Comments for BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on No means no by hoopla http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/no-means-no/#comment-790 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:30:03 +0000 http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/?p=805#comment-790 A great piece. I hope this whole incident opens the eyes of Canadians with respect to the dark path the CPC and Mr. Harper is taking Canada.

]]> Comment on Here we go again by Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but it isn’t, it ain’t. « BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/here-we-go-again/#comment-776 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:18:26 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=434#comment-776 [...] is nothing new, of course. Readers of these pages will recall how difficult it was for the MPCC – and even Parliament — to get documentary disclosures relating to Afghan detainees from [...]

]]> Comment on Anti-smuggling, or anti-Charter? by Richard Bennett http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/anti-smuggling-or-anti-charter/#comment-716 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:54:39 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=739#comment-716 As a member of the CARL executive please permit me to thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of your readers.

Sincerely yours,

Richard M. Bennett
Barrster & Solicitor

]]> Comment on No complicity in torture by Justice for Hassan Diab » Blog Archive » No Complicity in Torture http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/no-complicity-in-torture/#comment-661 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:36:37 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=699#comment-661 [...] “No complicity in torture”, BCCLA National Security Blog, September 2011 2011 [...]

]]> Comment on Not my job by Second verse, same as the first « BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/not-my-job/#comment-654 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:40:02 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=316#comment-654 [...] be talking to the CF. As we’ve seen repeatedly in the context of the Afghan detainee issue, “not my job” is a familiar [...]

]]> Comment on The detainee buck stops where? by Second verse, same as the first « BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/detainee-buck-stops-where/#comment-653 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:39:59 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=235#comment-653 [...] for delivering detainees to torture, then they should be talking to the CF. As we’ve seen repeatedly in the context of the Afghan detainee issue, “not my job” is a familiar [...]

]]> Comment on “Gentlemen at home, hoodlums elsewhere.” by Janus http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/gentlemen-at-home-hoodlums-elsewhere/#comment-651 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:45:23 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=683#comment-651 It’s a bit of a stretch to call the responsible politicians gentlemen at home. There have been countless case of misleading the parliament and even acting contrary to the constitution. The Danish government 01-11 have acted with an arrogance of power abroad as well as at home.

]]> Comment on Legitimizing torture by No complicity in torture « BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/legitimizing-torture/#comment-648 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:36:24 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=646#comment-648 [...] June of this year, a court in Ontario issued a commital order for Mr. Diab’s extradition, which is the legal mechanism permitting the government to [...]

]]> Comment on Torture in the court by No complicity in torture « BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/torture-in-the-court/#comment-647 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:36:21 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=601#comment-647 [...] is being sought in connection with a bombing in Paris in October, 1980. We’ve been following his extradition proceedings because of the prominent role unsourced intelligence played in the Republic of France’s [...]

]]> Comment on “A machine of shame” (updated) by Refuge « BCCLA National Security Blog http://bcclanationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/a-machine-of-shame/#comment-560 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:07:07 +0000 http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org/?p=556#comment-560 [...] here, should be required reading for those members of the Canadian government, media and public who would try to justify derogation from core principles of humanitarian protection in the name of countering terrorism. An excerpt (long-ish, because we really can’t put it any [...]

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