"through out his nuisance"...
I'm sure you meant "threw out"...
Ezra Levant:
You need to be sued right into the poorhouse. You need be be sued so your parents are living on the street. You need to be sued so your grandchildren will still be making payments.
Ezra's reply: I take it you think I'm defaming Arar. But truth is a defence. Have you bothered to look into the facts of his case? From his gun; to his lies about being whipped with a thick cord; to his refusal to be examined by an independent physician, etc., etc.? Do you really think a man who made out like a bandit would risk all of that by putting himself through litigation? And I mean real litigation, where he would actually have to answer questions, not fake litigation, such as a human rights commission, or his laughable "inquiry" in which he didn't even testify.
Are you so naive as to think he'd jeopardize his life of luxury for that?
Of course he wouldn't. He doesn't want to lose a lawsuit, to pay his lawyers and mine. And, more importantly, he doesn't want to lose the myth he has created: that he is a victim.
So how do we get our $10.5 million back then?
Re: Enough of this- 5:37
I was quite hoping that Levant "will" be sued. Assuming that Arar would not engage in wholesale taqiyyah/kitman, Levant's lawyers would split him open in discoveries. And Levant would have all of the statutory and common law defences in a defamation suit available to him.
Let's just monitor whether Arar uses any of his $10M windfall to pursue Levant. I'd bet my RRSP that he won't.
Have you bothered to look into the facts of his case?
Yes, I did.
You need to be sued.
Ezra's reply: Well, obviously Arar knows something you don't.
Or: maybe I'm mis-reading you. Maybe you don't really think I've defamed him; you just think a little bit of radical Islamic "lawfare" is the right approach here. Censor a political enemy by abusing the courts -- that's right out of the Saudi playbook. Now I understand you! But my key observation remains: if Arar was so determined to avoid being cross-examined that he refused to take the stand in his own inquiry, why do you think he would submit to a cross examination in a private suit?
Careful Ezra, I wouldn't want to end up being forced to do something you are complaining about.
Indeed this was one of the biggest and most successful scams in our recent history. However, I blame the politicians and the government along with the media cheerleaders. Who could blame Arar for not passing up such a golden opportunity? Now it seems he is a tad bit confused in thinking that this was the gift that just keeps on giving.
They are laughing in Islamist circles. Yet another of Allah's slaves has wrung Jizra from the foolish Kaffirs. Of course the Liberals are at the root of the Islamist Sting.
JMO
Canada paid him without doing due diligence- my opinion only, we should hang our heads in shame. Was he tortured, don't know because the NDP had the elected MPs cowering in their tighty whities. Apparently 10 million wasn't enough? What he couldn't find a mansion in BC?
Ezra, are you saying Arar was not actually sent to Syria?
I really thought he was; and it's not difficult to believe that Syria tortures people at the drop of a hat.
Or are you saying he was indeed rendered to Syria but was treated nicely and humanely there, and is making this story up?
I agree with 99% of your posts, but what gives on this one?
Ezra's reply: yes, he was sent to Syria. No, he wasn't tortured as he claimed he was. Read the article that I link to, in the Western Standard. He made up whoppers that even a child could see through.
"Enough of this" arguments are made out of concrete. He/she/it has won me over.
Allahu Akbar!
What fuelled the Arar narrative was a prostrating assemblage of self loathing elite embolden by a strong under current of
haters of western values seeking to tag our security forces as islamophobic racial profilers.
This systematic attack on those who seek to protect is an ongoing jihad. Whenever the breach of our security is at issue and
Islam is the protagonist the choir shouts injustice, abuse, racial profiling, and islamophobia.
What ensues is the predictable mea-culpa and the bags of blood money from the committees of sages set up to correct
those travesties.
! The art of turning our shield into sword and committing Hari-Kari !
In his book Dispersing the Fog, author Paul Palango makes a convincing case that it was actually the Americans who paid the $10.5 million.
Palango dedicates a few chapters to the case, very interesting what he has dug up. Check it out.
For someone allegedly tortured, he looks rather well, no?
M. Levant, the ransom paid to M. Arar was a decision by the leader of your party, M. Harper.
This is the same M. Harper that refuses to act on section 13.
When will you finally realize who is the problem here?
I'm eagerly awaiting your blog post firmly condemming Stephen Harper.
Revnant Dream- 6:45
It's "jizya", not "jizra". The Islamic poll tax levied on dhimmis in the caliph.
And the plural of "kaffir" is "kuffar".
You are now excused for prayer.
I truly wish that you get the chance to enjoy a little impromptu Syrian hospitality on your next international flight.
Ezra your post made my day. You are a breath of fresh air.
Thank you for telling the truth.
By the way I always thought your writeup on Arar in the Western Standard was a golden standard against which all other journalism should be measured.
What has always depressed me is how many Canadians simply believe Arar's lies without ever questioning them.
Freedom is always in danger when people are not even prepared to think.
The security services cant reveal what they know to protect sources and intelligence gathering methods.
Arar never showed any scars from the alleged torture. We only have his word.
Who are the cowards who caved in and paid this guy?
Can he answer questions about his associations and anti-semitic activity?
It's twice as bad for me, I've been forced to watch the At Issue panel on the National for over a year now, I want $21 million for that torture.
Good for you Ezra!!! Very gutsy move on your part. The payout to Arar was a monumental scam - a travesty against Canadian taxpayers. What a disgrace!
Stay tuned for the next segment of Canada's version of Legal Jihad - when the Khadrs start to get busy with their law suits. Maybe the CBC can come up with a new show - a combination of Law & Order and Little Mosque on the Prairie. Titles anyone?
Nigel D,
I am 100% with you. I was a huge Harper fan but lately...not so much.
Between doing nothing on Sect 13, screwing up on H1N1 big time, giving in on Arar because it was just easier than the opposite, etc... I am begining to think that Harper is turning out to be an average old style gutless politician.
His "do nothing" appraoch to everything is starting to wear thin and he is showing a complete lack of leadership on many many many files.
What a disappointment.
Isnt THIS the sort of thing the CJC is supposed to lobby about?
Why are the jihadis and their supporters not getting some attention from Burny?-- Oh wait. They are. Burny tried to buddy up with Sowarhardy.
Nice goin Burny.
Ezra
The problem with this post is that he lost in the US due to a technicality. His suit was never judged on its merits. Apparently, the Tucker Acts, which waive sovereign immunity for certain designated torts committed by the US government, do not extend to his claim.
Although I for one believe that this kind of carve-out from the Tucker Acts is totally warranted, and although I have a great deal of respect for your analysis of the underlying merits of his claim, I believe you served your readers poorly by implying that the US judicial system adjudged his claim as frivolous on the merits. It did no such thing; you should know that, and you should not imply otherwise.
JeffM
O'mullah takkiyaO: Arms and the O.
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"Israel: Commandos seize huge Iranian arms shipment
The Associated Press"
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"Obama calls for new relationship with Iran
PRESS TV - 1 hour ago
US President Barack Obama has called for establishing new ties between Iran and the US, saying that his country wants to "move beyond the past" tensions with Iran"
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Winston Churchill on Islam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O...ature=rec-HM-
r2
It's undoubtedly hate speech.
It's not just about Arar. What about his defenders in the MSM? As long as they are vigilantes, they will continue carrying on the odious legacy of Walter Duranty.
They don't know because they don't want to know. Burt Lancaster said those words in "Judgment at Nuremburg" in describing those covering for the Nazis.
That piece of odiousness is still with us.
Lets face it people, where all suckers if your born Canadian.
For any foreign sob story. The more unlikely, the more our Leaders fall for it.
Its the little pocket Trudaeu they all carry around with them like a mutant growth.
It makes them pod people without the I.
Arar should become a byword for Political naivety in Canada.
Frankly we should kick him back to the desert where he belongs. Failing that, a REAL inquest.
JMO
I’ve worked with genuine torture victims before and facilitated their political asylum in Canada. Scars can be visible 20 years after the fact. However, regimes with experience in torture usually attempt to hide the evidence by torturing victims on the least visible parts of the body – one of the favoured methods of the Soviet bloc countries was to beat prisoners on the soles of their feet or genitalia. In a case from Latin America I am personally familiar with, the person was burned with hot metal on his buttocks, hence requiring the victim to go through the embarrassment of pulling down his pants in order to later produce the evidence – unlikely to occur in a public setting. It is incomprehensible that Maher Arar would not be given a thorough examination by physicians experienced in this area, and the evidence (or lack thereof) would be presented by the expert witnesses.
The torture victims I am familiar with have never sought compensation, even though the Liberal government of the time was “friendly” with the regime in question. They are just happy to be rescued and living in free democratic Canada. If you want to meet genuine torture victims there are many of them living among us, in our exile communities from a dozen countries. They never make CBC headlines because firstly they are too busy working and paying their taxes to attract media attention, and secondly their cases would be an embarrassment to Left media who have functioned for decades as unabashed apologists for the brutal regimes that the victims have escaped.
The torture victims I am familiar with have never been propelled to fame or rewarded politically. I think it is quite appropriate to question the motives of the NDP re: the promotion of Mrs. Arar. When was the last time the CBC did investigative journalism on corruption in the NDP? In fact, when was the first time? And when was the last time the NDP complained about party politics in taxpayer funded CBC journalism? In fact, when was the first time? Me smells a symbiotic relationship.
R.J.
I loved the original story you guys did in Western Standard magazine about him. Of course Arar is a liar.
12 dead 32 wounded AT an ABORTION
CLINIC the SUSPECT must be a CHRISTIAN
12 dead 32 wounded at a MILATARY BASE
The SUSPECT must be SUFFERING from THE WAR
Poor Ezra! So much hate, and so little energy left! Had ... to ... recycle ... ...old ... post ... no ... energy ... left ...
Sorry to hear that you're so anxious for Arar to notice you and sue you so you could give him "what's for" ...
I imagine that if he were asked who you were, he'd shrug and ask if you were the guy from the shamwow Ad. You're too much, Ezra ... and you've got an unhealthy obsession with Arar.
Ezra's reply: not obsessed, really. I just want my tax money back that was paid to that fraud. The fact that he's a gun nut who hangs out with anti-Semites is just the icing on the cake. I don't want to be sued by him, but it would be nice to have him answer some questions for once, and maybe get him to have an independent medical exam, things that a real judicial inquiry might have seen to. Oh well. More proof that the danger is not the hard jihad of suicide bombers, but the soft jihad of "lawfare". Why should Muslim radicals commit suicide, when a soft and appeasing west will commit suicide for them?
I do recommend that you read our old Western Standard report on Arar. It's good enough that I'll probably re-post it whenever he pops up in the news again.
For 8 yrs we have been fighting
Islsmic nut jobs, NOW 1 ,possibly is involved in Texas but even the PRESIDENT treats it like a FOOT-NOTE
This incident will be blamed on, variously:
(1) alleged racism and harassment by Hasan’s White colleagues; (2) George W. Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afgfhanistan; (3) Islamophobia; (4) Israeli Mossad false-flag ops; (5) Hasan’s mental state as a result of being 40, unmarried, and childless, etc., etc., etc. It can't be just Muslim rage. That would be too simple and politically incorrect. Don't believe your lying eyes!
It is a kind of curse, I think, to be able to see through the media’s lies so readily and so thoroughly. It will take a Muslim terrorist assault on a gaggle of liberals to wake them up...or maybe not. These people are hopeless. The Obamedia doesn’t give a hoot about soldiers. They will spin it to make this Muslim wack look like a victim.
Jennifer Lynch's expense report for last quarter is now on her web site. She spent on a small fortune on the Dublin IR trip.
I think it's 13 dead.
Obama's ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, went on the John Stewart show and they lamented how Post Traumatic Stress was to blame.
Amazing these days how one can acquire Post Traumatic Stress BEFORE going overseas to the battlefield. I guess it happens the same magical way that one can also acquire a Nobel Peace Prize BEFORE doing anything peace related.
ricardo
Maher Arar IS all things CANADIAN
SHHHHHH don't do that, You can't say that, Do this, Don't worry the Govt will pay, You should sue, YOUR CHEQUE IS WAITING,
YOU ARE BEHIND IN YOUR TAX PENALTYIES AND INTEREST, Sorry we had no idea you were a minority here's a house
our apology, call if you need more
One thing has always bothered me about the Islamic gentlemen who run afoul of government bureaucracies while vacationing overseas,and that is; who pays for all their international travel? It's extremely expensive.
None of these men are independently wealthy,yet they seem able to flit about the world at will. Abousfian Abdelrazik, for instance, had a travel itinerary that would have bankrupted the average Canadian.
AA claims he receives donations from members of his Mosque, and apparently gets quite "testy" when questioned further about how he can afford to travel the world.
Are we to believe that ordinary members of a Mosque can obtain financing for vacations around the world?
I guess political correctness combined with multicultural diversity demands we do accept the story of whatever Islamic person gets into trouble in a foreign land.
Call me suspicious and paranoid, but if their travel is completely innocent,what is it that alerts the security services of foreign governments to their presence,the company they keep in those Countries,perhaps?
The Arar case has always struck me as one where our government is too anxious to sweep the whole mess under the carpet due to political correctness,and one in which not enough effort was spent by Canadian authorities investigating what really happened to him in the old Country.
Like Global Warming, the science in the Arar case in definitely NOT settled,and we're too PC to ever find out the facts.
Re "Jane" Title for a new show. Here is one we might consider. It would be called "Welcome Back Khadr". Come on and let`s all join in and sing the theme song. "Welcome back, your terrorist dreams and terrorist family were your ticket out. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back."
Good one Graydon Chretien! I've had a good chuckle this a.m. thanks to you. But, I know that the theme song is going to drive me crazy - all day!
Jae Stubinski,
Ezra doesn't have an unhealthy obsession with Arar, he has a healthy obsession with justice and truth.
You should give it a try, Jae. You might just like it.
Bravo Ezra - there are still brave people left in Canada. I was also arrested 2 decades ago in the former Soviet Block country. Was I tortured ?
I can say anything - the truth as it might surprise some people , I was not.
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