I’m pulling for the Mounties

There is absolutely nothing honorable …

nothing patriotic …

nothing heroic …

nothing noble …

in what Americans who represented and acted for every citizen did to this gentleman …

in our name.

I would never thank such criminals for their service regardless of where and how they served. They have not made of the United States a safer place nor revealed America as some beacon on a hill that serves as the global measure for freedom.

Canada asking the U.S. : Why did you do this to an innocent Canadian?

Yeah … I would like to not only know the answer to that question, but listen to and observe the twisting and dodging responses of those actual moral cowards who perpetrated this horrendous crime - all the while pretending to be protecting America.

 

By Amy Goodman

  Federal authorities are investigating whether officials of the government south of the border participated in a citizen’s kidnapping and torture—Canadian authorities, that is, investigating the possible role of U.S. officials in the “extraordinary rendition” of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. “Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for arresting someone and secretly sending him to another country, where he is likely to be tortured. Arar revealed that, for the past four years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been investigating possible roles of U.S. and Syrian officials in his rendition and torture. This announcement follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that it will not consider Arar’s case, ending his pursuit of justice through U.S. courts.

Arar is the Canadian citizen seized by U.S. officials while changing planes in New York, heading home from a family vacation in September 2002. He was secretly sent to Syria by the Bush administration, where he was held for almost a year in a gravelike cell. He was repeatedly tortured, then returned home to Canada, without charge, a broken man. In 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit in U.S. federal court on Arar’s behalf as he recovered in Canada. While his legal case came to an end this week, his fight against impunity continues.

…If the RCMP charges U.S. officials with complicity in the abduction and torture of Arar, it would put the strong extradition treaty between the U.S. and Canada to the test. In the meantime, the Center for Constitutional Rights is encouraging people to contact the White House and their representatives in Congress to demand redress for Arar, including an apology, his removal from the terrorist watch list, financial damages, an investigation and assurances that no one else will suffer a similar fate.