One More Thing Canadians Do better Than US
Friday, June 9th, 2006Catch terrorists before they hit their target.
Bryan sums up my feelings on the Canadian terror suspects arrested the other day:
Canadian Broadcasting has an update on the arrest of 17 people, 12 adults and 5 juveniles, in the plot to bomb targets in and around Toronto. They also have a background article on the plot. Six of those arrested will face explosive charges in the alleged plot.
[…] The Canadians have evidence, warrants, all that old fashioned police stuff, and they are taking people to court for trials. This is possible because they didn’t violate anyone civil rights. This is how it’s done in civilized countries that believe in the rule of law.
Had it been here in the US, we would have had half a dozen agencies all with different piece sof the puzzle and no one talking to one another. the local police would spend months trying to get the Feds to look at the evidence against these suspects only to have it be too late, and the FBI pencil in an hour to listen two days after they stormed FOX News and cut off Bill O’Reilley’s head.
The Mounties didn’t make any martyrs by going all Waco or Ruby Ridge; they simply followed the intelligence gathered, issued warrants, set up a sting and caught the suspects. Fucking amazing what happens when you treat terrorism as the crime that it is, and use law enforcement officers to enforce existing laws, instead of trying to scare the bejesus out of everyone by restructuring the Intelligence apparatus and tapping everyone’s phones.
