US Customs Service Brownshirts

The lunatics have taken over the asylum. The worst authoritarian elements in American society are in positions of unassailable power. And the folks at the Blaine Peace Arch Crossing are among the worst, in my experience, combining stupidity, ignorance, petty abuse of authority, hostility, suspicion, and sheer meanness.

The spectacle of some middle class family from Portland returning from vacation in BC being interrogated with disrespect by some jumped up brownshirt is sad, sick, and infuriating.

And foreigners are treated much much worse. This is now the public face the USA shows to the world - paranoid, hostile, unutterably ignorant, and implacable in abusing petty authority.