don’t!
The issue of surveillance enabled by collection of personal data through censuses and continuously on-going surveys is additional to what is happening through “Security” forces and legislation regarding police powers.
The involvement of Lockheed Martin Corp in the data base at the UK Office for National Statistics is a vehicle for loss of Privacy of personal information (surveillance), if the UK situation is similar to the Canadian.
You might be interested in Glenn Greenwald’s TED Talk on the subject: The surprising reason you should care about privacy,
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Ah! You make an important observation, Louise: “If people assume they have no right to privacy, they won’t notice when it was taken away and by whom.” Bang on.
Follow that up with Huxley’s ““Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty (incarceration in death camps); eternal vigilance is the price of human decency.” There is the indecency of the death camps; but more recently there is the indecency of what the American forces did in Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo, along with other outrages. So yes, “eternal” vigilance is required, and even then, we are not successful in stopping the fall into tyranny.
In the posting above, I added the link to the info for “number one Contract Interrogator”, Lockheed Martin Corp. There is pretty complete documentation there. The U.S. Senate Report on the Torture (illegal) done by American forces, was another piece of the evidence. It confirms the role of “Contract Interrogators”.
2019-02-23 propaganda flourishes if you kill Julian Assange. . . Americans and Canadians vis-a-vis Venezuela, Canadians to buy warships for $105 Billion, Lockheed Martin, Corruption
On 2024-02-13 3:52 a.m., Sandra Finley wrote:
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Dear Profs Tony and Jane,
I forgot what they are. . . (hold on! I found translation) . . . they are structured intervention units – – a foreign language. – – thanks to you two for your persistence in face of the Obstructionists. Without your persistence, this article would not exist:
I asked a quick-witted friend: What do these 3 words (structured intervention unit) mean?
His immediate reply was: a Group of people trying to convince other people what THEY want.
Do the drafters of legislation not realize that THEY are helping to undermine the Rule of Law – – the parallels with Animal Farm are sooo um (don’t say the F word), say Obvious. Are these drafters educated people? They must be – – they already speak and write the language. (SIU, New Speak for Torture permitted.)
Solitary confinement for 74 days is not the only visible signature of rotting Governance. Disregard for the Rule of Law creaks along under cover. The news coverage (photo at the URL) tells me that Corrections Service Canada (CSC) has “show units” just like real estate salespeople use.
WHICH CANADIANS will respond to warnings about crippled Governance and Values?, the losses of freedoms, rule of law . . . it’s populations whose ethnic/family history teaches them from LIVED IMMERSION in oppression and tyranny.
I read “The Concubine’s Children”, written by Denise Chong, a grand-daughter of the Concubine. Denise knows the history intimately. Ms Chong’s book is the best I’ve read in a long time. It will spare some Canadians what is necessary – – the creative act of imagining what tyranny and oppression might be like. They should be dissuaded from thinking they need their own real, live, lived experience?
You may be interested in the following “connected items” I sent to a Canadian-Korean lady and her husband, whose story would warm your heart. I’m guessing they also know what’s worth paying attention to. The Polish community in Canada, the Hungarians . . . those are the people I try to talk with. They understand the symptoms and urgency.
Jane and Tony. How is it that your CARING nature is unfettered? It’s free.
It can, thankfully, also be contagious. The right connections. Call out people who need to be called out. Tell the stories that people need to know, like what’s happening in the Lethbridge Court system. (It’s embarrassing if you’re a Canadian.)
I keep track of some of the Court cases, from across the country. The cases have started flowing in the direction of justice. For that I am thankful.
The appetite for Accountability is growing. And becomes more ravenous, as the failures become more known.
Best wishes,
Sandra Finley