[NYTr] Cuba Action: Online petition against air passenger data grab
 
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:34:22 -0500 (CDT)

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sent by Marcel Hatch (Canada - Oct 17, 2007

 To: Freedom to Travel Friends
 From: Marcel Hatch, Vancouver, BC Canada

The Council of Canadians, an organization boosting Canadian
sovereignty, has a handy online petition directed to Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper (a Bush acolyte) to protest impending
regulations to turn over all personal data to Homeland Security and
other U.S. spy agencies of air passengers flying from Canada to Latin
American and Caribbean destinations.

This is a quick, easy and effective solution to making your voice of
protest heard.

http://www.canadians.org/action/2007/11-Oct-07.html

While the petition does not mention that passengers traveling on
Canadian airlines to Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela
(countries that George Bush and Homeland Security think are "hostile to
'American' interests") should have particular concerns, the petition
does defend the basic human right to travel without domestic or foreign
government intervention.

DO IT NOW. If you don't have time to write a personal letter then
please sign this petition.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Bush-loving government is in
trouble and should it agree to providing U.S. spy agencies with
Canadian air passenger personal data you could help it tumble. YES!

People from the United States, Canada and all other countries can sign
this online letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

For freedom to travel,
Marcel Hatch
Vancouver, BC Canada

__________

ALTERNATE SAMPLE EMAIL OPTION TO INSERT INTO ONLINE PETITION:
__________

Subject: Reject proposed "Secure Flight Program"

CC to: "Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities"
<mintc@tc.gc.ca>

Prime Minister Stephen Harper,

I write to strongly protest the proposed policy that requires Canadian
airlines flying through U.S. airspace to hand over the personal data of
everyone aboard the plane even if the destination is not in the United
States.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's "Secure Flight Program," is
opposed by the organization representing all Canadian airlines, the Air
Transport Association of Canada (ATAC), as well as most Canadians who
do not want their travel destinations, itineraries and personal
information on record with U.S. spy agencies.

I demand that the Canadian government not turn over information about
its air passengers to a foreign country.

Sincerely,

XXX
_______

NEWS REFERENCE:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071011/passenger_lsits_071011/20071011?hub=TopStories

Shorter Link option: http://shorterlink.com/?FLIEYY
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