The World Health Organization (WHO) on elder abuse:

"The abuse of older people, also known as elder abuse, is a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person. This type of violence constitutes a violation of human rights and includes physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse; financial and material abuse; abandonment; neglect; and serious loss of dignity and respect."

The Irish people know a wee bit about ethnic persecution and genocide, don't they? Ask the members from NYC's Black 47, who named their Celtic band after the terrible potato famine of 1847.

Sidenote: Two years ago a young UN Peacekeeper from Ireland was separated from his convoy at night. He ended up in a small Lebanese village that mistook him for the Israelis and so the mob began stoning his vehicle. Then a Lebanese villager opened fire with an assault rifle on the Irishman, killing him. The Irish government realized this attack must have been a mistake and was patient in their public response.

Sure enough, Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) immediately conducted an investigation, found the suspect, and turned him over to Lebanese Army G2 on the charge of murder.

The CBSA/CSIS/RCMP databases have ZERO Credible Derogatory Information (CDI) on Mr. Richard Falk, a former high official in the UN.

And these CBSA officers all have Smartphones, who doesn't? Anyone of them could have looked up the nonagenarian and see that he was a legal scholar.

Interrogating Mr. Falk for four torturous hours was spiteful Islamophobia-- and he's Jewish.

I hope Canada's Parliament or the Federal Ombudsman looks into this harassment.

Hi Scotty:

Good for you. Like you, my Canadian friends in Ontario and Quebec avoid the US like the plague. So, my wife and I visit them, although we meet outside Toronto because the traffic there is a huge mess. Downtown Montreal is starting to look like Manhattan.

The CBSA officers have been kind to my wife and I for years, but like anywhere, there are going to be Officer Tackleberries.

US Customs inspectors gave you a reason for the 12 hour detention. I wonder what reason the CBSA officers gave the 95-year-old scholar?

Mohammed Ibrahim (16), a Palestinian-American teen from Florida held without charge by Israeli security services for nine months, is finally getting a day in court. Meanwhile, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee is making money shilling sleep supplements and ethnic cleansing continues unabated in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

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Americans are rightly outraged by human rights abuses here at home by ICE or local police, or by the Russians brutalizing the Ukrainians, except for when it comes to US "ally" Israel, which brutalizes Palestinians day in and day out in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Israel receives hardworking American taxpayer funds every single year.

Why?

Wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel has a top ten universal healthcare system for all its residents, a social security system ranked at "B+" compared to America which is ranked at "C+", and Israeli GNI is $52,940. This is almost exactly on par with Germany (Europe's largest economy) whose GNI is $54,960.

Unlike NYC, LA, Boston, Houston, Miami, or Topeka, the term "medical bankruptcy" does not come up in Haifa, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, or Eilat.

So, why are we Americans supporting a wealthy, brutal police state who the Global Happiness Index (GHI) reports has happier citizens than us?