Canadian soldier murdered, Parliament stormed

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THE Canadian capital Ottawa has gone into lockdown after a gunman with a scarf over his face shot to death a Canadian soldier standing guard at the nation’s war memorial on Wednesday, then stormed Parliament in a hail of gunfire before he was killed by the sergeant-at-arm.

The attack immediately raised the spectre of terrorism, with Canada already on alert because of a deadly hit-and-run earlier in the week against two Canadian soldiers by Muslim convert Martin Rouleau-Couture.

Local media identified the suspected gunman as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a 32-year-old who was reportedly known to Canadian authorities.

The Globe and Mail reported that he was recently designated a “high-risk traveller” by the Canadian government and that his passport had been seized, as had that of Rouleau-Couture.

The shot soldier was named as Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was training to join the Canada Border Services Agency, according to the Globe anad Mail newspaper.

Police said in the initial hours after the shootings that as many as two other gunmen may have taken part. But as the day wore on, the cordon around Parliament was eased, employees were allowed to go home, and the sense of urgency appeared to wane.

“Today is a sad and tragic day for our city and our country,” Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said. He said it was a tragedy with “origins as yet not fully known, causes not yet fully understood.”

Witnesses said Corporal Cirillo was gunned down at point-blank range just before 10 am by a man carrying a rifle and dressed all in black, his face half-covered. They said the gunman appeared to raise his arms in triumph, then ran off and entered Parliament, a few hundred yards away, where dozens of shots soon rang out.

People fled the complex by scrambling down scaffolding erected for renovations, while others took cover inside and barricaded doors with chairs as police with rifles and body armour took up positions outside and cordoned off the normally bustling streets around Parliament.

Video footage posted online by the Globe and Mail newspaper showed police ducking for cover as they advanced along a stone hallway, loud gunfire echoing among parliament’s stone columns.

Police gave no details on how the gunman died. But on Twitter, Canada’s justice minister and other government officials credited 58-year-old sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers with shooting the attacker just outside the MPs’ caucus rooms.

Mr Vickers, who serves a largely ceremonial role at the House of Commons,has been hailed a hero for his actions.

More at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terror/canadian-capital-ottawa-in-lockdown-after-soldier-shot-dead/story-fnpdbcmu-1227099233133

My sympathies for the soldier's friends and family. Tragic loss.

However, I'm confused as to how so many people saw so much, yet authorities have yet to determine if it was just one gunman?? Have I missed something?

So a lone gunman shoots someone in Canada and immediately a raft of anti-freedom measures are pushed through parliament. Hmmm ....

Erica Ambler wrote:

So a lone gunman shoots someone in Canada and immediately a raft of anti-freedom measures are pushed through parliament. Hmmm ....

Because we're not allowed to say and identify who it is that commits these acts because it would "profiling" (even if it leads to the truth). We in no way want to make M****s angry, so we pretend like their religion is a religion of peach; of puppies and bunnies sharing a cloud of cotton candy, champagne wishes, and caviar dreams. It doesn't lead people commit wholesale acts of abominable violence; that's just a myth and a stereotype.

So the rest of society, much like the sheep and the lemmings that we've become, will be herded and corralled and poked and prodded and stripped naked in the waiting line at JFK International Airport so that some TSA agent can inspect the diaper of a one year old baby to make sure he's not carrying a weapon or other contraband; meanwhile, the 26 year old airport worker who has a federal clearance to work in secured areas has been posting radical I***ic messages on his Facebook page before finally getting up the nerve to go over to Syria and fight against Americans, and to join ISIS and behead innocent people and kids.

Yep, we as a society will stumble over selves something silly to avoid having to label, point out, call out, or name the person or thing that is causing so much of the unrest in the world today.

The gunman has been identified. I'm just wondering why an isolated act results in a wholesale loss of liberties.

Erica Ambler wrote:

The gunman has been identified. I'm just wondering why an isolated act results in a wholesale loss of liberties.

Because it is both convenient and easy to spin this in a way that has the sheeple frightened enough to accept a curtailing of their rights.

Exactly. Rhetorical question and fascism through the backdoor.

It's also why we have been suffering through a decade of performance art disguised as "security measures" at nearly every airport in the world.

Erica Ambler wrote:

So a lone gunman shoots someone in Canada and immediately a raft of anti-freedom measures are pushed through parliament. Hmmm ....

Well, that was easy. In America, two skyscrapers needed to fall down before we had all of our rights taken away.

No worries, Canadians. You'll get your freedom back when we've won the war on terror. We'll keep you posted.