Canadian science fiction writer and Hugo Award nominee Peter Watts was bashed by US border guards, pepper-sprayed and charged with assaulting a federal officer for the crime of ... what? ... sitting quietly in car and looking suspiciously like a science fiction writer who is driving back to Canada?
Yet another case of Homeland Insecurity.
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The incident made it to BoingBoing.
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Rodney King copping it in 1991. Reassuring to see things haven't changed - I like predictability, things you can rely on.
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I seem to recall a case of a writer who was refused entry to the USA from Canada because he put "Blogger" as his occupation.
(Hat-tip to Whatever, who links to some site where you can contribute to a fund for Dr Watts's legal costs.)
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