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Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shot-down dept.

Coryoth writes "The Canadian parliament has voted against renewing anti-terror laws that had been introduced after September 11, 2001. The rejected laws included provisions to hold terror suspects indefinitely, and to compel witnesses to testify, and were in some sense Canada's version fo the Patriot Act. The laws were voted down in the face of claims from the minority Conservative government that the Liberal Party was soft on terror, and despite the fact that Canada has faced active terrorist cells in their own country. The anti-terror laws have never been used, and it was viewed that they are neither relevant, nor needed, in dealing with terrorist plots. Hopefully more countries will come to the same conclusion."

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  1. Thanks for visiting? by SCDavis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So now terrorists will get a slap on the wrist and sent off with a cold molson and a t-shirt with a maple leaf on it? wtf - eh?

  2. Re:Fundamental difference by Evilest+Doer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It did not make sense for us to have more power against drug cartels than terrorist cells
    Neither of these powers make any sense, nor are they Constitutional. The first Bush pushed the "War on Drugs" which has whittled away our rights, and the second Bush pushed the "War on Terror" which has evicerated our rights. Has noone noticed that both of the big excuses for eliminating civil rights have been pushed by Bushes, a family well-known for and even convicted of helping the Nazis?
    --
    I feel like death on a soda cracker.
  3. Re:Wow policies that dont work get revoked. by fatcock84 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "policies that dont work get revoked"

    They don't work? Was there a terrorist act in Canada that the laws failed to prevent?

    At best, the effectiveness of these laws were never tested.

  4. Re:Fundamental difference by superpulpsicle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are 100% correct! Ask yourself how much changed after a white domestic terrorist like "Timothy McVeigh" was found connected to the oklahoma city bombing? Nothing. Not one white person ever got threatened or searched on an airplane. And I am white to be saying this.

    I feel so guilty to be living in the US just based on that alone. It never was about terrorism. It was about fucking oil. That is why so much of the 9/11 conspiracy makes sense. Bush could give 2 shits about your national security. He wants money. Oil money!