Difference between revisions of "Wikipedia:Omar Khadr"
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Anyone visiting that page will immediately be drawn to the photograph and its accompanying caption information. For the casual visitor, if they read anything at all, that is pretty much guaranteed to be it. For everyone else it is likely to be the first (ie most important) impression. In summary it is that Khadr is aged 24, Alleged to be a member of al-Qaeda and has been convicted of war crimes and terrorism. | Anyone visiting that page will immediately be drawn to the photograph and its accompanying caption information. For the casual visitor, if they read anything at all, that is pretty much guaranteed to be it. For everyone else it is likely to be the first (ie most important) impression. In summary it is that Khadr is aged 24, Alleged to be a member of al-Qaeda and has been convicted of war crimes and terrorism. | ||
| − | Whilst much of the background to this summary is accurately covered in the rest of what is a detailed article | + | Whilst much of the background to this summary is accurately covered in the rest of what is a detailed article, that is the over-riding impression left. |
| − | Nothing about his having been a child of 15 years old when the alleged 'Offences' took place | + | *Nothing about his having been a child of 15 years old when the alleged 'Offences' took place |
| + | *nothing about his gross and extended torture and mis-treatment over 8 years in mostly solitary confinement | ||
| + | *nothing about a 'plea-bargain agreement that offered him the prospects of either freedom in a few years if he pleaded guilty; or incarceration for life if he did not | ||
| + | *Nothing about the nature of the so-called 'legal process' that prosecuted the alleged offences | ||
| + | *nothing about the assumption underlying that process that it was legal for US soldiers to attack and kill his uncles and others in an ambush in their own country - but illegal for them to return fire | ||
| + | - plus a good few other outrages against humanity, not on the part of the child Khadr, but the Good ol' US of A with its posturing, sanctimonious viciousness. | ||
| − | Much of the above IS contained in the body of the article; but the vast majority of visitors to that page will pigeon-hole Khadr as a convicted terrorist and war criminal. | + | Much of the above IS contained in the body of the article; but the vast majority of visitors to that page will pigeon-hole Khadr as a convicted terrorist and war criminal and move on. |
Revision as of 08:42, 28 June 2011
 Omar Khadr
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Related Wikispooks Pages
Omar Khadr - - Wikispooks main Omar Khadr page - many more links from here Document:Child Soldier Coerced Into Plea-Bargain - - An article by Keith Jones, published by WSWS on 27 October 2010
External Links
- [1] - - The Omar Khadr Case - University of Toronto archive
- [2] - -The Psychiatric Demonization Of Omar Khadr. The Public Record
Additional Information
The Wikipedia Omar Khadr page is a particularly egregious example of the insidious Official Narrative-supporting nature Wikipedia.
Anyone visiting that page will immediately be drawn to the photograph and its accompanying caption information. For the casual visitor, if they read anything at all, that is pretty much guaranteed to be it. For everyone else it is likely to be the first (ie most important) impression. In summary it is that Khadr is aged 24, Alleged to be a member of al-Qaeda and has been convicted of war crimes and terrorism.
Whilst much of the background to this summary is accurately covered in the rest of what is a detailed article, that is the over-riding impression left.
- Nothing about his having been a child of 15 years old when the alleged 'Offences' took place
- nothing about his gross and extended torture and mis-treatment over 8 years in mostly solitary confinement
- nothing about a 'plea-bargain agreement that offered him the prospects of either freedom in a few years if he pleaded guilty; or incarceration for life if he did not
- Nothing about the nature of the so-called 'legal process' that prosecuted the alleged offences
- nothing about the assumption underlying that process that it was legal for US soldiers to attack and kill his uncles and others in an ambush in their own country - but illegal for them to return fire
- plus a good few other outrages against humanity, not on the part of the child Khadr, but the Good ol' US of A with its posturing, sanctimonious viciousness.
Much of the above IS contained in the body of the article; but the vast majority of visitors to that page will pigeon-hole Khadr as a convicted terrorist and war criminal and move on.
