Conservative party spokesman William Stairs said details of the commissioner's job would be fleshed out in coming months, but the primary mandate is to pull together efforts to protect Canada from terrorist attacks from abroad and from within.
The commissioner would draw on resources of police and intelligence agencies to develop "overarching" plans to strengthen and better integrate Canada's security network.
"The main idea is to have someone there overall, someone co-ordinating everything," Stairs said.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2005/07/19/1137785-sun.html
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Thats called a false choice.
Both sides work for big business, not for us.
Give your head a shake.
Our Millitary is all contracted out now. Serco wipes our millitaries ass. We dont even train our own forces anymore.
Private companies do.
The Conservative Party of Canada, is anything BUT conservative, save for their definition of marriage.
my apoligies for not linking because this info might diasappear....
American Terror
by chris floyd
More than two years ago, we wrote here of a secret Pentagon plan to foment terrorism by sending covert agents to infiltrate terrorist groups and goad them into action -- in other words, committing acts of murder and destruction. The purpose was two-fold: first, to bring the terrorist groups into the open, where they could be counterattacked; and second, to justify U.S. military attacks on the countries where the terrorists were operating -- attacks which, in the Pentagon's words, would put those nations' "sovereignty at risk." It was a plan that countenanced -- indeed, encouraged -- the deliberate murder of innocent people and the imposition of U.S. military rule anywhere in the world that U.S. leaders desired.
This plan is now being activated.
In fact, it's being expanded, as The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh revealed last week. Not only will U.S.-directed agents infiltrate existing terrorist groups and provoke them into action, but the Pentagon itself will create its own terrorist groups and "death squads." After establishing their terrorist "credentials" through various atrocities and crimes, these American-run groups will then be able to ally with -- and ultimately undermine -- existing terrorist groups.
Top-level officials in the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence services and the Bush administration confirmed to Hersh that the plan is going forward, under the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- just as we noted here in November 2002. Through a series of secret executive orders, George W. Bush has given Rumsfeld the authority to turn the entire world into "a global free-fire zone," a top Pentagon adviser says. These secret operations will be carried out with virtually no oversight; in many cases, even the top military commanders in the affected regions will not be told about them. The American people, of course, will never know what's being done in their name.
The covert units -- including the Pentagon-funded terrorist groups and hit squads -- will be operating outside all constraints of law and morality. "We're going to be riding with the bad boys," one insider told Hersh. Another likened it to the palmy days of the Reagan-Bush years: "Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador? We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren't going to tell Congress about it." Indeed, we reported here last summer that Bush has already budgeted $500 million to fund local paramilitaries and guerrilla groups in the most volatile areas of the world, a measure guaranteed to produce needless bloodshed, destruction and suffering for innocent people already ravaged by conflict.
The activation of the Pentagon terrorist operation is part of Bush's second-term expansion of the "war on terror." Despite some obfuscating rhetoric about "diplomacy," the Bush regime is pressing ahead with a hard-line strategy aimed at opening new military fronts in the "global free-fire zone." Any dissenting voices within the government are being ruthlessly purged. The Pentagon's secret forces are set for operations in at least 10 countries, and Bush insiders "repeatedly" told Hersh that "Iran is the next strategic target."
Iran has long been a focus of the small clique of "global dominationists" -- led by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney and their acolytes -- who engineered the invasion of Iraq. This group is determined to "whack Iran," as one insider put it, and they're not at all discouraged by the debacle in Iraq; indeed, to them it's a rousing success. Their first objective -- openly stated years ago, before Bush took office -- was the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime and the planting of a U.S. "military footprint" in Iraq. This has now been done. The fact that it has plunged the Iraqi people into a hell of violence, chaos, terror and extremism is of no real concern to the clique. Their lofty rhetoric about "freedom" and "liberation" is meaningless sham, shuck and jive for the rubes. By the admission of the clique's own publications, they seek strategic control over the world's energy resources in order to preserve and expand American geopolitical and economic hegemony in the new century. Everything else -- including the security of the American people, put at increasing risk by the clique's reckless policies -- is of secondary importance.
U.S. forces are already conducting military reconnaissance inside Iran in preparation for strikes on alleged nuclear weapons facilities, Hersh reports. The Pentagon is feverishly updating war plans for a "maximum ground and air invasion of Iran," incorporating the new staging areas now available in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while employing an Iranian terrorist group, MEK, to launch covert ops and terrorist acts against Tehran. MEK was once given sanctuary by Hussein, who used the group as a brutal enforcer against Kurd and Shiite insurgents. Now Bush, "riding with the bad boys," has embraced the MEK murderers as his own.
In their ignorance and arrogance, the Bushists will almost certainly strike at Iran -- despite the fact that even Iranian dissidents support the effort to make their nation a nuclear power and would join the mullahs in retaliation. The result will be a conflict far surpassing the horror and magnitude of the Iraq disaster.
In our original report on the Pentagon's terror scheme, we wrote: "Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of murder and terror -- wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us." Now the night has come. Now the United States stands openly -- even proudly -- for terrorism, torture and the Hitlerian principle of aggressive war. America has fallen into the pit -- and the hopes of the world go with it.
Once again the dog-chow party is on the wrong side of public opinion. They will never form government under that pandering Harper, nor while they continually sideline themselves.
It sounds like the above poster has a thorough knowledge of the internal goings on of terrorists and their secret motivations, or he is talking through his hat. Most of the terrorists seem to have nationalities from autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, which are undemocratic and do not allow free speech. Does this mean they are fighting for the values which are denied to them in their own country? Or, are they fighting against what they perceive to be aggression against their homeland and values? Or, are they killing in support of the dictatorships that they live under? To anyone who knows Islam, they are not fighting for that religion. We are not under threat from an organization, we are under threat from an idea that is spreading like a virus in the middle east. I don't think we really understand what motivates these people and perpetuates this idea. There must be scholars who know but they seem secure in some place far from public debate. Until we know why, I fear all of this will continue. Free speech is one way of approaching the truth. We don't need a commisar to stifle what could be our saviour.
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You asked this question: "There must be scholars who know but they seem secure in some place far from public debate."<br />
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A place to find the most COMPLETE answer to your question does exist...<br />
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Here is a link to a website FILLED TO THE BRIM with exactly the sort of information you seem interested in. From an Islamic Scholar from the middle east now based in Italy. He has assembled/condensed some of his many years of research into one website covering nothing BUT the "Jihad"...it's history from it's beginnings (of 8o or so years ago) up to and including the present day. He even has many photographs in his collection on the "photos/documents" page of his site. He has sections on Amin Al Husseini, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat (and his "Arab League"), Osama Bin Laden (and Al Qaeda), The "Muslim Brotherhood", "Islamic Jihad", Hamas, a "Jihad" timeline page, etcetera, etcetera. VERY complete, accurate, detailed, and informative background research from the INSIDE of the very religion/culture from which this scurge has arisen. True, Islam is not the cause, but it through public ignorance receives, quite inappropriately, most of the blame. These "jihadists" have an agenda all their own (complete with self-serving international alliances) which is not sanctioned by the REAL religion of Islam, any more than the Catholic Church sanctioned the genocide in Rwanda! Here's your link (if after you read this site's information you are STILL confused???...then I'll say "here's your sign"
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<a href="http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/index.htm">http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/index.htm</a><br />
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Nope...Canada doesn't need a "commissar"...it needs a CONSCIENCE...and REAL "free speech" for a change as was mentioned above, as opposed to heavily slanted, fascist, nationalistic, Pro Liberal/NDP (anti-everyone else)Government of Canada propaganda.