WASHINGTON - Canada is setting a "dangerous" precedent by refusing entry to Americans convicted of misdemeanours during peaceful anti-Iraq protests, say two women who couldn't cross the border this week.
The high-profile activists, who are listed in an FBI database called the National Crime Information Center, say they were detained for more than two hours Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ont., before being turned away.
"First, the FBI should not have put us on that list," Ann Wright, a retired army veteran, told a news conference Thursday outside the Canadian Embassy.
"And secondly, the Canadian government should not be doing the dirty political intimidation work for the Bush administration by using that database."
Full article...punditman says...In the name of security, this type of abuse of power and misdirection of resources is happening on both sides of the US-Canadian border. It will continue unless people get off their keesters and stand up for their rights.
