All Canadians are complicit in Omar Khadr’s torture, says lawyer Ottawa Citizen | 5 February 2015 . . . There is no greater betrayal of Canada than for our government to be implicated in the torture of a Canadian citizen,” … Continue reading →
Report Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program Declassification Revisions December 3, 2014 Other Copies: The Senate Committee’s Report on the C.I.A.’s Use of Torture Copy Example from Page 4 of … Continue reading →
Britain Poised to Muzzle ‘Extremist’ Speech Brendan O’Neill, Reason.com | November 8, 2014 . . . It’s the brainchild of Theresa May, the Home Secretary in David Cameron’s government. May wants to introduce “extremism disruption orders”, which, yes, are as … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 4 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Huxley refers to Pavlov’s experiments on animals, in which even the strongest ones display a nervous breakdown after the repeated stress of Pavlov’s cruel experiments (59). He notes also how … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Although we can argue that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is seriously flawed, let’s remind ourselves of some of the sound principles expressed within it and think about whether Canadians are … Continue reading →
Vladimir Putin goes on offensive against US Tom Parfitt, Telegraph | 20 December 2012 . . . “Why does one country consider itself entitled to spread its jurisdiction to the entire world?” he said in his characteristic rapid-fire delivery. “Abu … Continue reading →
BBC News – North Scottish airports 'used for rendition flights' The CIA programme involved the secret detention and transfer of terror suspects to other countries for interrogation and alleged torture. . . .
Continue reading →Via Rail train plot brings counterterrorism, civil liberties to top of House’s agenda The Globe and Mail | April 23, 2013 News of a terror plot to attack a Via Rail train, just one week after the Boston Marathon bombings, … Continue reading →
Steve Pieczenik makes the point: Nothing beats a sensational front page news story like a Boston Marathon Massacre! Most readers would miss the incidental but far more serious implication for the moral compass of America than the NY Times story … Continue reading →