Is CBC Capable of Informed Journalism?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-far-right-extremism-csis-1.4248183


Short answer - no.  But that would be a dull blog entry.

CBC's published article suggests that Canada's intelligence community has been concentrating on preventing Islamic terrorism when they should devote more of those resources to fighting far-right movements.

The search has been on for a non-Islamic bad guy for quite some time (as early as 2013).  The article even says that a former CSIS analyst does not believe far-right activities require the resources to combat because they don't need to.  Their crimes tend to be minor in nature and unworthy of attention at the national level.  I (as a former analyst) agree.

As I have mentioned, groups like Freemen on the Land don't go around murdering people as part of their core ideology.  The article even admits that.

CBC clearly does not heed the words of experts. Instead, after stating the facts from someone who is trained to know better, they dragged up a person whose only qualification was as a former white-supremacist to make the case that the far right was dangerous.  They minus well of grabbed my 4- year old son to explain the terror that crocodile-ghosts can inflict on the population.
Why isn't CSIS going after crocodile-ghosts?  That actually sounds really scary.

And what prompted this article?  Why the Virginia protests, where neo-Nazis clashed with Antifa Terrorists.  National Socialists (Nazis) (which have left wing beliefs combined with a racial belief in white superiority) were against Marxist Socialists (which have left wing beliefs combined with racist policies towards whites).
Both are racists and both are left wing.  And I have learned that when anything is left wing, it is always, violent, immoral and covetous to the core.

So I'm still waiting for someone to come up with something credible to suggest that right wing movements like Freemen on the Land or the 3 percenters are dangerous when all the violence is being perpetrated by the left.
You can't convince me that 3 percenters are equivalent to white supremacist protesters when people of all colors make up their ranks.
You can't convince me that Freemen on the Land are plotting and organizing against the government when by their very nature, they are isolationists who want to be ignored.
You can't convince me that libertarians are evil for getting upset at the loss of thier freedom of speech.


CBC needs to inject some common sense into their reporting.  It might make up for their lack of facts and obvious bias.