I suppose we should all sit and wait for Al Queda, Taliban & others who hate Western Freedom of speech , Religion & nation building to come blow us up. Our soldiers sign on as free citizens who feel they have an obligation to protect us from the such terrorists & armies such as Jihadists who declared war upon Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Atheists & agnostics. Without our military I suspect the bomb throwers wouldn`t be able to throw bombs as they would have their hands cut off or their heads.


Globe and Mail
Quebec police mum about nature of Trois-Rivières bomb
Sean Gordon
Friday, Jul. 02, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati...article1626227/

The bomb threat was phoned in around 2:45 a.m. and soon afterward an
explosion blew out windows and splintered furniture at a Canadian
Forces recruitment office.

The office in question sits on the ground floor of a hotel in downtown
Trois-Rivières, about 150 kilometres east of Montreal; no one was
injured, although one neighbour described the clamour as so intense “I
thought my brick wall had fallen down.”

The provincial Sureté du Quebec has taken charge of the investigation
and more than two dozen detectives spent Friday scouring the scene,
closing off the city’s downtown with a security cordon and conducting
forensic tests in nearby phone booths.

An obscure anti-globalization and anti-war group calling itself
Résistance internationaliste claimed responsibility, saying it had
planted a “non-improvised device” – police were close-mouthed as to
the nature of the bomb.

The collective, of which little is known, was previously linked to the
bombing of an oil-industry spokesman’s car in 2006 and the explosion
of a Hydro-Quebec electrical tower in 2004.

In a document sent to various media outlets, the group alternately
denounces “corporate oligarchy,” the petroleum industry, Canada’s
“military colonialism” and the occupation of Afghanistan. It says its
aim is to ensure that the political and economic powers “cannot pursue
with impunity their indoctrination efforts to justify their imperial
adventures.”

It also rails at length against the army and says “this operation … is
our resistance to the army’s brainwashing and intensive solicitation
of a youth confronted by the emptiness of a demeaning society. We
cannot give the state a monopoly on violence.”

The attack echoes those carried out in the 1960s and early 1970s by
the Front de libération du Quebec, a separatist splinter group that
once targeted an army recruitment centre, killing a night watchman.

That the explosion was preceded by at least one warning – the
communiqué said there were two – and took place at an hour when the
bomber or bombers knew the office would be deserted are not without
significance, according to anti-terrorism experts.

Some suggest it could be one individual’s handiwork, or that of a
small group of radicals, and that their choice of target has less to
do with an anti-military message than it might first appear.

“It’s no more than attacking an icon of government, it seems like a
target of opportunity more than anything,” said Wayne Boone, an expert
on risk management and security policy at Carleton University.

Coming as it did on the heels of the G20 summit in Toronto, where a
small band of violent protesters smashed windows and torched police
cars, and Canada Day – not an especially popular holiday among
nationalist fringe elements – the attack points to a flare-up among
anarchist groups, Prof. Boone said.

The emerging trend in Europe is a rapprochement between violent
anti-government groups and militant environmentalists and
animal-rights activists, and the sprawling denunciations contained in
the communiqué hint at a similar anarchist bent with Résistance
internationaliste.

“I don’t see a strong political message out of this,” Prof. Boone
said. “Just as I didn’t see a strong political message out of G20 –
four police cruisers set on fire and smashed windows do not a movement
make.”

David Harris, an Ottawa-based lawyer and security consultant (and
former member of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), said the
attack may be part of an emerging trend in this country as well. There
have been as many as a dozen attacks of varying intensity – a bank was
firebombed in Ottawa recently – in the past five or six years.

“My impression – and it is impressionistic – is that we’re seeing this
sort of thing very much in development,” he said, adding what
separates Friday’s attack is that it was aimed at the military.

With a report from The Canadian Press