Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Canadian Death Squads?

Today I was debating with a friend of mine who seems to view America as a great and noble nation, or something. Let's call her Ms. X. I was telling Ms. X about the various death squads in other nations that are paid for with our tax dollars tonight and she said "You don't see Canada do that though. Doesn't mean they don't". Meaning that Canada, in all likelyhood, commits the same crimes against humanity with their death squads. I view my research on this amusing: I did a Google Fight (a website that tells you which out of two searches finds more pages) between " 'united states' 'death squads' " and "canadian 'death squads' ". The winner was "united states death squads", unsurprisingly, with 44600 hits. "Canada death squads" had 17900 hits. This made me wonder what web pages could possibly come up under "canada death squads". I clicked the first website on the list and this was the heading of the article:
Demonstrators from Canada, Europe and from the many countries where the US Defense Department's “School of Assassins” has ravaged civilian populations demanded this training center to be shut down. People directed much attention to the ongoing civil war in Colombia. U.S. intervention in that country is expanding: billions of dollars in military aid as well as U.S. soldiers in combat operations against the popular forces.
Notice how it says "US Defense Department's “School of Assassins” " and not "Canadian Defense Department's “School of Assassins” ". So I looked on more... A few of the websites on the canadian death squad web page hit list just had plain nothing to do with Canada and sometimes not even with death squads. Indeed, more than any other type of web article in the list was the type of article explaining how terrible US funded death squads are. In no web page could I find any mention of a Canadian funded death squad.

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