Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, fresh from whining about how mean everybody is to his agency of drooling idiots who torture Canadian citizens by proxy, has decided to embarrass himself further by babbling the following to the Canadian news media:

Canada’s spy agency suspects that cabinet ministers in two provinces […]

December 2005 – Amnesty International and the BC Civil Liberties Association file an application in the Federal Court seeking to stop the practice of transferring detainees from Canadian custody to Afghan authorities
Feb. 6, 2007 – Military officials begin investigation of three complaints by Afghan prisoners that they were abused while in the custody of the […]

Others in the blogosphere point to the even stronger rumours that harper is planning to cowardly prorogue parliament until after the fascist spectacle of the Olympics in order to avoid public accountability for his possible complicity in war crimes in Afghanistan.
This is unacceptable.
If harper does pursue this detestable course of action of course the opposition […]

Gotta run. But I’ll be back to flesh this out. I think the post title will get people thinking though.Back.
There are countries that pretty blatantly torture people and there are countries that at least make the effort to say that they do not torture people. And then, of course, there are countries that don’t […]

harpercon Government: “There’s nothing in Richard Colvin’s memos that indicates anything wrong. The fact that Colvin says otherwise shows he doesn’t remember what he, himself wrote.”
Committee on Afghanistan: “Can we see the memos?”
harpercon Government: “No.”
Three generals, including the imbecile Hillier: “We’ve looked at the memos that the committee hasn’t seen (and which, technically, […]

The case of Omar Khadr should be relatively simple. As usual however, the bottom third of the Canadian political intellect is having enormous difficulties grasping very simple truths and is making everything much more complicated than it has to be.
Their argument (such as it is) is that Khadr’s family was only Canadian for convenience. […]

As the death-toll of Canadian soldiers continues to rise (though, as you’ll remember from here, Canada’s fanatical supporters of “the troops” [tm] aren’t going to get excited about deaths until they reach Korean War or World War II levels) the pathetic, discredited, unpopular, un-Canadian, right-wing HarperLovers, are reduced to new levels of idiocy to defend […]

All at once. All on the same day. Killed by an “Improvised Explosive Device” placed near the side of an Afghanistan road. Between the time I started this entry and today, two more soldiers have died. Military spokespersons are denying that this spike in IED hits is indicative of a renewed spring offensive in Afghanistan, […]

Stephen Harper has just given everyone who is trying to fight AIDS the middle finger. By refusing to attend the AIDS conference in Toronto, he has very effectively shown that the Canadian government doesn’t give two shits about the people suffering and dying because of HIV/AIDS around the world, from Johannesburg to Bangkok to Caracas […]