Auschwitz
Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal: Latest Scapegoat News
Canadian War Sacrifices
Police State Trends: Two Teenage Girls Detained
Canadian "Freedom": Tear Down that Tree House!
Growing up in the 60's, Statist Degradation of the Person, The Corporation

CBC News, cbc.ca, Jan 25 '05: Auschwitz Timeline

1942 - 1944 - Auschwitz becomes the centre of the Nazi's "Final Solution" – the extermination of all Jews living in the parts of Europe occupied by the Third Reich. Jews arriving in packed railcars are selected right at the arrival platform by SS doctors as being "fit" or "unfit" for labour.

As many as 75 per cent of Jewish arrivals are declared "unfit" and are immediately sent to the gas chambers. More than half of those declared "fit" subsequently die from starvation, disease, forced labour, execution, torture or medical experiments. Dr. Josef Mengele, the most notorious of the SS doctors at Auschwitz, specializes in the study of twins and dwarfs.

CBC News, May 5 '05: U.S. general demoted over prison abuses

Former brigadier-general Janis Karpinski, who was in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison when U.S. soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners, has been demoted.

"Karpinski said she didn't know about the abuse, insisting that she was being used as a scapegoat to protect higher-ranking officers and military intelligence."

www.abc.net.au, May 5 '05: Judge rejects Lynndie England's guilty plea

"The military judge in the trial of Private Lynndie England – the US soldier photographed humiliating naked Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison – has declared a mistrial because he doesn't believe her plea of guilty."

Sure she's guilty - guilty and a patsy. Put the dogs on trial too.

Cnews.canoe.ca, May 3 '05: Dutch town thanks Canadian troops

"It was one of the biggest events in a week of activities planned to honour the survivors and remember the more than 7,600 Canadians killed in the nine-month campaign to free Holland from its Nazi occupiers."

Let's talk about the dead for a moment. There is a lot of talk by others, and it's right to honour those who have fallen, but we haven't heard from them in a long time.

How many joined up? How many were conscripted? Were they pushed into sacrificing their lives? Did they fight one kind of tyrant so we could have another? Did they fight for freedom, or for the current system of taxes and regulations? Did they die for bans on hate speech? No, I don't think so.

They died because they were expected to. Their blood is used to sanctify the lie of our half-baked "freedom" and no one must question it. Remember all those years we lived in terror of nuclear annihilation? That was "freedom" too, but all it proved was that life was cheap in the 20th century. Now the enemy is Islamic terrorists - and our allies, Britain and the United States - do their best to generate as many enemies as possible with their war in Iraq.

Whenever the next big War comes, the Canadian media and government have the examples already laid out for us with their many World War II anniversaries and empty rhetoric - the examples of sacrifice for all of us to follow.

Make sure you are not one of those who expect young people to die overseas in foreign wars.

www.uexpress.com, Ted Rall, Apr 26 '05: Then they Came for the Children: Feds Arrest Girls for Teen Snottiness

One of them was arrested for writing an essay!

"They've vanished into the netherworld of a Homeland Security gulag and their story has already disappeared from the headlines, but the shocking case of two 16-year-old girls from New York City arrested a month ago ought to inspire outrage among every American worthy of the name. "

"...She says FBI agents threatened to deport her parents and place her American-born siblings, a four-month-old baby and an 11-year-old, in foster care unless she confessed."

CBC News, cbc.ca, May 5 '05: Newfoundland: City of St. John's orders tree house razed

A neighbour complained to the city's building department, and an inspector showed up to take a look.

He said the tree house would have to come down because Warren didn't have a permit and the structure didn't meet building codes.

"I was first shocked and amused," said Warren, who spent six years working on the house. "Then I became angry. Now I'm in a state of utter 'What is this?'"

Our lives are controlled and regimented so much, we don't even control our own homes. This is Canada and maybe it is typical of other Western democracies. We should be ashamed of how our governments treat us like children! Are things like this just going to go on indefinitely?! Wake up and start reforming the system. Start by abolishing property taxes.

Fred Reed, Apr 26 '05: Growing up in the 60's: How We Were

"The freedom we enjoyed would horrify today's worried delicates."

Ryan McMaken, The Church, the State, and the Degradation of the Human Person

"Without life, there can be no property, no pursuit of happiness, and certainly no liberty, for if one has been robbed of his one means of exercising his will in the world, how can he have liberty? This was not lost on the Christian theologians who understood that if one is to pursue virtue, he must be free to do so."

Anti-State.com, Bill Orton, May 2 '05: Comments About The Corporation

"The popular documentary film The Corporation is a critique of modern multinational corporations from the progressive authoritarian viewpoint...."

"The Nigerian government sells out its resources to Shell, plunders its people to pay off debt, outlaws demonstrations, brutally suppresses its people, hangs four guys, and the film blames it not on the Nigerian State who perpetrates all this, nor even the World Bank loan sharks, but Shell? Do they really expect watchers to fall for this?..."

"Commons lets everyone shove the costs onto everyone else – the well-known tragedy of the commons. When something is privatized, then the costs tend to be internalized. An owner has an interest in maintaining his property's value, so he has an incentive to prevent dumping, and to seek compensation if someone does dump."