Yeah, Canada, act like a country!

Few bleeding-heart lawyers, speaking on behalf of the Canadian Bar Association want the government to bring Omar Khadr "back home". Those calls are supported by some other activists that call on Canada to "act like a country" by bringing "home" a foreign combatant with a Canadian passport of convenience - whom they consider to be "our kid".

Well, there's only one thing on which I agree with those guys - Canada needs to start acting like a country. A country that doesn't afraid to take control of immigration, ensuring that only those who are able and willing to become Canadians (not something-Canadians and not Canadian passport holders living someplace else) are allowed to set foot on Canadian soil.

I'd like Canada to act like a country. One that not only grants newcomers the right to vote and the advantage of a visa-free travel but demands some responsibilities in return. Among them - a responsibility to provide for themselves and to obey the laws, which usually includes the responsibility not to engage in an armed combat against peacekeeping forces from one's new country.

We're deporting Nazi war criminals and taking their citizenship away because they obtained it fraudulently. The Khadr family is even worse because they're not in their 80s or 90s; they can still do a lot of damage.

As for Omar, he is a killer, not a "child soldier" (like those in Sri Lanka); he knew exactly what he was doing.

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Those bleeding-heart whackos who feel sorry for Khadr & Co better remember that becoming a Canadian citizen is a privilege, not a right to which everyone is "entitled". It's time for Canada to act like a country and take away this privilege from those who chose to abuse it.

And another thing:

Khadr, a member of a Toronto family that had strong links to the al-Qaeda movement, has been imprisoned at Guantanamo for the past five years — only one year less than the maximum possible sentence he could get for murder in a Canadian court.

(The Globe And Mail)

Six years is the maximum possible sentence for murder?! If so, let this Khadr stay in Guantanamo for the longest possible time. At least there he'll be kept behind bars with no regards to "special circumstances", "undue hardship" and other nonsense that would make Khadr eligible for an early release here.