Canadian author assaulted by border patrol

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

I am editing this to emphasize a point that apparently i was unclear about:

The Canadian author Dr. Peter Watts was arrested on charges of assaulting a federal officer after large groups of border patrol swarmed his car. refused to tell him why, refused his requests for legal council, and kicked and beat him. His story HERE, another story and means of contributing to his legal defense HERE.

Even if he did assault one of them ... what happened next is completely unreasonable.
he was refused a lawyer because it was homeland security. he was then sent out into a snowstorm in shirt sleeves, without coat, car , or possibility of a bus....

The US border patrol, apparently thinking Canadians have anti freeze in their veins, graciously allowed him to be released in Canada the next night.... minus all his belongings, his phone, his car , his computer, his notepaper.. and his coat.
in a snowstorm
after public transit shut down
and without notifying Canadian police or anyone that maybe they should pick him up to keep him from freezing to death, hmmm?

he will have to travel BACK to the united states to deal with the federal assault charges, which could lead to him being fined, jailed, and banned from the US
i am sure that right now he finds the idea of never traveling across this border again to be such a loss.

The possibility that he did or did not assault the officer is not why i am concerned enough to re post this....
The reason i am concerned is because i have seen a track record of border and TSA agency personnel refusing lawyers to people. i have NEVER before heard of an arraigned Canadian citizen being sent into a Canadian night without the Canada police or someone being called to come get him.

Comments

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what you mean by this comment.

What I see is a story that only gives partial information. There has to be a reason why this man was stopped, but that is not known. There must have been some conversation between them all, but that is not known. There is a lot here that isn't known, which would therefore affect what we think of the story. There's simply not enough information given.

Yet your decision has already been made that the border patrol officers are completely in the wrong.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

i know people who know him.. therefore i am not unbiased in it......
it is fandom related.. so i thought i should post it here

i have NO idea whether he did anything.. although my impression of him from my friends makes that unlikely sounding.

what i do know is that even if he assaulted the border patrol....... sending a person out into a Canadian snowstorm after the buses stop running, without so much as a coat.. is potentially lethal.
i know enough to know that the Canadian police, or any number of his fans. would have happily picked him up.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Even if the guy mouthed off stupidly, he should not have been treated like that. That's not what you expect from officials representing the United States, but from Third World tinpot dictatprship goons.