Media meddling & Is it control of information?

Selected Excerpts: Scroll just above where this link takes you. What do you think of this paragraph on this webpage whose webmaster was requested by a lawyer for a Canadian media organization to remove an article from the website, a "Sep. 29, 1999, article by Ian McDougall in the Edmonton Sun"? (See #3 in red.)

It would be interesting to know who brought the article to [the lawyer's] attention and why? Is he just doing one of the people mentioned in the article a favour? Or is this an opening salvo of a more general attack on people exposing the penetration of organized crime of Canadian institutions?

For your bedtime reading, cozy up to your laptop or near a log fire and check these old but still relevant "12 articles on organized crime in Canada".

e.g.

#11 Ex-spy takes on CSIS review body -- Says security agency squelched report on threat posed by Chinese triads -- " the articulate and highly educated French Canadian worked inside the shadowy world of intelligence" -- "Unfortunately, SIRC's report does a profound disservice to the men and women at the RCMP and CSIS" -- "The original report was thorough and backed up by substantive and tangible evidence," -- "He also flatly rejected a suggestion in the SIRC report that his departure from the Sidewinder team was voluntary".

Scroll for the following excerpts:

"The timing of the SIRC report two days before an election call and its pre-release leak to the National Post are suspicious. SIRC said in September that the report would not be released until the end of the year. Even more suspect is the September 25 assertion in the House of Commons by MP Lynn Myers, parliamentary secretary to Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay: "I would like to emphasize that I was not reading from or directly quoting the SIRC report, which is a classified report." . . . . "These activities include money laundering, heroin trafficking and the transfer of economic, high technology and intelligence data to Beijing." -- "One SIRC member . . . has a serious unreported conflict of interest. " -- "None of the above proves that Canada has been subverted by the People's Republic of China, but the linkages and connections revealed . . . are, as SIRC might say, disconcerting." -- "Elections Canada loopholes make it easy for gangsters and foreign agents to contribute to Canadian politicians, money which is sometimes received unwittingly." -- "Police and immigration documents obtained by The Province show that, in the early '90s, Chinese mafia members or triads were attempting to infiltrate port operations."

Looking further proves rewarding in terms of information and suppression of such, selective suppression, it appears.

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