Thucydides said:From Sun Media. One of their reporters was heckled and later assaulted for attempting to ask some pretty straightforward questions:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/khadr-s-lawyer-attacks/2902379828001#2902379831001
The sort of people the "supporter" movement attracts is pretty ugly
Unless the reporter did something pretty bad before she rolled tape (I'll bet $ she didn't), Counsel for the Defence sure looks like a dick here.PuckChaser said:
milnews.ca said:Unless the reporter did something pretty bad before she rolled tape (I'll bet $ she didn't), Counsel for the Defence sure looks like a dick here.
E.R. Campbell said:I think he's just doing his job.
Khadr's case is almost as much political as it is legal, and political issues need a "narrative." In this case the reporter challenged Team Khadr's approved narrative so the lawyer attacked both the message and the messenger.
And he doesn't prep his questions in advance?George Wallace said:The reporter was asked if she prepared her questions prior to coming in, and she answered yes, to which the Lawyer ridiculed her for it. Don't you think that she was being more than professional in doing her job by preparing her questions in advance?
More specifically, she asked what Khadr may be doing to prove he's not a threat - seems like a reasonable question.George Wallace said:The reporter asked a simple question, whether Khadr should not be considered a threat to Canadian society, and again was ridiculed by the Lawyer.
:nod:George Wallace said:Nor does it appear that the audience was anything but a bunch of ill informed professional protestors from the sounds of their heckling of the reporter.
Yeah, he sure helped reinforce his team's narrative alright - he sure showed Sun Media!E.R. Campbell said:I think he's just doing his job.
Khadr's case is almost as much political as it is legal, and political issues need a "narrative." In this case the reporter challenged Team Khadr's approved narrative so the lawyer attacked both the message and the messenger.
Good point - "how" can matter as much as "what".MARS said:I agree that part of the defence strategy has to be to attack all comers, owing to the political aspect of this thing. I don't know anything about this lawyer's credentials or competence but I am left thinking that his application of such a strategy appeared boorish. Surely there are more sophisticated ways attack the message and messengers, no? I dunno.
Good point - I haven't been able to find any indication of what kind of gathering it was, although I suspect it was fellow travelers supporting Khadr & Co., organized perhaps by same.FJAG said:What really disturbed me was the heckling mob in the background. Their sniggers started even before the lawyer replied to her question. It's quite clear that there is at least a core group of idiots out there who really and truly believe this guy is just a poor little misguided kid.
.... on Friday, but unrelated to the lawsuit, Corrections Canada lowered Khadr’s security classification from maximum to medium security, according to Khadr’s lawyer Dennis Edney.
Edney said he expects Khadr to be moved within weeks to Bowden Institute, a medium security facility in Innisfail, Alta.
“We had provided all kinds of overwhelming information that he was not a risk to anybody,” Edney said. “Omar has had no problem whatsoever in either institution.”
The move follows a recommendation by Canada’s prison ombudsman who accused authorities of unfairly branding Khadr as a maximum security inmate and recommending that his classification be reassessed.
Well, found a poster for an event in what appears to be the right place on the right date for the story in question - see attached.milnews.ca said:Good point - I haven't been able to find any indication of what kind of gathering it was, although I suspect it was fellow travelers supporting Khadr & Co., organized perhaps by same.FJAG said:What really disturbed me was the heckling mob in the background. Their sniggers started even before the lawyer replied to her question. It's quite clear that there is at least a core group of idiots out there who really and truly believe this guy is just a poor little misguided kid. God help us, but I think their propaganda may be winning because if Sun News is the only media group presenting Khadr for what he truly is, then we're all doomed.
Bruce Monkhouse said:That's cool, in medium he gets to walk around more. Prisoners with a "name" don't always have an easy go with other inmates.......if ya' know what I mean.
Hatchet Man said:You mean there won't people supporting him on the inside? >
Very true. It depends on what they've done.Bruce Monkhouse said:Prisoners with a "name" don't always have an easy go with other inmates.......if ya' know what I mean.