Please Help Professor Gruben

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Dear friend and supporter of Prof. Rozalind Gruben,

 

We are calling upon you for help.

 

PLEASE contact your local Congressional Representative and Senator.

Everything you need to do so has been set out below.

 

Faxing to a representative's office is more effective than just

emailing,

though

We suggest both. Fax nos. for the rep's offices can be found easily

through the websites listed below.

 

We suggest emailing and faxing to both your Senators and Congressman.

Here's a template to be used as you wish. It was very kindly compiled

by

Eric

Rivkin who said we are welcome to use this as an example for others to

follow.

 

To contact you congressman, go here

 

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

 

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http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

 

 

Dear

 

I am contacting you about an urgent matter relating to an important

British

citizen who was horrendously mistreated by the INS and improperly

deported on

June

25 at Newark airport.

 

She is Professor Rozalind Gruben, a renowned international lecturer

in the health and fitness field. Her positive and scientifically

based educational material is clearly beneficial to US citizens

wishing to improve their health. Statistics show that a majority of

US citizens have serious health problems due to improper diet and

exercise, and Rozalind has proven to bring about a healthy turn through

 

education and demonstration.

 

Her ordeal with the INS is written below.

 

As an American citizen, I urgently ask you to contact the US State

Department to allow Professor Gruben back in to the US to do her

scheduled voluntary educational lectures for the benefit US citizens.

She has planned voluntary lectures in July, hence the urgency of this

matter.

 

Professor Gruben holds a professorship in Applied Nutrition and Health

Science. Her work includes the role of Lecturer at Middlesex University

in London.

She is well known as a Course Director and Assessor of exercise teacher

training within the

fitness industry, including specializing in the needs of the elderly

and

other special needs groups.

 

Professor Gruben is renowned for her exuberance, humor and energy,

and is a regular presenter at many international conventions such as

The World Vegetarian Congress, The Exercise Association of England,

The North American Vegetarian Society and Fitness Professionals UK.

 

As the author of various articles and books, including writing for

The Readers Digest, The Hygienist and National Exercise Association

Journal, along with presenting on radio and international television,

Professor Gruben is at the forefront of Natural Health and Fitness

education today.

 

On several occasions in the US and abroad, I have attended Prof.

Gruben's voluntary lectures and found her educational material to be

positive and scientifically based, and a great help to many US

citizens I know personally. Her material and manner of presentation

is clearly beneficial to US citizens wishing to improve their health

and fitness.

 

She has the unique combination of health education, fitness for

special needs, women's health, the approach to helping people heal

from eating disorders and addictions, and monumental expertise in

nature-science-based nutrition. No one else can do exactly what

Professor Rozalind Gruben does. America needs her, the world needs

her.

 

Everyone involved is grateful to you for putting in the time and

effort necessary to look into this. If you wish to contact Professor

Gruben, she is in England at rozgruben or by telephone on

(01144) 1903 746572.

 

Sincerely,

 

Your name, address and phone no. here

 

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My full name is: Rozalind Alison Gruben

 

The address of my home, (which I own) and the place of my residence is:

1 Cassidy Place, New Town Road, Storrington West Sussex

 

My home telephone number is: (0) 1903 746572

 

My E-mail address is: rozgruben

 

I was born on: August 10th1959

 

I was born at Southlands Hospital, Shoreham-by Sea West Sussex England

 

I am a British Citizen

 

I am Self-Employed as a Healthful Living Consultant

 

My accountant, who does the tax returns for my business every year is:

Kate

Beale

Her contact details are: Bristow Still Chartered Accountants, 39

Sackville

Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 WD UK Tel: (0) 1273 326 409

 

My National insurance Number is: WE783951A

 

My passport number is: 703118967

 

I bank at National Westminster Bank, High Street, Storrington, West

Sussex

England

 

The purposes of my visit to the United States of America were:

1) To be with my fiancé

2) To honour commitments I had made to do VOLUNTARY speaking at

numerous vegetarian/vegan/raw food events in the USA

 

I am entitled to visit for up to 90 days at a time holding a green

'Waiver'

form.

I have a perfect history of being meticulous about NOT exceeding my 90

day

limit on ANY occasion when travelling to the USA.

 

What occurred:

 

On June 25th my fiancé, Dr. Doug Graham, and I flew to the USA from

London

Gatwick England. The reason for our visit was to honour commitments we

had made

to do VOLUNTARY speaking at numerous vegetarian/vegan/raw food events in

the

USA

 

We arrived at Newark airport in New York around the middle of the day.

 

As an American citizen, my fiancé Doug passed through immigration

without a

problem, but I was taken away by the immigration police.

 

For seven hours I was psychologically terrorised, disrespected, abused,

insulted, shouted at, deliberately frightened and treated as if I were a

murderer.

They committed slander about my parents, whom they have never met nor

seen.

They took my full set of fingerprints and several photographs. The

denied me

access to a telephone and refused, for the most part, to allow me to ask

any

questions.

 

Female officer D A Lowes (it may have been lows) was the first to

question me

and did so in the most aggressive, demeaning and insulting of ways

possible

to human communications. The officer who was the primary interrogator

after

that was a TERRANCE ANDREW PEGUS.

 

Their terrorist tactics and psychological abuse eventually rendered me

in

such an emotionally distraught state that I vomited and had severe

diarrhoea.

 

I was neither allowed to see nor speak to Doug, who was doing all he

could to

free me from my torment. After some hours the police escorted him off

the

airport premises telling him that I would not be joining him and that

there was

nothing he could do.

 

They marched me from room to room to be subjected to further insults

and

demeaning treatment. I had two sets of photographs of me taken, two

full sets of

finger prints and was made to take an oath. I have had chemicals

smeared

onto my hands and my personal belongings were raped.

 

They bombarded me with ridiculous questions such as expecting me to

remember

the exact dates and details of my movements going back several years.

When I

told them that I did not remember they accused me of withholding

information.

They even asked me the date my library card had been issued of which,

naturally, I had little recollection. In order to avoid being accused of

withholding

information I made a guess as to the library card's issue date and, as

it was

incorrect, I was then accused of lying.

 

Regardless of the truth I told them they accused me of lying almost ever

time.

 

At one point they left the small room where I was held telling me that I

had

to sit there until I was prepared to tell the truth. I was already

telling

the truth.

 

At no point did I ever raise the level or pitch of my voice, demonstrate

 

rudeness or disrespect of them, refuse to co-operate or in any way

antagonise them.

 

They have taken away my right to ever again enter the USA on a green

'waiver'

form. The only way that I can enter in future is with a visa. They

tell me

that if I 'abuse' that by coming to the USA as frequently as I have been

that

they will also take that away and then I would also be in 'serious'

trouble.

 

Issues of misinterpretation

Business Card

I had in my possession (in my wallet) contact cards that Doug and I had

made

up to give out to health seekers on both sides of the Atlantic. Doug

works for

money in the USA and I work for money in the UK. We had a joint card

printed

as oftentimes British people like to consult with Doug over the email

when he

is in America and sometimes American people like to consult with me over

email

when I am in the UK.

In addition to this we hand these cards out to people running events

where we

might choose to do voluntary speaking. The cards also mention events

that we

jointly run in Costa Rica where Doug has property.

 

Cell Phone

I was asked what the telephone number on the above mentioned card was

and, in

my highly distressed state unable to think clearly. I told them that

the

number was Doug's parent's telephone number in Key Largo. I was

mistaken, and it

was a genuine mistake on my part. The number is, in fact, that of my

cell

phone in the USA. I have such a phone because sometimes my clients in

the UK,

especially those who do not have email, need to contact me. Some of them

are

very sick people. The officer Terrence Andrew Pegus asked me who he

would get if

he called the number and I replied, in total innocence and believing it

to be

the truth, that he would either reach Bea or Marty Graham (Doug's

parents).

Naturally he did not, but instead reached the voicemail on my cell

phone. The

recorded message that I had left VERY clearly states that I am 'not in

the US

right now' and advises my friends and UK clients to call me at home in

England. What Terrance Andrew Pegus insisted he heard the recorded

message to say

was 'I am not in the OFFICE right now. Which is absolutely untrue and a

deliberate lie on his part. I have since called the number myself, and

had numerous

friends do so, all of whom verify that the message states 'not in the

US' and

NOT 'not in the office'.

 

Financial Support

As I attempted to explain to my interrogators, my fiancé supports me

financially whenever I come over to the US. And I support him

financially when he

visits me in England. He used to give me arbitrary bits and pieces of

cash when

I visited him in order for me to be able to buy the personal items I

needed.

About a year ago he suggested giving me 10% of his book sales so that I

did

not feel so embarrassed at the age of 43 to ask for these dribs and

drabs of

financial support. I NEVER worked FOR him. He has NEVER been my

employer. The

arrangement was just between him and me. I am his fiancé NOT his

employee and

am prepared to state this under oath.

 

I am suffering intense distress at being forced to separate form my

fiancé. I

have suffered from nausea, headaches, diarrhoea, insomnia and panic

attacks

since this episode and on the rare occasions that I fall asleep I suffer

 

nightmares. My doctor confirms that I am suffering from post traumatic

shock.

 

In addition, I am very concerned for all the people I will be letting

down by

not being there to present at the various vegetarian and vegan

gatherings

this summer (see attached sheet)

 

According to the American Embassy in England, I am not permitted to even

 

begin the process of applying for a visa until August 5th 2003 when they

have

granted me an interview. By this time I will have let hundreds of

American

citizens down, many of whom will have travelled hundreds of miles to

hear me speak.

 

I have NEVER stayed in the USA a day beyond that which I am entitled to

(90

days at a time). Yet, according to the paperwork, the INS have deported

me on

those grounds.

 

I DO NOT live, in the USA. I live at my home address in England

I DO NOT work in the USA I run my own self employed business from my

home in

England. I work as a health consultant.

 

I can easily provide ample documented proof of these truths.

 

When I travel to the USA it is with the intention of bringing voluntary

health education to American citizens so that they, and their loved

ones, might

experience superior health, suffer less, and become more productive and

useful

members of their community.

 

I honestly believe that my deportment is absolutely inappropriate and

profoundly wrong. The way I was treated was inhumane, deplorable to an

extreme and

absolutely inexcusable.

 

Prof. Rozalind Gruben

 

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Douglas N. Graham, D.C. 609 N. Jade Dr. Key Largo, FL 33037

(305) 852 0214 (650) 380 1282 cell

 

 

To Whom It May Concern;

 

My name is Dr. Douglas N. Graham. After over 20 years in private

practice, I

have elected, via public speaking, to give back to society the harvest

of my

experience.

Prof. Rozalind Gruben joins me for many of these presentations, and was

planning to join me at all of the following Summer '03 events, where we

were to

present individually, as well as in joint ventures.

I wish to stress that Prof. Gruben is to receive no pay for presenting

at

these events, and she asks for none. In fact, she will pay her own

travel fees

as well. She is strictly on a humanitarian mission of goodwill.

 

Professor Gruben has made commitments to speak for the following

nonprofit

organizations this summer at their major yearly conferences:

 

Animal Rights 2003, Washington, DC

June 30, July 1

 

*RawStock, Occidental, CA

July 5-7

 

Healthful Living Intl, LA, CA

July 11-13

 

**The Essene Gathering, Brietenbush, OR

July 18-20

 

Hallelujah Ministries, Akron, OH

July 24-26

 

Living Now, NY

Aug 1 & 2

 

North American Vegetarian Society, Johnstown, PA

Aug 5-10

 

Spirit Earth, Toronto, Canada

Aug 15-18

 

Raw Food Festival, Portland, OR

Aug 23-26

 

 

HealthEco, Silverthorne, CO

Sept 6-15

 

*This event is not run by a nonprofit organization, but Rozihs is

receiving

no payment for presenting for them.

 

**Professor Gruben's appearance at this event is pending confirmation,

but

she has spoken there in previous years.

 

It is extremely important that Professor Gruben appears at these events.

Her

presence has been advertised by the organizers of the various events,

and

people travel the globe in order to attend and listen to her

presentations. She

cannot be replaced. No one can substitute for her.

 

Sincerely,

Dr Douglas N. Graham