October 16, 2005
What happens when protests turn fun in Vemont ::
vermont — tagged politics, vermont and weird
10:31 pm
Up in the town of Derby Line, Vermont today, demonstrators on both the Vermont and Canadian sides of the border turned out to protest the presence of the Minutemen, that group of anti-immigrant do-gooders who patrol US borders for “illegal activity.” Apparently, the Minutemen stopped in town to make sure our Canadian neighbors weren’t trying anything funny. The police were there, of course, to be sure the protest stayed orderly. Then this happened:
The groups began kicking a ball back and forth across the border, a game that concluded when a Vermont state trooper took the ball away.
Who knows if people just went home after the police seized that ball. But the article implies that they did.
