Dear Editor,
In regards to Mr. Bowling’s letter to the Throwing Strikes column about Omar Khadr (published in the July 18 issue of the Town &Country).
Canada is operating on difficult financing so we are borrowing money to give to an admitted murder/terrorist who was in Afghanistan, killing and maiming Canadian and US soldiers. When captured by US forces, he was cared for by them. While incarcerated by the US gov’t, not Canadian gov’t, he was subjected to sleep deprivation techniques. This is not comparable to having your head cut off, burned alive or drowned. His fingernails and toenails were not pulled out, nor did he have any broken bones. He was awakened every three hours. This was the extent of his “torture.”
How many hours sleep do parents with a baby that has colic get per night?
How many farmers are up all hours of the night looking after animals or trying to get in or take off a crop? How much of this 10.5 million dollars is going to end up in the hands of Jihadists? How many heart, hip, knee or cancer surgeries could have be done with this money?
In Afghan culture, fifteen-year-olds are considered to be an adult. In Canadian courts, fifteen-year-olds can be moved up to adult court.
Mr. Khadr has been well compensated for his lack of sleep by this Jihadi sympathetic Liberal government.
Eleanore Zotzman
Sangudo
