Gorilla Radio for Monday September 17, 2007

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Written by Chris Cook

Sunday, 16 September 2007 14:07

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Murray Mollard of the BC Civil Liberties Association and the upcoming Vancouver Death -in-Custody: Current Experiences, Future Reform Forum; Ed Kinane of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and the secret air war over Iraq; and, Janine Bandcroft will bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

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Monday, Sept. 17, 2007

5:00:00 3:00 Welcome to GR, etc. Do we in Canada live in a police, or a policed state? It was the first question my high school law teacher posed to we bright-eyed pupils those many long years ago. The consensus then was: Yes, of course Canada is a policed state. (To say otherwise would cost you on the mid-terms).

But can we now, in the wake of so-called "terrorism" statutes, revelations of police agents provocateur at rallies and spies monitoring citizens whose only "crime" is political opposition, still so confidently assert that to be the case?

And what about the growing evidence of unpunished police corruption?

Or, the growing numbers of citizens dying in police custody?

A closer look at Canada's unexamined police practices, suspect correctional institutions, and the many failings of a judiciary operating in an atmosphere of impunity all beggar my high school law teacher's easy pronouncement, making necessary we revisit the question: "Is Canada a police, or policed state?"

Murray Mollard is a lawyer, and Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. The BCCLA will host the 'Death-in-Custody: Current Experiences, Future Reform Forum next week in Vancouver. It couldn't be more timely, with numerous wrongful deaths-in-custody having occurred in Canada over the last couple years, and at least four of those right here in British Columbia.

Murray Mollard and the state of Canada's policing in the first half.

And; is it reasonable that we in "the West" expect justice and decency from our governments at home when we willing turn a blind eye to their murderous criminality abroad?

In an age of empire, the excesses wreaked on the heads of the distant colonized invariable comes home to be visited on the heads of perceived enemies of the empire in decline. Today, America and her so-called "willing" allies comprise an imperial pact, engaged in a global despoiling through force of arms of great swathes of the planet.

All this is, of course, conducted in the name of freedom, democracy, and providing the security for you, me, and the rest of us living here in the promised land to purchase cheaply sweatshop garments, imported produce, and the gasoline necessary to power our journeys to distant box store paradises.

There is no single front of "our" empire's war for low low prices more starkly abominable than Iraq, where untold millions have been killed, maimed, and displaced. That Iraq features daily in corporate news reports, the news almost invariably being bad, provides an illusion of transparency, but how many of us are aware of the scope of the atrocities carried out, and continuing there?

Ed Kinane is an educator, Quaker, and writer of letters to the editor, Op-eds, articles, and reviews. The now-retired teacher's "golden years" so far feature arrests and stints in U.S. Federal prison for protests against the notorious U.S. Army torture college, also known as the School of the Americas, and trips with Peace Brigades International to provide protective accompaniment to local justice activists in Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, and Sri Lanka.

Ed Kinane has also, with Voices for Creative Non-Violence, traveled to Baghdad to witness first hand the privations of the Iraqi people.

Ed Kinane, and "our" unknown air war over Iraq in the second segment.

And; Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

5:03:00       22:00   Discussion w/ Murray Mollard

"Welcome to the show, Murray; Monday, September 24th, the BCCLA hosts 'Death-in-Custody: Current Experiences, Future Reform. What is the current situation?"

5:25:00       1:00   Cart(s)
5:26:00       8:00   Janine Bandcroft
5:34:00       3:00   Music
5:37:00       22:00 Discussion w/ Ed Kinane

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