National Post:Ottawa professor facing extradition over anti-Semitic bombing in Paris…
14 Replies to “Those Moderate Sociology Profs!”
I thought we had sent him off a couple years ago. Or is this another one?
Keyword here is he’s “facing” extradition,believe it when it happens but rest assured his legals will be mucking around with the courts for a few more years. This is Canada, where the Trudeau Charter protects all and sundry who set foot on our soil, some prove to be more equal than others when the Supremes get to work on THEIR interpretations of the Trudeau Charter.
Everyone deserves a fair trial and a full examination and challenge of the evidence. Even terrorists.
Gotta love the caption under the first photo:
“The RCMP arrested Hassan Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, in November 2008 in response to a request by France. He had worked as a contract instructor at two Ottawa universities before his world was turned upside-down.” (Emphasis added)
So, is this some sort of a plea to the readers for empathy? How about a photo of the victims “before their worlds were turned upside down”?
Lame… Ottawa Citizen/CP levels of lame.
Send him to France already. Canada would be a better place with one less sociology prof.
And one of those universities is the University of Ottawa. Big surprise there. One of the worst universities in Canada. But then with Allan Rock running the gong show, what would you expect?
And 15 gets you 20 the Supremes will rule that if he can’t be tried to the same standards as he would get in a Canadian trial (special advocates, judges seeing the intelligence), he shouldn’t be extradited. That’s the shit they pull with anyone to be extradited to the U.S. to face the death penalty; the death penalty isn’t allowed in Canada, so a Canadian can’t be extradited to face it. It’s extrajurisdictional application of Canadian law. We wouldn’t tolerate a foreign court ruling that our judicial system doesn’t meet their standards, or a Texas court only agreeing to extradite someone to Canada for a murder committed here if said murderer faces the death penalty (chuckle), but our berobed rulers presume to do that to other jurisdictions all the time.
There are many people who don’t deserve any of that. I always thought the point of trying to give everyone a fair trial anyway was to avoid those who do deserve it missing theirs.
e.g. if this sociology professor did what they think he did, he doesn’t deserve any consideration, but until the evidence has been presented and judged we don’t know that. So we owe the execution of due process to ourselves. That’s how we stay civilized.
I believe the burden is on France to provide enough evidence to suggest his implication in this crime. If that evidence exists, how it was obtained should have little relevance, as long as it was done legally. If that evidence exists, ship him over and let him counter their claims. I doubt Canada would send him to France if there was insufficient evidence to suggest he was involved in a terrorist act.
wmd
I’m conflicted but if the rules of evidence in Fwance, are so bad, I’d cut him some slack.
Gaaaawwd I hate having to say that…..
Rogue Male is right. To hold other democratic nations’ courts to our own specific standards is the extraterritorial application of Canadian law.
I thought we had sent him off a couple years ago. Or is this another one?
Keyword here is he’s “facing” extradition,believe it when it happens but rest assured his legals will be mucking around with the courts for a few more years. This is Canada, where the Trudeau Charter protects all and sundry who set foot on our soil, some prove to be more equal than others when the Supremes get to work on THEIR interpretations of the Trudeau Charter.
Everyone deserves a fair trial and a full examination and challenge of the evidence. Even terrorists.
Gotta love the caption under the first photo:
“The RCMP arrested Hassan Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, in November 2008 in response to a request by France. He had worked as a contract instructor at two Ottawa universities before his world was turned upside-down.” (Emphasis added)
So, is this some sort of a plea to the readers for empathy? How about a photo of the victims “before their worlds were turned upside down”?
Lame… Ottawa Citizen/CP levels of lame.
Send him to France already. Canada would be a better place with one less sociology prof.
And one of those universities is the University of Ottawa. Big surprise there. One of the worst universities in Canada. But then with Allan Rock running the gong show, what would you expect?
I agree, and his trial waiting for him in Paris.
Theme song of moderate sociology profs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d8wztHhCrQ
And 15 gets you 20 the Supremes will rule that if he can’t be tried to the same standards as he would get in a Canadian trial (special advocates, judges seeing the intelligence), he shouldn’t be extradited. That’s the shit they pull with anyone to be extradited to the U.S. to face the death penalty; the death penalty isn’t allowed in Canada, so a Canadian can’t be extradited to face it. It’s extrajurisdictional application of Canadian law. We wouldn’t tolerate a foreign court ruling that our judicial system doesn’t meet their standards, or a Texas court only agreeing to extradite someone to Canada for a murder committed here if said murderer faces the death penalty (chuckle), but our berobed rulers presume to do that to other jurisdictions all the time.
There are many people who don’t deserve any of that. I always thought the point of trying to give everyone a fair trial anyway was to avoid those who do deserve it missing theirs.
e.g. if this sociology professor did what they think he did, he doesn’t deserve any consideration, but until the evidence has been presented and judged we don’t know that. So we owe the execution of due process to ourselves. That’s how we stay civilized.
I believe the burden is on France to provide enough evidence to suggest his implication in this crime. If that evidence exists, how it was obtained should have little relevance, as long as it was done legally. If that evidence exists, ship him over and let him counter their claims. I doubt Canada would send him to France if there was insufficient evidence to suggest he was involved in a terrorist act.
wmd
I’m conflicted but if the rules of evidence in Fwance, are so bad, I’d cut him some slack.
Gaaaawwd I hate having to say that…..
Rogue Male is right. To hold other democratic nations’ courts to our own specific standards is the extraterritorial application of Canadian law.