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Monday, February 02, 2015

Protecting Canada

"[Warrants to enter] any place or open or obtain access to anything, or install, maintain or remove anything."
"[Bill C-51 would authorize CSIS to] do any other thing that is reasonably necessary to take those measures."
Proposed Anti-Terrorism Act, Bill C-51, Government of Canada
When the Harper government tables its latest budget Tuesday afternoon, it will include continued funding for a massive, opulent headquarters for Canada’s electronic spy agency, CSEC.
east-end Ottawa CSIS complex

Sound the alarms, Canadians' liberties and trust in government agencies will be horribly impacted with this Conservative-led government initiative! An initiative to further secure the safety and security of Canadians in view of the ongoing and viral growth of Islamist fundamentalist jihad terror. Now, that's a mouthful; "Islamist fundamentalist jihad terror", horrifying civil libertarians, academics, unionists and leftists of every order.

It is a descriptive phrase true to the nature of the challenge the free world sees clouding its future, a phrase that Muslims deplore and name as representing a hateful state of misapprehension redolent of "Islamophobia". Strange indeed, given the state of Islam in today's world, where the rate of refugees is accelerating faster than the United Nations and humanitarian relief organizations can cope with. Where slaughter of innocent people, most of them Muslim, is staining the Middle East and North Africa.

Yet recognizing the fount of this global malaise as erupting from within Islam, from its call on the faithful to obey the injunction to engage in jihad against the faithless kuffars, Infidels and Jews, is what horrifies Muslims worldwide, not the bloodshed, the mass rapes, the vicious extremist threats against ethnic and religious minorities targeting fellow Muslims and other religions alike.

The capriciously deadly intentions of Islamist groups like al-Qaeda affiliates and Islamic State jihadis may represent in their numbers a small fraction of the world's 1.6-billion Muslims, but a far larger number of the ummah support the mission of the jihadists; to further the cause of a universal caliphate.

In any event, Canada, like other liberal democracies of the West, is threatened by the inexorable wave of Islamist zeal to conquer and command.

The threats emanate from abroad in measures by foreign, covert agents of Islamofascism to infiltrate Canadian society, and from those same elements using the very effective propaganda of jihadism to persuade Canadian-born-and-domiciled Muslims to turn on the country that has given them freedom and liberties not to be found in the Islamic world. Canada, like other threatened countries has no choice but to respond, to enact laws that meet the challenges ahead.

The new sweeping package of anti-terror measures tabled in the House of Commons are meant to give Canada's leading spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service clout, and the ability to "disrupt threats to the security of Canada", inclusive of terrorism, espionage, sabotage, foreign-influenced activities and domestic subversion. And about time.

CSIS now will be enabled to go beyond intelligence gathering, and handing over the results to the RCMP for action on the data they've compiled which is currently the situation, to actively themselves pursue measures to halt threats that have come to their attention. "This allows them to do some pretty concrete measures", Christian Leuprecht, a national security expert at the Royal Military College in Kingston agreed.

CSIS conducts electronic surveillance, it surreptitiously opens suspected mail and conducts covert searches, when authorized by a Federal Court warrant; in this way engaging in "disruption techniques". Should the new law -- when the new law -- comes into effect it will have the end result of considerably broadening the scope of the activities.

Arrests aside, police disruption techniques run the gamut from covert and overt search-and-seizure raids to "intrusive surveillance" where police intend for those they suspect to become aware they are being investigated. Critics, however, believe that government security intelligence officers who have not been able to collect sufficient evidence to request police initiate criminal investigations and prosecutions, sometimes abuse the law.

There are times when authorities seize materials being shipped overseas to replace the contents with a facsimile material that is in reality non-usable, to monitor where the shipment travels and who is destined to receive it. In the case of Ottawa terrorist Momin Khawaja, agents entered a warehouse where he and his jihadi cell stored tonnes of explosive fertilizer to replace it with material of similar but non-explosive material.

Disruptions are categorized by their operational character; arrests and charges; personnel disruptions, involving laying criminal charges or no-fly lists as suspected threats; financial disruptions, targeting the funding of illegal operations. Canada's security and defence against the threats facing it will be enhanced by the ability of its key security and intelligence agencies to act in the capacity that dangers require them to.

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