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Friday
January 25, 2008
Manley, Wallin, Burney, the emptiest of
talking heads
I realize now why Manley has such empty looking eyes.
He's a neoconmaton.
An automaton has a set program. Manley just nods his head and
repeats
without blinking whatever he senses the "authorities" would like him to
say. He's been
landing paid jobs that way ever since the Canadian public
were too spooked by his weirdness to re-elect him to Parliament.
I'd have to say that his co-panelists Wallin and Burney have the same
malady. The Globe
and Mail reveals a sad, sad example of that in the trio's pretend
complaint against Harper that he doesn't allow his people to speak
freely:
Mr.
Manley, Mr. Burney and Pamela Wallin, a broadcaster and former
consul-general in New York, cited the salacious story of the
Corrections Canada officials' boots as an example of what can go awry
when Foreign Affairs is muzzled.
According to
government documents released in November, Corrections Canada officials
inspecting Afghan jails asked for special boots because they were
walking through blood and fecal material - the implication being that
detainees handed over by the Canadian military to Afghan jailers were
treated in a horrid manner.
What the
Afghan
panel members learned in private meetings with Foreign Affairs
officials - and which the officials were barred from explaining to
journalists - was that the blood and fecal material could be explained
by a combination of inadvertent food poisoning and a blocked sewage
system.
Do you see
that?
Foreign Affairs told this vapid three what to think about the blood and
fecal material waded through by the inspectors, and the bizarre thing
about this is that, while they accepted the non-explanation as a
refutation of the "horrid" treatment of detainees, it actually
corroborated the inhumane conditions of the jails!
From the way the Globe words it, Foreign Affairs didn't say it was
explained, only that it could be explained - in other words,
they offered a hypothetical to suggest that "horrid" treatment might
not have occurred.
And this was all it took to sedate the Manley so-called investigating
panel.
The fact
that prisoners could have been inadvertently poisoned
by the food they were given, and that the jail's sewage could have
inadvertently flowed into the cell area, should
be seen as inhumane enough conditions, not to mention that the blood
and fecal material very likely resulted from extreme torture
and general brutality, since they are a common feature of torture
scenes.
Little wonder we have wars when people held up as authorities are
incapable of critical thinking and ordinary human empathy. It
boggles
the mind the amount of pain, indignity and deprivation suffered by
others that these mongers are able to dismiss with just the tiniest
massaging
of the facts.
One wonders what kinds of movies
these pillars of society routinely enjoy on their home entertainment
systems.
Related:
YYC:
Saying I told you so
The Manley panel's credentials
Rabble/James
Laxer: Manley's report comes up short
This article contains a link to the actual Manley Report
Green Party
rejects Manley Report
CP:
Manley Report smacks of desperation, says aid group
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