Posted on 10/21/2004 2:44:35 PM PDT by quidnunc
Alan Baker, Israel's ambassador to Canada, warns against dropping our guard in the fight on terrorism.
It is only a matter of time before terrorists exploit the openness and diversity of Canadian society and strike here, Israel's new ambassador to Canada warned yesterday.
Alan Baker said Canadians must realize additional restrictions on rights and freedoms are necessary to counter the relative ease with which terror groups can now infiltrate Canadian society and launch attacks here, against the United States or on Israeli and other foreign interests in Canada.
His comments to the Citizen's editorial board come as a parliamentary committee prepares to review a sweeping series of anti-terrorism laws enacted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and which many legal and civil liberties experts believe already violate fundamental rules of law and democratic rights.
Mr. Baker is a lawyer and expert on the legal aspects of the fight against terrorism.
Mr. Baker said people must understand just how tempting Canada's open society is to terrorists.
"I very much fear that the openness of Canada might be interpreted by the various terrorist organizations as a sort of naivete that can be utilized and abused," he said. "If I've become familiar with the psyche of the way terrorist organizations function, I suspect that it's a matter of time before they will abuse this Canadian openness.
"Canada, being confident of its diversity and openness, might be allowing itself to be misled and abused. It worries me. …"
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Hey hombre?
What is sombre?
I sit and I ponder,
Could he have meant somber?
Bad news for the Canucks: hating America isn't enough to make you safe, you're going to have to embrace Islam or die.
Sombre is my favourite colour.
I prefer Burnt Sienna...
to each his own...
I don't think they'll bother, simply because Canada isn't important enough. Canadians are already anti-American, and Canada already has large numbers of Muslim immigrants and is bending over backwards to accomodate them, so I'm not sure why the terrorists would want to waste perfectly good dynamite on it.
Beautiful city, BTW.
I'm sure our Liberal betters in Ottawa have everything under control.
After all, they've been talking to France.
If the Canadians are attacked will they come to the US for medical treatment?
I agree. It's much more valuable as a friendly staging ground for attacks against the Great Satan south of the border.
I guess it might pay to look in a dictionary before you make fun of the spelling in a newspaper, especially a newspaper from some other English speaking country. (And especially England! I know this is Canada, but they tend to follow the British spellings more than ours.) It turns out that the Oxford English Dictionary (I have the 2nd edition here.) does not even give somber as a variant spelling.
ML/NJ
"will"?
Yeah.
Well I speak 'merikan.
You sound like a Liberal to me.
Ignorant.
It was a Canadian paper, and the language is English.
ML/NJ
Wow!
You are incapable of seeing humor in anything aren't you?
It was a play on words...
Lay off the caffeine...
They are not natural men, these Liberal/Socialist rulers of ours, but mere instances, or replicas, of New Trudeaupian Man, reconstructed to better serve the State.
They are designed to be the vanguard of the New Canada, leading the multi-cultural masses into a true Golden Age.
They are more despicable than the Communists, imo, for they do not boldly confront our civilization like men, and boldly proclaim a radical alternative, but rather they seek to slither into power using the existing constitutional forms, and so pervert the institutions created by our national Founders, both Canadian and British.
These whited-sepulcher Establishment *$$holes come fully-equipped with sanctimony, unction, smarm, and sleaze, for smoothness of operation.
I have only to think of Axworthy, Pettigrew, Lewis(any of them), or the toxic Tommy Douglas or Walter Gordon or that swine Maurice Strong to induce acid reflux, or quite possibly apoplexy!
I'll stop now before my head explodes.
Heads On Pikes!
Soon! ;^)
Words to the wise.
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