Originally Posted by yukon28209
I agree that we're headed in the wrong direction, and I'm not a Bush fan, but this has been happening for a while. Naturalist Farley Mowat, one of Canada's great writers ("Never Cry Wolf"), was refused entry in the 1980s ... allegedly because he disagreed with cruise missiles (I've yet to meet a Canadian who enjoyed that period where American cruise missiles flew over Canadian territory). Hey, even Jack London had some questionable politics, but he still wrote a good yarn...
This is the ACLU's pithy take on it -
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/details/mowat.html - if you read through some of the other examples, some are rather surprising, such as Pierre Trudeau's exclusion in the 1950s. (Trudeau later became... wait for it... Prime Minister of Canada... a bilingual powerhouse who was hardly "subversive".)
Farley Mowat was on record threatening to fire shotguns at the Atlantic-Canada-stationed USAF B-52's that may or may not have been carrying nukes; as if that would do any damage to the aircraft. At least he got turned back at "Moulton" (he refuses to call YYZ "Pearson")
and not LAX.
As for Pierre Elliot, IIRC, he was turned back at the I-91 auto border crossing and just went to another smaller crossing where he was waved through.