http://registan.net/index.php/2010/02/05/did-it-open-a-rare-window-and-raise-troubling-questions-too/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:41:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://registan.net/index.php/2010/02/05/did-it-open-a-rare-window-and-raise-troubling-questions-too/comment-page-1/#comment-384215 reader Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:30:05 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10458#comment-384215 I was once crossing a foot-bridge over the Rio Grande into Texas with a big bag of cheap/over-priced souvenirs slung over my shoulder. Now mind you I was a young male, who had gone over to Mexico for a relatively brief period of a couple of hours and I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a rope-necklace, and my hair was sort of long. The border people just waived me on by. If I were a goose-stepping authoritarian type I would have been horrified. But I like to think that at least fortress America is still just a dream in the hearts of my fascist inclined fellow citizens. I was once crossing a foot-bridge over the Rio Grande into Texas with a big bag of cheap/over-priced souvenirs slung over my shoulder. Now mind you I was a young male, who had gone over to Mexico for a relatively brief period of a couple of hours and I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a rope-necklace, and my hair was sort of long. The border people just waived me on by. If I were a goose-stepping authoritarian type I would have been horrified. But I like to think that at least fortress America is still just a dream in the hearts of my fascist inclined fellow citizens.

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