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Saturday, June 03, 2006
Homegrown Canadian Heroes

Seventeen. That's the number of alleged homegrown terrorists who were arrested last night in Toronto, in what must be the largest terrorist foil on our territory in Canadian history. It's also, coincidentally enough, the number of Canadian soldiers who have died in the service of their country since 9/11. For every homegrown terrorist arrested last night, let us take comfort that there is a genuine homegrown hero that exemplifies the best of who we are:

  1. Captain Nichola Kathleen Sarah Goddard
  2. Corporal Matthew Dinning
  3. Bombardier Myles Mansell
  4. Corporal Randy Payne
  5. Lieutenant William Turner
  6. Private Robert Costall
  7. Master Corporal Timothy Wilson
  8. Corporal Paul Davis
  9. Private Braun Scott Woodfield
  10. Lieutenant Chris Saunders
  11. Corporal Jamie Murphy
  12. Sergeant Robert Alan Short
  13. Corporal Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger
  14. Sergeant Marc Leger
  15. Corporal Ainsworth Dyer
  16. Private Richard Green
  17. Private Nathan Smith
What the Canadian Service Intelligence Service (CSIS) most certainly just did was save the lives of citizens. They just saved my life, and that of my family. That's the way I look at it. I live in Toronto. I work in the downtown core. I take the subway. And even though the subway was apparently not one of their targets, others were: They had enough explosive material for three Timothy McVeigh style Oklahoma City bombings. How grateful I am to CSIS. A government program we can all be proud of today.

Either CSIS is a far superior intelligence service than that of the Americans and British, who were unable to prevent the terrorist atrocities in New York and London, or we are all finally getting good at this. New York, Madrid and London all went badly. Toronto was our first successful catch. I suspect CSIS is quite good, but I also think our combined efforts are finally paying off after five years of all-out counter-terrorist operations. This proves we are all targets, that there is no retreat in this war. The people who are (predictably) linking this planned operation to our efforts in Afghanistan are dangerous fools. That's not a very nice thing to say, but understand this. New York was attacked before we went to Afghanistan. The attack on New York was planned and executed from Afghanistan. That's why we went there, and that's why we must stay there until the mission is accomplished. We really have no choice. If there is any lesson in all this, that would be it.

CROSS-POSTED to THE TORCH

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