Sweden Law Allows Goverment Access to Internet & Telephone

I can hardly believe what I am reading. Sweden has passed a law allowing all cross-border internet and telephone traffic to be monitored. The law allows the military National Defence Radio Establishment to monitor Swedes' Internet usage and content from e-mails, phone calls and text messages.

I am stunned and I fear it may come to a country near me in the near future. I cannot believe that people would actually allow this bill to pass. It would be like having all your snail mail letters and parcels read by the mailman before he delivered them. I find it scary and I will quit using the internet entirely if they ever pass such a law here.

The article in The Province Newspaper does not say what the thinking behind this is, but one can assume that it was done in the name of security for the people. For the life of me I cannot understand how violating my freedom and my right to privacy keeps me safe. Yes the world is a scary place, but for me it would be a whole lot scarier if my right and my neighbors right to privacy and freedom were taken away.

Benjamin Franklin said "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security".

I wholeheartedly agree - what do you think?

The Case of the Washed Up Feet UPDATE!

Who would have thought that there could possibly be more? It appears that another RIGHT foot has been found washed up on the beach this time in Campbell River. It was found by a couple walking on the beach this morning. (This makes me rethink myh walking habits) Police say it is in a size 10 sneaker.
Either there are a lot of one legged men out there or there is definitely something strange going on.


****HOLD THE PRESSES! There has been a surprising twist in this story. The last foot (6th in the series) has turned out to be a hoax! Someone put an animal paw in a sock and stuffed it in a tennis shoe. Sick ...very sick thing to do. The police still have no idea who the other feet belong(ed) to or where they come from. ****

The Case of the Washed Up Feet

The police are treading carefully around the issue of the 5th foot in a sneaker found today. Yes, that is correct one foot in a sneaker! Last August a right foot in a sneaker was found on an island off the coast of British Columbia. Since then three more feet all of them right feet and all of them in a sneaker have been found washed up on various beaches around the gulf islands. The police continue to tell us that the feet have not been severed meaning I am guessing that they broke away from a body that is/was in the water? Today Delta police... yes read that DELTA as in where I live, found a LEFT foot in a sneaker on Westham Island. ( You can get a great bottle of wine at a winery on Westham) Police are not saying if the sneaker is a match to one of the previous right footed sneakers.

What will happen if the shoe fits errr... matches?

How many bodies are losing feet out there and when will it end?

Also with DNA and all the other scientific stuff today why can't they determine who these loose feet belong to?

Police are being very tight lipped for fear of putting their foot in their mouth.

Are police shuffling their feet on this one? Stay tuned for more breaking details in this case.

Canada's Great Shame

Between 1922 - 1969 hundreds of native children were forcibly taken from their families and sent to church run government supported residential schools where the main objective was to "take the Indian out of the child". Along with the trauma of separation came further victimization at the hands of sick care takers who often beat and sexually abused these children. Some of them never made it home. Some of them, never having been in a family, didn't know how to raise their own children. Some turned to drugs and alcohol to dull the pain of years of abuse and neglect. When I read the stories of how these children were forced to live I remember a long ago visit to the residential school near where I grew up.
Sechelt had a native residential school and some of the children attended the same high school I did. I made friends with a girl named Ruth and one Saturday day I got my mother to let me visit her at the school. I can still remember being appalled by how my friend had to live. She showed me where she slept. It was a small metal bunk in a room filled with bunks. Each of these bunks had only enough room between them for a child to stand and that is all. She showed me where she and the other children washed. It was a huge room with row after row of sinks and a large communal shower. No privacy was afforded any of these children. If robbing their dignity and their families were not enough these children were often inadequately fed and clothed. I have never forgotten this place and the sadness I felt knowing that my friend went to bed every night with out any one to comfort her or treat her special.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Harper apologized on behalf of the citizens of Canada and the government for robbing these children of their families, their culture, their dignity, their religion and in some cases their lives. It is about time we accepted responsibility for what we have done.
I hope that this helps with the healing that must take place for these people and the generations that have been effected by it, but I wonder .... is it too little too late? I often wonder what happened to my friend Ruth. I hope she found her way home to her family and found a way to heal from what we as a society did to her. I hope she found the love and caring that was rightfully hers, but denied her by ignorant government rule and greedy hypocritical religious leaders.

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

Black Elk

EEEKKK! - Friday the 13th!!