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Andrei Codrescu interviewed

There are books regularly written about life at the U.S.- Mexican border. But none that I know of about the U.S.-Canadian border.

AC: The Mexican border now runs through every city. It runs through Atlanta. It runs through Houston. It runs through New York. The Canadian border ran all over the place for a long time-as soon as Peter Jennings started doing the American news, the Canadian border moved to New York. These borders now run through these places because there are so many immigrants of various kinds-illegal immigrants and so on. Then there is also the paranoia that is being fostered now by Homeland Security Office-everyone is very conscious of the border and making the border is just outside your window. If you walk out of your house, god forbid you might find terrorists who are outside because that's where the border is now. That kind of thinking resembles Communist thinking actually from the days when I was growing up; everyone was paranoid even to think stuff inside themselves. So this kind of shifting of the border, then you'll keep moving the border inside ourselves. And when that happens a lot of inner terrorists are going to be born

 

 

Comments

[kristen]

that first one is hysterical.