Two and a half years for aiding a jihad terror organization, and he walks immediately for time served. “‘Toronto 18’ man sentenced, then released from jail,” from CTVNews, May 22 (thanks to Sounder):
A judge has given the first person ever convicted of helping and taking part in a terrorist organization a 2-1/2 year sentence.
However, the 21-year-old member of the so-called “Toronto 18” was freed from custody just after he was sentenced based on credit for time served in custody.
The young man, charged as a youth but sentenced as an adult, will have his identity protected by a temporary publication ban.
He will be under a 10-year weapons prohibition and will have to provide a DNA sample….
“He’s somebody who’s essentially found guilty of shoplifting, somebody who went to a second (training) camp that was essentially benign,” Chernovsky told The Canadian Press outside the court Friday….
But in his ruling, the judge found the convicted man to be genuinely remorseful, to have renounced violence and with plans to become a productive member of society, he said.
Oh, well, then!
He said in his judgment at that time that there was overwhelming evidence that a homegrown Islamic militant cell did exist — and that it had set its sights on Canadian targets….
Yeah, but who cares? He said he was sorry!