Judiciary Makes Canada’s Safety Questionable - Minister
By Vusi Moloi © 2009
“Terror...the Final Frontier. These are the machinations of the mothership War on Terror. To explore strange new fiction; to seek out new conspiracy and new victimizations; to boldly go where no level headed thinking has gone before.” Rejigged for this article by this writer.
The Canadian Federal Government Minister of Public Safety Mr. Peter Van Loan has charged that the Canadian judiciary is impeding the Government’s ability to fight terrorism. According to published reports including those appearing in the National Post of September 27, Mr. van Load blamed the judges for not “deferring to the Government’s efforts to deport foreign suspects.” This follows a string of cases in which Government attempts to detain without trial or deport persons living in Canada were quashed by the Canadian courts. The Minister said this “raises questions about whether we can protect national security”.
The Liberal Party of Canada website had this to say “The Conservatives are going down a dangerous path by imposing their political will on our most cherished institutions,” said Liberal Justice and Democratic Reform Critic Dominic LeBlanc. “Freedom to question is one thing – but threatening independent bodies when we don’t agree crosses the line.”
Brazen Statements Shocking
This writer was shocked by these brazen statements which invoke memories of the apartheid Government which got frustrated by some progressive judges who set free a number of political detainees held without charge. First of all Canada is the great country to live in and as a result the national security must be upheld by all of us at all times no matter what. Every right thinking Canadian person in this country understands that and appreciates that. A few overzealous persons out there associate ethnicity with the degree of loyalty making some appear less loyal than others.
Minister Must Take a Page From Star Trek
Minister van Loan must take a page from the great Star Trek of Captain Pickard. In the episode The Drumhead a respected and highly placed Admiral Satie convenes a tribunal of inquiry into the dilithium chamber explosion incident as well as the landing of its schematics into the hands of the Romulans.
The Klingon Exchange Officer J’Dan became suspect number one after the Security Officer Worf of the USS Enterprise had found that a legitimate medication used by J’Dan for his medical condition had been instrumental in the sequencing of the secrets of the dilithium into amino acids which in turn got transmitted to an enemy race the Romulans. Converting information into chemistry is not a strange thing in itself since this is a process that happens naturally in human brain chemistry where an impulse is converted into chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters as a result of the synaptic connections which necessitate this conversion.
Member of Enemy Race
D’Jan admitted that he was a sympathizer of the Romulans an enemy race but denied involvement in the explosion of the dilithium. A medical technologist Simon Tarses was questioned and a Betazoid assistant of Admiral Satie used his psychic ability to sense that Tarses was hiding something. Admiral Satie imposed stiff restricted movements on the medical technologist but these were vetoed by Captain Pickard who didn’t think it wise to curtail his Starfleet officer exclusively based on intuition. A more invasive background check of Tarses revealed that he had erred in his job application by not disclosing the fact that he was partly Romullan.
Captain Pickard personally queried Tarses and satisfied himself that barring the omission of the fact that Tarses was partly Romullan he was still a fine officer who did not deserve to be put through the omnipresent torture of the proceedings of the witch-hunting tribunal.
Trial By Insinuation and Innuendo
In the end Captain Pickard mounted a strong protest to the Admiral Satie who was now even bringing the Captain of the USS Enterprise into disrepute by questioning his loyalty to the USS Enterprise. Captain Pickard remonstrated on behalf of his crewman Tarses against what he termed a trial “based on insinuation and innuendo”. He registered another strong protest on behalf of another crewman D’Jan “This man has a Romulan grandfather. For that, his career stands in ruins. Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy?”
In one of the rare moments of passion Captain Pickard convincingly shows us that as humans we cannot engage in the unethical theatrics of destroying people’s lives on the basis of insinuation and innuendo.
Conclusion
The judges are the voices and eyes of reason. They solve problems through logic. They rule by fact and not innuendo. This is one branch of our democratic institutions that makes us who we are and uniquely Canadian. Has the Minister (perhaps inadvertently) overstepped his bounds by casting doubt on the judicious role of judges?
About the Author
A former South African Television Journalist, Vusi Moloi is a published author of a contextual poetry book, A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, and maintains a blog, Zulumathabo on the Internet.
“Terror...the Final Frontier. These are the machinations of the mothership War on Terror. To explore strange new fiction; to seek out new conspiracy and new victimizations; to boldly go where no level headed thinking has gone before.” Rejigged for this article by this writer.
The Canadian Federal Government Minister of Public Safety Mr. Peter Van Loan has charged that the Canadian judiciary is impeding the Government’s ability to fight terrorism. According to published reports including those appearing in the National Post of September 27, Mr. van Load blamed the judges for not “deferring to the Government’s efforts to deport foreign suspects.” This follows a string of cases in which Government attempts to detain without trial or deport persons living in Canada were quashed by the Canadian courts. The Minister said this “raises questions about whether we can protect national security”.
The Liberal Party of Canada website had this to say “The Conservatives are going down a dangerous path by imposing their political will on our most cherished institutions,” said Liberal Justice and Democratic Reform Critic Dominic LeBlanc. “Freedom to question is one thing – but threatening independent bodies when we don’t agree crosses the line.”
Brazen Statements Shocking
This writer was shocked by these brazen statements which invoke memories of the apartheid Government which got frustrated by some progressive judges who set free a number of political detainees held without charge. First of all Canada is the great country to live in and as a result the national security must be upheld by all of us at all times no matter what. Every right thinking Canadian person in this country understands that and appreciates that. A few overzealous persons out there associate ethnicity with the degree of loyalty making some appear less loyal than others.
Minister Must Take a Page From Star Trek
Minister van Loan must take a page from the great Star Trek of Captain Pickard. In the episode The Drumhead a respected and highly placed Admiral Satie convenes a tribunal of inquiry into the dilithium chamber explosion incident as well as the landing of its schematics into the hands of the Romulans.
The Klingon Exchange Officer J’Dan became suspect number one after the Security Officer Worf of the USS Enterprise had found that a legitimate medication used by J’Dan for his medical condition had been instrumental in the sequencing of the secrets of the dilithium into amino acids which in turn got transmitted to an enemy race the Romulans. Converting information into chemistry is not a strange thing in itself since this is a process that happens naturally in human brain chemistry where an impulse is converted into chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters as a result of the synaptic connections which necessitate this conversion.
Member of Enemy Race
D’Jan admitted that he was a sympathizer of the Romulans an enemy race but denied involvement in the explosion of the dilithium. A medical technologist Simon Tarses was questioned and a Betazoid assistant of Admiral Satie used his psychic ability to sense that Tarses was hiding something. Admiral Satie imposed stiff restricted movements on the medical technologist but these were vetoed by Captain Pickard who didn’t think it wise to curtail his Starfleet officer exclusively based on intuition. A more invasive background check of Tarses revealed that he had erred in his job application by not disclosing the fact that he was partly Romullan.
Captain Pickard personally queried Tarses and satisfied himself that barring the omission of the fact that Tarses was partly Romullan he was still a fine officer who did not deserve to be put through the omnipresent torture of the proceedings of the witch-hunting tribunal.
Trial By Insinuation and Innuendo
In the end Captain Pickard mounted a strong protest to the Admiral Satie who was now even bringing the Captain of the USS Enterprise into disrepute by questioning his loyalty to the USS Enterprise. Captain Pickard remonstrated on behalf of his crewman Tarses against what he termed a trial “based on insinuation and innuendo”. He registered another strong protest on behalf of another crewman D’Jan “This man has a Romulan grandfather. For that, his career stands in ruins. Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy?”
In one of the rare moments of passion Captain Pickard convincingly shows us that as humans we cannot engage in the unethical theatrics of destroying people’s lives on the basis of insinuation and innuendo.
Conclusion
The judges are the voices and eyes of reason. They solve problems through logic. They rule by fact and not innuendo. This is one branch of our democratic institutions that makes us who we are and uniquely Canadian. Has the Minister (perhaps inadvertently) overstepped his bounds by casting doubt on the judicious role of judges?
About the Author
A former South African Television Journalist, Vusi Moloi is a published author of a contextual poetry book, A Goodbye To My Little Troubles, and maintains a blog, Zulumathabo on the Internet.
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