Indians, OPP, McGuinty Versus Legal Rights Of Citizens

Deal tries to hush up disgrace of Caledonia


Christie Blatchford: The last page of the Caledonia class action settlement is the one that tells the shameful truth of what happened five years ago in that lovely small southwestern Ontario town

...passport office being opened in the hills of Afganhistan???

Have you read Christie Blatchford's book on Caledonia ...

"Terrorists" Issuing Passports...

Ottawa in ‘explosive’ situation over rejected Iroquois passport

Joyce King said she was traveling from New York State into Canada on June 18 when border officials refused to recognize her passport issued by the Iroquois Confederacy

Will a Passport Office be opened in the hills of Afganhistan, etc.?

IMHO Child Soldier Is Just Another Way Of Describing Cannon Fodder...

...Kadar doesn't fit this description by any stretch of the imagination.

Today’s letters: Just who is a child soldier?

Paul Russell  July 17, 2010 – 8:00 am

 

REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

Child soldiers in an ethnic Hema militia camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Re: Spinning Omar Khadr, Chris Selley, July 1.

Is Omar Khadr a “child soldier”? Columnist Chris Selley thinks so, while Ezra Levant thinks not. Prime Minister Harper is skeptical.
International law instruments define an underage fighter as any soldier under 18. Mr. Khadr was a child when he fought in Afghanistan, and he is a form of soldier. But let’s not be blindly formalist about our choice of words.
The special terminology of “child soldier” was coined in African conflicts where children are abducted from their homes in order to serve some warring group, and then often made to perpetrate violence against their village and family. That is not Omar Khadr, whose own father brought him into the battlefield. His situation is more reminiscent of a teenager raised by an underworld crime family who is charged with being a hit man. That would be a young offender who gets special procedures from the justice system, but who would not be exonerated as would a child abducted in Sierra Leone, Liberia, or northern Uganda.
Canadian legal values say that everyone, including those held at Guantanamo, deserves due process, and that anyone under 18 should get special treatment as a young offender. But to confuse Omar Khadr with the horrific story of African child soldiers by using the same terminology is unfair to those children from African conflicts and their families.
Professor Ed Morgan, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
I’m flattered that for two days in a row, Chris Selley felt moved to respond to my column about Omar Khadr that was published in Sun newspapers.
I’d like to reply to only one point: Mr. Selley’s Friday column was subtitled “No matter what Ezra Levant says, the term ‘child soldier’ applies to anyone under 18.”

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Does Peta Meet The Requirements?

"At present, there is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism"

"The word "terrorism" is politically and emotionally charged, and this greatly compounds the difficulty of providing a precise definition. ..."

"a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for ... 

Possibly this is where PETA is grouped...

...CLOWNS!