Stephen Harper Says

Step out of the car and prove you are sober.

There are all sorts of different ways that the proponents of this chunk on intrusive law are going to try and spin it, but essentially that’s what we’re looking at – drivers in Canada will soon be pulled to the side of the road and forced to prove that they are sober.

Because That’s The Way It’s Always Been Done

A short video that sums up the political process very nicely.

Trucker Gets $305 Ticket For Smoking In His Truck

I’m sure there are those who will defend this — there always are.

Political Correctness Rule #172

If this article at Rabble about this article in the Toronto Star that was further blogged about here is correct then I believe it can be safely said that someone is trying to shut someone up in discussing activities designed to shut people up…. and, unfortunately, to some degree, succeeding.

The Obligatory Happy Canada Day Post

Happy Canada Day, don’t secret wiretaps and jury checks make you feel proud to be Canadian?

The Murk Begins To Clear

The Jewish Defence League of Canada is taking credit for lighting the spark that ultimately burned a British politician’s plans to enter the country.

If You’ve Nothing To Hide –

– you’ve nothing to fear?

Millions of Britons who use social networking sites such as Facebook could soon have their every move monitored by the Government and saved on a “Big Brother” database.

It Died, And Should Have Stayed Dead

So 3 months after the September 22 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center the Liberal government passed some knee-jerk legislation giving the police extraordinary powers of arrest, and compelling people to testify at secret hearings – the law had a 5 year sunset clause that has come and gone, and now they want to bring it back — my question is why?

Signs Of An Authoritarian Government

If your government decides that its’ interests outweigh your interests you probably live under an authoritarian government

“Usually” ?

Angry villagers carted the bodies of two dead children into Kandahar city today, screaming “Death to the Canadians” and blaming the foreign troops for testing weapons near their homes.

New Law To Give Police Access To Online Exchanges

The Conservative government is preparing sweeping new eavesdropping legislation that will force Internet service providers to let police tap exchanges on their systems – but will likely reignite fear that Big Brother will be monitoring the private conversations of Canadians.

RCMP: Tasering Mother Holding Children Not Excessive

– and that, my friends, is why entities like the RCMP should not be allowed to investigate themselves.

Imagine That, They Noticed

I work as the officer in charge of the Professional Standards Section at the Ottawa Police Service and am currently reviewing this matter at the request of Chief Vern White.

We Are The Government –

– and you, the unwashed masses and assorted rabble who put us in our position of power, have no right to know anything.

Governments would be fully justified if they were to eliminate all freedom of information provisions in one fell swoop, an Ontario government lawyer told the Supreme Court of Canada yesterday.

Thou Shalt Not Kill — Except When…….

I’m listening to [what is trying to pass for] discussion on assisted suicide – I say “trying to pass for” a discussion as CFRA’s listener ship is primarily URQ so the inevitable “thou shalt not” has been brought up a couple of times.

The best of the bunch being “God did not issue 10 suggestions, he issued 10 commandments” and one of them is “thou shalt not kill” – however that doesn’t include self-defense, and it doesn’t include war, and apparently it doesn’t include……