A Government of Action
Remember Zahra Kazemi's murder in Iran for taking photos? Remember the previous Liberal government's virtual inaction on the file?
How's this for action? Canada (under the new Conservative government) has officially asked the German government to detain an Iranian official presently in their country who may have had something to do with it. Our request is that he be held in order to be tried for crimes against humanity.
That request took some guts. It may well start a diplomatic incident... stand your ground Mr. Harper, stand firm. Stand up and tell the world that we don't take kindly to our citizens being tortured and murdered.
Will keep you posted. If the Germans comply with our request, look for the sparks to fly.
h/t to seanblog.
UPDATE: The sparks are already flying... but not before Iran gave us the finger...
How's this for action? Canada (under the new Conservative government) has officially asked the German government to detain an Iranian official presently in their country who may have had something to do with it. Our request is that he be held in order to be tried for crimes against humanity.
That request took some guts. It may well start a diplomatic incident... stand your ground Mr. Harper, stand firm. Stand up and tell the world that we don't take kindly to our citizens being tortured and murdered.
Will keep you posted. If the Germans comply with our request, look for the sparks to fly.
h/t to seanblog.
UPDATE: The sparks are already flying... but not before Iran gave us the finger...
"The Iranians left Geneva on Friday, demonstrating that the world's opinion doesn't really matter much to them."
posted by Christian Conservative @ 11:35 p.m.
5 Comments:
At Sat Jun 24, 12:35:00 a.m. EDT,
Anonymous said…
Excellent. Hopefully it does cause a diplomatic incident.
At Sat Jun 24, 01:00:00 a.m. EDT,
Blake Kennedy said…
Yeah, like the Germans'll be all heartbroken about a guy being wrongfully imprisoned and killed.
You know, because they've shown such revulsion at the thought before.
At Mon Jun 26, 09:12:00 a.m. EDT,
Canadian Abroad said…
Care to elaborate Blake? Are you talking about a recent event or are you dredging up WW2?
At Tue Jun 27, 11:42:00 a.m. EDT,
Blake Kennedy said…
Dredging up WWII.
You see, I don't like Germans very much, and I like reminding them of what their country has been guilty of.
At Tue Jun 27, 04:19:00 p.m. EDT,
Canadian Abroad said…
You don't like Germans? I wouldn't have guessed :)
WW2 was 60 years ago, how many generations is that? three? Time to find something new to dislike about Germans Blake.
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