French Activist denied entry to U.S.

[rhino47]

Activist French farmer Bove denied entry to U.S.
Thu Feb 9, 2006 11:42 AM ET
By Christian Wiessner

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - French farmer Jose Bove, a prominent protester against genetically modified food and agricultural free trade, has been denied entry into the United States, officials of an event he was due to address said on Thursday.Bove arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport with a valid U.S. entry visa on Wednesday afternoon but was detained for several hours and later returned to Paris, according to William Kramer, a spokesman for the conference.

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[madrchsod]

1. soon there will be no scientific conferences

in the usa because of this shit... that`s ok because we do not need science because god explains it all and soon the rapture will solve everything

[rhino47]

2. Unbelievable isnt it?

I was stunned.They did not even give him a reason for it either.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. Of course they didn't give him a reason!

The Patriot Act says they don't have to. so there. :(

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Those damn Frenchmen,

where do they get off denying Monsanto the right to make a profit by turning French people into human guinea pigs, just like they are doing with the rest of the world.

GM Ban Long Overdue
Dozens Ill & Five Deaths in the Philippines
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members' website. Details here

Unexplained sicknesses and deaths

In July 2003, a farmer living in a small village in the south of Mindanao Island of The Philippines, found himself and his entire family suddenly falling ill with fever and respiratory, intestinal and skin ailments. They were not alone; at least fifty-one residents of Sitio Kalyong (Barangay Landan, Polomolok, South Cotabato Province) had similar complaints at around the same time. They all lived within 100 m of a field planted with GM maize, and their illnesses coincided with the GM maize flowering time.

Another resident of Sitio Kalyong, said <1> that the GM-maize pollen made him dizzy, gave him severe headaches, chest pains and caused him to vomit.

The field in Sitio Kalyong belonged to a local official who bought five bags of Monsanto's Bt maize seed (Dekalb818YG with Cry1Ab from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis ), enough to plant 5 hectares. He paid 4 500 pesos per bag, which was more than twice as much as the non-GM variety at 2 200 pesos per bag. The premium price included the promise of a small vehicle if the harvest turned out to be good, as it was supposed to. In the event, the promise was broken on both counts: the harvest of 93 sacks compared poorly with the usual 150 sacks per ha, and the small vehicle was never delivered. The local official stopped planting the Bt maize after 2003.

As part of an investigation to determine what made the villagers ill, one of the farmers was “volunteered” to venture inside the Bt maize field in the presence of more than 10 witnesses, as he explained to me via an interpreter. “Within 5 minutes, I could not breathe and felt something extraordinary on my face,” he recalled. The others could see that his face had swollen up and remarked that it was “very dangerous”.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMBanLongOverdue.php

[annabanana]

4. Apparently Customs isn't answering Hillary's calls..

This article has a few more details:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lijfk094618724feb09,0,3153896.story

"Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-Saugerties) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's staffs have called customs officials at the airport but have not been able to find out why he was held after arriving, said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor research at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations."

"Congressman Hinchey's office was able to find out that he was detained by customs officials. They were saying at this point they are planning to return him to France," Bronfenbrenner said. "All they are saying is 'there are serious issues' involving him."

Bove had a visa to enter the U.S., she said. Cornell learned of his detention when one of the conference coordinators went to the airport to pick him up and he never emerged from customs, Bronfenbrenner said.

Jennifer Hanley, a spokeswoman for Clinton, said the senator's office responded to a request for help from Cornell. "The Cornell people told us that he was being detained, so we made a call on their behalf as we would for any constituent."

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Well that's the second positive thing I have seen about Hillary today

[myrna minx]

9. So he was granted a visa and *still* denied entry?

What is the point of the visa process then? It's not like customs would have learned anything new that the visa process wouldn't have ferreted out. :crazy:

[John Q. Citizen]

6. It's fascism at work. If Bove had done something illegal he should

be in jail and if he hasn't he should be addressing his conference.

It's the federal government directly disrupting our citizens right to free association and organizing to politically oppose corporate dominance of agriculture.

They do this all the time to disrupt peoples abilities to function. They have a no fly list that nobody knows how you get on or how you get off.


Fascism is on the march!

[Mass]

8. Stupid move from the * - It makes Bove even more of a hero to the

anti-globalization people and probably not really going to play very well with the left in France.