Top Ten Reasons Why Activists Shouldn't Be "Too Radical" 1. We must be careful not to offend the Average American (AvAm) 2. Self-righteousness is such a turn-off 3. We can't give ammunition to the right wing 4. The AvAm is doing the best he/she can and we shouldn't expect more 5. We can't blame the AvAm because she/he just doesn't know better 6. The AvAm will learn at his/her own pace 7. It's not our place to judge 8. Besides, it's not the AvAm's fault; the Republicans are to blame 9. The AvAm may be indifferent (at best) to reality...but they are still "the people"
On Feb 24, 8:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Canada anti-terror law is struck down>From the Associated Press > > February 24, 2007 > > OTTAWA - Canada's Supreme Court on Friday unanimously declared it > unconstitutional to detain foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely > while the courts review their deportation orders. > > Five Arab Muslim men have been held for years under the "security > certificate" program, which the Justice Department has said is a key > tool in the fight against global terrorism and essential to Canada's > security. > > The court found that the system violated the Charter of Rights and > Freedoms, Canada's bill of rights. However, it suspended its ruling > for a year to give Parliament time to rewrite the part of the > Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that covers the certificate > process. > > The security certificates were challenged by three men from Morocco, > Syria and Algeria - all alleged by the Canadian Security Intelligence > Service to have ties to terrorist networks. > > The men have spent years in jail while fighting deportation orders. > > They risk being labeled terrorists and sent back to their native > countries, where they say they could face torture. > > The court said the treatment of the suspects was a violation of their > rights. > > "The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is > this: Before the state can detain people for significant periods of > time, it must accord them a fair judicial process," Chief Justice > Beverley McLachlin wrote in a ruling for all nine justices. > > "The secrecy required by the scheme denies the person named in a > certificate the opportunity to know the case put against him or her, > and hence to challenge the government's case," she said. > > The challenged law allows sensitive intelligence to be heard behind > closed doors by a federal judge, with only sketchy summaries given to > defense attorneys. > > The court said the men and their lawyers should have a right to > respond to the evidence used against them by intelligence agents. > > Stockwell Day, the minister of public safety, noted that because the > ruling does not take effect for a year, the certificates would remain > in place. He said the government would address the court's ruling "in > a timely and decisive fashion." > > Two of the men are out on bail and remain under house arrest. Three > others are being held in a federal facility in Ontario. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list