Topaz Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 A Canadian who went to AFGHANSTAN, as a TOURIST was captured by the Taliban and now the government has to decide how to get him back. This guy is either stupid or works for the government! Who goes to that country for a vacation????? Of course, he could be a journalist looking for a story from the Taliban? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-confirmed-missing-afghanistan-taliban-claim-capture-20110227-114005-246.html Quote
DogOnPorch Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 Doubt he'll be keeping his head long seeing the company he's keeping. Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
Smallc Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 Why would you go there as a tourist? Quote
DogOnPorch Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 Why would you go there as a tourist? Excessive libtardiness? They won't harm me...I'll just tell them I hate Harper. Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
DogOnPorch Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 Well...like you I'm going... 'Afghanistan? Tourist? Thee Afghanistan?? Really?' Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
scouterjim Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 A Canadian who went to AFGHANSTAN, as a TOURIST was captured by the Taliban and now the government has to decide how to get him back. This guy is either stupid or works for the government! Who goes to that country for a vacation????? Of course, he could be a journalist looking for a story from the Taliban? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-confirmed-missing-afghanistan-taliban-claim-capture-20110227-114005-246.html was he like that goofy American who went there a few months ago with a load of Bibles, and planned to convert the Afghanis to Christianity? Quote I have captured the rare duct taped platypus.
Mr.Canada Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 He probably believed what the CBC has been spoon feeding Canadians for decades. That the cuddly Muslims are our friends. Quote "You are scum for insinuating that isn't the case you snake." -William Ashley Canadian Immigration Reform Blog
Molly Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 A Canadian who went to AFGHANSTAN, as a TOURIST was captured by the Taliban and now the government has to decide how to get him back. This guy is either stupid or works for the government! Who goes to that country for a vacation????? Of course, he could be a journalist looking for a story from the Taliban? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-confirmed-missing-afghanistan-taliban-claim-capture-20110227-114005-246.html Darwin award nominee. Quote "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" — L. Frank Baum "For Conservatives, ministerial responsibility seems to be a temporary and constantly shifting phenomenon," -- Goodale
Muddy Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 All inclusive vacations are very reasonable in in that part of the world. Something wrong with this guy. The weather is not that good right now. Quote
bjre Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 You should have stay at home Quote "The more laws, the less freedom" -- bjre "There are so many laws that nearly everybody breaks some, even when you just stay at home do nothing, the only question left is how thugs can use laws to attack you" -- bjre "If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson
scribblet Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 I guess the question now is, should Canada attempt to rescue him or negotiate something, and if so at what cost ? Quote Hey Ho - Ontario Liberals Have to Go - Fight Wynne - save our province
scouterjim Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 I guess the question now is, should Canada attempt to rescue him or negotiate something, and if so at what cost ? Let him stew in his own juices. He was stupid enough to go there, despite a constant state of warfare. Canada should turn her back on that idiot. Quote I have captured the rare duct taped platypus.
PIK Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 Leave him there to rot, these extreme adventure people ,just to do something to give them bragging rights, probably thought a story like that might get him laid. Quote Toronto, like a roach motel in the middle of a pretty living room.
Black Dog Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 Maybe buddy heard that Afghanistan was a peaceful, democratic state. Can't imagine where'd he get that idea: only a real idiot would think Afghanistan has the makings of such a thing. Quote
Wilber Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 Let him stew in his own juices. He was stupid enough to go there, despite a constant state of warfare. Canada should turn her back on that idiot. A government has a duty to do what it can for its citizens when they get into trouble in other countries, including the stupid ones. You don't want it arbitrarily picking and choosing who it will help. It could be you someday. Quote "Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice". WSC
cybercoma Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 A government has a duty to do what it can for its citizens when they get into trouble in other countries, including the stupid ones. You don't want it arbitrarily picking and choosing who it will help. It could be you someday. Beat me to the post. It's interesting to see this perception that someone could be unworthy of assistance when kidnapped by known murderers because "(s)he should have known better". No one in this thread even knows the circumstances of this person's visit, other than what the news chooses to print. Yet, we get calls to "leave him there to rot" or "stew in his own juices". Strangely, society no longer focuses on the criminal, instead we ask why the victim didn't take more precautions. What a horribly disheartening conceptual shift. Quote
DogOnPorch Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 No worries re: this fellow. He'll be perfectly safe. Ask bitsy. Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
fellowtraveller Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 Agree with the above, as a citizen he deserves whatever offical help we can offer, whcih may be very little. The passport office can revoke or refuse to issue a passport, having and holding one is not an automatic right of citizenship. I don't know the circumnstance of this poor guy, but I wish him well. Quote The government should do something.
William Ashley Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 (edited) What they arn't letting the tourist go, maybe they should invade afghanistan... just when we thought it was over.. Edited February 28, 2011 by William Ashley Quote I was here.
William Ashley Posted March 1, 2011 Report Posted March 1, 2011 (edited) It seems to have happened in Germany too... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4035691,00.html If only our taliban tourist only knew that it was against the law for Canadians to vacation in Talibananian Afghanistan. This and the reichstag inncidences could have been prevented if only tourists looked more closely into local laws of areas they were travelling to. It has me wonder if this liberal era youth was still under the impression that a Canadian flag on your backpack gets you love wherever you go. Oh times are changing. "and to the right is where we behead the infidels" "you like photo with Mullah Omar?" Mullah Nooruddin Turabi Minister of Justice * Allegedly sheltered in Quetta by Pakistani officials by the end of 2001;[2] captured by United States forces and then set free and given general amnesty in early January 2002 [8][9] odd little tidbit here. Edited March 1, 2011 by William Ashley Quote I was here.
wyly Posted March 1, 2011 Report Posted March 1, 2011 (edited) A Canadian who went to AFGHANSTAN, as a TOURIST was captured by the Taliban and now the government has to decide how to get him back. This guy is either stupid or works for the government! Who goes to that country for a vacation????? Of course, he could be a journalist looking for a story from the Taliban? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-confirmed-missing-afghanistan-taliban-claim-capture-20110227-114005-246.html that's what the story was in the G&M, tourist...I know two people who traveled into very dangerous regions, they were totally oblivious to the world around them, neither had any idea there were wars in going on where they were headed...it's hard for most of us to comprehend but there are people out there who have no idea what just occurred in Egypt or what is taking place in Libya...other than pay a ransom there's bugger all our government can do for him... Edited March 1, 2011 by wyly Quote “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”- John Stuart Mill
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