The Future Is In Our Past ‘Then They Came For Me...’

Posted on Wednesday, October 04 at 10:17 by jensonj
In July of 2002, Mr. Arar was detained in the U.S. on his way home to Canada on a flight from Zurich. The FBI told Canadian authorities they were going to question him and then send him back to Switzerland. Instead, they used the extraordinary rendition process and flew him to Jordan where he was picked up and driven to Syria. Extraordinary rendition is the practice of transferring terror suspects from U.S. control into the control of foreign governments, so that interrogation methods that are not permitted under U.S. law may be applied. Mr. Arar is every Canadian. No Canadian citizen should be deprived of liberty and held without charge. Canadians are against torture, because it is inhumane, it encourages flawed intelligence, and it doesn't make us safer. Yet, by its silence, the Canadian government has tacitly condoned the torturing of supposed enemy combatants in secret prisons around the world. Are we satisfied with having our moral authority undermined even as we preach moral values to others? http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/index.cfm?iid=1878&sid=14213 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 4, 2006]

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  1. Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:40 am
    The United States has exempted itself from the rules in its war of on terror and freedom that it believes should apply to other nations. The US claim for special status undermines the very idea of the rule of law as a single, principled normative order to which all nations of the world are expected to be bound by as well it undermines the international effort to subject the use of force to the rule of law. For the United States to take this position is wrong since it, more than any other modern nation-state, has held it self out as committed to and constituted by the rule of law, which at present, is using this point of view as a defence to justify its present actions of the use of force around the world in what the U.S. calls the war on terror.

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  2. by Deacon
    Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:32 am
    I really wish that whatever "god" that Dubyuh alledgedly worships would visit him late one night and kick him so hard in the ass that upon first glance one would think Georgie suddenly got a boob job.

    If there ever was a post Hitler embodiment of evil personified, it's George W Bush.


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    "and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

    "The Weapon" - Rush



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