Last February, we learned that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews had quietly authorized the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to use information gleaned from terror suspects through torture. Today, Toews’ spokesperson, Mike Mueller, confirmed that the Canadian government is open to using information gleaned under dubious circumstances abroad. Mueller was
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cartoon life: Looks like…
Okay, it’s cruel and, juvenile. Filed under: art Tagged: cowboy, humour, pig, politics, Stephen Harper, torture
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Perverting Music – The United States Torture Program – The Sounds of War
“It is music’s capacity to take over your mind and invade your inner experience that makes it so terrifying as a potential weapon.“ – Thomas Keenan, the director of the Human Right’s Project at Bard College Hey, surprise we’re not the good guys. Ever. This is all from Al-Jazeera
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Hurting Animals Hurts You
PETA should use a new argument against animal cruelty, Luka Magnotta. Luka Magnotta, the accused killer who dismembered a man and sent body parts in the mail across Canada, shares something in common with most psychopaths, animal cruelty. In 1963 forensic psychiatrist J.M. Macdonald wrote a paper published in the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fox News – Misinformation on Tap 24/7
I wonder what colour the sky is in the land of Fox News. I really do. The level in inaccuracy and partisan slant censorship present is an obscene injustice against the American people and their right to know what is done in their name. Certainly we can make fun of
Continue readingLeDaro: Does torture work?
It is public knowledge now that the Bush administration used brutal torture procedures on 9/11 suspects and other detainees – such as water-boarding and sleep deprivation. This method of torture is illegal under the U.S. laws. Since these illegal activities by the Bush administration many experts have come forward and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The One That Got Away from Bush/Cheney
The Bush/Cheney minions scrambled to retrieve – and destroy – every copy and they got them all – except one. What they were after was a memo, a memo about torture, written by Philip Zelikow, counselor to then State Secretary Condoleeza Rice. The Bushies missed one that survived in the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Work-arounds
Before Justice Dennis O’Connor had even finished his final report on the Maher Arar case, officials in Paul Martin’s government were meeting with their American counterparts to determine how they could make a key portion of O’Connor’s recommendations irrelevant. Writing at Prism, Jeff Sallot has an article based on an
Continue readingBlevkog: Kony 2012
From Wikipedia: “Joseph Rao Kony (born 1961 in Odek, Uganda) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a group engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocratic government based on the Ten Commandments throughout Uganda. The LRA say that God has sent spirits to
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: I wonder if Justice McDonald would be pleased
CSIS is back in the news, this time defending a policy of paying surprise visits to people at their places of employment. The particular case described in the current news item involves a woman who had previously been visited by agents at her home on three different occasions. At the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Indulge me for a moment while I become hysterical
Much of the establishment media coverage of the public reaction to Bill C-30 — and Vic Toews initial comment on it in Question Period — has been annoying, to say the least. Did you know it’s naive of us to be outraged at Toews claim that opposing the bill is
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your weekend. – David Olive highlights the complete lack of need for the Cons’ planned attacks on Old Age Security: Say what you will of Stephen Harper’s success in scaring Canadian seniors with his recent musings about cutting seniors’ benefits. It does not warrant the public
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mind you, some of the stories are a couple of days old precisely because there’s been an embarrassment of riches in the Con criticism department this week. Most of the time, stories about a government violating immigrants’ privacy for the sake of
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Vic Toews And The Fruits Of A Poisonous Tree
It may save lives so it’s ethical and hence why we call it “Ethical Torture” I really wanted to blog about heart disease champion Leona Aglukkaq deciding that reducing the amounts of trans fats in the Canadian food supply – which increase the risk of coronary heart disease more than any other macronutrient – was out
Continue readingRedBedHead: Psst…Torture’s OK. Pass It On.
Vic Toews, Minister of Torture and Morality We’ve always known that the Tories mission is to makeover Canada into a far-right Republican spa resort by stealth, since most Canadians hold values to the left of their lunacy. So, they change tax rules for film financing here and chip into same
Continue readingVic Toews A-OK with torture interrogation
The government has directed Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has told CSIS the government now expects the spy service to use information derived from torture in cases where public safety is at stake. In related news, a
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: I wish I could say I’m surprised but I’m not
CSIS may use intelligence derived from torture, Toews says The federal government has directed Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake. … Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has quietly told CSIS the government now expects the
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: A letter from Canada
OTTAWA Dear Foreign Dictator: On behalf of the Government of Canada, I would like to clarify our position on the use of torture. To be clear, our Government supports the use of torture when it is practiced with a clear objective. Please accept my most heartfelt apologies if the position
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Excited Delirium News Summary – January 2012
Excited delirium news headlines for the last week of January, 2012
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards
Jeff Kaye writes here on the findings of the American Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the CIA’s involvement in torture. Since I agree with Kaye that there won’t be a lot of reporting on this in the media I’m going to pass on a portion of the quoted remarks of
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