The Speaker of the Canadian Parliament plays Umpire

Peter Millikin, the Speaker of the House of Commons has ruled that the Conservative Government must make secret documents on Afghan detainees available without any censoring of the contents. He has given the government two weeks to hammer out a system acceptable to all parties, presumably designed so that secret and potentially damaging information will not become public.

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Mr. Milliken has convinced himself that because Parliament is the supreme lawmaker in Canada, parliamentary MPs have a right to see any document that has relevance to the running of Canada, even if the information released could give aid and comfort to our enemies and damage our friends. He is reported to have made the statement that “it is troubling the government doesn’t trust the opposition MPs with information in the documents.” The honourable Speaker must be kidding or he has a memory problem. Not so long ago there were secret documents left in an MP’s girlfriend’s apartment and another MP was recently caught twittering to the outside world while attending a parliamentary detainee secret document committee meeting. The meeting had to be cancelled and he was reprimanded. Note too that Mr. Millikin cited no precedents for his assumed powers. Mr. Milliken also took no account of the fact that our well ensconced leftist media has proven again and again that they have no compunction in making the most of any backyard-fence rumor they think will undermine the credibility of a government they abhor. They have demonstrated repeatedly they don’t give a damn whether they place the lives of our military, our secret service operatives or cooperating Afghan informers in jeopardy. With the Toronto Star, the CBC‘s tabloid ethics and insider connections on parliament hill how long before every detail of such documents would be broadcast worldwide? Mr. Millikin’s faith in the integrity of every single parliamentarian and his ignoring of the media’s political connections on parliament hill is totally unrealistic.

What if PM Stephen Harper’s government defies the Speaker’s ruling?

Parliament is the Supreme law giver. Parliamentarians are charged with reflecting the collective will of our voting citizens. It is by practical necessity that we delegate most of the daily decision making to our representative MPs. However, in the final analysis the supreme authority is not Parliament, the federal Court or the Supreme Court of Canada; it is the franchised voters of Canada. PM Harper can either accept Mr. Millikin’s ruling or defy it. If he defies the ruling, the opposition can worm and squirm through destructive, useless and damaging references to the courts (thus proving the opposite of what they are claiming; that Parliament is supreme) or collude in a non-confidence vote and instigate an election. Parliament includes the Conservative MPs. Like it or not they have more seats in parliament than any other party. The absurd claim that the government is defying the will of parliament is utter nonsense. The governing Conservative Party is merely defying the Opposition’s demands because they believe that the Opposition is wrong in wanting to open up files that will harm the best interests of Canada. Particularly galling is the repetitive use of the Bloc Quebecoise by the Liberal and NDP opposition to treat Parliament like a dog to be swung by its Quebecois tail. Even more shameful is that these leftist destructionists care not a whit for the trashing of any hope Canadians may have for a responsible government in the future because of their conscienceless pursuit of power.

The serious Consequences of pushing the Detainee torture question too far

One of the most significant results of our Military’s performance in Afghanistan is the renewal of Canadian pride in their military and their long and glorious history in our multiple fights for freedom. Of no less importance is the fact that our military have been brought up to fighting standards and have being provided with most, if not all the support requirements they need. We now have a respected battle hardened up-to-date compact army of warriors able to fight with skill and competence. Unfortunately, we have committed ourselves to pull out of Afghanistan by December 2011. We will lose the costly fighting edge our army has won if we do. The result will be that when we are required to enter another strange battlefield, we will have to relearn all over again with all the inevitable cost in unnecessary casualties. Rumours are that the leftists now want us to go to the bloody Congo as peacekeepers for the UN. Good grief ! as Charlie Brown used to say! Let us put ourselves into the boots of our soldiers. They see a dysfunctional, politicizing, don’t give a damn bunch of sick leftist media and politicians screaming to hold our “criminal” military to account for turning captured prisoners over to the Afghan government forces. They hear our politicos again and again claim to the world that our government and military may be war criminals. Our soldiers must be saying to themselves that if the Afghans are bad, what the devil are we to do with Congolese militia prisoners? Are the Congo prisons likely to be any better? Any sane Canadian soldier or potential recruit would say no damn way; I’m not going to risk my life or get slaughtered in that morass. Not with a government and mass media ready to put me on trial as a war criminal at the drop of a hat, to say nothing of an unreliable UN back-up if we get into a bloody mess. The present path being followed by the Opposition and their collaborative leftist media is dangerous and destructive. We are tying the hands of our law enforcement officers and secret service operatives both in our civil society and our military where the great battles with the Jihadists are yet to be fought and won. Should this war ramp up and we are seriously attacked here in Canada or in the West, there will be millions butchered, not a few prisoners maltreated or a few hundred of our soldiers and citizens killed. We will see casualties on both sides on a horrendous scale.

The Jihadist War

The Jihadists, Taliban, El Qaeda and other Muslim violent extremists are our enemies. They have told us so many times and in violent ways. Never mind that the majority of Muslims may be a peace-loving people. When a critical mass of a Muslims population is reached in any country in the West, the extremists will impose their will on their own co religionists and they will cave in just as the Germans and Italians did to their Nazi and Fascist minority thugs. Sharia law will be imposed and it is brutal and unforgiving. Its degree of severity only varies in accordance to the fierceness of any self-declared Islamist Mullah that grasps for power and control. Jihadists fight with no rules of conduct. They kill to terrorize and they kill in very nasty ways. The idea that we must fight according to the Geneva conventions against such as these is pure insanity. Our long history of disciplined military conduct will keep our impulsive outbursts in check but to stigmatize and self-impose restrictions when we are engaged in this type of guerrilla war is a shameful abuse of our military and all Canadians. We must win this war against these extremists both at home and abroad. The alternative is that millions will die should these fanatics win because the Western world’s citizen’s, now brought up in freedom will not stand idly by as they finally come to their senses and realize that they will have to fight or become slaves to barbarous madmen.

Nuclear, gas and biological guerrilla war is difficult to control

It would be wise for all our leaders and the public to refrain from making self-serving political decisions without thinking of the background upon which this worldwide Jihadist threat is being played out. Afghanistan is but one testing ground. Our leftist mass media ought to stop their boorish cheer leading of anything that undermines our society or our will to fight. They must get back to serious and responsible reporting of the news. Their responsibility is to accurately inform and educate the public in a truthful and balanced manner.