GUNS, GOLD, and a GETAWAY PLAN : Okay - Where would you run to?

Gonzola Lira, born and raised under the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile has recently said that media censorship in the US is more profound that it was in Chile under Pinochet.




The question raised was: well? where do you run?

There are very few options:

According to this article from CBC, the world can be a very unsafe place.

The information comes from the government of Canada's External Affairs own site:

Interesting the home of the brave and land of the free, the USA shows up as a vibrant green zone, just as long as your name isn't Mahar Arar ( who was kidnapped by the US government, and sent to Syria for torture. Oh yes, and there is still that pesky Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Private Manning is still being held in detention after a year, with out charge or arrest after releasing informaiton to Wikileaks. And so on...

Foreign Affairs, offers this advice about entering the USA:
Your rights when entering the U.S.

Under U.S. law, foreign nationals do not have the same rights as American citizens. When attempting to enter the U.S. (border crossing or airport) and while a determination is being made by U.S. authorities on your admissibility, you could be held for an extended period of time. If you are deemed inadmissible, there may be delays before you are returned to your point of departure or country of nationality.

So much is happening in the USA in the name of "national security interests" it is wise to pause and consider the implications on travel in general.

See John Pilger's Film "War on Democracy"

at 1:05:38 "National Security Interests... Like it or Lump it"

Daniel Clarridge former CIA director tells it like it is:

A truly frightening admonition.





Foreign Affairs doesn't offer any opinion on Canada but in my estimation, Canada still has rule of law, even though a majority government is essentially a dictatorship. The fusion of Corporate power and Government is reasonably obvious especially as the environmental issues around the tar sands and the Northern Pipeline become known. Fascism is growing but Canadians know it as something else, more benign, like "corporate sponsorship" or "lobbying", so much more comforting.

But the answers are not exactly clear. Gonzola's own site seeks to counsel people on their own relocation - for a nominal fee.

I'm thinking Canada is still a good bet: too bad about the weather ( six months of the year) but its much better in Ottawa than it is in Winnipeg, and the summer has no mosquitos to speak of.

There is, of course, one tiny problem and a roadmap of the country will pretty much spell it out:

The network of fourway, high capacity highways leading to Canada from the the United States is very significant. In many cases, the roads up from the US are 4 lane and the roads into Canada are 2 lane.

So despite our complacency about living in Canada once the "shit hits the fan" we may find we have a lot of new neighbors we didn't count on.