Mover Mike

I wrote about Lisa Fithian sometime back and haven’t heard much since, except yesterday, when I read a column by Naomi Wolf over at The Huffington Post. Wolf is worried that we are in the “closing stages of a `fascist shift” and wrote

Last week in Boston, while attending Bioneers by the Bay, I heard that one of the speakers for our event, an environmentalist named Gunter Pauli, was going to miss the time of his scheduled speech; he had been physically taken OFF THE PLANE by TSA agents and had to take a much later flight. More chillingly, the camerawoman doing my interview said that another well-known environmental writer found that his girlfriend was effectively `disappeared’ for three days as she sought to enter the US from Canada. Lisa Fithian, an anti-globalization activist, was denied entry across the Canadian border in 2001 and was offered the choice of turning back or being arrested.

Here’s Byron York’s description of Lisa Fithian:

Fithian is a legendary organizer who operates in the world of anti-globalism anarchists, antiwar protesters, and union activists; an advocate of aggressive “direct action” demonstrations, she protested the first Gulf war, played an important role in the violent shutdown of Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting, was a key planner in protests at the Republican and Democratic national conventions in 2000 and 2004, and organized demonstrations at trade meetings in Washington, D.C., Prague, and Genoa.

Do you give a rats ass if Lisa Fithian is detained at the border or is never let back in? Or her fellow travelers? Border security has to start somewhere Naomi.

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