O'Lielly: Canada Boycott until Army Private CO RETURNED by Ottawa!

[Dems Will Win]

US deserter bids to stay in Canada

A flood of conscientious objectors to America’s ‘new Vietnam’ in Iraq is set to pour across the border if a US Army private wins a landmark case against his extradition. Paul Gains reports from Toronto


A Toronto immigration judge is due to hear an extraordinary case July 7, which could have serious ramifications for the US occupation of Iraq. Jeremy Hinzman, a US army private, deserted his post and fled to Canada over the New Year holiday with his wife and infant son. He has retained a Toronto immigration lawyer to help him remain in the country and thereby evade punishment. If he is successful in applying for refugee status it could open a floodgate of desertions.

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Hinzman is aware there are enormous consequences to his actions. There is a 60-year statute of limitations on desertion. If he were to return to the United States, at the very least, he would face a lengthy prison term. Desertion in time of war is also punishable by death.

Naturally, veterans’ groups and the US media have been outspoken in their criticism. The Fox Television personality Bill O’Reilly has called for a boycott of Canadian goods until Hinzman and another deserter living in Canada are returned to face courts martial.

Hinzman has also been the target of vicious hate mail and several death threats through a website that has been set up for him by Lefty Lucy Communications – a Nova Scotia-based group of peace activists.
Some say they have taken up a collection to pay bounty hunters to track him down, kidnap him and take him back to the United States.


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30 May 2004

http://www.sundayherald.com/42337

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

tHIS COULD HAVE BIG RAMIFICATIONS, FOLKS! JULY 7 HEARING!

[TrogL]

1. This isn't gonna fly

Hinzman should have checked first.

Canada is not accepting political refugees from the United States - yet.

If Dubya had instituted the draft, Hinzman might have had a better chance.

I'll be very surprised if Immigration Canada changes their policy.

[Lautremont]

2. O'Highley can

threaten in one hand and crap in the other and see which fills up first.

I'm not sure what that means either, but I hope we let the dude stay up here.

[TrogL]

4. The timing is wrong

unless this drags on until after the election.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Lautremont!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Canuckistanian]

3. If there is a draft for this war, I'm starting an underground railway.

Draft dodgers are welcome up here. I actually knew a couple. Nice folks who became good citizens.
:hi:

[Columbia]

5. I don't think I've ever seen anything that said "Made in Canada" on them

Not a very effective boycott it would seem.

[Ekova]

7. True,

Most boxes in Canada seem to be made in China...

Bill might be upset to find out that the buses * has been stumping in were made in Canada. I guess the campaign trail is now by train.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Yes, you have. If there is French and Spanish on the package

it's been shipped in under Nafta. I am in Maine, so I see "Fabrique au Canada" on a lot of goods.

[Columbia]

21. I take it back

The robotic arm on the Space Shuttle (and I think the ISS) is Made in Canada. Thanks Canada for robotic arms!

[Minstrel Boy]

19. Yet we're each other's largest trading partner.

That's why a boycott would fail.

[Deja Q]

6. Hmmm. Bush went AWOL, so whatever he got should be applied Hinzman.

The fact the Canadians don't want him suggests they won't want any of us when Bush* starts doing the real dirty work (Patriot II for starters...)

[Ekova]

9. There have been a couple of impromptu, small scale rallies here,

to support the soldier(s) that want to stay. When * doesn't recognise conscientious objector status I'm all for people coming here.

[smiley_glad_hands]

8. We should boycott our #1 trading partner who lives next door?

I think we should boycott china--IMO.

[Ekova]

10. I agree 100%. nt.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Rabbit: Boycott O'Reilly until he starts making sense

That'll be the day.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Bush got away with going over the hill!

What's the problem?

[Spazito]

13. ROFL, like he is going to boycott oil and gas from Canada?

I highly doubt it!

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. don't forget water and electricity

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.

just little stuff the US don't really need

right?

:eyes:

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. Hey O'Reichly.... FUCK OFF!

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go buy some Rush CD's, Maple syrup and backbacon, JUST TO PISS YOU OFF!

[Ekova]

15. Mmmmmm.

maple syrup.

[joshdawg]

16. Draft dodging is one thing, but

desertion is altogether different. Desertion is never the right thing to do. Draft-dodging, although not really ok, is less offensive.

[lanparty]

22. I have a BETTER idea ...

Let's just cancel NAFTA in retaliation !!!!! ;-) Let's withdraw from WTO because France has been a thorn in our side ;-)


This is the type of ridiculous hyperbole that O'Reilly SHOULD be engaging in ;-)

[struggle4progress]

23. Let's boycott Fox until Silly Billy is fired. eom

[GiovanniC]

24. I Think It's Safe To Say

That most of us have a de-facto boycott of Faux going on right now, and we wouldn't really be missed.

[struggle4progress]

27. I don't see why we can't start claiming victory under these circumstances.

The other side does it.

[ConcernedCanuk]

25. Interesting Poll at the bottom of the article

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"Sixty years have passed since the carnage of D-Day, but has the world really changed?

Yes 34%

No 66%

http://www.sundayherald.com/42337

Also from the article:


Representing him at the hearing will be Jeffry House, who is entirely sympathetic to Hinzman’s case. Thirty years ago, House packed up his Volkswagen ‘Beetle’ and left his home in Wisconsin to evade the US military draft. After earning his law degree at Toronto’s York University he became a political activist.

It is a landmark case, and one that Hinzman has to win. “Canada evaluates refugee claimants based on the Geneva Convention on refugees,” he said. “And in the case of soldiers it says that soliders who refuse to participate in a war considered illegal by the international community, and face prosecution for that refusal, amounts to persecution on the basis of political opinion.

“Obviously, in a hearing Jeffry is going to have to provide a lot of evidence that the war is illegal according to international law and that most of the internationl community considered it that way. Canada considered it illegal. Obviously Canada did not contribute troops to it. In terms of those criteria, I think we stand on solid ground.”
_____________________________________________________

hmmmm

Is this Canada's opening to officially accuse the US of an illegal war

and PROVE it ?

hmmm :freak:

[leesa]

26. Whatever. You have zero credibility anywhere you treasonous

moran.