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P.S. Army Guy, your location says in a "threater" near you. Are you unable to spell or are you trying to scare us into submission? I'll tell you now these private corporations are not morally sound and put our real soldiers at greater risk.

although off-topic, it's kind of neat how Omar's plight has unleashed such a wide range of topics, almost like you all are looking for the right audience and the right forum thread to voice your greater view on the afghanistan situation. Cheers to Karzai for demanding Blackwater and other private security firms leave NOW. If it were up to Blackwater and similar corporations, we would never be able to find an Omar Khadr amongst the rubble. The corporations would write the history.

Ya think? I've been meters away from Iggy while he went through the motions of the local Native dances and, yes, he also looked contrived. But I could tell from what he said after that he wasn't just trying to use it as a photoshoot.

Yea, he wasn't trying to connect with all the gun-toting ATV enthusiasts out there. Nah, it wasn't planned; it was nothing but a joke. Nothing wrong with ATV's and law-abiding gun owners. But when our own PM is trying to dismantle something that helps our own police officers do their job, something IS wrong.

oh Yay. Let's all cheer him trying to look cool in a photoshoot on the edge of an iceburg or having fun on an ATV and making semi-serious yet revealingly fascist statements like `I make the rules'. Oh, I feel so much closer to this rebel. He's just one of us. One of us who are paranoid of our own government having a record of our rifles... Let's regress into something closer to the US, where we can all be like Charlton Heston and his gun-worshipping ways. Who cares if the RCMP and every chief of police say that the registry is a good thing. Harper will fix them!

Many Canadians also believe in aliens. Should we write legislation to reflect this too? Oh, so it's only Liberal lawyers who find Harper's crime bill flawed? I agree though, it is disproportionate; the Conservative party needs some smarter, legal-minded types in their flock. Did you throw the "3 for 1" in there for effect? Why do you put cynical quotes around the word `client'? There are lawyers on both sides of the courtroom, ya know. And who's "we"? Those of you holding pitchforks in the air? The 2 for 1 was an incentive for the prosecution to bring their arguments forward quickly. We'll likely have more delays as the prosecution will be able to delay indefinitely without penalty anymore. "Likely more guilty pleas"? You're as partisan as the next person trying to defend this right-wing, wing-nutted idea. Oh goody! After needing to build a whole bunch of new pri$ons, we'll save money by having more people in more prisons for longer periods of time! Ya, that makes sense... The pre-trial holding will become longer not "shorter". `Clearly', you've repeated the "cash-cow" opinion a few times now. Truth is the 2 for 1 credit was sometimes granted at the discretion of the judge. It was not automatic. It was not assumed. It was a condition of the sentence handed out if the person was guilty and the judge felt it took the prosecution too long to prove it. Trying to turn it around and make it look like the 2 for 1 credit was milked by the defence is quite partisan of you. Oh, but clearly Harper, the economist, knows more than the generations of legal-minded Canadians who developed these silly rules. Stevie will show them how it's done, eh? Parliamentary Budget Officer says Harper's idea will be very expensive A better suggestion

Maybe Harper should go to law school. It might make him a better leader: Regarding Omar Khadr, the Federal Court again asks Harper government to do the right thing... within seven days.

Hooeh. Happy Canada Day. Here's to hoping all the anger and cynicism among us can be overcome... by voting Liberal!

No, Harper's trying to create the facade that it's his own fiscal management that Canada benefits from now. It's embarrassing to me that so many Canadians believe it. With the least bit of reflection, it should be obvious that Harper is a poor propagandist. Did anyone follow his lead to buy more stocks before the market crashed even further? Paul Martin is the real economic saviour, having the foresight back then to deny Harper and the greedy bank execs the deregulation they lobbied for. Harper's claiming he's steering the ship now when really he's riding on Martin's coattails. Harper can't get any votes in Canada's major cities... no wonder he treated Toronto like a battlefield. This Summit's security expenses were merely a form of stimulus for the policing industry during a time of declining crime rates in Canada. Harper's removal of 2 for 1 credit for time served is a stimulus for the prison industry during a time of declining crime rates in Canada. Also, regarding last weekend, let's have a government that doesn't need to arrest 900 mostly innocent people to make their summit expenses look justified. Most have been freed without charge since Monday but most Canadians will probably only notice the number of arrests, unfortunately. And let's have a Toronto Chief of Police who, unlike Bill Blair, will not show a press conference the chainsaw and crossbow among the alleged `weapons' confiscated during the summit. Luckily, a reported noticed that they were taken from an innocent man's trunk earlier in the week and Blair was just using them as props to make the protestors look even worse. Let's have police who don't strip search and threaten to gang-rape female journalists they hold in detention. Let's have police who don't deny detained citizens water for 22 hours then offer them yellow-stained liquids in dixie cups... Let's have a police force who adds the Black Bloq-heads to the list of known terrorist organizations so they can proactively police them before Summits instead of giving them a cop car to burn in downtown Toronto. The Black Bloq were in Quebec City in April 2001 and they freely announced their intentions to this Summit's Security long before last weekend. (Gotta admit, letting them have that cop car with hardly any cops around for a while was brilliant; It gave Harper some great images to manipulate and probably quelled some of the other violence the Bloq-Heads were planning. Most of em are simply teen losers attracted to anarchy. They were probably thrilled and satisfied with just torching the car.) A billion dollars could've been put towards a national child-care program... The attendees of the G8, held in conservative lizard Tony Clement's Muskoka riding, must have thought Canada so tranquil... ...too bad the cities have the votes Tony.

Please don't mislead yourself; the UN only `approved' the post-invasion plans because there were no other alternatives. Your Bush/Cheney team will always be international crooks who ignored the UN's disapproval and instigated an unjust invasion based on lies.

Harper could've put some of those taxpayer dollars earmarked for the numerous new prisons he's planning to build and hosted the G-whatevers in one of them instead. Not only would at least one of them be built on time but there would be no `security' concerns either... ...then again, he wouldn't have the propaganda-valuable imagery from this weekend's clashes to further sell his sellout.... Harper sucks. Like most conservative politicians who think privatizing anything is a good idea, Harper's pandering to international prison-running corporations and private security firms like Blackwater, now renamed "Xe Services LLC" due to their bad reputation worldwide. Harper's wasting taxpayer's money much more than the Liberals ever did. Harper sucks.

Protesting is desperately important in an increasingly apathetic population, Oleg. Don't be so cynical; the MAJORITY of protestors behave like law abiding citizens. You wanna let BlackWater tell you what your rights are?

This Summit weekend brought to you by the private security companies frothing at the mouth for new contracts in Canada... Harper's pandering to them by removing the 2 for 1 deal for time served and this photo-op of a summit.

Is that pseudo-cool, chauvinistic, patriarchal attitude what Canada's current military taught you or, like too many Canadians, have you just watched too many American movies? I've never claimed you should check the target's age before returning fire. But, once the shooting was over that day, at least a good American soldier noticed Omar's age and saved his life. Even the interrogators at Bagram had sympathy for the kid...

Gee, that's a knee-slapper, eh? (psych) Hey Baboon, let's fill this space with silly faces instead of thinking about how disgraceful Canada has been toward the child and citizen, Omar Khadr.

Given that you nor I know the facts yet, do you feel good insinuating that a 15 year old was such a monster? I'm doing a study of idiots for Psychology class.

"Deserved"? Bull Shite. You were trying to re-direct into an anti-Liberal rant instead of focusing on how much shite our country reeks of in our short-sighted treatment of the citizen, Omar Khadr.

You don't win a war by torturing 15 year olds.

Your post shows your ego is bigger than your keyboard and you just want attention.

Excellent attempt to re-direct the topic into something vague! Clearly, you don't think things through and don't want to... "Clearly they are bent on slaughter" Clearly, you are bent on assuming certain "cultures" a threat and propagating that perception, regardless of the facts. Let's be clear; clearly, you are far from being clear. You are just another Baboon.

eh, Baboon, I think you'll find that the majority of those people would rather just get the trial over with. Only the stupidly guilty would purposely delay their trial so they could live inside a space smaller than the average washroom for months on end. Wake up. oh, and Baboon: A "substantial number" of Omar Khadr's torture allegations have been "conclusively corroborated" during hearings of the military commissions, the Canadian-born terror suspect's chief U.S. lawyer said at their conclusion Thursday. CSIS, somewhere in the timeline, is an accomplice in this torture. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Khadr+torture+claims+proven+lawyer/2996748/story.html#ixzz0nTuhSkLK Also, Baboon, here's a story about a Canadian who still values truth and justice, not just reactionary babble: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/05/05/khadr-edney.html

Now you're talkin' feces. Good for you, Baboon. Harper had to eat some feces recently when the Supreme Court forced him to send a diplomatic note to the US to ask them to disregard the info gained while we participated in torturing the child, Omar Khadr.

I leave no `iten' unturned, guaranteed. I've discovered that Canadians like to torture 15-year-olds named Omar.

Do you base all your opinions on snapshot photos and half-arsed religious mumbo-jumbo?