Khadr situation update

Now that a guilty plea has been entered, here's what's left to consider:

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1010f.asp

Are we all proud of our government and their friends now? Is this the sort of legal world for which our 'heroes' are fighting? Thanks, but no thanks!

Here is the paragraph from Mr Worthington's article which is particularly reprehensible;

"Despite signing the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict on July 7, 2000, and advocating on the world stage for the rights of child soldiers from other countries, the Canadian government acted illegally in sending interrogators to interview Khadr at Guantánamo in 2003, and violated his rights under Canadian law."

The Supreme Court of Canada issued the decision that declared our government's actions illegal, and thus this issue is not a matter of opinion but of Canadian jurisprudence. Do you support the rule of law or not?

A refreshing attitude from an unexpected quarter

Why hasn't a single Canadian judge, MP, police official, or media star acted similarly to this Israeli politician in order to preserve the rule of law and uphold the Nuremburg legacy? Check this out:

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=192696

Today's history lesson

Here's something I hadn't heard before regarding Tricky Dicky:

http://consortiumnews.com/2010/101510.html

More reason to distrust your friendly neighbourhood politician, and the governing system they create. Back-room deals to get elected always cost the country big time.

Wikileaks forever!!

Canada was first ...

... to suppress all civil liberties and suspend basic human rights, lest we forget:

http://original.antiwar.com/henderson/2010/10/17/trudeaus-war-measures-act-a-reminiscence/

The Yanks just do it in a more blatant way.

Manipulating the media for the new feudal system? ...

Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, offers some thoughts on money & power:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opinion/04krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I seem to recall something similar in Atlas Shrugged about toady politicians being foisted upon the public by vested interests.

It's not at all about left versus right, it's much more primordially thuggish than that.

A civics lesson ...

Jacob Hornberger elucidates the essence of what the liberal western democracies used to regard as their judicial system:

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-10-13.asp

I am certain that rogues like Omar Khadr can appreciate the distinctions described in the article. Unfortunately most of the citizens of Canada don't get it.

Rule of Law

Glenn Greenwald writes about how to deal with terrorism suspects, using a 57 year old Kenyan precedent regarding the Mau Mau uprising as one example:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/02/assassinations/index.html

Why are our governments so afraid of the liberal tradition which arose from the Nuremburg trials?