Voting constituencies prevent Liberals from putting terrorists on list -- Have you registered your illegal weapon?

Update post to one earlier today--see menu for:

The Spin on the RCMP Killings -- & -- the Assault Rifle -- Gun Registry, Sentencing, Legal System, Justices, Media -- & -- Leo Knight's Commentary

Liberal Politics Before Canadians' Safety! -- Voting constituencies prevent Liberls from putting terrorists on list -- Have you registered your illegal weapon?

Grits' failure to outlaw Tamil Tigers 'obscene' -- Terrorist list: Ex-spy says T.O. MPs fear ban would cost them their seats James Gordon, March 14, 2005, CanWest NewsService

OTTAWA - The federal government's latest argument for keeping the Tamil Tigers off its list of terrorist organizations is a "smokescreen" aimed at protecting political interests, say former officials with Canada's spy agency.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been widely condemned for their use of child soldiers, assassination and suicide bombings in a long-running civil war against Sri Lanka's Sinhalese government.

At hearings before the Senate anti-terrorism committee over the past few weeks, two Cabinet ministers and the current director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have said Canada is not flagging the group because it does not want to upset the "fragile" peace process overseas. [. . . . ]

Toronto's Tamil community stands at more than 150,000 people, representing the largest group outside of Sri Lanka and an important voting bloc come election time. [. . . . ]

Search: Michel Juneau-Katsuya, logic, "former director of strategic planning for CSIS, David Harris", granddaddies, associates of violence, raucous good humour




Absolutely Correct

Illegal weapons don't get registered -- RCMP murders underscore futility of tracking guns March 14, 2005, Editorial, Calgary Herald

In the wake of the Mayerthorpe murders, the Conservatives are justified in questioning the effectiveness of the Liberals' firearms registry.

But, they always were. . . . Everybody, including the Liberals, knew from the start criminals would be able to acquire guns, and obviously would ignore the registry.

[. . . . ] But the best value for the next billion security dollars is not in refining a database of the guns least likely to be criminally used. Take the money, hire more policemen, and help provincial solicitors-general do their job.

That won't stop another Mayerthorpe, either, but it would recognize what public security is truly linked with -- the determination of government to uphold its laws, and punish crime in the hope of deterring it.

Search: Allan Rock (Remember him?), tasteless red herring, Breitkreuz, Marc Lepine's 1989 shooting rampage * (Scroll down for more information.)



Meanwhile, the other problem -- no one is to blame There is more in the section below this.



* Nota Bene: Marc Lepine / Gamil Gharbi was Canada's first Muslim terrorist; he hated women and acted upon it. On News Junkie Canada, there is a post on this. After the first day, Gamil Gharbi, because he had taken the name Lepine at age 16, was ever after identified as Lepine. (Mustn't upset a voting bloc -- must get those votes, you know. )

Yet, the Liberals pressed on to assuage a constituency that saw registration as the only response to Marc Lepine's 1989 shooting rampage. (The Montreal Massacre left 14 young women dead at the Ecole Polytechnique.)

Gun registry cost soars to $2 billion 13 Feb 2004, CBC

MONTREAL - Canada's controversial gun registry is costing taxpayers far more than previously reported, CBC News has learned.

Nearly $2 billion has either been spent on or committed to the federal program since it was introduced in the mid-1990s, according to documents obtained by Zone Libre of CBC's French news service. [. . . . ]