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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi
Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m
sorry to hear of your friend’s experience – it really is
horrifying.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Unfortunately,
this isn’t the first experience similar to this that I’ve learned
of, and I’m really sorry this happened to your friend – please, let
him know that there are many who are absolutely against the kinds of government
abuses he was subjected to. Unfortunately, our government – this administration
– continues to refuse to listen to us. It’s a government run
amok in the worst way </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;
color:#1F497D'>L</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And,
I posted here in the Viz the personal experiences of my sick young daughter and
myself with the Homeland Terror Force (Homeland Security) back in June, 2004.
After my experience, I’ve been interested in the experiences of others,
and each new revelation continues to sicken me and wonder how these kinds of
things can happen here in America to honest law-abiding folks, US citizens or
not?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I
really just don’t understand why on earth we’re fighting a war
elsewhere when we have such gross ongoing abuses right here? What good is
it to fight for liberty and freedom around the world when we’ve allowed government
to take away such lofty things as basic human rights, civil liberties, and due
process here?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>JMHO,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2008
through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt,
or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written
permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Love America<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] This is an account of a former co-worker of mine
trying to return to work this past weekend Please take a moment to read the
account..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Good morning Vision 2020
readers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Below is a detailed
description of an incident involving a co-worker of mine as he tried to return
back to work from a holiday trip home to Austria. It is unbelievable that
our Customs folks behave in this manner but unfortunately this is now that case.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>For those of you who
regularly read V2020 and demand tougher border crossing procedures, is this
really what you want? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Have we as a nation really
stooped to this new low? Unfortunately this is now the case and while you
may think this is just one guy from Austria trying to return to work in Alaska,
his encounter really sheds light on what America has become, a dying empire
resorting to desperate measures to shore up its crumbling foundations. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>BTW, the person
involved in this incident is a 29 year old Christian white male, with a masters
degree, who is internationally known and a member of the Austrian Olympic
Ski team. Unfortunately, this incident will cost him his spot on the ski
team as he can no longer travel to the United States to compete. He does
not have a police record and as a member of this prestigious team, he is
subject to random drug tests and other background checks. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I must confess that over the last few years I have read Dr. Gier's
posts about Guantanamo Bay with a air of "oh well, they probably deserved
it anyway" or "this would not happen to the law and order folks
of the US or our allies" or even "they are making this up to
discredit the Bush White House." Dr. Gier, I must apologize
for that view, even though I have not posted anything on V2020 supporting or
debating your position I still scoffed at what you had written concerning
Gitmo. Maybe I was buying the old line that this stuff only happens to
the guilty; but as my good friend's experience has shown, upstanding members of
society are now common criminals in the eye of the thugs we use to protect our
border. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Chris</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I never
wrote a big travel update from any of my trips so far. However, the experience
I just made the last five days has caused to change my habit, because it
significantly had changed my point of view on things. I want to give a
statement on what had happened and why I cannot come back for now. It is for my
own peace and reputation, and for you to make your own opinion.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I am
finally back at home in Austria. I had my first full night sleep in five days
last night. I am still influenced by what had happened this weekend. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>When I
arrived in Seattle and went through customs they had put a red flag in my file
and sent me forward to another officer. After letting me wait for an hour until
I was the last one left I got called in. I did not know what was going on or
what was wrong. I thought it could only be a routine check. The officer
starts asking me for my name and why I would be traveling to the USA. He walks
off and comes back to start yelling at me and accusing me to enter under false
statements. I am brought back into a separate office where they are telling me
that they will send me back to Austria with the next plane. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I was
speechless and could not believe it. Two weeks before I had just put together a
visa application and had to take the train down to Vienna to speak to the
consulate. I explicitly told them I will go to Alaska to set up my work visa
application paid an extra application fee, covered changing my flight, and paid
for my trip to Vienna (8h). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>In
Seattle at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office, officer Foy keeps
walking out of his office to come back and start another round of yelling at me
to not even try to lie because they have all my files and protocols from what I
told the consulate in Vienna. I sit there and think this cannot be for real. I
tell officer Foy why would I, after six years and entering the US for 12 times,
make false statements to risk everything I have built up during that time. I
have worked very hard, got a graduate degree and a sponsor for my visa. I also
keep telling him that I know that the regulations are very strict and that I
had made sure to not make a mistake by thoroughly preparing my travel documents
before I left again. I tell him I was originally scheduled to come back to
Alaska on January 8<sup>th</sup> but called up the US embassy to confirm and
make sure I am not breaking any laws. The visa hotline consultant told me I
need to come down to Vienna and talk to the consul for a visitor visa on
January 15. The US consulate's immigrations attorney confirmed the B1/B2 visa
and I was told to enjoy my travel to the USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Nevertheless,
officer Foy does not believe me. Instead he walks out again and comes back to
tell me that I have to speak under oath now and if I tell lies I will be put
into a detention facility until they deport me and I will be forbidden entry
into the US for 5-10 years. Again, I am speechless and can only shake my head.
I tell him this can only be a mistake and there has to be something that can
solve this. I have never done anything wrong. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Foy is
only a few years older than me and you would think that he would be reasonable.
Not at all, it's like he his brainwashed and he tries to ignore the true facts
that I say. He keeps walking out after every 5-10 minutes to consult with his
supervisor at another office. I remember I have learned about that at school.
He plans next steps, and provokes me by yelling and accusing me as well as
letting me wait again for extended periods of time over and over, so I get
tired, then comes back again and switches to being nice and polite to gain my
trust. The good and bad cop method - funny when you learn from it at school or
watch it on TV at CSI, just weird when you experience it real world on your
own.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>All my
bags are confiscated and he goes through every piece of paper and evidence that
is in there. He finds notes and other documents that he takes back to go
through and show his supervisor. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>This
game keeps playing for 4 hours or more. He asks and comes back to the same
questions over and over like he did not ask them yet. Even though I know that
he is forcing me to confess to something I did not do he is also trying to get
me to forget what I have already told him for the same question before. I am
getting really tired and frustrated and make a mistake by saying I do not know
anymore, I am not sure I know the rules anymore. So he nails me down on why I
come to the US again. I cannot believe what I or anyone else would deserve that
for. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I do
not know what time it is but it has to be close to ten when Foy walks out again
and finally comes back to tell me that I have been truthful and told him
everything the same as I had told the US embassy in Vienna. I start wondering
why he had put me through this then for four hours over and over when I had
told him everything after half an hour. He basically tried for four hours to
get me to say, confess to something I did not do.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>So I
ask him what went wrong and he tells me I was misrepresented and misinformed
and I should have not gotten a B1/B2 visa, and that he apologizes. I ask him if
I could call Alaska Airlines to change my flight which had already left. He
tells me that I can voluntarily withdraw my visa application and that they will
send me back home, after all.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I
cannot believe it and get really mad but keep myself together. What kind of
justice is this? I have to give finger prints at least three times of all ten,
give data on my parents and friends, bank accounts, things that I own, phone
numbers and addresses of me, family and friends. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I start
thinking and all the consequences I will face come to me. I ask him if he even
knows what this means to me, and how much this affects me for my future. He
does not care. It is the protocol, the law. He diminishes by saying this would
not affect any of my future applications for a visa. And if I would apply for
an H1B I would get it and be back in three months. As some of you know is not
like that.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Everybody
who has traveled before knows what it really means. My passport is painted
bright red over three pages saying revoked, and visa withdrawn, and all my
personal data, and my files are accessible. Next time I come to the US a
different officer at a different point of entry will see first that I was
denied a visa before and red flags will go up again. And, who can guarantee me
that the next time they will not be suspicious again, and not believe me again
what I have to say for four hours now that my record is not even clean anymore.
There is no justification. I was not my mistake. Being denied again will close
the doors for me forever. But that is not all that I have to accept.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Around
midnight they stick me in a police car and drive off. I do not know where I
will be going. I was not told where I would be brought or what I have to
expect. An officers laughs when I ask him and tells me you will get some good
night sleep, in a nice bed. After about 20 minutes from the airport we arrive
at a detention facility. We drive through two gates. As it turns out it
is a high security institution with 1200 inmates of criminals and other illegal
immigrants. After stripping down naked in front of an officer and putting on
the inmate uniform I am ordered to lean forward put my hands on the wall and
spread my legs. An officer does a touch-down exam on every part of my body. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Then I
was thrown in a single cell again with a concrete block to sit or sleep on and
the lights on all night to stay up. Every half hour an officer wakes you up
moves you into a different cell or asks you questions again. I never fall
asleep for longer than a few minutes. They bring me to a separate area and a
different cell again. They run medical tests and an x-ray of my chest until 4
am. When I first came in I was told I would only stay in this facility for a
few hours until the tests are done, and I would be brought into a dorm room
afterwards. However, it never happened and instead they put me and another guy
from Guatemala into the segregation tract/area. It is a high security area
where three officers have to escort us to, and put us in small cells with iron
bunk beds and no mattress. I am very tired and I can not believe what is
happening and why. It all seems like a bad movie but unfortunately it is not.
Around 8am I get handcuffed and escorted out again. At 10 am they bring me back
to the airport where they held me all day to finally get me on a plane at 6pm. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Sometimes
I thought it was not true and only shuck my head, but once I was put into the
detention facility my file was gone and I was an inmate with a number on a
wrist band being treated like a criminal. There was nothing I could or somebody
else could do. It felt like they could do whatever they wanted to. It did not
feel good. It was a very disappointing and humiliating experience. I have lived
in Alaska for 6 years and feel at home there. Now, I was treated like I am not
welcome and should not come back to the US ever again. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>After
all, officers that interrogated me laughingly ask me how I liked the facility
and how my "inmate colleagues" have been treating me, and if I have
gotten a "good" rest in there. By that time I could hardly hold back
to not go crazy on them. However, at the end it would only make it worse. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>They
kept telling me how they would be sorry and apologize. Those ... had just
innocently put me through the worst and ruined my record for traveling to any
country in the close future. How can I accept an apology? My passport and
visa is painted red to show that my visa was revoked and withdrawn. I was
denied entry to the US for a mistake I had not made. I will not be able to
return to the US now even as a tourist in the near future, even that I had done
nothing wrong. Red flags will show up on the computer suspecting me of entering
to attain a work visa. This is similar to any other country that requires me a
visa to enter in the future. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>
Around four a clock another senior officer calls me to get on the phone and
talk to Scandinavian airlines. I ask him why, and he replies that I need to pay
fro my ticket back. I tell him that Foy had told me that I would not need to
pay for a ticket since the airline has to take me back home no matter what. He
gives a quick but harsh answer: "Get on the phone or we will keep you out
for five years!" I get up and comply, because I believe in what he just
said.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Right
now I am very irritated and mad and am burned out on the idea of trying again.
I have worked hard for a long time to get were I was before last weekend, and
because, as they call it, of a minor bureaucratic error I had to go
through all that, pardon the expression, BS and have to deal with all the consequences
for myself. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I need
a few days to reflect and see what I can do to get my record cleaned. Maybe a
lawyer can help. I have also been offered by media in Austria to go public, but
I am not sure and want to wait. I am not all so worried about myself here to.
It concerns just almost more that the US has to use such means and measures to
keep up its organization. Enforcing and spreading such fear and disgraceful
pressure, that nobody ever inside it would experience, get to know about it
unless it hits someone close. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>My
family and friends here are speechless and do not understand it. My
grandparents are 80 years old and had gone through a lot. They both are old
enough to know what it means to be helplessly exposed to arbitrary judging
authorities of a system. They both got goose bumps and felt set back more than
half a century in time when I told them what happened and could not believe
that this is happening nowadays. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>While
officer Foy and his colleague escort me through the airport on to the plane
they keep talking to each other. Foy tells how he is jumping on the
immigrations bandwagon to make it up the latter faster. He will try and see how
it goes for a while, but there are a lot of young "speeders" coming
up. The competition is fierce for promotion. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Later,
Foy tells me that would I have simply said (lied) I would enter into the US
only for travel they would have not denied my entry and then could have
perfectly switched to a work visa. It is screwed up and after this last
statement it was an even more degrading experience. It seems like you can not
afford to be honest anymore. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I am
thankful that I am able to be back at home and that not more had happened. I
have physically not been hurt. The tactics and all procedures that where
performed are certainly an attempt of a psychological breech of somebody's
mind, privacy, and freedom. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:14.4pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>I have
a very strong desire, goals and a firm character derived from being brought up
in a well functioning family and environment. I am a very strong person and
already have experienced quite a bit in my still short life. This event will
not break my aspirations and energy, but it definitely has jeopardized the
glare of my view on the American ideology of freedom, and equal and accountable
treatment I once had when I first came here. I need to reflect and get a little
distance before I will make a decision to come back. If you would like to you
can tell me what you think or give me advice.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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