Omar Khadr has just recieved his 10 million dollars that he won in the suit against the canadian government. How do you feel about that?

@MikefromEP

I wonder what that has to do with omar khadr?

@MetalGreymon Ask David Milgaard

@MikefromEP

A quick google tells me that milgaard was wrongfully imprisoned but i don't know what point you're trying to make. Other people have also been wrongfully imprisoned. Yes.
And?

@MetalGreymon I wonder if David got as much as Omar.. for spending 4 times longer in jail. High profile cases seem to get more for some unknown reason

@MikefromEP

I really don't get what point you think you're making. Maybe david should have got more. I don't think he was tortured but maybe he should have.
What does one injustice have to do with another?

Yes, high profile cases get more attention. Same goes for cancer kids and dogs that appear on vet ranch.

and?

@MetalGreymon I just know that the Americans are pissed that he got 10 million for being in a war zone.. and honestly... I think 10 million was too much

@MikefromEP

I'm sure they are. But i think americans should be pissed that they detained and tortured a 15 year old who's only accused crime was killing a soldier who was trying to kill him.

I thought 10 million was excessive at first too.
Then i thought about the fact that his ostensibly inalienable rights as a canadian citzen were violated. I thought about how he was a 15 year old kid who not only was tortured for 10 years but how he lost 10 years of his life.
How much is 10 years of your life worth to you?

@MetalGreymon Every day is priceless...It matters not where I be

@MikefromEP

Well i agree with the first part. So maybe a million dollars per year of your life is not so unreasonable a award after all.
I do think it matters a BIT where you be.
For instance right now you're sitting comfortably behind a computer keyboard typing away. It's maybe a little different to be tortured.

@MetalGreymon Ahh.. but this is where it becomes more proper... Held in Cuba on an American base.. who should be paying ?

@MikefromEP

Well in this case, the canadian government was complicit in his decade of incarceration without a trial.
That's not to say that i don't think the american government owes him too. But he's a canadian citizen so the canadian government needs to make it right

@MetalGreymon Did Japanese internment camps back in WW2 in Cananda receive anything close to this? They were citizens within their own country.. David Suzuki is a prime example of this. Properties taken away and basically all they got was.. We are sorry

@MikefromEP

Well there you go again pointing out that bad shit has happened to other people.
I agree.

@MetalGreymon Fact of life. People within my own country were dealt more harshly than citizens abroad in another country

@MikefromEP

So what does that have to do with whether it's wright or wrong that khadr won his suit?

@MetalGreymon Just saying there are more in front of the line than him that never received credit. Indian children taken from their homes to learn the white man language

@MikefromEP

ok...So no comment on whether the outcome of khadr's case was right or wrong

@MetalGreymon I thought I have expressed this in multiple levels??

@MikefromEP

Well you keep pointing out that other people have suffered from a miscarriage of justice and you appear to have made a subjective judgement that other people have had it worse. But you haven't actually said much of anything about this case.

@MetalGreymon But I have. Overpaid compensation

@MikefromEP Wow. Why don't you go do 10 years in Gitmo and see how "overpaid" it was. And half is going towards legal fees. Legal fees he incurred fighting his own government actively interfering to deny him his rights. Just for perspective in WW2 American soldiers shot Japanese officers for what is being done there to people.

@MikefromEP

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that it is overpaid given that in your own words "every day is priceless".
How much is ten years of your life worth? How much is overcompensation for 10 years of your life spent incarcerated and tortured?

What price would you put on that?

@MikefromEP Omar got more because his payment is a political stunt. They could give a shit less about other people wrongfully imprisoned.

@SatanBurger

Yes, high profile cases get more attention. When a blond little girl gets kidnapped it makes the news. When a celebrity does something bad it gets more attention.
That's bad.
What does it have to do with anything?

@SatanBurger Actually no. His imprisonment and turning him into a scapegoat to justify getting involved in a war we had no business in was a political stunt. And actually you are wrong on the second point. A man convicted of murder and later released was paid out a similar sum. The fact that half will go to his legal team is just details to you I guess. And how much would you want after being locked in a medieval dungeon and tortured for a decade? I guess you think it is okay for the government to break literally every right of a citizen and violate a few hundred years of legal precedent if you don't like the person. And I am not kidding in the sense that Harper brought Canada back to before the age of Elizabeth the first in terms of law on this.