{"id":12916,"date":"2011-05-04T19:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2011-05-04T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:46:45","slug":"ndp-deputy-leader-doubts-bin-laden-photos-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ndp-deputy-leader-doubts-bin-laden-photos-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP deputy leader doubts bin Laden photos exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NDP conspiracy theory loonies are not only out in force, but they seem to have floated to the top. Thomas Mulcair is in good company<\/a>: at last an interesting Canadian political landscape. The bloc \"Adddecimated, the liberals humiliated and the official opposition led by buffoons.<\/p>\n

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From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The deputy leader of Canada’s new Official Opposition party says he doubts the U.S. has photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body.<\/p>\n

Thomas Mulcair, who stands in for NDP Leader Jack Layton in the House of Commons when he is away, told CBC’s Power & Politics<\/em> that he doesn’t believe photos exist of bin Laden following his killing by U.S. forces on Sunday in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think, from what I’ve heard, that those pictures exist and if they do I’ll leave that up to the American military,” he told host Evan Solomon.<\/p>\n

“If they’ve got pictures of a cadaver then there’s probably more going on than we suspect in what happened there,” Mulcair said.<\/p>\n

Mulcair also said the killing requires “a full analysis” on whether it was self-defence or a direct killing because “that has to do with American law and international law as well.”<\/p>\n

“I think that if the Americans have taken pictures in that circumstance, it won’t be able to prove very much as to whether Mr. [bin Laden] was holding a weapon,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that, Mulcair, rather than being an NDP aberration, is merely plodding the loon trail blazed by other members<\/a> of his party:<\/p>\n

In 2008, NDP MP Libby Davies stood up in Parliament and read<\/a> out this petition, which had been signed by over 500 citizens:<\/p>\n

Scientific and eyewitness evidence shows that the 9\/11 Commission Report is a fraudulent document and that elements within the US government were complicit in the murder of thousands of people on 9\/11\/2001. This event, the petition points out, brought Canada into the so-called \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d [and] it has changed our domestic and foreign policies for the worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In 2008, NDP MP Libby Davies stood up in Parliament and read<\/a> out this petition, which had been signed by over 500 citizens:<\/p>\n

Scientific and eyewitness evidence shows that the 9\/11 Commission Report is a fraudulent document and that elements within the US government were complicit in the murder of thousands of people on 9\/11\/2001. This event, the petition points out, brought Canada into the so-called \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d [and] it has changed our domestic and foreign policies for the worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NDP conspiracy theory loonies are not only out in force, but they seem to have floated to the top. Thomas Mulcair is in good company: at last an interesting Canadian political landscape. The bloc decimated, the liberals humiliated and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[2212,1536],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ndp","tag-ndp","tag-thomas-mulcair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}