statism watch

It’s time to put this sordid thing to bed. And the desired outcome isn’t just to sacrifice these four officers – but to ensure there’s deep structural changes in the RCMP. We’ve been down this road before.

Flashback: Judge: B.C. taser probe can rule on Mountie misconduct issue | Mounties want to bar Taser inquiry from finding misconduct | RCMP spokesman told to hold off correcting false details of Dziekanski incident, inquiry hears | RCMP supervising officer contradicts earlier testimony in Dziekanski inquiry | RCMP to face no charges in case of TASERed Polish immigrant: Report | Mountie involved in fatal crash was supervisor at time of airport Taser death | Perjury: Is it different for cops? | Mounties censor Taser report

Petti Fong, Toronto Star
June 19, 2009

Inquiry on hold after explosive email emerges

VANCOUVER — An email from the RCMP’s top officer in B.C. asserting that the four members involved in the Vancouver airport incident with Robert Dziekanski planned to use the Taser even before arriving at the scene has caused a halt to the inquiry into the death of the Polish immigrant.

Commission chair Thomas Braidwood called the disclosure of the email “appalling” and “highly relevant.”

He ordered this morning the public inquiry be shut down until September for more evidence to be presented.

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Apparently, the cameras we were told had to go in across the system to prevent crime are doing nothing of the sort. Just another step in the ongoing process of stripping you of your rights as a police state is quietly erected around you.

Flashback: Greyhound bus passengers now subject to arbitrary luggage searches | Air passengers to undergo ‘virtual strip search’ | Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway | TTC studies using Tasers | Privacy International responds to Ontario Privacy Commissioner ruling on CCTV | T.T.C. Starts Camera Installation On Buses & Streetcars | Privacy issues surround planned TTC cameras | Photo surveillance on Toronto Transit System aims to snap every user

CBC News
June 19, 2009

Toronto police are set to take over safety patrols on the city’s transit system – duties now the responsibility of the Toronto Transit Commission’s officers.

Toronto’s Police Services Board voted unanimously on Thursday that the TTC’s 118 special constables should come under the command of the regular police.

The board said there should be only one police force for the city – and that includes the special constables that patrol the TTC.

Chief Bill Blair said after the meeting that some of the current special constables may remain on the job.

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It’s official – the Irish people have been reassured, the media says so. The real question is, are these substantive issues that actually engage the Irish public, or are they a smokescreen, just as many rags and bones of sovereignty, and no more, as the EU mandarins believe necessary to tip the vote in their direction by pandering to targeted voting blocs?

Flashback: EU leaders reassure Irish in latest attempt to revive Lisbon treaty | Leaked 1955 Bilderberg Docs Outline Plan For Single European Currency | Irish to vote on EU treaty again as experts warn Britain could be signed up within a year | You’re not doing it right: New Irish vote on EU integration ‘legal’ | Harper, Sarkozy vow to work toward Canada-EU deal | Irish ‘need new EU treaty vote’ | Lisbon treaty: Pressure on Ireland for second vote | EU tries to isolate Irish after treaty rejection | EU grapples with Irish ‘No’ vote, members consider ratification options | Defiant Ireland set to quash Europe-wide constitutional moves | Ireland Set To Vote On EU Dictatorship | Irish PM Accuses EU Constitution No Vote Coalition of ‘Sheer Inaccuracy and Absurdity’ | Ireland Only Country to Hold Referendum on Contentious EU Constitution | European Parliament Members Revolt Over Treaty of Lisbon

The Telegraph UK
June 19, 2009

Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, said that his country would hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in October after he secured assurances from EU leaders likely to boost a Yes vote.

The Taoiseach, who held private talks with Gordon Brown yesterday, won guarantees from European Union leaders that Irish policies on tax, abortion and military neutrality would not be affected by Ireland ratifying the treaty.

“I feel we will be in a position to hold a second referendum at the start of October,” he said at the close of a European Union summit in Brussels.

“I am confident that we now have a solid basis to go to the Irish people and ask them to ratify the Treaty so that Europe can move forward.”

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Flashback: Central Bank of Canada ‘considering’ regulatory changes, ‘continuous private liquidity creation’ | US Treasury Secretary Geithner defends plan to step up oversight | Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship In United States | Obama unveils overhaul of financial system oversight | Federal Reserve To Be Given Sweeping New Powers | HR 1207: Battle To Audit The Fed Has Only Just Begun | ‘New world order’ needs better economic grounding: Carney

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
June 19, 2009

Congressman tells MSNBC that the very entity responsible for the economic crisis is now more powerful than Congress

Responding to the Obama administration’s new regulatory reform plan, which will officially hand the Federal Reserve complete dictatorial control over the U.S. economy, Congressman Ron Paul told MSNBC that the Fed was now more powerful than Congress.

Paul emphasized that no amount of regulation could compensate for a financial system created and controlled by the Federal Reserve that was completely unstable to begin with.

“The regulations should be on the Federal Reserve. We should have transparency of the Federal Reserve. They can create trillions of dollars to bail out their friends, and we don’t even have any transparency of this. They’re more powerful than the Congress,” said Paul.

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(Oh, it’s just a couple of regulatory changes. Nothing for you to concern yourself with.) Here’s the Canadian branch of the global banking architecture following orders and beginning their marketing campaign to sell the public on giving them power to control the economy and to make ‘bailout’ payola a continual part of their operations. England, America, and now Canada have all announced this simultaneously – it’s a blatant international takeover and harmonization of the economic regime, greasing the skids to further political integration. If central banks have independent oversight of the economy, what we’re talking about is a new form of government, privately run and operated through what are in fact regional national holding companies, franchises of the new world order international leaders have been falling over themselves to call for by name in the past few months.

Flashback: US Treasury Secretary Geithner defends plan to step up oversight | Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship In United States | Obama unveils overhaul of financial system oversight | Federal Reserve To Be Given Sweeping New Powers | HR 1207: Battle To Audit The Fed Has Only Just Begun | ‘New world order’ needs better economic grounding: Carney | Goldman-Sachs to repay TARP loan, resume private operations, bonuses, at “earliest time” possible | Which Banks Will Rule? | Wall Street’s Big Takeover | Obama appoints architects of economic collapse, financial globalism to economic team | Flaherty calls for mandatory IMF surveillance | Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? | Behind the panic: Financial warfare over the future of global bank power | Goldman-Sachs Alumni Hold Reins of Financial System | Private Federal Reserve Makes Power Grab as Bush, McCain Urge Congress to Approve Plan | Financial ’super cop’ role for Fed | What Really Killed Bear Stearns? | Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda | Treasury’s Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power | Banks face “new world order,” consolidation: report

Kevin Carmichael, The Globe and Mail
June 19, 2009

Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney says he is considering making permanent the special cash auctions that he has set up to help banks survive the crisis because it would be “totally unacceptable” to allow critical credit markets to seize again.

“The performance of core funding markets during the crisis intensified the financial panic and helped trigger the recession,” Mr. Carney said in Regina. “As the ultimate provider of liquidity to the system, the bank is thinking through whether to adapt its facilities to support continuous private liquidity creation.”

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