re once tapped your code is no good any more in article apr rick dgbt doc ca jerry han writes guess what people you live in one of the few countries in the world where a person can complain without getting shot at only guessing but from his address i d say that jerry like me lives in canada unlike me he thinks that our friends in the us enjoy the same freedom that we do and he has not seen the slow but steady erosion to the south of us we have the benefit of relatively slow politicians and ineffective law enforcement our rednecks tend to be the objects of derision rather than elected officials it s everything le can do to keep up with the real criminals any time they actually go after somebody just because they don t like his or her attitude it s national news it also often blows up in their faces eg the well intentioned but flawed zundel case which resulted in a scolding from the supreme court not only to le for prosecuting the case but to parliament for passing the law it was prosecuted under our friends south of the border don t have as easy a time of it among other things they have as many le agencies as we have agencies and some of them have teeth they also have the war on drugs which gives law enforcement agencies exceptional powers to ignore individuals rights the dea has more arbitrary power than that given to canadian agencies under the war measures act we have the rcmp and csis who can t stop fighting each other long enough to do any really effective suppression of private citizens rights not only that our police commissions have teeth as i learned when i had to fend off a bent cop it may be ironic that the nation founded on life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is getting government imposed order while the nation founded on peace order and good government is getting in your face liberty that s not to say our time won t come it looks like chretien is going to run on a law and order platform be afraid cheers marc marc thibault marc tanda isis org automation architect cis r r oxford mills ontario canada nc freenet aa
