[R-G] American War Resister Arrested in British Columbia

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I cannot stress enough how important it is to jam up the phone lines at the
nelson police station.
               Aaron Doncaster


American War Resister Arrested in British Columbia
	   
Tuesday, October 02 2007 @ 12:48 PM PDT
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Anti-War ActivismWar Resister Robin Long has been arrested by the Nelson B.C.
Police who intend to take him to Vancouver and hand him over to the US
authorities at the border nearby. He was seized as he walked along a street.
He is now detained in the local jail. Robin was not allowed to receive
visits from friends; however he was able to call his spouse. She says that he
is calm and hopeful that he will soon be released.

*October 2, 2007***
*WAR RESISTER ARRESTED IN NELSON, B.C.***
*"We will deport him soon," say Nelson Police*
* *

War Resister Robin Long has been arrested by the Nelson B.C. Police who
intend to take him to Vancouver and hand him over to the

US authorities at the border nearby. He was seized as he walked
along a street.

He is now detained in the local jail. Robin was not allowed to receive
visits from friends; however he was able to call his spouse. She says that
he is calm and hopeful that he will soon be released.

Robin Long comes from Boise, Idaho. He joined the U.S. Army but soon found
that its demands were in conflict with his principles. He left the Army and
came to Canada in 2005, where he met his spouse, Renee. They have a Canadian
born son aged 15 months. Anyone who has met Robin knows him to be a man of
peace, with a strong concern for the environment and to the land.

The Nelson Police also arrested war resister Kyle Snyder last winter and
held him until they were informed that there was no charge against him. It
appears that the Nelson Police Force has made arresting US war resisters a
top priority. We call on the citizens of Nelson to hold their police
accountable for these actions.

* *

The War Resisters Support Campaign is urging all or friends and supporters
to CALL THE NELSON POLICE AT 250-354-3919 AND TELL THEM TO RELEASE ROBIN
LONG. We urge you as well to contact your local Member of Parliament and ask
her or him to help release Robin.

* *

Robin has done nothing wrong. The charges against him are technical
immigration matters which arose because he did not receive a letter sent to
him, and thus did not know that he had been called in for an appointment at
Canada Immigration in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Naturally if he had received the
letter he would have complied with it, as he has done with all previous
requests and demands.

Currently two other war resisters, Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, are
appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada against the negative decision of
the Immigration and Refugee Board. As with Robin, the IRB refused to allow
them to raise the issue of the illegality of the US invasion of Iraq, thus
making it impossible for them to bring forward a major reason for their
decision to seek refuge in Canada.

*Robin Long's lawyer, Jeffry House says: "It is totally up to the
Supreme Court to decide on this. It is not fair that people should be
removed as if the Supreme Court had ruled on this. No US war resister
should be removed until the Supreme Court decides."