Conservatives Know It's True Because They Say So

Canadians shouldn't spend sleepless nights fretting about reporters climbing over obstacles to do their jobs. Despite the authoritarian whiff clinging to Conservative command-and-control tactics, it ultimately rests on the press and its corporate barons to defend democratic freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. Instead, voters should worry why this new government doesn't want its old shibboleths examined. Like the suspect theory that infidel boots on Muslim soil somehow insulate North Americans from extremists, many of this government's defining assumptions are faith-based. That's not faith as in religion. It's faith as in simply knowing something is true. Just as examples, Conservatives and their core constituents are convinced that draconian sentences best serve law and order, border guards need guns and climate change is largely hot air. In fact, the weight of evidence tilts the other way. Full article: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/217836 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 28, 2007]

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