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They’re all alike, aren’t they?

It turns out that it might be a war crime if Canadian armed forces are handing over prisoners to a government that's known to torture them (they're not talking about the United States in this case; no, this one is about handing them over to the Afghani puppet government, which isn't quite the same.) This is a surprisingly civilized arrangement that you'd think that every western country would do; when you offer quarter, the moral thing to do is to not then fling your captives into the the local torture chambers. But, alas, the Canadian branch of the Evil Party now runs the country, so the simple solution of not handing prisoners over to torturers is not the one to follow. No, the CPC has been paying attention to the fledgling fascist state to their south, and they've got a much more politically correct way to deal with the problem:

1. "I don't consider this war." --Defence Ministor O'Connor, interviewed on CTV
2. Captured fighters don't deserve these rights because this isn't a war between countries, says Lieutenant-General Michel Gauthier, who commands the Canadian Expeditionary Forces Command and thus oversees all Canadian Forces deployed abroad.

So, it's officially OK to chuck your prisoners into torture chambers, because the standards of SIMPLE HUMAN DECENCY might get in the way of ramming your little brown nose up between the buttocks of the B*sh junta.

Christ. This is what happens when a secular society begins to fray. The thrice-damned religious lunatics take over the government and begin to systematically apply every evil practice that their little pretend religions officially forbid.

Torture. Approved by the Canadian government. It doesn't take much washing to make one fundamentalist look like the rest of them, does it?

(links via Creekside)

—orc Wed May 31 09:09:09 2006

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