tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6418136589480054879..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: CTV's Lowest Moment?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-37446309948520413322009-11-19T17:28:23.907-08:002009-11-19T17:28:23.907-08:00In Canada we need to have a number of overseas tel...In Canada we need to have a number of overseas television news hours. That way, we would be able to decipher what is true and what is not. While I was living in South Korea, I had available to me all the Korean stations and the English speaking station called Arirang, then there was Singapore, ABC Australia, CNN and CTTV9 China, Deutshe Welle Germany and BBC. I will not include American television in my complaint about Canada for their announcers are loud and not very polite except PBS.Jingleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500878301285408321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-61912209941443052192009-11-19T11:16:34.418-08:002009-11-19T11:16:34.418-08:00I'm not aware of just what Canadian Correction...I'm not aware of just what Canadian Correctional Service staffers may be doing in Afghanistan but I'm sure it would have next to nothing of interest to Afghanistan's secret police, the actual torturers.<br /><br />Here's a bit of trivia for you. When the CIA toppled Iran's democratically elected government and installed Shah Pahlavi in his place, who organized and trained the Shah's secret police, the Savak who made the Gestapo look like pussies? An American named Schwartzkopf - yeah, Norman's dad.<br /><br />You're right, torture is wrong but it's always going to pop up. The important thing is that it has to be ruthlessly supressed if it's not to take hold like a noxious weed. You have to relentlessly prosecute not just the torturers but those who directed them and those who were complicit in torture. It's like gangrene. You have to amputate.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77615995777516019242009-11-19T10:47:03.374-08:002009-11-19T10:47:03.374-08:00"Trained to lie", huh? Well I guess Tor..."Trained to lie", huh? Well I guess Tory staffers would know all about that.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33671145681993490212009-11-19T10:45:39.583-08:002009-11-19T10:45:39.583-08:00Torture is wrong and following the Geneva Conventi...Torture is wrong and following the Geneva Convention SAVES lives--on both sides. My Grandad was in Europe for five years and we talked about it alot. He'd be sickened by this. It's not a value of human life that anyone should hold. But I think alot of people here have been de-sensitzed since Abu Ghraib. As for Mr. Hawns' statement that they're 'trained to lie'--that sounds more like CPC modus operandi when you see how they distract, deny and obstruct on all files. When they're not doing that they're poisoning the well of debate. MoS, is it a fact that Correctional Service of Canada has employees in Afghanistan training and helping establish a system? I think I heard it reported on once or twice, but if so, why? None of this can end well. LKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-20723791112417372622009-11-19T10:10:06.189-08:002009-11-19T10:10:06.189-08:00Meanwhile the Harper talking point for Rememberanc...Meanwhile the Harper talking point for Rememberance Day ceremonies is all about our men and women in the armed forces are fighting for "freedom" (but that is selective freedom for the privileged).<br /><br />Torture is wrong under any circumstances - right folks?susansmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573558646874765432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86088233346774039732009-11-19T09:17:29.179-08:002009-11-19T09:17:29.179-08:00"To say of what is that it is not, or of what..."To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to sat of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true." <br />I believe Aristotle said that. Truth is very confusing in the real world my friend.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.com