My Story pre-2009: Part 5

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

- Martin Luther King, Jnr.

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

- Abraham Lincoln

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... I'm still counting. If there is a hell upon earth, then it's in San Francisco. I think that many years ago, someone told me that there were three centres of evil on this planet, and I think San Francisco was one of them. Regardless of mythology, pseudo-science or spiritual knowledge, this has proven true for me. Even the airport itself looks evil. To me, it's like a giant demonic beast (or alien) with legs, arms, a head, slanted eyes, and ... a sizeable phallic representation. Judge for yourself ...

The aliens have landed ... in San Francisco

The Nightmare begins

It was a 12-hour flight. 1 hour waiting to take-off (delayed as usual) and 11 hours to reach home of one of humanity's versions of hell - San Francisco International Airport.

While California is well-known for it's gay community, one does not expect to be sodomised in all but the conventional way when arriving at the airport. But give it time. Considering the way some American military have behaved towards their Islamic victims, it's perhaps no surprise that the same attitude should prevail outside the military. What is worse though is that Homeland Security is a law unto itself. It has no moral standing, is totalitarian, and has no respect for the human rights of others. Perhaps this is why the airport in San Francisco is designed in such a way. Prepare to be politically sodomised - and in a very big way.

So what happened to me when I arrived?

I got off the plane and queued as usual for passport control. The officer who asked me to turn right seemed OK. When I reached the immigration office, all seemed normal. But that is all that was normal about the place.

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I sat down at a desk opposite Officer 'S'. He could not speak very good English. But I'll get back to this officer later. Here's what I published on the original version of this website about the ordeal:

"I was in transit to Portland, Oregon. I had just endured a flight of about 12 hours (including the delayed take-off and was feeling weak and tired. I have a medical condition which means that I suffer from long-haul flights.

Upon going to passport control, I was redirected to immigration. From this point I suffered a 3-hour ordeal of intimidation, threats and blackmail. Details in brief:

i. I was not allowed any civil liberties apart from a drink of water and use of toilet facilities. I was initially denied any telephone calls to any of my contacts in the USA. I was also denied any access to an attorney. Because I was in ‘no-man’s land’, I was informed by immigration that I had no rights whatsoever. In effect, I was totally at the mercy of the officials interrogating me.

ii. I answered all the questions they asked as honestly as I could. But critical questions were deliberately misrepresented and used as justification to deny me entry to the USA. Examples are:

1. They said I overstayed my visit in 2004. This is untrue. I came to the USA for 5.5 weeks. It is not my fault the paperwork was lost by immigration. And if I did abuse the VWS in 2004, why was I not barred from entering on further occasions? This matter has never been raised during my previous trips to the USA.

2. I was accused of overstaying in early October 2007. This was due to mitigating circumstances (a death) and is permitted by US immigration law. It also did not prevent me from re-entering the USA later in October 2007.

3. I was accused of entering the USA with the intention of staying indefinitely. I was asked this questions and I replied I would only remain in the country by legal means. This would be through the correct Visa (investment, work, etc.). I had NO intention of staying illegally. Even my poor wife has insisted I only enter the USA legally as she too is a law-abiding person (again, albeit she was trapped in an employment nightmare).

The immigration official interviewing me changed what I had said and stated in his report I had the intention of staying in the country indefinitely (and, consequently, illegally).

Other reasons for refusing my entry were given and condensed down to three items. I was not given a copy as promised, thus preventing me from taking legal action again the criminal actions of immigration.

The immigration officials also said they could do as they please. Essentially, it was directly implied they were beyond the law and could do as they like. And because I had not yet officially entered the country, I had no rights and was completely at their mercy.

When I refused to sign the statement I had made, even after I was allowed to make a few corrections to grammar and spelling errors, my wife was threatened. The senior immigration officer deciding my fate said that if I did not sign, he would immediately go after my wife. He also said that immigration would “remember me”  if and when I returned and that even if I had the correct paperwork, I could still be refused. This was so outrageous and threatening that I had no choice but to sign under protest. I marked my statement as such in writing.

It is only after agreeing, against my will, to sign all the paperwork that I was permitted on telephone call. I could not reach my wife as she was in transit from work, so had to call her friend. He could not reach her later and my wife stayed awake all night not knowing why I was not with her. She cried throughout the night in fear that I may be dead in some accident. *She has been crying every night since and not eating. I fear terribly for her health and emotional stability.

My 3-hour interrogation ended by being put back immediately on a plane to the UK which caused me serious health problems.

*Update: My wife was made very ill by this ordeal. But she did recover after being cared for by one of her Indonesian friends.

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Back to Officer 'S' ...

He and his senior officer (I cannot recall his name) should both not just be fired, but prosecuted for corruption. They are a disgrace, not just to the authority they are supposed to represent, but the principle of humanity itself. The attitude of the senior officer was particularly similar to some of the ill-willed immigration officers I have previously encountered.

Both these people are evil monsters - out of control and willing to do anything just to justify their jobs. As Officer 'S' said to me:

"We have to do this, or we lose our jobs". He also said to me: "We know things you should know, but we cannot tell you."

Evidence of previous entries into the US on the Visa Waiver Programme:

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Is this not an indictment of the corrupt way this immigration office is run? I think it is. If Homeland Security wishes to be treated with any respect, then it needs to remove from it's ranks the rotten core of corrupt, malevolent, sick-minded little dictators it depends upon to administer it's authority. Or am I asking too much?

My return flight ...

I cannot recall much about my flight back to the UK. But I was about as severely depressed as one could be. All I could think about was trying to contact my wife.

I do remember boarding the plane back to the UK. The flight, perhaps, took about 10 hours. In all, I spent just over one day either flying or being interrogated. For most of this time I slept - just blacked out. All I recall is asking for a glass of water on the way back. Everything else is a blur as I was unconscious nearly all the time.

One crucial and critically important fact is that my hand-carried personal effects were not returned to me until my flight had took off. I was also supposed to be handed a copy of the statement I was forced to sign. It wasn't with my belongings. The airline's purser gave me the envelope he had been given by the immigration officials and a copy should have been enclosed in the envelope with my passport, etc.

The fact that the Us Government has still refused to release a copy of this statement is a damning indictment of the level of the level of corruption in the US immigration system.

Next stop - Heathrow.