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12-11-2009, 06:01 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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RE: Hey...Canadians!!
How about, "Hey, what the criminey, Americans?!"
Both the article, which is linked to, along with the comments are really must-reads. Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border ...Peter Watts was beaten without provocation and arrested by US border guards on Tuesday. I heard about it early Wednesday morning in London and called Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She worked her contacts to get in touch with civil rights lawyers in Michigan, and we mobilized with Caitlin Sweet (Peter's partner) and David Nickle (Peter's friend) and Peter was arraigned and bailed out later that day. But now Peter faces a felony rap for "assaulting a federal officer" (Peter and the witness in the car say he didn't do a thing, and I believe them). Defending this charge will cost a fortune, and an inadequate defense could cost Peter his home, his livelihood and his liberty. Peter's friends are raising money for his legal defense. I just sent him CAD$1,000, because this is absolutely my biggest nightmare: imprisoned in a foreign country for a trumped-up offense against untouchable border cops. I would want my friends to help me out if it ever happened to me. ...
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12-12-2009, 04:55 AM
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Junkie
Location: The Danforth
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blood boiling.
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12-13-2009, 03:55 PM
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Getting it.
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Location: Lion City
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Given what Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security has been saying about the Canadian border, I am not surprised.
CBC News - World - Canada more lax than U.S. about whom it lets in, Napolitano says
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