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I’ve talked before about COINTELPRO and how it still operates today.
I was just listening to the song Wake Up by RATM
and wanted to look up the counterintelligence document that Zack is quoting in the song.
Apparently, it was written almost specifically for the black panthers and Martin Luther King.
Now hailed as a hero of equal rights and peace, to the U.S. Government of the time he was an enemy of the state and a target of cointelpro.
So check out the breadth of the Church committee’s findings, supposedly ending in 1976, and just believe, for a second, that it never really ended, just was made completely eyes only and in fact still operates today, right here in Canada and anywhere in the world that the U.S. has a strategic interest.
Do you think it’s a wise policy for the RCMP and CSIS to allow these illegal domestic intelligence techniques to be applied by Americans in Canada to legitimate activist and protest groups in Canada based on whether or not the ideology of these groups is antagonistic to the favored ideology of the current Canadian government?
Do you think the RCMP should try to break apart groups trying to strengthen social medicare, like they did in the 60’s in Saskatchewan? Are other social change/activism groups valid targets for domestic police infiltration and subversion? Is it acceptable for an officer or team employed by municipal/provincial/federal governments to use various well documented tactics to break apart “fringe” groups (read: minority) involved in legitimate activism or protest regardingsuch as queer, first nations, anti capitalism, social justice, women’s issues, welfare reform, strikers, etc? Are psyops tactics such as, red baiting, agent provocateurs, defamation, re-direction, and straight up harrassment based on group affiliation valid in a democracy? Does a team of all male, white, middle class, right wing boozers really represent our nation to the extent that they can use dirty methods to thwart activists and social groups with impunity??
The KKK has been doing it for years, why not?
Oh wait, this is the TV and ME generation with memories as long as Dory the bluefish, so let’s refresh your memories a bit about what kind of evidence planting and covert operations against legally gathered citizen’s has occurred in the past by police working not for LAW but for the special interest of money….
“The Mounties carried out extensive security service work since the force was reconstituted in 1920, when it merged with the Dominion Police and became the federal police agency solely responsible for national security. Between the wars, this work was overwhelmingly directed at the Communist Party and labour and the left more generally.[2] In 1962, the branch was renamed the Directorate of Security and Intelligence, and in 1970 it became the RCMP Security Service.[3] In the 1960s, it targeted Quebec nationalists, particularly the militant Front de libération du Québec. As a result of illegal tactics used by the Security Service and consequent scandals surrounding the RCMP, intelligence work was transferred to a new agency, CSIS, in 1984.” link
Interestingly enough, as I finish up adding reference links to this article, I find a connection to my previous article on Marc Emery, as he seems to have done similar research in the past….
I believe in Canada there is no true justice anymore, corruption is permeated throughout the legal and political structure. But that’s just my opinion.
So while Canadian police bend over to help their US DEA heroes whack someone for selling SEEDS,
Let’s have a silent prayer for the thousands of Canadians who need JUSTICE
Who’ll never get any in a Canadian legal system where 1/4 of the support personnel for the courts, and yes even JUDGES, regularly use cocaine with impunity, a legal system wholly under control of major crime groups, a legal system that lets the U.S. use it against its own people….
Anyone who is poor in Canada can’t even get a lawyer, and if they are up against someone rich like C. Taylor vs. Robert Cooper of SGA, they don’t have a chance.
The U.S. regularly uses Canadian passports to move their covert people around the world, yet all we ever hear about is the evil muslims using Canadian visas.
Marc Emery sold about $4 million dollars worth of seeds which were legal to sell here, and he’s being extradited for 5 years.
Robert Cooper, according to our 15-20% legally binding agreement with witnesses, owes me more than twice what Emery made, yet his U.S. based lawyers have enough pull here to make sure it never sees the light of a Canadian court, and if it does, what will the Judge’s alliance be?
Who will ever see how much money is in the paper bag? Nobody.
Offer any Canadian Judge $200k or more and I guarantee justice will look the other way.
Guaranteed. Any takers on that?
Soon, if Harper has his way, we’ll be sending young people to jail in Canada for having the equivalent of a case of beer in marijuana. One plant will get a horticulturally curious Canuck kid a year in jail.
But at least 5 B.C. police officers have nabbed drunk driving in the past year, well over the legal limit, and they all just skated away, laughing.
3 off duty police beat a colored man in downtown Vancouver why shouting racist slurs, and only one gets even a slap on the wrist, and no hate speech laws are invoked.
The law is lawless in B.C. and in Canada in general.
CSIS is impotent to investigate or stop corruption in our Canadian legal and political systems.
Consider this: if we did a massive surprise piss in a bottle test of every municipal/provincial/federal politician and all of their support staff in Canada, do you honestly think we would get a whole lot of drug users showing up on our search? I abso-fucking-lutely guarantee we’d find 1/4 of everyone tested guilty of using at least one illegal drug or illegally gotten pharmaceutical.
Good luck Marc.
When you get back we’ll probably be another State of the same Union you’re being shipped off to.
Prohibition is a Faith morality biased attack on the young and the poor, it is applied differently to people according to their wealth and status. The rich can snort or smoke anything they want…
so the Feds just had this big “e-consultation” on copyright.
Lots of industry pressure to lock up 15 year olds for their music sharing and movie downloading.
The Gov’t is greedily licking its lips as it contemplates an internet that is finally controlled, so they can silence the remaining independent voices without anyone knowing.
Here are my answers to the bullshit questionnaire:
1. How do Canada’s copyright laws affect you? How should existing laws be modernized?
I’m poor, like many Canadians, and everyone I know is poor. Fining and jailing people for downloading music is evil, especially when the entertainment industry is gouging people for $30+ for DVD’s that cost them pennies. Many films critical of governments and industries will be unavailable if people can’t download them. Canadian artists benefit from mp3 downloading, no one would ever have heard the barenaked ladies outside of Canada if people hadn’t passed mp3s around. Canadian business rely on cracked versions of software and they make money, yet they won’t seem to be targeted by this. 50%+ of Canadian businesses are using some version of a cracked software. Are you going to fine every one of them? There should only be repercussions if money is made off of the infringement. This is gov’t backing of a large scale media monopoly by 3 major cartels.
2. Based on Canadian values and interests, how should copyright changes be made in order to withstand the test of time
Canadian artists are regularly ripped off of their ideas by unscrupulous wealthy people, mostly americans. If someone with some shared mp3’s will get a fine, then I want to see intellectual property theft of canadian artists, writers and inventors backed up by criminal police investigations. These rich producers know a Canadian artist doesn’t have the money to get a lawyer to help them sue for their share of ripped of ideas.
3. What sorts of copyright changes do you believe would best foster innovation and creativity in Canada?
Allow people to keep their personal downloading. Focus on making Intellectual property theft of ideas worth over $500,000 a criminal RCMP investigation and case. Put rich thieving producers in jail and allow the RCMP to use extra tools such as lie detectors and phone surveillance on foreign producers in Canada. There are so many creative Canadians, but the media created in Canada is all owned by americans, most of whom rip the content of from impoverished creators right here.
4. What sorts of copyright changes do you believe would best foster competition and investment in Canada?
Leave the personal downloading laws as they are, make Canadian content rules tougher so that projects in Canada have to have Canadian origins, and give the RCMP and CSIS the jurisdiction and tools to investigate large scale IP theft in Canada. Fining a single mom for her childs file sharing is sick when a Canadian writer can be ripped off for a film idea that ends up being worth a couple of million dollars and no police officer will ever even look at it, in fact they’ll laugh.
5. What kinds of changes would best position Canada as a leader in the global, digital economy?
Make sure that Canadian artists get gov’t tax breaks, not big American media.
Allow people to download programs and media files for personal use.
Canad is full of technically oriented people now because canadians download software they can’t afford and learn how to use it.
Lock up that access and we become a new nation of emasculated idiots.
Everybody keep in mind: 50% of Canadian businesses are using some kind of stolen/cracked software in a mission critical purpose. Confiscate all that software at once and the country goes tits up. Try calling the RCMP to report a company using $100k of software they haven’t paid for. They don’t even have a detective assigned to that!!!
But kids with ipods and downloaded buffy episodes? Get the fucking swat team out there…
So Vancouver council is going to arrest and institutionalize homeless persons who refuse to “get help” (basically, be institutionalized voluntarily or we’ll forcibly do it)
kind of like those old vagrancy laws where people got locked up if they were caught sleeping on the kings land.
Love the spin they put on it…”force them to get help”, if there was actual “help” available you wouldn’t need to force them, it’s because the “help” that’s not really available is a whole lot of useless bullshit, that’s why people don’t voluntarily choose brainwashing incarceration (I mean “help”).
Bet the jail system will make $150 dollars a day off each homeless person, just to give them 3 sandwiches a day and a bed. Can’t spend more money on shelters though…
The big fatman in the paper is trying to spin it as not a cleanup…just “getting people into shelters” bullshit. I’ve been trying to get into a shelter for over 6 months, I fucking gave up. If the “shelters” were actually there, if they didn’t try to forcibly make people “clean up according to christian principles”, if they weren’t places where women who go there might get raped or beaten, IF they were actually actually shelters and not money sucking ripoffs of the system…so much bullshit…
Somebody’s paper bag is gonna get filled up for this scam…
A while agoI wrote at length about Canada’s horrifying eugenics program that still operates covertly after its legality was “challenged” in the ’70’s…
Now, because of the Caster Semenya story we see a story on the front page of the Vancouver Province today about an intersex woman telling her story…
This issue highlights a serious human rights and sexual discrimination problem in Canada.
Unfortunately, even though we supposedly have “hate speech” laws and laws against discrimination based on gender, no one actually gets arrested under these laws, and even more disturbing in a country that has always had a HUGE problem with racism and homophobia, nobody, really, has ever been convicted or spent any time in jail for these crimes.
A law that is put in place to protect a targeted minority, that never actually results in any perpetrators being jailed is a disturbing use of “spin” to show “we are actually tolerant”
The truth of life in Canada does not bear any resemblance to the media portrayal of Canada when it comes to gender and race minorities.
I’m going to throw some shit at you. Disturbing ideas for you to consider. Some of these things seem too hateful to be true. I’m not going to back them up with anything, I’m just going to say them, and I trust in time and the few independent true journalists that are left in the world to one day prove my points. I’m broke and homeless so I don’t really have the energy right now to give you a lot of reference links.
Semenya, in Canada, would never have gotten to where she is. She would probably be dead or a whore here. Now that her story is plastered all over the world I think its inevitable that someone in her country with a hate on for “freaks of nature” like her will attempt to kill her.
I don’t think the human race will ever evolve further sometimes.
So.
Intersex humans born in Canada have the following things occur to them by family, society, policy, and the targeting of them by certain special interest groups:
1. At birth if an intersex determination is made the child is given a sex reassignment surgery based on the “determined” sex. That means if the child is more male anything female would be cut/sewn/removed and vice versa. This is usually done before the age of 2 nowadays, in the past it was so many people had the second thing happen to them. In certain cases the parents may be given the chance at hormonal change therapy while the child is still in the womb to cause a chemical switch, or sometimes the parents are given the opportunity to abort based on the mixed gender visible in prenatal scans.
2. The parents were told to move to another place away from family immediately and wait until near puberty and never tell the child, raise them as one or the other gender as seems right. The the child before the age of 18 would go in for some other benign surgery or complications from the intersex configuration they were never told about, and without knowledge or consent the previous operation would be performed, preferrably before puberty.
3. The human who then moves forward in life never quite understanding why they seem to have a strange hormone mix, weight problems, etc. throughout life is NEVER told by anyone in the medical profession that they meet throughout their life that this intersex gender configuration exists and that alterations were made to them. I find this kind of disturbing, an unwritten (or perhaps somewhere it is actually written down) policy of lying to a patient about their medical history based on a cultural bias that allows people to selectively be misinformed about the medical state of their bodies because of gender.
4. Health care requires a lot of support workers, anyone in the chain that deals with intersex persons could potentially give their personal information to groups that target intersex persons for religious or cultural reasons of hatred. Although seemingly unthinkable, many religious and cultural hatreds of “hermaphrodites” (visible intersex expressions) is extremely deep and virulent. In many world views intersex humans are not classified as human beings, but as “abominations” and sterilization or destruction is seen as “God’s will” or “for the good of the race/gene pool/society”. Medical health services is a job like any other and many extreme orthodox religious views are represented in the patient handling chain, since specific facilities for intersex persons do not actually exist in most Canadian provinces.
5. In the age of electronic file management, any hospital technician or receptionist can access data about intersex individuals, and some can even search datases of patients using this as a search term.
6. Technicians that come into contact with intersex persons can at their discretion in many cases use the medical scanning device they are operating to cause damage or infertility to the intersex person. This was also a common method of sterilizing First Nations women or persons with Refugee status who had “too many children”. Most persons with severe mental or physical hereditary conditions had this happen to them during the ’60’s to ’80’s in Canada, but in fact this practice continues.
hmmmm…
There really is more but…
I’m at a library and can’t stay more than an hour.
Long ago I posted a speculative piece called The Culling…
Its particularly relevant right now.
Just watch, the poor, First Nations, other visible and invisible minorities, queers, lefties, artists…they’re all going to have trouble getting vaccinated.
It will be a full scale wipe-out of undesirables, IMHO
That’s what the body bags were about
someone knows who’s gonna drop dead
its a plan, not a random infection
Anyone for a blanket?
We need to clear these miscreants out
So we can import rich people from other countries
and have good housing for them
fuck the people of all races already here,
fuck all the people of any color who were born here
Its money that matters…
“We’ll kill them off
take their land
and go there for vacation…”
- RATM from “The Crow” soundtrack
I laugh at people who talk about the US “invading” Canada for its resources
They’re going to use the same colonial methods they’ve always used
decimation and psyops,
Money to buy property that is “somehow” inflated beyond the means of the people living there.
Call me crazy, I’ll call you a fool….
I’ll leave you with the wise words of an impoverished poet rebel:
The World – Gil Scott Heron
“I was wondering about our yesterdays,
and starting digging through the rubble
and to say, at least somebody went
through a hell of a lot of trouble
to make sure that when we looked things up
we wouldn’t fair too well
and that we would come up with totally unreliable
portraits of ourselves.
But I compiled what few facts I could,
I mean, such as they are
to see if we could shed a little bit of light
and this is what I got so far:
First, white folks discovered Africa
and they claimed it fair and square.
Cecil Rhodes couldn’t have been robbing nobody
’cause he said there was nobody there.
White folks brought all the civilization,
since there wasn’t none around.
They said ‘how could these folks be civilized
when you never see nobody writing nothing down?’
And just to prove all their suspicions,
it didn’t take too long.
They found out there were whole groups of people, in plain sight,
running around with no clothes on. That’s right!
The women, the men, the young and old,
righteous white folks covered their eyes.
So no time was spent considering the environment.
Hell no! This here, this just wasn’t civilized!
And another piece of information they had,
or at least this how we were taught
is that ‘unlike the very civilized people of Europe’
these tribal units actually fought!
And yes, there was some rather crude implements
and yes, there was primitive art
and yes they were masters of hunting and fishing
and courtesy came from the heart.
And yes there was medicine, love and religion,
intertribal communication by drum.
But no paper and pencils and other utensils
and hell, these folks never even heard of a gun.
And this is why the colonies came
to stabilize the land.
Because the Dark Continent had copper and gold
and the discoverers had themselves a plan.
They would discover all the places with promise.
You didn’t need no titles or deeds.
You could just appoint people to make everything legal,
to sanction the trickery and greed.
And back in the jungle when the natives got restless
they would call that ‘guerrilla attack’
and they would never describe that the folks finally got wise
and decided they would fight back.
And still we are victims of word games,
semantics is always a bitch:
places once referred to as under-developed
are now called ‘mineral rich.’
And the game goes on eternally
unity kept just beyond reach
Egypt and Libya used to be in Africa,
they’ve been moved to the Middle East.
There are examples galore I assure you,
but if interpreting were left up to me
I’d be sure every time folks knew this version wasn’t mine
which is why it is called ‘His story’.”
Payola and Corporate Media Censorship are gaining new tools to help them maintain their hold on Canadian distribution channels.
For over 60 years the Canadian entertainment system has run tickety-boo on an entrenched system of goody payouts, DJ and critic junkets, paper bag under the table deals, and most recently, comprehensive foreign ownership of actual stations and studios. Rebellious DJ’s and content providers were easily removed at a whim and the bland shite that money people pretend is art was unchallenged in it’s top level placement on national playlists.
Entertainment media stores and rental chains squeeked with joy, knowing that their single distribution chain system would never again be corrupted by “underground” films and music.
The state watchdog for media channels, already weakened into a lapdog by a Canadian government tightening it’s hold on dissenting content creators, is now faced with new powerful legislation ensuring that American Media companies can buy program directors and force Canadians to accept whatever drivel they’re dishing out.
Previously Canadians have had extensive access to other media distribution channels like P2P, FTP, Torrents, Newsgroups, and other file exchange methodologies without having to resort to Darknets.
This ensured that Canadian artists actually got played in other countries, by bypassing the Great White Media Gatekeepers, and that rebellious, intelligent, music that those scions of shit wish to suppress have always been accessible to Canadian freethinkers.
Conservatives and other big money cocksuckers now have free range to plunder and pillage the Canadian arts scene, stealing content from miscreant Canadian artists at will with no repercussions, while ensuring that all Canadians will be fed a constant diet of preteen britney clones dressed like whores on our radios and confident white males with guns shooting dark skinned bad guys on our TV’s.
The Government and other Corporate Media channels were quick to point at new legislation enacted by the Dictatorship of France as a prime example of their plans in Canada.
Canadian musicians could not be reached for comment. They were too busy standing in the park to get a bowl of free chili.
The Conservative Dictatorship of Canada, smiling from it’s well deserved blowjob by American Corporate Media, has vowed to splurge their paper bags of payola on vacation houses and lobbying efforts to remove the pesky Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms from the canadian legal scene.
You all should know who I’m on about.
I have to look up the details, and I really have a lot to say about this story.
I said some applicable stuff way back when,
but I think what we should all keep in mind
is that She won.
Top of the world.
One of these “things” as I heard someone say.
She would beat that mouthy guy in a race, no contest
yet he could go on with his shite.
Unfortunately, because of this some bigot in her country
will probably try to kill her now.
her victory, with NO DRUG USE
is not invalidated to me!
As we contemplate and grieve the loss of 3000+ beings in one disaster, let’s keep in mind that righteously hanging the people we “think” did it doesn’t help anyone. If it wasn’t really a bunch of muslim extremists that were responsible then we are killing in the name of our own cultural needs not the truth.
some other ideas of what happened are important. The discussion is definately not closed. Bush was always an indiot and his WMD lies are the tip of a corrupt administratyion’s iceberg of lies and murder. Check out some other ideas and discuss it. Talking the opposite line of the gawking hens shrilling “support our troops! support our troops! Bow to the flag! kill the muslim infidels” is not just your right, it’s an obligation of free thought and respect for the truth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories
http://www.loosechange911.com/about/synopsis/
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=loosechange&search_type=&aq=f
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_RESISTANCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States
I’m not saying I believe any particular thing, I just know Bush is a lying fuck from personal observation, and I don’t like to go after someone and beat them based on the words of a lying fuck.
Keep in mind that the people on the planes weren’t Afgani.
They were Sudanese. The largest American military base in the Middle East is in Sudan.
Of course, you could just believe what CNN tells you….
Regardless of who killed them, 3000 ghosts need a moment of silence,
and maybe some contemplation about truth versus nationalistic fervor.
http://copyright.econsultation.ca
Sign up there and tell them how you thinksharing a music/video folder is like making mix tapes, how fining kids for music downloading is ridiculous when rich producers are regularly stealing canadian writers/artists/inventors/and musicians work and making millions off it while the creator has nothing. Tell them how much you think it sucks that 3 global entertainment cartels can charge $30 for a 20 cent dvd/cd. Tell them how you think a Canadian company using cracked software to make big money is a bigger problem than a fifteen year old downloading stuff to their mp3 player. Tell them how Intellectual Property theft over $50,000 should be an RCMP investigation, not a civil lawsuit that the poor ripped off Canadian artist can’t afford to pursue.
Do you think the Barenaked Ladies would ever be heard outside of Canad if it wasn’t for people passing their mp3’s around to people outside of their original distribution? Not a chance.
A big sorry to Dylan Thomas…
I have to make a music blurb. A review. A suggestion for your collections.
I recently pulled out a decade old disk that I haven’t listened to for probably two years now.
It never stops astounding me how absolutely brilliant this piece of revolutionary ball breaking musical rebellion against sheep mentality is.
There is a reason why ClearChannel blacklisted this from the Iraq war onwards.
The entire RATM discography was banned. It’s called State Censorship, and it’s currently as insidious in North America as it ever was in China or the U.S.S.R.
Their first album and this one together are 2 of the most intelligent and musically adept expressions of political protest that have ever been pressed and distributed…
We are the children born as ghosts…
I can’t be the only one who thinks giving $40,000+ to someone for shitty post modern metal masturbation is sick and show the absolute idiocy of corporate and gov’t mindless art acquisition splurges.
Did any of you actually think the bears, dolphins, and eagles made of cement littering every Canadian city the last few years were “art”?
One or two out of hundreds were cool, mostly it was a stupid fucking idea
IMHO
only 3 look like art to me.
The rest is some wanker bending a bunch of metal and laughing at the fools they shafted.
Us.
While excellent representational/fantastical/surrealist/outsider artists across canada are regularly ignored, and any art with overtly political expression is automatically passed over.
http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/A-Voice-of-Dissent—Archetripal
I just put up my second CD release “Unrefined Sketches” to go with the CD “Origins Sampler” I posted before. This one is all acoustic guitar instrumental and most of the songs are in C tuning.
It’s not the greatest recording, but I recently had someone try to record me on a cell phone, so I thought I should get my work on the cbc site before I get ripped off again.
Support Canadian musicians and maybe request your favorite on CBC Radio, or put me on your playlist if you sign up for the radio 3 website.
While I’m on the topic of music, I want to say a couple of things about Socan and the Canadian music industry…
It’s a priceless photo.
He’s laughing.
He’s rich.
He FELL out of the car!
He can be drunk enough to kill
and it’s okay to drive.
Because he’s special.
And rich.
He’s above the law.
Accountable to no one…
Too bad this was Maui
otherwise he’d have the mug shot and police records of his arrest deleted.
With no repercussions at all.
Because he’s rich.
He’s above the law.
He can buy the law.
Justice isn’t blind, its cheap to the rich and unavailable to the poor.
A decade of conservative rule and our social safety net is shredded.
Now, when we most need food and shelter and liveable wages to keep people from goin under
when we most need it, the money’s gone
spent on sports facilities and kickbacks in in Tory fed and MLA pockets
Over 80% of social services recipients are using $50 or more of their food money for rental amounts over the disturbing $375 that a human is worth. They only get $235 to use on food and other things to begin with,
And transportation, buses which were originally to help the poor get to work
cost $5 a trip.
Undercutting the people on the bottom won’t make jobs appear where there aren’t any, and won’t make the unemployeable employable.
People on disability aren’t going to get better just because they are harassed and underfunded.
If you’ve lost a lot in the last few years, it’s not the economy
its a Tory dismantling of everything that kept the bloodsuckers from bleeding us dry.
