Hassan Diab extradition from Canada is wrong
November 24, 2008 · By Charles Anthony
I object to these extradition hearings for Hassan Diab no matter what the “evidence” is against him. [I find the evidence to be highly dubious.] Extradition is kidnapping without a trial.
Instead of Canadians wasting time, effort and money to determine whether Hassan Diab should be extradited, the French police should face the following choices:
- come to Canada and hold their trial in Canada open to the Canadian public — all costs fully paid by the French
- invite Hassan Diab to voluntarily submit to a trial in France or convict him in absentia
I see no reason to trust a foreign judicial system.
The decision to “trust” their justice was made when Canada and France entered into an extradition agreement.
An extradition will be ordered only if the court in the country in which they are in finds that the agreed upon evidenciary burden has been met. The Diab case seems like a real canard and the order will probably not be granted if what the media has disseminated is at all accurate.
Who is Canada? Who is France?
Well is this then about ‘foreign judicial systems’ or the existence of nation states and their powers over ‘citizens’?
I think that the RCMP was willing to spend its resources trailing him on France’s request based on what seems like some really flimsy evidence instead of just conducting an interview and forcing France to put this to a judicial review a year ago to determine if he could be fairly extradited. I mean we’re talking about something which occurred in 1980 why follow him for a year?
This guy has Canadian citizenship now and we shouldn’t have two tiers of citizenship based on country of birth. Would I, born in Ottawa be subjected to the same scrutiny if another country requested it?
a) I really hope not and;
b) he shouldn’t have been either. This guy was trailed and spooked for something like a year by our own police force despite going to the Ottawa police with licence plate #’s of the trailing cars. If there were any legitimate grounds to trail him up until that point it should have ground to a halt then and there. The RCMP should have fessed up and interviewed him but it seems instead they were probably playing cloak and dagger hoping they could stumble upon another “shwarma shop” conspiracy to relay back to our fellow terrorist crime fighters in the FBI.