Comment Re:I'm willing to give up my privacy (Score 2, Informative) 184
In Canada we've been starting to get, in the newspapers, dozens of cases where Canadians have been living in the States, legally or illegally, and have been detained by the FBI for six months, been tortured and beaten, without access to a lawyer or being told why they were detained.
In the Toronto Star today there was a large story in the A section about a Canadian citizen living illegally in the States being held for months by the FBI, with out being told why, in solitary confinement 23.5 hours a day, with out being allowed to talk to a lawyer, a doctor, the embassy or any family members. He was beaten by the FBI in questioning sessions. He was mislead in to signing a wavier that rejected help from the Canadian Embassy, being told that they would deport him as soon as he signed it. That was a lie. He was sent to Canada on an airplane in the past few days, with only his prison issue clothes. All of his money and ID was kept by the FBI. He is now broke and has no place to live.
This sounds more like Nazi Germany or Maoist China than the US.
In the Toronto Star today there was a large story in the A section about a Canadian citizen living illegally in the States being held for months by the FBI, with out being told why, in solitary confinement 23.5 hours a day, with out being allowed to talk to a lawyer, a doctor, the embassy or any family members. He was beaten by the FBI in questioning sessions. He was mislead in to signing a wavier that rejected help from the Canadian Embassy, being told that they would deport him as soon as he signed it. That was a lie. He was sent to Canada on an airplane in the past few days, with only his prison issue clothes. All of his money and ID was kept by the FBI. He is now broke and has no place to live.
This sounds more like Nazi Germany or Maoist China than the US.
