Ultimately We Are All Guilty
A Polish man died at Vancouver airport for no reason, an immigrant to our country, unable to speak English, by news accounts travelling for many unbroken hours, and then, and this is where it gets fuzzy, held in immigration for a long time, so long his mother gave up waiting for him and went back to Kamloops. He was asking for police help and according to an eye witness they double tazered him, one on either side at the same time. This same eye-witness by her account was able to calm him somewhat before the police arrived, one unarmed female.
Our absurd fear-mongering and, it would seem - by the changes at airport security - directives from our version of homeland security, have made innocent individual's experiences at Canadian border points and airports degrading and downright scary. Maybe it's just BC, but I have heard of two bizarre experiences just in the last two weeks, a BC resident travelling within BC asked to take off more clothes than she was comfortable with in a security line up including people she knew (ruined her whole holiday), and a First Nations Canadian returning to Canada from Alaska (missed Thanksgiving dinner, it took so long to go through customs.) No terrorists caught but lots of good people treated like criminals.
We as Canadians have let these measures go through and Mr. H. is trying to push through the more draconian ones again after parliament convenes. As long as we think it is OK to push people to the brink just for wanting to travel, the more we will be guilty of such results as these.
Our absurd fear-mongering and, it would seem - by the changes at airport security - directives from our version of homeland security, have made innocent individual's experiences at Canadian border points and airports degrading and downright scary. Maybe it's just BC, but I have heard of two bizarre experiences just in the last two weeks, a BC resident travelling within BC asked to take off more clothes than she was comfortable with in a security line up including people she knew (ruined her whole holiday), and a First Nations Canadian returning to Canada from Alaska (missed Thanksgiving dinner, it took so long to go through customs.) No terrorists caught but lots of good people treated like criminals.
We as Canadians have let these measures go through and Mr. H. is trying to push through the more draconian ones again after parliament convenes. As long as we think it is OK to push people to the brink just for wanting to travel, the more we will be guilty of such results as these.
posted by Susan at 9:37 AM
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Border authorities and airport alike have had the ability to do just about anything they want for well over 3 decades, It's unfortunate that these things happen to good people, but their are actually a large amount of criminals caught at the borders, you just don't hear about it often unless it's something huge. I've had the lovley pleasure of my car being torn apart at the Peace arch crossing, while it was frustrating and inconveniant (I matched a similar description of a possible drug runner I was told) I would rather them be doing it then not at all.
No, ultimately we are NOT all guilty, I blame islamofascists for what we go through at the airports and borders these days.
And as sad as it is that this man died, I think most people in this day and age know that freaking out in an airport is a terrible idea.
This idea that somehow we all have to suffer to be kept safe just doesn't wash with me. The method of picking on everyone doesn't seem to stop the guns getting into Canada, or the hard drugs. I haven't felt any safer in the last few years. In fact the only thing that scares me now besides going to the dentist is going to an airport. Oh, and living in a fascist country.
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