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Countries With a View
12 October 2004What does Jak King see in his unobscured View From Vancouver? A Talibanized America, but not the one Chuck Colson means. King is less worried about a Taliban overthrow of the U.S. government, than of the U.S. government willingly bringing a similar system on itself. A few dark clouds: the FBI confiscates a book about Osama bin Laden and, finding margin notes, demands the library's circulation list; two Attorneys General in Kansas and Indiana censor 7,000 CDs destined for public libraries because the music "'did not mesh'" with "majority values"; the art wars resurface in DC with the cancelling of a politically critical exhibit; a West Virginian man is fired from his job for heckling President Bush; there are now 20,000 names on the no-fly list.
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