Posted on 03/20/2005 1:05:23 PM PST by freepatriot32
Jeremy Wright of Ensight.org, famed for many things including selling his blog for profit, auctioning his services on ebay and for being an all round good guy, has been detained, strip searched, and banned from the United States after attempting to legally cross the Canadian-United States border on a trip to New York to meet with uber-publishers McGraw Hill, who were set to sign him as a consultant to the company on blogging.
Whilst posts to his site (since removed for legal reasons) are not clear on all the circumstances of the detention, Wright writes that US Immigration officials accused him of lying as they did not believe that he could be employed by blogging, with one official allegedly stating gyou couldnft be doing this blogging thing for a living".
As a blogger of good repute, an established family man with a bright future in blogging and promoting the blogosphere internationally, Wrightfs treatment by US Immigration Officials is a complete disgrace. Whilst all the facts of the matter are not yet totally clear, none the less anecdotally a career may have been ruined by the actions of a couple of two-bit hick guards who probably only use the internet to access porn.
Whilst Ifd hope that the incident is isolated, Ifd encourage all readers who know of Jeremy and find these actions outrageous to express their support of Jeremy by writing to the US Department of Homeland Security at gU.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C. 20528 or send feedback through their website here. Alternatively bloggers outside the US may wish to write to their local US Embassies.
Our thoughts are with Jeremy and his family at this time.
Canadians are doubly suspect in all cases.
Congressman Billybob
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No visible means of support.
Too bad, I wish I could get upset over it, but
then I'm still not over Canada not letting me in during
the early 70s.
Bastages!
According to my parents, strip searches were SOP when they visited Turkey in the 70's.
So, you'd be brought in for questioning, and next thing you know it's the old anal probe, like something out of South Park.
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