Creepy
If you ask me, and even if you don’t, this is a messed up state of affairs: As reported today in the Times, Adam Feldmar, a Vancouver psychologist, was on his way to Seattle, when, as he was attempting to cross the border “[a] guard typed [his] name into an Internet search engine, which revealed that he had written about using LSD in the 1960s in an interdisciplinary journal. Mr. Feldmar was turned back and is no longer welcome in the United States, where he has been active professionally and where both of his children live.”
The story goes on to quote Mike Milne, a spokesman for the Customs and Border Protection agency in Seattle, who said the law is clear: people who have used drugs are not welcome here.
“If you are or have been a drug user,” he said, “that’s one of the many things that can make you inadmissible to the United States.”
I hope some other people are as frightened by this as me.
If we’re all to be held accountable for everything we did back in 1974, when, according to Mr. Feldmar, was the last time he used illegal drugs, then we are all in for it, big time.
I’m particularly troubled by this because Mr. Feldmar was never arrested for anything; can he really be held accountable for illegal activities if he was never even prosecuted for them?
Moreover, if his LSD use was primarily during the 1960s, before 1966, to be exact, it wouldn’t even have been illegal.
The precedent this sets scares me; the only positive I can glean out of it is that it probably means that there won’t ever be any more Rolling Stones tours in America.
Just in case any other countries adopt this policy, let it be said loud and clear that any of my own drug references are purely fictional; I’m just playing a character here; nothing I say is to be taken seriously.
The story goes on to quote Mike Milne, a spokesman for the Customs and Border Protection agency in Seattle, who said the law is clear: people who have used drugs are not welcome here.
“If you are or have been a drug user,” he said, “that’s one of the many things that can make you inadmissible to the United States.”
I hope some other people are as frightened by this as me.
If we’re all to be held accountable for everything we did back in 1974, when, according to Mr. Feldmar, was the last time he used illegal drugs, then we are all in for it, big time.
I’m particularly troubled by this because Mr. Feldmar was never arrested for anything; can he really be held accountable for illegal activities if he was never even prosecuted for them?
Moreover, if his LSD use was primarily during the 1960s, before 1966, to be exact, it wouldn’t even have been illegal.
The precedent this sets scares me; the only positive I can glean out of it is that it probably means that there won’t ever be any more Rolling Stones tours in America.
Just in case any other countries adopt this policy, let it be said loud and clear that any of my own drug references are purely fictional; I’m just playing a character here; nothing I say is to be taken seriously.
posted by Professor Dave at 11:32 PM
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