CSIS using Air India Tragedy to destroy fundamental
tenets of law!
"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the
principles on which it was founded."Montesquieu (1689-1755),
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of
human freedom. It is
the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt
Remember as you read the material on this page, that we were told by all western governments that "our enemy" is out to destroy our liberty... This page will help you identify that enemy. But first, we've included the quote for you....
All western leaders at United Nations defined "terrorists and their allies" as:
those that “believe the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American
Bill of Rights, and every charter of liberty ever written, are lies, to
be burned and
Speech to United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2004
11:00 A.M. EDT]
Bush, Blair and Steven Harper have all since been busy setting out to destroy the rights
and freedoms preserved by
such documents. They freely confess, therefore, that they
are the extremists in our midst - they are the terrorists. They have also proven that they
are willing to deceive, kill and destroy to convince the public to bow to their tyranny.
Who's pulling the strings? Please watch this short video to find out.
Rooting out child terrorists is priority of "federal government".
Teens need ID to fly- Vancouver Sun, June 18/2007 New rules on picture ID affect children 12-18
Children who arrive at the airport today without proper identification risk being turned away at the boarding gate. As the summer holidays kick off, parents are faced with stricter security measures requiring children aged 12 to 18 to have a passport or other government-issued photo identification, under new regulations that take effect today. [Full Story]
Media refers to "911" in piece on new police state airport security.... even for domestic flights.
"Secrets lists" that government will not disclose, or reveal criteria for gathering.... Children could also be on list.
Click above left pic for part I, and right pic for Part II on child requirements.
Currently, the Advanced Passenger Information System, operated by the Customs and Border Patrol, requires airlines to forward a list of passenger information no later than 15 minutes before flights from the US take off (international flights bound for the US have until 15 minutes after take-off). Planes are diverted if a passenger on board is on the no-fly list.
At issue is whether Monica Emmerson, a former Secret Service officer, was improperly detained June 11 after she spilled water out of her child's sippy cup at Washington's Reagan National Airport.
B.C.'s coastal transportation systems are open to terrorist attacks, and although security checks of B.C. Ferries passengers aren't practical, screening float plane patrons and bags is, and should be done, Liberal Senator Colin Kenny said yesterday during a visit to Victoria.
Just one month after our rouge Senate approved police state measures for float planes, low and behold they get a bomb threat to seemingly vindicate their fears. Isn't that nice an convenient?
What's more, the police inspection was nothing more than that routinely done by a pilot during his walk-a-round pre-flight inspection. Furthermore all access to the planes interior and dock area are closed off the public behind chain link fence, making it unlikely that any terrorist would have gotten access to the aircraft without being noticed by security. But that didn't stop the police from needless delaying the public in this obviously staged spectacle, intended to foster support for their tightened security.
Have a look at the video of this latest false flag farce.
"Safety is our No. 1 priority," Wright said. "We take every precaution. We want to make sure our customers are safe. The threat was in Vancouver but we're checking every one of our bases and aircraft."
Victoria and Langley police departments, Richmond RCMP, Harbour Air and Transport Canada were all investigating the security threat. Bomb-sniffer dogs were brought in to search the grounded planes and docks, and the water was also searched. In Langley, the airport search forced the temporary lockdown of Langley Senior Secondary school next door.
Planes didn't resume flying until about 11 a.m. after the threat was deemed a hoax. It's the first bomb threat the company has received in its 25-year history. B.C. Ferries has had two such threats in recent months.
But just last month, Liberal Senator Colin Kenny said that B.C.'s coastal transportation systems are wide open to terrorist attacks, and singled out seaplanes as an area that needs a boost in security. [full story]
Now compare the video [recorded April 2007] you just saw with the following....
BC Ferries increased security and a police investigation was underway Sunday, a day after a bomb threat was made against the company's vessels and passengers.
Thousands of summer travellers were stranded for up to six hours and the company was forced to cancel 21 sailings between terminals near Vancouver and Victoria. [full report]
Bizarre allegations about Toronto 18, unorthodox decisions are raising questions about Crown's case
Ottawa's abrupt decision to cancel a preliminary inquiry into Canada's most spectacular post-9/11 terror allegations and instead move directly to trial raises new and troubling questions.
Everything about the case of the so-called Toronto 18 is shrouded in mystery. Evidence raised in court, either at bail hearings or the preliminary hearing, is covered by a publication ban. But this hasn't prevented the public from knowing allegations against 14 adults and four juveniles that are so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable.
The Crown claims that at one point the alleged Islamic terrorists were plotting to cut off Prime Minister Stephen Harper's head – but changed their minds because they weren't sure where Parliament Hill was. It also claims some of the 18 attended a Keystone Kops-style military training camp at Washago north of Toronto where, it seems, they spent most of their time complaining about the cold.
Shortly after charges were levelled, the Star reported the government case rested on two informants. One, whose name cannot be published, is said to have been paid $4 million by the government. He was apparently a central figure in an alleged plot to make a fertilizer bomb. A second informant, Mubin Shaikh, decided to go public. Now you can't shut him up. He's been interviewed by the Star, the National Post, the Los Angeles Times, the CBC and most recently the BBC. [full report]
Terror hearing halted - TheStar.com Sept 25/07
Crown's decision to go directly to trial a `disgrace' and `abuse of process,' shocked defence lawyers say
Preview of the 2010 Olympic prison camp being set up to get you used to martial law.
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)
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Note in the
below article how both sides focus on the so-called "necessity" of such legislation.... they actually think destroying your liberty is an effective protection of our freedom; despite the fact that if real terrorists are attacking us to in effect "destroy our freedoms", the government is clearly playing into their hands. So you're forced to acknowledge that even if you don't believe the government is itself the main source of terrorism, they are clearly allies with them. Read that Bush speech again [half page up] if you don't want to take our word for it....
Don't you
think a terrorist attack would fit their agenda to a tee, unless of course, Canadians continue to fold to their ever increasing oppression? Maybe for the first time that billion dollars they spent on the "gun registry" of law abiding gun owners is starting to fit the puzzle still forming in your head? Can you see the future taking form???
Check out the phoney opposition theatrics.... Oh they love to use the word "necessity", when the only thing that is necessary is for them to preserve the rights and freedoms of their master - which is THE PEOPLE, aka YOU AND I.
Government workers, MLA's and police ARE NOT "officials" or "masters", they are our CIVIL SERVANTS! This has to get through our heads, so we can make sure it gets through theirs.
OTTAWA (CP) - Old battle lines within the Liberal party over Canada's
anti-terror obligations have been drawn again, with Bob Rae and former
cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal the latest to weigh in.
At the core of the internal debate is a pair of Criminal Code
provisions, one that allows police to arrest a person they suspect is about to engage in terrorist activity, and another that allows
closed
[secret] investigative hearings into possible or past terrorist attacks.
The measures were brought in under the Liberal government in the
aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks,
but not without a vigorous argument
within caucus. Pressure from the left wing of the party resulted in
sunset clauses being attached to the measures.
Now that they're set to expire by March 1, Leader Stephane Dion has
declared they should be allowed to disappear from the books. That
position is likely to be adopted by the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois,
who were opposed to the measures from their inception.
But a growing number of senior Liberals have said the measures should
be renewed in the interest of public safety,
including former
ministers such as Anne McLellan and
John Manley who were behind the
legislation in the first place.
[What about
the interest [actually its a duty] of upholding the Constitution?]
Now Rae, who came in third in December's leadership race, says he has
concerns about letting the provisions die.
Although neither of the measures have been used yet by authorities,
Rae points out that Air India investigators have had plans in place to
trigger the investigative hearings as part of their continuing work.
B.C.'s solicitor general said the same earlier this week.
"The question of Air India and similar issues need to be in people's
minds as they reflect on what to do, what are the appropriate ways of
dealing with this question," said Rae, who led a government review
into the Air India case. Rae has said previously that he supports
Canada's anti-terror legislation.
Dhaliwal, who broke ranks with McLellan and others at the time the
Anti-Terror Act was introduced, sided with Dion on allowing the
measures to die. He said they were drafted in haste within a subcommittee of cabinet, an overreaction to the events in the United
States - a claim that rankles McLellan and Manley.
"We need to make sure that if it's not necessary,
we don't take away
from the civil liberties of Canadians," Dhaliwal said in an interview,
pointing to the Maher Arar case.
[No, Mr.
Dhaliwal, you don't have ANY authority to "take away"
our
liberties, regardless of any so-called necessity. What part of
this don't
you civil servants understand?]
"If it's never been used, maybe we
don't need to have it on the books.
Of course the police want every tool they want to get, but should we
give them every tool that they want ... just in case they may need
it?"
The splits are familiar ground for the Liberals, who have had spirited
debates amongst themselves over public safety, civil liberties, and
U.S-Canada relations.
The divisions were welcome fodder for the Conservatives, who are
trying to persuade the House to salvage the measures.
"For the first time in history we have a leader of the opposition who
is soft on terrorism," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during
Question Period. "He is refusing to take the advice of Bob Rae, John
Manley, Anne McLellan and to back the anti-terrorism provisions that
his own government put in place."
Friday, February 23, 2007, - Juliet O'Neill, CanWest News Service
OTTAWA -- A Liberal-dominated Senate committee recommended a three-year extension yesterday for two anti-terrorist measures the Conservative government is struggling to save from defeat in the House of Commons early next week.
CREDIT: Tom Hanson, Canadian Press
"The terrorists are still running among us and God knows who their next victims will be," Bal Gupta said at a news conference yesterday. Gupta's wife was killed in the Air India disaster.
The two measures, investigative hearings and preventive arrests, lie at the heart of political turmoil in the Commons, where the Liberals are divided over an extension the government says is necessary to keep the RCMP's Air India investigation going.
Senator David Smith, chairman of the Senate special committee on the Anti-terrorism Act, told reporters he will be comfortable voting with his party against the government extension.
He said he did not want to deal with the two measures in isolation from about 40 other recommendations based on two years of study and 140 witnesses.
Among other things, the committee recommends removal of "political, religious or ideological motives" from the definition of a terrorist crime; appointment of special advocates to represent parties deprived of full evidence in national security cases; and the narrowing of the scope of information that may constitute a crime if leaked outside authorized circles.
Despite the Senate report, fresh appeals from families of the 1985 Air India bombing victims, and pressure from within his own party, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion yesterday stood by his opposition to the two measures, partly on grounds they may be used to stigmatize an innocent witness as a terrorist suspect.
In the Commons, deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of doing just that the day before by citing a Vancouver Sun report that the father-in-law of Ontario Liberal MP Navdeep Bains is on a list of people the RCMP wants subject to one of 15 investigative hearings planned in the Air India case.
Harper arrived at the Commons flanked by widower Bal Gupta and other members of Air India victim families. His office had given notice to the press gallery of a photo opportunity.
"The terrorists are still running among us and God knows who their next victims will be," Gupta said at a news conference after lobbying MPs and meeting the prime minister. "I believe the government is doing the right thing for Canadians by trying to extend this act."
Harper repeatedly refused requests from Bains and a string of front-bench Liberals to apologize for insinuations that had enraged the Liberals the day before. He calmly deflected harsh criticism by Ignatieff, who accused him of having "disgraced this institution" and by Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale who called Harper a "mean and petty" man who lacks common decency.
OTTAWA -- The federal privacy commissioner is squaring off against the RCMP for urging the government to adopt changes that would legally compel companies to give police personal information of employees and customers without their knowledge or consent -- changes the office says would invade the privacy of Canadians.
The RCMP is also seeking changes to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act that would prohibit banks, employers and other institutions from letting Canadians know the police are looking at their personal information without the RCMP's permission.
It's a situation that has raised serious alarm with Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart and some MPs who say the changes would be a critical invasion of privacy and create massive potential for abuse in terms of how personal information is collected by and given to the police.
"It's a basic tenet of our democracy that the citizen cannot be constrained by the state except in certain circumstances," Stoddart said in an interview yesterday. "That's why we have judges, that's why we have search warrants. We cannot disrupt somebody's private life unless it's for a serious, real cause."
The Commons privacy and ethics committee is undertaking a mandatory five-year review of the act.
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Supreme Court still can make right decision on the obvious. Or did they really have justice and our common law as preserved in Magna Carta in mind? Keep reading.....
Canada's Supreme Court struck down the government's right to detain foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial, ruling Friday that the system violates the country's bill of rights.
The Justice Department had insisted that the "security certificate" program is a key tool in the fight against global terrorism and essential to national security.
But in a 9-0 judgment, the high court found the system violates the Charter of Rights and Freedom. It suspended the judgment from taking effect for a year, to give Parliament time to rewrite the law that deals with the certificates.
Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2007 SCC 9
Harper and high court substitute their duty to protect our constitutional LAW for subjective esoteric illusory "public safety" myth.
Links to below story have now been purged from Canada.com website. Originally posted on February 27 2007 [retrieved from Victoria Times Colonist page A3]
Harper intends to tweak system
By Andrew Mayeda -CanWest News Service
OTTAWA — Only days alter the Supreme Court struck down parts of the security-certificate regime as unconstitutional, Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed to ‘sustain” the system used to detain non-citizens believed to pose a national-security threat.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that withholding evidence from individuals detained on security certificates violates the Chaffer of Rights and Freedoms. On the day the ruling was released, Harper’s ministers would say only that the government would respond to the decision in a “timely and decisive fashion.
In his first comment in the Commons on the ruling, Harper went a step further and confirmed the government plans to continue using security certificates in some form.
[The security certificate [which violates the common law tenet of habeas corpus] is the part that is clearly unconstitutional, so "continuing to use" them is a contemptuous violation of both the constitution and the court. This is the very thing that we are told terrorists are seeking to do: destroy the liberties and freedoms we enjoy.]
‘The Supreme Court said that the security-certificate process is necessary for public safety in the fight against terrorism. It did find some provisions unconstitutional, “Harper conceded.
[How can the destruction of our justice system in any way be seen to protect it? On the contrary, this sort of action is the very thing we are told is the set goal of terrorism, so the court is working with the goals of terrorists, and rewarding their efforts. Not such a hard thing to imagine when we understand that government is in fact the source of the vast majority of terrorism in the west. Watch this video to see how this has clearly been documented and exposed.]
However, he said the ruling “laid out for Parliament a pretty clear road map on how to rectify the legislation so that we can continue to sustain the security-certificate regime.
Harper’s comments gave the strongest indication yet the government plans to tweak the regime, rather than scrap it.
Although the Supreme Court struck down parts of the system, it gave the government one year to rewrite the immigration law that enables security certificates.
[They can do so by making security certificates applicable to both citizens and non-citizens, so it is not deemed to be "discriminatory".... See how that works? Now they can come for you too, and hold you indefinitely without disclosing any official charges! That folks, is called a police state.... all done right under your nose. Check out this link to see what in store for Canada now. This is the death of your country, and there is scarcely a whimper..]
Under the system, the government can detain permanent residents and foreign nationals without charge and seek to deport them. A Federal Court judge weighs the evidence in private, in the absence of the individual or his lawyer.
Meanwhile, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day made it clear yesterday that the government has no intention of closing the $3.2-million ‘immigration holding centre” near Kingston, Ont., where three men are being held on security certificates.
Critics have dubbed the holding centre “Guantanamo North” in reference to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees have made allegations of torture.
New Democrat MP Bill Siksay noted the three men — Mohammad Mahjoub, Mabmoud Jaballah and Hassan Almrei — have been on a hunger strike at the facility for nearly three months. He called on Day to appoint the federal correctional investigator to probe the men’s complaints, and asked whether the minister would start negotiations on their release.
Day rejected the idea of creating ‘another layer of bureaucracy to deal with the problem noting the government already has Red Cross officials visit the facility on a regular basis and makes available a “healthcare practitioner” every day.
One of the men accused, then acquitted in Canada's worst act of terrorism is suing the attorneys general of Canada and British Columbia, alleging the Air India prosecution damaged his reputation and cost him millions.
Vancouver businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik was acquitted in March 2005 in the 1985 Air India bombings, which killed 331 people.
CBC News has confirmed Malik is seeking unspecified damages in a filing in the Supreme Court of B.C. for:
Malicious prosecution.
Wrongful imprisonment.
Breach of the plaintiff's Charter rights.
Conspiracy to injure.
Negligent performance of duty.
Damage to the plaintiff's reputation in connection with the plaintiff's wrongful prosecution.
Air India Flight 182 had left Toronto, made a stop in Montreal, and was headed for New Delhi and Bombay on June 23, 1985, when it exploded in mid-air off the coast of Ireland.
The bombing was the worst mass murder in Canadian history, killing all 329 people on board, including 286 Canadians. Two baggage handlers in Japan were killed in a related bombing the same day.
In 2005, Malik was acquitted on all 331 murder counts.
However, he argues the charges pinned on him hurt his reputation and cost him millions of dollars for his defence. The Crown initially gave him $6 million to fund his defence, but wants him to repay the funds.
Malik, who had been a wealthy and respected businessman, was accused of bankrolling the attacks.
In October 2000, some 15 years after the RCMP launched the investigation into the bombings, police arrested Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, of Kamloops, and charged both men with first-degree murder and conspiring to plant bombs on an airplane.
They were denied bail, but released in March 2005 when the judge ruled the Crown's case was too weak and cleared both men of all charges.
Malik's lawyer, David Unterman, declined to comment on Tuesday.
More evidence that criminal activity within RCMP reaches to top level of syndicate.
OTTAWA - RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George [picture insert], the force's top human resources official, has been suspended with pay amid whistleblower allegations of an attempted management coverup of a pension fund scandal.
RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Nathalie Deschenes said Saturday that George was suspended without pay Friday pending "a code of conduct investigation in relation to performance of her duties."
Citing privacy law, Deschenes said she could not specify the reason. But at a news conference on Thursday welcoming a government probe into whistleblower allegations, interim RCMP commissioner Beverley Busson said Deschenes had stepped down and her status would be reviewed.
George's lawyer, Bruce Carr-Harris, said the suspension is unfair and took his client by surprise as she understood Thursday that Busson had agreed she could take paid educational leave.
"She was surprised by that and disappointed," Carr-Harris said in an interview. He said George was not told the reason for the suspension but he expressed confidence she will be exonerated by an independent investigator, if not by the Commons public accounts committee where she is expected to testify for a second time on the week of April 16th.
George is among witnesses who have been recalled to testify at the committee after the parliamentary recess about alleged obstruction of efforts to get to the bottom of alleged wrongdoing in the management of the RCMP pension fund and insurance plans.
The auditor general found last year that $3.4 million in spending was inappropriately charged to the RCMP pension fund and that $1.3 million had been spent by the RCMP on work of little or no value. Almost all of the money has since been repaid or reallocated where it belongs, the auditor general's officials have testified.
However, questions about a lack of independence by criminal investigators - all but two of 15 criminal investigators were RCMP - continue to haunt the committee. And whistleblowers say there were delays and obstructions - and that whistleblowers and some investigators were punished.
Citing e-mails obtained from whistleblowers who testified at the committee last week, Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj said last week that he was concerned about George's testimony of Feb. 21.
At the February hearing, Wrzesnewskyj described how Staff Sgt. Mike Frizzell, the lead investigator in a 15-month criminal probe into the pension fund and related issues, was physically removed from the investigation and his computer and files seized. The investigation was terminated the following week in June 2005.
He asked George whether she or former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli ordered the investigation be shut down.
"I can state with absolute finality that it was neither commissioner Zaccardelli nor me who had anything whatsoever to do with, as you say, the removal of Staff Sgt. Frizzell," George testified.
She testified that she was not aware of who was responsible but she understood Frizzell returned to his home division of the RCMP. "I'm being careful with regard to the privacy concerns here, but I understood it was for health reasons," she testified.
Wrzesnewskyj tabled e-mails at the committee last week suggested she had asked assistant commissioners to have Frizzell removed.
Carr-Harris said George stands by this and other testimony at the committee and that e-mails out of context are misleading.
"One thing for sure, we're expecting the whole thing will be dealt with in an independent investigation, if it's not done before the committee, and she will be exonerated," he said. "She's completely convinced that once all the facts are known, that'll be the end of it.
"Clearly the RCMP has decided that they are not going to wait for the return to the public accounts committee. They're not going to wait until the independent investigation. The commissioner obviously felt she had to take some acts before deputy commissioner George has even had a chance to respond. The unfairness of that we are not happy about."
At a news conference Thursday Busson said that George had stepped down and her status was being reviewed.
"There were some reports that she had resigned but that's not the case," Deschenes said. "It's just that she had stepped down from the role that she had with the RCMP at the time and yesterday she was suspended."
At the news conference Busson endorsed the promise by Public Safety Minister Stockwell to appoint an independent investigator to get to the bottom of the whistleblower allegations.
The criminal investigation into the pension fund and nepotism concluded there were administrative issues but no reasonable prospect of conviction on criminal charges.
Ottawa Citizen
The RCMP has just [as of April 3] removedBarbara George's biography pagefrom their website..... Looks like someone may have a guilty conscience, and a fear of reprisal for messing up the lucrative bonuses that many were hoping to enjoy, and further soiling the image of an already disgraced organization in the process.
Judging by her close connections to government officials, she may have let down some very connected people. As we all know, the RCMP is not above the practice of eating its own [See Shooting Cover-up]
Deputy Commissioner HR Barbara George is originally from Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. She joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on May 2, 1978 and was appointed Deputy Commissioner Human Resources in May 2006.
After completing basic training at Depot Division in Regina, Saskatchewan in October 1978, D/Commr George was posted to general patrol duties in the National Capital Region (Ottawa) and served at the Constable rank in various posts including Traffic Section, Warrant Section and National Protective Security Detail. In 1992, D/Commr. George was promoted to the Corporal rank and placed in charge of a Technical Operations Unit with “A” Division in Ottawa. In 1994, D/Commr. George was promoted to Sergeant as a Police Instructor with the Canadian Police College, Communications Unit.
From 1996 to 2001, D/Commr. George served as a Non-Commissioned Officer at the Staff Sergeant rank and then, in 1998, became the Inspector in Charge of the Executive Services and Ministerial Liaison Unit where she honed her skills, as a vital information link between the RCMP and the federal government.
In January 2001, she was promoted to the Superintendent rank and posted in the acting Chief Superintendent position as the Director General, Executive/Officer Development and Resourcing within the Human Resources Sector. In June 2001, she was officially promoted to the rank of Chief Superintendent in that section. In October 2003, she was appointed to the position of Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).
D/Commr. George holds diplomas in Management Studies, Police Leadership and Adult Education from Carleton University, Dalhousie University and St. Francis Xavier University, respectively. She is also a graduate of the Canadian Human Resources Program at Toronto University.
D/Commr. George is married to Tom Maybee and they have three sons, Tom, Tyler and Bradley.
So here's one reason they foment and engineer terrorism..... Now they can put YOU on a list.
OTTAWA - Canadian air travellers will face sweeping new security measures under a national no-fly list set to take effect next month.
Dubbed "Passenger Protect," the program aims to prevent people deemed an air-safety threat from boarding planes headed to, leaving from, or travelling within Canada.
Starting June 18, air carriers will begin checking passenger identification against a list of names of people considered a threat to aviation security. If a passenger's name appears on the no-fly list, provided by the federal government, the airline must check with Transport Canada to determine whether the passenger is actually the person flagged as a threat, and whether the individual can board the flight.
No-fly list could end up in foreign hands, Air India probe hears
OTTAWA (CP) - The names of Canadians on a forthcoming federal no-fly list could end up in the hands of foreign governments, whether or not Ottawa gives its official consent to sharing the information, a Transport Canada official has acknowledged.
Notice that nobody has ever disclosed what the full criteria for getting on such a list might be, other than to say the list is of "potential or suspected" terrorists. Could that not literally include EVERYONE critical of the government? The number of actual terrorists in Canada could be counted with one hand, so why allocate Billions for a list of only a few people? Clearly this list is about control, not safety, as the CSIS/RCMP involvement in Air India clearly demonstrates. Every time CSIS/RCMP had an opportunity to prevent the Air Indian bombing, they either looked the other way and/or deliberately took steps to let the bombing occur. These are the people keeping the list, and they hate you, and they especially hate your freedom and God given rights. --------------
"Conservatives" to ignore supreme law and due process, and re-introduce unconstitutional police state "anti-terror" measures.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 | 2:27 PM ET CBC News
The federal government plans to introduce legislation that would renew controversial anti-terrorism measures voted down by opposition parties earlier this year, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says.
Day said Tuesday he has drafted a bill to reinstate preventive arrests, which allow police to detain or restrain terror suspects without charge. He also said the bill would allow the resumption of investigative hearings, which require anyone with information relevant to the investigation of a terrorist act to appear before a judge.
Both the Commons public safety committee and a Senate panel have already recommended extending those provisions, but Liberal MP and committee member Roy Cullen told CBC News Wednesday that Day must include other key recommendations from both panel reports to ensure the bill's passage.
Cullen also reiterated the Commons panel's request for a special panel of lawyers to deal with secret evidence in security cases, acting as a "devil's advocate" for those accused of terrorism.
"I hope they come forward with a good, constructive package and then some of my colleagues might be persuaded," said Cullen, who voted with the Conservatives for extending the measures in the parliamentary vote in February.
The proposal to keep the measures in place for three more years was voted down 159-124 in the House of Commons.
The Anti-Terrorism Act became part of the Criminal Code in December 2001, shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The changes to the code were "aimed at disabling and dismantling the activities of terrorists groups and those who support them."
Day did not indicate when the new bill would be introduced to Parliament.
CSIS to expand into foreign intelligence Day also told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service will be expanded to do covert foreign intelligence gathering abroad.
That prompted Cullen to accuse the Conservatives of reneging on a campaign promise in the last federal election to create a foreign intelligence service separate from CSIS.
"I'm not surprised," he said. "Rolling it into CSIS, I'm not so sure how that would work."
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered a full and formal apology to Maher Arar this year for Canada's role in his torture, it seemed as if this particularly unsavoury episode had finally been put to rest.
It had not. The Arar story, chilling enough on its own, is just the most well-documented part of a larger and more disturbing pattern that - on the face of it - appears to detail Canada's deliberate complicity in the torture of Canadian citizens.
And if the federal government has its way, that fuller story will never be publicly revealed.
It's been five months since Harper set up a judicial inquiry into Canada's role in the torture abroad of Canadian citizens Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin.
But since then his government has spent its time strenuously arguing before former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci that he should hold virtually all sessions of his "public" inquiry in secret, with even the three men and their lawyers excluded.
The reason cited is national security. [full story]
Are these the guys you think are trustworthy?
Day pledges action on RCMP scandal - April 02, 2007Mr. Day said the government's promised independent investigator is not expected to need subpoena powers because former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli has already publicly indicated he will testify and interim RCMP Commissioner Beverley Busson has agreed that "everybody and anybody who is required to give evidence and testimony will do that."
You know there's problems when an RCMP member can rape young girls... never get charged... go back to police work.... and never have his face shown on the news.
MONTREAL - Teams of activists launched a one-day blitz of 17 Montreal-region Members of Parliament yesterday to underline their opposition to new security-certificate legislation that could be given a third reading as early as next week by the House of Commons.
About 50 people took part in the effort, said Mary Foster, an organizer with Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui.
Privacy watchdogs are crying foul over an attempt by the Public Safety Canada to come up with legislation that will force telecommunications providers to cough up personal information about their clients to [alleged] authorities [aka civil servants].
A consultation document obtained by CTV News reveals the government is planning to hold talks to "address the challenges faced by police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Competition Bureau when seeking timely access to basic Customer Name Address (CNA) information."
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Americans are also imprisoned by fear, a false fear created by the hoax of “terrorism.” It has turned out that headline terrorist events since 9/11 have been orchestrated by the U.S. government. For example, the alleged terrorist plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower was the brainchild of a FBI agent who searched out a few disaffected people to give lip service to the plot devised by the FBI agent. He arrested his victims, whose trial ended in acquittal and mistrial.
