To the Editor,
About 2,000 years ago, the poet Juvenal was sent into exile for insulting some folks in high places in imperial Rome. It was he who asked the infamous question: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” With new security laws being proposed by Emperor Stephen Harper in Ottawa, there are those who ask the exact same question: “Who will guard the guardians?”
Many Canadians fear our government’s over-reaching surveillance policies may result in loss of civil liberties; as far as governments go, nothing much seems to have changed in two millennia, does it?
When Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act was announced last month, the prime minister’s rhetoric about a great evil sounded eerily similar to George W. Bush’s “axis of evil.” Those politics of fear got Bush elected for a second term, and with an election looming in Ottawa this year, we have to wonder if that playbook is being repeated by the Harper government.
Bernie SmithParksville
