Canuck

  Thursday, 30 September 2004

Rebecca MacKinnon : "The American School in... < 11:37:11 PM>.

Rebecca MacKinnon: "The American School in Shanghai turned a bunch of North Korean asylum-seekers over to the Chinese police, who will send them back to North Korea and thus to jail/torture. The media is totally not reporting this. It would be great if the blogosphere raised a stink over the questionable actions of our fellow Americans overseas." [Scripting News]

I hope this news gets to the Canadian authorities who currently have 44 asylum seekers in their embassy in China. In the past we've sent these people to South Korea. The Chinese have hinted they'll do that with the people at the Canadian embassy.

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Effective today, the US-VISIT program of fingerprinting, photographing, and compilation of lifetime travel dossiers on visitors to the USA will be extended to everyone crossing the borders of the USA except for citizens of the USA and Canada.

Frightening. How the hell did this band of zealots get control of the world's most powerful nation.

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Snow!
Woke up to snow on my car yesterday morning....and another dusting of it came last night. Argh! I'm not ready for this. [Janet's Radio Weblog]