The most hair-raising of the allegations were relayed by Gary Batasar, the lawyer for 25-year-old restaurant worker Steven Chand...
"There's an allegation that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada."
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If restaurant worker Mr. Chand was at all serious about beheading the Prime Minister, one can only say that he is a very bad man. However, between talking about murder, blowing up the Peace tower, taking politicians hostage and committing sundry other heinous acts, and having a serious intention and a realistic plan to carry out such crimes there may well have been a considerable gulf. It remains to be seen, therefore, whether the police are able to present a convincing case against the Mr Chand and others arrested in the current terrorist sweep.
But whatever the truth of the matter, Mr. Harper will no doubt take Mr. Chand's grisly inclination to justify Canada's participation in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, if not also to curtail Canadian liberties.
Yet any causal relationship between Canadian terrorists and the Taliban, would surely indicate that the Taliban are over here because we are over there, the exact reverse of Defense Minister Gordon O'Connor's claim that we are over their to prevent them showing up over here.
That is not to say Canada should not be at war with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But if Taliban can inspire retaliatory terrorist attacks in Canada, we must recognize that those attacks are a part of the price for our participation in America's illegal aggression in Central Asia. A cost in addition to the price in treasure and in death and injury to our troops.
And if Canadians do not wish to see a war against the Taliban waged on Canadian soil, they will have to consider their options. Should we refuse to pay tribute in blood and treasure to the American empire and accept the punishment that will no doubt be doled out by the Bush gang of vindictive war mongers?
Alternatively, should we abandon the great multi-cultural experiment, the community of communities so dear to the heart of so many politicians both Liberal and Conservative? If, instead of trying to eliminate the dominant cultural and ethnic groups, namely the anglophone and francophone Europeans, by importing as many minorities as possible, then the risk of a fifth column arrising as the result of our participation in the multi-faceted world war that Bush and his Anglo and Israeli allies are so anxious to kick-start would be greatly diminished.
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