{"id":373204,"date":"2018-08-13T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-vs-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:42:13","slug":"canada-vs-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-vs-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada vs. the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/how-does-canada-escape-prosecution-for-genocide\/cover_ts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-82751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover_TS-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-82751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover_TS-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover_TS.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m aware that Canada, unlike its southern neighbor in which I live, has just recently, ever so slightly, stood up to certain of the horrors of the Saudi government. I\u2019m aware of the role Canada has played, albeit imperfectly, as refuge for people fleeing U.S. slavery and U.S. wars and general U.S. backwardness. I\u2019m aware of how many times through history the United States has attacked Canada. I\u2019m aware that just several yards in front of me as I sit in my outdoor office (the downtown mall of Charlottesville) a small army is gleefully creating a police state on the anniversary of a Nazi rally at which similar numbers of soldiers, similarly armed, stood by and watched fascist violence last year. I agree with Robin Williams\u2019 characterization of Canada as a nice apartment over a meth lab.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing. I\u2019m a world citizen not owned by the Pentagon. When we hold World BEYOND War\u2019s annual global <a href=\"http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/GwE\/ni0YAA\/t.2jy\/WKaWTMaKQryKe7dXIEB1cg\/h1\/Jb9ZUZ-2BHBLFAkQw-2FQ1kTOiWeTn5TBUHk-2Fzb6queU0oPGsOJPJmaBuKbiCGD6XeIFo9DKrj7AFAEzz9AO5ss3YKy3Xnil7aN4S90YhZc5MOmWJwpEVVaeh5E5uvyu7q8Y0q0BjTtQqkjfNSbn7ajf9wurxe9IA-2F2V8BUE0e1Pzcg3WWS-2FRazcNccnGmjp6VImBfbjFrthdA-2BsDxnD-2FvpnsA-3D-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/click.actionnetwork.org\/mpss\/c\/GwE\/ni0YAA\/t.2jy\/WKaWTMaKQryKe7dXIEB1cg\/h1\/Jb9ZUZ-2BHBLFAkQw-2FQ1kTOiWeTn5TBUHk-2Fzb6queU0oPGsOJPJmaBuKbiCGD6XeIFo9DKrj7AFAEzz9AO5ss3YKy3Xnil7aN4S90YhZc5MOmWJwpEVVaeh5E5uvyu7q8Y0q0BjTtQqkjfNSbn7ajf9wurxe9IA-2F2V8BUE0e1Pzcg3WWS-2FRazcNccnGmjp6VImBfbjFrthdA-2BsDxnD-2FvpnsA-3D-3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534201341876000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEg-cfbmcqzPRl2AmTA2N03BJMdmQ\">conference<\/a> in Toronto next month, Canadians will, if they are like most people on earth, be eager to discuss Canada\u2019s shortcomings, not its highpoints. I\u2019ve been reading about some of those shortcomings, and they are not insignificant. Canada is a standout player when it comes to environmental destruction, and in the colonial brutality that still feeds that destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of our upcoming conference is the rule of law, its uses, its abuses, and its potential as a local and global tool. I\u2019ve just read Tamara Starblanket\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0986076961\/dissivoice-20\"><em>Suffer the Little&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/canada-vs-the-rule-of-law\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m aware that Canada, unlike its southern neighbor in which I live, has just recently, ever so slightly, stood up to certain of the horrors of the Saudi government. I\u2019m aware of the role Canada has played, albeit imperfectly, as refuge for people fleeing U.S. slavery and U.S. wars and general U.S. backwardness. I\u2019m aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}