COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE NATIONAL POST
The proposed measure to criminalize some travel by Canadians
is totally in keeping with Stephen Harper's ferociously controlling,
anti-democratic temperament.
It reminds me a great deal of repressive American measures
during the Cold War, a time of genuine craziness and dark extremes.
Canada is not that kind of society. In a free society, and
people travel where they wish.
Moreover, if you are the kind of person who wants such Stasi-like
restrictions, then you should insist they be applied in all cases.
Without question, young Canadians who go to the United
States or to Israel to join the armed forces are involved with the two greatest
sources of official state terror on earth, at least as measured by the sheer number
of people those countries kill, suppress, and abuse.
It is an easily-confirmed fact that no publicized terrorist
organization on earth has a record of killing remotely similar to that of these
two states over recent decades.
Yet, somehow, I can guarantee Harper’s law would not include
those two jurisdictions.
It will include only those places deemed suitable by Stephen
Harper, in consultation, of course, with his heavyweight political contributors
for whom he works so hard to please with custom-made national policy.
