I mean, is this someone I should know?.
His so-called “child” soldier witnessed the destruction of 9/11. Thus, this so-called “Canadian” chose to fight at the side of foreign terrorists he knew were capable of mass murder. And after finding himself on the losing end of a firefight, this so-called “anxious innocent” watched his one, last “help me” opportunity come and go as he lay in the Afghan dirt.
Instead of grabbing it, he threw a grenade.
So, now he begs?
Omar Khadr deserved to be dispatched then and there. His father might have been dispatched by the Pakistanis, which would have spared everyone a great deal of trouble, were it not for the meddling of Chretien. We made that mistake once – we need not make it again.
So yes, Mr. Good – kill them all. Kill every last one of the wretched vermin and do it before they breed.
I hope he appreciates the traffic bump, whoever he is.
Update – Self described blogging behemoth Matt Good sent a total of 190 visitors to SDA as a result of his July 15th link. Woohoo! Why, that’s nearly 100 a day – bumping the traffic here by nearly 1%, or to look at it another way, by 1/5th the number who arrived at the page via Kathy Shaidle in six hours.
If there ever was a way to impress a backwoods xenophobe about the strength of your readership, I can’t think of a better one. Except perhaps, by mentioning the 70 times you’ve “crossed the country”. Hey, it’s a start!
Upperdate! – unable to prove his “my traffic is bigger than yours” claims, Mr. Good decided that deletion was the better part of valor. Not that it stopped him from whining. Nevermind that Mr. Ad Hominem Is Not Tolerated Here chose to fire the first shot with tired, stereotypical references to “backwoods” Canada that can only be described as abject bigotry. Like every good lefty elitist, Matthew Good’s “multiculturalism” doesn’t include yours.
M. Good was once a small-time Canadian rock musician considered smarter than your average dude with a guitar and a recording contract, which means that he had the good sense to wear clothes appropriate to the weather and open a bank account. Since his brief moment in a sort of post-grunge spotlight, he’s buffed this impression of mere mental competence into a role as esteemed translator of world events into easy-to-adopt attitudes and slogans for young people too busy file-sharing and playing Wii to read a newspaper. He knows that Chomsky is at MIT, and that there’s a pictures of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam Hussein’s hand, and that makes him an expert for his constituency.
That’s pretty much all you need to know, Kate.
Well, as one who has also travelled (lived and worked) across Canada, I agree that most Canucks will not stand for criminal actions.
The real question is GW’s definitions of criminal, torture et al. From the folks that figure “quiet time” is a punshment, being denied an uninterupted 8 hours of sleep is surely torture. Never mind that most people who have been parents would have killed at one time or another for even a couple hours of sleep.
The reality is that most Canadians, if they even have an opinion, really don’t care what happens kill a soldier then you have to suffer the to this teen terrorist. You chuck a grenade and consequences. Period, full stop.
Of course no leftard rant would not be complete with out an ad homen attack and this GW doesn’t let us down. I am only surprised that he didn’t invoke Godwin’s Law.
He’s not that same crummy has been singer from a few years ago is he. Either way, he clearly display’s that he knows nothing about what he blogs about. Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth, or write, and remove all doubt. Thanks for clearing up that matter for us MG.
I wouldn’t stop with that little turd himself, I would deport his entire family on the next boatload of rotten cabbage leaving the harbour.
The soft jihad continues apace, I suppose.
Why Kate, its Matthew Good, another wonderful Cancon product. I want to know why he has a .org web address. He is clearly a commercial enterprise complete with an online store. I did enjoy his characterization of you as a “Conservative mouthpiece from rural Saskatchewan” and “back woods xenophobe”. Hopefully, he did not spill any of his Starbucks non-fat latte on his Birkenstocks while typing so fervently on his Blackberry. You can’t argue with his insight into what Canadians think. After all, he has crossed the nation almost 70 times, and, according to drunk college students everywhere, he is right on the money.
I actually like the music of Good’s old band, The Matthew Good Band, but my impression of him, admittedly from a distance, was that he’s a complete jerk-off (somewhat related: I’ve always wondered if the intro to “Flashdance 2” is real or fake – in it Good yells at a band mate that he’s fired and that the band sucks.).
Needless to say, anyone who posts “manifestos” at his blog – anyone who uses the word “manifesto” – is a raving left wing lunatic. But I repeat myself.
I had a chance to see Good live at an outdoor festival in Mississauga last month, but, remembering the words of Denis Leary – “Don Henley’s gonna tell me how to vote?” – I took a pass and instead went the next night to see blues master Colin James, who was outstanding.
Matthew’s a useful idiot.
See my comments at “A Different Set of Values”, @ 7:12 a.m. today, re the self-referential non-citizens we’re turning out in this country, who are not held accountable for just about anything they do: “It’s not their fault . . . Add excuse”.
Khadr is not protected by the Geneva Convention. At 15, no matter what the reason, he was a dangerous combatant against the West. People like Matthew just don’t seem to get it: when violent ideologues, who are out to destroy our civilization—the very one my grandfathers and dad, and Matthew’s own forbears fought to preserve—are given rights they don’t deserve, we’re all in grave danger. The idea that “little scorpions” aren’t dangerous because they’re small is fantasy thinking.
Re Mr. Khadr’s performance: it happened on the Liberals’ watch. What did they do about it? Given time, probably they’d have done the wrong thing. As a Canadian citizen, I’m thoroughly sick of having to pick up the pieces for a sorry family like the Khadrs—and also be expected to feel sorry for them. I don’t feel sorry for them. I’m damned angry and have no respect for these people—or for government agencies that pander to their dysfunctional and violent aspirations for the hosts who’ve welcomed them to this country.
Matthew’s commentary is the usual, hysterical—in more ways than one!—lefty rant. Maybe he’d like to be Omar’s mentor if he’s returned to Canada. Matthew would pretty quickly find that his “touchy, feely” bromides would not be enough to neutralize Omar’s toxic plans for the rest of us. Useful idiot, for sure. No thanks.
Kate:
Geez, I figured that was a “dead animal” adorning your blog, eh?
Now I discover from Matthew Good that it’s really a “deal animal”.
I reckon ya oughta change yer blog name to “small deal animals”.
After all, that Matthew is a big-city feller so he must know, eh?
I’m all in favour of letting the USA keep our garbage. Too bad the rest of the family wouldn’t just decompose….
Another tiresome leftist bleating about “poor-victim-Al-Qaeda-freedom-fighters”.
As I posted in another thread, “ALSO, have you seen the video (that the US Army captured in Af-stan) showing Omar being trained in bomb-making and [later] planting bombs? That’s the video the Khadr’s lawyers don’t want to talk about. Do a bit of googling, watch the video, then tell me if you still think this was a poor misguided kid acting on the spur of the moment.”
It seems not a lot of people are aware of that tape, which was first aired on US TV, the CBS 60 Minutes news program. The left certainly doesn’t want to bring up the subject. It shows this Omar Khadr for the vicious vermin that he is.
Why Kate, its Matthew Good, another wonderful Cancon product. I want to know why he has a .org web address. He is clearly a commercial enterprise complete with an online store. I did enjoy his characterization of you as a “Conservative mouthpiece from rural Saskatchewan” and “back woods xenophobe”. Hopefully, he did not spill any of his Starbucks non-fat latte on his Birkenstocks while typing so fervently on his Blackberry. You can’t argue with his insight into what Canadians think. After all, he has crossed the nation almost 70 times, and, according to drunk college students everywhere, he is right on the money.
Oh the self righteousness of the left, their moral superiority over those scum citizens who dare take strong exception to terrorists and their actions, their contempt for anyone who would hold terrorists accountable, all of them abuzz with guilt over a crying video, Oh they the stewards of rights and justice …. but not one inquiry about, or concern for, the murdered soldier’s family.
The Americans should have double-tapped Omar Khadr and his brother during the firefight a couple years ago. With that mistake now firmly ingrained in the conscience…..
What Matthew Good and other pro-bring-Omar-the-islamist-terrorist-home people consistently fail to mention is that Canadian civilian rules of law don’t apply in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, Cuba, or in the military theatre. Whether Canada considers a young man of 15-years to be a mere child is irrelevant. Nebulous “International Law” doesn’t apply in the military theatre either, and Khadrs actions place him precisely there.
Military ROE allows soldiers to kill and imprison enemy combatants, whether or not they are trained military personnel wearing military garb or not. The moment a civilian brandishes a weapon and engages the fight, they’re no longer a civilian. It doesn’t matter what they are wearing or whether or not they’ve trained in the military. What matters is their decision to fight. At that precise moment, they exchange their civilian position for that of a combatant. By engaging in the firefight with his father, Omar Khadr willfully placed himself in the realm of military jurisprudence. He also figuratively discarded his Canadian passport and abandoned his Canadian civilian position. He literally assumed a Taliban identity and fought with the enemy against our allies.
His plight is the making of his own hands. As Kate said, he chose to abandon his only chance at help and pitched a grenade instead.
He should be prosecuted accordingly. To me, he’s a Taliban combatant; not Canadian. He abandoned his citizenship when he fought for the Taliban. Any Canadian who fights for a terrorist organization abandons his citizenship, and he or she can rot in prison if they aren’t dumped in theatre as far as I’m concerned.
Bring Khadr home? Never.
I think the US has learned its lesson – except for a few high-value targets, there really is very little value in taking them prisoner. It’s not a matter of capping them per se, rather when engaged, just bring down overwhelming fire and hit so hard and fast that the jihadis don’t even have the time to surrender.
One incredibly misinformed and moronic Jay Bowcott left this comment on his blog:
I feel for this kid.. It’s not his fault at all that Americans were attacking his family.. They have different values than we do and a different perspective on life.. They wont factor that into the court case, poor kid, he just has major separation anxiety from his family. I can’t imagine the pain he is going through day after day being in that piece of garbage of a prison. This is depressing and extremely unfair for him, if I had the choice I would probably just let him go and keep an eye on him. He only killed in self defense and in the united states that is not even a crime.
Looking at the quality of the comments it appears that Matthew Good is an idiot magnet.
Having grown up in the same town around the same age, to see his smarmy self-centered view of the world gives me a laugh. His snobby references to rural Saskatchewan, backwoods xenophobia reflects nicely what his hometown was during his childhood. White and rural. And yet that was good enough to produce a “rock star” like Matthew Good.
Go play to your dwindling crowds, live off your back catalog. Cancon and all that and we don’t even hear your music being played on the airwaves anymore. That speaks volumes.
Who needs “Matthew Good” when we have Romeo Dallaire?
Romeo Dallaire, decorated Hero, witnessed the Rwandan genocide as a Peace Keeper, O of C recipient and now a Senator and now spouting off as a Liberal, calling for the return of the Lefty branded “CHILD SOLDIER” to face Canadian Justice.
He ought to be ashamed of himself, of course Liberals have no shame, power trumps all.
Never mind the interrogators were Canadian in the video the Liberals are now USING for ammunition against Harper, IT WAS OUR CSIS WHO WERE ABUSING THE POOR LITTLE INNOCENT BOY!
This is nothing more than another attempt by the Liberals to get at Harper. The video was available when the Liberals were in power, why was it not put out then?
The MSM is trying to portray his old lady as his poor long suffering “Mom”. Are they trying to have us believe his “Mom” thought he was playing in the sand with his toys when he went off with his father to a combat zone? Do they think a 15 year old lobbying a grenade is less deadly than a one being tossed by an adult?
This is another desperate attempt by the Liberals to get Harper. This is one that should backfire badly, it not, this country is LOST.
Ditto Kate. I think he will get a fair trial in the U.S. and I hope they have the death penalty waiting for him.
Can his mother be deported?
Reading that hogwash makes me wonder if Mr. Good wasn’t far more grievously injured than even he claimed when he took that shoe to the head several years ago at Buffalo Days. Rarely have I seen such uninformed, hysterical twaddle put out for public consumption. It is like watching Jack Layton channel Eric Margolis with a dash of Gwynn Dyer thrown in (leather jacket and all). Another good reason to dump the Canadian content requirement for radio stations.
His politics may be out of whack and the drugs may have addled his brain but his music is enjoyable. Beautiful Midnight was a good CD.
His politics may be out of whack and the drugs may have addled his brain but his music is enjoyable. Beautiful Midnight and Underdogs were good CD’s.
I have a couple of his CD’s too I really like his music.
In the music industry he is considered quite the Ahole as he has critized other bands work in public.
He made comments like Nickeback sucks they are unoriginal. This was after he lost a Juno to them.
Those US soldiers are better men than me I would have put one right between the punks eyes.
Isn’t this the same guy that got all bent out of shape when a shoe was thrown at him at buffalo days after he trash talked Regina…
I guess grenades would have been ok…
There is no evidence he has been tortured, CSIS gave him a sub for Christ Sake. They didn’t water board him, beat him or make him eat bacon.
Now getting a sub is torture, can the leftards really sink any lower? Crawling into bed with terrorist and calling it tolerance, this country is doomed if these retards ever get control.
Liz J, I’m hoping you’re right about the CBC etc. “All Khadr, all the time, boo hoo” garbage.
Honestly, I think the more sympathetic exposure the MSM give this toxic family–trying to spin it so we’ll feel sorry for them–the more people are informed about and disgusted by their crass opportunism and gall.
You’re right though: if Canadians are fooled, we’re closer to being burnt toast–probably by someone like “poor little” Omar!
Personally I hope that all the retired Ont. NDP premiers and all the retire generals now sitting as senators and all the Matthew Goods of Canada keep bleetin about bringing the young taliban back to Canada. Everytime they open their mouths another dozen voters pledge not to vote Liberal.
What was he doing in Af’stan?
Why haven’t the parents been charged with forcing him to become a “child soldier”?
Where are the treason charges?
I do agree we should repatriate him. Then charge him with treason and have him executed if found guilty.
Kate’s SDA just gave Mathew Good a blog hit jolt he could only dream of in his leftist political dream world.
Sadly like most other CanCom Canadian artists, tilting to the Socialist world of Taliban Jack Layton, their hearts bleed for terrorists, particularly if they have Canadian citizenship.
While Good may well be a decent musician, he certainly is deep into the pinko commie view of politics.
Thank God for Saskatchewan ‘s conservative voice in this country.
Yes, Catherine McMillan, that would be you!!
In a different time and a different era without the scrutiny of the media and instant communications , the US probably would have done things differently as did the British during their reign as a super power.
If this had occurred 80-100 years ago , in lieu of Gitmo Cuba , the US might have had the USS Gitmo which sailed endlessly in the middle of the southern Atlantic with it’s Al-Quaeda “passengers” dropping them off one by one over the stern once they had exhausted their usefulness.
… amazing how present day political correctness has solved all the ills of the world.
To steal from Bill Whittle: Humiliation is not the same as torture. That’s why the two are spelled differently.
Those on the left say that practices at Guantanamo are no better than the practices carried out by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban…and then they accuse conservatives of seeing everything in terms of black and white.
Morons.
By the way, for those “enlightened” lefties who would like to better understand why Guantanamo exists and why those being held there are not “soldiers” but instead are considered “unlawful combatants, your mind can be opened here…
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000125.html
Dave in PA, please find and post a link to that video, it should begin circulating again.
Let’s end this idiocy now. Khadr is NOT A CHILD SOLDIER
Child soldier charges in the first International Criminal Court case
The Hague, 28 August 2006
ICC-OTP-20060828-157-En
Situation: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Case: The Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a former leader of a militia group at war in the North Eastern Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has been formally charged by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with enlisting and conscripting CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 15 (caps are mine for emphasis) and using them to participate actively in hostilities. A confirmation hearing has been set for 28 September. If the charges are confirmed at this hearing, Lubanga’s case will be the first trial before the International Criminal Court and the first time that an individual has been brought before an international court solely on the basis of these crimes.
http://www.icc-cpi.int/press/pressreleases/174.html
The only funtioning legal statute used to actually convict people of recruiting child soldiers uses an UNDER 15 not 15 and Under definition.
Let’s use facts rather than assertions.
I resent the Leftist Media hacks making her out to be the all Canadian “Mom”, Omar’s poor “Mom”, a la “Mom and apple pie”. I repeat, SHE SAID SHE WOULD BE PROUD TO HAVE HER SONS MARTYR THEMSELVES FOR THE CAUSE”. That means suicide bombing innocent people,Infidels of course.
Bet that old lady makes one MEAN apple pie.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, grok. Authorities are no longer allowed to act as authorities. Charter cases, ruled by too many leftie moron judges, go against the authorities (parents, teachers, principals, and cops) altogether too often.
Excercising one’s legal authority can get one in a lot of trouble. Ergo, the troublemakers get off scott free. What a mess.
I also think that Omar Khadr should be released from an American detention centre.In fact,he should never have been sent there at all.Neither should any other detainies have been sent there.THEY SHOULD ALL BE IN A PRISON CAMP IN AFGANISTAN UNDER AFGAN CONTROL!Omar Khadr should immeadiatly be sent to Afganistan and placed under Afgan jurisdiction.He was’nt taken prisoner in the USA, he had made the journey to Afganistan and was a combatant there and should be imprisoned there.Even now,its the Afgan govt.that should have the say in what happens to Omar Khadr.
“grok”:
“Why haven’t the parents been charged with forcing him to become a ‘child soldier’?
Where are the treason charges?”
You are right on both counts. Whatever happened to “treason”? Too scary and unfashionable these days?
And if anyone should be hit for child abuse, it’s the parents.
I believe PM Harper has this pegged: given our present legalistic approach to combatting terrorism, if we repat the guy, the whole family will end up with millions in damages at taxpayer expense while CSIS will no doubt be disbanded.
Well I kinda thought that was a little dead something on your blog site Kate, and scrolling down there is another dead something, is this a trend we should be aware of?
Mr, Good is entitled to hold his opinion however misguided, even mr. Dallaire has chimed in people were slaughtered on his watch and he was not able to respond because of U N “rules of engagement” so now he is a Lieberal senator. Omar Kadhr and his whole toxic clan should be deported to whateverstan. His “mothers stated view is, she hates us, she is so proud of her little jihadey,what a side show. Of course this is one more stick to beat Harper and the Conservatives with. Matthew Good is just one more snotty little lefty, who has somehow formed the opinion that the lieberano heartfelt hug for the little terrorists will make it all better. I agree Khadar should not be in Gitmo he should have been transformed into his highest use..I E fertilizer.
cheers Bubba
I don’t seem to recall as much anguish from the media and artists (I use that word loosely) when Canadian Zahra Kazemi was murdered in Iran. Or Bill Sampson threatened with execution in Saudi Arabia.
And they had the distinction of being entirely innocent and not fighting for a group that was actively murdering Canadian civilians.
Perhaps the media could ask the relatives of the Canadians killed on 9/11 how they feel about reuniting the Khadr’s?
Disregard the picture of the ‘child soldier’ happily displaying the severed hands of presumably dead allies.
Disregard that the mother said that she wished all her children would die as martyrs, presumably killing Canadians.
Disregard the family’s stated hatred towards Canada and their bigotry and racism.
Disregard that they abused our health and welfare system for years in order to assist their treachery against us.
Disregard that this treasonous, so-called Canadian fought against our soldiers and allies on behalf of an invading terrorist army that acknowledges no Geneva convention; that operates under the strictest form of shariah; that butchers women just for fun.
Disregard all forms of morality, justice, reason and logic – and what you have left is a creature called Matthew Good and his scumbag band of moonbats.
Hey c’mon, Matthew Good is a has-been cancon artist of sorts. He is accustomed to the minor fame and all the college pu$$y that got him. He knows thata as he continues to share the juvenile cowardly opinions of big city college girls, he can still get laid and feel that he is ‘contributing’.
I never listened to his music, because I know what real music is. Vitruvius knows too. Canada has far too many guitar strumming, vocal bleating idiots already.
Matty, if we don’t get tougher on our sworn enemies and they happen to take us over in this century, I can assure you that assholes like you Matt, your fairy Starbuck slurping pals will lose their heads as hippie infidels. Either that or you will have to give up music entirely, grow a big beard and pray five times a day whilst smeeling the feet and staring at the big old butt of the man praying a few inches ahead of you.
And oh ya, your little bed mate sweeties will be repeatedly raped by a lot of big stupid smelly radical Muslims who will see them as whores, and maybe kill them afterward, especially if they don’t happen to have any cigarettes.
Now Matty, that Khadr kid is one of those vermin.
On a similar note … Any bets on whether or not the fat kid from the Bare Naked Lardos goes to jail for cocaine and pot possession in New York State?
To Mr. Good and all those who would gladly embrace young Omar and his All-Canadian family. Three words.
Christopher James Speer
Look it up.
Or Bill Sampson threatened with execution in Saudi Arabia. And they had the distinction of being entirely innocent.
NO, not innocent. Sampson was a) white and b) English-accented c) quite outspoken about Liberal malfeasance.
But seriously, this is the point I made over and over again with friends during the Arar affair. Arar was presumed to have been tortured with no actual evidence whatsoever. And ironically, that presumption is kinda racist, if you think about it.
Isn’t that the Matthew Good Band giving a free “street” performance two threads down?
I’ve always considered artsy types to be idiot savants like the rain man.
They do their little arty entertainment thing well (in some cases) but they are total retards and walking disasters in every other area of life.
I’m not a Mat Good fan so I can continue ignoring his existence but some of my favourite bands are Radiohead and Pearl Jam. I tune out VERY quickly any time they stop playing and start talking. Their politics make Matty look like Ann Ryand.
You wouldn’t take any sort of advice from a crack whore or lunatic. Entertainers are sort of like that. Take them for what they are: over-paid children.
I think that Matthew has received the shock of his life. First, he has received more views in one day then he has ever received since his blogs inception. Second, not all Canadians are obedient to the American socialist movement.
Khadr is scheduled to be tried before a US military commission in October on five wartime charges. I’m betting the charges will stick as there were enough witnesses.
Perhaps the compassionate morons commenting at Matthew Good’s blog are unaware that to quote Michelle Malkin, Khadr…“is a suspected al-Qaida soldier accused of lobbing the hand grenade that killed Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, a 28-year-old medic with the U.S. Special Forces. At least one eyewitness said Khadr was no confused little boy. He knew exactly what he was doing: trying to kill Americans.” That little rodent lobbed that grenade, mind you, after he surrendered and while he was being processed as such.
Here’s Christopher Speer’s funeral with this additional information about him: “Six days before he received the wounds that killed him, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer walked into a minefield to rescue two wounded Afghan children, according to fellow soldiers.”
One on the failings of a mindless moral equivocating lefty is an inability to judge with clarity the difference between good and evil when faced with such obvious symmetry. There couldn’t be a bigger contrast than Christopher Speer and Khadr.
I don’t give a damn what age Khadr was/is if he’s found guilty, he’s got a mind as old as evil itself. He can rot for life.
Who is Mat Good?
He’s exactly the kind of person who give a crap about Kahdr and family.
Not that he’d ever DO anything about it!
But he CARES ……
I have some sympathy for Omar Khadr. He was a victim of an absolutely atrocious family and in an ideal world, he would be set free to return home. However, this is not an ideal world and Omar Khadr has to be made an example of to demonstrate to other would-be homegrown jihadis that Canada will not come to your aid. If you want to make jihad against Canada and its allies, you will face the consequences alone.
As a practical matter, this is why there are no new arrivals at Gitmo. It has been made clear to troops that the moral relativist twits and ACLU windbags amongst us will sooner ot later free these little murderers to murder again. As happened in the Pacific during World War II when attempts to capture Japanese were met with suicidal grenade attacks, it’s only sane to kill the little bastards when they’re out in the open, pre-emptively solving the problem.
Or, as someone once told me, “Two in the chest, then one in the head.”
Grim, yes — but they don’t come back to kill you later!