{"id":85,"date":"2005-06-08T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=85"},"modified":"2005-06-08T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T16:10:16","slug":"theres-no-brown-in-the-red-white-and-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no brown in the red, white and blue."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, ok.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres&#8217; hometown of Minto, New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Really?  How surprising.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the country?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, cause he&#8217;s white?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And because he&#8217;s white.  And his name&#8217;s Greg, not Muhammad.  And he&#8217;s not brown.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody asked us to detain him,&#8221; Anthony said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Would they have had to ask you, Bill, if he was wearing a turban, or would you have maybe taken some initiative?<\/p>\n<p>Whole article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomon.org\/go.php?http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050608\/ap_on_re_us\/chain_saw_border;_ylt=As_0UeYg1rSbmpk0DfUN56Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2MTQ3MTFjBHNlYwN0cw--\" title=\"(No click)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomon.org\/go.php?http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/thenewswire\/archive\/2005\/06\/us-border-patrol-lets-in-.html\" title=\"(3 hits)\">The Huffington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=85\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Tie6-1n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}