Corey Glass: I'm going to return if ultimately ordered ... I’m going to
obey Canadian laws ... I’m not going to break any laws here.
Posted on 07/12/2008 2:30:20 PM PDT by Zakeet
James Corey Glass, apprentice mortician and United States Army deserter, was keeping an unusually close eye on the text messages coming into his cellphone. He was hoping to hear that a court had blocked the Canadian government’s attempt to send him back to the United States.
On Wednesday afternoon, the message came: Mr. Glass, 25, could remain in Canada while he appealed his removal order by the country’s Immigration Department. It was a welcome reprieve, he said, but well short of a guarantee that he and other deserters could make Canada their new home.
The Canadian government’s effort to remove Mr. Glass contrasts with the warm reception given to deserters and draft avoiders from the United States during the war in Vietnam. And although the war in Iraq has very little support among Canadians, the situation of Mr. Glass and others who abandoned their military positions provokes a wide range of responses. For American soldiers seeking an escape, Canada is no longer a guaranteed haven.
“It’s quite clear that the current Canadian government does not want to annoy the U.S. government on this issue and will not give any ground,” said Michael Byers, a professor of politics and international law at the University of British Columbia.
During the Vietnam War, the Liberal prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, welcomed American deserters and draft dodgers, declaring that Canada “should be a refuge from militarism.” Americans who arrived were generally able to obtain legal immigrant status simply by applying at the border, or even after they entered Canada.
But while the current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has not backed the Iraq war, it has shown little sympathy for American deserters.
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Corey Glass: I'm going to return if ultimately ordered ... I’m going to
obey Canadian laws ... I’m not going to break any laws here.
If we say he faces the death penalty Canada will be compelled to keep him, right?
Teary (or dope?) eyed weasel.
He deserted an army he volunteered to join.
That obvious fact seems absent from the report.
As stated in the article this is a pure BS cop out... You join the military you are talking a job that puts you in to harms way....anyone that thinks otherwise is deluding themselves...
Mr. Glass Needs to grow up and come back to the US and face the consequences for his actions...
I am sure that this was not a intentional mistake by the NY Slimes. /S
Thank God he deserted, he looks like he diddles with the dead.
LIE! No way that a recruiter would state this! Ever!
Nasty, but quite possibly true
a.k.a.: Communist sympathizer and lifelong closet fudgepacker.
Canada, KEEP HIM! He’s not worthy of American citizenship.
We do have a generation now that has been told that conflict and wars are not an acceptable means of diplomacy... which is incorrect it is the last act of diplomacy when everything else has failed. But through their sense of entitlement and their selfishness they refuse to or run away from the responsibility the obliged themselves too... I realized this kind of mentality has been around for years,, but in the past 40 years the left and anti-war have cultivated in or schools and other institutions of higher learning....
I guess now it's all about the money you can make after you leave the military, so being alive to do so is imperative.
America is at war.
He deserted.
Shoot the sonuvabitch.
Thats lovely.
Bring him home and execute him for desertion during wartime.
You are correct.... it is a sad statement of some people today....
Good post, you are absolutely correct. It’s a HUGE leap of faith (or stupidity) to think that after enlisting in any military branch, that you won’t be sent in harm’s way. Idiot. But I think your post covers that kind of thinking, or non-reasoning.
With an all volunteer military, there should be NO deserters at all. Whiney babies, pathetic self-absorbed panty-wastes. I hesitate to use a feminine related terms because God bless our women serving their country.
One of our little town’s young women has been serving in the medical corps in the USAF for several years, she has deployed three times to Balad, Iraq to the field hospital there. We are so proud of her we practically explode with praise when her name is mentioned. And our young men (veterans) do the same when she is mentioned. Compare her to these losers, well there IS NO comparison!
The women that I served with in the AV/ARM and ordnance were usually as hard working or harder working then the guys.. granted there was the share of slackers on both sides of the gender fence.... but those that were there to do the job did it great and with out complaint of fear of the danger that we faced on a daily basis...
Even got in a bar fight with a lady ordie.... she kicked my butt.... (as ashamed as I am to admit it... :) )
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