Canada, U. S. To Hold Terror Drill

Can you believe this garbage?
Terrorists trying to sneak in.
Condi,they are already in.
Course if I had bullied and killed so many inocent people over so many years I might be a little scared too.
Morons.

What the hell are they doing this crap for?

Globe and Mail is not a serious news source anymore. ie. tabloid mentality. This rag deserves the same dustbin as NatPost and anything from Canada.conjob. CBC.goofus is another media outlet that pushes hysterics. Try and get a middle east opinion or editorial that isn't Israelicentric? forget it.

Deja vu, 1960? Crank up the fear factor, everybody climb under the desks, build a shelter, test the air raid sirens. Wait, there's more to come, get the children involved in this at the school until they are having nightmares, then ease off a bit, then crank it up again. Why should my kids miss out on what was a delightful part of part of my childhood. The "Rapture" was only a two-minute-warning away. I expect there will be a lot more of these drills in the future until people start looking at the cause rather than the effect of our problems, or does that ever happen? The media still employs some of the nations best writers. No hockey(?), try the news desk.

These people are fried!

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Dave Ruston

AAAAARGG It's Godzillaaaaaa... run for your life

that kind of drill?

The first steps towards integration with the US have already begun. Wake up!!! Canada, before we are forced to take down our Maple Leaf and raise their rag instead.


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Probably a stunt to see if Canadians are happy with yank terrorist fighters in Canada.

So thats what they call a penis in the US,A terror drill?!
Figures.

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Now serving Freedom Fried.

Canada's drill officials will have their work cut out for them- what does a terrorist look like? Canadian? Anyone not driving a pickup with a gun-rack?

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Does anyone in their right mind seriously believe the public is going to gain knowledge of inner circle goins on ?<br />
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Do you not "get" that 911 was all about what you read buried in the body of the story below?<br />
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""Rumsfeld has skillfully used terrorism hysteria to wrest control of intelligence and make the Pentagon supreme in Washington's bureaucratic power struggles.""<br />
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Paranoia Grips <br />
The US Capital <br />
By Eric Margolis<br />
Contributing Foreign Editor <br />
Toronto Sun<br />
3-15-5<br />
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The film Seven Days In May is one of my all-time favourites. The gripping 1964 drama, starring Burt Lancaster, depicts an attempted coup by far rightists in Washington using a top-secret Pentagon anti-terrorist unit called something like "Contelinpro." <br />
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Life imitates art. This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions." <br />
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In other words, using U.S. soldiers to kill or arrest Americans, acts that have been illegal since the U.S. Civil War. <br />
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This frightening news comes as Washington is gripped by reborn, Cold-War-style paranoia, ominous threats of war against Iran from the real president, Dick Cheney, and a titanic bureaucratic battle just won by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. <br />
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Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political fiasco in Iraq and the shameful torture scandals, Rumsfeld has just managed to create a new, Pentagon spy/special ops organization, blandly named "Strategic Support Branch," that will replace or duplicate many of the CIA's tasks. <br />
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The CIA has been sent to the doghouse. Too many CIA veterans criticized or contradicted Bush's and Cheney's phony claims over Iraq and terrorism. So Bush has imposed a new, yes-man director on the agency, slashed its budgets, purged its senior officers, and downgraded CIA to third-class status. <br />
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Rumsfeld's new, massively funded SSB will become the Pentagon's CIA, complete with commando units, spies, mercenary forces, intelligence gathering and analysis, and a direct line to the White House. The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the spy business. <br />
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Used terrorism hysteria <br />
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Mind you, the Pentagon and its Defence Intelligence Agency have been deeply involved in intelligence around the globe for 50 years. U.S. Army intelligence and its covert sub-branches have long conducted "black ops," including missions in the U.S. as well as assassinations and sabotage abroad. The Pentagon consumes three-quarters of the total U.S. intelligence budget. <br />
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Rumsfeld has skillfully used terrorism hysteria to wrest control of intelligence and make the Pentagon supreme in Washington's bureaucratic power struggles. <br />
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The Pentagon's new spy arm will be largely excluded from Congressional oversight or media examination. Its special operations teams will roam the globe, all under cover of "deep black" missions of which no records will be kept, and no questions asked. <br />
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Equally worrying, the Pentagon's new special-ops units are headed up by notorious religious fanatic, Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who calls the U.S. Army "the house of God" and Islamic insurgents "agents of Satan." He warned Muslims, "my God is bigger than your god, which is an idol." <br />
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Boykin's command will now dispatch post-modern Christian crusaders to cleanse the world of Satanic Muslims and other miscreants. The Pentagon's new special forces will be able to run operations of which the CIA knows nothing. <br />
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The 9/11 Commission called for improved intra-agency co-operation and data sharing -- instead, the U.S. will get far less co-operation, as the Pentagon goes its own, secret way. <br />
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Now, George W. Bush, who clearly believes he holds the mandate of heaven after being re-elected by the less mentally active half of American voters, has decided to "unleash" special forces and all sorts of irregular units, including mercenaries, uniformed bounty hunters, and mutants sporting t-shirts proclaiming "kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out." These militarized thugs and video arcade Rambos are sure to run amok, dragging America's once good name ever deeper into the mud. <br />
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We have evidently learned nothing from the wars in Indochina and Central America. <br />
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Have we reached Seven Days in May? <br />
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Not yet, but the second Bush administration has been taking dangerous steps that continue to curtail personal rights, further emasculate the supine, cowardly U.S. Congress, and empower ideological or religious extremists and shadowy agencies with unrestrained powers that endanger Americans at home, and all abroad suspected of troubling the Pax Americana. <br />
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Thanks for the post.

What makes me really distrust these anti-terrorists drills etcetera is that they're assuming that terrorists can be profiled and figured out. Those terrorists are called polical parties and corporate bullies.

They're going to have to figure out a way to be mind readers so they can catch all the TERRORISTS that are THINKING about how mad they are at the political parties and corporate bullies.

That's why I know there are not terrorists the way we're being sold terrorists. It's crap. The real terrorists are using the terrorists threat to do all the terrorizing.