Ottawa understands that Canada isn’t the US and that what sells in the US doesn’t sell here. So, for example, officially Canada didn’t go to war with Iraq (but we sent commandos to help) and officially we didn’t ratify the missile defense treaty (but hey, anything you want except the piece of paper), and we don’t extradite our own citizens like Arar to be tortured by other countries (but if you want us to help you extradite him, that’s ok, just seize him outside Canada so we can pretend we weren’t involved). When the US puts someone on their immigration ban list, such as Dr. Salam Ismael, who was in Fallujah right after the US siege, we’re happy to ban him from our country for them (we also held up a noted GM Foods expert a while back – since for some reason we seem to be shilling for GM foods.) US customs has access to Canadian citizen’s tax records, among other things (and if you don’t think that means that absolutely everyone in the US government has access to them you are touchingly… naïve.) And if you hate the Patriot Act, well the Canadian government can hold you without trial and without telling anyone why for a hell of a long time too. They usually do so when the US tells CSIS to lock someone up.
Now Canada’s population is one tenth the size of the US’s. The vast majority of our trade is with the US. Our army is diminutive. And the US isn’t exactly run by rational actors these days. So perhaps Martin and company feel that appeasement is the way to go – buy the US off by allowing it to torture a Canadian citizen, turning back US military refugree claimants, supporting its stance on GM foods and helping cover up what is happening in Iraq in whatever small ways they can.
The mid-term story here is that we’ve got a problem with the US which goes beyond any of the things above. Trade. Canada’s trade is primarily with the US. Martin knows (because Martin is a smart man about these things) that we have to wean ourselves off that. He knows that the Big Three are in trouble and that the Golden Horseshoe, the Canadian heartland, is a subsidiary of Detroit (in fact, it is Detroit now). He knows that Alberta ships most of its oil and natural gas to the US. He knows that most of our wood products go to the US. He knows that while our economy is very different from the US economy, it is nonetheless very dependent on the US. He knows that we have benefited greatly from the past few years, as one of the three main countries which have gained the elephant’s share of outsourcing (not offshoring, that’s mostly gone to China.)
No one in the US respects a weakling nation.
It’s time to stop acting like one.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
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— Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: 15th April 1778<br />
Persons such as yourself make me homicidal.
This is a symptom of my injury.
Marijuana keeps my moods under control.
Crack would make them worse.
You need to learn the difference between shit and shinola,
Yankee boy.
It may be saving your life.
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Dave Ruston
current US administration -- or maybe the issue is just
living on the profits of crack.
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdnmilitary/jtf2.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdnmilitary/jtf2.html</a><p>---<br>RickW
Heck, we export all kinds of stuff--asbestos, pesticides, chemicals, which *are* illegal to sell here. I don't see these companies being held liable for breaking domestic law by selling a prohibited substance!
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Welcome back to the US/SR
Yessir Yessir Three Bags Full, Sir
Here we are again, Sir, Mr Justice Dohm
Who signed the Warrant to search Glen Clark?
Who sits on the Legislature Seizure Warrants?
Who appoints himself to "sensitive" government cases?
Who are you? Who? Who?
Professor Andrew Coyne of Carleton University wrote in today's Victoria Times an article headlined: "Premiers should know their place in the world". Right on, Ralph Klein.
Here's one for the books. B.C. can legitimize pot decriminalize pot in a heartbeat. All it takes is a Bill introduced in the Legislature. B.C. as a colony entered into a deal - like a poker game, when it agreed to join other Sovereign Provinces and sit at the table. So. B.C. Legislature does what Larry Campbell, newly appointed Senator said to do, "decriminalize pot". Why?
Well, first you never had the power, authority or jurisdiction to make pot crime laws in the first place, Parliament! You never got that power from the British North America Act, 1867, you made that decision based on no law. Arbitrarily deciding to include a herb, a medicinal herb, a green growing plant, a seed bearing herb, deciding to do to it what you decided to do to witches in Salem and others during the Inquisitions - burn the pot plants, cut them down, cleave them asunder, destroy them altogether... and we hear the echo of Thomas Jefferson's words in his 1736 Notes on Virginia where he says to his cronies, that is the same thing you need to do to kill any remembrance of native, american, sioux, aboriginal ways... Jefferson proclaimed the same vehement diatribe against Totems and Cairns and Standing Rocks and Standing People and Medicine Circles and Kivas and Long Houses and Ghost Dances and SunDances... and... he only echoed the words of Horace who wrote in Latin Rome around 60 A.D., he too spoke out against Totem Pole Art... just like The Psalmist who wrote in Psalm 74:5 about a man skilled in carving, who carved on a tree some songs... some lyrics... some tunes... like a dj on a hill all alone... until some others came with their axes and hammers to cut it down... to destroy it... to kill it... to burn it... just like they do to pot plants... seed bearing herbs... medicine for multiple sclerosis, colitis, cancer... food, butter, clothing... and adobe - like bricks to make houses.
People in Alberta facing criminal charges for pot crimes can Petition Ralph Klein to force him by a mandamus Order, to introduce legislation decriminalizing pot in the Alberta legislature, based on the Sovereign power, exclusive power given Provinces under the BNA Act, 1867, over property and civil rights. He took an Oath - an Oath of Office - placed his hand on a Bible and swore to uphold the Law. The Law based on 2000 year old Judeao/Islamic/Catholic/Protestant theology teachings, culminating in the Theocratic Charter of Rights and Freedoms introduced in 1982: A document clearly indicating its THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS AND ESSENCE.
That CHARTER begins with the words: Whereas Canada is founded on principles that recognize the Supremacy of God and the rule of law... That Preamble must not be glossed over. No. For it is in the Preamble to the British North America Act, 1867, that the Supreme Court of Canada says, that is where it gets its inherent jurisdiction as a Court, where Judges get their "independence" from the other two branches of government, the Preamble is where Judges can claim 'impartiality'.
So. Canada is founded on principles that recognize... a Deity. A deity called "God". The word "God" to a dyslexic looks like "Dog". Dogs are man's best friend. More loyalty in a wagging dog tail than in most human handshakes, they say. So. We have Canada and stories of how Canada is "going to the dogs". People are arguing about custody of dogs in divorce cases. Dogs. People sure like dogs. So. Canada is based on, is founded on principles that recognize, i.e. beliefs that hold to a tenet of faith, "Canada believes God exists", the Charter says so.
Some look at the world as if somehow somebody is in control. Somebody at the levers, making things happen according to an agenda. A ghost in the machine, or what some call "the grey eminence" or "eminence front".
Why this is is clear to see
Canada is a theocracy
Complete with its own Charter Church
Just read R. v. Schedel 2003 364.
To see how our Court of Appeal would deal
with a case where people who grew a seed yielding
herb... it would let them go free.
So should any Court with eyes to see and ears to hear.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boy.
-Parliament of Whores
"For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central American allies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega." (Ex-DEA agent Michael Levine: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic)<br />
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"In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." --Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit. FROM: Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Berkeley: U. of CA Press, 1991, pp. x-xi.<br />
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<a href="http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/index.html">http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/index.html</a><p>---<br><br />
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boy. <br />
-Parliament of Whores
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— Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: 15th April 1778<br />