text: "That's the beauty of the war on terror. Its flexibility. You can name anyone you dislike a terrorist, and kill them with impunity."
  
   Exactly.
    Canada isn't a democracy, it's a scapegoatocracy. And what a splendid variety of scapegoats. A scapegoat for every taste.
    Indigenous people for traditionalists. Welfare recipients for immigrants. The elderly for the young at heart. Nazis, xenophobes, anti-Semites for the conventional; long-haired men for those who never got over losing the Vietnam War; women for sexists, disabled folks for the mean-spirited... a veritable lifetime's supply of scapegoats for the powerful to distract from their own misdeeds.
    Buy one now. Buy two. They are very cost effective.