The identity of the accused as a human being is minimized when people cast aside due process. Instead, he is presented as representative specimen of some despised class of individuals illegal immigrants or predatory men, to name a couple of examples with the prosecution presented as a righteous struggle to roll back the forces of evil.

Omar's father, Ahmed Said Khadr, was a terrorist commander who raised his child to follow in his footsteps. No one reading this can say, with certainty, that his or her life would have turned out different from Omar Khadr's if he or she had been raised the same way.