Crooked in Canada

A new American president will be sworn in about two months time and again as they have done during the past 6 years of Omar Khadr’s incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers are getting his hopes up by implying that come January president-elect Barack Obama will more than likely order him released from his Guantanamo Bay prison cell and returned to Canada where those same lawyers believe he should be tried for the terrorism crimes he is accused of anyway.

That my Crooked in Canada friends is too f**king funny.

Imagine having a lawyer who for six plus years who hasn’t been able to do anything for his client except get his hopes up, only to have those hopes come down around that client repeatedly when things don’t exactly play out the way the lawyer says it will, and then of course there is the tactic of trial delays that can see a client spend a lot more time behind bars then necessary. Khadr’s defence team has used many trial delay tactics, and if it wasn’t for those delay tactics…Well who know, maybe Khadr would be preparing for his release from prison instead of preparing for his trial 6 years after he was captured.

I bet the Khadr family, who for whatever reason are still allowed to remain in Canada despite their ties to the terrorism network operation in Afghanistan, are beginning to think that the attorney’s for Omar are been less than effective in defence of one of their own. I know if I had a son or brother being held on terrorism and murder charges that could see him locked up for the rest  of his life, I would want better attorneys than the ones defending Omar Khadr. That’s for sure.

Has anybody noticed how the Khadrs never have anything to say about the lawyers defending their son and brother, and that when they do it is hardly a pat on the back for a job well done. I don’t think I have read anything that is a ringing endorsement of the work they are doing, nor have I heard Omar’s “other supporters” offering up favourable views of the work his lawyers are doing for them. I wonder why that is.

The Khadrs and their supporters have rarely had anything to say about the lawyers defending Omar and somebody like me has to wonder why that is.

Could it be because they don’t have anything nice to say about them in the first place, never have, or is it because they are being told to because anything they might say might jeopardize the relationship Omar has with his defence team who as I have said are inept.

I also find myself wondering what if the trial had gone forward way back when, before all the delay tactics Omar’s lawyers used, would the sentence he might have received be coming to an end by now.

Hmm, ya think his lawyers might be hoping upon hope that by the time this trial does draw to a close and should their client be found guilty, that the time their client has spent behind bars mostly due to their delay tactics, will be taken into consideration when the final sentence is handed down? I bet they are, but surely they must realize that they games they have been playing have hurt their client more than anything else as far as his trial goes, and that if the time Omar has spent behind bars isn’t taken into consideration, they have nobody but themselves to blame for that.  They really haven’t done Omar any favours in the actions they have taken to defend their client, in fact because of some their actions it is easy for me to assume that they have made things worse for Omar, the fact that he has been sitting behind bars for the past 6 plus years is testament to that fact, wouldn’t you agree?

Anyway, Omar Khadr isn’t going to be set free by the Barack Obama, and for Khadr’s lawyers to even suggest that that is a possibility, gives credibility to the following; that they don’t know what the f**k they are talking about, and that when it comes to representing their client’s best interests they are spending too much time hoping that his trial doesn’t go forward, or that he ill be released without having to stand trial.  How stupid of them to suggest to their client that come January after the new commander-in-chief is sworn in, that there is the distinct possibility that he will be set free. Whatever gave them that idea in the first place, did they sit down and have a chat with the president-elect about the case, or did they sit down and chat with somebody in the Democratic Party that is prepared to advance their cause? I would really like to know where they come up with this shit, or if they are just making it up as they go along.

Nevertheless Omar shouldn’t get his hopes up that when Obama takes office that he is going anywhere but a courtroom to answer for his crimes, despite how convincing his lawyers sound about his chances. His lawyers have been letting him down for the past six years (not that I care), and unless Omar fires his legal team he is in for a lot more let downs, and very possibly a lot more years in jail.

Barack Obama might set him free. Khadr’s lawyers can’t be serious.  F**k are they dumb. They don’t know what they are talking about.

The last thing Obama is going to do is give any kind of order that orders for Khadr’s release and repatriation back into Canada.

Khadr is charged with some serious crimes, the kind of crimes that if an adult or child would have committed them in certain states in the U.S. would see them executed if found guilty and the death penalty was on the table.

Obama isn’t going to send Khadr back to Canada without facing a trial and Khadr’s lawyers know that it is a stretch for them to think and then tell their client otherwise.

Like I said many times in Crooked in Canada before, the attorneys for Khadr are a joke, pretty much useless these days, and by the time this case draws to a close (and it will sooner or later-depending on how many more times the defence team delays the inevitable) they won’t have much of a law career left, at least not one they can brag about.

Their defence of Khadr, despite what they might think, is going to hurt their law career more than anything else, if only because they have looked like fools in defence of their client so far.  About the only thing they will be able to do is hang their own shingle, and then they will be hoping that their efforts in the Khadr were enough to have clients breaking their door done looking for legal representation.

At the end of the day and whether I care or not, they are f**king with Omar’s mind-giving him false hope, not that I care or anything given that I am a very biased person in this particular case and the more they f**k with his head the broader my smile gets.

I think Khadr should spend at least another 10 years in a prison cell in either Canada or the United States if he is found guilty of the crimes he is accused of, and that where Barack Obama is concerned I’m almost 100 per cent certain that he will let justice take its course as far as Omar Khadr goes.

Barack Obama isn’t going to intervene on behalf of somebody who is accused of killing an American soldier, especially a person who knowingly and willingly supported terrorism in Afghanistan against the U.S. It isn’t going to play out that way despite what Omar’s lawyers are saying publicly or to him directly.

And last but certainly not least it must really suck for Omar, knowing that he has such an inept legal team, and that there is really nothing he can do about it without harming his case any more than his lawyers already have. That has got to suck for Omar and his family.

Conceivably Omar could receive a lengthy prison term if convicted of the terrorism crimes his is accused of, but I can’t see that happening any more than I can see Omar being tried for his crimes in Canada, which his lawyers have been pressing to see happen for quite a while now. That’s pretty dumb thinking on their part too, and I have to wonder how they managed to get law degrees if they haven’t figured out by now that when you are charged with a crime by the U.S. authorities in the U.S., then you stand trial for that crime in the country that is laying the charges, not some other country as Khadr’s lawyers seem to think.

It doesn’t take a degree to figure that out about how the legal systems of individual countries work, in fact my stepson who just turned 8 years old can figure that one out for himself, and I know if I asked him if I was charged with a crime in Australia would I stand trial in Canada or Australia he would reply, “If you don’t know the answer is Australia, then you are lot more stupid than I thought,” or words to that effect.

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