Canada To Start Air Passenger Screening, Share Info With U.S.

If I break into foul language as I write this please excuse me. Where has 9/11 taken us? I cannot believe that in just over 2 years our security, our freedom our joi de vive has been smashed by government officials and security agencies that have gone completely crazy. Who are they kidding about keeping us safe? If I was a regular traveller it wouldn\'t take too long and I\'d be a red alert in no time. And how will this system work once we do all become red alerts? If I saw yellows being questioned I\'d turn red.

Who will give us back our life? If Bush was responsible for 9/11 then we are just falling into the conspiracy by our government handing over all our liberties to the PNAC bastards that want to rule the world. What kind of irresponsible government does Canada have? Or was our government or CSIS also involved in 9/11? I heard Paul Cellucci telling Question Period that it was a Canadian at the controls of Norad on 9/11. A Canadian that was responsible for scrambling the planes that normally would have been there to intercept hyjackers. What\'s that about? That\'s one of the things being investigated by the 9/11 inquiry. Where were the planes?

I saw David Frum on Newsworld on Sunday talking about us all having identity cards. What a freak that guy is. I emailed Sunday Report and said that if CSIS is serious about keeping terroists our of Canada by sending them to Syria he should be on the plane there now. They\'re protecting us from the WRONG people!

When I was 16, (years ago), I read a saying by Kahlil Gibran that said: \"Would it not be more economical for the governments to build asylums for the sane instead of the demented?\"

That for some reason has never left me. It made sense somehow then and now needs to be put into action.

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I just happened to see a rerun of the movie, \'Canadian Bacon\', never saw it the first time but, although from a Canadian stand point it is hilarious, from an American viewpoint it really is prophetic. Talk about neurotic and calculating, I know it was a spoof but sometimes comedy reflects life and this is one of them. Anyone who hasn\'t seen it should, it is really a great parody on Canada/US relations!

Rick Mercer had a great explanation on his new show, Monday night, he was explaining to an American about our colour coding threat levels, rather than the orange, red etc, he said in Canada we have, black, regular, double, and double-double!!! The poor American was perplexed. If everyone starts drinking em double-double, we are probably in big mud...

ROFLMAO!<p> I thought you were going to say "plaid" or "Nova Scotia Tartan". Hehehe.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

<P>This anecdote is an excerpt from a longer article called <A HREF="http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=278">Blacklist Grounds American Passengers</A> in Intervention Magazine. No reason why "other agencies" couldn't include the RCMP and CSIS or even a voters list. I'd sure like to see that "Justice Department document" on the US Greens. <I><P>Writing about his no-fly nightmare in the Fairfield County Weekly, art dealer Doug Stuber, who had run Ralph Nader's Green Party presidential campaign in North Carolina in 2000, was pulled out of a boarding line and grounded. He was about to make an important trip to Prague to gather artists for Henry James Art in Raleigh, N.C., when he was told (with ticket in hand) that he was not allowed to fly out that day. <P>Asking "why not?" he was told at Raleigh-Durham airport that because of the sniper attacks, no Greens were allowed to fly overseas on that day. The next morning he returned, and instead of paying $670 round trip, was forced into a $2,600 "same day" air fare. But it's what happened to Stuber during the next 24 hours that is even more disturbing. <P>Stuber arrived at the airport at 6 a.m. and his first flight wasn't due out until nearly six hours later. He had plenty of time. At exactly 10:52 in the morning, just before boarding was to begin, he was approached by police officer Stanley (the same policeman who ushered him out of the airport the day before), who said that he "wanted to talk" to him. Stuber went with the police officer, but reminded him that no one had said he couldn't fly, and that his flight was about to leave. <P>Officer Stanley took Stuber into a room and questioned him for an hour. Around noon, Stanley had introduced him to two Secret Service agents. The agents took full eye-open pictures of Stuber with a digital camera. Then they asked him details about his family, where he lived, who he ever knew, what the Greens are up to, and other questions. <P>At one point during his interrogation, Stuber asked if they really believed the Greens were equal to al Qaeda. Then they showed him a Justice Department document that actually shows the Greens as likely terrorists – just as likely as al Qaeda members. Stuber was released just before 1 PM, so he still had time to catch the later flight. <P>The agents walked Stuber to the Delta counter and asked that he be given tickets for the flight so that he could make his connections. The airline official promptly printed tickets, which relieved Stuber, who assumed that the Secret Service hadn't stopped him from flying. Wrong! By the time Stuber was about to board, officer Stanley once again ushered him out the door and told him: "Just go to Greensboro, where they don't know you, and be totally quiet about politics, and you can make it to Europe that way." <P>In Greensboro, after Stuber showed his passport he was told that he could not fly overseas or domestically. Undeterred, he next traveled an hour-and-a-half to Charlotte. In Charlotte, the same thing happened. Then Stuber drove three hours to his home after 43 hours of trying to catch a flight. <P>Stuber said he could only conclude that the Greens, whose values include nonviolence, social justice, etc., are now labeled terrorists by the Ashcroft-led Justice Department. <P>Questions about how one gets on a no-fly list creates questions about how to get off it. This is a classic Catch-22 situation. The Transportation Security Agency says it compiles the list from names provided by other agencies, but it has no procedure for correcting a problem. Aggrieved parties would have to go to the agency that first reported their names. But for security reasons, the TSA won't disclose which agency put someone on the no-fly list. <P>by Frederick Sweet</I>