Recent posting by The Mackenzie Institute

by John Thompson,

The uproar over some political cartoons in a Danish newspaper is a coordinated and deliberate assault on one of the most fundamental and hard-won rights in the Western World. After years of seeing freedom of speech being defended by the likes of pedophiles, pornographers and Neo-Nazis, it is a welcome relief to speak up for editorial cartoonists against the two-faced demagogues of the Islamic World.

The seeming outrage is only expressed by a tiny minority within the Islamic world, and could be characterized as the work of rabble-rousers and professional activists from the Jihadist movement. To acknowledge their point and adjust our behavior in any way only rewards this group and invites their next act of carefully coordinated 'spontaneous' outrage. Their concerns neither merit serious consideration nor our respect.

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1. Some day, maybe in a few months or perhaps not for a couple of years, Jihadist terrorists will deliver an attack in Canada, or will directly threaten Canadians in some manner overseas. Al Qaeda’s usual style is to attempt to inflict as many casualties as possible, but also to hit targets of economic importance and which may hold some symbolic value. Attempts to predict their targets and the style of their attack are largely useless… the Jihadist movement has their own agenda and a long history of surprises.

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Almost every aspect of our responses to terrorism is subjected to inquiry and dissection these days--except one. Is it right to use violence outside of the law against domestic terrorism, and if so, what are the advantages and what are the potential penalties?

It is somewhat disturbing to think about the various euphemisms and evasions that have been employed to cover something ugly over the past century. While 'special action' was a deliberate misdirection employed for a lot of Maoist, Nazi and Soviet atrocities, 'extralegal' at least infers that something is outside of the law and is therefore questionable... and that questions won't always be answered.

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by Tim Priest

January, 2006

I believe that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen.

In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB (Criminal Intelligence Bureau). I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin. I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Bekkah Valley heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen. Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South East Asia is nearly always off white, almost pure diamorphine. This heroin was almost brown.

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