Posts Tagged: News, Politics, Events
Public Information Terrorism
Posted by on Tuesday, July 8, 2003 in - 4 comments
As shown on BoingBoing today, apparently a map of publicly available information is a national security threat in the USA. Does this situation not indicate the problem a free society faces in addressing undefined terrorism with all the common sense of Chris Elliot's Panicy Man character from early …
Internet use "crime"
Posted by on Wednesday, July 2, 2003 in - leave a comment
There is a PDF available of a new Reporters Without Borders report on control and criminalization of internet use in the un-free world at this page. I think if you are going to drink coffee, you should appreciate who works for what to get it in your mug. If you are going to use the internet, you …
Canada noticed
Posted by on Wednesday, July 2, 2003 in - 2 comments
Canada is like a different country according to the Washington Post. Go figure. When I was a kid and Trudeau was Prime Minister, we knew we were not the States and that we did things differently, and not just with the beer or saying "eh" from time to time. Along came Mulroney in the 1980's and …
Oh, for a silly hat of my own...
Posted by on Monday, June 16, 2003 in - 7 comments
While I do not now go to Court, I have been known to see a rounder off to jail, joined a judge in a chambers chat, plea bargained. But don't know if I could do it all with a straight face before a very serious man in a very silly hat. • Not quite as funny are the ideas that go on beneath the …
George's Tough Month
Posted by on Sunday, June 15, 2003 in - leave a comment
A czar? An ombud? Is he an imperial dictator stumbling in a democractic technological world or a new nordic-style Enemy of the People raging at a storm? George Radwanski, Canada's Federal Privacy Commissioner, speaks of scary things. He has also ticked off parliamentarians over his travel …
David v. Anyone
Posted by on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 in - 2 comments
The attentive reader will recall my passing reference to David Swick of last month. He is time and again amazing me with what one reporter can do with a thrice weekly column. His column today in the Halifax Daily News is local reporting at its best. A political blow hard opens his yap trap and …
The New Peace Is War
Posted by on Sunday, June 8, 2003 in - 3 comments
Aside from all the run-of-the-mill "surprises" about what has not been found in Iraq, what happened to all those virtually identical Saddams? I thought the place was rotten with them. If they found one, how would they know it wasn't Saddam? If they found one, wouldn't somebody squeal thinking they …
D-Day
Posted by on Friday, June 6, 2003 in - leave a comment
I was delayed on my drive to work this morning by a parade of soldiers in battle fatigue marching up Princess Street past Market Square here in Kingston. D-Day ceremonies. It reminded me that when I was a kid in the early 70's, Dad's church in the Annapolis Valley still had WWI vets. In Scotland I …
