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Cheap shot?
Black might try asking shareholders whose funds he abused
about cheap shots.
He is British, too.
So "British criminal' is a factual statement.
And, please, does anyone believe that any ordinary
former-Canadian would receive such treatment?
I don't doubt that Black made no underhanded efforts in
achieving this - after all, any evidence of that would blow him out of the
water.
But there are implicit understandings in such matters, and
Black has associates who undoubtedly spoke on his behalf to the minister,
including a bit of the old "nudge, nudge, wink, wink."
You can certainly place a large bet of Black's being a
future substantial campaign-fund provider to Harper and Co, and isn't that what
all this was about?
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"I can hardly
wait for Khadar's return to Canada. Most here who are blasting Conrad Black
will be marching arm in arm with the likes of Amnesty International..."
Khader is a mistreated child soldier. He was 15 years old
when American soldiers blasted him in the back and dragged him off to secret
prison and torture for years.
He is also a legal Canadian citizen.
There are no parallels with Black, none.
To say there are is willful ignorance.
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"While you may
not find Conrad Black a likeable man, he has nevertheless served his time and
thus paid his debt to society."
Yes, he has paid his debt, but that debt was to American
society.
And his only claim to citizenship or residence is British.
Now, you explore the possibilities of a convicted felon
being given such special treatment by Canada in other circumstances.
Indeed, going the other way, a convicted felon is excluded
from the United States.
