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Let us repeat the sacred oath of Liberty as attributed to the French Philosopher Voltaire;
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
Where is the outrage.Have we forgotten that the basis of liberty is free speech.
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." (George Orwell)
Oh yeah this is Canada and we have limits on free speech. Unlike our American counterparts.
Both the Charter and the Criminal Code do not allow for unfettered free speech in Canada and now it is being applied to the internet.
So this kind of crap happens to people who wear tinfoil hats. No literally his wife wears a tinfoil hat. She thinks aliens talk to her.
Sentana-Ries, who changed his name from Reinhard Mueller, was found guilty by a jury in December of wilfully promoting hatred for anti-Semitic writings he posted on his website, Federation of Free Planets.
On the site, he blamed Jews for everything from lying about the Holocaust to engineering the AIDS virus to kill scores of people and make the population easier to control.
During often-bizarre sentencing arguments Thursday, Sentana-Ries, who acted as his own lawyer, informed court that he held the title of "Lion of the Tribe of Judah" and as such was the guardian and protector of Jewish people. He also said he and his wife, Seila Sentana-Ries, had been persecuted for nearly a decade by various spy agencies because of their secret powers and knowledge.
His website is called the Federation of Free Planets and he claims to be the Lion of Juadeh. By now we have figured out this guy is a nut bar. So would anyone reading his ramblings. So they institutionalize him by putting him in jail. Cause in Alberta we closed all the mental institutes.Which is where he should probably be.
If his site is so scary and offesnsive how come it's so hard to find? I did a Google search could not find it I kept getting Star Trek sites. I finally found it by Googling his psuedonymn but only because it was refered to in a message board. This guy is a real danger you know cause you really, really, have to look for his page.Len Rudner, director of community relations for Canadian Jewish Congress, said, “to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time there’s been a successful conviction under [hate crime laws] for contents on an Internet website.”
He said it was significant that an existing piece of legislation was applied to a new medium. “But there was never anything in Section 319 [of the Criminal Code regarding hate crimes] that would act as a bar to it applying to the Internet,” he added.
Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman said the charge and conviction of Mueller “just shows how on top of things the Edmonton [Police] hate crime unit is. They really have become the poster child of what a hate crimes unit can do.”
Warman said a second Edmonton man, Glenn Bahr, has also been charged under the Criminal Code for material he allegedly posted on two websites.
Rape victims march for justice in Haitian capital
International Herald Tribune, France -1 Sep 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Wearing white dresses and black masks, 150 rape victims marched through Haiti's capital Friday to demand justice and an end to ...
Rape victim march to demand justice in HaitiWestmeath Independent
Haitian Rape Victims Risk Their Lives to Demand Their RightsU.S. Newswire (press release)
Haiti: Rape Victims To March Through CapitalHardbeatnews.com all 14 news articles » Invisible Violence: Ignoring Murder In Post-coup Haiti
Open season on Haiti's poor, study finds
Montreal Gazette, Canada -1 Sep 2006
... study by US social workers confirms what the Canadian and Quebec governments have always denied: a massive campaign of repression against Haiti's poor under ...
Human rights abuses frequent in Haiti's capitalNews-Medical.net
Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes & Sexual ...Caribbean PressReleases.com (press release)
UN Troops To Boost Patrols Near Haiti-Dominican BorderEasy Bourse (Communiqués de presse) all 6 news articles »
Center for Research on Globalization, Canada -31 Aug 2006
... NPR report interviewed two members of the UN force, one US police trainer, one Haitian police official and Gérard Latortue, the head of Haiti’s unelected ...
Post-Aristide Haiti still violentStarPhoenix all 3 news articles » Canadian troops accused of making rape, death threats
Regina Leader-Post, Canada -2 Sep 2006
MONTREAL -- Canadian troops and police with the United Nations in Haiti made death threats during house raids and made sexual threats against women while drunk ...
Canadian troops accused of rape threatsVancouver Sun (subscription)
Canadians threatened usMontreal Gazette all 8 news articles »
- Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor Haitian Neighborhood
- Women Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing Against Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant
And for those of you who dismiss Jack Laytons call for negotiations well lookee who is in the Kabul Government and who Karzai is planning to make deals with.The Lost Territories
North Waziristan and Quetta: Pakistani Tribal regions continue to slide into the hands of the Taliban and al-Qaeda
The Taliban have fought the Pakistani Army to a standstill, and forced them to largely remain in barracks in the North Waziristan agency capital of Miranshah. Beheadings of suspected U.S. spies are now commonplace; the bodies of the two latest victims "were dumped at separate places near Miranshah." Despite this, the Pakistani government is openly negotiating with the Taliban. This is the second time the Pakistani government has negotiated a settlement with the Taliban since the Pakistani Army was largely defeated in 2004.
The Taliban are not only negotiating a settlement which will allow them to remain in control of North Waziristan, but one which would require the Pakistani government to pay ‘huge compensation’ for fighting in the region. The Daily Times reports on the haggling over the tribute to be paid to the Taliban.
Remember This War?
Abdul Salaam Rocketi, a former frontline Mujahedin commander in Afghanistan, earned a surname that reflects his prowess with rocket-propelled grenades and spent eight months in detention after U.S.-led forces drove out the Taliban in 2001. Now, as a member of the Afghan parliament, he encourages his former Taliban comrades to reconcile with the government of President Hamid Karzai. It's widely agreed that Afghanistan's national army and police, despite some improvements, are far too small and weak to take on powerful narco-traffickers, local warlords and increasingly audaciousKarzai's recent proposal to recruit tribal militias to become a sort of police auxiliary, which he figures will just encourage them to greater lawlessness and corruption. "These militias destroyed our country," he says, referring to the devastating civil war that shattered Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. "The nation was fed up with them, so the Afghan people welcomed the Taliban. And now the government wants to bring them back? This is madness.
Economy of Iran
The Iranian government is attempting to diversify by investing revenues in other areas, including, car manufacturing, aerospace industries, consumer electronics, petrochemicals and nuclear technology. Iran is also hoping to attract billions of dollars worth of foreign investment by creating a more favorable investment climate, such as reduced restrictions and duties on imports and the creation of free-trade zones like in Chabahar and the Island of Kish. Modern Iran has a solid middle class and a growing economy but continues to be plagued with high inflation and unemployment.
Iran - Economic analysis of government's policies, investment ...
At the conclusion of the '89 war between Iran and Iraq, a movement of 'Economic Adjustment' took place. This was to transfer large productive units of economy to the entrepreneur of the private sector or restore the confiscated property to its owners, which partially did take place on the confiscated properties. Some business owners, rather than improving the quality of goods and services, crossed the lines and joined the growing number of businesses importing the same foreign goods. This resulted in closure of factories and massive layoffs. The factories that went into production, facing stiff competition form the importers, adopted other measures to be able to sustain a profitable business. Reducing the cost was the ultimate goal. To be able to achieve this, internal costs had to be trimmed to a minimum to turn a profit. Workers were layedoff as redundant; more disciplinary regulations were put in place which enhanced severity. The remaining workers were hired on contracts rather than permanent positions which reduced or eliminated the fringe benefits. These changes exerted more pressure on the workers and let to intensification of exploitation. These conditions lowered the standard and style of living of the workers. The workers were put under direct pressure. One way was to increase the speed of production not by means of modern and efficient machinery, but by tampering with the existing equipment and increasing its speed. With self-imposed regulations, manipulations and increased work hours they further endangered the workers safety and well being. Statistics have shown that these acts in fact did result in accidents. According to a local newspaper, Kar-o Kargar, 3000 fingers were cut off within a period of four months.
Sanctions just one danger for Iran's economy
"Economic sanctions create problems, but the Iranian economy has learned to circumvent them, especially through third countries," said the chairman of the Atieh Group consultants, Bijan Khajehpour.
Laylaz said that under the worst-case scenario, with sanctions touching oil exports, the magnitude of such a decision would not only hurt Iran, currently producing 4.08 mln barrels per day of oil.
"Iran's military maneuvers in the Strait of Hormoz hold this message that the country is capable of blocking oil traffic. This could then affect the oil producers in the region," he said after Iran's recent war games in Persaian Gulf waters.
