Comments on: Warrentless Wiretapping Comes to Canada – Canadian Media Censored

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:25:19 +0000

“they’re almost guaranteed a job these days irregardless of capabilities!”

Not almost…..absolutely. Not too mention the tax breaks. My friend received a 6,000 tax return yet he made 21,000 as a retail employee. How is that possible? He has no children, and does not suffer from undue hardship (his mother is wealthy – yes, some natives are wealthy and involved in lucrative enterprises).

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Personally I don’t think many people will care about this wiretapping as most people are pissed off at the antics of these aboriginal leaders. Quite frankly you hear so much about these land claims and other complaints that no one gives a shit anymore. There’s always request from aboriginals to the government but never an attempt to be accountable for their own actions. So until there is some accountability on reserves no one will care about the complaints of aboriginal people.

By: mungopw

mungopw — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

such ignorance THIS IS INDIAN LAND!!!

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

It’s interesting to me that people are more concerned about how no one cares about indian land claims more than the fact that a Canadian was wiretapped without court approval. To me it doesn’t make a difference if it was an indian protester fighting for something that a number of people are tired of hearing about or a protester trying to stop the Canadian DMCA. I am willing to bet more people would care if Michael Geist had his phone tapped without court approval. It’s a sad point that I can see at this point but it seems relatively true.

What would happen if police tapped your phone because you say voted for the “wrong” party in the last election?

If there was no wiretap I wouldn’t have reported on the story because it would be irrelevant to me. The police crossed the line when they issued that wiretap in my view. As I mentioned in the article it makes one seriously wonder how many more wiretaps the police have issued without a warrant. In the United States you don’t need one in Canada you still need court oversight IIRC.

Edit: and this wasn’t directed at you MR. I just didn’t want to see arguments going back and forth about native rights without getting my note in because native rights vs general police corruption is off topic in my view. What’s on topic is the wiretap that was issued without court approval plus the fact that there was effort to cover the story up which I find much more frightening personally.

By: wapazoid

wapazoid — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@mungopw

Pfft… Canada does not belong to the Indians.. period. It belongs to ME ALONE!!!

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I totally agree that their shouldn’t be any wiretapping of aboriginals or any other groups. But sadly this won’t get the proper public attention and that’s because the public mostly wanted this guy to act. People are tired of these antics its as simple is that people tolerate injustice if it serves their purpose.

By: AustinHook

AustinHook — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The current generation of Canadians has even less conscience about correcting the theft of Indian lands than previous generations. I don’t see where the tribes really have any choice except to protest by civil disobedience. The majority continues to engage in criminal conduct against the remaining members of the original population but there is no accountability and what is criminal and what is not gets defined by a kind of victor’s version of events. We have iPods to listen to computer games to absorb all oiur attention and any sense of justice is entirely too much of a distraction from our selfish lives. The classic irony is that we shall end up losing our own freedoms as we ever more successfully learn to surpress those of the minority.
A.H
Milk River Alberta

By: Mord_Sith

Mord_Sith — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

We’re hardly suppressing them I invite you to take a walk down Main street here in your flashiest getup from Selkirk (Street) to the concert hall and we can take bets how long you last before you’re mugged by the ‘ethnic minority.’

The problem with the reserves is that they are not placed to support life they were originally placed to ERADICATE the native population despite that they survived for that they deserve a commendation however they don’t have to live there anymore they can move to the city stop living in poverty get a job hell the level of reverse-racisim in Canada they’re almost guaranteed a job these days irregardless of capabilities!

The two reasons why ‘this generation’ as you put it is desensitized to their plight is because none of them understand this simple fact ‘Why stay there if it’s so bad?’ they’re not kept there at gunpoint the other reason is that it’s been thrown in our face more times than any other generation about the woe-indians and we’re sick and bloody tired of the whole kit and kaboodle.

It’s not selfishness it’s just tuning out the whining of a little brother we’ve heard it all before enough times that we’ve stopped caring about it.

Anyways that’s de-railing the topic sorry Drew…

I guess it’s time for me to find out the email to my local representative and write a happy little letter about unauthorized wiretapping.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

If you want to debate this AustinHook I recommend you start a topic in the forums. You may think its so cut and dry but its more complex then anyone realizes.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

No problem Sith as long as the intention of this article isn’t lost I’m happy.

Thanks for pointing to the forums MR.