A star member of Canada's Al-Qaeda family is smarting from a rejection from the Canadian Passport Office. Khadr's lawyer huffs: "In a democracy we don't function that way"?? What way? We don't do anything to protect ourselves?
From the Toronto Star, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
Abdurahman Khadr, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who said he was an American spy, was denied a Canadian passport due to concerns about national security and the potential negative reaction from the public, court records show.The documents include a report from the Canadian Passport Office urging Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham to refuse passports to Khadr and other family members, "in the interests of national security of Canada and the protection of Canadian troops in Afghanistan."
Marked "secret," the report is part of the federal justice department's reply to a federal court motion by Khadr appealing the decision to deny him a passport. Large paragraphs are blacked out in the report due to security concerns.
In a section entitled "considerations" the Passport Office states:
"We believe the implications of providing passports to the high risk members of the Khadr family are significant in terms of `Canada-U.S. relations' ... it seems likely the Canadian public and the American government would be highly critical of full passport services being provided to this family."
Graham used a rare power of intervention, known as a royal prerogative, to deny the 21-year-old Canadian citizen a passport. The Passport Office does not have the grounds to reject a claim for a passport on issues of national security.
In a telephone interview, Graham would not go into any details about the case.
Khadr's lawyer, Clayton Ruby, said he would challenge the ruling as a breach of his client's Charter rights. He questioned Graham's authority to use the royal prerogative.
"I concede that the Queen can exercise the royal prerogative but she doesn't know Mr. Khadr," Ruby said yesterday, agreeing that Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson is able to employ the powers.
"This is the kind of thing the Soviet Union used to do in the bad old days ... Graham ought to know better, in a democracy we don't function that way."
"This is the kind of thing the Soviet Union used to do in the bad old days ... Graham ought to know better, in a democracy we don't function that way."
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Ruby ought to know better: In the USSR, terrorists regularly crossed the border. It was natural for them to be there.
Michael Moore would have been given Carte-blanche.
Way to go Canada!
hey, this is a SHOCKER! Read 'Canada's Al-Quaeda Family.' Are they taking the piss or what...This is absolutely outrageous. Canada, change your government at once. Where is Sheik Canuck to make
a comment?
Well… don’t feel too hopeful. This is the same government that helped to get this guy’s dad out of Pakistan jail where he was charged with being a terrorist a few years ago. Jean Chretien the last PM actually was in Pakistan and pleaded on his behalf. The Pakistanis let him go and he promptly went back to Afghanistan to carry on his fight from there. This was all before 9/11.
Abdurahman Khadr’s brother is still in Gitmo for killing an American soldier in Afghanistan.
There was an interview on Canadian television last winter of this guy’s sister and mom. What a pair. They went on about how much they hated the west and they were quite proud of the fact that their men folk were killers and terrorists. Then the elder Khadr (the father) was killed in an American bombing raid and one of the sons (15 years old) was crippled in the same attack. Once the Pakistan government decided he (the 15-year-old) was no threat, his mom couldn’t wait to get him home to Canada and take advantage of our welfare and free healthcare.
“Your grandchildren will be supporting idiots like this with their tax dollars, until we get rid of socialism”
Apparently I have some of the facts wrong on how the younger 14-year-old brother was injured. I hope everyone will forgive me on my errors. The point is this family has been here for more than a generation and they have not changed into good little Canadians. They hate our country and our culture, but they love our freedom and our government welfare. They are supporters of fundamentalist islam, and they will not change.
“Your grandchildren will be kicking the Khadr family out of North America.”
If they are that dangerous(and they are)....forgive me but wouldnt the obvious question be ...why the hell did they let them back in the first place??
Well, hats off to Canada! In the USA, however, if these people were US citizens, we'd have a pretty hard time getting rid of them--until they started killing people in a state with the death penalty, and a sensible judge applied it.
Also, I doubt US asylum laws and procedures are any better. We let in the physically, spiritually, and morally blind Sheikh Abdurrahman even though the Egyptian government warned us time and time again about him--and know our long-suffering taxpayers support the creep as he lives out his natural span of days in prison for masterminding the 1993 WTC bombings.
BTW, interesting how these people sporting names meaning "Servant of the Merciful" seem so little inclined to show any mercy to anyone else.
I kind of wish that he was given a passport, so he can enter the USA, where he can be arrested and charged for his terrorist acts. Lords knows this corrupt liberal Canadian government won't do it.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2004/main070904a.htm
Corruption runs deeo in the liberal Anti- American pro-France/UN crime ring. Read that article.
The loony left may be at it again. These people are disgusting. I love my horses, who knows what I'd do to these people if I ever caught one the responsible for this act.
Toronto radicals to lead GOP convention agenda
by Judi McLeod, Editor
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Bandanna and mask-wearing activists, hobbling horses by tossing marbles under their hooves at next month’s GOP Convention, are taking their inspiration from a violent June 15, 2000 Queen’s Park Toronto protest.
Organizers of the notorious Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) had a deliberate agenda to bring down police horses at the protest, staged against then Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris. The public image of proud police horses whinnying in pain and fear remains in public memory, and marked the massive exercise in civil disobedience as the mother of all protests. Some 42 Toronto police officers were injured and vets worked for weeks after the protest saving nine injured horses.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.htm
This paper should be on everyones reading list.
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