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Canada’s Cowardice


That Canadian government doesn’t mess around: From a principled - or at least, objective - stance to sniveling cowards in two days!

It goes like this:

1. Canada puts U.S., Israel on Torture Watchlist - An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of being tortured, CTV television reported on Thursday. 01/18/08 - Reuters

2. Canada takes close allies U.S., Israel off torture watchlist -Canada’s foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured. - 01/19/08 - Haaretz

3. Canada to rewrite ‘torture’ manual - Amnesty International has criticised a decision by Canada to rewrite a training manual that put the US and Israel on a list of nations where prisoners risk being tortured. - 01/20/08 - Al Jazeera

Guess what? Canadian cowardice or not: Israel and the United States torture. They are very much part of the torture club that includes: Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria.

Better luck next time Canada at behaving like an actual independent nation.

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Canada’s Prime Minister: Stephen Harper
Email Address: pm[at]pm.gc.ca
Fax: 613-941-6900

1 comment

1 Brad { 01.20.08 at 8:25 pm }

For what it’s worth, I mailed Canada’s so-called leader this:

Dear Prime Minister Harper,

It is with disgust that I learn of Canada’s retraction of the truth with respect to the obvious reality of the risk of torture in Israel and the United States (and Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria). That Canada should back off from such a principled, reality based, stance embarrasses the nation in the eyes of the world and your government for presiding over such a weak, gutless decision.

Of course, you must have been under great pressure to make the change. It is an embarrassing shame that you so easily succumbed. Canada becomes a country, an independent entity with independent views, only to the extent that it is willing to forcefully assert those views even when they run against the grain of the views of other nations.

Sincerely,
Brad Stroud