How Canada Once Dealt With Terrorists

Almost 25 years ago, Quebec separatist terrorists, the FLQ, started blowing up shit and took prominent hostages whom they later murdered. While then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was a New Age Marxist, he did take threats to his authority seriously. He invoked the War Measures Act and dealt with the FLQ quickly and decisively.

Using the army, including tanks on the streets in Quebec cities (no hang-ups over cultural profiling) as well as, well, flexible detainments (Knuckles' term) for all the usual suspects, the Canadian government was able to deal with the terrorists relatively quickly and effectively. As result, Canadian were not subjected to years of uncertainty.

Of course there are differences between the two wars. The FLQ was a regional organization while the Islamoslopbuckets are an international, well-funded network who are tolerated by about a billion Muslims, as well as CNN/Aljazeero/Hillary/Kennedy/Levin/
Moore/andeveryotherleftyasschunk. Another difference: Canada's War Measures Act was already on the books before the Crisis, so there wasn't patisan debate over its legitimacy as there is over the Homeland Security Act.

Trudeau also appeared often to explain the crisis and the efforts used to combat it. An excerpt that appears in full here:

The criminal law as it stands is simply not adequate to deal with systematic terrorism.

The police have therefore been given certain extraordinary powers necessary for the effective detection and elimination of conspiratorial organizations which advocate the use of violence. These organizations, and membership in them, have been declared illegal. The powers include the right to search and arrest without warrant, to detain suspected persons without the necessity of laying specific charges immediately, and to detain persons without bail.

These are strong powers and I find them as distasteful as I am sure do you. They are necessary, however, to permit the police to deal with persons who advocate or promote the violent overthow of our democratic system. In short, I assure you that the Government recognizes its grave responsibilities in interfering in certain cases with civil liberties, and that it remains answerable to the people of Canada for its actions. The Government will revoke this proclamation as soon as possible.

Knuckles remembers that no key figures were mentioned during the October Crisis. The focus against the FLQ was on the group and rounding up all their cells. The ringleaders were never given the celebrity supercriminal status that is bestowed upon the likes of bin Laden.

Links to Canada's response to terrorism--some critical of Trudeau, but informative nonetheless--here, here and a remnant of the FLQ on the blogoshere here.

For the record, Knuckles considers Trudeau a tool of Satan for assfucking Canada and rendering a once proud nation into a wussified prision bitch of the TrendyLeftists in Europe and the UN. But even a pig with a chronic sinus infection can still find the occasional truffle.

Search key words: October Crisis, FLQ, Pierre Trudeau, Pierre Laporte, James Cross, War Measures Act.