US Border Bullies

Here is a really sad story of Peter Watts who was brutalized by the US Border guards as he was leaving the US to return to Canada and out of the blue they stopped him and started ordering him around. He innocently got out of his car and asked "what's going on?" and they all hell broke out. The way the border guards work in the US is that you have no rights, you can't ask any questions, you can be brutalized, and the legal system backed up these brutal border guards to the hilt. It is a crime, but nobody in the US wants to hear the truth or do the right thing. Peter Watts has been bulldozed and brutalized and the US system smugly think it did the "right thing". This is sick.

For those who don't believe that the US can become a fascist state, need to listen the the interview and understand all the facts and ponder this. It is insane and it stands. This is what the US has become. It is a state that tortures innocent "terrorists" and that brutalizes Canadians as they innocently drive home. The country has gone insane.

Listen to this: it is a really ugly story.

This kind of ugly police brutality goes on all the time. Here's two recent cases in Canada:

• Ian Bush - an 18 year old gets picked up for drinking outside a hockey arena, gets taken to the local police station, and dies from a bullet in the back of the brain... a "self-inflicted" wound if you believe the police.


• Robert Dziekański - a Polish immigrant gets lost in the bowels of the airport waiting for his mother to pick him up. She is locked outside the "secure" area and tries to get authorities to help her get in contact with her son. The son is inside the "secure" area and only speaks Polish and doesn't understand that he needs to get outside the secure area. Nobody in the airport notices while he waits for 6 hours after a 12 hour flight. He goes stir crazy. Nobody helps. When he makes noises because he can't understand why his mother isn't there, the police come in a taser him multiple times while piled on and suffocate him. This, despite the fact that the video clearly shows he wasn't "dangerous" or "violent". He just needed somebody to try and talk to him. Nobody did.

There are similar cases of protestors being killed or harrassed in the UK by "security" forces that are out of control, see here, here, here, here, here, here. There are numerous cases of police in the US who shoot first and ask questions later that kill innocent people, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. And, of course, Canada, see here, here, here.

I know that the job of the police is a tough, ugly one. But the answer is not to give them free rein to bully, threaten, and kill people. The answer is to give them better training, better pay, better support, and to weed out the thugs and bullies so that they become a professional force, not bullies in uniform. Sadly, most countries "don't see a problem". These outrageous events aren't a "problem" until they happen to you. But then it is too late. A tragedy.