Monday, March 16, 2009

Judge did not believe government cared about protests

in Dankam v. Gonzales, 2007 U.S. App. Lexis 16852 [4th Circuit 2007] Ms. Dankam, from Cameroon, testified she protested in front of her Embassy in Washington Dc, and that she was "sure" her government knew she protested and that her government would get angry and later try to punish her.

However, the Judge said:
"there is no evidence of what your government knows or thinks."
"no one wrotet a letter, agreeing with you"
" there are no photographs of a man inside the Embassy watching you'
"no one bothered or injured your husband and children back in the old country"
"you are not famous; you are not a big shot; you did not speak on the radio; you did not write letters; no one knows who you are"
You lose!

Monday, March 2, 2009

questions to a christian from Indonesia, by IJ

When you left your country, what happened at the airport?
Tell me about your mother and father: they are Christians, they still live in the same house and go to the same church, and they have suffered no harm? you say they did not suffer physical harm; but that they did suffer emotional harm? what do you mean? what is "emotional harm"?
-Did you get a visa from the USA Embassy in your country? how did you leave your country?
Does the recent Department of State report, at page 17, say that the police try to protect churches?
Does the recent Department of State report at page 18, say that violence against Christians "continues to decline"? The Judge, the government lawyer, and your own lawyer read the Department of State reports, but you don't?
You are different from everyone else in the courtroom?
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how were you able to get 24 [twenty four] people to come to court for you today?