shockedcanadian
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This is quite a refreshing approach. If police aren't going to defend our civil liberties, where are we as a society? How are we ANY different than the enemy states we point to?
It's difficult for me to trust any police agency, including the OPP because of such ease of abuse and my knowledge of these abuses. If so many flippantly collect information on citizens, often to protect their own cults, what can we say about politicians who also want this information? Employers? Our fellow citizens?
The creepy activities of so-called law enforcement and the efforts they apply for their own benefit doesn't bode well for Canada. We are in no position to lecture others and both our allies and enemies know this. The truth is that our police apparatus has ensured we are not different from Russia.
he head of the Ontario Provincial Police intelligence bureau said he had "professional and ethical" concerns about requests he was getting from police and political leaders for background checks on participants in last winter's convoy protest who had not engaged in illegal activity.
In documents tabled with the public inquiry studying the federal government's handling of the convoy protest, Supt. Pat Morris, commander of the OPP intelligence bureau, pushed back at what he described as requests for background checks that fell outside his bureau's legal mandate.
"On the ethical front, several requests do not relate to the parameters that the state/police should consider in intelligence operations," Morris wrote in a memo to OPP Deputy Commissioner Chuck Cox on Feb. 2.
"The potential 'targets' are not engaged in criminal activity nor do we have reasonable grounds to believe that they will be. They may oppose government policy and engage in protest."
It's difficult for me to trust any police agency, including the OPP because of such ease of abuse and my knowledge of these abuses. If so many flippantly collect information on citizens, often to protect their own cults, what can we say about politicians who also want this information? Employers? Our fellow citizens?
The creepy activities of so-called law enforcement and the efforts they apply for their own benefit doesn't bode well for Canada. We are in no position to lecture others and both our allies and enemies know this. The truth is that our police apparatus has ensured we are not different from Russia.
he head of the Ontario Provincial Police intelligence bureau said he had "professional and ethical" concerns about requests he was getting from police and political leaders for background checks on participants in last winter's convoy protest who had not engaged in illegal activity.
In documents tabled with the public inquiry studying the federal government's handling of the convoy protest, Supt. Pat Morris, commander of the OPP intelligence bureau, pushed back at what he described as requests for background checks that fell outside his bureau's legal mandate.
"On the ethical front, several requests do not relate to the parameters that the state/police should consider in intelligence operations," Morris wrote in a memo to OPP Deputy Commissioner Chuck Cox on Feb. 2.
"The potential 'targets' are not engaged in criminal activity nor do we have reasonable grounds to believe that they will be. They may oppose government policy and engage in protest."
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