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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   Totally predicted.  Totally contemptible.  Totally Harper and Cons.   
   Whatever they introduce, and pass, the winning Opposition party has to overturn   
   right after the election.   
   We will not lose our freedoms to the likes of the Harper government.  And the   
   killings he brought to Canada.   
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   Ian MacLeod, Ottawa Citizen  10.25.2014   
      
   Government exploits attacks on military to push security agenda, Greenwald says   
      
   The federal government is “shamelessly” exploiting last week’s extremist   
   attacks to dismantle liberties and core principles of justice, says journalist   
   Glenn Greenwald.   
      
   The Pulitzer-Prize winning U.S. reporter warned that the Conservative   
   government, aided by docile news media, is purposely fueling alarmist   
   speculation about the domestic threat of Islamic terrorism to ram through   
   legislation giving the state extraordinary new powers over citizens.   
      
   It remained unclear whether last Monday’s and Wednesday’s assaults were   
   individual deranged acts of religious-inspired violence, or somehow the work of   
   Islamic terror groups.   
      
   Yet, “we’ve allowed this word terrorism to take on such profound meaning   
   that   
   right before our eyes governments dismantle the protections and defining   
   attributes of western justice in order to keep us safer,” Greenwald told an   
   audience of more than 1,000 people in downtown Ottawa on Saturday night.   
      
   “It is critically important not to reflexively act (like) that every time   
   there’s an attack.”   
      
   Greenwald, who last year broke international stories on whistleblower Edward   
   Snowden’s stunning revelations about mass electronic surveillance of citizens   
   by western governments, directed his criticism at Prime Minister Stephen   
   Harper.   
      
   On Thursday, the day after gunman Micheal Zehaf-Bibeau killed National War   
   Memorial sentry Cpl. Nathan Cirillo and then stormed Centre Block, Harper told   
   the Commons new laws giving police more powers to surveil, detain and arrest   
   suspected extremists are, “already underway and will be expedited.”   
      
   The legislation would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more   
   power to track terror suspects abroad and provide blanket identity protection   
   for the agency’s human sources. Conservatives now are hinting that even more   
   powers are required to make pre-emptive arrests.   
      
   Greenwald lambasted Harper over what he characterized as a naked power grab.   
      
   “The speed and the aggression and the brazenness and the shamelessness with   
   which the prime minister moved to manipulate and exploit the emotions around   
   these events to demand more power for himself was almost impressive,” he   
   said.   
      
   “These attacks are instantly seized upon as a way to further dismantle civil   
   liberties and core principles of western justice.”   
      
   The accusations flow from Greenwald’s chief observation from the Snowden   
   affair: Democracy is being gravely subverted by largely unaccountable and   
   ultrasecret national security agencies under the guise of combating the   
   bogeyman of global terrorism.   
      
   More:   
   http://www.montrealgazette.com/News/canada/Government+exploits+a   
   tacks+military+push+security+agenda/10326486/story.html   
      
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