Source: Toronto Star - 17-apr-08

CSIS is proving to be just as inept and dysfunctional as the discredited RCMP Security Service it replaced in 1984

The case that was supposed to be a defining moment in Canada's so-called "war on terror" is becoming a national embarrassment. Earlier this week, federal lawyers stayed charges against the four "ringleaders" of a "homegrown terror" group that police and security officials once insisted with great fanfare were the spiritual and ideological architects of sinister plans to launch terrorist attacks in this country - Read more...

Story of Dr. Sami Al-Arian

The Roadmap to Despotism: "Much of the government's evidence against me consisted of speeches I gave, lectures I presented, articles I wrote, magazines I edited, books I owned, conferences I convened, rallies I attended, interviews I conducted, news I heard and websites no one accessed. In one instance, the evidence consisted of a conversation that one of my co-defendants had with me in his dream," he said. "It was reminiscent of the thought crime of Orwell's ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four.' The scary part was not that these were offered into evidence, but that a federal judge admitted them. That's why I am so proud of the jury, who acted as the free people that they were and saw through Big Brother's tactics." Dr. Sami Al-Arian - Play Now

Source: Alertnet - 18-apr-08

If all of America were to hear these voices, the occupation of Iraq would already be over.

We're not bad people; not monsters. We're normal people caught in a horrible situation."
-Statement from Clifton Hicks, a tank gunner with the Army's 1st Cavalry Regiment and testifier at "Winter Soldier, Iraq and Afghanistan" - Read more...