POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This is utterly paranoid nonsense from the CSIS official.
There is, and always has been, the risk of twisted individuals doing harm to the public.
It happens every day, but we do not call it terror unless the perpetrator happens to be a Muslim.
Just what do you think Clifford Olson or Robert Picton or Paul Bernardo were?
What do you think the creepy guys who shoot people in the Jane and Finch area are?
If we let our officials act the way the government of the United States has, we simply will no longer have the Canada we love.
The truth is no terrorist can take Canada away from us: we can only do that to ourselves.
The United States today is virtually a police state. Passengers are frisked and x-rayed even on local flights.
People are submitted to intense questioning on the least suspicion of a second-rate police-mind. The TSA now patrols some American internal highways and pulls people over arbitrarily.
The very books you borrow from the library are recorded by the FBI, an agency with its own past history of genuine terror tactics. The mails are invaded. Internet use is recorded. All phone conversations are recorded.
People convicted of nothing are secretly detained in prisons. The CIA continues to run an international torture gulag. The CIA murders people proved guilty of nothing every week by drones and missiles.
Is that the kind of environment the CSIS official desires?
I suspect it is the environment which is dear to the heart of a control-freak like our prime minister, a man who is also such an American wannabe he readily swallows whatever the American government dishes out.
God save Canada from the sick thinking of the CSIS official.
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“You have a better chance of falling off a ladder and dying or slipping and falling in the bath tub and dying than in a terrorist attack. Largely it's a tactic to scare the population into allowing for infringement on rights and freedoms and herd the electorate more readily."
Absolutely.
There are more deaths on bicycles every year even in the US than from any conceivable form of terror.
Americans murder their fellow citizens to the order of 20,000 each year.
Americans kill their fellow citizens on the highways to the order of 40,000 every year.
Half a million American children are seriously abused by a member of their own family every year.
Doctors making mistakes kill tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Thousands of young people are permanently injured every year in America playing violent sports like football.
Four hundred thousand Americans are taken by cancer every year - much of it preventable as in the case of smoking and exposure to other hazards.
Every society at all times has a substantial group of people who are subject to vague fears more than others and people who would like to closely control others for their own comfort: there is a natural distribution of them in any population.
But when you give such people – who tend always to be drawn to security or police or military work – too much leeway and resources in the name of paranoid fears, you begin to open yourself to the debilitating reality of a police state, whose ultimate limit is nothing less than the horrors of Stalin’s Soviet Union or Hitler’s Reich.
The vigilance required to keep a genuinely free society is not the vigilance of outfits like the FBI or CIA or CSIS or the military: it is the vigilance of each of us against those who would abuse us in the name of terror or dark fears.
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"Can CSIS and the Harper regime tell us how many Afghans and Libyans have been killed in their own country by Canadians."
Thank you.
The number of Afghans killed, mainly by the U.S., is in the tens of thousands.
The number of Libyans is in the thousands, again mainly by the U.S.
And we've assisted in bombing Libyan infrastructure back to the Stone Age.
That is no exaggeration, and no press in Canada will tell us the dark truth, not even CBC, these days quaking in its boots over its fate under the dark hulk we call prime minister.
Nothing to be proud of, any of it.
And if you really think about it, these were acts which only created legions of young men with grievances for the future.
Oh, but we do have the buzz-cut thugs at the CIA playing computer games with drones and Hellfire missiles destroying the lives of thousands of others to protect us, don't we?
That thought sure makes me feel safe. How about you?
