Re: Canada 'cares too much about liberties'

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 13:45:54 MDT

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    --- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi@arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
    > On Mon, 5 May 2003, Amara Graps wrote:
    >
    > >(oh brother!)
    > >
    >
    >http://canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=78a2260b-4770-4682-be60-e6fe1d3b8144
    > >
    > >"The United States says the lack of funding for police and
    > >restrictive privacy legislation in Canada are frustrating probes of
    > >political extremists."
    >
    > Coming from the State Department, that's not good news. They seem to
    > move the title of "Land of the freedom" to someone else...

    Depends on whether you get the whole picture. For instance, the
    Canadians are quite happy to surreptitiously spend over $2 billion,
    laundered through various ministries, on the nationwide firearms
    registration program which its sponsors originally insisted would cost
    only $2 million to administer. The way they have hidden funding of this
    program to excess, in avoidance of Parliamentary oversight, in attempts
    to catch the majority of gun owners who refuse to register their
    weapons, even after three amnesty periods, is reminiscent of the
    financial shennanigans of al Qaeda.

    Had the Canadians instead spent this money on funding legitimate law
    enforcement needs, they might have caught a lot more middle eastern
    terrorists acting as refugees.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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