Justin Ling — Canada considers 'preventative detention' in wake of Ottawa attack

Details of those new powers have yet to be released, but justice minister Peter MacKay indicated to reporters that they will include measures to allow the preventive detention of suspected would-be terrorists.

“We’re examining all those sections of the criminal code, and all measures under the law that will allow us, in some instances, to take pre-emptive measures,” he said.

The Guardian
Canada considers 'preventative detention' in wake of Ottawa attack
Justin Ling

Rod Bastanmehr — Surveillance State: Appeals Court Says Obama Administration Can Indefinitely Detain Americans

Yet another worrisome expansion of executive powers.

Translation: Making constitutional what is patently not only unconstitutional but also against what American representative democracy was founded to correct. This is the power that belonged to monarchs and now belongs to dictators. Talk about judicial activism.

This is a huge undermining of American soft power. Over the past decades, many nono-Americans have become afraid of the US as a rogue empire. Now many Americans are feeling the same fears with a government out of control in ratifying the doctrine of the unitary executive with absolute power. This cannot end well unless it is quickly brought to heel.

AlterNet
Surveillance State: Appeals Court Says Obama Administration Can Indefinitely Detain Americans

Rod Bastanmehr