Robert Fisk refused entry into US
U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation\ufffds readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.
According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.
No indication yet if this was routine bumbling, or something more sinister, so I'm not going to jump into the decay of the country speech yet. But I've got it warming up, barring a news reporter just because he says something you don't like is one of the most fundamentally unAmerican things possible.
Jay