On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:57:46 -0700 (PDT), John Kane
> wrote:

>On Jun 2, 10:31*am, wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:10:49 -0700 (PDT), John Kane
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>> >On Jun 2, 9:38*am, Andy > wrote:
>> >> Dave Smith said...
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>> >> > Let's face it, passports are completely unnecessary for land travel
>> >> > across the Canada-US border.
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>> >> Dave,
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>> >> I'd disagree with you on that point.
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>> >> I had a girlfriend (after the fact) who fled to the Dominican Republic with
>> >> her dad and others involved in an embezzlement scheme. Waited out the
>> >> statute of limitations living like royalty on stolen money and then re-
>> >> entered the US.
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>> >> She's not allowed to have a passport (a luxury, not a right) as a result.
>> >> She's a prisoner of America! I wouldn't want her pulling a stunt like that
>> >> again and waltz into Canada or where ever else for that matter.
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>> >Isn't this something *close to a violation of Article 13(2) of the
>> >Universal Declaration of Human?
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>> >Article 13.
>> >•(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence
>> >within the borders of each state.
>> >•(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own,
>> >and to return to his country.
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>> >http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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>> >Refusing the woman a passport seems to be effectively a violation of 14
>> >(2).
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>> >John Kane Kingston ON Canada
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>> Please John, the US authorities don't worry about such things, just
>> look a Guantanamo
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>Presumably the woman in question in an American citizen. This seems
>to make a difference in the US justice system. And presumably she has
>her feet on US terra firma.
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>John Kane Kingston ON Canada


John, remember that even US citizens are held there.