Fraud and Fearmongering in the “War on Terror”

By: Law is Cool · May 31, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Immigration Law, Media Law · 5 Comments 

Prof. Michael Keefer, Professor of English at the University of Guelph, has a new article on the Toronto 18, where he says,

The theatrical arrests of 18 (mostly young) Muslims in Toronto in the Summer of 2006 reinforced media-driven paranoia that homegrown terrorists were everywhere. The unraveling of the case two years later exposes to view yet again the sinister and disgraceful behavior of Canada’s security intelligence apparatus, which has formed a habit of confecting false accusations of terrorism against Canadian citizens. ‘The threat to Canadian society is not a bunch of Muslim boys playing paintball, it’s an ideologically driven government willing to curtail our civil liberties.’

He provides strong criticisms towards the media for their coverage of the case.

The Toronto 18.Final

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