Tue, 6 March 2007
-Grab some toilet paper for the opening of this show! Ajay from All Axis Radio gets us started.-Bill Maher gives me the illusion of having a life. -I say bye-bye to The Point, and talk about interviewing/meeting Gallagher -Hear the interview yourself! -Podcast Pickle love -Guess what? March marks one year of podcasting for me. Send in voicemails for my anniversary show, and tell me what truth you have learned over the past year. New voicmail number 206-337-1026. Get your audio to me by March 25th! -Bringing back the Deep Thoughts -Condi? Are you daft? You cannot make a reasonable Saddam/Hitler comparison. -Promo! Comedy4Cast -Note to self: turn off cell phone while recording. -On a war with Iran, and how the US is inadvertantly funding terrorists. -A sad story about a 9 year old Canadian boy who has no place in a US detention center. Democracy Now interview: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1532252 -Jonathan Coulton takes us out- can you spot the mistake? Comments[4]
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- It takes a lot to be denied refugee status in canada. These people were traveling with fake passports and were trying to enter canada illegally. It is unfortunate that a child is caught in the middle, but to play the "poor baby" card is irresponsible.
Quote “I pay him $40,000 to [get us] to Canada. It included everything: fake passports, tickets. He got $20,000 in Iran, and $20,000 in Turkey.?
I do feel for this child but that article and your comment on it made it sound as if they had done nothing wrong. And the comments on the forum are insane. Come on, is it a "police state" to arrest and imprison someone for robbery?
Love ya, happy one year - I guess the next question is moral then. I mean, they are trying to seek asylum from a known and dangerous terrorist state. I still do not see what right the US has to detain them- if anything send them back to the place where they broke the law. They weren't supposed to stop in US territory anyway.
In my opinion, regardless of whatever laws were broken to get there, there is still no excuse for the child to be detained and to live in the conditions he is living in. As with all the children there.
Just the fact that we have a detention center set up like that is frightening to me in itself...
Love you too my one of three Calgarian friends! :-D - I'll give you that maybe the kid should not be in this. But technically it is not a prison it is a transition center. But back to why they are there, the were traveling with illegal documents and trying to enter canada illegally. Now I get that they weren't supposed to stop in the US, but come on Dani, I wasn't supposed to stop at the police station while I had me bag of crack. They were trying to enter Canada illegally! They were denied refugee status and deported from canada. The system is not perfect but I believe that canada has a good track record with these decisions and based on the info in the article they made the right call.
- Well, then they should have been handed over to Canadian authorities. The illegal documents weren't US ones. ;-)
I agree, Canada does have the better track record. I'd never want to be detained in the US.
It may not be a prison, only a detention center, but no child should be sleeping next to a toilet and separated from their parents. Because it IS only a detention center.
Like I said, either send them to the Canadian authorities or send them back to Iran. It's not a US issue.
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