“Mr. Khadr you’re free to go.”
With those words, Alberta Court of Appeal Justice Myra Bielby turned down the federal government’s last-ditch effort Thursday to keep the 28-year-old detained.
Omar Khadr broke into a big, wide smile when the decision was read. His supporters in the courtroom erupted in cheers.
Captured as a 15 year old, tortured in Gitmo, now a free man.
If for no other reason, you should be happy about this because it might give Darth Cheney a stroke.
Tree With Water
Celebrate that court’s decision, and next ponder this. Courtesy of Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/07/retired_judge_unloads_on_hypocritical_supreme_court_they’re_talking_out_of_both_sides_of_their_mouth/
geg6
Good. Happy to see the American justice system isn’t completely broken.
srv
@geg6: Um, Alberta is in Canada.
Omnes Omnibus
@geg6: This took place in Canada.
boatboy_srq
@srv: @Omnes Omnibus: Geg6 meant North American – which of course means that the justice system is only 80% broken (US/Mexico). Still an improvement, though.
boatboy_srq
OT: where the BLEEP did the “Defeat the Clinton Machine” and “URGENT POLL: Should Obama be impeached?” blogads surface from? My brand-new lenses are about fractured by the reichwingnuttery.
gratuitous
Oh no! That activist judge just released one of the Worst of the Worst (which is, I have been assured, the official designation of anyone ever incarcerated at Guantanamo), and now he’s going to sprout wings and fly over the United States, shooting death rays out of his eyes!
At least, that’s what I imagine will happen, based on more than a decade of relentless fear-mongering.
srv
@boatboy_srq: Glad you like them. They’re actually pretty cheap to run, I’m working on a deal to sew up all of BJ’s blogads for 2016.
Chris
I’m not much of a believer, but honestly, seeing a man like Dick Cheney and knowing that he will never in his life have to account for crimes of this magnitude, it’s really hard not to hope for an afterlife. Judgment, fire and brimstone and all.
Interrobang
Excellent news.
NCSteve
Nothing will give Cheney the Undying a stroke. Not as long as there are still virgins to lure unicorns into the abattoir in his secure undisclosed facility where both virgin and unicorn are drained of their blood to prolong his unholy existence.
mdblanche
Stephen Harper’s next trip back to his home province is gonna be really awkward.
MattF
Can Cheney have a heart attack? I’m expecting a call to invade Canada.
Peter VE
It’s about a 13 1/2 hour drive to one of Darth’s lairs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming….
Severian
I’m no lawyer but I think Khadr has an excellent case AND STANDING to sue Cheney and W for every penny they have. Seems to me U.S. Courts will have a devil of a time coming up with a reason why he can’t.
And to that I say fine. We can’t shame them, jail them, or execute them. Hit them in the only thing they actually care about.
PaulW
Hope the next step for this guy is to start suing the sh-t out of every torturer and politician who signed off on his torture.
Debbie(aussie)
@Severian: This! This! This!
My Truth Hurts
Where is the justice for this poor man? Some of the best years of his young life have been stolen from him. Evil, evil people run this country.
Rob Wolfe
Free on bail pending an appeal. He is far from free.
As an expat Canadian living in Alabama I look at these kinds of things and realize how much my old country looks like my new country some days. Oddly it rarely seems to be for the better.