"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power"--Benito Mussolini

"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it"--Winston Churchill

"The constitution of Canada does not belong either to Parliament, or to the Legislatures; it belongs to the country and it is there that the citizens of the country will find the protection of the rights to which they are entitled" Supreme Court of Canada A.G. of Nova Scotia and A.G. of Canada, S.C.R. 1951 pp 32

I have a sarcastic laugh as I am thinking back when U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, at a press conference, hailed the Chicago School of Economics as a working economic model for the economic development of poor countries. At that time Donald Rumsfeld advertised a reward of $25 million for the still wanted Osama Bin Laden while the Afghan landscaping was being turned to dust by the U.S. air strikes.

This is the ultimate economic model of the Chicago School of Economics or Free Market or Corporate Globalization, destroying a country while providing a private $25 million reward. We have many bullies for leaders, and these bullies cover their assets behind the flag, behind the blindness of patriotism, and behind religious fundamentalism as they all end up their speeches with "God Bless America." And I question if the flag, a piece of cloth, constitutes the preservation of our Constitution of human rights, or if patriotism constitutes citizenship, or if God blesses America before blessing any other country. We live in a stranger world as our common language is being progressively taken over by our fortunate leaders, by our corporate intellectual copyrights, and ultimately by our legislative institutions.

Very early this morning I received an interesting e-mail from lawyer Connie Fogal. This e-mail is a copy of a letter directed to Senator Joan Fraser and in this letter Fogal expresses her shock to the lack of civil liberties shown by Senator Fraser in regard to her voting in favour of the antiterrorism legislation Bill C 36. You can read Fogal's letter in its detail but what is important to highlight is that this Bill C 36 is a copy of the U.S. Patriot bill, that is the antiterrorism legislation being copied across the free world to restrict our liberties and to defend our civilization of the Free Market. As Bill C 36 has received royal assent, our police along with Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay are hard at work compiling an official list of terrorists to be later eventually terrorized.

Other countries are a bit luckier than Canada as they have begun already to terrorize their terrorists, in particular it is common knowledge that Israel has maintained for sometime their "extrajudicial killings" of accused terrorists. In the meantime, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, the chief human rights officer at the U.N. Secretariat, told the Security Council that

"There is evidence that some countries are now introducing [antiterrorism.] measures that may erode core human rights safeguards... In some countries, nonviolent activities have been considered as terrorism, and excessive measures have been taken to suppress or restrict individual rights, including the presumption of innocence, the right to a fair trial, freedom from torture, privacy rights, freedom of expression and assembly, and the right to seek asylum."

It is also interesting to notice that while the US patriot legislation is being copied across the free world as a model to combat terrorism, the same United States was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva last year. And again we must ask ourselves what is terrorism as terrorism has not been defined yet in a common language understood by common people.

References:

Letter to Senator Fraser January 3,2002, by lawyer Connie Fogal conniefogal@telus.net

Ottawa poised to single out terrorists. Official cabinet list, Jim Bronskill, December 31, 2001 Southam News http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011231/1002164.html

U.N. Fears Abuses of Terror Mandate. Crackdown: Rights monitors see regimes using agency's campaign to justify repression, by William Orme, Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2002 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-010202unease.story

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