By Alison@Creekside On Airshow Peter MacKay’s attempt to discredit Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin by accusing him of not having brought up detainee abuse the one time MacKay met with Colvin in Afghanistan: He, Colvin, had only been on the job for 10 days and had not met with any detainees yet. And even if he […]
The Cons’ torture blackout continues
By Alison@Creekside Among the many fakeries and falsehoods foisted on the House on Thursday by the Cons, in their bid to maintain the most secretive and unaccountable government evah, usual frontrunners Laurie Goldie Hawn and Cheryl Gallant got beat out by Gary Goodyear, Minister of Creationism, Science, and Technology. Here he is explaining why the […]
Richard Colvin and the Wankers
By Alison@Creekside Wow. More of the smearing of witnesses we’ve come to expect from the Cons, this time at the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan. – Cheryl Gallant. Although Richard Colvin took pains in his opening statement to the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan to make clear that he […]
Fun and games in Afghanistan
By Alison@Creekside ArmorGroup mercenaries in charge of security at the US embassy in Kabul: “. . . dancing naked around a fire, licking each others nipples and grabbing each others testicles, sex acts, peeing on each other, vodka shots from butt cracks, eating potato chips from clenched buttocks . . .” Well, boyz will be […]
Ass-raping for freedom and prosperity
By Alison@Creekside When Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan complained about young boys being kidnapped and sodomized by Afghan soldiers and interpreters inside Canadian Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar, they were informed by their superiors to look the other way because it was a “cultural difference.” One reported incident of “cultural difference” left a young boy […]
Don’t ask, don’t know
By Alison@Creekside Big hullaballoo following CSIS lawyer Geoffrey O’Brian’s testimony before the public safety committee, in which he said that Canadian intelligence agencies would make use of information obtained by torture from foreign agencies in the “one-in-a-million” eventuality that “lives were at stake.” In fact, said O’Brian, who has been with CSIS since its inception […]
Canada sucks up to torturers
Ah, well, if Stephane Dion is subject to bouts of thoughtless blithering, at least he isn’t turning Canada into a fartcatcher. Reuters news service reports today that Canada’s foreign ministry has announced that it will remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners are at risk of being tortured. […]