Canadian PM Harper USING TERRORISM FOR POLITICAL GAIN!!!

[Harper_is_Bush]

Canada Arrests Terror Suspects
allpoliticsnow.com news
Saturday, 03 June 2006

On Friday Canadian authorities arrested 12 people on suspicion of plotting terrorist acts in Canada.

A CSIS official described those arrested as being "inspired by al-Qaida". Police seized tree tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer which can be mixed with fuel to create a bomb. Only one tonne of ammonium nitrate was used in the bomb that was detonated in Oklahoma in 1995.

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Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper released a public statement about the arrests Saturday monrning. He pointed out that "Canada's security and intelligence measures worked". In a move that some criticized as using terrorism for political opportunism, Harper ended his statement by promising "Canada's new government will pursue its efforts to ensure the national security of all Canadians". Harper has often been compared to George Bush, who has also been criticized for using terrorism for political advantage.

http://allpoliticsnow.com/content/view/22/1/

I was stunned when I read his statement.

Why is he saying anything at all? CSIS and the RCMP commenting should be good enough.

[msongs]

1. fascists need a cult of personality to succeed...like gw bush

you cannot whip people into a state of fear using anonymous bureaucrats, you have to have a charismatic leader who personifies the
fear and drives it into your hearts - a spokesperson for fear, so to speak.

your PM will become like bush, repeating the same mantra over and over and over.

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[hedda_foil]

2. Canada's NEW government?

Okay, I know that there are differences in the way one refers to a parliamentary government, but is this kind of nomenclature common in Canada? It reminds me all too unpleasantly of *s proclivity for saying "my government" instead of the government of the United States or our government. No other president in my memory (back to Truman) ever used that terminology. Is Harper doing the same thing or am I hearing it that way because of the differences between the two countries?

[Harper_is_Bush]

3. You're hearing it right. Go check out the gov't of Canada website:

http://canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

There happens to be a piece including "canadas new government" at the moment, but the part on the left hand side:
"CANADA'S NEW GOVERNMENT: TURNING A NEW LEAF"
is permanent.

He's been criticized for it, but he's like Bush. He doesn't care.

[treestar]

8. Fascinating and I never picked up on that

One of my pet peeves is judges saying "my courtroom."

[AusGail]

4. Sad day for Canada

It was a very sad day for Canada when this right wing government was voted in. I hope the Canadians will see the error of their ways and get rid of them next time round.

[Harper_is_Bush]

5. This kind of thing will help Canadians see it. I believe they already

are seeing it.

Conservative popularity has already dropped below the feared majority level (%40) and Stephen Harper continues with the bonehead moves.

Now he wants to bring up same sex marriage again. Slash another 5 points from his rating.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

6. Sad. Even Canada has been taken over by the neocons

This Stephen Harper is worse than Tony Blair, little more than a stooge for Bush without a modicum of Blair's eloquence.

I've heard a lot of Canadians as well as Americans planning emigration to South America or Europe these days (e.g. see http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/80/efam80.html ) and could never grasp why. Now, it's obvious. Canada's been co-opted by the same warmongers as we have here.

[quiet.american]

7. Since Harper is a Bush sympathizer, I completely expected it.

In fact, when I heard the first reports of these arrests, I thought to myself, here we go. Now Harper can use this to relate absolutely everything to national security. Next on the agenda, use of this incident to start stripping Canadians of their civil liberties.

Since Canadians are always asking what's happened to us over here (and rightly so), it will be interesting to see just how far they'll let Harper get.

[Doctor_J]

9. He's Smirk's protege

welcome to hell, Canada

[Harper_is_Bush]

10. We have a chance to dump him in prbably about a year.

I suspect we will.

[Doctor_J]

11. By that time he'll have thwarted 4-5 "terrorist attacks",

"cut taxes" (and services by twice as much), and removed burdensome legislation from polluters, corporate thieves, and right-wing pollitical hacks. Best of luck. These people don't like to abandon power once they have it.