“U.S. authorities will allow Canadian library cardholders to access the building as usual until Oct. 1. Then, they must go through an official border crossing. Boudreau plans to convert an emergency exit on the Canadian side into an entrance. A GoFundMe to raise money for the entrance surpassed its goal. Its donors included several contrite Americans.”
“What’s happening at Haskell is happening across the border, which is…the elimination of the special cross-border spaces, Alden said. “They were symbols of the deep trust and friendship between the United states and Canada, which has sadly been badly eroded.”
[Amanda Coletta: “A tiny library caught in the crossfire”; Washington Post Weekly; 4/6/25]
Note: Read this article, with tears in YOUR eyes, over the senseless Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY subverting decades of friendship and TRUST between Canadians and Americans on our mutual border.
This story is about how America sabotaged that cooperation, friendship and TRUST at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which sits ON the border between Stansstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. Patrons of the opera house sitting in seats J-13, K-1l, and M-12 sit in both countries!!!!!
This library stood for 120 years, straddling the border as a statement of cooperation, friendship and TRUST – until that friendship, cooperation and TRUST were sabotaged by Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY authorities – claiming drug traffickers and smugglers exploited a path adjacent to the library allowing them to enter the U.S. without clearing customs. Now, a sensible person might ask – why not work WITH Canada to monitor this – a small library – in a more friendly, cooperative, TRUSTING manner than the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY giving dictates??????????
Note: this STUPID, CRUEL. story is SYMBOLIC of the way the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY has treated former American friends around the world. It is also symbolic of cutting off humanitarian aid to suffering peoples around the world. It is also symbolic of the way CRUELTIES and STUPIDITIES are being done to American citizens – such as cutting off health services and information – in order to finance OBSCENE BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS.
Note: a MAJOR factor in America’s world standing has been our “soft power” – our cultures, our freedoms, our willingness to help other nations and peoples not as fortunate. For the Musk-trump KAKISTOCRACY – †his is an expense to be cut – because, in their warped “thinking” – it costs too much.
*** “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
With Justice For All 