28 May 2001
From: [email protected]
Date: 28 May 2001 21:56:06 -0000
Subject: Henson arrested by heavily-armed swarm of police in Toronto
I presume the jail at Oakland, or wherever they send immigration prisoners, is where Keith is now. His lawyer could help on that, but only to media.
Here's the flash, minimal as it is. I won't email anyone updates unless they explicitly express further interest.
[Snip] One of Keiths lawyers has just spoken to Keith and Immigration.
This is the situation:
An Immigration warrant was issued for Keith's Arrest For failure to declare to Immigration, when Keith entered Canada on May 12
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Apparently, Henson was arrested by heavily-armed police at a shopping mall. His spiritual adviser Gregg Hagglund (or whatever you want to call him ;-) is taking him a red cross care package and may be visiting him for a while. I think he's incommunicado for a bit.
There is a bail hearing tomorrow on this and then we'll find out exactly what's up.
The SNAFU here (and the basic clusterfuck) is that his lawyer Guidy Mamann was poised to file the necessary papers tomorrow.
Who knows what will happen? Deportation is almost the best case, with additional charges entirely possible, depending on whether or not the arrest was based on entirely bogus information.
(Henson did not enter Canada as a "fugitive," though a bench warrant was issued on May 18, six days after he entered Canada.)
Here's Keith's counsel information from a press release by Gregg Hagglund.
Mr. Guidy Mamann
[email protected]of Mamann & Associates.
www.migrationlaw.com(416) 862-0000
74 Victoria Street, Suite 303
Toronto, Canada M5C 2A5
And Keith's own contact information
Keith Henson
c/o Temple of At'L'An
Refugee Committee
2237 Munns Ave.
Oakville Ontario
Canada
L6H 3M9email [email protected]
Telephone: 905-844-6216
Henson's reluctant American counsel:
James J. Harr
of James O. Cripps
Suite 4
PO Box 3540
133 N Buena Vista
Hemet, California 92343Phone: (909) 925-5024
Fax: (909) 652-2250
Henson's former counsel Graham Berry
email: [email protected]
Riverside Press-Enterprise Reporter Erin Randolph
Email: [email protected](909) 487-5229
Websites featuring information on the case
http://freehenson.da.ru
(a redirector which will always point at the current home of the site)
http://www.operatingthetan.com
Current home of the Free Keith Henson site
NOTE that all references to http://freehenson.tripod.com are permanently broken as I have no intention of ever using Tripod for anything of any kind ever again Point instead to
http://freehenson.da.ru or
http://cryptome.org
This one might be responsible for the Slashdot one and I'm greatly pleased with it.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/0238223
Slashdot thread on Henson situation
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=henson
A nicely selected and bandwidth-friendly distillation of some of the most critical material which has been posted to Declan McCullagh's well-regarded politech list