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14. Latest update...FOIA request in America...

Hello again all. I wish I had happy news to provide, but at least there is progress, more details being unraveled in what is an immense travesty and as undemocratic a persecution as one can experience in a so-called democratic country. I am getting alot of views for this posting and growing support and attention to my plight. I thank all of you who have shown some support and who understand the gravity of the situation. You don't know just how much it means to me and my family.

I haven't updated this thread in some time because all of the efforts I have been involved in are done by reaching out to various politicians and people of influence. I now how something concrete, and has provided another vital direction which I have to go in to have the injustices against me addressed.

I made a request to the American Border Patrol regarding the holding and confiscation of my passport in 2009. I made the FOIA request many years later (a few months ago) as I was unsure of the process, assuming that everything I needed was to be provided by Canadian authorities; agencies that have proven to be far more secretive than more transparent and Constitutionally based countries (Canada talks a great game when it comes to freedoms, be sure, the Charter is regularly and freely abused).

So, the response I received was a redaction of the information based on two different premises and key exemptions which they enacted: 1) "protects records compiled for law enforcement purposes, the release of which would disclose techniques and/or procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law." 2) protects records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes.

So ultimately what the U.S Border is doing is protecting the identities of the Canadian agencies involved in my persecution, in effect, admitting that this holding was not random at all (which is rarely ever is) and based on information provided by the security apparatus. Based on my appeal which they have since rejected and released no further information of my initial request and the discussion I had with the border guard on the U.S side; in which he told me that "we don't have a problem with you but you might want to speak to your government", it is evident that there is some "law enforcement" agency interested in me and further impeding my freedoms, this time via mobility rights. The obvious question would be "why"? I have no criminal record, no accusations against me, no charges, I am married, I pay my taxes, I follow the law...this is an obvious case of my own country caught being overzealous, and for some reason they attempted to have me held at an International border to avoid flight based on the accusations I have made to the powers that be and the lawsuit which followed.

The crux of this entire persecution; of being treated like a war criminal in my own nation, one in which I am going to work hard to get into the media's eyes, is based some arbitrarily, illegal, vexation and secretive directive by the state to keep me silent and for themselves to avoid accountability.

I now have to take the step I wanted to avoid and take the DHS through litigation in order to have a judge force them to reveal the facts behind the harrowing experience I had at the border. I have been very clear with the DHS about my respect for American justice and even acknowledged their right to defend their border, one which I wholeheartedly agree with. This denial of facts serves neither of these purposes however, and unfortunately I need to have my voice heard in Washington. At the very least I will finally get my day in court, Canada can no longer silence what I have experienced without an experienced judge hearing about my plight and FURTHER interference.

I will keep you all updated. Thanks again for all the support; silent and otherwise!