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Anonymous: Vic Toews Targeted Again In Operation VicTory After Liberal Staffer Behind Vikileaks' Ouster (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post Canada   First Posted: 03/ 2/2012 3:38 pm Updated: 03/ 2/2012 4:49 pm

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Anonymous has released a new video threatening to release more personal information about Vic Toews after the ouster of the Liberal staffer behind Vikileaks Adam Carroll. The video is party of Anonymous' ongoing OperationVicTory. (YouTube/CP)

Anonymous has released a new video threatening retaliation against Vic Toews after the ouster of the Liberal staffer behind the Vikileaks Twitter account.

As part of Anonymous' ongoing OperationVicTory, the group released a video titled "Vic Toews vs. Twitter II - The Internet Strikes Back" Thursday night in which a computer-generated female voice, backed by dramatic music, threatens to release new information about the Public Safety Minister. The video denounces plans to bring former Liberal staffer Adam Carroll before a Commons committee to question him about his role in the Vikileaks affair.

GALLERY: TWITTER REACTS TO VIKILEAKS REVELATION

"Fellow Canadians, our own government is attempting to intimidate its citizens from not engaging in legal forms of protest by using their power to have them forced from their jobs and called before parliamentary committees."

Anonymous also attacks the Liberal party for allegedly forcing Carroll to resign. "The Liberal party has either fired or forced out the individual behind the Vikileaks account, despite the fact that they committed no crime, in a shameful act of political cowardice."

It urges Canadians to use all possible non-violent means to strike back at those who "seek to intimidate us into silence," citing the successful campaign against the Tories online surveillance Bill C-30, which led the to the legislation being sent to committee early where it will likely be revised.

IN PHOTOS: WHAT'S IN THE ONLINE SURVEILLANCE BILL

Interim Liberal Leader Rob Rae admitted last week that Liberal staffer Adam Carroll was behind the Vikileaks Twitter account, which released private information regarding Toews' divorce. Rae said he had accepted Carroll's resignation and apologized to Toews.

Toews accepted the apology, but then took to Twitter to question Liberal MP Justin Trudeau about whether he was somehow involved with Vikileaks. Carroll will likely face questions about Trudeau when he appears before the Commons committee.

Anonymous has been waging an ongoing campaign against Toews and the Tory online surveillance bill. If Thursday's video is any indication, it seems unlikely the attacks will stop any time soon.

TWITTER REACTS TO VIKILEAKS REVELATION

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  • Twitter Reacts To Vikileaks Resignation And Tory Online Surveillance Bill

    UPDATE: On Monday Feb. 27, Liberal leader acknowledged that a Liberal staffer was behind the Vikileaks30 Twitter account that released information about Vic Toews' divorce. That person has been fired and Rae has apologized to the House Of Commons. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews faced an online backlash due to his championing of Bill C-30, the lawful access bill. Two hashtags, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23donttoewsmebro -rt" target="_hplink">#donttoewsmebro</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23TellVicEverything" target="_hplink">#tellviceverything</a> became the vocal points of internet humour and commentary. Photo: CP

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WHAT'S IN THE ONLINE SURVEILLANCE BILL

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  • What's In Online-Snooping Bill

    Like similar legislation introduced in the past by both Conservative and Liberal governments, the new bill includes provisions that would: <em>With files from CBC</em> (Shutterstock)

  • Warantless Online Info

    Require telecommunications and internet providers to give subscriber data to police, national security agencies and the Competition Bureau without a warrant, including names, phone numbers and IP addresses. (CP)

  • Back Door Access

    Force internet providers and other makers of technology to provide a "back door" to make communications accessible to police. (Getty)

  • Location, Location, Location

    Allow police to get warrants to obtain information transmitted over the internet and data related to its transmission, including locations of individuals and transactions. (Alamy)

  • Preserve Data

    Allow courts to compel other parties to preserve electronic evidence. (Alamy)

  • New Bill Is Different

    However, unlike the most recent previous version of the bill, the new legislation: (Alamy)

  • Less Data

    Requires telecommunications providers to disclose, without a warrant, just six types of identifiers from subscriber data instead of 11. (Alamy)

  • Oversight

    Provides for an internal audit of warrantless requests that will go to a government minister and oversight review body. Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews is pictured. (CP)

  • Review After 5 Years

    Includes a provision for a review after five years. (Alamy)

  • More Time To Implement

    Allows telecommunications service providers to take 18 months instead of 12 months to buy equipment that would allow police to intercept communications. (Alamy)

  • Expanded Definitions

    Changes the definition of hate propaganda to include communication targeting sex, age and gender. (Alamy)

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Anonymous has released a new video threatening retaliation against Vic Toews after the ouster of the Liberal staffer behind the Vikileaks Twitter account. As part of Anonymous' ongoing OperationVic...
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11:57 AM on 03/06/2012
I think Bob Rae overreacted to this "revelation" that one of his staffers created the Vikileaks account. It was actually politically sound and even smart to create that account. The personal information about Toews was publicly available, and frankly showcases the hypocrisy of his supposed socially conservative views.
Then again, I guess this shows that Mr. Rae doesn't want Cdn politics dragged into the gutter of personal attacks like American politics... Sadly, the Cons have no such qualms
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01:19 PM on 03/04/2012
Anon sez: "our own government is attempting to intimidate its citizens from not engaging in legal forms of protest by using their power to have them forced from their jobs and called before parliamentary committees."

Actually, the staffer is accused of using government computer and internet access, on the taxpayers dime, for partisan political activities. I dont support Towes, but I do agree if a staffer used taxpayer resources he should be questioned about it. Just like the Tory's robocalls.

Apparently the Canadian wing of 'anonymous' doesnt really understand any of the issues they are trying to highlight. They come across as amateur wannabes.
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12:54 AM on 03/04/2012
All that can be said is that Vic Toews and Newt Gingrich should be introduced to each others because they are clearly soulmates
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HarleyOpenRoad
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10:35 AM on 03/04/2012
I may be a Conservative and a Harper supporter, but comparing Newt's intelligence to Vic's intelligence is akin to comparing Einstein with tree-bark.
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Colin Broughton
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09:59 PM on 03/03/2012
If it is true that the Minister of Justice in Nov 2006 appointed Justice A. Catherine Everett while she was on his "string" of mistresses, that is a serious matter that calls into question the administration of justice in Canada.

I do hope Huff Post will dig deeper into that particular appointment.

Such an appointment would be ethical only in a context of full disclosure. Whom do you have to boink to get a judgeship in Canada? Why Vic the Snake of course!
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06:59 PM on 03/03/2012
The Liberal Staffer new the risk when he did what he did. The fact is he did it anyway...because he is a LIBERAL!!!! & knows for every door that closes another one is open!
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11:59 AM on 03/06/2012
lol.
Yea, just like those CONs who handed over a senate seat to a weak candidate for parliament.

The Liberal staffer did nothing illegal, it was all public knowledge. He only pointed out the hypocrisy of MP Toews' supposed socially conservative ideology.
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SuesW
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06:44 PM on 03/03/2012
he's not exactly a babe-magnet, what the heck? He needs to resign.
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edgermanJ
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05:17 PM on 03/03/2012
Vic Toews is the best, and the worst, example of a self-righteous, hypocritical, evangelical Mennonite. He is an embarrassment to his people, but sadly he is not uncommon among them.
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04:22 PM on 03/03/2012
If i personally went to the police and told them, that someone was posting this same sort of info about me, as was posted about Vic, i highly doubt the police would even take my statement, never mind start an investigation into. What a double standard.
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03:25 PM on 03/03/2012
I don't think Vic Toews' ex wife or his children deserve the additional shame of having their lives spread out before the world. I am sorry that this has to happen to them.


The Minister of Family values committs adultery with a married woman and then appoints her to sit on the bench of the Family court. Too much hypocracy not to be a joke.

And Harper's response is to move him out of the Justice portfolio before Toews is found out. Wow.
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HarleyOpenRoad
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04:09 PM on 03/03/2012
This is far from the first time an MP, cabinet minister, or former cabinet minister has experienced personal failings in his/her life.

Toews professes to be a Christian, but Christians have failures just as often as the rest of society.
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Liz Wilson 2
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04:26 PM on 03/03/2012
Indeed, and frankly, I would worry about someone who had a spotless past.

The fact that he had an affair and then promoted his mistress into a very significant positon is just wrong regardless of whether he is a Christian or a tree. It should be investigated.
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03:58 PM on 03/06/2012
the 'do as I say not as I do' routine just doesn't work anymore.

I expect the LEADERS of my country to be honourable...just like the title says.

No...nothing honourable about Vic. Yet there he is STILL shaping the future of this nation.

This CRAP is not the Progressive Conservative Party I thought I knew.
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SuesW
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06:46 PM on 03/03/2012
for all we know his wife is behind all the leaked information.
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08:22 PM on 03/03/2012
Interesting point. thanks
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HarleyOpenRoad
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10:37 AM on 03/04/2012
Anyone familiar with the bitterness of that divorce knows your comment to be mostly true.
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pinnsy
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01:40 PM on 03/03/2012
Harley you sure go for peoples throats with putdowns! And i am really glad you enjoy the study of many religious movements,organizations, and Churches.I will go straight to my point by saying many canadians express how muslim leaders should be denouncing their terrorists within! Well,Harley I think that evangelical pastors and church leaders should be denouncing politicians among them that carry a bible to get votes but do not live by "the fruits". And I am not referring to Vic Toews in any way by this statement! However, it was easy for the evangelicals to call catholics worldly,protestants living by good works alone, mormons and jehovah witnesses cults,etc. Now they have politicians proudly among their flocks looking for votes and talking the "lingo". Mennonites especially are known for" christian walks not religious walks". The number one rule for a christian is to live by faith in their personal saviour not like the worldly.Rule number two is see rule number one. Is the evangelical church system noyhing but a vote base today for many politicians? just a little gentle reminder that shunning is a practice among mennonites(see A Complicated Kindness by Mariam Toews ) from Steinbach Manitoba.As you said a few blogs down,Harley,"Fail,the truth does not need a mask" I think today in politics it does! As papineau 2000 said "the truth needs a sheperd" In closing,Harley, Has the evangalical church system become sheperdless in all ways? As a mennonite I Await your reply.
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HarleyOpenRoad
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12:50 AM on 03/04/2012
You're right.

Many Mennonites have abandoned their traditional neutral stance in the political arena. It's probably close to an even split between liberal and conservative leanings.

The practice of "shunning" is very rare and only occurs in ultra-conservative sects who would compose only a tiny minority of the Mennonite population.

And how can you support your opinion that the truth needs a mask in politics? We need openness and transparency in the political process. What we don't need is blind subservience to any political party or movement.

If the evangelical Mennonite movement does not meet your needs, then move on and find an organization that more closely matches your principles.
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01:22 PM on 03/03/2012
I think it is important to speak out for what you believe, but I also believe if you talk the talk, then you'd better walk the walk. If Mr Toews held those beliefs he stated and was able to lie to himself, the people closest to him, why should we believe anything coming out of his mouth.
He has shown he is self serving, selfish, arrogant, hypocrite, why would we ever think he would have the best intentions of Canadian in mind when doing his job as an elected official. He has lost all credibility and is nothing but fraud at this point. But if Mr Harper fires him he will have shown a serious lack of judgement in his MP, and would show culpability in the appointment of the Judge in Manitoba.
What a tangled web we weave....
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11:43 AM on 03/03/2012
I believe it is very important for Canadian citizens to have information as to the moral fibre and integrity of our elected officials who make key decisions about our lives. I have 0 sympathy for Mr Toews. He made his bed and laid in it numerous times. I will be glad to see the back of him and every other fraudster who is found. Keep at it Anonymous, maybe the MSM will realize they have a job to do here.
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HarleyOpenRoad
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10:19 AM on 03/03/2012
Where is the indisputable mountain of evidence?!

We're waiting....
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01:45 PM on 03/03/2012
harley, the indisputable mountain of evidence is self evident, which you know, as you well know that your query is no more than another attempt to attention being drawn to yourself, which you will never respond to in any event.

Your use of 'indesputable', is again an insult, by obvious way of your fraud pretex that there is no existing evidence to be disputed ... so I again point out to you, dispite the fact you thiink that your are so clever and have been capable of such cleverness, is most certainly not true, as my response now but once again proves ... therefore and thereby, but once again you are NEUTRALIZED.
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01:41 PM on 03/04/2012
You are waiting with your head in the sand, desperately deflecting every time a new bit of evidence comes out.
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HarleyOpenRoad
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02:09 PM on 03/04/2012
Still waiting...
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pinnsy
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08:54 AM on 03/03/2012
Ah those mennonite congregations ain't what they used to be. How can they vote for such christian witness? Oh maybe they never were "what they used to be".
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HarleyOpenRoad
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09:17 AM on 03/03/2012
Not nearly all Mennonites voted for Mr. Toews.

In fact, many Mennonites do not vote at all, instead preferring to keep their neutrality so they can work effectively with every Party in promoting their agenda of peace world-wide.

In addition, many of the Mennonites who do vote are loyal to the Liberal Party who, back in the day, supported Mennonite immigration over the protests of Conservatives.
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pinnsy
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09:44 AM on 03/03/2012
Are you mennonite? you seem to have such knowledge in your reply when you use words like "in fact"!
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edgermanJ
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05:13 PM on 03/03/2012
Maybe there are some "Old Colony" Mennonites in Ontario who don't vote, but I would think the the majority of General Council, Mennonite Brethren, and Evangelical Mennonite Brethren in all parts of Canada do vote. Oddly enough, a lot of them are hard line Conservatives and can be as intolerant, hypocritical, and narrow minded as any other denomination.
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Gyice50
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08:19 AM on 03/03/2012
The sad part should be that the people of Canada feel that its only way to be heard especially in response to a proposal that is borderline "Criminal" in its intent is through some secondary anonymous group. The Government is Very Scary Kids lately and I don't know how we managed to elect this much Crazy on one team it's going to be an interesting 5 years because you know these lads are not going to call an election early.
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freeSpeakr
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09:05 AM on 03/03/2012
We didn't elect them.
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