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There's a long and shameful list of Canadian Muslim men whose lives have been substantially wrecked by their own government. Omar Khadr is among those most grievously mistreated by both Liberal and Conservative governments past. Now a new "Free Omar" campaign has been launched by a small group of his volunteer supporters. I fervently hope all who believe in justice will endorse it.

International human rights groups have called the captivity of Omar Khadr a humans rights crisis and now finally, after 13 long years, Omar Khadr is free at last. Supporters of Khadr are celebrating his release and freedom. John Baglow says Harper government and U.S. courts, however, may still have a few cards up their sleeves to prevent Khadr from obtaining justice and complete freedom.

Welcome to the fresh air and sunshine, Omar Khadr. I hope you enjoyed your lamb dinner at the Edneys' last night. I can't begin to imagine the pleasure you must have taken in the evening ritual of a family meal.

Freedom. Delivered at last from the deep pits and squalid cages built by the system to hide away the inconvenient and the lost. The masquerade of official "freedom" is to be maintained at all costs: the ugly truths of power and rule must be kept out of the light, by any means necessary.

And so a kid was thrown down a hole. And all the Sovereign's minions laboured to roll a rock over the opening, to bury him alive.