Khadr confirms he was al-Qaeda member, prepares for sentencing

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Canadian Omar Khadr, the self-confessed al-Qaeda murderer and terrorist, was back in the war crimes courtroom today for the sentencing phase of his trial.

In a long stipulation of facts, Mr. Khadr confirmed that he was an al-Qaeda member, wanted to kill Jews and Americans, and that the “happiest moment of his life” was when he built and planted roadside bombs aimed at killing Americans and other unbelievers then deployed in Afghanistan.


I do not like self confessions. They stink of rubber hoses and cigarette burns and beating the accused with out mercy until he'll confess to anything. And Eight years in prison , it's pretty obvious thats what happened.

But ...

He has no good reason to be on the other side of the world, in a terrorist training camp, learning how to build road side bombs. Put aside the accusations of him throwing a grenade and killing someone , put aside the "military trial" which is little more than a kangaroo court that puts to shame the very notion of justice.

Omar Khadr had no business being on that side of the world , let alone in that terrorist camp.

And so I have no sympathy for him at all.

I do have sympathy for what has befallen our justice system if this kind of nonsense is considered perfectly legal. That I am deeply concerned with. But Omar Khadr can rot in hell for all I care.

Lighting the Fire and then running.

Col. Russell Williams: Should the videos and photos be destroyed?


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The end is new for news media when they pull stunts like this. They ask for your opinion , let you vote and everything , and then you see the story is closed for commenting and there are Zero comments , the story was never open for comments.

Why ?

Because it's too much work. Because they want the popularity of running a story thats in the public interest but they don't want to deal with the ten thousand comments such an interesting story will generate.

In other words, they don't want to be a newspaper, and they hate user comments, and anytime it looks like it's going to generate too many they cut you off at the knees.

My opinion was no , don't destroy the photos, lock it up in some archive for forensic experts and psychologists to look at and learn from.

But it seems no one at CBC wants to hear that.

Moms' guilty pleas tossed after pathologist errors

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The Ontario Court of Appeal has ordered new trials for two women who originally pleaded guilty after now disgraced forensic pathologist Dr. Charles Smith testified they had asphyxiated their babies.
A judicial inquiry into Dr. Charles Smith's work found the pathologist's testimony was responsible, in part, for several people being wrongfully convicted of killing children and being sentenced to prison.A judicial inquiry into Dr. Charles Smith's work found the pathologist's testimony was responsible, in part, for several people being wrongfully convicted of killing children and being sentenced to prison. (Canadian Press)

Smith's testimony has since been found to be responsible for a number of wrongful convictions.

On Wednesday, the Appeal Court set aside guilty pleas from the women, one of whom was convicted of manslaughter and the other of infanticide.


Welcome to the wonderful world of the canadian courts. These women were forced to confess in order to avoid jail , of a crime they didn't actually commit. What happened to our great lie detectors ? What happened to that crack team of RCMP specialists who can beat a confession out of anyone ?

It seems they realy can beat a confession out of anyone.

Even those who are completely innocent.

Islam Passes Judgement on Harper's Foreign policy

Siddiqui: World passes judgment on Harper’s foreign policy
(Article in the toronto star web site) 14/10/2010

Canada’s failure to get elected to the Security Council has been described as “a shocking development,” “a disaster,” “a diplomatic fiasco,” “a colossal failure” and “a dark day for Canada” that brought us “humiliation” and “shame on the world stage.”

Those are apt descriptions of this development — the first time in the 64-year history of the United Nations that Canada has failed to win a council seat, unlike in our six earlier bids. Our next bid cannot be for another 10 years.

The Harperites are reacting with their usual dishonest double-talk.

It’s no big deal not to have won a seat in a dysfunctional organization, they say. If so, why did we run?


So ok , you've got a big "I hate harper" sign on your t-shirt


It’s not just his pro-Israeli stance that made Canada a pariah at the UN. He:


Ok, this editorial is written by an anti-semite. And his name is obviously Islamic in nature. "Haroon Siddiqui" (actually it's an Indian name , but he authored a book called "Being Muslim" so ... yeah . )


Or, it is the fault of the Europeans. They must have voted as a bloc. What else can explain the win by Portugal, not even a member of the G20, let alone the G8, and an economic basket case to boot? But Europe has less than 30 votes, whereas Arab and Muslim nations have 57 and Africa 51 votes, the two blocs with good reasons to oppose us.


Ok, so we helped invade afghanistan and lost 57 votes ..thats a good reason to lose. Hardly the "disaster" you claim it to be. Figure the aftrican votes were split among 5 other contenders (or more) and defeat is inevitable for anyone who has to face an election who went to afghan or iraq.


• Diverted Canadian funds from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to the Palestinian Authority, to boost Mahmoud Abbas against rival Hamas.


Oh dear. we supported a standing government working towards peace instead of some islamic terrorists who's only agenda is to kill all the jews in the world and you're mad at Harper for it.

Left Omar Khadr to rot in Guantanamo Bay, while defending the policy of indefinite detention as well as the American military’s kangaroo courts.


Caught red handed in a terrorist camp , and you want to bring him home and set him free.

It seems that the Toronto Star has become the Voice of Islam and the lastest Israeli Basher in this country. Kind of odd, but what they hey , newspapers have been sinking fast ever since the internet came out , I suppose it's only a matter of time before the wacko nut cases take them over as they enter their death throws.

You need more than slanted numbers and "If they love jews they must be bad" to convince most canadians, mister "Being Muslim". Because this crud only flies in the middle east , it has no place here.

Legalized Prostitution

Article = none , personal opinion

(Some references to a commentary appearing in page 13 Ottawa Sun Oct 1 2010 by Brian Lilley)

So, prostitution is in the news again. A Judge has struck down the laws against it. Laws that were only against communicating or such for purposes of prostitution , the actual act of prostitution is not illegal in this country. And people are all up in arms about how can this be legal here ?

Well... first , when you're crafting a law, you have to make sure it doesn't come and bite you in the rear end , or you'll be forced to strike down your own creation. That's probably why prostitution itself is still legal , there wasn't any way to make it illegal without someone taking a hit somewhere from an over broad law.

And I'm looking at an Ottawa Sun article , a commentary , that goes on and on about how prostitution is "wrong" , and the only reasoning I can see is that he wouldn't want his daughter to do it.

There's a lot of reasons , lot of good arguments, why prostitution should be legalized. And there's a lot of good arguments why it should not be. But "I think it's wrong" isn't on either of those lists. Sorry buddy. Nor is "I wouldn't want my daughter to do it"

Much as I might agree with the sentiment , this is how bad laws are made. The kind that come back to haunt you and leave you saying "I didn't mean for that to happen !" and then you wind up voting to strike it down anyways and the whole thing becomes a decade of trouble and wasted effort.

Reviewing his other points we see ...

Netherland and Germany are cited as places of legal prostitution , that still have illegal prostitution , sex workers imported for the task are mentioned.

And so do we ! Yes, I have met a girl at a strip joint who reported she was here from another country and was doing this to send money home to her family. So, I personally know it's happening in Canada. Your argument implies by legalizing prostitution we will cause this to happen here, guess what ? It already is.

Our Wag also argues that while the court hesitates to inject any sort of morality into sexual matters , he thinks they should , arguing "morality underpins our legal system" and points to theft as being immoral.

Umm.... no. Imposing your morality on everyone else was discarded long ago. I don't know why you're bringing it up.

The Judge has decided the laws are bringing harm to the prostitutes by way of driving them underground where they become victems of organized crime , pimps, beatings, and murder because they dare not go to the police

This is the classic case of a law backfiring and doing the exact opposite of what was intended, and I believe she was right to strike it down. The purpose of the law was to protect people, not put them in harms way. It failed that purpose, get rid of it.

My Personal Opinion...

Whether it's legal or not , whether you like it or not , prostitution is going to happen. You have two choices only. Protect the prostitutes, or abandon them to the wolves, that's about it. And our current laws that have been struck down abandon them to the wolves.

Those are your choices, which will you choose ? I choose not to abandon anyone to the wolves.