Wound and torture a kid, threaten him with gang rape, cage him for nine years, and then go for another forty.Some Austrian pedophile? Nope: American military officers dispensing American "justice."
Sick-making. But at least we'll have the pleasure of listening to the kangaroos' heads explode and the brass buttons pop off their beribboned chests when they hear that Omar Khadr will be doing eight years instead.
Not that another day in jail could be morally justified under any known standards of justice. But this isn't about justice, of course: it's about revenge and bloody-mindedness by brass hats who would have had him shot at dawn if they'd had their druthers.
It is reported that government prosecutor Jeff Groharing told the "jury" that the world was watching. Indeed we have been. And I think we've seen quite enough.
UPDATE: (November 1) The Omar Khadr show trial.
UPPERDATE: Scott Taylor, editor of Esprit de Corps, weighs in. [H/t reader Briguyhfx]
UPPESTDATE: The plea agreement. As reader jkg notes, Khadr is enjoined (para. 2g) from pursuing litigation against his captors and interrogators. Does this include the CSIS agents who grilled him and handed their findings over to his prosecutors in flagrant violation of his constitutional rights ("any official")?
6 comments:
Colin,
We appear to be misunderstanding each other. I am certainly not saying that the Khadr family is blameless in all this. From what I can tell they are a bunch of fanatical lunatics who involved their son in a war at the age of 13. I have no sympathy for them. It is entirely their fault that Omar Khadr ended up almost being killed and then detained by American soldiers. But this is where their responsibility for this matter ends. The Americans should have respected Omar Khadr's rights. Regardless of what he may or may not have done, he still has them. The U.S. had the responsibility not to torture him and give him a fair trial. They did not. The blame for the torture and the "trial" rests entirely upon U.S. officials' shoulders.
And I don't blame Omar Khadr. He was just a kid.
Colin's just asking that Chretien and Martin not be excluded from the blame, here. And he's right. They're complicit in this affair. However, here and now, the buck stops with Harper, and has done so for the past four years.
I'm with Adam C, there's no excuse for torture, ever. There's only one place to put the blame.
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