No idea if this is accurate or not. 

Take it for what it is worth.

Blogs a note about the Thailand political crisis.

Pongasthorn is one of our best integral theory bloggers.  I wish him and his all the best, and send out my prayers. 

Any integral, or any spiritual, person, can look at some of the world scenarios,  must shake their head.

After yesterday's discussion about habeas corpus, we now find that Maher Arar, one of the people that could have possibly disappeared into a criminal justice system - forever.

Luckily, he didn't.  Here is the Washington Post story.

Arar, now 36, was detained by U.S. authorities as he changed planes in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. He was held for questioning for 12 days, then flown by jet to Jordan and driven to Syria. He was beaten, forced to confess to having trained in Afghanistan -- where he never has been -- and then kept in a coffin-size dungeon for 10 months before he was released, the Canadian inquiry commission found.

Remember, this is a mild, soft-spoken COMPUTER PROGRAMMER.  He could be me - about the right age - or you.   And this has already HAPPENED.

The legislation that I was referring to yesterday, would be used to prevent a person like Maher Arar, from even having the ability to question his detention. 

The thing is, governments WANT to cooperate with the United States.  Bad information from intelligence agents happen, and will get things wrong.  And people need to be held while the truth is figured out.  But then there needs to BE that period where humanitarian and rights of the accused take precedence, in a full legal system.  From the article:

After Arar was detained in New York, Canadian authorities apparently were unaware the Americans were preparing to send him to Syria, according to the commission finding.

The RCMP contact, Inspector Michel Cabana, "was under the impression that Mr. Arar would only be detained for a short time," O'Connor's report said. "In his view, Mr. Arar was being held in a country with many of the same values as Canada."

Arar filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court, but the case was dismissed by a judge citing "national security" issues. Arar is also seeking compensation from the Canadian government.

"National Security".  And national security is important, temporary seizures MUST happen - and should happen.  But they need to be temporary, and subject to review.

Again, for all we know, there may be people LIKE Arar, that have disappeared.  After all, many people seized have not had a court overhear WHY they were seized.

I don't hear Ken Wilber, or others, adding their voice to condemning these type of betrayals of integral values.

Why is that?  Is it so much more important to release another book about Integralism, than actually address fundamental betrayals of integral values, happening in one's own society?