Pubdate: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Source: National Post (Canada)
Copyright: 2012 Canwest Publishing Inc.
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Author: Marc Emery

BILL IS UNCANADIAN SAYS PRISONER #40252-086

Re: Want To Read My Email? Get A Warrant, Lorne Gunter, Feb. 17.

Lorne Gunter misses the likely targets of the Tory bill to provide
police with warrantless access to our email; dissenters, civil
libertarians, critics of the police and government, journalists,
whistle-blowers and opposition parties.

The RCMP have a history of extensive spying and surveillance of trade
unionists, Quebec nationalists, opposition party leaders (like Tommy
Douglas), dissenters, journalists, protest organizers,
environmentalists, abortion rights activists, and cannabis
legalization advocates. There is already adequate law to find child
pornographers.

These new unprecedented police state powers will be not so much
abused, but in the spirit they are intended, to be used against
legitimate research, criticism and organizing by Canadians.

This proposal is extremely dangerous to the individual liberty and
rule of law a free people are entitled to in a democracy.

Marc Emery

#40252-086,

Yazoo City Federal Prison, Miss.
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