[Vision2020] Unbelievable! Canadian Arar Comission On US RenderingOf Arar To Syrian Torture

[Ralph Nielsen]

Arar was on his way home to Toronto and had to change planes in New  
York. The simplest thing for the Americans to do was to send him on  
his way home. I also blame the complaisant Conservative government of  
Canada for not being on the ball with such cases. The Minister of  
Public Safety is a right-wing Christian fundamentalist preacher. Need  
I say more?

Ralph



lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Thu Jul 24 10:49:08 PDT 2008

It is hard to understand the actions of some government officials. It  
would appear that he should have been turned over to the Canadians  
not Syria. whether Bush had anything to do with it is is open to  
question. However there were two boarder guards who were arrested and  
put in prison for shooting a drug dealer who was trying to escape.  
Bush has refused to review the case or grant them a pardon. They were  
doing their job. Nether of these events should have happened.

This is the best country on earth but bad things still happen at the  
federal and local level. I will tell a story of something that happen  
a few years ago in Nevada. A neighbor of my brothers got a phone call  
that his son was in an accident and was severely injured on the  
highway a short distance away. He got in his car an headed down the  
road. At the scene the road was blocked and he was told that he could  
not go down to the scene even after telling that it was his son. He  
got in his car and drove around the road block. The State Patrolman  
who was at the road block ordered him out of the car at gun point. He  
was arrested and taken to the jail in Reno.  He was allowed to call  
his wife to tell her that their son was dead and he was in jail. He  
was latter released and told that the Patrolman had over reacted.  
When they tried to check on the records latter. there wern"t any.  
According to the records, it never happened.
Roger