http://www.ndp.ca/press/ndp-warns-against-conservatives-snooping-law

The sad part is that it was apparent that this is the direction the Tories would move if elected.  And people still voted them in.

We can complain... but we can't stop them.

As-salaamu alaikum

-Omni

I can scarcely believe the poll results I'm seeing. In all seriousness, I had given up hope for Canada. It was obvious that Harper was a blind ideologue, and thoroughly anti-democracy. This isn't wild, political name calling. He has many times demonstrated his loathing for democracy. And he is owned by  corporate money even more than John A. Macdonald was.

Well the Government has announced plans to possibly purchase 65 brand new F-35 Jet Fighters when they come out in 2016.  This would put them just in the range of our old C-18s which were just recently retrofitted to last until 2017, which would give a good year of cross-fighter training.

Besides the 9 Billion up front there are other costs which could potentially bring up the total cost to about 16 billion to include maintanance and upgrades for 20 years from the date of purchase.

OTTAWA–The departing chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission has taken the Harper government to task for refusing to renew his term in the middle of a major public inquiry into the Afghan detainee controversy.

Peter Tinsley said Friday that it is unprecedented for the government not to renew his appointment as head of the military oversight body.

This makes me incredibly mad, I think because of the dishonesty even more than the changes.  BASTARDS!!  I find it really, really hard to see how anyone with any interest in caring for the world and each other is able to continue to support these disgusting, immoral, bastards.

Lots of detail at this link:

www.embassymag.ca/page/view/tories_elected_foreign_policy-8-5-2009

It would appear that our Prime Minister is moving toward bringing back the death penalty. According to an article in Law Times, French-Canadian media outlets have covered this story extensively, while the English speaking media gave it a pass. In my opinion, this is an extremely important issue...I am very opposed to the present position taken by our government (allowing third countries to execute Canadians without our government intervening) and worry that the Liberals may continue to support the Harper government, should this ever come to a vote.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with the story of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Canadian who is basically a prisoner in the Canadian Embassy in the Sudan. His story is another horrible of example of justice gone wrong and our present government is doing nothing to assist Mr. Abdelrazik, if fact, they are, by their actions and their lack of action, condemning him to a life that should not be his fate. I feel quite angry that he is being treated this way and find it increasingly embarrasing to be a Canadian.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/20/fingerprints-crime.html

From the story, the law does three things:

1) allow police to fingerprint and photograph someone before they are charged with an offense

2) make it illegal to escape prosecution by skipping across Provincial lines

3) allow police to obtain warrants 24 hours a day.

I've been thinking about something recently. Does Christianity make people conservative? Sometimes it seems like christian and conservative are so intertwined that they mean the same thing. Is it an unnatural relationship? If it's not christianity that does it; where do conservatives come from? Is it different churches that are at fault? Old people vs young? Lots of people from my generation want nothing to do with christianity because the association is so strong.