Canada Refuses Entry to Anti-War Protesters Including Code-Pink Founder...

Remember all those dirty hippies who threatened to move to Canada if Bush was re-elected?  Guess what, Canada doesn't want them either....

Peace activists Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright have been arrested in the U.S. while protesting the Iraq war, but they never dreamed that would prevent them from entering Canada.

The arrests landed Benjamin's and Wright's names in an FBI-run database, the National Crime Information Center, which Canada also relies on to screen visitors. When the two women visited the country in August, they were told they would have to apply for "criminal rehabilitation" and pay $200 if they wanted to visit again. Neither did.

On Wednesday, Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, and Wright, a retired Army colonel, walked into Canada at Niagara Falls to test whether they really would be denied entry because of their anti-war-related arrests.

They were.

Now, Benjamin and Wright are asking why the names of people arrested during peaceful protests would be included in an FBI-maintained database meant to track fugitives, potential terrorists, missing persons and violent felons.

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Comments

[Harry PInna]

NCIC is not just a "FBI-maintained database meant to track fugitives, potential terrorists, missing persons and violent felons." as the article states. It's also to keep track of who has been arrested in this country. NCIC has been around for 20+ years and it's up to each state whether or not they want to parcticipate. I think there's about 10 states that don't.

It's really not even a database. IT's a closed network that allows one state to view another states database of arrests. Inquiries made through are NCIC are logged and audited. IN California, state official will show up at a police department with their logs and ask "Six months ago you ran a criminal history on John Smith. Why?" IF the department can't show they had an active investigation going involving John Smith, they will lose access to NCIC. IT really happens that way, I've been there when the auditors show up.

Since we have freedom of movement, we can move freely to another jurisdiction where they may not otherwise know that we have been arrested previously. Child molesters, burglars, identity thieves are all in NCIC which is obvioulsy helpful to law enforcement. If a cop is investigating an identity theft case and has three possible suspects, checks NCIC, and finds one suspect has been arrested in four other states for identity theft, the cop has much better idea of who to focus the investigation on.

So Canada doesn't want people with arrest records in Canada? Good for them. That would be a good policy for US immigration to have.

[Art]

NCIC is in use by all 50 States and is available on request and with authorization to other countries on a limited access basis.
Audit teams are infrequent and usually only show up if they suspect abuse.
It is operated out of Clarksburg West Wa.
The FBI uses it less often than everyone else.
Since 2000 it is user driven. It has Fingerprints as well.

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