Commentator "L" replied:
You left out the part about:
1)CSIS has accused him of being a member of a Montreal cell that supported Ahmed Ressam;
2) The US State Department has said that Abdelrazik is a personal acquaintance of Osama bin Laden, closely tied to Abu Zubaydah and attended an Afghan training camp in 1996.
Maybe, he should stay overseas.
And I thought I'd take the opportunity to respond with a blog-post about why these people are so dangerously stupid.
1)CSIS has accused him of being a member of a Montreal cell that supported Ahmed Ressam;
Yes. CSIS and the RCMP also accused Maher Arar of being a high-level Al Qaeda terrorist. We know how well that turned out.
2) The US State Department has said that Abdelrazik is a personal acquaintance of Osama bin Laden, closely tied to Abu Zubaydah and attended an Afghan training camp in 1996.
Yes. The US government also said that Iraq had WMDs. That Omar Khader had seen Maher Arar in Afghanistan (at a period when Arar was under surveillance in Canada).
Maybe, he should stay overseas.
Do the words "due process," "legal rights," "citizenship," "innocent until proven guilty," "human rights" mean anything to you?
You have officially gone on record here for denying the legal rights of a Canadian citizen, based on the accusations of several heavily compromised government bureaucracies. Yet it's people like you who will rant and rave about our values and our way of life. You'd be much more comfortable under a government like Syria's or Egypt's. Their official attitude towards their citizens is similar to your views on the rights that Canadians should expect.
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You'd be much more comfortable under a government like Syria's or Egypt's...
Not "under" a government. "Part of" a government: he would have to be running the place to feel comfortable in it.
If he found himself "under" it--if he were languishing in one of its prisons, for instance--he'd be tearfully begging for the justice and due process which he would so casually deny the Abdelraziks of the world.
He's just a fucking moral coward, as are the Harperoids.
True about his authoritarian tendencies.
But not everyone is lucky enough to score a government job in those despotisms. Still, there's always a chance that he'd be fine. He seems like one of those slave-like people who always keeps his head down.
Of course, being so self-evidently stupid it's also possible that he'd complain about something and become a target.
In the end, I can only agree with your description of his moral cowardice and leave it at that.
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