Categories: Capital Read, Inside the Queensway

ITQ Open Thread: GiornoWatch, Tale of the Tape, Khadr, Green Shift … you know, whatever

by kadyomalley on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:13am - 0 Comments

A few quick notes before heading off to the Hill for the first day of the Ethics committee investigation into the Conservative election advertising expense scandal:

GiornoWatch will return – as a nooner, or an afterhours evening edition, depending on how the day unfolds
Yes, ITQ is all too aware that the Tale of the Tape continues to unspool at a dizzying rate, and has big plans for a comprehensive roundup post covering all the most recent developments — just as soon as we have a moment to figure out what it all means.

Anyway, as previously noted, ITQ will be spending most of the day in the Railway Room (or is it the Reading Room? I always get them mixed up) where she hopes to nab a front-row seat for today’s committee festivities. Readers who aren’t quite as mesmerized as ITQ by the in and out goings-on, however, are welcome to use this as an open thread to trade horrified reaction and off the cuff conspiracy theories on other breaking – and simmering – stories.

Tags: do what thou wilt but try not to break the server shall, meta meta, open thread, where the heck is itq? ethics committee

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Phillip Huggan

IDK why Khadr is still in custody. The US documents describing his firefight were doctored. That in itself is grounds to throw the charge out. It is grounds to charge the US official who doctored the document with some low level treason. I know that won’t happen, but at least you’d think he’d be relieved of his position of authority to doctor documents again.
Isn’t the treatment of enemy combatents a standard affair? If R.Dallaire says he he the rights of a child soldier, he does in my books. I’m much more concerned about police conspiracies in Winnipeg (an officer killed a civilian while drunk and him and his conspirators are getting away with it here) and especially an organized conspiracy of 30-50 officers in Toronto, and past Vancouver police beating up dealers in Stanley Park. Toronto is short cash, why not just cut police salaries across the board when there are probably more corrupt officers there than active Hell’s Angels?
Phillip Huggan

To elaborate above, I’d expect any Canadian judge to throw out the above charges based on tampering, before the Khadr case could be used to ad-hoc some Human Rights trampling state of citizenship between parole and house. If there ever is some threat that requires such a murky class of Canadian citizenship, it needs to be drafted before it could be used.
The people responsible for upholding law: judges, police, lawyers; here you have a precident in at least three cities where they themselves have been the agents of tampering to purposely avoid charges. I suggest if you do want to be like the Americans and invent a new enemy to fund (low employment intensity) American defence contractors, that police be the first to have tattlers placed on their personhood, given the clear evidence of conspiracy in their brotherhood ranks.
Marijuana dealers and enemy combatants aren’t a threat to Canadian society, crooked cops are. Weed could be used to treat anorexia and chemo size effects, and if Vancouver police weren’t beating up dealers (if prostitutes paid taxes too), they would’ve caught Pickton a long time ago. We’re short doctors.
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