Douglas files released...sort of.

[HeresyLives]

Personally, I am greatly relieved that the RCMP dossier on Tommy, some 1,100 pages, has been released with huge portions censored. CSIS demands this massive censorship, pretending that disclosure threatens national security and diplomatic relations, and – yes, believe it – that it might cause turmoil and insurrection. Since this argument is so self-evidently insane, we can see that it's meant as a device to protect Canadians from the sordid truth about a folk legend who deceived them for over half a century.

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But we are not, alas, out of danger yet. The Canadian Press is appealing to a Federal Court to open the entire Tommy dossier, without the censorship, and the Harper government and CSIS are vehemently opposing the challenge. And let's be realistic here. CSIS must be entirely unconstrained by legal or constitutional niceties in its ability to spy on us for our own well-being.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/standing-on-guard-against-tommy-douglas/article1474914/

[polly7]

1. I really wish they'd release them all.

He was a VERY unpopular man to some while trying to get medicare going here in SK., called a commie ... all sorts of horrible names, even the doctors went on strike in protest. I wouldn't doubt if some of those files involve some scary stuff.