Saturday, August 16, 2008

Jeremy

US citizen Jeremy Hinzman who fled to Canada to avoid military service in Iraq will appeal a deportation warrant from Canada’s Border Services Agency (CBSA).
Thestar.com web site quotes defense team member Alyssa Manning who warned of the shattering results for the wife and two children for if court martialled Hinzmans he may get five years in jail.

The above is from Prensa Latina's "US Deserter to Appeal Canada Eviction." And that's pretty much it because Ruth Conniff can act like it's a crime that Bill Clinton wasn't a war resister but can't write one damn word about war resisters. She's far from alone in useless Panhandle Media.
Meanwwhile Reuters tries to make sense out of northern Iraq's claims that theyw ill pull their Peshmerga forces out of Diyala Province but then they won't. The US military announces that 3 people were killed (eight more wounded) in a Baghdad bombing today. And they announced:

An Article 32 pretrial investigation for Staff Sgt. Hal M. Warner, original scheduled for Aug.15 will begin Sept. 5 at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, near Tikrit.
Warner has been charged with pre-meditated murder, accessory after the fact, assault, making a false official statement and obstruction of justice. He is assigned to D Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry at Forward Operating Base Summerall, near Bayji.
The charges followed a criminal investigation into the death of Ali Mansur Mohamed, a detainee initially believed to have been released by Coalition forces on or about May 16, 2008.

Bully Boy is on yet another vacation and back in Crawford. Dana Perino said in the Thursday White House breifing that he would be working on his speech for the GOP convention (told those wanting to know what was in it to "hold their horses") but he won't be rehearsing it, according to Perino. (Translation, he's not working on it all.) Condi Rice is supposed to arrive this morning in Crawford for an NSC meeting with Bully Boy, Robert Gates (Sec of Defense) and Stephen Hadley (NSA). (Some of whom will be 'present' via video-link.) Iraq fell off the radar last week and if you're surprised by that, you missed all the press conferences and briefings where things such as convention speeches could be the topics of question but Iraq wasn't judged (by the press itself) worth asking about.

Back to Jeremy Hinzman, this from Courage to Resist:

Jeremy Hinzman ordered deported from Canada
By Courage to Resist and War Resisters Support Campaign (Canada). August 13, 2008The first U.S. war resister to apply for refuge in Canada has been ordered deported by September 23rd. Jeremy is in Canada with his wife Nga Nuyen, and their two young children. This decision flies in the face of the motion adopted by Parliament on June 3, 2008 which calls on the government to allow US war resisters to apply for Permanent Resident status in Canada. Supporters are calling on Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, to intervene. Phone 613.996.4974 or email finley.d@parl.gc.ca

And this is the War Resisters Support Campaign:

Jeremy Hinzman ordered deported
The first U.S. war resister to apply for refuge in Canada has been ordered deported by September 23rd. Jeremy is in Canada with his wife Nga Nuyen, and their two young children.
This decision flies in the face of the motion adopted by Parliament on June 3, 2008 which calls on the government to allow US war resisters to apply for Permanent Resident status in Canada. It also rejects the will of Canadians who have demonstrated in various polls that they want war resisters to stay.
The War Resisters Support Campaign is calling on the federal government and the Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, to intervene to prevent the Hinzman family from being sent to the U.S. to be punished.

And from Iraq Veterans Against the War:

US Iraq War resister ordered deported from Canada
US Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman was informed on August 13th that his application to stay in Canada has been rejected. Jeremy served a tour in Afghanistan in a non-combat role after applying for conscientious objector status. When his unit, the 82nd Airborne Division, was to be deployed to Iraq Jeremy and his family decided to come to Canada. Jeremy is the first U.S. war resister to apply for refuge in Canada. He has been ordered to be deported by September 23rd. Jeremy is in Canada with his wife Nga Nuyen, and their two young children.
The decision to deport Hinzman comes just two months after the Canadian Parliament passed a motion calling on the government to allow US war resisters to apply for Permanent Resident status in Canada.
To support Jeremy, call or email Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and ask her to intervene in this case. Phone: 613.996.4974 email: finley.d@parl.gc.ca.Read more of this item-->
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