Chronological government Weblog/Links

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2008

July

Italian police sentenced over 2001 G8 protests July 15, 2008 :: During the G8 summit in 2001, police were accused of posing as "Black Block" anarchists (among others) and inciting violence. There was also widespread illegitimate arrests of protestors,...

Electro-shock Plane Tickets July 09, 2008 :: The Department of Homeland Security is apparently interested in deploying "electronic ID bracelets" for plane travellers to take the place of boarding passes. One difference: these...

June

Spanking: Jail. June 19, 2008 :: The Senate is preparing to pass through a bill (which would still need House approval to become law) which would make it a crime to spank your child.

Wilderness Lake to Tailings Pond: Rubber-stamp June 17, 2008 :: Federal Bureaucrats are allowed to redefine lakes and rivers as "tailing containment facilities" (aka toxic waste dumps for mining debris) and are doing just that to a bunch of lakes and...

May

FBI using terrorism laws to "infiltrate" protest groups May 23, 2008 :: As predicted, so-called "terrorism" laws are really being used to fuck the tender bottoms of protestors. What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant -- someone...

Dominion Book Review: Damming the Flood May 08, 2008 :: The coup d'etat that Canada was instrumental in executing (pun intended) you've probably never heard about (and likely told me I was wrong when I told you). Interesting-sounding book about...

2007

March

Judge: justice too expensive March 09, 2007 :: Finally a real, live judge agrees with me: "justice" is for the rich. The cost of justice is beyond the reach of many middle-class Canadians, the chief justice of the Supreme...