If you call up someone in the Syrian government and ask them to take jurisdiction of a Canadian citizen and torture the shit out of them to find out what they know, then you are essentially acting under Syrian Law rather than under the laws of this country or the laws of Canada. Now, I’m sure that Syria has many fine laws, but their laws don’t determine what it is legal to do in this country.
I also find it strange that people in our government thought it was a good idea to trust Syria to torture the shit out of people and give us reliable information emanating from that torture when we don’t trust them on anything else and even find it necessary and desirable to bomb them (or acquiesce in the Israelis bombing them) from time to time.
If I had my way, everyone involved in using Syria as our proxy torture chamber would suffer the same fate as Saddam Hussein. Is there a reasonable interpretation of my opinion that judges me as a radical?
