Ottawa Citizen Preaches, not Reports , on Khandr

Khadr must come home


It is to Canada's shame that its prime minister will not stand up and make the right decision about Omar Khadr. Instead, it seems, Stephen Harper will have to be forced into it.

Khadr was shot in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15 years old, and has been in custody since, mostly at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. medic, but he has not been convicted.



Who decides what's right ? You ? Who are you ?

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You are no one it seems. You don't have a name. You're not interested in signing your stories. You just write your one sided drivil about how everything Harper does is Evil and say not thing one about the other side of the issue.

Everyone I talk to about this asks the same question . What was that kid doing in Afghanistan in a Terrorist Training Camp in the first place ? Teaching them canoeing ?

Or on the pro-side you could mention he's a child soldier and it shouldn't be held against him kids make bad decisions etc etc. Bring him home.

But that is not mentioned here, by this nameless writer who one might presume could possibly work for the Ottawa Citizen , though in this day and age of contracting out to India that assumption may be completely unwarranted.

The fact that the Liberals were in power when Khadr was captured and they did nothing about it , doing just as the Conservatives have done , deciding to let him rot, only doing it first, should at least be mentioned. But it is not.

I don't mind people saying Khadr should come home.
I don't mind people saying he should stay there and rot.

I do mind pretend make believe reporters who do not report anymore. They just preach. And since the Ottawa Citizen is a big business, and the Liberals are the pro big business party in this country , and they hate the Conservatives who are currently in power, it's hard not to follow the trail of bread crumbs of this anonymous article to Prince Iggy's Doorstep, as he waits to become King of Canada by getting his big business allies to smear the Conservatives at every step.

And I do mind when an Opinion , not a fact is offered , apparently by a big corporation and not some particular reporter. Does your whole corporation stand by that opinion ? Any Opinion ? Are you picking a side somewhere ? Anywhere ? Isn't that against the rules of journalism ? It was when I was a kid. Apparently it is not now.

When the newspapers stop reporting the news in an unbiased fashion, when they pick a side and become the propaganda mill for that side, what they say is not news anymore.

And so they should not bother calling themselves reporters.

So to you , oh anonymous and secretive author who got handed the job you probably despise of writing a piece you may or may not believe in , I salute you. You have all the moral fiber of a Styrofoam cup, and it is good that you hide your identity from the shame you commit. No one wants their name associated with this kind of nonsense , after all.


Where have all the reporters gone I wonder ?
And when did newspapers become propaganda mills. It was not this way when I was growing up.