Check the record and find the list of sturdy citizens mistaken for drooling fanatics. Along with Cat Stevens, who put himself in jeopardy 30 years ago by changing his name to Yusuf Islam, and Arar, who remains banned even after being cleared by a public inquiry, it includes Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, former federal Liberal leader Bill Graham and Winnipeg MP Pat Martin. So much for those with nothing to hide having nothing to fear.
Lists and registries are so error-prone that Prime Minister Stephen Harper privately lectured President George W. Bush about them a year ago, using Liberal gun controls Conservatives hate as the poster example. Publicly, it's a different story.
Playing loose and fast with hubris, Ottawa is now foolishly declaring there will be few "false positives." Anyway, innocent travellers bounced off flights can always sort it out with the wonderfully Kafkaesque Office of Reconsideration or, ultimately, the Federal Court.
Oh, sure. To joke that the flight will have left by then is to guffaw at the nightmare experiences of those forced to correct a credit record, recover a stolen identity or convince serial telephone recordings that the bureaucracy made a mistake about anything.
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Keeping Us Safe From Singers And U.S. Senators
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"Only hundreds will be on Canada's. Still, that begs questions about accuracy
and sources as well as other awkward ones about how closely those suspects
are now being watched, by whom, and on the strength of what evidence."
ONLY hundreds...I'm sure that each and every individual on the list will find
comfort in knowing they are only one of hundreds rather than thousands!
When will people realized that living in a cage is not freedom. Sure solitary
confinement is protection from the other prisoners but is that the way we
want to live? Some people feel secure when they go to an airport that is
manned by armed guards, I don't get that same sense. I feel very
uncomfortable around people on high alert with their finger on a trigger.
Perhaps we should visit a zoo more often and get a sense of how free and
easy living behind bars can be, with your keeper defining your schedule and
what you eat, who you mate with and what your living quarters is like? They
are safe from each other and from us, and we are safe from them, however I
fail to see anything free or humane about that kind of life.
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"aaaah and the whisper of thousands of tiny voices became a mighty deafening roar and they called it 'freedom'!"' Canadians Acting Humanely at home & everywhere