What's Next?

I think the Anti-Prorogation rallies were successful in that they gave harper a major public-relations black-eye. But as someone wrote on some other blog's comments section somewhere, back in the day, various parliaments blithely ignored hand-written petitions with over ONE MILLION signatures, so there's no reason for harper to tremble in fear at 200,000 people on Facebook (quite a few of whom are there to troll and rationalize for harper) and tens of thousands of people standing a shouting for an afternoon.

Furthermore, the NDP and to a lesser extent the Liberals are proposing necessary reforms to limit a prime minister's recourse to prorogation in the future. I think it was actually Ignatieff who had said there weren't rules before because no prime minister was so debased and anti-democratic as to have so blatantly abused their power the way harper has. So, if they get passed these reforms will be a good thing.

But what I'd like to focus on, once again, is harper's obstruction of open inquiry into the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan. What I want to focus on is holding harper to account for his behaviour in Afghanistan. I'm tired of the secrecy. I'm tired of the lies. I'm tired of putting up with this undemocratic imposition of an unpopular imperialist project.

Both the Liberals and the harpercons knew (and know) that full disclosure and discussion of "the Mission" (tm.) in Afghanistan would mean the end of "the Mission" and that's why the whole thing has been smothered in a blanket of obfuscation and lies. harper crossed the line though. It will be so healthy for our team to send him to prison. And everyone else who ordered these abominable practices.

Online Petition For Public Inquiry Into Torture

Pursuant to the goal of bringing accountability and the rule of law to Canada, and starting the process of getting the harpercons into the prison cells they're inevitably going to be thrown into, Alison at Creekside has a link to an online petition for a public inquiry into torture.

Please sign it and send it.

End the Culture of Impunity!

RCMP officers agree to Taser (tm.) a distraught man even before arriving on the scene, throw him into cardiac arrest, refuse to help the medical responders, allow him to die, lie in their reports and lie (blatantly and stupidly) before a public inquiry prompted by the outrage created by a citizen's video-taping of the crime.


Liberal Prime Minsiter Jean Chretien pulls the plug on the Somalia Inquiry into CF personnel torturing a Somali teenager to death and then posing with his corpse.


Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin sucks up to his US-American masters by getting the CF to play a supporting role in destroying democracy in Haiti.

Liberal and Conservative politicians sign-on for the invasion of Afghanistan and as a result of that shithead move, put CF personnel into the impossible position of taking prisoners with no one to turn them over to except for the brutal torture regime of Afghanistan's prison system. This forces the CF to have to requisition new boots as the "blood and fecal matter" they have to wade through when they visit had a habit of getting tracked around their own headquarters later. As well, lots of so-called "progressives" (who hate the people of Afghanistan)* can't stop harping about the allegations from some CF personnel that members of the Afghan army and police and Afghan interpreters working with the CF have been raping children. harper has done everything that he can to sweep that under the rug.

The point is that there are obvious war criminals governing us. There are international outlaws governing us. We have policing institutions that believe they can get away with murder. There is a culture of impunity here that's AT LEAST as serious as those E-Health "consultants" who bill $2700 a day and who still try to expense $1.65 for a coffee. Something has to change this mindset. And that is to change the system that allows this impunity to persist. The only thing left to ponder is how to effectively carry out citizens' arrests.

*At least this is how Terry Glavin describes us.

P.S. The dumbest fucking guy on the planet (no, not this guy) thinks he's hot-shit. He'll never be hot-shit.