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Originally Posted by Cappy
I question the policy used by Western governments have enacted over things like this. The goal seems to be criminalizing the men and women who go to help fight/support ISIS; or they try to prevent their leaving.
Why not allow them to leave, monitor who goes (they obviously know who does) and revoke their Canadian passports or put out a non-entry notice (if that's a thing) on them to prevent their return.
Criminalizing their departure does two things: It either has them arrested, jailed, and sooner or later released with very little rehabilitation or, worse more radicalization; or it prevents them from leaving and they will in turn seek to help the cause by wreaking havoc in that Western country.
Let them leave and, hopefully, die. If they don't die and want to come back, tough, you aren't allowed back in. They made their bed.
Has any government commented on their reasoning for policies or does criminalizing effectively create the desired scenario?
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I think that the idea of not letting them leave is that if they do leave and get there they get trained and experienced. So if they do manage to sneak back home you have a fully crazed and now trained jihadist.
Just putting out a stop order means very little, especially with Canadian Citizens, as many people have pointed out, as per international law you can't revoke someones citizenship if they were born here.