Having Canadian troops in foreign lands isn't the answer, its the problem, its a mistake. The news today that 12 potential terrorists were living in Toronto, and possibly plotting a terrorist action, is testament to that mistake.
The "Toronto fertilizer bomb suspects" were arrested [on Saturday June 3 2006, today] before they did anything other than gather materials, as we are told. Since it somes to us thru "the corporate media a la Harper", we have to try and wrangle the truth out of it on our own. This could all be a set up story, and no real threat.
If it is real, if these are actually Arabs intent on causing damage and death in Canada and not just a phoney arrest to bolster support for occupying Afghanistan with Canadian troops, then we could actually start to believe Canadians are under threat. Note that many people see that response as being the opposite direction to resolving the disputes.
What Canada's response should be, if these are real terrorists, is that we should GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN.
Thats not cowardice, its just facing up to the fact that we have pissed someone off badly, and wrongly, and without provocation, and that Canadas troops in Afghanistan are assaulting some of the very rights we are so proud of - soveriegnty, for eg.
Besides, this whole terrorist threat deal - with the USA's terrible quest for domination of oil and therefore all economies on earth - is confusing the issue so badly that we cannot make any firm judgements on weather or not we should be in Afghanistan. We should ask the regular Afghans if they want us there or not. Now that the citizens have been so brutally attacked by American trigger happy military lunatics, I doubt that the Afghan citizenry has much confidence in Canadian troops either.
It is, in fact, our close relations with the USA has made certain that the Afghanis cannot/will not/do not want us there. The USA's long history if criminal acts on foreighn soils has come home to roost, and Canada would do well to separate itself as much as possible from thoise crimes and criminals.
And thats why - if it is real - that these Toronto Terrorists wanted to strike Canada. More military forces in foreign lands isn't the answer, its the problem.
If its real, then it can be said that we have brought this on ourselves, and the final key was that Harper is in the PM chair parroting the American propagandist rhetoric and supporting their militarisation of planet earth as a justifyable means of ensuring survival of their fossil fuels based economy. Its all so shallow.
The "Toronto fertilizer bomb suspects" were arrested [on Saturday June 3 2006, today] before they did anything other than gather materials, as we are told. Since it somes to us thru "the corporate media a la Harper", we have to try and wrangle the truth out of it on our own. This could all be a set up story, and no real threat.
If it is real, if these are actually Arabs intent on causing damage and death in Canada and not just a phoney arrest to bolster support for occupying Afghanistan with Canadian troops, then we could actually start to believe Canadians are under threat. Note that many people see that response as being the opposite direction to resolving the disputes.
What Canada's response should be, if these are real terrorists, is that we should GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN.
Thats not cowardice, its just facing up to the fact that we have pissed someone off badly, and wrongly, and without provocation, and that Canadas troops in Afghanistan are assaulting some of the very rights we are so proud of - soveriegnty, for eg.
Besides, this whole terrorist threat deal - with the USA's terrible quest for domination of oil and therefore all economies on earth - is confusing the issue so badly that we cannot make any firm judgements on weather or not we should be in Afghanistan. We should ask the regular Afghans if they want us there or not. Now that the citizens have been so brutally attacked by American trigger happy military lunatics, I doubt that the Afghan citizenry has much confidence in Canadian troops either.
It is, in fact, our close relations with the USA has made certain that the Afghanis cannot/will not/do not want us there. The USA's long history if criminal acts on foreighn soils has come home to roost, and Canada would do well to separate itself as much as possible from thoise crimes and criminals.
And thats why - if it is real - that these Toronto Terrorists wanted to strike Canada. More military forces in foreign lands isn't the answer, its the problem.
If its real, then it can be said that we have brought this on ourselves, and the final key was that Harper is in the PM chair parroting the American propagandist rhetoric and supporting their militarisation of planet earth as a justifyable means of ensuring survival of their fossil fuels based economy. Its all so shallow.
