Is CSIS and the "Federal Government" setting us up
for our very own 911 or just fear mongering?
"Kenny says the problem isn't restricted
merely to these items. He says pilots' uniforms have gone missing as have
police uniforms."
Since the alleged federal government first gave a
staggering 8 Billion dollars to CSIS just months after the 9/11 hoax, it has been scrambling
to find justification for their massive budget increase.
Documents given to
Vancouver Police Chief Graham claiming an attack in the City of Vancouver were
meet by the public with scepticism and outrage, and his department even tried
to claim that Graham was not referring to terrorist attacks. [See
link on Graham's fear mongering]
Clearly, the
government and their secret terrorist
police will have to create some sort of "event" in Canada, in the same
way that MI-6 created blatantly bogus terrorist threats just months before
publicly announcing their plan for mandatory ID cards and bioscans - then they
blew up a train station, just to warn the 'House of Lords'.
Unless more documents are sent to our website that
relate directly to such events, we will have to speculate on where some of
these bogus events might occur, and what form they will take. Or it may be that the Canadian people will mindlessly follow the wolf to the slaughter, without much additional terrorist fakery...
One interesting development in this area created such
a stir that it even got the attention of CNN. Apparently, upwards of one
thousand uniforms and a sundry number of badges and other id was recently
found to have "gone missing" from our Airport Security cronies. Ask yourself who could steal such items, and of such volume?
This is exactly the type of event we should be
looking for as indication of coming CSIS/government terrorism and fear
mongering. Such a large volume of "missing" badges and uniforms is hardly the
work of small alleged terrorist cells, yet it is interesting to read the government's
reaction to this latest development. These statements often reveal the motive and intent of the real terrorists, who are of course the government who restricts your rights, while patting you on the head saying 'we're saving your rights'.
How good a detective are you in figuring out what is
really going on?
Minister to investigate missing airport uniforms
Sat, 04 Dec 2004
MONTREAL - Federal Transport Minister Jean Lapierre
says he wants a report explaining how security uniforms and badges disappeared
from airports across the country.
More than 1,000 uniforms and parts of uniforms were
lost or stolen, and nearly 100 security badges went missing over a
nine-month period, CBC News reported after uncovering documents from
the federal agency responsible for making air travel safe.
"I want a report by Monday morning on all the details of all those elements,"
Lapierre said when asked for his reaction on Saturday.
Lapierre also gave assurances that all airports in Canada are "now double
checking the identity of every employee that comes in."
"Since 1 p.m. this afternoon, at the 89 airports across the country, we're
double-checking the identification cards, not only when (employees) enter the
premises, but also during the work shift," Lapierre told reporters.
There is concern that the stolen uniforms and badges will be used to bypass
security at the airports. However, the Canadian Air Transport Security
Authority (CATSA) is downplaying the security risk.
"The uniform is in no way a document of entitlement if you will, or an article
that allows a person to access a restricted area of an airport," said Kevin
McGarr, vice-president, strategy, at CATSA.
[No, but CSIS certainly would have no problem manufacturing
that "identification", so good point Kevin.]
International security expert Peter St. John, who has written a book on
hijackings, told CBC Newsworld Saturday that news of the missing uniforms is
not surprising.
"I suppose this information had to come out sooner or later, because all
the standards are really being missed by this new agency," he said.
Written by CBC News Online staff
...article from day before gives more detail
FROM DEC. 3, 2004: Canadian air security
jeopardized: senator
REGINA - Documents obtained by CBC News show that 1,127 uniform items
belonging to Canadian airport screeners were lost or stolen in a nine-month
period.
<Senator Colin Kenny holds up a copy of his committee's 2003 report on
airport security.
Nearly a quarter of those
items had the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) logo on them.
Among the missing items are 91 metal shields that act as security badges,
which worries Liberal Senator Colin Kenny, the chair of the Senate's national
security and defence committee.
Kenny argues that Canadian travellers aren't getting
the security they need, – a sentiment echoed by terrorism expert Peter St.
John, from the University of Manitoba.
(Just like clockwork, the "terrorism expert" (which
we know is often code for government terrorist planners themselves) jumps
out of his hole to shout his warning to the gullible press cabal.)
"If you have a uniform and you have the right
credentials then you've got access to do anything you want in the airport,"
says St. John. "You can almost board a plane at will and hijack it or
anything. Security is just poor."
A parliamentary investigation found some of the missing uniforms as auction
items on EBay.
Kenny says the problem isn't restricted merely to these items. He says pilots'
uniforms have gone missing as have police uniforms.
(Well doesn't that clearly mean we shouldn't trust any
person claiming to be a police officer....? They might just be a "terrorist" in
disguise! If you see one, report him or her to your locally elected Sheriff so
they can be monitored. Terrorists, we are told, hate our Constitution, so probe him/her with lots of constitutional questions, and see how they react.
"It's a serious problem," says Kenny, who's written
two reports on Canadian airport security in which he states that Canadian
airports are riddled with organized crime and security of ground workers is
conducted at random.
Kenny maintains that mail continues to enter vulnerable aircraft holds
unscreened. He also says that much of the passenger baggage that goes in the
same hold is never searched.
CATSA insists that air security is tight in Canada, dismissing the missing
uniform situation as a minor incident.
"Uniforms alone don't provide access to restricted areas at airports," says
Kevin McGarr, vice-president, strategy, at CATSA. He says the federal agency
has measures in place that motivate the private firms that provide screening
operations to safeguard their uniforms.
"There are monetary incentives for appropriately meeting our expectations,"
says McGarr. If those expectations are not met, it puts the service provider
at a disadvantage at performance review time, says McGarr.
Canada's auditor general is reviewing CATSA's effectiveness and is running
undercover tests on screening personnel.
Intelligence After 9/11: A British View of the Effects
Michael Herman
July 2003 Unclassified
Abstract: Not everyone was happy with
President Bush’s proclamation of the ‘war on terrorism’ after 11 September
2001 (‘9/11’), but there is now not much doubt that Al Qaida has been at
war against the United States since the attack on the World Trade Center
in 1993, and that the rest of the ‘capitalist West’ (however defined) is
now threatened as America’s ally. At the time of writing (winter 2002-3)
the British government is giving wide publicity to the threat of terrorist
attack with chemical, biological or radiological weapons, and has warned
the public that complete defence cannot be guaranteed. Assuming that this
is well-founded, we live in a climate of serious threat, and one that will
not be short-lived. - Summer 2003.
Editors Note: Michael Herman (MHe24@aol.com) was in
British government service from 1952 to 1987. He is now associated with St
Antony’s College Oxford and Aberystwyth University. He has published
Intelligence Power in Peace and War (1996) and Intelligence Services in the
Information Age (2001).
Disclaimer: Publication of an article in the
Commentary series does not imply CSIS authentication of the information
nor CSIS endorsement of the author's views.
Where is all this heading? Here's a big 'blues clues'... and say goodbye to Canada as we know it, when they drop some more "terror" on the frightened sheep. Take note of the special forces they intend to use specifically for cold weather climates - shades of Stalin or what?
The Canadian military has embarked on a wide-ranging plan to turn its reserve soldiers into focused units trained and equipped to respond to a nightmarish array of domestic threats, including terrorist "dirty bomb" attacks, biological agent containment, Arctic catastrophes and natural disasters.
The creation of seven units within each region of the country -- including unusual all-terrain vehicle (ATV) squadrons and perimeter security teams to cordon areas of potential devastation -- prepares reserve soldiers for operations on the "domestic front" while freeing regular force soldiers to concentrate on foreign battlefields.
"There is a recognition, certainly within the military and we have heard the government say, that domestic security is the number one priority. A number of these conclusions come from the post-9/11 world we live in," said Brigadier-General Jean Collin, commander of the army in Ontario, during an exclusive interview with the National Post.
"The reality is an army needs to train, an army needs to equip itself and an army needs to be ready."
The remodeling of the reserves will see the development of specialist units in four of the military's regional divisions -- Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and the West. The units will include perimeter security teams prepared to cordon off an area if there was an atomic detonation, nuclear accident or similar source of wide contamination and "Arctic response" groups that are trained and equipped to live and operate in the far north.
The changes highlight both a renewed focus on domestic security and the increased role of reservists, who are part-time volunteer soldiers augmenting the ranks of full-time soldiers, who are referred to as the "regular" forces. The place of reserves in the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan was shown yesterday when one of three soldiers killed by a roadside bomb was a reservist from Ontario.
"Some of the stuff we are now asking the reservists to do is because we need them; because the regular force simply does not have sufficient people, sufficient resources, to do it on their own," said Brig-Gen. Collin.
"And the reservists have certainly demonstrated that they have the capability to do all this and more."
Brig-Gen. Collin, who has served in Bosnia and Afghanistan, has also been a special advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff on homeland security issues.
The military divides operations into two broad divisions: away missions, such as the action in Afghanistan, called "expeditionary operations," and home missions, such as helping with floods in Winnipeg, called "domestic operations."
"The lead -- the main contributor -- for expeditionary operation is the regular force. They form the core for expeditionary operations and are augmented by reservists," said Brig-Gen. Collin.
"What we have now said is that for domestic operations, the core will actually be provided by the reserve force, augmented by the regular force.
The reserves take a dominant role in domestic operations in the future, once they are properly equipped and trained to do so."
The remodeling of the reserves, ordered at the start of 2009, is expected to take two to three years to complete.
The remodeling will also likely see the reserves play a larger role in domestic security situations, including the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and the G8 summit of world leaders that has been announced for 2010 at a resort in Huntsville, 220 kilometres north of Toronto, he said.
The national plan places the reserves at the forefront of grim scenarios that are the stuff of apocalyptic Hollywood movies.
"We all know the threat from dirty bombs, chemical contaminants. This is certainly one of the more dangerous situations that can arise," said Brig.-Gen. Collin.
"You can certainly get it from a terrorist act. You can also get it from a man-made disaster. You can get nuclear contamination from a nuclear power plant -- Three Mile Island, Chernobyl.
"We are training to establish a perimeter. Do I see a scenario when we might be obliged to keep people in? Probably. You need to be trained to be able to make sure that you don't become a casualty in the process of doing that security."
The Arctic units -- companies of about 120 people in each region, that can come together as a single force if needed -- poses a challenge of a different sort, primarily training for the harsh conditions of the far north.
"We are going to have up to an entire battalion of soldiers who are prepared to go live and operate in the north and that entire battalion will come from the reserves. We are having them trained now, as we speak, to operate in the north," said Brig.-Gen. Collin, who himself just returned from a visit to several remote aboriginal communities where he suffered though the deep cold in a military-issue tent.
"It was bloody cold... But you can dress, equip and operate up there if you know what you're doing," he said.
Currently, about 120 reservists from southern Ontario are involved in Exercise Polar Warrior, a week of training in Arctic warfare and survival in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, a First Nations community on Big Trout Lake. To equip the ATV Squadron, the first commercial vehicles are arriving in the coming months. They will not be armed or painted in camouflage and are not intended for combat use. They could be deployed in rural and remote areas to traverse wooded ravines or in an urban setting that has suffered devastation, such as an earthquake or massive explosion.
The plans also call for turning over responsibility for the force's Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units -- mobile, high-capacity machines for cleaning water to drinkable standards -- to the reserves. The machines have been used abroad, in Sri Lanka helping victims of the 2004 tsunami, and also domestically in Kashechewan, Ont., when the community's water supply was tainted by E. coli bacteria in 2005.
David Bercuson, director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, said the changes make sense given the current global security situation.
"Reserves are all local and spread out across the country. It seems to me the people best situated to help the first responders would be the reservists. It makes a lot of sense. Also, the regular force is so stretched and stressed right now," said Mr. Bercuson.
Mr. Bercuson was surprised to hear, however, of envisioned scenarios that might require a form of constabulary or policing function for reserves in civilian containment and security.
"People in Ottawa sometimes forget that the reserves are volunteers. If you try to change the reserves in ways they don't want to change, they just might not show up."
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 neighbour; 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.
Latest CBC coverage of "Toronto terror cell" shows case was fabrication... One of the so-called leaders freed after 18 months of abuse.
CSIS: Canada Joins the [Sleazy] Intel Op Club - Kurt Nimmo | June 5th 2006
On its face, the story of the "al-Qaeda inspired homegrown terrorist group"
supposedly caught "plotting to bomb 'hard' government targets rather than '
soft' civilian ones such as shopping malls or nightclubs" in Canada, as
characterized by the Calgary Sun, is highly suspect, to say the least. It
should be considered suspect because the organization heading up the
investigation of "12 adults and five youths, all of whom are charged with
participating in or contributing to the activity of a terrorist group,
including training and recruitment" is the notorious CSIS, or Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (Service Canadien du Renseignement de
Sécurité), officially created by an Act of Parliament in 1984.
A simple Google search reveals a shady CSIS past, including a calculated
effort to tell lies about Canada's involvement in the CIA's "rendition"
(i.e., torture) flights (see Riad Saloojee, Public inquiry needed for Arar:
Is Canada subcontracting torture?) and the slimy act of the CSIS teaming up
with the Canada Post Security Inspector to snoop on unionized postal
workers, including illegally intercepting the mail and stealing Crown keys
to get into apartments and mail boxes (see New Book Shows CSIS, Canada Post
Spied On Postal Workers, an April 22, 2002, bulletin released by the
Canadian Union of Postal Workers).
It is also suspect that CSIS deputy director Jack Hooper "told the Senate
defense and security committee [on May 29, 2006] that a lack of resources
has meant 90% of the estimated 20,000 immigrants from the region have
entered Canada in the last five years without proper screening," according
to CNews. "Hooper said home-grown terrorists are fast becoming the greatest
threat to Canada's national security. Second and third-generation Canadians
are becoming radicalized here 'including white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
converts' and are eluding authorities because they blend in with mainstream
society." A few days later, Hooper's warning played itself out like well
oiled clockwork, approximately at the same time alleged Islamic radicals
were caught building a chemical bomb in London.
Jasper Gerard, writing for the Sunday Times, provides us with a glimpse of
what is behind this effort, quite transparent if you have done your
homework. "Historians will surely look back on the folly: that a
frighteningly tiny number of intelligence officers frantically try to
infiltrate cells of Islamic terrorists that spring up in London, Yorkshire,
who knows where?" In other words, snoop and subvert operations, once again
resulting in gunfire by trigger-happy cops in East London, wounding a
suspect (who was lucky he was not executed, a fate suffered by Jean Charles
de Menezes inside the Stockwell Tube station), are woefully understaffed and
anemically funded, a whimsical notion at best as most intelligence agencies
operate without oversight. In fact, as I noted in a post earlier today,
these "frighteningly tiny number of intelligence officers" are quite adept
at infiltrating "cells of Islamic terrorists" who go on to blow up, by way
of pointless suicide bombing, trains and a double-decker bus outside of the
legendary Tavistock Institute, an all-war, all-the-time propaganda operation
set-up by the likes of the British royal family, the Rockefellers, and the
Rothschilds.
Canada's version of a neocon leader, PM Stephen Harper, wasted little time
squeezing as much mileage as possible out of the supposed foiled terror
attack in Ontario, and thus sending the message to all Canadians (and the
Straussian neocons to the south) that police state militarization is on
track in Canada. "Surrounded by tanks, army trucks and anti-aircraft guns,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper told 225 new Canadian Forces recruits and
their families Saturday that Canadians cannot escape a dangerous world by
turning a blind eye to it," reports the National Post, a neocon tabloid that
suffered a black eye after it ran the discredited Iran zonar story a couple
weeks ago. "Speaking at Ottawa's Canadian War Museum to new recruits from
Ontario and Quebec one a day after the arrest of 17 alleged terrorists in
southern Ontario Harper said the government will continue its efforts to
ensure national security." One must admit the Canadian variety of neocon has
the same knack for exploiting probable intelligence ops as their southern
brethren.
Canada, Britain, Australia, swaths of Europe-all are quickly lining up
behind the "clash of civilizations" agenda with its attendant police state
program for domestic implementation. In Canada, the slimy CSIS, following in
the footsteps of East Germany's Stasi, will enter homes and open mail, thus
taking a cue from the neocons here in America as they vacuum incalculable
petabytes of personal data with the eager help of multinational telecom
corporations and snoop on the usually enfeebled opposition, down to
insignificant antiwar hippies handing out peanut butter sandwiches outside
of Halliburton's offices in Texas, obviously an act of treason.
It now appears, rather frighteningly, that these burgeoning intel orgs,
apparently merging into one huge intel monolith, or possibly a less formal
collaboration, are ramping up to finger all Muslims in their respective
countries, attributing unspeakable crimes to them through state sponsored
false flag terrorism, and eventually tracing this massive conspiracy back to
the nations figuring prominently on the Straussian neocon and Israeli
Likudite hit list, beginning with Iran, in short order, and eventually
expanding outward to encompass Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
Anti-terror resources lacking, inquiry toldCanWest, October 02, 2007 Neither the RCMP nor Canada's spy agency have sufficient resources to tackle groups in Canada raising money for terrorist causes, the Air India inquiry heard yesterday.
(For the record, since the end of 2001 CSIS has been given over 10 BILLION dollars in funding. So just how much does it cost to monitor the exceedingly few "terrorists" (if any) that exist in Canada?)
Commissioner John Major expressed surprise that the RCMP received just 17 of the 126 officers requested to deal with terrorism financing probes after new legislation was passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Another 33 were committed last year.
And Jim Galt, of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said he could use double or triple the staff that he now has to gather intelligence on terrorist financing in this country.
Still, both the RCMP and CSIS said they are making headway in terms of identifying those responsible for raising terrorist money and eventually prosecuting them.
But Richard Quance, a lawyer representing the Air India victims' families, said he hoped that terrorists would not expand operations in Canada because of weaknesses in the system that allow them to evade prosecution.
"I hope that you can get the resources and funding you need in order to do what I think you see is as a necessary job to combat terrorist financing," Quance commented to Galt.
"As to all of those bad guys that haven't made it to your priority list, I hope they will be patient so that you can get the funding in time."
The inquiry has heard that there has not yet been a successful prosecution for terrorist financing in Canada. Nor has there been a single security certificate issued against a charity despite the fact that many of the terrorist groups raising money are using registered charities or non-profit organizations.
Charges stayed against 4 terror suspects - Melissa Leong, Canwest News Service, April 16, 2008 Three of the accused sign peace bonds, agree to abide by court restrictions
BRAMPTON -- Prosecutors stayed yesterday charges against four men accused of participating in a homegrown terror cell.
Charges were stayed against three of the men after they agreed to abide by certain court-ordered conditions for one year. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 45, the eldest of 18 people accused in Canada's largest terrorist sweep, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 23, and Ibrahim Alkhalel Mohammed Aboud, 21, signed peace bonds, finalizing their cases in a Brampton court yesterday morning.
(These men reported being tortured and threatened by police and prison guards during their lengthy prison stay, so it is not the least incriminating that they would agree to certain "court ordered" conditions, in agreement for their release)
The men must adhere to several restrictions including not having contact with the other accused, adhering to a curfew, and not owning a firearm.
Charges were also stayed against Yasim Mohamed. The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said it was not contemplating any further proceedings against Mohamed at this time.
They join three youths, who were arrested in the summer of 2006, who have also had their charges stayed.
Jamal, once described as a spiritual leader to some of the accused, spent 17 months in jail, 13 of which was in solitary confinement. He was initially implicated in a plot to bomb buildings, but that charge was dropped last September. He remained charged with participating in a terrorist group and providing or receiving terrorist training.
(By "terrorist training" we have since learned this consisted of the CSIS ringleader taking some of the accused to a paintball competition in the woods, and campout.)
After the hearing Jamal said he was ready to move on with his life and restore his reputation.
He said he was just "winter camping" when he referred to allegations that he was at a terrorist training camp with the other men he was charged with.
He also claimed he was tortured during his time in prison.
His lawyer, Anser Farooq, said an inquiry should be held into his client's treatment. "People have to be held accountable for what happened to Mr. Jamal."
Ghany, of Mississauga, Ont., had graduated in health sciences from McMaster University in Hamilton and had recently married a woman who is a sister of the wife of one of the accused.
Aly Hindy, the imam of the Salaheddin mosque in Toronto, previously said he felt Ghany should not have been charged.
Aboud, who had been characterized by neighbours as a loner, was the last man to be charged.
Last September, the Crown suddenly terminated a preliminary hearing and filed a direct indictment, sending the defendants directly to trial. The defence lawyers charged that the move came out of the state's concern that some of the accused would be discharged after the preliminary hearing.
(It was also part of an arrangement to keep the details of the accusations out of the media, since all the so-called "illegal activity", including buying fertilizer, was directed, controlled and supervised by CSIS and the RCMP, including the alleged plot to storm parliament and behead the prime minister.)
Documents outlining some of the Crown's case against the accused allege that some talked about storming the Parliament Buildings and taking politicians hostage while demanding the removal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan and to release Muslim prisoners from federal jails.
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Police even prefaced their report with the claim the terrorist had a "middle-eastern" accent! [Hey Delta terrorist police! Since when do real terrorists phone police detachments to tag a location and/or take credit for an attack beforehand??? Either you folks are complete idiots, or you were the source of the threat.]
An afternoon bomb threat that police decided was "credible" shut down service for thousands of B.C. Ferries passengers between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen until late last night.
B.C. Ferries is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those who made the threat.
Delta police received the threat, which was directed toward the Tsawwassen terminal, said B.C. Ferries president David Hahn. The call was made from a Coquitlam Centre mall payphone from a male with a "Middle Eastern" accent, he said. [full story]
New security precautions to battle potential terrorists and other threats of violence could be coming to B.C. Ferries within the next year, the province's transportation minister said yesterday.
Kevin Falcon said he asked the deputy ministers of B.C.'s transportation and solicitor general's ministries a year ago to conduct a review of security procedures on the province's public transportation systems, including ferries, airlines, SkyTrain and highways.
Falcon will also travel to England in mid-September for meetings with security officials of the subway and ferry systems in that country, which has experienced recent terrorist violence.
Based on that visit and the results of the deputies' review, Falcon said security changes could come to B.C. Ferries as early as 2008.
Falcon made his comments two days after a bomb-threat hoax shut down ferry traffic between Vancouver Island and the Tsawwassen terminal on the mainland for more than five hours.
[....]
You want to have a level of protection that is aligned with the threat assessment." He said it may be necessary to use a "step-up" approach to more stringent ferry security if RCMP or national security officials detect a pending threat. [full story]
Below are 'letters to editor' rebuttals to Time Colonist support of police state measures, prompted by hoax.
Of course, the reigning ideology of our time tells us that "they hate us because of our freedoms," and it seems that the Times Colonist believes that the best solution is to whittle away at those freedoms, a little at a time. [read letter here]
If, as the government states, the motive of "the terrorists" is to destroy our freedom, then we serve only to aid and encourage them by chipping away at our rights and liberty. Logically, we should instead be seeking policies that increase our freedom after each threat or act of terror. [read letter here]
Hysteria hits BC Ferries. Obvious joke overheard by passenger treated as serious threat... ferries delayed for over an hour.
Man arrested over bomb threat at Tsawwassen ferry terminal - Dec 3/2007 Police evacuated the B.C. Ferries terminal at Tsawwassen Sunday and arrested a 32-year-old foot-passenger who was overheard saying that he was going to set off a bomb on the Spirit of Vancouver.
[.......] "It appears to be a hoax at this stage," Stefanson said. "They did a sweep. There was nothing found." [full story]
Now they are using these phoney threats to close down major roads.... They are incrementally training you, like a dog, to get used to martial law....
A bomb hoax at the Emily Carr branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library in Saanich today forced the evacuation of numerous businesses and the temporary closure of two of Saanich's busiest streets. [.....] "No bomb was located," said Brajcich.
Meanwhile, traffic from the Pat Bay Highway, which becomes Blanshard Street, was snarled as police funnelled it down Ravine Way. The busy intersection of Saanich Road and Vernon Way was also closed.
At the neighbouring Saanich Plaza, some businesses, such as Blockbuster Video and Liquor Depot, were evacuated.
"Obviously it was an inconvenience," said John MacGregor, manager of Simmons Mattress Centre. "We had customers in here, so we had to send them out." [full story here]
Bomb call prompts evacuation - Canwest News
Service, May 05, 2008
VANCOUVER -- Two streets around a Home Depot store in Port Coquitlam were cordoned off while RCMP investigated a bomb threat yesterday.
RCMP Cpl. Brenda Gresiuk said police arrived around 3:45 p.m. after a bomb threat was received by the store.
The building was evacuated of staff and customers, and surrounding streets were closed by police.
Gresiuk said investigators were waiting for the arrival of an explosive disposal unit to search the building.
"It's a large building; it will take us some time to go through it," she said.
Gresiuk could give no further details of the nature of the threat, citing continued investigations.
Bombs are everywhere, it seems. At least, that's what they want you to think.
Times Colonist April 16/08, page A6.
Just how ridiculous, crazy, exaggerated, and down right stupid can the propaganda get? Well how about harmless pipe bombs set in the middle of remote areas, that can demolish "over a half mile area". Now that's funny.... CTV June 24/08 report, published under fair comment. Watch below clip...
B.C. Hydro pores over data to find source of outage - October 13, 2008 UPDATE: So far, officials only know it wasn't weather, a tree or physical damage that caused transmission line failure that left 200,000 homes in dark - Cindy E. Harnett and Rob Shaw, Victoria Times Colonist
B.C Hydro spent Thanksgiving Monday poring over computer data to try to locate the cause of a massive power outage that darkened homes from Ladysmith to Victoria Sunday, but so far they've found no answers.
All they've been able to determine is that it's not an obvious problem, said B.C. Hydro spokesman Ted Olynyk.
Downtown's Bard and Banker restaurant stayed open with the help of emergency, battery-powered lights.
"It's not like a tree fell on the line, or it was wind or snow or ice or there was physical damage to the property," said Olynyk.
"What we are doing now is [B.C. Transmission Corporation] technical folks are reviewing computer information, data, to see if they can pinpoint where and when the fault happened."
The outage began with disruption of at least one south Island power line around 5:45 p.m. Sunday. A cascade effect amplified the damage by subsequently tripping all the power lines south of Ladysmith, including the Gulf Islands, and leaving more than 200,000 customers in the dark during Thanksgiving dinner.
That's not supposed to happen, said Olynyk. The Island's power system, which includes 31 substations, was built to protect against cascade outages when a few lines go down, he said. "It's designed so that doesn't happen," said Olynyk. Nonetheless, it has happened in the past, most often when lightening strikes, he said.
What caused the cascade is now a primary focus of the investigation, said Olynyk. [Full report]
Tiny amounts of low yield radiation, used for medical services, now target of fear mongering government cabal.
Canada's leading nuclear medicine company has been identified by a U.S. scientific panel as a major source of potential "dirty bomb" materials at American hospitals and research labs, prompting a call to end the use of devices requiring radioactive cesium-137 as soon as possible.
The U.S. National Research Council, commissioned by Congress to assess the terrorism risks posed by radioactive substances used for medical and scientific purposes, released a report Wednesday in Washington that highlighted blood irradiators and other machines - hundreds of them supplied to U.S. institutions by Ottawa-based MDS Nordion - as vulnerable to terrorists.
The devices are used for treating blood in transplant operations and other medical procedures, the council stated. [full report]
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Accused Madrid Bomb Mastermind Acquitted AP | November 1, 2007 DANIEL WOOLLS Three lead defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty of mass murder and other charges Wednesday but four other top suspects were convicted on lesser charges and an accused ringleader was completely acquitted.
Updated from Nov 2007. Now they are using the 2010 Olympics.
Plans for the attack on Canadians may now have been officially authenticated by select elements within the so-called federal government of Canada, as revealed by their new fear mongering campaign... Or perhaps the Canadian people are already so scared, so trusting of their propaganda, that they may not need to actually carry out their false flag, but simply flood us with a deluge of threats. Naturally they credit the CIA created "Al-Qaeda" [means data base] with creation of dirty bombs and even "conventional nukes"... something no doubt tricky to build in caves with no electricity, and only candles for light.
You should be worried... The so-called 'Canadian government' is going to use this manufactured threat to remove more and more of your liberty... and they may even carry out such an attack if they believe their blabbering is not sufficient.... [Go here to see in detail how they helped create the Air India disaster....]
Police Used "Agents Provocateurs" At UK Bush Protests - June 26/08
Galloway has written a letter to the Home Secretary in which he names a senior police officer thought to have been operating as an undercover "agent provocateur".
"The greatest threat to North America right now is on the water," says Peter MacKay, seen here speaking in the House of Commons.
OTTAWA -- Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the greatest threat facing North America involves international terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon onto the continent through a busy container port.
At an Ottawa conference of transportation security experts yesterday, MacKay raised the spectre of terrorists detonating a crude radioactive dispersal device or a conventional nuclear bomb after smuggling it in one of the millions of cargo containers arriving annually on foreign ships.
"The greatest threat to North America right now is on the water," he told the audience. "This is an area where, God forbid, if someone with ill intent decided to send a dirty bomb or some kind of a nuclear device into our country, this is an area where we are vulnerable.
"With the number of movements of containers coming into this country today, this is an area we have to be completely and extremely vigilant and rigorous in terms of security."
His assessment of the maritime threat is the bluntest yet from a government minister and echoes concerns high-ranking U.S. officials have expressed publicly for years. Al-Qaeda has nuclear ambitions, is working [in caves, and on the run*] to develop the nuclear capabilities to match, and just one of the containers arriving annually on North America's shores could be a Trojan Horse harbouring the unthinkable.
*(well ok... lets be fair.. maybe they could buy nukes on ebay..?)
Gary Gilbert, of the giant U.S. company Hutchinson Port Holdings, which operates 48 international ports handling 60-million containers annually, later suggested to delegates it might only be a matter of time before that happens.
(This is a threat against you, by elements within the government of Canada, whether you want to believe it or not. Its an extension of the exact same threat made by CSIS about a year ago - that same covert group that wants you to believe it is normal to delete surveillance tapes of the top players in Canada's worst case of mass murder in recorded history, and that sending all their bomb sniffing dogs on a training exercise, the very weekend they knew the bombing would take place, is an unfortunate coincidence. )
"We have seen drugs come in, we have seen illegal aliens, we have seen weapons," he said. "Why can't it be a weapon of mass destruction?"
A nuclear device arriving undetected in a North American port could be shipped to virtually any point in the continent by rail or truck.
(Just imagine the massive planning and communications involved in buying, building and/or otherwise obtaining such a device, then shipping it, arranging for its transfer to the appropriate recipient, then delivery and detonation..... Folks, these people have been monitoring peoples phone calls for decades, using a key word activated system known as echelon , so they certainly can track "weapons of mass destruction". CSIS even has the time and resources to track such groups as animal rights activists, the raging grannies, and Veterans Against Nuclear Arms.
Ask anyone who has received any kind of package from over seas or the United States, and you will know that you can't even send a pair of sunglasses into Canada without it first passing inspection by customs. Yet the "government of Canada" wants us to believe it is possible to bring in nukes without anyone seeing them. This would be pain-in-the-ribs funny if it was not so serious...)
The U.S. is now ringing its major cities, and eventually much of the country, with radiation detectors.
Triggering a nuclear device within a major port would also cause devastation. The Port of Los Angles, for example, is the trans-shipment point for much of the state's gasoline supply, as well as 3.3 million direct and indirect jobs.
(But a dirty bomb would not.... they cause little to no structural damage.... only inconvenience during the weeks it takes to decontaminate the affected area, hence the bait and switch style of propaganda linking a "dirty bomb" with a "conventional nuke".... these two devices are miles apart in comparison. Did you notice how they switched it?)
The U.S. also has custom agents screening U.S.-bound containers at certain foreign ports.
But, as a 2004 government report to Congress noted, terrorists are expected to try to circumvent those efforts by acquiring a trusted shipping company to avoid suspicion, falsifying manifest data, infiltrating ports' administrations and shipping from ports where there are no U.S. agents.
(Heck, the government is practically giving us their game plan... bet some knuckles will be rapped over that one! Do you think the public picks up on these clues? Or do they blindly trust the government?)
Security improvements are being introduced at major ports in both countries.
Federal authorities here for the past two years have been arming all major ports with stationary radiation detectors to better scan incoming container traffic.
"It is essential to Canada's sovereignty and to the safety of our citizens that we continue to be vigilant in guarding our coastlines," Mackay told the international gathering, sponsored by the Conference Board of Canada.
"As a trading nation, our economic well-being depends very much on this."
(Nonsense... The government is not the least interested in the safety (or liberty) of its citizens. These threats, which they manufacture, foment and fund, are for the sole purpose of herding the sheep tighter into the pen.... They rely on YOU being too ignorant to figure it out. They create the problem... you react.... and they provide the "solution" - your liberty in exchange for "security"... which is never quite achieved till all your liberty is gone. This trick goes back thousands of years, and has been used many times, so why do we keep falling for it?)
<>Look, another coincidence... Just a day after our government spreads its conspiracy theory of a "dirty bomb" attack, we see the exact same warning in Britain from a government Minister. Oh, and just like in Canada, this exact same warning was issued a year before, and almost on the same day as well... Click here for Flashback story
"A dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb. It does not produce the tremendous force and destruction of a nuclear blast. It spreads limited amounts of radioactive material in the surrounding area."
"The primary dangers from a dirty bomb are the injuries associated with the blast itself, such as burns or bleeding."
"The level of radiation in a dirty bomb is unlikely to be enough to cause severe radiation sickness." [read comment]
US military will be guarding 2010 Olympics, in Vancouver BC.
Setting the stage for martial law crackdown...
2010 Games violence feared Signs of trouble emerging now, says expert, who calls plans unprecedented - Kent Spencer Canwest News Service
Monday, May 05, 2008
VANCOUVER -- Diverse protest groups will join forces at the 2010 Olympics amid an upsurge of violence, says a former RCMP intelligence and national security expert.
Tom Quiggin says anarchists, native warrior groups, poverty activists, anti-capitalists and students will come together in Vancouver for the Games.
"A convergence among a number of groups has occurred," said Quiggin, writing from Israel last month in a report for the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
"More social activist groups appear to have shifted their focus from traditional issues and are taking on a more radical perspective," he said.
"Numerous groups have already begun violent activities and further organization may occur against the background of a troubled global picture," he said.
Quiggin said three major international events in Canada will be targeted in 2010, including the Winter Olympics, the G8 summit of industrialized leaders and the Security and Prosperity Partnership meetings.
He said there have been 19 attacks already in Canada "where violence has been used," such as throwing objects and destroying property. [full story] (Click the above highlighted SPP link to see how undercover police were caught trying to provocateur violence by throwing rocks... No other violence in Canada has been associated with the events listed)
Your tax dollars at work.... RCMP brass will be lounging on massive cruise ships, while you get treated like "a terrorist".
Oh, but it doesn't end there, as far as the government taking REALLY good care of its (wink wink) friends, when it comes to the actual games itself... Games that YOU and your grandchildren will be paying for with increased taxes and dept. Check out where most of the tickets will go...
Media expose BC Liberal plan to buy olympic tickets on taxpayer dime [Youtube]
Federal Government Gets Dibs on Olympic Tickets too
RCMP and CSIS acting like olympic terrorists
Military and Police begin police state exercises for Olympics
Meanwhile, after setting the foundation for a police state, they lounge themselves in luxury on your dime...
VANCOUVER -- If you want a sense of how gargantuan the security challenges are going to be at the 2010 Olympics, just consider this: The RCMP is in need of an entire cruise ship -- maybe even two or more -- to house security personnel during the games.
Yes, for a brief few months in 2010, the West Coast will have Canada's largest detachment of Mounties -- floating in the Pacific off Vancouver's docks.
The Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit, run by the RCMP, likely will announce its seafaring option this week, putting out tenders to cruise-ship companies willing to rent out a ship or two.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an
elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said on Thursday.
The Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit, housed inside an armed forces base in Trenton, Ontario, is designed to cope with the aftermath of an attack using weapons of mass destruction. [Click here to see what that is]
The 26 blueprints were contained in one of seven defense ministry files that a passer-by found on top of garbage bags on an Ottawa street. The other six files are still missing.
"We take this very seriously. So I want to hear first exactly what went on," Day told reporters, saying he had ordered his officials to examine the incident.
The plans -- which the passer-by handed to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper -- contain detailed drawings of the building's floor plan, electrical grid and the storage bay for robots designed to detect chemical and biological agents. (Reporting by David Ljunggren)
According to a memo leaked to the Daily Telegraph, Home Office officials are planning to expand the police DNA database to identify suspects and use greater powers to track individuals through advanced closed circuit television (CCTV) technology and the Oyster card used by millions of people on London’s bus and rail network.
The memo discusses different means the government could use to persuade the British public to accept these measures. It asks, “To what extent should the expectation of liberty be eroded by legitimate intrusions in the interests of security of the wider public?” and concludes, “Increasing [public] support could be possible through the piloting of certain approaches in high-profile ways such as the London Olympics.” [full report]
What some of the terrorism money was used for....
Did Air Force divert terror funds to buy posh seats? - By R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post, July 18/08 WASHINGTON — For three years, the Air Force's top leadership sought to spend counterterrorism money on "comfort capsules" on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders, with at least four top generals involved in selecting the color of the capsules' carpet and leather chairs, according to internal e-mails and budget documents.
German intelligence agents have been caught staging a false flag terror attack against an EU building in Kosovo, apparently in an attempt to create a pretext for EU police to be deployed in Kosovo after government leaders rejected the UN-mandated proposal.
“Germany declined to comment on on Saturday on reports that three Germans arrested on suspicion of throwing explosives at an EU office in Kosovo were intelligence officers,” reports Reuters.
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