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Censors at the Border? In America?
Hugh Dellios - Chicago Tribune - Monday, 25 November, 2002
McALLEN, Texas -- On the other side of the bridge from Mexico, the young U.S. Customs Service officer asked me to toss my suitcase on the inspection table. He opened it and then tensed up at what he saw. Sitting on top of the clothes were four thin pamphlets, each about 30 pages long and each bound with a plastic spiral. "These aren't something against the U.S., are they?" he asked me, suspiciously. It was my turn to freeze. I had never heard that kind of question when entering the U.S. before, only when entering places such as Syria, Iraq or the Congo. I asked the officer: Is it your job to be censoring information people are bringing into the country? "Actually, sir," he replied, "if it's propaganda against the U.S., we can prevent it from coming in."

****This report can also be located at t r u t h o u t...here

*****This kid (the Customs Agent) would probably turn his Grandmother in if she bad-mouthed DeserterDudya or ViceCriminal Poindexter - and he'd most likely have the local TIPS hotline on speed-dial -- oh wait, Congress disapproves of TIPS so he'd be calling his local Neiborhood Watch, currently manned by highly trained insomniacs who constantly peer out their windows******

posted by A Curmudgeon 8:50 AM