Civil Disobedience
Don’t it just warm the cockles of yer heart?
More than 100 Canadians have donated money to pay for a ticket for Abousfian Abdelrazik, the 47-year-old arrested and detained in Sudan during a visit in 2003.
Authorities released him after finding no evidence to support any charges of links to terrorist organizations.
However, because his passport expired while he was in prison, Abdelrazik has been stuck in Sudan ever since.
Canadian authorities have told him they will not issue him new travel documents until he buys a plane ticket, something he says he cannot afford.
His supporters decided to buy the $1,000 ticket for him, running afoul of Canadian law. Abdelrazik’s name remains on a United Nations anti-terror blacklist, despite a request by Canada to have him removed.
Under Canadian law, it is illegal to financially support anyone on that list.
The maximum penalty for anyone found guilty of the offence is 10 years in jail.
Is the government gonna round them all up and send them to jail?
We need more of this sort of civil action.
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As I said at the eminent Dr. Dawg’s site, this must have the blogger formerly known as Raphael Alexander’s “Real Canadian” manpanties in such a twist.
P.S. Catch me if you can — I’m anonymous on the list.
More likely everyone will end up on no-fly lists, so keep the rest of us posted, please. ‘Tis a good thing you’ve done.
If he is not a terrorist, why won’t they take him off the list? The UN is pathetic. Sudan is a terrible place to be stuck. Just as long as he is not a jihadi, I hope all goes well for him. (If he is, however, a jihadi, I hope he rots in hell!)
Here in the US, we now have 1 million names on that list. I don’t know what good a list is without pictures, but that’s just me. Anyone can have that same name, and they get pulled out of line. It is the most inefficient way of doing business and counter-terrorism. That’s gov’t for ya!
PS. That list only counts 400,000 people. The other names are aliases.