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With every passing story I read about border control or security insanity, I’m beginning to think that once you have any responsibility for your country’s safety, you go insane. Everyday objects become suspect (like a friend harassed in the US for having a couple pictures of an ex amongst the pics he was traveling with), and sometimes, objects are given extraordinary value. I was once charged a couple hundred dollars in Canadian tariffs for a Buffy DVD that was sent to me as a gift, and had to prove that the box set wasn’t worth their astronomical estimated cost. But I guess I can consider myself lucky that “Buffy” didn’t make the border powers that be think the discs were porn.
Canoe reports that a new Canadian film from John N. Smith (Dangerous Minds) was held at the border because of its name: Love [...]
Original post by Monika Bartyzel