On August 10, 2005 03:22 pm, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > (* = if you think that it's not a major and frightening hassle to visit
> > the US these days, you clearly haven't traveled internationally for a
> > while. As a US citizen, it took me nearly an hour of checks on the way
> > back from Brazil. For actual foreigners, this is worse; one of the award
> > recipients for the 2003 Oscars (a designer) was detained for 12 hours by
> > the TSA. Here in San Francisco, we've noticed at 75% drop in
> > international tourism.)
>
> For a much worse case you can read about Maher Arar:
> http://www.amnesty.ca/human_rights_issues/maher_arar_overview.php
His wife got elected as a member of parliment as a direct result of this
event.
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