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I don't know who you group as `they', fellow baboons?

Sorry, the points you raise are typical clap-trap logic. Firstly, who are you to second-guess a judge? "should be serving"?! It's up to the judge, not you, Stevie, or your pitchfork-wielding comrades. Secondly, I would think an innocent person has access to compensation for those day$ spent in pre-trial. I would double their compensation if they're innocent, wouldn't you?

Who's `they'?

Wow, I'm surprised. The people who read the National Post can type?!

you confuse `jail' with `prison'. Jail: A place of detention; a place where a person convicted or suspected of a crime is detained. Prison: A place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes. "The most notable difference is that prison inmates have been tried and convicted of crimes, while those in jail may be awaiting trial." Omar Khadr has been rotting in an uncertain `jail' for more than 8 years.

The private interests who are discovering a new incarceration market in Canada agree; best to spend taxpayer money on new jail$.

There has to be an incentive to move forward with prosecution, otherwise the prosecution can sit forever, building their case for years, objecting and deferring and re-scheduling; a sort of torture for the accused. The 2 for 1 meant that the longer they torture the accused in the legal limbo commonly known as `jail', the less punishment the prosecution could mete out upon conviction. It was a test of confidence meant to speed up cases that were certain and clear the backlog in the courts. Harper's just added to the congestion. Wake up, this move has little to do with being `tough on crime'; It is to please the private corporations who are starting to run Canadian jail$. Harper's a thug who doesn't mind torturing 15 year olds and needs the Supreme Court to tell him it's wrong.

Public safety does not mean keeping more untried people in jail longer.

Nah, best to drag it out for eight years, eh? Heck, while we're at it, let's drag the accused through hell too.

That's a hell of an accusation. Let's test it. What was one of your comments? Maybe someone else with a CBC account can try to post it again? It'll have to be word for word though...

This is the truth of it. The majority of taxpayers who disagree with the current government aren't going to spend their online efforts nitpicking the opposition or going to shady, less-well-known sites like MLW to voice their vitriol. I bet CBC's forum participants were just as hard on the Liberal government during those (sigh) better days...

Great, now we'll have more and more Omar Khadrs sitting in legal limbo for longer amounts of time in Canada's jails too, awaiting `trial'. This is already an epidemic in Canada's jails. Harper's removed an incentive to speedy justice; the two-for-one credit inspired the prosecution to make as short as possible the accused's waiting time. Way to speed up the process, Stevie! Or did you just want to be able to keep more accused people behind bars without access to justice for longer periods of time?

Oh good, an inside scoop! Please, tell us what else the conservative government "knows". This bleeding heart is FAR from `appeased'. This bleeding heart, for one, is quite certain 99% of the `evidence' against Khadr has been fed to the media by now. I'll be very surprised if the American army tries to conjure up some forensic evidence gathered from an exploded sandcastle. Exactly what shred of damning proof against the child Omar Khadr do you think they have up their sleeve? Ballistic evidence? Fingerprints? This Kangaroo Court will not stand the light of day. Omar will be brought back here and dealt with by fellow Canadians.

this just in... "Canadian discovers right-wing tactic of exaggerated, reactionary headlines." Nothing but a bash fest? Please. Are you trying to inspire pity for Harper? Just like this forum, the right-wingers are free to post on CBC's public website if they want. What they'll discover when they do is an enlightened, politically-active audience that will freely challenge their posts in a non-biased, tax-payer-funded forum. Opinions matter. Game On.

"The federal government is asking the United States not to use evidence collected by Canadian agents in the prosecution of Omar Khadr after the Supreme Court ruled his Charter rights were trampled during repeated interrogations." Only because the Supreme Court told him to say something, here's Harper's whimper of a human rights cry for Omar: http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/article/766675--u-s-asked-to-ignore-khadr-reports Luckily, this will probably be enough to scuttle Omar's Kangaroo Court and give him a chance in a real court.

I'm familiar with that case too. This just in.... Canadian spared execution by Saudi, granted retrial Oddly, it was one of Harper's thugs who "appealed for clemency and raised objections to the sentence with Saudi human rights authorities."

There are serious constitutional problems to subjecting any Canadian citizen to unfair trials and torture. That alone won't stop Harper though.

Good question. I suppose we wouldn't have noticed; the battle-winners usually write the history. Thank goodness there was a soldier there that day who noticed Omar's age and ability to speak English. Thank goodness for free press too.

CBC Radio 1's 8:30am EST morning show, "The Current", will have a segment about the child, Omar Khadr, on Friday, January 29th, 2010.

Aside from missing your apostrophe, did you realize you couldn't have mis-typed your cliche any worse? Why are you trading in rat pelts anyway? Rat's ass

If one poster can't spell "Owns", their point is ignored.

I've been to Alberta, dude. The selection sucks and the prices are higher.

I politely waited till the recent, tragic casualties were brought back here but now, I must say, this is one of the reasons I'm disliking more and more Canadians lately; their willingness to use this war's deaths to stoke their own hateful biases, melodramatic emotions, divisive anger, and tears. Sorry for your sorrow but... `Go join my "Pal"'? This attempt to instill guilt in me over my opinion about the specific case of Omar Khadr during the mourning of some of Canada's best is devious, mischievous, deceitful and shameful -- a typical, discussion-ending tactic of Harper's immature thugs but I thought you were a better dog... I'll name three: Children, taxes, and an important learning experience for a young, imperfect country.

Now is the time for that Coalition, Iggy! It was `constitutional protocol' to suggest it to the GG before. IT STILL IS! (Harper's breath smells VERY BAD)

Could you explain `fifth column' for us normal people? Nevermind: A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group, such as a nation, from within, to the aid of an external enemy. Yes, we should be suspicious of them and externalize them and alienate them and... Be afraid. Be very afraid! There's a war on! The enemy is everywhere! woof woof