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Arrest Jimmy Carter?

Canadian Dimension, April 16th, 2008


Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter met Nasser al-Shaer, a senior Hamas leader, and is scheduled to meet Khaled Mashaal, the exiled leader of Hamas, in Syria on Friday. Hamas are listed as a terrorist organization by Public Safety Canada. So are the Tamil Tigers, among many others. The recent building seizures of World Tamil Movement offices in Montreal and Toronto are part of a string of first-time measures being implemented under Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, which was pushed through Parliament shortly after 9/11. Parallels with the Patriot Act are strikingly similar, and the effects on freedom of expression and freedom of association are vast. A 2002 CISIS report had anti-globalization, Aboriginal and anti-abortion groups listed as potential terrorist groups. Will we arrest and seize their members and assets as well? While we’re at it, will we arrest Jimmy Carter for speaking with a “terrorist” group on his next visit to Canada?

Canadian Dimension Matthew Brett is the Canadian Dimension weblog editor and a Montreal-based journalist at a weekly newspaper. Read other posts by Canadian Dimension.

One Comment

  1. Comment by Hugh on April 18th, 2008 at 2:02 pm:

    Another specious “strawman” type argument. Jimmy Carter is long past his due date as a peacemaker, having jumped into bed with radical terroristic murderers.

    As the recipient of literally millions of Arab petro bucks for his misnamed “Peace Foundation” there’s no way that Carter can be seen as an honest peace broker.

    Sadly the anti-globalist movement has bought into the jihad too and has been sadly compromised from its original premise. Bettering the lives of workers has become an excuse for this evil political football.

    I think Matthew Brett puts forth dishonest, manipulative positions to the readership here.

    As ever…BUYER BEWARE!

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