A recent security operation has led to 17 arrests in a case relating to a plot to use improvised explosives to target and attack landmarks in Ottawa and Toronto.
I don't need or want to get into details. If you'd like more check out any Canadian news source.
I suggest The Globe and Mail and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
After attacks in the US, Spain and Britain over recent years I was always concerned, but never scared. I worried about what these events would mean to the world's political stability, but I never worried about being personally effected. Maybe I was being naive, or even just stupid but I really didn't think that Canada was a target.
Apparently this case has been under surveillance by security organizations for about two years, so it was unlikely that it would have led to tragedy, but its existence forces me to re-examine my thinking. While I can no longer ignore the possibility of terrorism in Canada, I'm still not very worried. Perhaps my naivete persists, but it just seems futile to "worry". I can't live my life scared, that won't accomplish anything useful. My main concern isn't even the possibility of a terror attack, but what knee-jerk reaction the Conservative government is going to have. If I have to choose between the chance of attack and a loss of rights there is no doubt that I'd rather die free at the hands of those that hate me, than live enslaved by those trying to protect me.
Keep on Tranglin,
Anthony
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There goes my plan to immigrate to Canada.
Ubie, you wouldn't be let in anyways after all that hat insulting.
Becca, radio? What's that? Even if we are only a secondary target. One for homegrown terrorists that can't get into the US, we are a target no less. Though you are right, regardless of what the masses and governments might say, the risk is very low. Perhaps that is why I'm not really concerned.
I wouldn't insult EVERYONE'S hat.
Just that piece of crap on your head.
Hasn't Heidi's grandpa called and asked for it back yet?
the morning of sept 11 i could care less. i mean i was shocked a bit but i also was being bailed out of jail by my ex.
over the years ive yet to see anything remotely affect me except a few of my die hard friends from high school sign up to shoot someone. i've always been anti government since the whole columbus thing but no more now than when i was a teenager with immortality coursing through my viens.
i still to this day feel the fight on terrorism is a fight that should be directed at poverty. there just has to be more to the convictions of those who plan these attacks than "I hate America". I dont know its late and im surfing the web. groovy tunes by the way and check ya laters!
ubie, don't dis the hat.
That terrorist shit freaked me out thousands of km's away.
They had a pretty lofty plan though.
in a couple of days you'll forget it even happened. that's what i did when it happened here.
i heard there is a Canadian terrorist operation that aims to eliminate all Australians using snowmobiles.
Cheyenne - What better way to fight poverty than by letting some terrorist blow up a whole mess of homeless people?
If you wear that hat, the terrorists win.
Ubie, this hat is a part of our national pride. It is an Official piece of Winter Olympics clothing, and few things are more important to this country than the Winter Olympics. That is why you wouldn't get in.
Cheyenne, I'm not sure if it is about poverty as much as it is about exclusion. The people in this case were generally from middle class families. Then again, Canada doesn't really have the same barriers to success by race that you see in Europe or even the US. It turns out that these people were complete rookies that got the little training they had from American terror cells. Something in me tells me that the Canadians involved were "sluming it" in a sense, trying to feel what it is like to struggle like their cousins in other places might have to. I'm no expert, but I do know that in Canada oportunities do exist for newcomers and that poverty while present isn't oppresive. I think that we do need to fight poverty in this country, but that it would have a far more profound effect on regular crime than terrorism.
Knitty, it is starting to appear that the lofty plan was more than just "lofty". It seems implausibly far-fetched, like the people who thought it up had no idea what the realities on the ground were. If this ragmuffin bunch of misfits is the most we have to contend with I'm relieved.
Loz, the only flaw in that plan is how we'd get the snowmobiles to run in Australia.
Nick, but if that happens who will I uncomfortably ignore everytime I'm downtown?
Ubie, this hat has magical anti-terrorist powers. Bush offered me a billion dollars for it but I refused. In a more realistic note, though he might not say it, Nick not only likes this hat he admits to nearly purchasing one.
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