“Our job is to be able to kill people”
submitted by Luc Majno
And as the police attack on Hazel Hill* reported illustrates, governments on the losing end of legal arguments often get violent. The Canadian government has moved in more violent directions in recent months. This is attested to by Canada's changing of its voting pattern at the UN to unconditional support for Israel, including its right to murder and dispossess the Palestinians with impunity. It is attested to by its deepening engagement in aggressive military operations with the US in Afghanistan, which were announced by Canada's Chief of Defense Staff General Hillier in July 2005 with the words:
“We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.”
* This was an unprovoked attack which took place at Six Nations, Caledonia, Ontario, by Ontario Provincial Police