There is nothing useful on this web site.
Even though the internet is the source of all truth, the only truth here is that everything else is a lie.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.- Oscar Wilde
Last Thursday Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced in the
House of Commons that …the government will comply with the court
order
with respect to issuing an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik.
The court order he refers to was a June 4 ruling by Federal Court of Canada
Justice Zinn.
A website called PeoplesCommission.org provides a wealth of information on the Abdelrazik case, including Justice Zinn's decision. I discovered this site on the Rabble.ca website, which has become a favorite of mine for news that doesn't make the news.
For what it's worth, a special thanks to Paul Koring of the Globe and Mail for the great journalism you have given us. Keep up the great work!
And a special thanks to Paul Dewar (NDP, Ottawa Centre) for his efforts in the House and in committee to advance Abdelrazik's case.
So now I await on news on Abou's homecoming.
On December 28, 2008, the Canadian government offered Abousfian Abdelrazik an emergency passport if he could produce a fully paid airline ticket home.[2]
This is a bit of a challenge because Abdelrazik was put on the UN Security Council's list of international terrorist suspects in 2006. Some suggest this was done at Canada's request. Those on the list have their assets frozen by member states.[1]
He has never been charged or convicted of any offence in spite of extensive interrogation and investigation by CSIS and the RCMP. They have both cleared the man. So have the Sudanese authorities. Sudan has offered to fly him home. Canada refused.
But the government keeps coming up with one lame excuse after another, changing the rules, changing the reasons.
Abdelrazik is now destitute. For the last year he has been sleeping in the lobby of the Canadian Embassy in Sudan.
But that didn't stop the The Canadian government warning that anyone offering him money for a ticket home could be charged with supporting terrorism.[2][3]
More than 160 Canadians defied that warning and together donated over $1000 and bought Abdelrazik a one-way ticket with an airline willing to fly him home.
Hours before the plane was scheduled to leave on April 3, 2009, the government informed Abdelrazik's lawyer of their new rules. The letter is shown below.
Now the government is claiming Abdelrazik is a national security threat. They want him to confess to being an al-Qaeda operative.[4]
Click on either of the pictures above to send an email. Maybe ask them what they are thinking, or let them know what you think about their recent style of governance.