statism watch

As indie journo Paul Joseph Watson comments, Flumist is “being rolled out nationwide from this week, including at “drive-through clinics” across the country where the nasal spray is administered while people sit in their cars with their window wide open.” He continues, noting that according to studies, “the odds of transmitting the virus after receiving the nasal spray are about 2.5 percent,” with children the most susceptible. While StatismWatch doesn’t have adequate grounds to believe that any such transmission would necessarily be used to institute mandatory vaccinations (an idea that has certainly been floated in Greece, France, and other jurisdictions and which the WHO’s pandemic plan provides for) it would certainly provide cover to encourage widespread acceptance of the H1N1 jab and to justify the World Health Organization’s ascendency as the de facto global public health dept.

Flashback: New swine-flu wave hits GTA: Provincial Health Official | Canadian taxpayers on hook for any H1N1 vaccine damages | Second wave of swine flu pandemic begins to hit US | Seasonal flu shots delayed for non-seniors on fears of increased H1N1 risk | Seasonal flu shot may increase H1N1 risk | Swine flu death rate similar to seasonal flu: expert | Swine flu unlikely to become superbug | UK: Half of all pregnant women will refuse swine flu jab, poll reveals | Flu vaccine plan will be too slow: CMAJ | Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America | Canada to order 50.4 million H1N1 vaccine doses – with adjuvant additive | Genetically modified Swine Flu hybrid may provide vaccine yield solution | Washington Post: Swine Flu Vaccine Will Contain Mercury | UK Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll | Fast-tracked swine flu vaccine will be safe, officials insist | Swine flu: How scared should we be? | Top Epidemiologist Slams Swine Flu Fearmongering | Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers | Swine flu ‘related’ to 1918 pandemic virus – survivors exhibit resistance | Did leak from a laboratory cause swine flu pandemic? | Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim | Lessons of 1976: swine flu, fear, mass vaccinations, wasted millions | ‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible | Officials investigate how bird flu contaminated vaccines in Europe | Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic

Lance Hernandez, 7News Denver
October 5, 2009

Concern That Doctors, Nurses Could Spread ‘Live’ Virus

DENVER — It now looks like Colorado’s first batch of H1N1 vaccine won’t arrive until Thursday.

That’s when an estimated 54,000 doses of FluMist will be doled out to county health departments.

Those departments, in turn, will deliver the mist to hospitals and clinics which have applied for the vaccine.

But several metro area hospitals said they won’t be taking the FluMist because they don’t want to endanger patients.

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Flashback: Secret juror background checks not illegal, prosecutor says | Secret juror screening spreads to Windsor | Prosecutors, police caught checking potential juror’s backgrounds

CBC News
October 5, 2009

Ontario’s privacy commissioner has ordered the province’s Crown attorneys to halt the collection of personal information about potential jurors beyond what is legally necessary.

In a report released Monday afternoon, Ann Cavoukian also asked the province’s attorney general to create a single, centralized juror-screening process to minimize unnecessary background checks.

The 213-page report is the product of a four-month investigation into whether the privacy rights of prospective jurors were breached by police officers who conducted background checks on them on behalf of Crown attorneys.

The investigation found that 18 of the 55 Crown attorney offices in Ontario received background information about potential jurors that failed to comply with applicable privacy legislation.

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Whatever their other views may be, this journal hopes Levant and Steyn are enjoying their newfound cachet as defenders of free speech. We can but wish them luck, and hope that they remain consistent in their defence of these principles..

Flashback: It’s a great day for freedom of speech: ‘Hate Speech’ laws found to violate Charter Rights | Tribunal shouldn’t police online hate, report says | Queen’s proposed thought-crime cadres prove controversial | Canada’s free speech enemies to lay Remembrance Day wreath | Ezra Levant: How I beat the fatwa, and lost my freedom | All speech is free in Canada except speech we happen to hate | Human rights body to consider Internet speech regulation | Blogger arrests hit record high | The Ontario Human Rights Commission: Hey, we want to be in the censorship business, too!

CBC News
October 5, 2009

Two writers appeared before the justice committee on Monday, repeating their call for a repeal of a controversial section of the Human Rights Act, and asking for a probe into the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are also calling for the elimination of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which allows the commission to investigate allegations of hate speech.

“I think a very practical, doable thing for this committee and for parliament would be to repeal section 13 of the Human Rights Act altogether, to leave any hate speech prosecutions to the Criminal Code with its proper checks and balances, and frankly, to bring in a forensic audit to the Human Rights Commission to examine the allegations that I have made,” Levant told the commission.

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While yanking the RCMP’s contract for the entire province may seem drastic, it would devolve and decentralize power from the federal police force – an institution which, perhaps, should find its calling in investigations of organized crime rather than bringing the weight of the national government to bear on community policing. The history of the RCMP, musical rides and red serge aside, has been a chequered one to say the least – as the Macdonald Commission exposed in the 1970s, they’ve engaged in provocation, perjury, and of course now there is ‘pain compliance’ to worry about – so it may well be in everyone’s best interest to throw up that additional firewall or institutional barricade to the exercise of centralized law enforcement by giving BC its own police force.

Flashback: Braidwood inquiry reopens, RCMP bickers over preplanned TASER use | TASER files court motion to quash Braidwood probe’s findings | Mounties have no choice but to comply with TASER ruling | Justice says changes needed in Taser use | Mounties discussed Tasing Dziekanski prior to altercation | 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

CBC News
October 5, 2009

Final arguments began Monday at the public inquiry in Vancouver into the death of a man who was stunned several times by an RCMP Taser at the Vancouver airport almost two years ago.

The inquiry, led by retired justice Thomas Braidwood, is examining how Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski succumbed after being shot with an electronic stun gun five times by RCMP officers and left handcuffed face down on the floor of the arrivals lounge of the airport.

In his final submission to the inquiry Monday, the lawyer for Dziekanski’s mother, Walter Kosteckyj, said the police failed to take the time to do their job properly. He said it took the RCMP officers less than 30 seconds after first meeting Dziekanski before they fired the Taser at him.

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Flashback: EU observers say a third of Karzai’s votes might be suspect due to fraud | Afghan vote called ‘mockery’ | Accusations over Afghan vote rigging | Has Karzai overstayed his welcome? | Britain and US prepared to open talks with the Taliban | Afghan President Karzai registers for re-election, picks warlord as running mate | Afghanistan needs 4,000 extra soldiers for elections: NATO | Canadian troops could soon target Afghan drug trade: top soldier | Reports reveal concerns over drug use among Canadian military | Afghan government sacks Kandahar governor | US faces downward spiral in Afghan war, says leaked intelligence report | NATO to let troops fight Afghan drug lords | Karzai’s kin linked to heroin trafficking | Afghani Narco-state Continues to Blossom under Puppet President

Tom Coghlan, Times Online
October 5, 2009

The head of the UN mission in Afghanistan has been accused by his former deputy of ordering a systematic cover-up to conceal the extent of electoral fraud by President Karzai.

In an attack on the role of the UN in the elections on August 20, Peter Galbraith, who was sacked as Deputy Special Representative to the UN mission in Kabul last week, says that Kai Eide ordered him not to reveal evidence of fraud or to pass it to the authorities.

As a result, he said, the elections had handed the Taleban “its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners”.

He says that the UN collected evidence that a third of Mr Karzai’s votes were fraudulent. If the claim was found to be true it would push Mr Karzai below the 54 per cent that the preliminary election results give him, necessitating a second round of voting.

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… because you’re all to be treated like criminal slaves with no presumption of innocence under the international legal regime that’s being openly patched together. (Note the desire expressed in the article below to “bring Canada in line with a number of other countries in Europe and countries like Australia, which have adopted similar measures.”) Who cares what the law in Europe is? This is a sovereign country, and Section 8 of our Canadian Charter of Rights reads “8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.” They’re already talking about forcibly taking your blood, too. So here’s an exercise. Click through to your Canadian Constitution here, print it up and read it. Then tear it up and throw it in the garbage, because that’s where it’s going unless more people get involved and speak up for our liberty in this country. And while you’re at it, you may want to also let your Member of Parliament know we’ve no interest in subjecting our tax, food, copyright, cybersecurity or trade legislation to international standardization in closed door talks either.

Related: Secret juror background checks not illegal, prosecutor says | You Commit Three Felonies a Day | Police training to forcibly take blood in Texas, Idaho | US Supreme Court rules police can initiate suspect’s questioning if right to counsel waived | Cops can now ‘take all your stuff’ | Entrapment becoming standard procedure for police | UK: Government ‘using fear as a weapon to erode civil liberties’ | Ottawa moves to toughen anti-gang laws | Schools seek more police as crime drops | Ontario to place prosecutors in police stations | ‘Mens rea’ intention test questioned prior to Toronto 18 terror verdict | Tory ‘Guilty before proven innocent’ law to make debut in court | Perjury: Is it different for cops? | Police to demand blood, urine at roadside stops | Police inspector posed as militant protester | Justice Critic Brands Street Racing Vehicle Seizure Law as “Police State-ism” | CBC Radio Broadcasts Expose of North American Police State | You Are a Suspect

CBC News
October 5, 2009

The federal justice minister is considering a new law that would allow police to conduct random breathalyzer tests on drivers, regardless of whether they suspect motorists have been drinking..

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson raised the prospect recently at a meeting of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, according to MADD chief executive Andrew Murie.

If random testing were to be adopted, it would be a major change to Canada’s 40-year-old breathalyzer legislation, which stipulates that police may only administer a test if they suspect a driver has been drinking.

In June, a House of Commons parliamentary committee recommended changing the legislation to allow for random testing, arguing it is an effective deterrent.

The change would also bring Canada in line with a number of other countries in Europe and countries like Australia, which have adopted similar measures.

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Flashback: Toronto School Board to ‘review’ The Handmaid’s Tale on one parent’s complaint

Don Peat, Toronto Sun
October 5, 2009

To Kill A Mockingbird could be on the curriculum chopping block for all Toronto public schools.

A parent of a Malvern Collegiate student has asked the Toronto District School Board to remove the classic American novel from Canada’s largest school board, the Sun has learned.

Published in 1960, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Harper Lee chronicles a southern lawyer’s struggle against racial injustice in a fictional Alabama town.

Trustees received a note last week from the education director informing them of a complaint about Mockingbird.

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