FBI fascism keeps innocent people from Canada

The FBI runs a database called the National Crime Information Center. This is the NCIC that you're always hearing about on your police scanner. The NCIC was designed to track fugitives and violent felons and to help find missing people - but don't tell that to the Bush regime, which instead uses it to track anyone who disagrees with the government.

Under Bush - being the scumbag he is - the FBI now uses the NCIC to keep tabs on antiwar activists. Former Senate candidate Medea Benjamin and retired Army colonel and diplomat Ann Wright have been arrested before in the supposedly "democratic" U.S. for protesting the Iraq War. These arrests landed Benjamin and Wright in the NCIC. They didn't have to be convicted of anything to be put in the database. All it took was an arrest over their dissent.

This is how America treats a retired Army colonel??? You've heard people talk about Vietnam vets getting spit on when they came home. These days, America's fighting men and women get spit on by the Bush regime betraying them.

Inexplicably, Canada relies on the FBI's database to screen visitors. So when Wright and Benjamin tried to visit Canada, they were told they had to apply for "criminal rehabilitation" and pay $200 costly dollars if they wanted to enter the country.

Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright call FBI's inclusion of their names in the NCIC an act of intimidation against dissidents. The New York Civil Liberties Union's John Curr says the Canadian government - in effect, the Harper administration - is complicit with Bush's suppression of free speech when it uses the FBI's database.

Stephen Harper wasn't Prime Minister yet when I went to Canada for a Colin Hay concert, but now I know why the customs agents deliberated for so long before letting me in the country. Nine years earlier, I got basically scorched by Newt's worshipers at NKU for being at the university library with my newsletter in my possession and got added to the NCIC for "trespassing." The charge was dismissed after I was proven innocent, but I was still in the NCIC. Not only that, but third-degree trespassing isn't even an arrestable offense under Kentucky law, so the arrest itself was illegal - yet NKU submitted my info the NCIC anyway.

If the NKU Taliban had pulled this shit nowadays, I'd fight them. Word to the wise: I don't like being intimidated.

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_on_re_us/protesters_border)