Call It Treason...I Do: Leftist - Islamofascist Alliance Announces "Don't Talk, Don't Listen" Anti-CSIS Campaign
Amy Darwish, an pro-Palestinian activist, said CSIS agents have been questioning Arabs about their political views and about each other. By doing so, she says, they have in the past "succeeded in sowing fear and silencing support for justice and freedom in the Middle East." "There were a number of members who were visited, invariably by agents who arrived unannounced, often early in the morning," she says.
"I would say it certainly had a chilling effect on our organizing work."
That means they're doing their job pallie.
The Peoples Commission is made up of all the usual suspects.
Reminds me a little of what Henry VIII did to the people of England when he put the citizens and their consciences between a rock and a hard place as regards his own and the Papal authority.
I'd like to pace a few Lefty Islamists there;)
Oops I thought I was commenting on the Obama/abortion fiat...
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2012/01/bishop-of-pittsburg-obama.html
Too many windows on my screen at once!
In the US, there are quite a few Muslims saying they will not talk to the FBI and advising others not to. Same thing--they say the FBI is trying to infiltrate, to entrap, etc. First I have heard of it in Canada. I can't say I am surprised.
Yeah I bet CSIS agents can't stand it when subversive groups post convenient lists of allies online. Vive la revolution!!!
The very breadth of that laundry list of hopey-changey groups brings to mind what Orwell said -- that the problem with being a socialist was that you never have a free evening.
Tells me the Harper government takes this very seriously indeed.
I read that too - they have formulated responses followers are to give to FBI and store clerks when buying bomb making materials .
According to the list, some members of the Peoples Commission obviously hold positions in government institutions. If they are willing to subvert the legitimate work of CSIS, I don't think it's a stretch to expect that they would also use Government resources in the workplace to promote some of their activism. Many of these institutions also handle confidential info on Canadian citizens, and I don't think it is a stretch either to expect radicals to breach confidentiality rules and pass along such info to other activists for the purpose of politically targeting or harassing Canadians such as conservatives, or anyone who is known to hold a dissenting opinion to the pet issue of the particular activist. Using public resources subversively on the public dime for pet activism -- although it would be against professional ethics and their work contract, would it be something new or surprising?
One of the biggest mistakes that CSIS made in the 1980's after it replaced the RCMP spy service, is it closed down its counter-subversion unit. CSIS limits itself to only spying on physical threats -- such as terrorism, bomb plots etc. -- non-physical threats such as the "peaceful" subversion of our constitutionally-based free democracy are largely ignored under the new mandate.
In other words, it's OK to overthrow our free democracy so long as it is effected non-violently. The CSIS policy was adopted so as to not interfere with legitimate dissent or protest, but it failed to distinguish between legitimate dissent and groups which aim to "peacefully" establish totalitarian fascism, marxism, or islamism for example, and hence abolish dissent entirely and its constitutional bases in a free democracy.
In its effort to accommodate legitimate dissent, CSIS has opened a huge loophole by which dissent can ultimately be abolished through radical, albeit peaceful, subversion masquerading as dissent.
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