Conservatives, including Prime Minister Theresa May, are calling for ramped up anti-terror measures: more surveillance, more punishment, more online censorship. “We face an unprecedented terrorist threat in Britain,” Ghaffur wrote in the Mail on Sunday. RelatedSheltered as Canadians have been from these threats, there is a streak of performative unseriousness that runs through our anti-terrorism discussion. “Let ‘em go,” some chortled when Canadians were found to be heading abroad to fight for ISIL. Our relative unfamiliarity with terrorism might make it understandable that we would overreact to whatever threat there is.

Source: National Post June 07, 2017 02:48 UTC