Tony Blair has outlined a raft of plans to extend powers to deport or exclude foreigners who encourage terrorism.
The UK can already exclude or deport those who pose a threat to security and Mr Blair said he also wanted to clamp down on those who advocated terror.
The prime minister said he was prepared to amend human rights laws to make deportations more straightforward.
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Now my snarky question is whether this will include George Galloway.
More seriously, these are important and necessary measures. But I have to wonder why it took the deaths of over fifty people before Blair was able to introduce them.
Just as much to the point, will it take the deaths of fifty or five hundred or five thousand Canadians before Canada introduces parallel measures?
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I was speaking to the still off line Kevin Michael Grace who pointed out vis a vis the Emery matter that Canada has at least one notable moment in its extradition history with the United States - we allowed draft resisters and deserters to come to Canada and refused to extradite them to the United States. Hmmm.
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Meaghan points out the growing Kinder Surprise Eggs menace from the Great White North:
For years, Americans who returned from Kinder lands supported a small market here in the illegal eggs, and the feds were prompted to make periodic crackdowns against importers, often ethnic food shops. But in the past year or so, scofflaws have risen to a new level of Internet-fueled defiance, touching off a lucrative Kinder boom. Web sellers buy the candies — which are the size of a hen’s egg, with milk chocolate on the outside, white chocolate on the inside — and charge from 80 cents to $2 or more per egg.
“Kinders Shipped to Anywhere in the World!” screams one new Web site. “Your Search Is Finally Over,” says another.
Jim MacKenzie began selling the eggs here six months ago via his kinder-eggs .com site and says he lives “comfortably” off his U.S. profits. He won’t say what those are but says he has 3,600 customers in his e-mail address book, and has sent as many as 100 cases a day — 2,400 eggs a day — in cases priced at $22.95. (Fundraisers get a break: $19 a case). Mr. MacKenzie, a Canadian from Delta, British Columbia, hires extra help at Christmas and Easter to do packing.
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I trust that a crack team of Department of Justice lawyers are preparing the extradition request as I write. I mean this could not be more blatent:
I Do Not Ship Worldwide - USA Customers Only Please!
If you want just toys I will ship worldwide but the prices apply to US destinations only.
kinder-eggs.com
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I’d love to know who designed this for Marc Emery because I think it’s a great graphic.
I have put up a page of these rendered at different sizes…you can reach it here (more…)
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In that e-mail the person asked if I thought Canadians who aided backs to escape slave owners and give them sanctuary in Canada should have been extradited back to the US for breaking American law.
This answer requires a certain set of circumstances and a better understanding of the laws that existed in the US at that time but if a Canadian citizen entered the US for the purpose of breaking the law, no matter how shameful that law was, they should be tried for that crime. If their actions were limited in helping people once they crossed the border unaided then I would not support extradition. We would not tolerate Americans coming north to commit crimes and then slipping back home to avoid prosecution, would we?
So the short answer to that question is yes, I guess I am not that much of a libertarian because I do believe in the rule of law and sometimes that poses ethical and moral problems when the law is wrong but the solution is not to break it but to work to change it.
colbert’s comments
Nice to see the “law and order” right doing subtle analysis. No question about it, if there’s a law in any nation on earth which a Canadian breaks then that Canadian should pay the penalty. Nice.
The best part is that this lets the poor simpleton get on with his day in the full knowledge he is not going to have to do anything too mentally tough. Of course he had already done this week’s big thinking with his clever piece where he substitutes shipping tritium to an al Qaeda cell for pot seeds to stoners to suggest, cleverly, that the law is the law.
Maybe this guy is advising the lumbering jackass of a Justice critic Vic Toews - he has just the right level of astute analysis.
(Update: Just in case this moron deletes my comment on his repelent little blog, here it is for posterity:
Wow!
I’ve been reading a lot on the Emery matter and I’ve been impressed with the thoughtful, lucid, legally informed analysis which the blogosphere has come up with.
But this analysis? Good old fashioned blackletter law. None of this namby pamby silliness about unjust laws or disproportionate or, perish the thought, barbaric sentences.
Better still on this analysis Rosa Parks got exactly what she deserved. No doubt Ghandi and Mandella had no grounds for complaint. Jews, homosexuals and the retarded should have recognized the fact their consignment to the gas chambers was, strictly speaking, legal and whining was futile.
Stalin’s butchery - down by law. Pol Pot, no problem - legal. Mao, a great man sometimes has to kill a few million - but so long as there is a law, no sweat.
Robert Mugabe wants to bulldoze a few huts and displace a few hundred thousand people - as long as there is a law our man Brent will be pleased to drive the D-9.
It is pretty rare in this day and age to find moral certainty and legal analysis on quite this level. And, for such mercies let us be truly grateful.
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