{"id":13,"date":"2005-03-01T22:39:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-03-01T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T02:42:01","slug":"fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">C<\/span>ome to think of it, I posted two links today that are tied together in a way but are completely different immigration cases: first of all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouver\/vancouversun\/news\/story.html?id=a0c5eeb4-8c7d-4c62-8dca-91d3bd3316e5\">Sanja Pecelj<\/a> returned yesterday from Mexico. After a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesanjapecelj.com\/\">long Immigration struggle<\/a> she got her awaited Permanent Resident status. Her story (and several interviews with her) was big news on several Canadian channels, particularly in the Maritimes. Congratulations: I know exactly how that feels.\n<\/p>\n<p>The other case is the one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4310087.stm\">Holocaust denier<\/a>, who was deported from Canada, after Germany was able to seek extradition. It took Canadian authorities <em>two years<\/em> to establish whether he posed a threat to Canadian  security. A federal judge (yesterday) found:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8221; that his anti-Semitic and hatred-inciting activities were not only a threat to Canada&#8217;s national security, but also a threat to the international community of nations.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes even I have to admit that immigrations laws go over my head. In some cases the system doesn&#8217;t work. In some cases it seems to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come to think of it, I posted two links today that are tied together in a way but are completely different immigration cases: first of all, Sanja Pecelj returned yesterday from Mexico. After a long Immigration struggle she got her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=13\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}