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A Comment on the Terrorism in Toronto
Contributed by: The Old Poop
And so it begins...
The arrests last night in Toronto of several people involved in a terrorist bombing plot seem right on schedule, following as they do a few days after a news release by CSIS that we are breeding "home grown terrorists" in Canada.
There may have actually been a plot by some people to bomb something, but that doesn't concern me as much as what is going to follow from this all too convenient terrorist plot. We can soon expect to hear about the introduction of legislation designed to "protect us" from these nasty terrorists. Without a doubt the upcoming laws will remove even more of our civil liberties, intrude even more deeply into our privacy and place stricter limits on dissent.
In predicting our government's response to this incident, it seems the only way to save us from "terrorism" will be to become a fascist state. I can't speak for all Canadians, but I'd rather take my chances with terrorists than have "Big Brother" looking over our shoulders to make sure we're "good little citizens."
If anyone doubts that were already a surveillance society, I need only point out that the people arrested were probably under surveillance for some time. If they are homegrown terrorists, then I'll bet dollars to doughnuts they had their right to privacy violated long before there was any probable cause. I find that MUCH scarier than the bombs they allegedly had.
We are being led into a fascist state. Day by day, year by year, our freedoms will be taken from us if we allow it, and we have been allowing it thus far. This trend has to stop and it has to stop NOW. The alternative is that our children will grow up to live under a regime every bit as repressive as Hitler's Germany, or Stalin's USSR.
It would be far better to kick out any government that tries to involve Canada as a partner in the USA's current Imperial Crusade. Face it, "the terrorists" are mostly people who are sick of the US sticking its nose where it doesn't belong and terrorizing people all over the planet. Some of them are fighting back. In much of the world they are freedom fighters. Here in the West we call them terrorists because it's much easier to demonize an enemy with a nasty name.
How many of us asked our government to get involved in the coup in Haiti, or combat in Afghanistan? Ask yourself; ask your neighbor; take a poll. Chances are pretty good nobody did. So why did we invade Haiti in 2004? Why did we put our troops in a combat role in Afghanistan? If we were truly bringing them a better way of life then there would be no cause for them to hate us or to want to bomb us. That many of them do hate us should tell us we are doing something terribly wrong. That many might be our own citizens should tell us how desperate the situation of their relatives in the other country must be to arouse such fanatical sympathy. Do they "hate freedom"? Quite the opposite I'd say. They hate oppression, and so should we.
If we truly want to end terrorism in Canada, we should divorce Canada from any participation in The US wars of aggression. Indeed we should be standing against such wars. We should be championing liberty by having it. I would much rather see us do that as a means of ending terrorism in Canada than see us turn into an Orwellian police state.
Just how much are we willing to pay for "safety"? I contend that we've paid far too much already.
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