Is That Legal?

It's why he's my future husband.

Actually, a glimmer of this crossed my mind as I crossed the border this evening and entered Canada. I'm coming back on Tuesday, and the thought occured to me that in theory there is now a possibility that I could end up like Maher Arar.

Eric:

I remember hearing from my father's uncle -- who came here from czarist Russia, crossing most of the European continent on foot -- what freedom in America meant to him, especially as a Jew who survived pogroms. I remember my father's Russian-immigrant mother wearing the pain of losing her oldest son in WWII to save us from Hitler, but her pride that he helped keep us free and safe in America, especially as Jews.

I remember my mother's mother telling us at the same holiday dinner table where my uncle and paternal grandmother also sat how lucky we -- her grandchildren -- were to be *born* as Americans, echoed with nods of agreement and exchanges in Yiddish.

How I ache when I think of my grandmothers and uncle, now. How they would see the devil's bargain we've made. They knew tyranny. They survived it. I think their hearts would be breaking.

[And to any of your readers who say, "tyranny? . . . you're a fucking dumbass; don't you get it, *they* want to kill us" -- I offer this: "dumbass, don't you get it . . . the President now can indefinitely detain and almost torture American citizens, born and bred here, to save *us* from *them*; are you getting it yet?"]

Eric,

I was planning to post this myself. The delivery was little over the top, but it's tough to argue with the substance. Any chance you could post a transcript?