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Saturday
January 26, 2008
Getting
kicked around by "civilized" nations
About detention for years without charges, torture
cover-ups, and Uncle Sam's system of punishment and reward
Sophie Harkat and Mohamed Harkat were interviewed Thursday on the CBC
Montreal radio program "Radio Noon Montreal." The topic of the show
was: "Does Canada need another security certificate law?" Listen here
(MP3 format, 32 megs, 47 min)
Except for the politicos, who responded by rote as if pointed questions
had not been asked, the show overall made a good case for abolishing
this blight on the Canadian justice system.
The one thing that nobody talks about when discussing secret trials in
Canada is the event being used to justify them as well as our wading in
blood in Afghanistan. 9-11 was, to all appearances, perpetrated
precisely to create an environment where individual liberties could be
eroded with impunity in the US, Canada and Britain, and support could
be evoked through fear of terrorism for unending wars of conquest.
Not surprisingly, Stephane Dion found out on his
trip to Afghanistan something that Harper hadn't breathed a word of -
out of embarrassment? Apparently, torture really was going on in
the Afghan detainee centres. No kidding.
According to Canwest,
spokespersons are backtracking all over the place and Hillier seems to
be hiding.
And Harper has been caught having told a deliberate lie on November 14:
"The agreement
with the Afghan government works well".
What we have in Harper is a Prime Minister who can't admit to ignorance
or error. In other words, he's a danger to Canada.
Building a NATO detainee centre isn't likely to stop brutal
interrogations by the CIA. Who's going to stop the CIA?
A blog called "Impolitical" does a much better job of analysing
the general situation than I could:
More
questions on the Afghan detainee issue
About
those knives being drawn
This should embarrass the Manley trio as
well, who tried to put the presence of blood and fecal material in the
detainee cells down to inadvertent causes.
Afghan puppet president Karzai is currently
blaming Britain for the failures in Afghanistan. Nicely takes
the heat off the US for the mess they left behind when they dropped
everything and headed for Iraq. Afghanistan was just a
perfunctory nod at the fake Bin Laden hunt; the real goal was Iraq.
Poor Britain, but hey, if you want unending, profitable wars,
somebody's gotta get their patties grimy.
When you sit at dotty old Uncle Sam's gnarled feet you have to be able
to roll with an occasional kick in the choppers. But if you're a
good old boy, he might forget to wear his specs while looking at your
military coup, and he might take out his hearing aid when you test your
nukes. Pakistan's
Musharraf is a good old boy.
Related Pages:
Secret
Trials - Abolish
the Security Certificate!
9-11
and Al Qaeda
Afghanistan
- What have we gotten into?
Misc:
Update to Mulroney Scandal Page
Mulroney's tax records may be subpoenaed
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