Khadr video splits Canadians

[CHIMO]

Omar Khadr's interrogation video appeared to polarize the Canadian public today as images his lawyers hoped would stir compassion and push Ottawa into repatriating him from Guantanamo Bay prompted reaction ranging from sympathy to outright contempt.

It's a sign, experts said, of the tension between the Khadr family's reputation as an Al Qaeda family and public support for the rule of due judicial process – something even the U.S. Supreme Court has found lacking in Guantanamo.

That later sentiment was shared by many who posted their opinions on media websites, including one person who wrote: "I am Canadian and I demand that his rights be vigorously enforced. YO! HARPER! Snap to it!"

Another opined: "It makes me sick that people like Robert Pickton, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka have way more rights than this poor boy who was just a kid and did what he was told."
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/460772

Hard to believe that it is splitting the people. Would seem that the reformers and the common sense revolutionaries are out in strength.
However, I am brought back to the item where Chretien was burned by getting his father out of prison in Pakistan.
I don't see this as splitting. A fair trial in Canada or railroaded in the US.

[Caradoc]

1. Due process...

Khadr deserves due process. Denying him this is Canada's shame. He was born in Canada and has the same rights as the rest of us. He was used by his family who, as far as I'm concerned, were using Canada as a flag of convenience. His father paid the ultimate price for his folly, and his mother clearly lacks a brain (I saw her interviewed last night). But that doesn't change his entitlement to basic rights under the rule of law and it shames all of us. Canada needs to grow a spine and distance itself from the US.

[daleo]

2. Comments from websites don't really mean much

It will be interesting to see results from the better polling outfits. I think this is a losing proposition for Harper, especially among women, among whom he is badly trailing.