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By Medea Benjamin
Background on why Canada barring peacemakers from entering the country: October 4, 2007: Ann Wright, retired U.S. army colonel and former diplomat who quit in opposition to the Iraq war, and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and founding director of Global Exchange, tested Canada's policy towards US peace activists on Thursday. They were on their way to Toronto at the invitation of the HYPERLINK "http://www.nowar.ca/" \t "_blank" Toronto Stop the War Coalition but were denied entry into Canada due to previous arrests for demonstrating against the Iraq War outside the White House and in the Capitol. Their names have been added to FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database that apparently dictates Canadian border policy. The border agents at the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls who barred Medea and Ann said the mere fact that they were listed on the NCIC was sufficient to bar them from entry.
Good Quotes: "Canada is the first country, to our knowledge, that is using this beefed-up database of the FBI as its criteria for judging who enter, which is why we consider this so outrageous and dangerous. If Canada starts to do this and keeps out people like us, maybe other countries will do it as well. We think it's important to stop this right away."
"I am alarmed to learn that Canadian border police are enforcing rules that have been determined by the FBI and other U.S.-based agencies. In Canada, peaceful protest is not a criminal activity, despite how some U.S. agencies may regard it.
"First, the FBI should not have put us on that list, and secondly, the Canadian government should not be doing the dirty political intimidation work for the Bush administration by using that database."
What is the process at the border?
When U.S. citizens enter Canada via land or air, they are usually quickly processed without a background check. But border guards arbitrarily select people for secondary screening. They also often ask people if they have ever been arrested and if the answer is yes, they, too, are sent for secondary screening.
The Canadian border officers then check an FBI database called NCIC or National Crime Information Center. This database was created to assist U.S. law enforcement agencies in finding fugitives, convicted sex offenders, missing persons, and members of terrorist organizations and violent gangs. But the FBI is now adding minor misdemeanors, including convictions for non-violence civil disobedience.
If the Canadians discover that you have been convicted of a criminal offense, even a misdemeanor, you are inadmissable.
Is there an appeals process?
Yes, you can go to a Canadian consulate in the U.S. and start the process of criminal rehabilitation. This is a long, complex process that entails getting court records, police records, fingerprints, verification of residence for 10 years18 pages of information and it takes about six months to get a response. But you have to be clear of all offenses for five years before even applying.
There is also a 3-day temporary residence permit, at a cost of $200, that you can apply for. It can be granted at the discretion of the Consulate.
What do we want Canada to do?
Stop using the FBIs database to determine who can get into the country. Grant entry to people who have committed non-violent misdemeanors, especially if done in defense of peace and justice.
Isnt it really the FBIs fault for putting these minor offenses on a criminal database?
Yes, it is outrageous that the FBI is placing peace activists on an international criminal database. This is a blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies. Through many channels, we have asked to meet with people in the FBI about this, but they refuse to respond, even after we organized a protest outside the FBI headquarters in Washington DC. Since they are so hard to reach, we are now asking our Congressional representatives for help. Anyone who wants to help us get the FBI to change its policy, please contact us.
What is the reaction in Canada?
Canadians are outraged. Thousands are signing onto the CODEPINK petition ( HYPERLINK "http://www.codepinkalert.org/canada" www.codepinkalert.org/canada) with comments expressing their concern. The press has been entirely in our favor. And Members of Parliament from the New Democratic Party are determined to change the policy and have invited us to speak before the Canadian Parliament.
Who could potentially be excluded with this policy?
If Canadas policy of excluding anyone with a misdemeanor conviction were truly enforced, the results would be absurd. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez would never have entered the country. Dolores Huerta of farmworker fame would be barred for her 22 arrests for workers rights. Actor Martin Sheen, the President in the TV series West Wing and a devout Catholic, would be blacklisted for his 70 arrests promoting struggles from a living wage to nuclear disarmament. Singer Bonnie Raitt would be expelled for protesting the clearcutting of forests.Actress Daryl Hannah would be inadmissible for trying to save an urban garden in Los Angeles.
Eighty-year-old California Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor and chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, would be banned for his 2006 arrest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington to protest genocide in Darfur. So would 12 other Congresspeople, including Barbara Lee, the only one who voted against a violent response to the 9/11 tragedy with her prescient plea that we not become the evil we deplore.
Americans arrested for protesting the Iraq war, and therefore inadmissible, would include Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams, writer Alice Walker, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, peace mom Cindy Sheehan, as well as thousands ordinary schoolteachers, nurses, retirees and college students.
Will the same thing happen in other countries?
Right now, Canada is the only country using the NCIC database in its border services. But if Canada gets away with us, other countries, under U.S. pressure, will follow. Thats why it is so important to stop this now!
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