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• A New Police State
• Harper, The New George Bush
• Being Canadian
• Harper to Appeal
• Powering Up the Vote
• Carol James Plea, Desperation or?
• Power Up Your Vote
• Alberta’s Human Rights Assault
• Without a Warrant
• ISPs, Tazers, RCMP, Warrants, Freedom
• The Terrorist Card.
• Harper’s Assault on Human Rights
• Harper’s Solution To Everything
• Walking Out Solves Nothing
• Vancouver Olympics & Opposition
• Harper’s Twisting of Truth
• Lives at Stake, or Political Backsides?
• Sign of the Times
• Should Voters Decide…
• Supreme Court Rules Against Khadr
• Smart Grid or Spy?
• Harper Conservatives Must Go

The Harper Government continues to follow the path of George W. Bush & Adolph Hitler, with their assault on the freedoms of Citizens. From secret hearings, to secret prisons, to unrestricted police powers, this Gestapo Like Regime uses modern phrases, to justify the elimination of basic civil rights for the people of  Canada.

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.

So the saying goes, and this isn’t about having good intentions, the new ISP law being proposed by Herr Harper is designed to give unlimited powers to Police, under the guise of bringing to Justice, Child Pornographers & Terrorists. The double whammy impact mantra, to make you forget that the Rule of Law needs to be applied to everyone, including criminals.

Install and maintain “intercept-capable” equipment on their networks.

Provide police with “timely access” to personal information about subscribers, including names, address and internet addresses, without the need for a warrant. ( CBC News )

Let me be clear, I have NO PROBLEM with the Police being allowed to obtain such information, or of it even being kept for them.  PROVIDING THEY HAVE A WARRANT!.

I respect and value our law enforcement agencies, but let us be honest here. Abuse of power exists, and without JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT, can run amock. I mean look at the administrative warrants issue, where the FBI ADMITS TO THOUSANDS OF ABUSES OF THAT PROCESS ALONE.  And what about the damage it does to the innocent?

Sure the argument that police need to move quickly is a good one, phony 99.9% of the time though. There is simply no way, that intercept messages require immediate action, nor is it even possible for anyone to monitor such messages 24/7 so the odds of intercepting a dangerous call, that would prevent a terrorist attack or would prevent a child from being abused, becomes nil.

YES over time, such monitoring can provide sufficient evidence to thwart attacks, abuse, but the key here, IS OVER TIME.  If they have time, they have time to obtain a judicial search warrant. EVEN IF THEY DON’T HAVE TIME THEY NEED A WARRANT.

This isn’t some dictatorship, we have laws to protect our civil rights, and under Stephen Harper, those laws are slowly being taken away. He can be the greatest economiz whiz in the world, the best at solving our financial crisis, can be super at improving industry in Canada, in even protecting the environment, but when you take away basic human rights, wehn you weaken the very protection of society, you aren’t fit to be in Government.

The Gestapo kicked doors down, spirited away people in the middle of the night, and how is that any different today? Ask Arar how it felt, to be grabbed off a plane, to have your own country conspire to label you a terrorist, and then do nothing to help, until you were in a prison, being tortured.  Ask the guy in the Sudan who required a Supreme Court Ruling to force his government to let him come home, after being tortured and labelled a terrorist, without cause.

Then ask yourself, what if that now happens here, by the RCMP or the Calgary Police?

What Stephen Harper is doing, is making us no better, than the terrorists he claims to be protecting us from, or from the criminals who break the laws. It is our LAWS that make us different, that is why we are under assaut from people like Osama.  To become like them, will not give us Victory, but make us just like they are, evil and dangerous.

While the goal today, is to thwart terrorists, and to root out abusers of children, what will it be tomorrow? The Jews in 1930 Germany didn’t think it was a bad idea to give the Police such powers, and it turned out, that the plan wasn’t to protect the German nation, but to further the mad  goals of Hitler, to eradicate a race, he blamed for his failures.

Bush used the same scheme, to further his own ambitions, to get re-elected and to thwart honest opposition to his plans of getting even with Saadam Hussein. In the process he’s helped tear the Middle East further apart, not to mention the enormous strain he put on the US Economy.

The reason we have the need to apply to a Judge, to get a Warrant is because, when we didn’t have those rules, there were too many abuses and Police did exceed their authority. Personal vendetta’s were settled, and innocent people were prosecuted, and persecuted. 

HARPER WANTS TO RETURN TO THOSE DAYS TO STAY IN POWER, JUST AS GEORGE BUSH DID.