US Will Continue To Deport Canadians To Third Countries

Posted on Friday, December 05 at 10:08 by sthompson
According to CBC: "The president has no more solemn obligation than to protect the safety of the people of the United States," said Cellucci, and if that means acting unilaterally, so be it, he added.

That means more cases like Maher Arar's will happen.

My advice--don't travel to or through the U.S. In fact, I wonder if it would be worthwhile to organize a boycott of travel to the U.S. in solidarity with Arar and others until the U.S. pledges to respect Canadian passports?

Note that Martin has said he would look into the Arar case, demonstrating that pressure can work to get us some representation in instances like this, even from Martin...

Note: will still deport them ...

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  1. Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:12 am
    Well hey! At least Jordan, Morroco, Thailand and Yemen have stocked up on <a href='http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/usa/document.do?id=F7CE0B13E65E100085256DF00050B882'>Shackles</a> and ECT machines, in case there is a sudden inrush of US 'clients'<p> Oooo this is going to be a fun discussion!<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain

  2. Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:56 am
    Since Cellucci so openly supports contravening international law and his country has repeatedly broken international law, perhaps we should deport him to a third country? Let\'s toss the little man on an airplane and drop him off in some poor with no money and a tag pinned to his lapel with his his name and political affiliation. That should shut him up for a while.

    If Shrub comes here we should arrest him and drop him off at the Hague with a list of his crimes tattooed into his chest. We\'d have to write small, but it would be fun. That\'d teach him a little bit about international law.

  3. Sat Dec 06, 2003 3:32 am
    I'd pay money to see that :) Or better yet, deport the twins to Iran, Yemen or some place. Let them see how the other half lives. <p><p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain

  4. Sat Dec 06, 2003 5:31 am
    That sounds a lot like justice to me!

    Oh that we could do that.
    4Canada

  5. Sat Dec 06, 2003 6:05 am
    What\'s not clear is why Cellucci believes that cases like Arar\'s enhance US security. Or how deporting anyone--innocent or not--to a third country--for the purpose of torture or not--makes American citizens safer.

    Too bad the reporters didn\'t ask more probing questions and get Cellucci to elaborate on exactly what he was justifying in this case. The press is a lousy place to assemble the facts of the matter. Even the preliminary information-gathering stage is still incomplete.

    Martin and Cellucci are in a big hurry to finish with this. It certainly doesn\'t appear that the US acted unilaterally. Arar\'s statement implies that US authorities may have sub-contracted torturing him to Syria using Jordan as an intermediary and Canada as a source of just enough information to create suspicion, which is all that\'s necessary under Ashcroft\'s new from-the-hip \"justice.\" So the US may have acted with the full multi-lateral complicity of Jordan and Syria--and possibly Canada. Why? That\'s the question. Someone had to agree to it.

    There\'s a lot of provocative bluster here and no real answers. I think the passports are a red herring, a minor part of the picture. Too early to draw conclusions.

  6. Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:24 pm
    All we`d have to do when we drop off Cellucci to a third world country is stamp an American flag on his back. Let the mal-contents do the rest!

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    Dave Ruston

  7. Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:52 pm
    Where would you want to send the body parts ?



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  8. Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:51 am
    The trash heap.



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