punditman says...
Antiwar.com's Jason Ditz yesterday said it "ought to be shocking to Canadians" that their government issued a "collective yawn" regarding the Omar Khadr confession, and that "some reports had Khadr pleading guilty in the hopes of being returned to Canada instead of spending the rest of his life in military prisons." He thinks that this government "would generally act as an advocate for its citizens when they get detained by a foreign power..."
Ditz, a well-meaning American, is perhaps a tad naive when it comes to assessing the mindset of the Harper government, or perhaps, the country in general right now. Punditman suspects, unfortunately, that the Harperites are not alone in their yawns. The problem goes beyond the Omar Kadre case. It is cultural and crosses party lines.
In fact, there is a rather disturbing trend when it comes to the erosion of human rights in Canada in general. It has been happening for years but culminated in the appalling abuse of power and anti-democratic measures imposed by the Ontario Liberal government and the police and security forces hired during the G-20 last June. This spawned the travesty of justice that is the Alex Hundert case, and the ludicrous case of "Officer Bubbles" trying to sue people on Youtube for expressing their opinions about him being...well...a jackass!
That's an opinion by the way. Does punditman now get sued as well? How have we allowed this alarming erosion of our rights to happen?
Punditman is afraid the answer may be that many Canadians are actually cheering this anti -civil liberties trend that appears to be infecting the populace like a nasty viral infection. That's what a permanent War
