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Toew’s Internet surveillance bill walks again

07/12/2012 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Montreal Simon

About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill.

For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn’t do to stumble through our computers without a warrant.

So he can gnaw on the flesh of his enemies — real or imagined.

And sure enough, it turns out I was right.

From cbc.ca: “Under the heading: ‘Could Bill C-30 have helped locate [suspect] Luka Rocco Magnotta earlier?’ two memorandums decline to comment on specifics of the investigation because it is continuing, but go on to say the bill ‘would provide police with tools that could prove useful in similar cases.'”

Toews and his henchmen did indeed try to use that horrifying case of murder and mutilation to dig up the rotting remains of their totalitarian internet snooping bill, and make it walk again. Even though, as Michael Geist points out, Bill C-30 wouldn’t have caught Magnotta any sooner.

“‘By the time the evidence began to accumulate, he was already in Europe,’ Geist told CBC News. ‘The claim that C-30 would have made a difference is simply false — there is no evidence that law enforcement ran into problems tracking down his location to Europe and ultimately making the arrest.'”

And the Bill still isn’t needed.

“ISPs already disclose subscriber information 94 per cent of the time without a court order. For the remainder, there is no evidence that obtaining a warrant for this kind of case poses a problem.”

But that’s the Cons eh? They will use the Big Lie, they will appeal to the darkest angels of our nature, they will do ANYTHING to try to get what they want.

And the only reason they want Bill C-30 is to try to intimidate their political opponents. From those who disagree with their cruel economic and social policies, to environmentalists and others who oppose the Con regime’s plans to turn us into a sinister petro state.

And of course, that’s Vic Toews.

Because the old zombie won’t give up. He’s still stumbling around out there making a monster out of himself.

And scarily enough he doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.

“Every year stories come up saying that Minister Toews is retiring from politics and going to the bench, and every year he returns to Parliament to continue working to keep Canadians safe. Minister Toews will continue to pursue our government’s legislative priorities in the fall session, with a focus on speedy passage of the Enhancing RCMP Accountability Act.”

Vic Toews is working to keep us SAFE?

Gimme a break. Four feet good, two feet better. All hail Great Napoleon Leader. Muahahahahaha.

But of course, it’s not funny. Those totalitarian klowns still have three more years to force themselves upon us, offend our decency, and rape our country and its values.

So let me make another prediction. The Cons will use the Magnotta case to introduce a bill to restore the death penalty. Because Harper knows it will divide the population, and distract from the many ways he is slowly strangling Canada.

The MSM says he won’t.

But I know he will…

Because I know that he’ll do ANYTHING to have absolute power, and try to scare his opponents into submission.

Yup. If you love internet freedom make sure that somebody drives a stake through the heart of that internet snooping bill.

If you want to feel safer, demand that Vic Toews be forced to resign, or be fired.

If you love our country defeat those zombie Cons, before they mutilate it further . . .

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill C-30, Canada, Canadian politics, internet, privacy, Vic Toews

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  1. Rwolf says

    11/18/2012 at 8:52 pm

    U.S. Expanding Cross-border Police Integration With Canada & Asset Forfeiture Sharing

    Concurrent with Obama’s proposed law legalizing and expanding cross-border police integration in North America, Canadians earlier this year discovered introduced (Commons Bill C-30 touted to protect children on the Internet—would also give any Canadian police officer—without a warrant—the power to request Internet service providers turn over customers’ information (see section 17 of C-30); allow Canadian police to seek into Canadians’ private computers. C-30 was strongly opposed by Canadians in April 2012. Canadians further discovered Canada had signed with the United States an array of (Asset Forfeiture Sharing Agreements) for Canada to share Canadian and Americans assets civilly or criminally confiscated using Asset Forfeiture laws that resulted from U.S. and Canada sharing information gleaned from electronic surveillance of Canadian and American Citizens’ communications, e.g., emails, faxes, Internet actively, phone records.

    Compare: The Obama Government wants the power (without a warrant) to introduce as evidence in U.S. Civil; Criminal and Administrative prosecutions any phone call record, email or Internet activity. Police can take out of context any innocent—hastily written email, fax or phone call record to allege a crime or violation was committed to cause a person’s arrest, fines and or civil asset forfeiture of their property. There are more than 350 laws/violations that can subject property to Government forfeiture that require only a civil preponderance of evidence.

    The U.S. “Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000” (effectively eliminated) the “five year statue of limitations” for Government Civil Asset Forfeiture: the statute now runs five years (from the date) government or a police agency allege they “learned” an asset became subject to forfeiture. It is foreseeable should (no warrant) government electronic surveillance be allowed; police will relentlessly sift through business and Citizens’ (government retained Internet data), emails and phone communications to discover possible criminal or civil violations. History Repeats: A corrupt or despot U.S. Government/Agency can too easily use no-warrant—(seized emails, Internet data and phone call information) to blackmail Americans, corporations and others in the same manner Hitler used his police state no warrant passed laws to extort support for the Nazi fascist government, including getting members of German parliament to pass Hitler’s 1933 Discriminatory Decrees that suspended the Constitutional Freedoms of German Citizens. A Nazi Government threat of Asset Forfeiture of an individual or corporation’s assets was usually sufficient to ensure Nazi support.

    Under U.S. federal civil asset forfeiture laws, a person or business need not be charged with a crime for government to forfeit their property. Most U.S. Citizens, property and business owners that defend their assets against Government Civil Asset Forfeiture claim an “innocent owner defense.” This defense can become a criminal prosecution trap for both guilty and innocent property owners. Any fresh denial of guilt made to government when questioned about committing a crime “even when you did not do the crime” may (involuntarily waive) a defendant’s right to assert in their defense—the “Criminal Statute of Limitations” past for prosecution; any fresh denial of guilt even 30 years after a crime was committed may allow U.S. Government prosecutors to use old and new evidence, including information discovered during Civil Asset Forfeiture Proceedings to launch a criminal prosecution. For that reason: many innocent Americans, property and business owners are reluctant to defend their property and businesses against Government Civil Asset Forfeiture. Annually U.S. Government seizes Billions in assets without filing criminal charges. Increasingly local police are turning their criminal investigations over to Federal Agencies to receive an 80% rebate of forfeited assets. Federal Government is not required to charge anyone with a crime to forfeit property.

    Re: waiving Criminal Statute of Limitations: see USC18, Sec.1001, James Brogan V. United States. N0.96-1579. U.S. See paragraph (6) at:
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96-1579.ZC1.html

  2. Justin Flontek says

    07/12/2012 at 4:54 pm

    Vic Toews is a goof plain and simple. No more needs to be said.

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