Canadian Political Justice

Omar Khadr.  This is this guy that who proved that Canada, more exactly that democracies are a shame.  

There was this really cool decision that Canadian politicians decided to put forth many years ago to combat a horrible war crime that was occurring in Africa.  That crime was the practice of putting weapons in the hands of children and making them kill people. To me this was a just thing to do.  And then Canadian politicians went out into the world and advocated that other nations should sign this resolution that child soldiers are wrong and that the children had no choice and the people that put weapons in the hands of these children are guilty of war crimes.  The child has been robed of their childhood and they are as much a victim as any other victim in war.  Canada signed, as did most civilized nations in the world.

In 2001 after the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center, the United States declared war on Afghanistan.  Omar Khadr was 14 and he was pressed into service because his father told him to.  In 2002 the compound that he was in was attacked by the US, and he allegedly threw a grenade that killed an American service member, an army medic.  Omar Khadr is captured and sent to jail for his crime.

There are a few things that I find a problem with what happened.  The first is why the Americans think that they can arrest someone for fighting in a war against them?  The argument that he was a Taliban fighter and he helped attack America, is very week.  By that argument, all the veterans of the second world war should be sent to jail for murder, because the Germans killed Jews, and the Americans dropped nuclear bombs on civilian targets, and therefore all soldiers on both sides are partially responsible for the acts that occurred in the war.  Yes, that is silly.  America invaded Afghanistan and while the government leaders were responsible for the attacks of 9/11, the rest of the populace was not.  

Secondly Omar Khadr, was a kid, a child soldier.  You do not treat children the same as you treat adults because they are not the same.  Sure some of them are just as big as adults, but they are lacking in judgement of an adult.  Something about their prefrontal cortexes where, judgement resides, being altered because of puberty.  Look around at all the teenagers count the stupid things that they have done and would not have if their judgment was intact.  

Thirdly, and this is important, American witnesses have stated that Omar had been shot in the back at the time the miser had been committed.  It suggests that, since Omar Khadr had been lucky enough to survive a gun battle with American troops, albeit nearly dying from it, where an american soldier died and all Omar Khadr's fellow fighters being lucky enough to have died, he was held responsible for their actions.  Okay that is a little fiction, meaning no one really knows or cares what happened to his fellow fighters, except of course their families.  A digression:  I can't play first shooter gun games.  I get overwhelmed, there is too much happening all at once and that is just a game.  If I was in a house and I had a gun and a grenade and a bunch of soldiers burst down the front door and started shooting, would I care that one of them with an arm band was a non-combat soldier?  No, I would not care, nor would I care that my pants were a stinking gooey mess, I would be too busy trying to get them to stop shooting, and I would probably do that by trying to kill them right back.  Okay, I would crawl under a table an hope they would go away, but a fifteen year old would start shooting, because their judgement is impaired.  

The fix him up and bring him to Cuba, he does not get to sit on the beach and drink copious quantities of alcohol, partially because he is under the legal drinking age, hell he is not even allowed to have sex yet, but he is allowed to face a firing squad!  And the Canadian government let's him sit there, and they ignore him.  France, and Australia they gather up their expatriates, all over the age of 18, and take them to jails in their country, but not Canada!  We signed that treaty that is against child soldiers, but this does not apply, because he was trying to kill us.  

2009 the government decides that the term 'Child Soldier' is banned.  I can only think that it is because the government changed and they don't agree with what happened before and want to ignore it.  Next thing you know the Canadian government will ban the term 'Concentration Camps', they re-named Reservations . . ..

Omar Khadr is now 24.  He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and made a confession so as he would not get shot in the head for being a stupid teenager who was panicking after his father forced him to join the army at the age of 14.