Where We Stand Now

What 'intensified border patrols'? That's the myth being sold. Actually, the Bush Administration has reduced the funding to border security. There are less centurions on the walls of Rome now than there were during the Clinton administration. They have also tried to stop the 'locked armoured aircraft cabin door' proposal, not sure if they completely succeeded there.

Canada is apparently going to arm all our border guards, which will be useless 99.9% of the time. Not sure how many times a Canadian border guard has stopped a terrorist, told him to get out, and been shot at and have the car get away because he couldn't pull out a gun and blow off the guy's head... anyone help me with that statistic?

Definitely what has happened is, at the border crossings and at the airports, underpaid renta-cops with too much attitude and not enough logical sense have had all sorts of fun giving law-abiding citizens the Shake Down because they were wearing a turban or had a Michael Moore tshirt on or a 911Truth.org bumper sticker.

Congressional investigations into actual security improvements have shown that most of the 'improvements' are simply yet another government contractor jumping on the cash cow and accomplishing massive cost overruns on bloated 'Security' projects that go nowhere and appear intended only to increase stock value for their corporation. The chemical sniffer scanners for airport security are a case in point.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

On the 5th anniversary of 9/11 there is one question that as far as I know no one has answered or maybe even asked: if Canada had not accepted the flights on 9/11 was the Bush Administration willing to let them go down in the ocean?

Canada put their own citizens at huge risk taking the flights because the government at the time admitted that they did not know whether there were hi-jackers on the flights when they directed them towards Canadian cities.

That's a very good and insightful question! More proof that the reaction to 9/11 was just for show.

As I stated in previous posts, all the security we see is a joke, because anyone can still do significant terrorist attacks. For example, a terrorist could blow up a bus full of school children because there's nothing in place to check kids bags for explosives.

For some mysterious reason, the government knows that the terrorists will ONLY attack passenger airplanes and nothing else. How can our rulers know what the terrorists will do next?

It is easy to see that the billions spent in Iraq on security is completely useless, so how it is that banning toothpaste and tweezers from passenger planes going to make any difference here at home?

"Canada is apparently going to arm all our border guards, which will be useless 99.9% of the time."

Yes, but who got the contract?

The massive expenditures on anti-terrorism security is just a great way to launder tax money into "clean" profits. Prior to the War on Terrorism, there was the War on Drugs and before that there was the Cold War - each of which launderd billions of tax money into profits with nothing of substance to show for it. The list of "wars" is endless.

After the War On Terrorism finally peters out (and it will peter out as sure as the Sun rises), yet another "war" will be started, and from that war yet another round of massive reactionary spending of tax money will take place.

The moral authority for refusal to pay taxes is definitely on our side.

There is no doubt that the creation of an enemy is an important feature of capitalist fundamentalism. A headline in Sept. 11, 2006 Halifax Herald reads "Terror a growth industry" <br />
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Each time we create a new "enemy" we create a whole industry surrounding that enemy.

"Each time we create a new "enemy" we create a whole industry surrounding that enemy."

These are industries funded through taxation fraud. Without forced taxation, the war industries would not even get off the ground.

Well I've asked this before but no one has ever bothered to try to give me an answer, they just kind of stare at me with a blank look on their faces. If the terrorists are - as we are lead to believe - ready, willing and capable of striking at a moments notice then why did nothing happen during the black out of Aug. '03? 50 million people essentially without emergency services... seems to me like an opportunity for a terrorist attack.


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Canada for Canadians

I can't help thinking... The U.S. government is a master of deception. Perhaps the entire terrorist issue is not a means of manipulation but a smokescreen for other things going on. To connect the dots and find the direction for our gaze is not easy. The cacophony of bombardment on our senses can delude us to their other purposes. Perhaps the huge underground bunker built by the walton family is a clue. Then again the whole Buffet and Gates change of heart putting their money into charities. Or the push for weapons buildup and trillions of dollars being spent on war. This somehow harkens back to the five hundred dollar toilet seats during the manhatten project days... Just a thought.

Buffet and Gates put their money into a tax free vehicle, it is an investment fund masquerading as a charity.

911 was an inside job. Everybody is less safe than they have ever been before.

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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)

reargaurd,

Good point about the forced taxes and military expenditure. We should insist that since we have a voluntary army (which it should be), that all wars should also be paid for by individual donars. And, if that is adopted I'll happily use my tax dollars to help keep the CBC running without commercials or government interference.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche