{"id":28383,"date":"2011-12-05T22:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=28383"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:35:40","slug":"canadian-war-criminality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/12\/05\/canadian-war-criminality\/","title":{"rendered":"Legitimizing Canadian Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former CSIS director and advocate for torture, Jim Judd.\u00a0(Photo: Fred Chartrand, Canadian Press)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Just under fifty years ago our prime minister was Lester B. Pearson<\/a>, onetime president of the United Nations General Assembly and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

Now we have this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s spy agency was so reliant on information obtained through torture that it suggested the whole security certificate regime, used to control suspected terrorists in the country, would fall apart if they couldn\u2019t use it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the essence of a letter written in 2008 by the former director of CSIS, Jim Judd, obtained by The Gazette.<\/p>\n

It suggests a disturbing acceptance by the national security agency of torture as a legitimate strategy to counter terrorism<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s make this very simple. Any Canadian citizen who practices or authorizes the use of torture should be charged, tried, and incarcerated in one of the new prisons the Harper government, despite our falling crime rate, has decided we need. The only obvious increase in criminality in Canada at the moment is at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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