This woman was denied acess to the US because she had emotional disorder, clinical depression. DHS googled her name and a book she had written about depression came up in her name.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 2, 2013
Is the Department of Homeland Security Google searching the names of travelers before they enter the United States? That’s the question being asked after a Canadian woman was turned away by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as a result of being hospitalized for a mental illness last year.
50-year-old Ellen Richardson was due to fly to New York City where she would leave for a ten day cruise, but despite having entered the United States on several occasions since 2001, she was told by a DHS official at Toronto’s Pearson Airport that she would be refused entry, “because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression.”
Richardson was then handed a signed document which explained that “system checks” had found she “had a medical episode in June 2012” and that because of this “mental illness episode” she would be required to undergo medical evaluation by DHS-approved doctors before being accepted.
“How did DHS know this about Richardson?” asks Network World. “An online search leads to Richardson’s book that documented how she became paralyzed and about her bouts of depression. So are CBP agents “Googling” people, or checking social media posts to vet visas?”
Canadian officials MPP France Gelinas and MP Mike Sullivan responded by sending letters to provincial and federal privacy commissioners in an attempt to find out how and why Richardson’s private medical information was being shared with U.S. authorities.
“This is scary,” Gelinas told the Toronto Star. “They got access to information that should never have been accessible to anyone.”
Gelinas also mentioned cases involving two Ontarians who had also been turned away at the border because of their mental health history.
Lawyer Barry Swardon said that he had dealt with “many people who have had a similar problem,” adding that non-criminal personal information about individuals is routinely recorded in the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC ) database and shared with the FBI.
Human rights lawyer Ryan Fritsch said the discriminatory practice could prevent victims of depression from seeking help.
“It breaks my heart. This has a chilling effect on people reaching out for help. People start to think, well, next time I’m not going to make the call – the call for help,” he said, because there will be a record of that call and it could get into a police database.
Since anti-establishment political opinions are now increasingly being characterized as forms of mental illness, how long before critics of government agencies like the DHS have their travel rights revoked?
As we have previously highlighted, the TSA, a branch of the DHS, has previously put reporters who have criticized the TSA on terrorist watchlists.
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This why you should stay away from anti-depressants. U.S. gungrabbers may try to have restrictions put in that will disallow one from owning a gun if you have a history of taking anti-depressants. Mass-stabbings in Japan and mass-shootings in the U.S.A. have anti-depressant use connected with the perpetrators of these crimes (AND NOT THE TYPE OF KNIFE OR TYPE OF GUN). Take valerian root if the money addicts are stressing you out. I actually notice that it is helping me enhance my calm with the outrageous bullsh!t being asked of me at work and school.
Malcolm: SSRI's are the worst.
get chakra balancing twice a week and meditate-
DARKSTAR: ALL ANTIDEPRESSANTS ARE BAD. You mess with the brains neurotransmitters and you will have mood swings that can endanger others.
Paxil was the drug of choice with the Virginia Tech shooter. Trazadone was the prescribed drug for the Navy yard shooter. I once dated a woman who was on Lexapro and was adamant about wanting to know where I stored my guns (and she didn't want to go out shooting with me. She only wanted to know where I kept my guns. I don't date her anymore, and this was one of the reasons we broke up (hooray for me)). I also broke up with a computer date because she took Prozac and talked blatantly about how life sucked and how it might be better if she was dead; she initiated the breakup with me because she didn't respect my belief that caring for the unfortunate population in some way should be a pro bono requirement of those successful in their profession (she was once married to general practitioner who had a major medical practice in Mississippi).
Many, many, people suffer from depression. I think that this is the most common mental illness. Too bad this poor woman was discriminated against because of it - but what about the border? What about all the Mexicans that come in to get free rent, free medlical care, free food? This whole thing just doesn't make any sense.
cheap labor -politicians look the other way like Menendez who's campaign chest is filled by the construction industry, restaurant and landcraping industries-they don't care if phyco killers are wandering around our suburbs with power tools -black people used to work a lot in the same industries but now they stay home and get assistance and vote for the socialists