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Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried as war criminal

RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited May 2008 in A Moving Train
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/omar-m08.shtml

The upcoming trial represents the continuation of the vicious persecution of Omar Khadr that has gone on for nearly six years. Now 21, he has spent more than a quarter of his life in US detention, much of it while being subjected to solitary confinement, sensory deprivation, abusive interrogations and outright torture. Throughout this time, he has been denied education or any regular access to his family.
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Can anyone say spiteful and uneducated upon release?

    might as well shred this one...it's broken...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    does the judge know harold and kumar are missing?
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    brain of c wrote:
    does the judge know harold and kumar are missing?

    I'm thinking no... They are probably the only humans alive who can bring White Castle to Cuba. If ever there was a bonus to the circumstances...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • SpreadtheJAMSpreadtheJAM Posts: 344
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Can anyone say spiteful and uneducated upon release?

    might as well shred this one...it's broken...

    Put him to death then.
    BORGATA>VIC
  • SpreadtheJAMSpreadtheJAM Posts: 344
    Its going to end up like the terrorists in the U.S.S. Cole attack. They either all escaped or were released and have committed more attacks since.

    One less of em and we're better off
    BORGATA>VIC
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    SpreadtheJAM wrote:
    Put him to death then.

    It could have been you, it could have been any of us.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • Blackout-weaverBlackout-weaver Posts: 16
    SpreadtheJAM wrote:
    One less of em and we're better off

    Depends what you mean by 'Terrorist'. It also depends what you mean by 'we'.
    Perhaps by 'we' you mean all white people? Or maybe you mean Americans? Or perhaps you mean those who don't commit acts of terror, and who don't support terrorism and terrorist states, In which case every tax paying American is guilty by association? Hmm, I wonder what you can possiby mean?

    Them and us. Cowboys and Indians. Christian and Muslim. Sylvester and Tweetie Pie. Black and white. If only life really was a cartoon, or a mainstream U.S t.v news programme.
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    omar khadr is screwed cuz of who he is related to and where he was that fateful day ... there is no evidence to convict him of anything that would hold up in a normal court of law ...

    but this is the america here and they aren't about to have someone like that set free for any reason ... justice similar to democracy are only catch phrases ...
  • SpreadtheJAMSpreadtheJAM Posts: 344
    Blackout-weaver wrote:
    Depends what you mean by 'Terrorist'. It also depends what you mean by 'we'.
    Perhaps by 'we' you mean all white people? Or maybe you mean Americans? Or perhaps you mean those who don't commit acts of terror, and who don't support terrorism and terrorist states, In which case every tax paying American is guilty by association? Hmm, I wonder what you can possiby mean?

    Them and us. Cowboys and Indians. Christian and Muslim. Sylvester and Tweetie Pie. Black and white. If only life really was a cartoon, or a mainstream U.S t.v news programme.

    We as the people who have been targeted in the World Trade center twice, or the London subway bombings, or the madrid train bombing, no matter where it is Here, over in Europe or middle east or in the Pacific, "we"(as i hope you are not one of them) are the targets, of these fundamentalist groups.
    BORGATA>VIC
  • jbalicki10jbalicki10 Posts: 517
    A buddy of mine came back from cuba last year. He couldnt talk too much about the jail. But Basically he said there is no hope for these people. These people are programmed to kill westerners period. They will stop at nothing in order to do so. There were few innocent people there though. Thankfully they have been removed from the facility. However, they DID have very strong ties to militant groups it was difficult to sort out.
  • TowsertunesTowsertunes Posts: 187
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    It could have been you, it could have been any of us.

    I don't think I would have thrown a grenade which killed a U.S. soldier.
    "they don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead,
    is that exactly what I thought I read?"


    How I choose to feel,...Is how I am.
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Towsertunes wrote:
    I don't think I would have thrown a grenade which killed a U.S. soldier.


    You had no input in where you were born, and by whom. You just popped out like this kid did.... just like we all did.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • TowsertunesTowsertunes Posts: 187
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    You had no input in where you were born, and by whom. You just popped out like this kid did.... just like we all did.
    Correct,but you must live by the choices you make.
    It's called responsibility.
    "they don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead,
    is that exactly what I thought I read?"


    How I choose to feel,...Is how I am.
  • SpreadtheJAMSpreadtheJAM Posts: 344
    Towsertunes wrote:
    I don't think I would have thrown a grenade which killed a U.S. soldier.

    Exactly. Roland acts like he is the victim here. Lets not forget what he is being blamed for, and for even putting himself in a compromising situation like that.
    BORGATA>VIC
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    if this is a war on terrorism, and enemy combatants are being imprisoned-shouldn't they be given the right of the Geneva convention agreement?> They are POW's. To be held without trial is a war crime.
  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    Commy wrote:
    if this is a war on terrorism, and enemy combatants are being imprisoned-shouldn't they be given the right of the Geneva convention agreement?> They are POW's. To be held without trial is a war crime.

    The problem is I think that this is a much trickier situation then your standard war. I mean in a normal war you capture an enemy soldier and then when the war is over you release him and he goes back to his country and his family as the fighting is over (at the end of WW1 you didn't really have to worry about individual released German soldiers trying to invade France on their own). In this war how do you determine that the fighting is over and it is ok to release your enemy? For some of the enemy the fighting will never be over (ie if you release them they will just keep attacking).

    I have thought about this a bunch of times and I am not sure how to deal with it .
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