First, there are a lot of “scare quotes” used by Greenwald to make it seem like the government was making stuff up with regards to Martin Couture-Rouleau, the 25-year-old accused of hitting two soldiers with a car Monday in Quebec. Perhaps if Greenwald had gone to Couture-Rouleau’s Facebook page, he would have seen the ISIS banner and all the rest of the evidence that this individual was indeed a fan of the radical Islamist movement. The press conference on Tuesday revealed much that should have assured Greenwald that the Canadian government is not the kneejerk oppressive force that he imagines it to be. The RCMP was alerted to Couture-Rouleau, investigated, took his passport, but did not torture him or jail him. They could not punish him for the ideas in his head. But that would be inconvenient for Greenwald who likes to portray Western democracies as being obsessive and brutal in their surveillance efforts. The Couture-Rouleau case suggests instead that Canada’s “agents of repression” had good reason to monitor this guy, did their due diligence, but also did not violate his rights. Inconvenient indeed.