At 07:58 PM 12/11/2009, you wrote: > > >Links: ><http://fr33agents.ning.com/profiles/blogs/funds-for-the-defense-of-dr>http://fr33agents.ning.com/profiles/blogs/funds-for-the-defense-of-dr > >http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html > >His words: > >If you buy into the Many Worlds Intepretation of quantum physics, >there must be a parallel universe in which I crossed the US/Canada >border without incident last Tuesday. In some other dimension, I was >not waved over by a cluster of border guards who swarmed my car like >army ants for no apparent reason; or perhaps they did, and I simply >kept my eyes downcast and refrained from asking questions. Along >some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was >going on. I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and >told to get back into the vehicle. In that other timeline I was not >punched in the face, pepper-sprayed, shit-kicked, handcuffed, thrown >wet and half-naked into a holding cell for three fucking hours, >thrown into an even colder jail cell overnight, arraigned, and >charged with assaulting a federal officer, all without access to >legal representation (although they did try to get me to waive my >Miranda rights. Twice.). Nor was I finally dumped across the border >in shirtsleeves: computer seized, flash drive confiscated, even my >fucking paper notepad withheld until they could find someone among >their number literate enough to distinguish between handwritten >notes on story ideas and, I suppose, nefarious terrorist plots. I >was not left without my jacket in the face of Ontario's first winter >storm, after all buses and intercity shuttles had shut down for the night. > >In some other universe I am warm and content and not looking at >spending two years in jail for the crime of having been punched in the face. > >But that is not this universe. > ><http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=932>http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=932
Pretty much par for the course these days. The border/airport gestapo have become a law in and off themselves. Anyone without high political/power connections that doesn't behave like a sheepeople, is going to get this type of treatment and worse. Some people have lost their life, and nothing has come of it. Insane doesn't even BEGIN to describe our current system. Some of these people are starting to make the Stasi look good.
