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Wednesday February 13, 2008
It's not what you think!
About the UK appeal court
ruling against thought crime charges as the Canadian Senate fixes to
approve the unconstitutional Bill C3; also about crazy Danes, crazy
pre-election statements, and the sad end of a Vancouver Starbucks.
Five students were ruled innocent of charges of thought crime today by
a UK appeals court. These kids "were
jailed for between two and three years each by the Old Bailey for
downloading and sharing extremist terrorism-related material, in what
was one of the first cases of its kind."(BBC)
According to the Guardian:
The
men had been jailed in July 2006 with the trial judge saying they had
been "intoxicated" by extremism after Islamist ideological CDs and
computer downloads were found in their possession.
I hate to keep harping on the Senate Committee public
hearing regarding Bill C3,
but it was brought out by one of the presenters that a booklet of
damning evidence presented by CSIS against one of Canada's Secret Trial
Five amounted to nothing more than what most of have in our hard
drive's Temporary Internet Files after reading the news.
Let's face it - the New World Order wants us to be afraid, so we're
reading about terrorism all the time - how it's done, who's accused of
doing it, what weapons they use, where they supposedly live ...
And if
one were a young Muslim, always feeling suspect, one might be
obsessively reading, downloading and sharing far more than the average
person, just to get a grip on why they have become so suspect.
That's the big danger of the terrorism legislation - that people can be
jailed for long periods of time when they've done nothing but read, or
talk, or even by accident happened to speak with briefly or be in
the same room with someone whom the so-called terror experts "believe"
may be involved in terrorism.
As Mohamed
Harkat pointed out, all the cops have to do is say, "We think, we
believe...". They don't have to prove anything!
Well, the real courts, the real law, says you do have to have some
evidence besides opinion.
URGENT ACTION to Stop Secret
Trials
Other important
stuff:
About the latest Islamic
"conspiracy" over the Danish cartoons:
(NYT):
... the authorities said that the Dane would probably be charged and
released and that the two Tunisians would simply be expelled, raising
questions about how much evidence had been gathered in the case.
YYC : All over the world, police evidence amounts to: "We
think, we believe ...".
The publishers apparently didn't get
sufficient mileage out of the cartoons,
so they've printed them again. Sure enough, they've gotten a rise
out
of Iran:
(AFP):
Iran
summoned Denmark's ambassador to protest the reprinting on Wednesday of
a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed that caused bloody riots in the Islamic
world two years ago ...
On Canada's Afghanistan extension:
(CTV):
[Liberal
MP] Pablo Rodriguez insists a large divide still exists and that the
Liberals remain committed to ending the military's combat role in
Afghanistan a year from now.
YYC: Harper doesn't seem to think so, and
neither do I.
In fact, I predicted that the Liberal proposal would be as wildly
interpretable as scripture when the time comes.
Sure enough, Dion "didn't rule out some
combat and said it should be up to the military to decide how to carry
out the reconstruction mission." No wonder Harper thinks both
parties agree!
So I guess Liberal MP Keith Martin wasn't
speaking for his party when he said, "Gen. Hillier is the servant
of the government of the day. He doesn't run Canada's foreign policy"(TorStar- Feb.2).
On the US election primaries:
(TimesOnline):
The Obama campaign has warned the Democratic Party establishment not to
defy the will of its voters by negotiating a victory for Mrs Clinton in
the coming weeks
YYC: Well, I'm shocked. Aren't you? Would you
believe such a thing could even be thought of in the good old US of A?
(CP)
Vancouver Starbucks takes a hit. UPDATE:
(CP has removed the original article that said the fire inspectors
suspected a gas leak, and are now just quoting the police who say that
arson is suspected. Looks like it must have been
someone with a key.)
YYC: Lots
of hysterics and
use of the word "bomb". The police of course see it as
suspicious, but
the fire inspectors say they suspect a gas leak. Well, that's one
way
to close up shop. I
hope it wasn't because a despairing franchise owner
put his head in an oven.
Apparently, Starbucks isn't doing so well in
the States, and I assume the fallout will affect Canada as well. Lots
of speculation (G&M) as to why, but I can't help wondering if
the Israel boycott
had something to do with it.
I was gratified to learn that a mere 1% drop
in traffic can actually lower market value by one-half (Macleans).
That should encourage boycotters world wide.
Boycott Apartheid
yayacanada
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