• Our Security Lies in the Fight for the Rights of All!
• Seventh Anniversary of September 11: War on Terrorism Solves No Problem -- Empower the People to Solve Problems Facing Society - United States Marxist-Leninist Organization
• Reflections on 9-11 - Cindy Sheehan, www.cindyforcongress.com
• Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention - Chris Hedges
• Al-Arian -- Another Sept. 11 Casualty - Ida Audeh, The Boulder Daily Camera
• Bush Quietly Seeks to Make War Powers Permanent - John Byrne, The Raw Story
• Mexico Drug Plane Used for U.S. 'Rendition' Flights
• Britain to Monitor All Communications

SUPPLEMENT
• Robocop: Professional Policing of Political Protest, an Insider's Viewpoint - William Cox, Global Research

7th anniversary of September 11

Our Security Lies in the Fight for the Rights of All!

"An attack against one is an attack against all"

On this day, TML expresses its deepest sympathies for the relatives of those who lost their lives seven year ago as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11 and of the millions who have been killed in the so-called "war on terror" unleashed by the administration of George W. Bush, with the help of the government of Canada and "allies," since then. We express our opposition to torture, rendition to torture, indefinite detention and indefinite states of exception and suspension of civil liberties. We reiterate the commitment of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) to support and contribute to the resistance of the peoples of the world to imperialist wars of aggression and occupation led by the U.S. imperialists in which Canada has become a war party. We call on the Canadian working class and people to embark on a clear path which gives rise to an anti-war government in this country.

Predictably, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's statement on September 11 endorsed the unacceptable approach of his government in tandem with that of the Bush administration to the important issue of security. Besides remembering "the lives lost in this terrible tragedy, including the 24 Canadians who were killed that day," Harper declared that September 11 "is a reminder" of the "threat of terrorism -- to our values, our institutions, our lives..." "The Government of Canada remains vigilant to this threat and will continue to take action to ensure the security of Canada and the safety of all Canadians," Harper concluded. Far from it, the Harper government is threatening the security of all.

On this day, it is most important to take a stand which clearly states that our security lies in the fight for the rights of all. All renditions to torture, all torture, all Guantanamos, all so-called security certificates and violations of civil rights, all demagogy in the name of democracy and freedom, must be strenuously fought and defeated.

On this occasion, we also recall the atrocities carried out against the people of Chile in the U.S. coup d'etat against that sister nation 35 years ago and express our deepest sympathies and respect for all the relatives of the killed and disappeared in that country and in Argentina and other sister nations as a result of Operation Condor and the subsequent dirty wars in Central America.

All Power to the Resistance to the Phoney "War on Terror"!
All Out to Support the Fight in Defence of the Rights of All!

Seventh Anniversary of September 11

War on Terrorism Solves No Problem --
Empower the People to Solve Problems Facing Society

- United States Marxist-Leninist Organization -

Across the country Americans are marking the anniversary of September 11 and assessing what the U.S. war on terrorism has accomplished. Certainly it has not solved the problem of terrorism, of contributing to world peace, of improving the security of the peoples abroad and at home. As people mourn the lives of Americans lost, many are also mourning the more than one million Iraqis and Afghanistanis killed, the Palestinians, all those killed by illegal, unjust U.S. wars of aggression. There is a growing consciousness among the people that it is the lives and well-being of all the peoples that must be looked after. The chauvinism of the rich that says only their needs should be met is being rejected. This was again made clear at the recent actions at both the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Republican National Convention (RNC) where Americans were one with the world's peoples in denouncing U.S. wars and defending the rights of all. Banners more than a block long held the names of Iraqis killed, with a sign saying, "We remember you." Other signs and chants demanded No War on Iran, Right of Return for Palestine, Housing is a Right, Healthcare is a Right, Stop the Raids Against Immigrant Workers. The large majority of Americans want an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now, an end to U.S. aggression. All U.S. Troops Home Now! is becoming the demand, as Americans organize to contribute to peace in the world. And they want the government to uphold their duty to provide security at home by meeting the needs of the people. The demands that social programs, like education and healthcare be funded, and war funding ended, were everywhere.

What stood out is the sharp divide -- between the drive of the people for an end to U.S. wars and all attacks on rights, and the violence and state terrorism of the rich.

Protesters at both the DNC and RNC saw first hand that the war on terror has brought police state actions against the people at home alongside the brutal wars abroad. There was a massive police presence, constant provocations against demonstrators, use of pepper spray, tear gas and mass arrests of hundreds at the RNC simply for participating in permitted marches. Youth organizers at the RNC were arrested and the convergence center and media center raided, all before a single action occurred. The youth are being charged with "conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism." No acts of violence or terrorism, no weapons, no explosives, nothing but young people organizing for their rights, were seized by police.

The joint task force of federal, state and local police made certain the entire city of St. Paul felt like an occupied police state, with police present in force everywhere and acting with impunity to block roads, search cars and bags, use pepper spray, and detain and arrest people. Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain said nothing about the police terrorism used against protestors and both Democrats and Republicans no doubt sanctioned the actions.

Both parties of the rich have confirmed that more war and aggression is on the agenda, with "all options" on the table, including use of nuclear weapons. They are not denouncing the war on terror for what it is -- a U.S. war of state terrorism against the peoples at home and abroad.

It is an integral part of arrangements of fascism and war being imposed on the people. The lawlessness and impunity of the U.S. military abroad and police at home during the conventions show these are arrangements of the here and now that must be vigorously opposed.

It is the violence and terrorism of the U.S. state, put on display at the conventions of the political parties and imposed on the peoples worldwide that represents the biggest threat to peace and security today. It is the determination and undaunted spirit of demonstrators that echoed the stand of the many first responders and others who came forward September 11 to lend a hand to the people, whatever their background, nationality, whether documented or undocumented.

Then and now, it is the peoples that are giving expression to the spirit of One Humanity, One Struggle for Our Rights! The right to healthcare, housing and education were among the demands at the DNC and RNC actions. And no doubt today the people have on their minds the many firefighters, first responders, and families in New York City suffering from numerous health problems and contending with a government that refuses to provide the right to healthcare. Far from guaranteeing their care, these 9/11 survivors join returning veterans and hurricane Katrina survivors in being denied healthcare. They join the more than 50 million Americans, mostly women and children, without any health insurance. And as the lay-offs in manufacturing continue, alongside those of city and state workers nationwide, many more will find themselves not only without healthcare, but without homes.

The manufacturing sector has lost 3.8 million jobs since 2000. Since December 2007, 438,000 jobs have been lost, most in manufacturing and construction. State workers across the country are being laid off and threatened with having their wages cut to minimum wage. Yet there are hundreds of billions for militarism and state terrorism. The violence of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness, as many tens of thousands more face foreclosure, have all increased in this period. These are vital matters of security for the workers and people. It is against this violence too that the peoples are organizing. Everywhere it is clear that for the people, Our Security Lies in Our Fight for Rights! The government's war of terrorism is aimed at blocking this fight of the peoples, it is aimed at keeping the rich in power at all costs. The police violence at the conventions and continued aggression abroad bring to the fore that the ruling class and its political parties have no solutions for the problems facing society. Their answer of more wars, more repression, yet more war funding and paying the rich, has failed to provide security. There is nothing but darkness and more terrorism coming from this direction. The stand of the people to end aggressive wars and defend the rights of all must be given a place in the political process. Organizing the workers and people to come to power to solve the problems facing society is the path to security and ending all terrorism. Achieving empowerment is of course what the rich say cannot be done. But what the facts say is that achieving peace and security cannot be done so long as the rich remain in power. So let us together stand against the rich and their wars and repression, by giving no votes to pro-war candidates. We do not want or need a pro-war president, a commander in chief of U.S. state terrorism.

Take a stand against the rich and vote for independent or third party candidates. Take a stand to join all concerned in strengthening the organizing work for political empowerment of the people, in the electoral arena, through demonstrations, through building up and uniting all the fighting forces standing for rights.

No to the U.S. War of Terrorism! Yes to the Rights of All!

Reflections on 9-11

- Cindy Sheehan, www.cindyforcongress.com -

The 7th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is approaching and it seems like a good time to reflect on what our nation has lost since that tragic day and what we can do to go forward.

I do not think that anyone alive on that day will forget the shock that struck our nation when the symbols of U.S. capitalism and militarism were struck out of the clear blue sky. I was in panic mode for a few days, because I did not hear from Casey who was stationed at Ft. Hood on that day and his base went into lock-down and he was too busy to call. Even though we mourn with our fellow Americans, the loss of over 3000 innocent people and the pain their families have had to deal with, the attacks of 9-11 have touched every American.

There are several ways to look at 9-11:

9-11 was planned and executed by the U.S. government. BushCo did not plan 9-11, but they knew it was going to happen and did nothing to prevent it and, in fact, may have allowed it to happen. 9-11 was planned and executed by a group of 17 terrorists (14 of them from Saudi Arabia) without the fore knowledge of the U.S. government and we were attacked because the terrorists "hated our freedoms and democracy."

Whichever of the theories is true, one thing is for sure: the Bush regime's response to 9-11 was woefully inept and criminal and many people have been killed, wounded, displaced or destroyed because of the Bush regimes' exploitation of the tragedy to use ultra-violence against the innocent people of two nations in response to a criminal act perpetrated by a few. Watching the recent RNC was a reminder of 9-11 hysteria used to justify implementing the Project for a New American Century and excusing BushCo for the crimes they have committed on the non-existent graves of our brothers and sisters who perished that day and whose remains were never recovered.

Instead of taking a hard and critical look at the corporate-imperialistic policies of our government and trying to objectively figure out why we were attacked, we set off on a nationalistic flag waving fervor of mass fear that was only to be cured by shopping, traveling and allowing George and Dick to make a demented response to it. After 9-11 our country lost a real opportunity to search our souls and make amends to the world for our greed and violence. An apt response would have been to punish the perpetrators of the crime in a court of law and not by rabidly seeking the first country to destroy. Attacking Afghanistan was like bombing Sicily to oblivion for the crimes of the Mafia. Attacking Iraq was just for neocon kicks.

George Bush was handed a Presidential Daily Briefing in Crawford, Texas on August 6th, 2001, that read: "Osama bin Laden determined to strike in the United States." According to journalist Ron Susskind, Bush told the agent who delivered the message: "Okay, you've covered your ass." Instead, our collective asses are twisting in the wind of the abuses and excesses of the last 7 years.

Our economy is being destroyed by 7 years of seemingly endless occupations that have made Dick and his cronies wealthy, but have harmed the rest of us. The price of gas has almost tripled since 9-11, thus causing all other consumer goods to skyrocket. People are losing their jobs and homes because this war economy cannot be sustained with Monopoly money printed and devalued to cover our rising deficits. We have become the worlds' worst debtor nation and our treasury is trillions in debt.

Our famous "freedoms" that the terrorists "hated" have been eroded due to the PATRIOT ACT, the Military Commissions Act and the violent response to protest from our robo-clad police state. We can be guaranteed that any call, email or text message that we send or receive is being read and if we dare protest we will be pepper-sprayed, maced, tear gassed, tasered, or beaten with a Billy club by our employees: law enforcement; authorized by our other employees: government.

My opponent, Nancy Pelosi, has cooperated and collaborated with the Bush regime to allow torture and incarceration without due process and NSA spying on Americans without warrants. She opens her Gucci bag and doles out billions for his War OF Terror while sitting in her mansion, children and grandchildren out of harms way, while our country implodes and Iraq and Afghanistan burn. She has legitimized BushCo's crimes and refuses to hold them accountable for the destruction they have unleashed upon our world.

It's not only time for new leadership in our government, but it's time for a new 9-11 Commission that has subpoena power and is not facilitated by the crooks who either perpetrated the crime and/or collaborated with it. Government abuses cannot be credibly investigated by government commissions: A citizen's investigation that is independent from the federal government and where people like George and Dick will actually have to give their testimony in the light of day, under oath and not holding hands, must be empowered and empanelled.

If you agree with me that a new 9-11 investigation is warranted, please contribute to my campaign to unseat Vichy-Pelosi who would never agree to investigate her buddy Bush for any crimes, much less the crime of our new century.

But most importantly, Cindy for Congress sends our deepest condolences to those who lost family member on 9-11 and anyone else on this planet who have lost their jobs, homes, or lives due to George's tragic response to the tragedy of 9-11.

My son is one of the ones whose life was ended prematurely. I mourn deeply for him each day, but the way forward is towards healing, peace, accountability, environmental sustainability, and economic equality and away from the violence and greed that has colored every aspect of our lives since that sad day.

(Information Clearing House, September 10, 2008)

Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

- Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com, September 9, 2008 (excerpts) -

[...] A few of those arrested in St. Paul, including eight leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee -- one of the groups organizing protests at the GOP convention in St. Paul -- now face terrorism-related charges. Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald and Max Spector could get up to seven and a half years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge, which allows for a 50 percent increase in the maximum penalty. This is the first time criminal charges have been filed under the 2002 Minnesota version of the federal Patriot Act. [...]

St. Paul was not ultimately about selecting a presidential candidate. It was about the power of the corporate state to carry out pre-emptive searches, seizures and arrests. It was about squads of police in high-tech riot gear, many with drawn semiautomatic weapons, bursting into houses. It was about seized computers, journals and political literature. It was about shutting down independent journalism, even at gunpoint. It was about charging protesters with "conspiracy to commit riot," a rarely used statute that criminalizes legal dissent. It was about 500 people held in open-air detention centers. It was about the rising Orwellian state that has hollowed out the insides of America, cast away all that was good and vital, and donned its skin to shackle us all.

* Chris Hedges, who graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, is the author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." For the complete item click here.

Al-Arian -- Another Sept. 11 Casualty

- Ida Audeh*, The Boulder Daily Camera, September 8, 2008

The Bush administration continues to use a criminal act committed seven years ago to justify sweeping restrictions on our civil liberties and the incarceration of more than 5,000 residents of Arab descent on phony charges or on no charges at all. One of these men is Sami Al-Arian.

The February 2003 arrest of Al-Arian, a Palestinian Muslim and former University of South Florida computer science professor who has been a legal resident of the United States for 30 years, was announced by former Attorney General John Ashcroft on the evening news.

Viewers were told that Al-Arian, an outspoken critic of Israeli policy against Palestinians, was a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and that the arrest was a great coup in the "war against terrorism."

After spending more than two years in solitary confinement, Al-Arian (joined by 3 co-defendants) had a six-month trial, which began in June 2005. The government called 70 witnesses, including 21 from Israel, and submitted records of 400 intercepted phone calls culled during the 10 years in which Al-Arian had been under government surveillance. The jury acquitted Al-Arian of most of the serious charges against him, while two of his three co-defendants were completely acquitted. (When asked what the prosecution lacked to build a more convincing case, one juror responded: Evidence.) The trial cost taxpayers $50 million.

Nevertheless, Judge James Moody rejected the government's request for the minimal sentence on the lesser charges and instead ordered the maximum, making inflammatory remarks from the bench in which he painted Al-Arian as a villain. In October 2006, Al-Arian was subpoenaed by Gordon Kromberg, assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, to testify before a grand jury in another case, in violation of the terms of the plea bargain Al-Arian's lawyers had made and in a transparent attempt at entrapment. Kromberg has made bigoted remarks about Muslims and railed against what he mysteriously referred to as "the Islamization of America." Al-Arian refused to testify and went on a hunger strike.

Sami Al-Arian was finally freed on bond on Sept. 2, confined to his home until he is (presumably) deported, and so his saga is drawing to a close. But the cost has been tremendous. An innocent man was snatched from his home and his family for five years, much of that time spent in solitary confinement. He had to take his chances with a jury trial. He was at the mercy of a biased judge and an activist prosecutor, Gordon Kromberg, who is on record as stating that if he believes that defendants are guilty but cannot prove it, he will "punish them through other means." (Presumably this belief led him to slap Al-Arian with a subpoena.)

Al-Arian's rights to live with his family were trampled because the government needed to show some progress in this vague "war on terrorism," and Al-Arian had the right profile: Palestinian American, Muslim, and a vocal critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians. And although he has been cleared of all major charges, he will be denied living in the country in which he has spent his entire adult life, where he had a good life as a respected university professor, and where his children were born and raised. Harsh imprisonment conditions and his periodic hunger strikes have reduced his weight drastically.

For 7 years, the Bush administration has repeated the mantra that the safeguards provided in our legal code are luxuries we can no longer afford and that we must learn to live without. This is nonsense. The laws we had to protect our civil rights did not make us vulnerable to terrorism on September 11; the suspension of these laws does not protect us from foreign terrorists, but it does make us more vulnerable to abuses by our own government.

Sami Al-Arian's rights -- to privacy, to free speech and to his political opinions, to a speedy trial, to a presumption of innocence, to due process -- were dismissed; his fate was put in the hands of bureaucrats who needed to show that they were winning a war on a concept and who were comfortable resorting to legally questionable tactics to support that bogus claim. This abuse of power and of the rule of law does much more long-term damage to the fabric of our national life than the attacks perpetrated 7 years ago.

* Audeh, an editor who lives in Boulder, grew up in the West Bank.

Bush Quietly Seeks to Make War Powers Permanent,
by Declaring Indefinite State of War

- John Byrne, The Raw Story, August 30, 2008

As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain's choice of running mate, President Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring that America remains in a state of permanent war.

Buried in a recent proposal by the Administration is a sentence that has received scant attention -- and was buried itself in the very newspaper that exposed it Saturday. It is an affirmation that the United States remains at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban and "associated organizations."

Part of a proposal for Guantanamo Bay legal detainees, the provision before Congress seeks to "acknowledge again and explicitly that this nation remains engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated organizations, who have already proclaimed themselves at war with us and who are dedicated to the slaughter of Americans."

The New York Times' page 8 placement of the article in its Saturday edition seems to downplay its importance. Such a re-affirmation of war carries broad legal implications that could imperil Americans' civil liberties and the rights of foreign nationals for decades to come.

It was under the guise of war that President Bush claimed a legal mandate for his warrantless wiretapping program, giving the National Security Agency power to intercept calls Americans made abroad. More of this program has emerged in recent years, and it includes the surveillance of Americans' information and exchanges online.

"War powers" have also given President Bush cover to hold Americans without habeas corpus -- detainment without explanation or charge. Jose Padilla, a Chicago resident arrested in 2002, was held without trial for five years before being convicted of conspiring to kill individuals abroad and provide support for terrorism.

But his arrest was made with proclamations that Padilla had plans to build a "dirty bomb." He was never convicted of this charge. Padilla's legal team also claimed that during his time in military custody -- the four years he was held without charge -- he was tortured with sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, forced stress positions and injected with drugs.

Times reporter Eric Lichtblau notes that the measure is the latest step that the Administration has taken to "make permanent" key aspects of its "long war" against terrorism. Congress recently passed a much-maligned bill giving telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for their participation in what constitutional experts see as an illegal or borderline-illegal surveillance program, and is considering efforts to give the FBI more power in their investigative techniques.

"It is uncertain whether Congress will take the administration up on its request," Lichtblau writes. "Some Republicans have already embraced the idea, with Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, introducing a measure almost identical to the administration's proposal. 'Since 9/11,' Mr. Smith said, 'we have been at war with an unconventional enemy whose primary goal is to kill innocent Americans.'"

If enough Republicans come aboard, Democrats may struggle to defeat the provision. Despite holding majorities in the House and Senate, they have failed to beat back some of President Bush's purported "security" measures, such as the telecom immunity bill.

Bush's open-ended permanent war language worries his critics. They say it could provide indefinite, if hazy, legal justification for any number of activities -- including detention of terrorists suspects at bases like Guantanamo Bay (where for years the Administration would not even release the names of those being held), and the NSA's warantless wiretapping program.

Lichtblau co-wrote the Times article revealing the Administration's eavesdropping program along with fellow reporter James Risen.

He notes that Bush's language "recalls a resolution, known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed by Congress on Sept. 14, 2001... [which] authorized the president to 'use all necessary and appropriate force' against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks to prevent future strikes. That authorization, still in effect, was initially viewed by many members of Congress who voted for it as the go-ahead for the administration to invade Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban, which had given sanctuary to Mr. bin Laden."

"But the military authorization became the secret legal basis for some of the administration's most controversial legal tactics, including the wiretapping program, and that still gnaws at some members of Congress," he adds.

Mexico Drug Plane Used for U.S. 'Rendition' Flights

A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.

The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported.

The daily said it had obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects."

It said the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or U.S.-run detention centers.

It also said the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) logbook registered that the plane had traveled between U.S. territory and the U.S. military base in Guantanamo.

It said the FAA registered its last owner as Clyde O'Connor in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Extraordinary rendition has been harshly criticized since it began in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

(Agence France Presse, September 5, 2008)

Britain to Monitor All Communications

"In the Queen's speech this autumn Gordon Brown's government will announce a scheme to institute a database of every telephone call, email, and act of online usage by every resident of the UK. It will propose that this information will be gathered, stored, and 'made accessible' to the security and law enforcement agencies, local councils, and 'other public bodies,'" A.C. Grayling writes in The Guardian (August 26).

"This Orwellian nightmare, additionally, is proposed for a world in which leading soi-disant liberal democracies run, and/or permit rendition flights to, Guantanamo Bay. How many steps separate an innocent British citizen from some misinterpretation or interference or error in the collected and 'made accessible' data of text messages and emails, and a forthcoming home-grown version of Guantanamo Bay for people whose pattern of phone calls does not fit the police definition of acceptable?" Grayling writes further on. The item continues:

"Two things have made this ghastly development possible: the technology, and politicians. The technology is way ahead of the game: Siemens of Germany are already supplying 60 countries with a device that monitors and integrates data from phone, email and internet activity; its software establishes patterns of uses and alerts monitoring staff to deviations from the patterns. As New Scientist reports, the system is already known to throw up huge numbers of false positives; that could have been predicted by a rudimentary acquaintance with human nature and human life. But it is a fact that has to be added to the brilliance and reliability of government and law enforcement agencies in keeping data secure, unhackable and unlosable.

"The second point concerns the quality of our politicians. They say they are putting us all under suspicion for our own good. They wish to protect us against terrorists and criminals, and to make bureaucracy more efficient. The efficiency of bureaucracy has one of its finest moments in the neat and sorted piles of false teeth, hair and spectacles at the gas chamber doors. Oh no: better the milling crowd than the police-disciplined queues of bureaucratic efficiency; better the irritation of dealing with human fallibility than the fear of dealing with jack-booted gendarmes whose grip on one's arms follows stepping out of the queue.

"But as to the first matter: protecting us -- by making us all suspects, all potential criminals and terrorists -- from terrorism and criminality. Well: the first duty of our politicians should be to protect our liberties, and to encourage us to see that liberty carries risks, which we should be trusted to understand and accept so that we can make our own lives our own way. But no: these politicians -- Brown and Labour, once the party of the people -- are going to keep us safe by not keeping our liberties safe; they are going to keep us safe by making us unfree. Yet the putative benefit of protecting us from terrorism and crime is unattainable. They themselves say 'there is no 100% guarantee of safety': but they are going to spy on us all anyway! In fact they are going to create crime: a huge new criminal industry awaits for stealing, copying, falsely creating and manipulating that newly-created precious commodity, "identity." A huge new impetus awaits for techno-crime to disrupt the monitoring and data storage systems on which the government intends to spend billions of our tax money, creating its unblinking eye in our bedrooms. As surely as night follows day, the new surveillance society will do more harm than good." [...]

"We need to stop this assault on civil liberies going further, we need to roll back the attritions they have already suffered, and we need a rock solid written consitution to protect us from those who aim to make us all suspects in the gaze of the unblinking universal eye," Grayling concludes.

September 13 Calendar of Events

Pan-Canadian Day of Action to Support War Resisters

- War Resisters Support Campaign -

On June 3, a majority of Members of Parliament in the House of Commons voted by 137 to 110 to let war resisters stay and to stop all deportation proceedings against them. Yet the Harper government has refused to respect the majority of Canadians and the will of Parliament. One war resister, Robin Long, has already been deported. Robin is now in a military prison. (Robin also has a Canadian-born son.) U.S. Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman and his wife and two children have been ordered to leave Canada by September 23rd. We cannot let this happen to another person of conscience. Deportations of U.S. war resisters are a slap in the face to Canadian democracy. If you care about peace and justice, if you oppose the U.S. occupation of Iraq, NOW is the time to get involved. September 13th is a pan-Canadian Day of Action to support war resisters and to demand that the Harper government stop the deportations. Actions, demonstrations, and pickets will take place in cities and towns all across Canada. Grab a leaflet, sign a petition, and hear a war resister tell his story.

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