While this would definitely increase a lawyers profile I doubt they would really get many more cases from it.
For real though the point of this is obviously to protest Bush being in Canada. It's served to spark many discusions here and I'm sure many places around the world about his conduct. Also if you look at statements from the White House in regards to accusations of this kind you can put together a clear picture that they know what they are doing is illegal. The newly appointed head of Homeland security came to be well known for his memo calling the Geneva Conventions antiquated. The Red Cross, Amenesty International, and other groups have all been pointing out that the prisoners at Guantomo are being tortured by default. Confinement in and of it's self is a form of torture and these people are being held with out the right to a lawyer or a judge and without being charged. Now we know that in addition they are being systimatically tourtured to extract information.
Does any one here really get that the US government has just crossed a line from being a decent country to being a country that endorses tourture and shuns human rights. They are walking into very dangerous territory for themselves and the rest of the world.
As for Canada needing the US, in many ways we do but I guarentee at the end of the day if we turn off the electricity, stop sending the wood, and oil they would be a lot worse off. We would be able to divert electricty out to the eastern provinces, our wood, and oil could be sent to China and the EU.
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