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Afghan Detainee Issue Pure Political Theatrics

Disgraceful Liberals lie and distort



Blanco's Blog It doesn’t matter whether it is the CBC stable of talking heads, the Toronto Star or its subsidiaries and their editorialists or the many journalists so familiar to us all that it makes one sick when they appear on virtually every panel or newscast.. These talking know-it-all types dominate the mass Lib-left “news” across Canada. Their ratio of anti-Harper and anti-Conservative rhetoric is 20 to 1 against. It is a disgusting fact of Canada’s unbalanced and distorted mass media.

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Since when have this incestuous cabal of the left acquired their self-centered egoistic assumption that they alone and their associates have the sole right to interpret the “news” and manipulate the public regardless of the damage they do to Canada’s societal, legal and political health. The Canadian media set-up is such that we are so dominated with obfuscations and distortions that our country is horribly sick as a result. How can a society of predominately young people, fixated on music, clothes, personal appearance, twitters and Facebook, I-pods and fixed to the ear cell-phones ever hope to be other than manipulated. Intelligent men like Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton and many others cannot stop themselves from playing fast and loose with the immature or ill-informed public. Their use of hyperbole, smear and denigration of all things the government does and all human failings or missteps that occur is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. It is strange when they claim they would do better if elected. Do they offer any solutions to the many real problems they could be help solve if they weren’t so determined to cheat and lie in order to win power at any cost? I haven’t heard of one. The distortion of the detainee issue is a classic if just a few pieces of the recent nonsense is taken into consideration. The latest begins with the lie that Harper prorogued parliament for three months. The regular parliamentary break for Christmas holidays began December 10, 2009 and ran to the end of January. Parliament was back March 8th, 2010, exactly 22 working days later. Their lie claimed that democracy was abused and parliament was at risk. 50,000 youth or more are said to have believed the propaganda. They picketed, shouted, made a ruckus – such fun! How ridiculous was all that! Next, was the constant refrain that Harper prorogued parliament to stop the Afghan Detainee Parliamentary Committee’s investigation of the detainee “tortures.” Really! Harper said at that time that the inquiry would resume when parliament returned. It did and when a small group of MPs were assigned to look at some of the secret documents, the ex-Attorney General of British Columbia, the now Hon Ujjal Dosanjh MP was seen twittering to the outside world while in the meeting. The meeting had to be cancelled. That is when Mr. Harper called for the alternative of an appointed trustworthy judge, the former justice Frank Iacobucci, to examine the secret documents and files since it is obvious that there are always a few people who don’t give a damn that people in Afghanistan could die if top secret information gets into the wrong hands. Not all MPs can be trusted to retain state secrets. It is a certainty that Winston Churchill would not have advised every member of the British parliament of the precise date of D-Day. When the Hon Ujjal Dosanjh was asked why he would do such a thing, he responded by saying something to the effect that he ‘didn’t care if he was on a future committee looking at the documents so long as another group of MPs were appointed to do so.’ If a senior Liberal MP of such extensive legal training and former senior position can be so cavalier about secrecy, who can be trusted when the worst type of partisan politics inserts its ugly head into the mix?

Suppose we knew ALL Afghan Prisoners were tortured

I quote a portion of the Toronto Star editorial of Sunday March 14, 2010
“In a week thick with revelations, a memo written by diplomat Richard Colvin stood out. It challenged the Conservative claim that there was never evidence of prisoner abuse. In fact, our British, Dutch and Australian allies were "deeply concerned about the absence of solid legal protections for detainees."
Richard Colvin is the so-called whistle blower that the parliamentary opposition stakes their reputation on as to the truth of the Afghan detainee situation Just what is he suggesting? Surely the British and the allies would have done something long ago if there had been any way to “guarantee solid legal protections for detainees.” How can Mr. Colvin be trusted to carry out the duties of our Ambassador to Washington when he knows full well (as he admitted to David Mulroney his former boss and now our Ambassador to China) that all had been done that could have been done to make sure Afghan detainees were not abused? Pray tell what legal guarantees would the editorialists of the Star or any opposition MPs suggest? The fact of the matter is that there is no such guarantee possible. This is Afghanistan we are fighting in, not North America, Canada, Australia and Britain or any other of the “civilized” countries. What would Mr. Ignatieff suggest? What would those thousands of innocents so badly mislead by the Liberal spin-masters on Facebook suggest? Speak up Mr. Layton and Mr. Rae and Ms May!

My Challenge to the Liberals, all MPs, & the Leftist Mass Media

First; print word for word Mr. David Mulroney’s report to the Parliamentary Committee on Afghanistan. That report details everything that was put in place by the Liberals and the Conservatives in the attempt to insure that Afghan detainees (prisoners) handed over to Afghan authorities were treated properly from at least December 2005 through 2009 as well as a system to track them from capture to release. Second, publish the letter of concern by the Red Cross asking Canada to refrain from publicly debating the issue because it was interfering with their ability to continue their negotiated work with the Afghan prison system and placing their personnel as well as cooperating Afghan officials and the detainees at serious risk. Third, suggest exactly what should be done with Afghan prisoners to legally “guarantee” their security? Please don’t duck and hide. Come forth all ye purveyors of wisdom.

Here is a Guarantee that would work

Have all Political Parties in parliament declare war against all insurgents in Afghanistan. As Canadian war prisoners, we could then evacuate them to Canada and send them to prison camps away from all major urban centers as we did in with war prisoners in WW2. No release would then be necessary until Canada exits Afghanistan and the war is officially declared at an end. War prisoners will then be returned to their original countries as quickly as possible. No acceptance of refugee status or citizenship to be allowed from within Canada, the United States of America or any other allied country. End of suggestion. It offers a straight forward, efficient, honest and guarantee of security for war prisoners. The best thing is that it would have 100% international approval and that is exactly what the carpers and complainers most desire.. Finally, it would behoove the Government to have Mr. David Mulroney return from China to brief the Conservative Caucus in detail of the significant steps taken to protect detainees. Their members can then stand in parliament and put the truth to the opposition directly instead of claiming there was no torture when there may have been. (I am not sure they claim that but rather they claim there is no “proof of torture of those detainees captured by Canadians” and turned over to Afghan authorities). It also might be wise to recall Richard Colvin in order to test his knowledge of the many steps taken by Mr. Mulroney and his working groups to implement all that was done from 2005 to the present time and also why he continues to voice critical opinions on the subject without suggesting how a “guaranteed legal protection” for detainees may be managed. Frankly, it is time he answered Mr. Mulroney in front of the Parliament of Canada. There is one last point to be dealt with. There arises a new concern about our intelligence services questioning detainees and rendering them to other jurisdictions for torture. In any war the questioning of prisoners is necessary. It would be wise not to tie the hands of our intelligence officers too strictly. All we need is for captured insurgents to show up on the battlefield again and the troops will make sure they don’t face them a third time. Sending them to torture on the other hand is not allowed by our rules. I am not aware that the insurgents or the Taliban signed the Geneva Conventions. We are at war whether the public understands that or not. It is best we make sure the rules of war apply to all parties both at home and abroad.


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Dick Field, editor of Blanco’s Blog, is the former editor of the Voice of Canadian Committees and the Montgomery Tavern Society, Dick Field is a World War II veteran, who served in combat with the Royal Canadian Artillery, Second Division, 4th Field Regiment in Belgium, Holland and Germany as a 19-year-old gunner and forward observation signaller working with the infantry. Field also spent six months in the occupation army in Northern Germany and after the war became a commissioned officer in the Armoured Corps, spending a further six years in the Reserves.

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