{"id":1239,"date":"2009-12-13T03:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T03:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2009-12-13T03:46:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T03:46:54","slug":"borderline-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Borderline fascism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case there are still doubts, here&#8217;s another fine example demonstrating that our fearless guardians of freedom, liberty, and all that&#8217;s sacred to life at the US-Canada border might consider fascism as the preferred form of society: apparently, science-fiction authors have nothing better to do with their time than to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/ontario\/article\/738143--u-s-border-guards-arrest-author-peter-watts?bn=1\">assault hapless border guards<\/a>. I have often said that my experiences on the border between Hungary and Ceaucescu&#8217;s Romania back in the 1980s were significantly less unpleasant than many of my crossings of the US-Canada border&#8230; the one thing I fail to understand is why, in these supposedly free societies, we don&#8217;t just fire these &#8220;public servants&#8221; en masse, why we allow them to treat us the way they do.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1239' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case there are still doubts, here&#8217;s another fine example demonstrating that our fearless guardians of freedom, liberty, and all that&#8217;s sacred to life at the US-Canada border might consider fascism as the preferred form of society: apparently, science-fiction authors have nothing better to do with their time than to assault hapless border guards. I <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1239' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-politics","category-22-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}