Archive for December, 2009

If harper Prorogues

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 by thwap

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 […]

A Coalition Government Could Obtain a Public Inquiry Into Torture

Saturday, December 5th, 2009 by thwap

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 […]

The harpercon Government’s Response to the Torture Scandal Thus Far

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 by thwap

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, […]