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Not sure all that screed fits into this discussion. But yes, Canada is a sovereign nation. I thought you'd be up to speed on that after all these years!

Please, we don't want anymore fake news until you at least make an attempt to answer the question.

But it doesn't hold a candle to the US complicity. How many billion did Trump sign off on with SA?

OMG I would have expected you of all people would be aware of the military industrial complex! A lot of people in the US depend on it to fund their pensions.

The point is nobody did. No I don't, he may have been, under whatever definition you use. I'd like to see your valid proof of that.

He didn't have lawyers years ago, that's one of the main parts of why his rights were violated. Then show us your evidence. Nope. That was/is illegal under Canadian law, hence the contempt finding against Harper.

I'm going to ask you one more FU****g time. If there were no hijackers, why did the planes fly into the buildings? If you still have no answer, or you try and do one of you little obfuscation dances to try and ignore the question yet again, then I for one will leave you to dogpaddle around in your little conspiracy theory fantasy, as I can see many others already have.

The SC does not take action until a case is brought before them They don't run around like cops on a Saturday night after the bars close down. I cetainly am nit. I'm blaming them for sitting on their hands while a citizen's rights were violated. Complete lack of evidence. Maybe you should REALLY re-think that question. If you recall, Harper was found in contempt of parliament for hiding evidence that Canadian troops released detainees into the hands of the ANA.

Our justice system is really slow...are you not watching the news lately? He spent 10 years in a bogus military prison without access to a lawyer. Our SC did not agree with the sentence, they disagreed with the whole military "court" system that arrived at it, and that's why he is out of jail. And that dovetails into why he may end up with a lot of money out of the civil suit.

You have completely missed the "legal boat" here. The SCOTUS did not over turn the sentence because it was not brought in front of them AND, George Bush had decided with the stroke of his pen that habeas corpus did not apply in Gitmo because it was not US soil and I expect the SC didn't want to wade into that even though there are some strong legal arguments as to why they could have. The Canadian Justice system did question it, and that's why he was let out of prison, they just took a long time to do that, based in large part to the knuckel dragging of Chretien, and most of all Harper. And he had to confess to a number of unproperly proven charges in order to get back to Canada, insted of spending the rest of his life in Gitmo. Charter rights are charter rights. That's the way the law works in Canada, thankfully. If you don't agree, go to Cuba to live.

He has peen pulled out of prison, and I suspect his conviction will be overturned by our justice system, for all of the reason that have been reported all over the place so you should be familiar with them by now.

You're right, I don't speak for most people.Matter of fact it seems there is a scary number of increase in the people who like the fake news Levant and Fox provide.

Save the clean hands diatribe. It applies to neither side in this case.

None of that makes any sense. Maybe re-phrase it so I could get your point.

No we don't Under international law he was a child, and under our law his charter rights were violated.

Yes. Because there was no proof. No not really. And certainly the kangaroo court at Gitmo had no proper qualification, at least according to an actual proper court known as the SCOTUS.

You're obviously not on the same page. He's a Canadian citizen, which means if he was a soldier, he was a CHILD soldier. And he was tried and convicted in a court the SCOTUS deemed to be illegal. Get with it.

Well, you're always easy to joke with.

Yes, and I can see how it went well over your head. First clue was your patronage to Levant.

Most people ignore Levant most of the time because he has a credibility about as solid as Fox or Breitbart.

No, you have no idea what you're talking about. But I have tried to explain it from the legal realities of thisi case.

Luckily proper courts, at least here in Canada for the most part, work on the principle that in order to convict someone of a crime you need to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a crime was committed. Not take the word of bunch of military wonks who really know nothing about, or have no need to respect, the due process.

Well it's easy to discredit Levant, we all know that. You are trying to split hairs over the 15/18 year age, but that's all fluff. Go look up the case of Hamdan v Rumsfeld and you will see, hopefully, why the Gitmo kangaroo court conviction of Khadr was illegal.

All you've said so far is you the kind of bullshit that Levant puts out. Without a shred of any evidence. He's a right wing loony. Who listens toa right wing loony?

I hear ya. That's my old family home where I grew up and return to once in a while to visit. (gotta use up those airmile points) it isn't where I live now.