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OLD DRAFT
SEE FINAL SUBMISSION TO GOVERNMENT
https://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10644:common-security-act-to-replace-c-51-which-should-be-repealed&catid=75:cjustice-news&Itemid=218
Joan Russow PhD
Co-ordinator Global Compliance Research Project 1994 – Present
Former leader of the Green Party of Canada (1997-2001)
Need to redefine what constitutes true security what constitutes real threats to security, and what contributes to real terrorism
OUTLINE
A. BACKGROUND to RCMP THREAT ASSESSMENT LIST AND 2005 SUBMISSION TO THE SENATE ON THE REVIEW OF BILL 36 – THE ANTI TERRORISM ACT AND DRAFT OF A COMMON SECURITY INDEX.
B. NEED TO REDEFINE WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE SECURITY: COMMON SECURITY
C. COMMENTS ON DEFINITION OF THREATS TO SECURITY IN C51
D. NEED TO REDEFINE WHAT CONSTITUTES REALTHREATS TO SECURITY: THREATS TO COMMON SECURITY;
I FAILING TO ACHIEVE A STATE OF PEACE, AND DISARMAMENT; AND FAILING TO REALLOCATE MILITARY EXPENSES AND TO WORK FOR THE DELEGITIMIZATION OF WAR
II FAILING TO ENSURE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE RESPECT FOR THE INHERENT WORTH OF NATURE BEYOND HUMAN PURPOSE, THE REDUCTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT, THE ENSHRINING OF ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS, RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND THE MOVING AWAY FROM THE CURRENT MODEL OF OVERCONSUMPTION
III –PROMOTING FREE TRADE RATHER THAN FAIR TRADE
IV –FAILING TO PROMOTE SOCIALLY EQUITABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND ENTERPRISES AND RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
V –FAILING TO PROMOTE AND FULLY GUARANTEE RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INCLUDING LABOUR RIGHTS, WOMEN’S RIGHTS CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS – RIGHT TO FOOD, RIGHT TO HOUSING, RIGHT TO SAFE DRINKING WATER AND SEWAGE TREATMENT, RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND RIGHT TO UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE NOT FOR PROFIT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
VI –FAILING TO SIGN AND RATIFY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS, COVENANTS AND TREATIES AND ENACT LEGISLATION TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE
E. NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT CONTRIBUTES TO REAL TERRORISM INCLUDING STATE TERRORISM
I. INTERNATIONAL IMPASSE TO A COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERRORISM
II. UNITED NATIONS PASSED A RESOLUTION ON TERRORISM THAT STRESSES THAT MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISM MUST COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW
III. CHANGES TO THE CRIMINAL CODE DEFINITION OF TERRORISM TO IMPLEMENT C-51
IV. MISCONSTRUING ARTICLE 51- SELF DEFENCE OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND PRETEXTS FOR WAR HAS CONTRIBUTED TO STATE TERRORISM
V. STATE CONTRIBUTION TO TERRORISM; AGGRESSION INTO ANOTHER STATE AS A CAUSE OF TERRORISM
NATO states have been complicit or responsible for using the following pretexts for aggressive intervention in other sovereign states “human security" (Iraq 1991), "Humanitarian intervention" (Kosovo, 1999), “self-defence” (Afghanistan 2001), "Pre-emptive/ preventive" attack (Iraq, 2003) "Responsibility to Protect (Haiti, 2004, Libya, 2011) or "will to intervene" (Mali, 2013). Each time the pretext was discredited, a new pretext arises: through NATO expansion, through being a nuclear weapons organization, through coercing other states to increase their military budget, and purchase weapons like F 35 and armed drones, through destabilizing other nations, through setting up military bases around the world, through war games and military exercises, through circulating nuclear powered and nuclear arms capable vessel. Etc.
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