Canadian News and Opinion

Canada's Afghanistan mission destabilizing: James Ingalls
www.thehilltimes.ca, Oct 23 '06

Last week, NATO air strikes reportedly killed 22 civilians and injured scores of others in two provinces of Afghanistan.

Accountability on menu at law and Parliament Conference
www.thehilltimes.ca, Oct 23 '06

Accountability may be hot, but some MPs say Parliament is much less accountable than it was 30 years ago.

News and Opinion

Protest as Harassment: U.K. Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill
www.monbiot.com, Feb 22 '05

The religious incitement law has become a marvellous distraction from the greater dangers in the bill....

Add these measures to those enshrined in the 1986 Public Order Act, the 1992 Trade Union Act, the 1994 Criminal Justice Act, the 1997 Protection from Harrassment Act, the 2000 Terrorism Act, the 2001 Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the 2001 Criminal Justice and Police Act, the 2003 Anti-Social Behaviour Act and the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act, and you find that there is no kind of protest, of any efficacy whatsoever, that the police or courts will not be able to prevent and punish if they choose.

U.K.: The New Rules of the Game: Glorification of Terrorism, 3 Month Internment and the First Round in the Deporting of people to be tortured
www.blairwatch.co.uk, Sep 16 '05

...the publishing of plans for the proposed offence of 'glorifying terrorism', up to 3 month internment without trial and the first round of deporting people to be tortured..

One of the factors that lead both the judge and the jury to dismiss the case was the fact that for 3 years the government withheld the fact there was no Ricin. Another was that a confession was found to be unreliable, because it had been obtained under torture, in Algeria.