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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960

The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991

The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002


Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign

 


I didn’t watch the Super Bowl Sunday night, instead I continued to read few pages of a thick Italian book on El Che’ Guevara. Monday morning I watched the results of the Super Bowl and I watch a picture of Janet Jackson showing off her body parts as she was entertaining the Super Bowl’s crowd. It was really a great entertainment and more so when I think that CBS didn’t accept an advertisement by MoveOn.org as it was found too offensive for President Bush. Entertainment has become the reality today while serious problems of governmental services and finance are covered up and mortgaged to the next generations.

Again Monday we have body parts of people dying in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the Middle East. I really wonder if we have to believe the self fulfilling myth of the ‘Clash of Civilizations" as propagandized by the conventional media, as entrenched in the American foreign policies and as taught in political science courses at universities.

In the meantime, in the middle of political and economic confusion, we experience governmental terrorist alerts, conspiracy theories and the build up of the American military and Homeland Security.

Some twenty five years ago I was working under the thumb of the Saskatchewan Health-Care Association (today’s Association of Health Organizations, SAHO) and I couldn’t rationalise the rooted incompetence of its leaders as they treated people as merchandise to buy and sell out. I was really appalled about this managerial incompetence, firstly because this association was not for profit and secondly because the province of Saskatchewan had been the cradle of socialized health care in Canada. Now, I think I am able to rationalise this state of permanent and determined social and managerial confusion. It is just the exercise of greed, that is what neo-conservatives call the struggle of the fittest in the Free Market and what I would call instead the struggle for the monopolisation of power and money at the expense of people at large.

The US puppet Iraqi Governing Council, composed of mostly liberated Iraqis who have lived abroad most of their life, is now charging that anti-war nations 'took bribes' from Saddam Hussein before war began. We must contrast this Iraqi libertine assertion that France was for example bribed by Saddam Hussein with the uncovered truth that in early 2003 the US was spying on United Nations (UN) Security Council delegations for the purpose to swing a UN resolution to execute a legal war against Iraq. Thanks to the leaking of this uncovered truth by Katharine Gun, a former British intelligence employee at the United Nations, we now know more of the illegal background of the war against Iraq.

President Bush doesn’t want to take responsibilities of his illegal and pre-arranged war against Iraq and he has just stated he would appoint an "independent bipartisan commission" to review US intelligence on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Also, President Bush is going first to sit down with David Kay, former head of the Iraq Survey Group, and concoct with him another cover up. But the truth of the intelligence failures leading to the Iraq war has been already uncovered: it was the intelligence chain purposely tunneled to the White House by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, commander in chief of the new speak of American communication.

References

Pertinent articles published in Ensign

Parry, Robert Bush's Alderaan: "F--- Saddam," Bush said. "We’re taking him out." April 8, 2003 consortiumnews.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2835.htm

Margolis, Eric A scandal greater than Watergate (PDF) February 2, 2004 Toronto Sun, http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_feb1.html

Dean, John W.Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense? June 6, 2003 FindLaw, CNN http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/06/findlaw.analysis.dean.wmd

MoveOn.org Video clip "Child's Pay" http://www.moveon.org/cbs/ad

Said, Edward The Clash of Ignorance October 11, 2001 Media Monitors Network, http://www.mediamonitors.net/edward40.html

McMahon, Darrin M. Conspiracies so vast: Conspiracy theory was born in the Age of Enlightenment and has metastasized in the Age of the Internet. Why won't it go away?(PDF) February 1, 2004 The New York Times, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/02/01/conspiracies_so_vast?mode=PF

Penketh, Anne Anti-war nations 'took bribes' before war began: Investigation launched into claims that Saddam Hussein used oil to win support around the world January 28, 2004 Independent Digital (UK), http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=485407

Observer US plan to bug Security Council: the text March 2, 2003 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html

Institute for Public Accuracy THE KATHARINE GUN CASE Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, now faces two years imprisonment in England for the "crime" of telling the truth. She is charged with leaking an embarrassing U.S. intelligence memo indicating that the U.S. was spying on U.N. delegations in early 2003 in an effort to win approval of the Iraq war resolution. The leaked memo was big news in parts of the world. England has no First Amendment that might protect Ms. Gun. It does have a repressive Official Secrets Act, under which she is being prosecuted by the Blair government. http://www.accuracy.org/gun

King, John Bush to pick panel for WMD inquiry (PDF) February 2, 2004 CNN.com, http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/02/sprj.nirq.iraq.wmd/index.html