Canada to deport U.S. war deserter

Headline from Fark:

Canada to US military deserters: Go home, eh. In fact, here’s some handcuffs and a few police officers to escort you

Quote from article by Robert Matas:

VANCOUVER — U.S. army deserter Robin Long is slated to be deported back to his army base in Fort Knox, Ky., Tuesday, which would make him the first resister to the U.S. war effort in Iraq to be sent out of Canada.

Madam Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada cleared the way for the deportation late Monday, dismissing a last-ditch attempt to delay the process while the 25-year-old pursued further appeals.

“I was just shocked at some things in [the] ruling,” Bob Ages, a spokesman for an informal group called Vancouver War Resisters Support Campaign, told reporters outside the courtroom. “It just flies in the face of everything that we and every Canadian know about the reality of what is going on.”

When he heads back to Fort Knox, he stands to get court marshaled. I hope they throw the book at him. Canada has been coddling these hippies for too long. It may be a different situation if we were in the sixties and their was a mandatory draft. That is not the case here, this punk enlisted in the military knowing full well what he was doing. He turned his back on his brothers and his country when he fled to Canada.