We don’t want ‘em,  you can have ‘em. They’re too rad for us

In spite of the Barack Hussein Obama Traveling Road Show, it’s getting to be a smaller world for the Big O, known in Chinese terms as, “The Big Owe”.

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The Canadian government has soundly rejected a U.S. request to accept 17 Chinese Muslims detained at the Guantanamo Bay terror prison camp in Cuba. We don’t want them, you can keep them, would paraphrase Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s answer for a happy Canuck home for international terrorists. “A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters last night in Ottawa the 17 men held without charges for more than seven years wouldn’t be coming to Canada.” (UPI.com, June 5, 2009). “There are security concerns related to Guantanamo detainees,” Kory Teneycke said. “There really is no rationale for accepting them into the country.” Nor is the first time an American administration has tried to dump the Guantanamo boys on the Land of the Maple Leaf. “We had a previous request from the Bush administration as well,” he said. “But given that these detainees have no link with Canada...I do not see our policy changing.” The prisoners the Obama administration wants Canada to take are Uighers, who claim they will be tortured if they are returned to China. They were arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 for allegedly supporting al-Qaida terrorists. Governments rarely call the Guantanamo gang `terrorists’ these days, but China recognizing that the Uighers want an autonomous Muslim state in the northwest of their country, warned last February that any country that took them in would be seen as “harboring terrorists”. The Canadian response to America to make room for the Gitmo rogue’s gallery is “No!” in English; “Non!”, en Francais. There’s your answer in both official languages, Mr. Obama. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Harper would prefer to talk to the Obama administration about how their “Buy America” protectionism is killing Canadian and American jobs.