statism watch

Again, the mainstream media has utterly failed in its responsibility to alert the public of threats to its interests. Bill C-6, as outlined below, is a warmed over version of the previous Conservative bills C-51 and C-52, which died on the order paper when the last election was called. These will greatly expand the powers of Health Canada by giving them the power for warrantless searches and seizures. If you are suspected of possessing unapproved consumer products – and the additional fear is that this language will be used to crack down on the health supplements industry, vitamins, and really anything that hasn’t been vetted by the pharmaceutical industry – then agents will have the power to come on your property without proper judicial oversight, seize and/or destroy samples, and charge you for any expenses involved in storing them offsite. Does this sound like the Canada you know?

Flashback: US House approves sweeping new food powers for FDA | Listeriosis report urges cleanliness and – increased federalization of food safety | New Ontario regulations forcing local butchers out of market | Ottawa to revive bill restricting natural health products | Naturopaths Fear Proposed Bill C-51 | Canada’s C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% Of Natural Health Products | Codex Alimentarius Commission adopts more than 50 new food standards

0SPP, NAUresistance.org
October 13, 2009

Farewell Canada. Bill C-6 will be passed in days. SPREAD THIS NOW!!!!

Under the banner of Consumer protection as well as Health and Saftey, Canadians should prepare for a loss of basic human freedoms that were once protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights…..

Bill C-6 is about to have its 3rd and final reading before being passed into law. With a sense of desperate urgency I am now busy sending emails to Canadian Senators and MP’s to try and halt this draconian legislation, which will end Canadian freedoms as once enjoyed by so many.

I appeal to Canuck’s on this website to consider investing 15 minutes in this cause. I am including an email I just sent out to friends and family with a pre-written letter to Canadian Senators and MP’s, and a ‘cut and paste’ list of all Senator and MP’s email addresses.

If you are hazy on Bill C-6, be sure to check out the videos posted at the end of this article.

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This seems as good a time as ever for the return of the codpiece. Line it with lead, and you’ve the perfect novelty protest gift item. Germany, incidentally has rejected this technology so it’s not as though we have to go ahead with this disturbingly dystopic invasion of privacy. If Britain and the US jumped off a cliff, would we? Apparently so, and we should be ashamed. There’s a serious issue here – we’re being dehumanized incrementally, and if that project (deliberate or not) is successful, then we can kiss civil society goodbye. If we think we’re no better than animals and deserve to be herded about, tracked like items in a warehouse of human resources, then that is what we will become, TASERed or beaten to stay in line. And all for the small, vain hope that in our dumb, caged lives we will have “all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused”, as Arthur Jensen puts it in the brilliant film Network. How sad such a future would be. You’ve gotta get MAD.

Flashback: US Border Guards to Expand Use of X-Ray Body Scanners | Homeland Security seeks Bladerunner-style lie detector | Greyhound introduces security screening of passengers, bans fruit, carry-ons | Germany rejects full-body scans at airports | Interpol wants facial recognition database to catch suspects | ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise | Eye scans, fingerprints to control NZ borders | Air passengers to undergo ‘virtual strip search’ | US Homeland Security Keen on ‘Novel’ Israeli Airport Security Technology | Israel startup uses behavioral science to identify terrorists | Airport scanner a ‘virtual strip search’

Lesley Ciarula Taylor, Toronto Star
October 13, 2009

A controversial virtual strip search may be peeking under airline passengers’ clothes at Pearson airport soon.

Up until now, Kelowna International Airport in B.C. was the only Canadian airport to try the technology that can see right through passengers’ clothes to their bodies, showing everything from concealed weapons to piercings to non-metal explosives — to the outline of breasts and genitals.

Janelle Turpin, a spokesperson for Kelowna airport, told The Star Tuesday that their six-month trial was the first for Canada. Now, she says, they’re looking at trying it out at bigger airports, including Pearson. The machine, created by RapiScan Systems of Torrence, Calif., would be used for secondary screening — after a person has set off a metal detector. The passenger could choose between the machine and a pat-down. [Ed. Note: For now.]

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Of course – he’s involved, and wants it off the table and out of the media.

Flashback: Electronic health is the boondoggle of boondoggles | EHealth scandal a $1B waste: auditor | Ontario health minister quits over $1B scandal | McGuinty had hand in hiring disgraced eHealth CEO | More untendered eHealth spending, Liberal connections emerge | Head of eHealth Ontario is fired amid contracts scandal, gets big package | Personal ties exposed in eHealth’s untendered contracts | Ontario eHealth approved 4.8 million in no-bid contracts | Electronic immunization records needed: Toronto health official

The Canadian Press
October 13, 2009

Demands for a public inquiry into whether eHealth Ontario broke the law in awarding of millions of dollars in untendered contracts to what the Opposition calls Liberal-friendly firms were flatly rejected today by Premier Dalton McGuinty.

A scathing auditor general’s report into the $1 billion Ontario has spent trying to create electronic health records has raised questions about serious abuses of taxpayers’ money and a full inquiry is needed, said Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak.

“The auditor’s report was filled with examples of bid rigging and price fixing, and that borders on criminal behaviour, so we must get to the bottom of why this took place and who benefited,” Hudak said.

“We know this government will not give up its dirty secrets willingly.”

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Somehow, there people were all getting along before the ‘war of on terror’.

Flashback: Pakistan hit by another deadly bomb blast | Bloody siege in Pakistan ends with 20 dead | Links to ‘Al-Qaeda’, Pakistani training camps linger after ‘Toronto 18′ member imprisoned | Pakistani militant leader dead: Taliban | Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated | Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Not very cricket: Witnesses report Pakistani security abandoned convoy prior to attack | Report: CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan | Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead | CIA, Pakistani ISI have long, complicated relationship | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation

CBC News
October 13, 2009

Pakistani jets have bombed a militant stronghold close to the Afghan border, officials said Tuesday.

The air strikes come as the Pakistani military prepares for a ground offensive in South Waziristan province and a day after a suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth deadly militant attack in just over a week.

Tuesday’s air strikes destroyed about 15 houses in the Makeen, Ladha and Barwand regions of South Waziristan, according to an intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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