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Just as surely as Robert Dziekanski was, I was murdered today.

Public reaction to what some commentators have compared with the videotaped Rodney King beating in Los Angeles has been strong and varied.

“I was truly shocked and saddened by this terrible incident at the airport,” a reader wrote to The Canadian Press.

“Why was the Taser used at all?”

Wrote an Alberta man referring to the RCMP: “Mr. Dziekanski was posing no threat to these Rambo wannabes.

I am mentally ill, as many of you know. I suffer from Type One Bipolar disorder, and there have been times, when enraged, or threatened, or distressed, when I have been like Robert Dziekanski- disoriented, aggressively confused, acting out in a frantic state.

And today, I watched myself die on video.

Oh, it wasn't my face. It was the face of Robert Dziekanski. And, when he went down beneath the Tasers of the murderous RCMP cowboys, I died.

I posted this on Daily Kos this morning:

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This is not a Bipolar rant, followed by weeks of absence and then a sheepish return.

I'm done with Daily-Kos, because I'm done with America as it currently stands in the world of civilized peoples.

America tortures. It's now official.

The Democratic Party just allowed the approval of an Attorney-General who refused to call water-boarding torture or illegal.

The only explanation I can accept for this is that it's now no longer a big deal. America tortures...just don't admit it in public...wink-wink...let's move on the the spending bill...

Not this guy...I'm outta here.

I'm going to Docudharma and back to the Canadian blog A Creative Revolution, because this is a site that helps elect Democrats.

The Democratic Party is now my enemy, as the Republican Party has always been during my lifetime.

This is heart-breaking:

An RCMP officer has been shot dead while answering a drunk-driving call in Nunavut - the second Mountie to be killed in the far north in a month.

Const. Douglas Scott, 20, was killed at about 11 p.m. last night in Kimmirut, a community of about 400 people on Baffin Island.

You know, every wrongful death is shameful, but I just want to cry when I look at this young man's proud face looking out from his crimson Mountie uniform.

There are three types of deaths which hit me hard when they occur, and in no particular order:

1. Law enforcement
2. Fire and Rescue
3. Military

These men and women choose a profession in which danger is a given and death a real possibility. And each day, they strap on the uniform and leave family home to serve and protect other Canadians.

I, for one, appreciate their sacrifice, and I look at this young man's face, and I see the guys I played hockey and baseball with in college, I see the guys in the pubs in which I partied.

And this man's life is already over...

(Promoted from the Journals- pale)

posted at Daily Kos and Docudharma

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O.K., Canadian Kossacks, we're going to put our money where out mouths are, and we're taking the fight to Harper and his cronies before he can get his "Bush-lite" act out from backstage.

The relying cry, tentatively, is to be, "Not In Our Country, Not In Our Names..." Come up with a better one and we'll go with it...

The last straw, for NoPoint, was the Rachel Marsden column in the weekend Sun applauding torture, and I for one am not going to sit by while this garbage is published in Canadian papers...

First things first:

I've just posted the following blog article on DailyKos. I think it speaks for itself. Canadians, write some letters!!!

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I need any Kossacks opposing torture to contact the editor of the Toronto Sun immediately demanding an explanation for this garbage I just read, enttitled:

"Torture? Sounds like a swimmingly good idea"

The contact information is as follows:

torsun.editor@sunmedia.ca

The editorial page editor is here:

rob.granatstein@sunmedia.ca

I've posted a copy of my Letter to the Editor below the fold:

Here's a disgusting taste of the article:

So now that we've established that the detainees in question aren't even protected by the Geneva convention, and that they often have crucial information that can save lives, what about the idea of waterboarding as "torture"?