PrintMay 24, 2010
Big Brother in Canada
The Canadian government is paying media groups to respond to what it considers is "misinformation" being dispersed through online chat forums.
The Harper government has been monitoring political messages online, and even correcting what it considers misinformation. One local expert says the government is taking things too far.
Under the pilot program the Harper government paid a media company $75,000 to monitor and respond to online postings about the east coast seal hunt.
If Canadians have to worry about the government watching what they are writing online, this will only lead to self-censoring, which is the intended goal of their big brother.
Free speech is the worst enemy of tyranny; let this serve as a telltale sign that the Canadian government has become aware of that - if it didn't already know.
For those of us Americans, who question why conservatives continue to fight the over-reaching Obama Administration that is leading our nation to the precipice of destruction, all one has to do is look at the injustices enacted on the citizenries of other nations by their own oppressive governments.
We can start by looking north of our border.
