Lessons for Project Samosa
By Alison@Creekside
The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP’s latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows for far more pants-pissingly terrorfying conjecture than mere [...]
Day One in Khadr’s kangaroo court
By Alison@Creekside
Below: Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights Watch is interviewed as she leaves the courtroom on Day 1 of Obama’s first big pretrial for a military commission into the possible terrorist actions of a 14-year old. Terrible sound, I know, but well worth it for her explanation of how after Khadr has been tortured to [...]
Ottawa expands its terror kit
By Alison@Creekside
Your government announced on Friday that it needs more powers to combat terrorism.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson: “These provisions are necessary to protect our country from the threat of terrorism.”
A redo of the panicky, now-defunct Anti-terrorism Act of 2001, the new Combating Terrorism Act includes preventive arrest and forcing people to testify at secret hearings [...]
