I was raised by hillbillies. We were a gun loving clan, always out shooting stuff, gophers, rabbits, anything so long as we didn't have to deal with it after it was dead. Hicks by any metric.
I went along with it because that's what we did. I probably thought it was fun too. I liked hanging out with my older bros. When I turned 14 I got a summer job, met a few friends, got my learner's license. At fifteen i made the basketball team. By the time I was 16 I got a car, a better summer gig and more friends. At that point I couldn't stand what my family did and to this day still think they're a bunch of psychos. Who shoots stuff for fun? Idiots, the lot of them.
That's why I don't blame Omar. I don't think he had the same experience I did. It's not like he could have hopped a bus back to Canada where his outside life provided him a reasonable alternative. His summer job was jihad. His friends were his family and they were all psychos. His team mates were terrorists. What was he supposed to do?
I think he's not suing the Americans because they probably didn't break any laws...American law. Score one for the Patriot Act. International law is likely well beyond the scope of most lawyers willing to help him. I really don't know though.
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