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Conservative Cabinet Minister saves drunk Elizabeth May from further embarassment
Are you saying that a 14 year old cannot be held responsible for murder? He admitted to the killing.
He seems to be getting younger every day. He was 15 years old when he fought against Canada and the United States. If his name had been any other than Khadr he would have been out of jail long time ago so there is some justice in the universe. When he or a member of his family pops up on the radar again it will not be for their good works. Fortunately the law apparently allows that enemy combatants be stripped of their citizenship now so the next time a member of the Kadr family wages jihad and is crippled the Canadian taxpayers won't have to pay for his medical bills or welfare payments any longer as they had to do for his brother.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Friday, 15th May, 2015, 01:30 AM.
Re: Conservative Cabinet Minister saves drunk Elizabeth May from further embarassment
A Canadian citizen who leaves the country to receive terrorist training and then takes up arms with the Taliban is not a "child soldier" but a child criminal.
Re: Conservative Cabinet Minister saves drunk Elizabeth May from further embarassment
1) Regarding soldier versus criminal, several persons and organizations, including the head of the United Nations, and Canadian General Romeo Dallaire would disagree. The act he was found guilty of was not an act of terrorism, IMO. I cannot help but think that if in a fight one of our soldiers released a grenade, killing a soldier and medic of the Taliban, and was consequently caught and imprisoned by the Taliban for war crimes, we would have a much different opinion on the matter.
2) He did not leave on his own accord to receive terrorist training. His family returned to Pakistan before he was 10 years old, and in 1996 moved to Afghanistan, 5 years before the events of 9/11. He is a Canadian citizen by being born in Canada. But this is not the same situation as adult persons who left Canada recently for the express intention of joining ISIL.
3) Regardless he was a child, and so if punished it should be as per laws for children. For a 15 year old in Canada, the penalty for 1st degree murder is 5-7 years. Khadr has been imprisoned for far longer than that.
4) Again IMO, the treatment of Khadr probably created more terrorists in Canada than deterred them.
A Canadian citizen who leaves the country to receive terrorist training and then takes up arms with the Taliban is not a "child soldier" but a child criminal.
I would have to agree with you there. There is a lovely video circulating of him making IED devices with his Taliban friends and mentors. I wonder how many Canadian soldiers died as a result of his devices.
Interesting that Khadr spent four years in prison under the watch of Liberal governments who didn't do much to help him and yet it is somehow the Conservative's fault because they continued the policy of non-intervention on Omar's behalf.
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