Canada contemplates fate of US deserters
One of TSO’s first posts here was about Joshua Key who slipped away from the Army and absconded to Canada where he wrote a completely inaccurate tome about his time in the Army and his service in Iraq. Well, here we are six years later and Key is still cowering in a corner of a Canadian taxpayer-funded apartment. But, Canada is contemplating ending his little adventure according to a link sent by Thomas to The Star;
Eight applications from war resisters to stay in Canada as permanent residents, on humanitarian and compassionate grounds as well as spousal sponsorships, were denied. Four war resisters have received removal orders, including one last month.
Key, who was born in Oklahoma, served as a combat engineer in Iraq in 2003. He deserted the army while on a two-week furlough and fled to Canada in 2005, when he applied for refugee status. His request was denied in 2006, but a federal court judge ordered the refugee board to review his bid for asylum. In 2010, he was rejected again and applied for spousal sponsorship with his Canadian wife.
The negative decisions have renewed fears that Key’s spousal sponsorship application could be turned down any day.
Key’s American wife left him back in 2009 and returned to the US leaving Joshua behind – so I guess he’s taken a stank-ass hippie Canadian wife to solidify his refugee request. The Star article quotes some of Key’s fantasies in their article about his service in Iraq – like the one about US soldiers play soccer with an Iraqi man’s severed head.
Canada has sent some deserters back to the US – each returning to a year in military confinement. Conservative Canadians want to send them all sent back;
“Military deserters from the United States are not genuine refugees under the internationally-accepted meaning of the term,” said Rémi Larivière, a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada. “These unfounded claims clog up our system for genuine refugees who are actually fleeing persecution,” he wrote in an email.
Desertion in Canada is punishable by up to life in prison.
To date, no refugee claims made by U.S. military deserters have been accepted.
I’m pretty sure that Key will be a burden to any national system of welfare. If Canada doesn’t want him, they should send him to live in Iraq, preferably in the area that the Islamic State occupies. In fact, they can send the whole bunch of them to Iraq.
Category: Antiwar crowd
I agree, send them to Iraq. No need for them here in the US.
TO misquote Heinlen,
They’re ours. We don’t want them but they belong to us. We need to bring them home, give them their Court martials, let them do their year in the pen and then send them on their way.
Ahhh Robert, you were ahead of your time.
On Topic. All these turds need to be dumped back in Iraq to experience what it really is like to live some of their lies.
One of the more cheer-worthy moments from any Tom Clancy novel was when the folks who were trying to wipe the rest of us out so their ‘pure, nature-harmonized few’ could run the world, was when they were dropped off in the middle of Brazil’s Mato Grosso to survive by their wits – they wanted natural, that’s what they got. (None survived) Sadly, it will never happen.
“You’re leaving us out here without so much as a knife?”
John Clark (Kelly): “You wanna live in harmony with nature. Well, there’s nature. Go harmonize.”
And they were never heard from again.
Don’t forget the whippings…
(ssssssssssfffffff)
Ahhhh. The sweet smell of “Starship Troopers”.
Where’s Col DuBois when you want him?
Maybe I should start a movement,
“Je suis Col DuBois.”
Nice tuque eh!
So, good day, eh? How’s about some Pete’s Donuts and some Elsinore’s, eh?
After I hit up the Beer Store
“DAD! BOB BROKE YOUR BEER!”
“NO I DIDN’T, DOUG DID IT!”
TAKE OFF, HOSER!!
Hoser Tuque. Thought he played bass for Justin Bieber, eh?
Fuck this little bitch. Feed him to the fish.
I know where he got the “severed head soccer” thing. It was in a movie I saw a while back. Only in the movie, it was hajjis doing it with the head of a downed Blackhawk pilot (well, it was supposed to be a Blackhawk, the movie’s budget wasn’t great). Ironically, it was a pro-US, pro-War on Terror movie about a fictional American unit made by a Canadian production outfit in Canada!
Before that, it was in the movie “The Man Who Would Be King”. There’s a scene of Afghans playing polo and our heroes discover that the ball is the head of a local warlord they helped the players to defeat, wrapped up in some burlap.
Great movie, regardless. Sean Connery & Michael Caine at their very best.
“Big head, big ball!!”
I followed the link to the classic TSO commentary. AWESOME.
Question – do Canada’s military deserters hide out in the USA, eh?
I’m no rocket surgeon, but it doesn’t
seem to smart to hide out and expect sympathy from a country that has its share of dead and wounded from answering the call and fighting the fight.
Let them come back and spend some time paying back what the US gave them in pay, benefits, and career training. I think clearing trash from highways is a good start.
Perhaps a little time with (the late great) Martin Strother or (also late great) Warren Oates would be of benefit to them.
Perhaps some time in a Southern chain gang. Or better yet, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s prison in Arizona, eating bologna sandwiches and wearing pink underwear, while living in a GP large tent.
Yeah. . . . I like that idea.
Maybe if he had converted to terrorism, then deserted, he would get promotions, back pay and his folks would proudly meet in the rose garden with the muslim-in-chief.
Then obama would trade the oil pipeline and justin bieber for him.
Oh please send him back!
I am certain he will be treated quite fairly by both staff and inmates at MILDISBARLEV.
Out.
I’m at a loss. He volunteered, right? I mean, I remember when we had the draft and the skanky ones were flooding Canada in droves-at least they had an excuse. But Mr. twatwaffle volunteered, and did so AFTER the war had started. So, a hearty chorus of “him, him, fuck him” comes to mind.
Love that chorus. Play it again, Sam.
I wouldn’t piss on that little fleabag’s head if his ass was on fire and his head was a’ catching, FUCK HIM!!! I’m certain that many Canadians are shit-sick and tired of those fleabags mooching off of their welfare system, and I don’t blame them one bit for wanting to jettison those toad snot-headed cockroach turds! I’m all for them being dropped off in downtown Baghdad and left to fend for themselves.
“Be All You Can Be!”
Why don’t these guys escape to Guatemala or El Salvador? What’s up with Canadia?
They have Starbucks in Canada.
Another festering boil on the ass of humanity. Screw him.
These guys ought to take a page out of the Lawrence Franks playbook after serving his 5 years in the FFL, Franks turned himself in and said this, “To turn myself in was the happiest moment in my life,” he said. “Now I was coming home to my family and to take responsibility for what I had done.”
Do wrong, be a man and own up to your wrong and accept responsibility for yourself and your actions.
My thanks to our neighbors in the Great White North for sending some of these assclowns back to face justice for their crimes.
What if we said, “No, we will not accept them back.”
Hmm. No?
Perhaps an expedited process then. Upon arrival, hand them their BCD paperwork. “Sign here”. Then strip them, and spray paint a relatively permanent yellow stripe down the back. Sentence is dependent on wearing it visibly for one year. Else, off to slam for whatever the sentence is for desertion not in the face of the enemy.
The story “The Man Without A Country” comes to mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Country
And both wives and however many kids will be looking for free benefits, right? The first one, assuming she is a US citizen – can’t do much about that one. But, the second one should just stay in Canada.
Come on, I signed up for the military because of the college program. I didn’t think we would actually HAVE to go to battle.
I would ask the Canadian Government, “Please send our deserters home. We are going to give them a well deserved vacation at the posh Leavenworth Palace in the beautiful state of Kansas, of course all expenses paid. And I would suggest you seize their assets as payment for having to deal with this through your courts. They won’t be needing any money here for awhile.”
as a canadian who served in the us army, i would love to catch that little shit turd, on this side collecting dole. just like all the rest that we have to pay for. send em over so isis can sharpen their blade on their neck
The worst part of it in my eyes is that if they had simply done their jobs and gotten their discharge, they’d be free men and not going through this.
Maybe they’re waiting for a presidential pardon like Carter did…
Send there asses up here to the Bronx we have lots of Vets here.
Something that’s often forgotten when talking about Canada and our own cowards fleeing there for refuge.
We, in return, got Canadians who came south to join up with us in our military.
Fair Trade actually works on some issues. Although, we got the best part of the deal.