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Op-Ed: A word about war and ‘heinous’ crimes, a letter to Roxanne James

Something inside the whole picture does not seem right. I can see and have a point and I am trying to bring your attention to this picture.
I don’t know Omar Khadr the way you do but, like you, I know that he was a child soldier. What more I know about him for sure is that he didn’t kill an American citizen on the USA soil. He killed an enemy soldier because he defended his country on its own territory. He killed because he saw himself as a defender of Afghanistan. Other people normally act the same way when being invaded by the outside aggressors. Every country claims this right when facing a foreign invasion and nobody in this world questions this. He killed somebody who committed a heinous crime of aggression and killing of other people. Khadr should be left alone to live with no prosecution whatsoever. His case should be solved quickly with no further discussion.

The US soldier died because he was an aggressor of another country. He entered it with killing weapons designed to kill and initial intention to kill other humans. (Yes, the Afghanis are humans like you, too). In this war he broke the rules of life when he chose to possibly die at the time of joining the war machine. He accepted the rules of war where the death rules and voluntarily neglected life. It clearly seems that by his own choice he chose to die. The normal development of events made him die and this simple case is now solved with no further discussion.

Try to speak now about the heinous crime of those who kill their own people in their own country. You can travel to Ferguson, New York or maybe Baltimore, closer to you and you will easily find examples of heinous crimes there. Save your precious energy and direct it towards those who commit heinous crimes every day, break the rules of life and – defended by those of your mental attitude – avoid justice.
Would you speak against those who openly admit responsibility for “making mistake” when killing his own fellow countrymen half a world away? Could you call a heinous crime something that we are now accustomed to live every day with when easily swallowing it with our morning sip of coffee and treat it business as usual? From the level of your office you could. Why have you remained silent for this?

Do you know that in the natural world, those species close to their living surroundings will be defending themselves and their offspring even against stronger opponent and predator? Do you know that in the natural world they normally win the fight? What are you fighting for and what are you trying to prove? What kind of rules of life will you teach the people around you? – your family, children, grandchildren, and people you represent? What life experience do you bring to politics to be a role model to others?
Would you call yourself a “heinous” killer when in self defence you kill those who enter your back yard, threat your household and your loved ones? It’s really a sinister thing to see you selling yourself so poor for what lays deeply in your conscience and you strongly believe is right.

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