Canada: An outlaw state
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 9:03 amCanada: An outlaw state
[ http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/03/canada-outlaw-state ]
By Duncan Cameron | March 31, 2015
EXCERPT:
It was of course the U.S. that originally funded al-Qaeda, its ally in the failed Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan before becoming its enemy after the 2001 New York World Trade Centre bombing. As Patrick Coburn has explained, the "Jihadi movement" in Iraq did not exist prior to the American occupation of that country.
[ http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/29/ ... -east-war/ ]
The Iraq bombing mission has no UN support, and is not even a NATO operation. Yet as the Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner outlined in her important speech to the UN General Assembly, only a truly multilateral world order offers any hopes for securing world peace. [ http://www.cfkargentina.com/address-by- ... mbly-2014/ ]
Instead of looking to end violence through peace-keeping, Canadian armed forces have been enlisted to continue decades-long attempts by the U.S. military to ensure that Iraqi oil resources do not end up in the wrong hands. None of this military action is sanctioned under international law.
No official authorization from Syria for bombing ISIL forces is being mentioned by Canada. Ironically, by joining the U.S.-led bombing operations in Syria, Canada finds itself siding with Iran and Russia, allies of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his own war with ISIL.
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After the Harper Conservatives took power in 2006, Canada did begin torturing suspected terrorists, four Islamic men, at Millhaven Penitentiary near Kingston. [ http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/07/vic ... ful-legacy ]
By joining American bombing raids inside Iraq six months ago, the Canadian government made Canada more visible to terrorists who want to strike back against foreign aggression by attacking the aggressors on home soil.
Aware of the dangers to Canadian security occasioned by bombing in Iraq, and about to bomb inside Syria as well, the Canadian government decided to strengthen already robust anti-terrorist legislation by introducing Bill C-51.
Among many obnoxious features, this legislation gives quasi-secret police powers to CSIS, allowing it "to act at home and abroad, without regard to any law including foreign domestic law and international law" according to parliamentary testimony by Sukanya Pillay, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
[ http://ccla.org/wordpress/wp-content/up ... -Notes.pdf ]
Canada under the Conservatives does not even make a pretence at acting within the law.
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Duncan Cameron is the president of rabble.ca and writes a weekly column on politics and current affairs.
[ http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/03/canada-outlaw-state ]
By Duncan Cameron | March 31, 2015
EXCERPT:
It was of course the U.S. that originally funded al-Qaeda, its ally in the failed Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan before becoming its enemy after the 2001 New York World Trade Centre bombing. As Patrick Coburn has explained, the "Jihadi movement" in Iraq did not exist prior to the American occupation of that country.
[ http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/29/ ... -east-war/ ]
The Iraq bombing mission has no UN support, and is not even a NATO operation. Yet as the Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner outlined in her important speech to the UN General Assembly, only a truly multilateral world order offers any hopes for securing world peace. [ http://www.cfkargentina.com/address-by- ... mbly-2014/ ]
Instead of looking to end violence through peace-keeping, Canadian armed forces have been enlisted to continue decades-long attempts by the U.S. military to ensure that Iraqi oil resources do not end up in the wrong hands. None of this military action is sanctioned under international law.
No official authorization from Syria for bombing ISIL forces is being mentioned by Canada. Ironically, by joining the U.S.-led bombing operations in Syria, Canada finds itself siding with Iran and Russia, allies of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his own war with ISIL.
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After the Harper Conservatives took power in 2006, Canada did begin torturing suspected terrorists, four Islamic men, at Millhaven Penitentiary near Kingston. [ http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/07/vic ... ful-legacy ]
By joining American bombing raids inside Iraq six months ago, the Canadian government made Canada more visible to terrorists who want to strike back against foreign aggression by attacking the aggressors on home soil.
Aware of the dangers to Canadian security occasioned by bombing in Iraq, and about to bomb inside Syria as well, the Canadian government decided to strengthen already robust anti-terrorist legislation by introducing Bill C-51.
Among many obnoxious features, this legislation gives quasi-secret police powers to CSIS, allowing it "to act at home and abroad, without regard to any law including foreign domestic law and international law" according to parliamentary testimony by Sukanya Pillay, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
[ http://ccla.org/wordpress/wp-content/up ... -Notes.pdf ]
Canada under the Conservatives does not even make a pretence at acting within the law.
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Duncan Cameron is the president of rabble.ca and writes a weekly column on politics and current affairs.