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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=26467" target="_blank">Canada detains US peace activist</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/1-political" target="_blank">Political</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=trueblue" target="_blank">trueblue</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-10-25 15:29:16
<strong>Canadian</strong>

   

Well, she's a repeat and unrepentant offender and is likely to reoffend be that in Canada or anywhere else. Since the law is supposed to be applied evenly I'd say the Canadian border folks did their jobs just fine.

   

Is it the photo or does she look a little 'roughed' up there?

   

No, she just kind of naturally scraggy. Female officers tend to be a tad masculine, if you get my drift, and they are not all too concerned about their looks.

   

Nah, she's just a bit of a dog, but even dogs need loving!

   

I can speculate on several scenarios one being in the middle of a fire-fight and the female goes "Oh shoot, where's my compact, that rocket that flew by mussed up my hair that I spent 2 hours on before patrol".

   

Misdemeanor crimes resulting from civil disobedience is now on par with a murderer? Hard to see this as not politically motivated.

   

We don't have to let people into this country with criminal records (this has NOTHING to do with "murder"), alot of people have been denied entry for as little as a single DUI.

   

Reality check!!!!

Border officials on either side on their discretion can arbitrarilly refuse anyone entry. If you are refused you must apply for a "waiver" and wait months. Any attempt to enter without such waiver after being refused is an offence.

This gal was refused at Niagara recently and directed to apply for a waiver. She compalined bitterly at the time and cited arrests but NO CONVICTIONS. Now it surfaces that she is free pending due process and has a record of CONVICTIONS.

She got the VIP treatment....she could have been held incognito for 72 hours by either Canada or the US for this transgression.

Both imigration services immediately circulate the names/photos of those refused because these undesirables all too frequently just move down the line and try to bluff through. Eg those refused at Buffalo/Fort Erie will turn up at Queenston/Lewiston within minutes or Detroit/Windsor or Sarnia/Port Huron, even Gananoque within hours.

   

Oh I am certain we have denied access to people who have been caught jaywalking but that has not stopped people with a criminal past from entering. Since we are on the issue of who should and should not be allowed entry shouldn't that bar be set to a level that would be deemed reasonable? I see it being perfectly reasonable to deny entry into Canada if you are a murder for example yet if you have ever been to the skytrain stations in Vancouver you will see Haitian gangs who have track records as long as your arm. So this issue of denying access to a Retired US Army Colonel over political activism in her own country seems badly out of step. Seems to me she is being punished by trying to follow her conscientious objections and yet we are rewarding criminals to blatantly disregard the entire premise of law and order.

If she is being thrown out for being a threat to national security then why aren't they and what threat really does she pose to the national interest?

   

Scape

No doubt! But if they screw up, they seldom are deported and even if they have a deportation order against them.....they remain.

   

Put your feminist hackles away. This is something I can address with authority and (now that I don't have to worry about it) no worry about recrimination.

Female military officers tend not to care so much about their appearance because they tend to be lesbians and, in the parlance of the lesbian community, bull dykes. They're tough, abrasive, and they don;t wear makeup nor do they muss with their hair.

Enlisted personnel are a different matter.

But female officers tend to be single and they tend to share off-base quarters with a noticeable regularity. Such to the point that a lot of guys joke about why we'd ever have to ask abut such things when even dead people know these women are gay.

I don't know if that's the case in the CF, but it sure is in the US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Only the Coasties have a rep for their ranking ladies actually being of the feminine persuasion.

   

There are very few men who come "out" after they leave the service as opposed to the number of women who do.

In Ms. Wright's case her bio is remarkably and noticeably silent about her personal life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wright

   

No kids, no husband, it doesn't speak of her family in Arkansas, no mention of anything other than her left-wing political activism and her quizzical career in the military. I have to wonder why she was in the Army if she was such a committed peace activist all along - that has nothing to do with her other choices in life, it just seems really weird for a peace activist to spend thirty years in the military.

   

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