Immigration-Problems-Terrorists, Cdn Diplomat Bolts Beijing, Islamist Hate-Crime Charges, Germany-Deport Islamists,Israeli Apartheid Week in Canada

List of Articles:

* Politicians milked the immigration system for all it was worth -- Canada's Immigration system needs overhaul: MP Andrew Telegdi -- Canada's new federal Immigration Minister Joe Volpe: 'Where do we go to handle this Gordian knot?'
* Canadian diplomat bolts from Beijing -- "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade employee in China" -- "It looks like what happened in the 90s in Hong Kong is happening again in China"
* Canada Continues its Love Affair With Terrorists -- Canada's "crazy double standard"
* Hate-crime charges won't be laid against Muslim magazine -- "called the Holocaust a lie and accused Jews of being responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Great Depression, and both world wars. "
* Taking jihad seriously
* Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists -- one response? "Watch them all apply for refugee status in Canada......"
* Should the University of Toronto host "Israeli Apartheid Week"?
* Don't Miss "Tongue Tied"

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Politicians milked the immigration system for all it was worth

Instead of making the system work for the benefit of Canada, they made it work for the immigration industry. There has been sparse screening of crooks and terrorists and, once in, the authorities could never get them out -- if they tried. Even criminals who eventually ended up being deported got back into the country.

How's Mohammed Issa Mohammad's case coming along? Exhibit A of a broken, neglected immigration system long before pizzas and strippers -- which is just the tip of the iceberg. Too bad there wasn't an effective whistle blower law but then, there is a reason the government doesn't want to have one. Look at what happened to RCMP Cpl. Read and remember the corruption at the Hong Kong High Commission.

Related links: Leo Knight on the Robert Read Asian triads Affair , along with several other pertinent links -- e.g. Canadian diplomat bolts from Beijing . There is a wealth of information on this website; also, here or on News Junkie Canada today, there is a post entitled "For consideration: threats to Canada . . . " which concerns related criminal activity investigators feared coming out of Asia, activities ex-RCMP officers Robert Read and Brian McAdam were investigating. This post concerns China, the Asian Triads and Organized Crime which have come to Canada and the concern for future activity.

Whistleblowers aren't protected in Canada "Whistleblowers talked to PMO about Sgro: report", Jan. 20, 04

Check for yourself whether this "whistleblower legislation" is intended to protect those who should and could speak out for the good of the vast number of Canadians -- or whether it protects those who need protection in . . . . .




Canada's Immigration system needs overhaul: MP Andrew Telegdi -- Canada's new federal Immigration Minister Joe Volpe: 'Where do we go to handle this Gordian knot?'

Canada's Immigration system needs overhaul: MP Andrew Telegdi The Hill Times, January 24, 2005, Paco Francoli

[. . . . ] The number of ministerial permits are not reflected in the annual report of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, and only kept on file in the minister's office. Last week, new Immigration Minister Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) confirmed the 700 figure. [. . . . ]

Mr. Volpe is expected to face additional pressure because he is also the government's senior political minister for Ontario, a job that is highly partisan and often linked to doing favours for special interest groups.[. . . .] [Ed's emphasis]

Canadian diplomat bolts from Beijing -- "Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade employee in China" -- "It looks like what happened in the 90s in Hong Kong is happening again in China"

Canadians must "develop networks" in China; sometimes the lure of profit is overwhelming.

Canadian diplomat bolts from Beijing Sep 21, 2004

A high ranking Canadian diplomat based in China has left his post suddenly after he was suspected of accepting bribes to help Chinese nationals enter Canada illegally . . .

[. . . . Canadian student visas have been stolen from the embassy. Some have reportedly turned up in Korea.

[. . . . ] But sources told The Asian Pacific Post that the key suspect is a Canadian of Chinese origin who was originally posted to the Canadian Trade office in Shanghai in 1999 and later to the Immigration section of the Canadian embassy in Beijing in 2001.

[. . . . ] “He is thought to have made well over a million dollars before he bolted a few days before his posting expired,“ said a source.

Preliminary investigations into the suspect‘s connections have linked him to at least one school specializing in teaching English to foreign students in Vancouver.[. . . . ]

[. . . . China‘s most wanted man, Lai Changxing] who is alleged to have led a multi-billion dollar smuggling racket in Fujian, remains in Canada with his family fighting for refugee status. [What has happened with that case?]

Lengthy -- Search: Brian McAdam, "insiders with high level security access", squeeze, "bogus Chinese business delegations", bogus, "covert entry of spies", "China‘s Ministry of Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC)", Fujian (Remember the boats full of Chinese aliens from Fujian that dropped Chinese illegals on the BC coast a few years ago?).




Sgro denies she said Volpe wanted her job, attacks backstabbers -- 'This is one of the most ridiculous stories I've ever heard'

Sgro denies she said Volpe wanted her job, attacks backstabbers The Hill Times, January 24,, 2005, Angelo Persichilli

TORONTO, ONT.--Judy Sgro, the former federal minister of citizenship and immigration who was forced to resign her seat on Jan. 14, after a Brampton pizza shop owner claimed in a court affidavit that she had promised him asylum in Canada in return for supplying her campaign with pizzas and volunteers, last week flatly denied she ever accused Joe Volpe of masterminding her ultimate fall from Cabinet. Mr. Volpe was swiftly moved in from Human Resources and Skills Development to Citizenship and Immigration on Jan. 15, the day after the story hit the newsstands.

[. . . . ] Ms. Sgro said she remembers that one of her predecessors, "Elinor Caplan told me that one of her biggest fears was that someone coming out making those kind of false allegations. That's the reality of that portfolio. You are very vulnerable and there is no way that Joe Volpe wanted this portfolio."

Canada Continues its Love Affair With Terrorists -- Canada's "crazy double standard"

"[A] federal court approved the appeal of a Marxist guerrilla from Mexico for a new refugee hearing because his organization, the Popular Revolutionary Army, only attacked police and soldiers and not civilians, although this point is disputed."

Canada Continues its Love Affair With Terrorists Stephen Brown, FrontPageMag, May 30, 03

. . . . a recent decision by that country's Immigration and Refugee Board to reject a Lebanese man's application for refugee status because he had spied on Hezbollah for Israel in Lebanon.

[. . . . ] Only last week, for example, a federal court approved the appeal of a Marxist guerrilla from Mexico for a new refugee hearing because his organization, the Popular Revolutionary Army, only attacked police and soldiers and not civilians, although this point is disputed. [. . . . ]

But the Supreme Court's definition of what constitutes a terrorist did not somehow apply to Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammad who once was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Along with another terrorist, Mohammad attacked an Israeli airliner with guns and grenades at the Athens airport in 1968, killing one person. Despite government efforts to deport him since 1988 (he lied about his background to get into Canada), he remains there, his case slowly winding its way through the Canadian courts.

Fauzi Ayub, a genuine Hezbollah terrorist. . . .came to Canada in the late 1980s with his family, but went to Israel in 2001 to foment terrorist attacks there. He now sits in an Israeli prison, accused of belonging to an elite Hezbollah unit. And when asked in an Israeli court why he didn't tell the Canadian authorities about his terrorist past in Romania, he honestly replied: "They didn't ask me."

. . . crazy double standard . . . . the wife and two sons of Abu Abbas, another P.F.L.P. terrorist. Abbas, whom American forces captured recently in Baghdad, was responsible for the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, a ship on which 69-year-old, Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew, was shot in his wheelchair and dumped overboard.

Abbas's wife. . . is now a lecturer and Palestinian activist at McGill University in Montreal. One son went to Iraq in 1995 and spent a year with his father there.

Americans also probably would be very surprised to discover that the family of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid also lives safely in Canada not far from their border. Aidid's militia . . . American deaths. . . . Black Hawk Down, is based on this bloody fight.

Considering these cases, it is highly likely that the refusal to grant Israel's Lebanese friend refugee status has more to do with the internal politics of the Canada's governing Liberal party than any supposed wrongdoing.

Hate-crime charges won't be laid against Muslim magazine -- "called the Holocaust a lie and accused Jews of being responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Great Depression, and both world wars."

No surprise here -- but why?

Hate-crime charges won't be laid against Muslim magazine -- Why? Jan 23, 2005

SURREY (BC Newspaper Group) - Hate-crime charges will not be pursued against a North Delta weekly newspaper that serves the Muslim community.

An RCMP investigation was launched more than a year ago after the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) lodged a complaint with the RCMP Hate Crimes Unit over a Dec. 19, 2003 article in the Miracle.

The CJC issued a statement condemning the piece by American writer Edgar J. Steele as "virulently anti-Semitic," because the writer called the Holocaust a lie and accused Jews of being responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Great Depression, and both world wars. [. . . . ]

These are lies. Were they not published to promulgate hatred? For another eye-opener on what polls reveal about Canadians' ignorance of the Holocaust, see the results in the National Post, Jan. 23, 05 "Few Canadians realize extent of Holocaust". pages 1 and 7. The "list of those damned by indifference goes on": Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur. Hatred for Jews is rising in Europe and more evidence of rising Anti-Semitism can be seen in Canada.




Should the University of Toronto host "Israeli Apartheid Week"?

It is hard to believe. The above-mentioned poll has some interesting statistics on Canadians' attitudes. Check it out; then read this one.

Should the University of Toronto host "Israeli Apartheid Week"? Alastair Gordon

Wednesday, January 19, 2005, Toronto ON -- The Institute for Women s Studies and Gender Studies (IWSGS) at the University of Toronto recently announced on its email distribution service an Israeli Apartheid Week on campus starting January 31 [. . .]. Speakers will represent the Arab Students Collective, International Solidarity Movement, Political Prisoners Working Group, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, the Palestinian Right of Return Group, and others.

[. . . . ] The branding of Israel as an apartheid state is the latest attempt to de-legitimize Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. [. . . . ]

Taking jihad seriously

Taking jihad seriously Robert Spencer, Jan. 23, 05. Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and the author of "Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West."

During her Senate confirmation hearings, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction and how long the troops would be there. But no one asked her anything about the most important question of all: when, and how, American foreign policy will be adjusted to bring it into line with the goals of the war on terror.

Three years after September 11, this has not been done. It should have been the first task of the new conflict. Other nations take this as axiomatic — including those on the other side of the current alignments. Article 3 of the Iranian Constitution stipulates that Iran must base its foreign policy on "Islamic criteria, fraternal commitment to all Muslims, and unsparing support to the freedom fighters of the world."

It is reasonable for any state to base its foreign policy on its overall goals and interests. In fact, I recommend that the United States do the same thing. In regard to the global jihad, this would involve a serious re-evaluation of the American posture around the globe. [. . . . ]

See what he has to say about: aid, global alliances, "Islamic goals and responsibilities enunciated by the Pakistani Islamic leader Syed Abul Ala Maududi, who declared that non-Muslims . . . ", new energy sources, and "a totalitarian, supremacist, expansionist ideology". It makes sense to me.



Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists - Magazine -- one response? "Watch them all apply for refugee status in Canada......"

Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists - Magazine Posted by Naresh on 17:03:45 2005/01/22

BERLIN (Reuters) - German officials are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic militants to be deported from the country under a new law making expulsions easier, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.

Der Spiegel said authorities were already using their powers under an immigration law introduced this month in conducting an operation dubbed "Aktion Kehraus" ("Action Sweep Out").

[. . . . ] BERLIN (Reuters) - German officials are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic militants to be deported from the country under a new law making expulsions easier, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.

Der Spiegel said authorities were already using their powers under an immigration law introduced this month in conducting an operation dubbed "Aktion Kehraus" ("Action Sweep Out"). [. . . . ]

Joan O'Callaghan's response? "Watch them all apply for refugee status in Canada......" Check the site.



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