Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Canada to deport U.S. war deserter

Our government hits another new low. Disgusting.

Again, good readers around the world, Madam Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada and our present government do not represent what Canada has always stood for.

They are a disgrace, lackies of the U.S.

U.S. army deserter Robin Long is slated to be deported back to his army base in Fort Knox, Ky., Tuesday, which would make him the first resister to the U.S. war effort in Iraq to be sent out of Canada.

Madam Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada cleared the way for the deportation late Monday, dismissing a last-ditch attempt to delay the process while the 25-year-old pursued further appeals.

“I was just shocked at some things in [the] ruling,” Bob Ages, a spokesman for an informal group called Vancouver War Resisters Support Campaign, told reporters outside the courtroom. “It just flies in the face of everything that we and every Canadian know about the reality of what is going on.”


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