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October 26, 2010
Anger vs. Justice
now, I’m not the brightest bulb on the string, seldom shedding brilliant light and sometimes seeming not to glow at all but even to one like me it seems unjust to arrest a man involved in war for killing, however wrong or right, on land he called his home, with the charge of war crimes done in the heat of battle
it is unjust to call one thing an other thing to satisfy a need for vengeance
it seems absurd to say this and I’m sure I don’t know it all but how can one be charged a crime for killing those who killed his friends amid the heat of war, no less, when those killed were unwelcome guests upon his own declared and native soil terrorists themselves, according to some views, and as culpable as he
I tend to support this war against terrorism and believe Khadr is a terrorist and a danger. I don’t believe that all that happens in the war is above the board; right and wrong belong on either side. Regardless of whether Omar Khadr is right or wrong, it looks like he has been unjustly charged and held. Especially when what has been done to him while in captivity is itself not above suspicion.
With apologies to those who have lost because of his actions, this looks more like the venting of anger on an available target than the practice of justice. Accuse him of terrorism or hate, there’s enough evidence for both, but his being a war criminal seems a reach, regardless of his hate he was fighting people who were fighting him.
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