Trudeau: Canadians rightfully angry after Ottawa pays $31.25M to men falsely imprison
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You know, the story here is who turned these people over to the forces of evil?
It's all fine and good to pay the victims off but how about punishing the guilty?
Who committed the various crimes that have resulted in a $30 million bill for the Canadian taxpayer? Why are they not being held accountable?
It's all fine and good to pay the victims off but how about punishing the guilty?
Who committed the various crimes that have resulted in a $30 million bill for the Canadian taxpayer? Why are they not being held accountable?
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You have no idea who runs the black prisons over there?? Seriously?? Try the US and all of her cohorts, including Canada.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.c...oom-and-bust-of-the-cias-secret-torture-sites
Revealed: The boom and bust of the CIA’s secret torture sites
In spring 2003 an unnamed official at CIA headquarters in Langley sat down to compose a memo. It was 18 months after George W Bush had declared war on terror. “We cannot have enough blacksite hosts,” the official wrote. The reference was to one of the most closely guarded secrets of that war – the countries that had agreed to host the CIA’s covert prison sites.
Between 2002 and 2008, at least 119 people disappeared into a worldwide detention network run by the CIA and facilitated by its foreign partners.
Lawyers, journalists and human rights organisations spent the next decade trying to figure out whom the CIA had snatched and where it had put them. A mammoth investigation by the US Senate’s intelligence committee finally named 119 of the prisoners in December 2014. It also offered new insights into how the black site network functioned – and gruesome, graphic accounts of abuses perpetrated within it.
Many of those 119 had never been named before.
The report’s 500-page summary, which contained the CIA official’s 2003 remarks, was only published after months of argument between the Senate committee, the CIA and the White House. It was heavily censored, while the full 6,000-page study it was based on remains secret. All names of countries collaborating with the CIA in its detention and interrogation operations were removed, along with key dates, numbers, names and much other material.
In nine months of research, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Rendition Project have unpicked these redactions to piece together the hidden history of the CIA’s secret sites. This account unveils many of the censored passages in the report summary, drawing on public data sources such as flight records, aviation contracts, court cases, prisoner testimonies, declassified government documents and media and NGO reporting.
Although many published accounts of individual journeys through the black site network exist, this is the first comprehensive portrayal of the system’s inner dynamics from beginning to end.
A wonderful example of why this site can't attract new members. Assholes from wall-to-wall. Torture is now a joke as long as it is a Muslim while at the same time the collective are rabid animals when it comes to protecting the Jews from any condemnation about anything. Somebody should balance that out perhaps.
I don't disagree that the Trudeau government is a joke. Jean Steel is another sad part of our history. I do, however support compensating these men because they were not engaged in anything, but being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Whether they are Muslim is irrelevant.
I do think the payout was over the top, but then that standard has been set with 10.5 million to Omar Khadr, who should not have received a dime.
Actually, the standard was set at $100,000 for Canadians. The current govt has settled very quietly with others who were also affected by the same "program" Jean Steel went through even before they decided to award Khadr $10 million.
As I said, if you're a naturally born Canadian and a victim of Canadian govt actions, you get squat compared to what some foreigner will get.
Same with refugees. Canada has spent what now, over $2 billion on the Syrians? Yet while Trudeau has been in power Canada has had 10s of thousands of its own refugees after 3 major natural disasters. And what kind of federal assistance did they receive? Bubkis.
The simple, sad fact is if you're a naturally born Canadian you aren't important enough for Trudeau to give a shit about.
The $10 million dollar awards are nothing more than another version of virtue signalling. Get tortured for years in Canada at the hands of the Canadian and US govt and these Liberals quietly and almost secretly award you a pittance. Get tortured in a Middle Eastern prison because of Canadian govt incompetence or simple lack of concern and Trudeau feels the need to announce to the world how magnanimous he is with foreign-born Canadians who were tortured and unjustly treated.
I agree that the three men in the OP should be compensated for what happened to them. But that compensation should only be the same as the compensation that Canadians who were tortured in Canada received. Being awarded 100 times the amount for going through the same bullshit as a naturally-born Canadian just because of where you're originally from is racism, pure and simple.
That is certainly supported by the lack of compensation for the ones who were in Residential Schools. All of them were kidnapped rather than the families were pushing the kids into those schools.
Harper was Prime Minister for 72 years and never gave anything for domestic disaster relief.
The only time it was ever given was Fort Mac. That was Paul Martin I think.
Trudeau has given $1 million in direct aid to the Ottawa river displaced families this spring and they have pledged to match Red Cross donations for families displaced by fire in BC this summer. That will be millions.
BTW this whole thing was