Omar Khadr: The Travesty Continues

From the Guantanamo trial of Omar Khadr...just so we don't forget him.

Or forget what a kangaroo court looks like.

On a day when Omar tries to fire both his U.S. military lawyers including his champion Lt. -Cmdr. Bill Kuebler.

The man who has fought harder to free him than any other person. The guy the Pentagon tried to fire.

But of course Omar doesn't know that, because he has been cutoff from the outside world for seven years. Not allowed access to any news about his trial. So he doesn't really understand what's going on. Except that it's not right

"It is not the first unfairness I have gone through, and I expect more unfairness," Mr. Khadr told Col. Parrish.

By the end of the day he agrees to keep Kuebler, but it doesn't really matter because Omar's champion is off to graduate school soon.

So he will be stuck with the new defence lawyer the Pentagon appointed, who probably won't argue like Kuebler did, that since his client was a child soldier he should be rehabilitated not punished. Or held in a place like Guantanamo.

Meanwhile the Canadian government, that was the FIRST to sign the U.N. Protocol on Child Soldiers, didn't even bother to send a representative today.

No doubt because they are too busy appealing the Canadian court order that Omar be returned to Canada immediately.

Just to appease the cruel, ideological, vindictive nature of Stephen Harper.













Oh boy. Some things are for sure eh?

Omar Khadr's Guantanamo trial is a morally bankrupt travesty of justice.

And you get the government and the country you deserve...