Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Canada must bring Khadr home without further delay

Omar Khadr marks a fateful anniversary this week: 10 years trapped within the Kafkaesque injustice of the U.S. “war on terror.”

On July 27, 2002, after a firefight in Afghanistan, he was taken into custody, held first for three months in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Very soon after his arrest, Amnesty International wrote to the Canadian government, pressing for his rights to be protected. But a decade later, this 25-year-old Canadian citizen remains at Guantanamo Bay, and Canada has barely whispered a word of concern.

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