It’s never fun getting stopped and questioned by the border guards heading into the States, even when you didn’t do anything wrong. It’s usually more relaxing coming back into Canada. You promise you aren’t carrying any forbidden fruit, and you’re in.
Not so with award-winning American journalist Amy Goodman. She not only got stopped on the way up to give a public speech in Vancouver. She was questioned for an hour and half about…her speech. The border guards, to her amazement, were not interested in her opinions on the economic meltdown, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They wanted to know what she intended to say about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Is this what the Vancouver Olympics are going to be remembered for?
We know we’re going to spend $1 billion on security, not just to keep terrorists from blowing things up but apparently also to crush the idea of free speech and eliminate the prospect of political dissent. I wonder how many gold medals it would take to get the bad taste of that out of our systems?
Here’s her report on the fabulous Democracy Now! show.
