[Newsbot]

Title: Widow, U.S. soldier sue Omar Khadr for $50M for Afghanistan death, injury
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Goober911
Date: 2014-05-22 16:04:14
Canadian

[jj2424]

I hope they win and if that piece of that piece of shit ever gets any money from our federal government it goes straight to them.

[GreenTiger]

Yes Indeed.

[Freakinoldguy]

Good for her.

This is one way of making sure the little prick doesn't profit from becoming a terrorists combatant like some bleeding hearts up here think he should.

[Unsound]

Who is it that thinks he should profit from being a terrorist combatant?

[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

Who is it that thinks he should profit from being a terrorist combatant?

Ditto.

Did I miss the lucrative book deal and movie rights offer so that he could make some coin from tossing granades?

[Freakinoldguy]

For all you inquiring minds.

$1:

OTTAWA - The NDP conceded Thursday the only way convicted killer and terrorist Omar Khadr would be compensated for his time in a U.S. prison for blowing up a U.S. soldier is likely with a change in government.

The Conservative government has nixed any notion Khadr will become an instant millionaire and feted as a hero upon the war criminal's return to Canada to serve out the remainder of an eight-year prison sentence.

Toronto NDP MP Craig Scott told a news conference Thursday that there would need to be a change in political will in Ottawa in order for Khadr to win redress and that's not likely to happen under the Conservatives, he said.

Asked when that could happen, he said "2015," the date of the next election.

Scott, a former law professor, and other NDP MPs stood alongside Alex Neve of Amnesty International to push the government to address concerns in a report released Friday by the United Nations committee against torture.

Among other things, the UN said Canada was complicit in the human rights violation of Khadr and urged Canada to swiftly sign off on his transfer to Canada - something the government is still mulling.

The NDP and its supporters say Khadr was a child soldier when the 15-year-old tossed a hand grenade in 2002 that killed Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a combat medic, in Afghanistan during a firefight.

The NDP said it would push to get the Conservative government to bend on the Khadr file before the next national vote.

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2012 ... -khadr-ndp

$1:

Khadr’s lawyers, due in Federal Court later this month, are asking a judge to approve yet another round of amendments to a lawsuit that’s been inching its way through the system for almost as long as he’s been locked away. Originally filed in 2004 as a mere $100,000 claim (and later bumped up to $10 million)

Khadr’s latest submission says he now deserves $60 million from the Canadian government: $20 million for breaching his Charter rights, $20 million in punitive damages, and $20 million for failing to treat him like the 15-year-old child soldier he was.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/omar-khadr-sues-government-for-60-million/

[Jabberwalker]

Quote:

Khadr’s latest submission says he now deserves $60 million from the Canadian government: $20 million for breaching his Charter rights, $20 million in punitive damages, and $20 million for failing to treat him like the 15-year-old child soldier he was.


He must have American lawyers. Nobody makes awards even remotely as big as those in Canada and they sure wouldn't start with this asshole.

[Unsound]

till don't see anything suggesting he should be rewarded for being a combatant. Compensation for violating his charter rights is an entirely different thing.

[2Cdo]

Unsound Unsound:

till don't see anything suggesting he should be rewarded for being a combatant. Compensation for violating his charter rights is an entirely different thing.

Sorry but my give-a-fuck factor for this POS and the rest of his fucking family is absolutely zero.

[Unsound]

Its not about him and his family. Its about all ofnusnand whether we can count on our government to fulfill its responsibilities to us. Or should we just expect to be abandoned, or worse, if the government doesn't like what we've done?

[2Cdo]

Unsound Unsound:

Its not about him and his family. Its about all ofnusnand whether we can count on our government to fulfill its responsibilities to us. Or should we just expect to be abandoned, or worse, if the government doesn't like what we've done?

This "Canadian" went to war against us. Fuck him, they should have let him bleed out on the battlefield. You honestly expect the government to help you if you willingly take up arms against it. Fuck me, that's fucking insane.

[Unsound]

I expect the government to obey the law. You're right, he should've does on the battlefield, but he didn't. And when he was taken prisoner he became entitled to the protections that ALL Canadian citizens have. Instead he was held without trial in a foreign prison for years. He was denied due process, and an host of other human and legal rights. Not to mention he was an child soldier by any definition of the phrase.

If the government had done the right thing and brought him home right away to be tried in a fair manner no one would even know his name. Instead they played political games as a sop to their base and in the process denied a Canadian citizen of his rights.

If he is awarded in money it won't be as a reward for anything he did, it will be a punishment for the government for not doing what they're supposed to do.

I'll reiterate, it has fuck all to do with Kahdr and everything to do with a government abdicating its duty to a Canadian citizen. That's a dangerous road to go down.

[Gunnair]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Unsound Unsound:

Its not about him and his family. Its about all ofnusnand whether we can count on our government to fulfill its responsibilities to us. Or should we just expect to be abandoned, or worse, if the government doesn't like what we've done?

This "Canadian" went to war against us. Fuck him, they should have let him bleed out on the battlefield. You honestly expect the government to help you if you willingly take up arms against it. Fuck me, that's fucking insane.

Yes. I would expect the government to follow the rule of law. Had the two shitheads out here in BC trying to blow up the legislature last summer been injured in a police takedown, do you seriously expect then the police to stand back and keep the crowds away as they bleed out?

Being civilized has it's pro and cons, otherwise we're a colder North Korea.

[andyt]

Good argument. I'm very torn here. There are your points, and the fact he was indoctrinated at an early age by his father and mother. To me that's different than the Toronto 18, say, who just out of the blue decide to be jihadis. OTOH, I don't have much use for what he did, either.

He attacked the Americans, I can see they have a right to put him on trial, they don't have to hand him over to us. But if what he did is illegal, the try him in a proper court of law, with full consideration of his rights.