Silliopolous
25-11-2005, 16:51
Fuck you. Rot in Hell. Or SingSing. Or wherever....
From the Toronto Star: (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132872612383&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)
Conrad Black has asked the federal government to give him back his Canadian citizenship, four years after he called it an "impediment" and renounced it to become a member of Britain's House of Lords.
Black is accused by the U.S. government of being involved in an $83.8 million (U.S.) fraud at his former publishing company, Hollinger International Inc. He faces the prospect of as many as 40 years in prison if he's convicted on all eight counts of fraud, although he has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.
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As things now stand, if Black were convicted and receives a prison sentence, his decision to renounce his citizenship would likely scuttle any chance for him to request a transfer to a Canadian jail. Only Canadian citizens can seek a transfer here from a jail elsewhere.
Black, who in a speech four years ago called his Canadian citizenship an "impediment to my progress in another, more amenable jurisdiction (Britain)," now contends the government should grant his request because his parents were born in Canada.
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Four years ago, Black announced he would renounce his citizenship after losing a legal battle with then-prime minister Jean Chrétien.
At the time, William Hague, leader of Britain's Conservative party, said: "Canada's loss will be Britain's gain."
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Black attacked Canada's universal health-care system, and "soft-left" policies that he said were driving as many as 100,000 skilled workers a year to the United States. "The head of the Canadian government says they will be replaced by Haitian taxi drivers. They will not," he said at the time.
"To someone just arrived from Haiti or Romania, Canada is a far more satisfying place to be a citizen than it was to me," Black said in his speech.
"Renouncing my citizenship was the last and most consistent act of dissent I could pose against a public policy which I believe is depriving Canada of its right and duty to be one of the world's great countries."
Tell you what Conrad. Maybe the US will grant you extradition to serve out your sentance in Haiti if you ask nicely.... I mean, since Canada sucks so bad. And what's the matter with a nice British jail? you DO have your citizenship there don't you?
Ohhh! Let me guess. Canada's "soft-left" policies might just make for a more comfortable time of it? Is that it? Your much vaunted principles suddenly mean diddly when it comes to YOUR life and creature comforts?
Well, you hate those policies. Remember? Wouldn't be fair to let you take advantage of them now would it?
Rot in Hell Conrad.
Rot in Hell.
From the Toronto Star: (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132872612383&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)
Conrad Black has asked the federal government to give him back his Canadian citizenship, four years after he called it an "impediment" and renounced it to become a member of Britain's House of Lords.
Black is accused by the U.S. government of being involved in an $83.8 million (U.S.) fraud at his former publishing company, Hollinger International Inc. He faces the prospect of as many as 40 years in prison if he's convicted on all eight counts of fraud, although he has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.
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As things now stand, if Black were convicted and receives a prison sentence, his decision to renounce his citizenship would likely scuttle any chance for him to request a transfer to a Canadian jail. Only Canadian citizens can seek a transfer here from a jail elsewhere.
Black, who in a speech four years ago called his Canadian citizenship an "impediment to my progress in another, more amenable jurisdiction (Britain)," now contends the government should grant his request because his parents were born in Canada.
...
Four years ago, Black announced he would renounce his citizenship after losing a legal battle with then-prime minister Jean Chrétien.
At the time, William Hague, leader of Britain's Conservative party, said: "Canada's loss will be Britain's gain."
...
Black attacked Canada's universal health-care system, and "soft-left" policies that he said were driving as many as 100,000 skilled workers a year to the United States. "The head of the Canadian government says they will be replaced by Haitian taxi drivers. They will not," he said at the time.
"To someone just arrived from Haiti or Romania, Canada is a far more satisfying place to be a citizen than it was to me," Black said in his speech.
"Renouncing my citizenship was the last and most consistent act of dissent I could pose against a public policy which I believe is depriving Canada of its right and duty to be one of the world's great countries."
Tell you what Conrad. Maybe the US will grant you extradition to serve out your sentance in Haiti if you ask nicely.... I mean, since Canada sucks so bad. And what's the matter with a nice British jail? you DO have your citizenship there don't you?
Ohhh! Let me guess. Canada's "soft-left" policies might just make for a more comfortable time of it? Is that it? Your much vaunted principles suddenly mean diddly when it comes to YOUR life and creature comforts?
Well, you hate those policies. Remember? Wouldn't be fair to let you take advantage of them now would it?
Rot in Hell Conrad.
Rot in Hell.