Finally

Abousfian Abdelrazik is coming home. Kudo's to the opposition and the courts.

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Abousfian Abdelrazik Wins

I bet ol' Psycho Steve wishes he could prorogue the courts, eh? I will give even money that the Tories drag this to the Supreme Court (even though the judge in this case set their clothes on fire with his judgement). It seems with this government, tax money spent on lawyers, is always money well spent.

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Citizens And Politics

Now that the government's always laughable "reason" for keeping Abousfian Abdelrazik out of his own country has been exposed as a lie, we should apply Occam's Razor to get to the real reason.

The simplest explanation for the government's quite frankly, childish and crazy treatment of one of its own citizens is that the governing party needs Mr. Abdelrazik kept where he is until the courts tell the government to bring him home. Why would they need him to be kept away until the courts order him home? Logic would suggest that that would make Doug Finley's fund raising job much easier if the governing party can tell its supporters that "activist" judges in the courts made the government bring him home and so they must send more money to the Conservative Party in order to ensure only good, conservative judges are appointed. Crazy? Maybe, however Conservatives have been known to muse about such things, and it is the simplest explanation for an otherwise unexplainable mystery.

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What Can One Say

About a government so cowardly that it condemns torture on the one hand, while using the results of torture to craft a "Hail Mary" strategy to keep one of its own citizens out of the country? Words fail me.

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Muslim? Of A Darker "Hue"? Stranded Outside The Country? Good Luck

What is Canada's policy regarding Canadians stranded overseas? Who knows? As with so many other things, the economy for example, the Harperites are making it up as they go along. If you are a white woman stranded in a Mexican jail, we move heaven and earth to help. If you are a black Muslim, charged with no crime, but stranded in Sudan we move heaven and earth to keep you out -- even to the point of acting extra-constitutionally. The question posed at the beginning of this post is a trick. There is no policy in Canada anymore, only acted upon whims of the ideologues and spin doctors of the PMO.

Canada has been taken over by thugs and outlaws --men who believe that law is bendable, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is merely a list of suggestions. We must do everything legally possible to toss these bastards onto the garbage heap of history, along with their lawless buddies, the "assassin king", Dick Cheney and his little pal George Bush.

Update: Tom Flanagan, as always, suggests a alternative, yet plausible reason for our government's insane improvisation. From his February 2, Globe and Mail column.

Mr. Harper's first priority should be to reconnect with the Conservative base - the donors and volunteers who keep the party alive. These people may understand the political necessity of his budget, but it won't make them like deficit-spending. Volunteers and donors have to be motivated by more than realpolitik.

Mr. Harper needs to show them that he's still a conservative by pushing some non-budgetary initiatives in the House of Commons. He could start, for example, with the criminal-justice measures from the party's platform in the 2008 election. Why not make these a matter of confidence and run them straight at the Liberals? Will Mr. Ignatieff force an election on behalf of criminals? I don't think so.

Is this another case of Harper trying to get his conservative groove back, on the cheap?

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