On Gorilla Radio this Week

by C. L. Cook

This week, Jameel Jaffer from the America Civil Liberties Union and 'Torture and the Rule of Law: Three Narratives About Abu Ghraib;' American peace activist, Alison Bodine on being deemed criminal in Canada; and, Janine Bandcroft brings up to speed with good goings-on 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. And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com   

How much more must be revealed? How gruesome must this project for a new American century become

before the good people of the United States, Canada, and the rest of the countries still willingly supporting the so-called War on Terror stand up? How much more

before we say, No more? What we have witnessed these past years of naked aggression and the wanton murder of innocents abroad has too a parallel enabler at

home, in the heart of the home of the brave. As much a grab for resources and global dominance, America's imperial architects aim too to subdue constitutional

limitations and prohibitions and the rights of the citizenry to achieve their goals. But, there still remains in America opposition to Empire's requisite horrors. Jameel

Jaffer is director of the American Civil Liberty Union's National Security Program, and author of 'Torture and the Rule of Law: Three Narratives About Abu Ghraib,'

and co-author of the soon to be released, 'Administration of Torture,' an account of the court case, ACLU v. Department of Defense. Jameel Jaffer in the first

segment.

And; there is a price to be paid for disobedience. Increasingly, American citizens demanding their government adhere to the rule of law are classified as criminals. This

classification has broader ramifications, as many who attempt entrance into Canada are discovering. Canada, under the minority government leadership of Stephen

Harper, a noted neo-con sympathizer and base operative for the domestic economic and imperial geopolitical endeavours of the current American regime, has

"harmonized" much of its border security and federal law enforcement infrastructure with the U.S. Working in tandem with the American Federal Bureau of

Investigation, Canada now actively refuses entry into the country of peace activists, and in at least one case, Canada's federal police arrested and detained an

American citizen, presumably for her political activism. Alison Bodine is a central organizer with the Vancouver antiwar coalition's Mobilization Against War &

Occupation (MAWO), and the President of the University of British Columbia's Coalition Against War on the People of Iraq and Internationally (CAWOPI). She's a

long-serving executive committee member of the UBC Social Justice Center, prominent activist in solidarity with Cuba and the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba,

and a supporter of immigrant and refugee rights in Canada and the US. Alison Bodine's testament to Canada's lost sovereignty in the second half.  

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; but first, Jameel Jaffer and the tortured rule of American law.

 

 

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