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The Harper vendetta against Omar Khadr has suffered another defeat:
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that Omar Khadr, the former teenage al-Qaeda member freed on bail last week in Alberta, should be treated as if he were sentenced as a juvenile. The federal government had argued that he deserved to be treated more severely, as an adult.Nonetheless, it would be naive indeed to think that the regime will leave him alone to get on with his life, not with an election in the offering.
The case centres on whether the eight-year war-crimes sentence Khadr was given by a U.S. military commission in 2010 ought to be interpreted as a youth or adult sentence.
So little time, so much hatred and division yet to foment.
The Supreme Court dismissed Steve's case with costs .... that we are picking up once again.
ReplyDeleteI can only conclude that either the Cons supporters do not pay taxes, and thus are not outraged at the costs of all the cases that Steve has insisted on fighting to forward his political agenda, or they are so stupid they do not even know they are picking up the tabs.
A third option, I suppose, Anon, is that they are so ideologically rabid as to feel no expense should be spared in the defence and advancement of their diseased politics.
DeleteThat the ruling came down so quickly Lorne, shows how little merit the Harper Regimes intervention had. Should this lot get back in (god help us) look for some kind of intervention to eliminate the Supreme Court of Canada, after all the have eliminated or handcuffed just about every other 'watchdog'!
ReplyDeleteI suspect, Rural, at this moment the con spin doctors are preparing some juicy bones for their followers to salivate over going into the election. How does the theme of 'judicial activism' ruining the Harperites' efforts to keep good Canadians safe from the terrorists sound?
DeleteIt's a classic symptom of the disease of illiberal democracy that the ruler rejects both constitutional restraint and judicial oversight especially in questions of the state versus the individual.
ReplyDeleteUltimately even top judges are people - highly educated, highly experienced, highly intelligent to be sure - but people nonetheless. They keep it to themselves but they know an asshole when they see one, especially when they have to see it over and over and over again.
Like the magistrates you describe, Mound, I believe many, many Canadians are drawing the same conclusion about Dear Leader.
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