Thursday, July 10, 2014

Chris Selley Laments the Way Canadian Citizens Like "Boy Soldier" Omar Khadr Have Been "Mistreated"

Selley's silliness du jour: he argues that even if a chap is a repellent jihadi terrorist with only the most tenuous connection to Canada, citizenship has its privileges, and that's what really counts:
There is much to lament in the Conservatives’ bloody-minded approach to citizens imperilled abroad. The sociopathic game of keep-away it played with Abousfian Abdelrazik, the ostensible security threat camped out in our embassy in Kharthoum, is probably the most contemptible example. 
But in achieving these heights of misbehaviour, the Tories stood on Liberal shoulders — and on those of Canadians at large, whose interest in their fellow citizens’ basic rights can be alarmingly selective. Our collective 12-year reaction to Mr. Khadr’s case shows we can be every bit as reactionary and jingoistic as any other human beings — and perhaps more so, judging by other countries’ comparatively aggressive interventions on behalf of their Guantanamo inmates.
That's Selley for you. He thinks the "sociopaths" are the "jingoistic," "reactionary" Conservatives, who want to keep the jihadis away from us, and not the sociopathic jihadis, who want to, you know, kill us.

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