Hitler's Germany Revisited in Canada
August 22, 2005
By Connie Fogal, Leader CAP/PAC
Connie
Fogal, Leader of CAP, says " 'NO' to an impending federal law to give
police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on
cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians"
"This law is another destruction of Canadian freedom,"insists Fogal.
"It moves Canada even further into the realm of a police state. This is
an adjunct to our nefarious anti terrorism laws imposed on an
uninformed citizenry by our Parliament and Senate. It is another
elimination of some of our sovereign rights that were supposed to be
guaranteed to us under our Constitution and our Charter of Rights and
Freedoms. It is an act of stealth imposed under the guise of national
security."
Fogal asks? "Why is this being done? Canada is
mirroring recent U.S legislation because our government has committed
Canada by stealth and backroom deals to a North American Union: US,
Canada, and Mexico under US command and control. Information on this
year's meeting by the three national leaders at Bush's ranch in Texas
on North American Union has been revealed even in mainstream media."
"This
latest piece of liberty stripping legislation is but one more
incremental step of stealth because Canadians would not tolerate this
if we were allowed to have full information of what is going on. This
is an incredible situation," reported Fogal.
She continued,
"Many Canadians fought and died in WW2 to stop this very kind of police
state activity. What we are witnessing now with these types of laws is
an exact pattern of liberty -stripping imposed by Hitler on Germans
under the guise of 'National Security'. Good people there who turned a
blind eye or failed to resist later discovered it was too late.Their
liberty was completely eliminated . Eventually it reached a stage where
even Germany's highest court judges were committing crimes by
convicting innocent people. See the Nuremburg Trials. Even Judges are
corruptible in such regimes. As Harry Rankin, Vancouver's renowned 25
year alderman and criminal lawyer, used to say, 'If you want justice,
go to church,not to the courts. The courts are there to apply the law
created by politicians.' "
"Fogal, a lawyer, said, "Canada
along with many countries has been participating for years in an
eavesdropping program called Echelon. That is illegal. What government
is trying to do is make it legal. It is illegal because our system as a
democracy had built in protections for the good and innocent. Police
have to justify any invasion of privacy before a court of law. If the
court did not accept the reason for the invasion, it was not allowed.
This protection is core to civil liberties. We should not abandon it.
We must not abandon it, if we are to be a free and democratic people."
"It
is such hypocrisy for Canada to be supporting the US occupation of
Afghanistan and Iraq as deliverers of "freedom" when new local
draconian laws at home are stripping Canadians and Americans of our
liberty. It is time for a reality check," insisted Fogal.
"At
a crucial point in 'the tide of the affairs of men' human beings have
to take a stand and be counted. Better sooner than later when to do so
means imprisonment or death, as happened in Germany. I, for one, say
"NO" to another deceitful and wrongful law. I also speak as the leader
of a small federal party voicing the view of thousands of Canadians who
feel betrayed by the existing Parliamentarians,"said Fogal.
Connie
Fogal, lawyer, Director Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee and
Leader of Canadian Action Party/parti action Canadienne
www.canadianactionparty.ca www.canadianliberty.bc.ca
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New Legislation Threatens Privacy for Canadians Once Again!
OP-ED By Catherine Whelan Costen e mail: Catherine Whelan Costen Tel: 403 684 3514
Canadian Action Party, Vice President and Candidate
The
Globe and Mail report by Bill Curry on Aug.19,2005 states, “The federal
government will introduce legislation this fall that would give police
and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone
calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians, Justice
Minister Irwin Cotler said yesterday.” The first question should be
why? Is there no longer a presumption of innocence in this county? Have
we all become possible criminals as we go about our daily lives?
The
article goes on “The bill would allow police to demand that Internet
service providers hand over a wide range of information on the surfing
habits of individuals, including on-line pseudonyms and whether someone
possesses a mischief-making computer virus, according to a draft
outline of the bill provided to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.”
The Privacy Commissioner should be speaking out loudly against such
invasions of Canadians privacy. We ought to be able to go about life
without looking over our shoulder constantly. It would appear that
Canada is becoming a police state, where everything we do is suspect.
Canadian
law enforcement needs the tools to fight crime, but that should not
include spying on law abiding citizens, just in case they are thinking
about doing something. There are already sufficient laws in place that
allow court orders to search property, including computers, but there
must be justifiable cause to do so. This new law appears to give the
state excessive powers to invade Canadians privacy. It threatens
freedom of speech and the ability for citizens to discuss political or
other matters in private. How far are they willing to go?
Tie this
into the already existing rules, such as, anti-Terrorist legislation
(Bill C 36) and Bill C7 which gained Royal Assent: 6 May 2004 and which
gives dictatorial powers to a number of Ministers who have the capacity
to shut down the country and declare martial law without any checks and
balances, and without going to Parliament. Add to that the new Smart
Border plans being proposed and the biometric identification cards on
the horizon(proposed by the Tri-lateral Task Force which includes the
U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian Council of Chief
Executives and the Mexican Council of Foreign Relations; the business
elite of the three countries). Then you can see we are losing our
freedom all in the name of some dark shadow that was, created by fear
and hate, called, ‘terrorism’. This new world we live in has become
‘might is right’. Clearly the rise of terrorism has coincided with the
pre-emptive strike on Iraq, ironically in retaliation for an act by
several Saudi’s! I believe it is noteworthy to consider that with all
the security, spy agencies and technology, the two men who were
‘America’s most wanted’, are still alive, while thousands of innocent
people have been murdered. How many more people will be arrested,
detained, murdered or falsely imprisoned on the basis of lies, or false
intelligence information?
According to a Standing Committee Report
by The ‘Ligue des droits et libertes‘ a non-profit, non-partisan group,
these proposals come at the request of the United States not because
Canada deems them necessary. I quote from their report, ‘ In the fall
of 2002, Minister Denis Coderre launched the idea of an identity
card…to facilitate border crossing for Canadians at the U.S.
border…..On December 6,2002 John Manley and Tom Ridge, the director of
Homeland Security, agreed on a 30-point Smart Border Action Plan. The
first point concerns biometric identification. ….The purpose of the
plan was to meet the requirements of the United States rather than any
need felt in Canada.”
Really I ask you, who is being terrorized?
After Sept 11, we were inundated with slogans, ‘they will not win’ and
‘situation normal’ and ‘please go about your daily affairs, because if
we live in fear THEY will have won’. Today, ‘they’ are not imposing the
fear. It is coming from those who should be creating an environment of
calm, reassuring the public instead of creating mass hysteria. Today,
we are inundated with a different slogan, ‘The evil must be
annihilated’ and ‘We are fighting this war on terror’, and reminding us
to watch our neighbours and be suspicious of people’s activities. Quite
frankly it sounds like the ‘war on drugs’, something which never ends,
because the root cause is never addressed.
All of this new security
is being done without the consent or request of the Canadian people. It
would appear that our government is now taking instructions from
someone other than those who have elected them. When the U.S. brought
in the Patriot Act, we followed with anti-terrorism laws, (Bill C36).
When they started the ‘no fly’ list for airlines, Canada followed with
our own. (Do we have this?? I did not know this) Now they want more
power to invade Canadians privacy. Canada’s Census, the collection of
very private and national security information, will be influenced by
Lockheed Martin(a Manufacturer of Weapons), which leaves us susceptible
to the Patriot Act’s over reaching powers to access information from
any company. Why would Canada ever allow a foreign company to be
involved in our census at any level?
I ask you, what is the
definition of democracy on today’s stage and what manner of freedom do
we profess to embrace? With all the high tech security we have in place
today, and much of what was in place prior to 911, certainly prior to
the recent bombings in Britain, did it prevent such attacks? Does
spying on the law abiding citizen, give them a sense of security? Civil
rights are being eroded fast and furious, and seemingly our Canadian
government is succumbing to the law of another nation.
We are
inviting the DEA, FBI and other U.S. agencies into Canada on the
premise of assisting our law enforcement. Texas troopers are detaining
people on B.C. highways, with no legitimate explanation for their boots
on Canadian soil! This is the incident as reported, ‘CBC News, Jan. 28,
2005 VANCOUVER A Vancouver man has won an out-of-court settlement
from the RCMP after an incident in which he says he was illegally
searched. David Laing says police overstepped the law when they stopped
his car, decided he was driving under the influence of marijuana, and
searched his vehicle and two-year-old son. Under Canadian law, that
kind of search is illegal. What upset Laing even more is that some the
officers he tangled with were actually American police officers.”
Consultation
with the people is a required element to validate a democracy. Canada’s
very sovereignty is being threatened through the glorification of a
global ideology that promises peace, harmony and security, but in
reality offers nothing more than colonization. When our government no
longer acts independently to create laws, control our monetary supply,
health regulations, and security measures suitable and appropriate to
the people of Canada, we abdicate our sovereignty. The very real threat
to become nothing more than a mere landmass, storage for natural
resources, and military bases, grouped within the boundaries of a North
American Fortress and under control of a global power is no longer the
substance of sci-fi novels.
Canada’s ability to remain a nation,
separate and distinct, with unique and specific laws, customs and
values is being eroded, at an alarming rate. We are indebted to foreign
investors and private banks, our military is heavily influenced if not
under the control of a foreign power in many ways, we have laws on the
books which allow the U.S. to send troops into Canada without our
consent. This new legislation is another element added to the decline
of our rights as citizens in a sovereign country. The writing is no
longer just on the walls. It is on every bar of this symbolic cage we
are creating for ourselves in the name of freedom!
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