JimO: "Chinese space advances benefit everyone"

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:33:18 +0100, in a place far, far away, "Paul
Blay" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
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"Dave" wrote ...

"G EddieA95" wrote in message

A Syrian-Canadian who was travelling through the US had this happen to
him.
The Canadian had a stop over in NY and abruptly disappeared... only to
reappear in a Syrian jail 48 hours later.

Boo-hoo-hoo. Poor helpless child. If he was innocent why would
*Syria* --NOT a US ally--lock him up?!!!

Your assertion then is that non-US allies can be trusted not to lock up innocents
but US allies can't? As it happens locking up people that are inconvenient is one
of Syria's specialities.

Inconvenient to *them*, certainly. But inconvenient to us? I don't
think so...

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:05:47 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
"Dave" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Having had to sit still and keep quiet while an INS officer shouted at my
wife and tried to get her to say that she was an Afrikaaner racist who had
supported apartheid, I have little time for them. NB: this was pre-9-11.

If you're trying to get anyone intelligent or knowledgable to support
the INS, you'll probably have to seek a different venue...

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"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:02:20 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
"Dave" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

A Syrian-Canadian who was travelling through the US had this happen to
him.
The Canadian had a stop over in NY and abruptly disappeared... only to
reappear in a Syrian jail 48 hours later.

Boo-hoo-hoo. Poor helpless child. If he was innocent why would
*Syria* --NOT
a US ally--lock him up?!!!

I have assumed that there was a reason why the person in question had
left
Syria in the first place.

There could be many reasons, some perfectly understandable, and some
sinister.

Given the country in question, surely determining what that reason was first
might be sensible?

Like the guy who "trained" the 9-11 hijackers. Deported to the US, spends a
year and then it all goes away.

That's not an acceptable level of jurisprudence.

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:05:47 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
"Dave" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Having had to sit still and keep quiet while an INS officer shouted at my
wife and tried to get her to say that she was an Afrikaaner racist who
had
supported apartheid, I have little time for them. NB: this was pre-9-11.

If you're trying to get anyone intelligent or knowledgable to support
the INS, you'll probably have to seek a different venue...

The indication above was that if there were problems at the airport then
you'd probably done something wrong.

That is not my experience of the INS.

Weirdly they seem to treat returning US citizens as suspicious. Friends of
mine with European work permits try to make sure they don't advertise the
fact because it makes for an extra long entry "interview". Our guys just
wave us in.