I was shown a two-sheet printout that had three convictions: one for unlawful assembly at the White House on International Women's Day 2002; one for speaking out during a congressional hearing in 2003; and one for trespassing when a group of us tried to deliver 152,000 anti-war signatures to the U.S. Mission to the UN in March 2005. Ms. Wright was also questioned about her arrests, all of which were minor misdemeanours — the equivalent of parking tickets — for which she had paid fines.
This FBI database, called the National Crime Information Center, was created to assist U.S. law enforcement agencies in finding fugitives, convicted sex offenders, missing persons, and members of terrorist organizations and violent gangs. It is outrageous that the FBI is placing peace activists on an international criminal database — a blatant political intimidation of U.S. citizens opposed to Bush administration policies. But it is also outrageous that the Canada Border Services Agency is using this FBI database to determine who can enter the country.
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Oh Canada, Don't Forsake The Peacemakers
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Peace Signs! My God, what next? Let that go unpunished and before you know it they'll be joining together to sing out loud interminable choruses of "All we are saying, is give peace a chance." <br />
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YouTube video here:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6x4pw6970">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6x4pw6970</a><br />
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Thank heavens we Canadians cans sleep securely knowing the likes of these subversive Code Pink ladies will not be allowed to unobtrusively slip across the border to spread their subversion in Canada. Rest assured, fellow Canucks, our ever vigilant border protection agents are standing on guard to keep these radical extremists from invading and subverting our "true North strong and free" with their treasonous, pro-terrorism message. <br />
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Code Pink activists denied entry to Canada:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxieJR5eAKs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxieJR5eAKs</a>
employed by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon etc... making killing machines and
weapons that can kill the entire planet in seconds and not one of those
people are in danger of being arrested or put on no-fly lists becasue they are
threatening a peaceful planet that I prefer over a warring one? People like
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Harper, Baird, and more, all contributing to the
destruction of the planet yet these two activists aren't allowed into Canada to
speak their minds about how this is effecting them and billions of others?
What a telling statement that alone is about the state of affairs this country is
in. I can't believe that in my lifetime I am going to go from a carefree, clean
world to the blatant destruction of our civil liberties and our planet. None of
this had to happen it has been orchestrated for such a few at the top that it is
as criminal or more criminal than anything I can imagine.
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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan