Extreme U.S. Isolationalism
So I'm going down University ave. last night (in downtown Toronto), and I'm about to pass the US Consulate.
I wondered whether or not I would see any protesters this late, or even some "No To War" signs or even graffiti put up on the Consulate.
Then, a thought came up in the back of my mind: "It would be funny if they put up a fence around it."
When I passed by the Consulate, my jaw almost dropped!
Not that there was a fence erected, but a huge WALL three metres high, entirely enclosing the front of the Consulate! And around that wall was ANOTHER wall! It looked like a fortress! And no doors or entrances of any kind.
I laughed... funny that they had to do that, in the civilized world, in one of the largest cities in North America, in its next-door neighbour and close ally (former close ally, you might say?).
Indeed, it seemed to me that they (the Consulate) were acting as if Toronto was a dangerous city in a third-world country where there are radical extremists ready to bomb it at any time.
What do you guys think? Was this a prudent course of action to take, barricading themselves so? I think that it was not. What was the worst they could expect, marching student demonstrators? 
In Belgrade, where the anti-Americanism is much higher than here, the US consulate was not barricaded like that at all (when I was there last summer). At most there was a simple fence around it, as around all the other embassies there. But who knows, maybe things have changed.
At any rate I think that this went a little too far, a little too paranoid, and definitely uber-Isolationalist.
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