I was walking in Tokyo today to go run some errands, and one of them took me past the American Embassy. The Embassy is on a corner, and I needed to go right at the corner. However as I got near, I was stopped by a police officer who asked me what I thought I was doing, and do I work there. No, I’m just walking by. Well you can’t. But I’m just going over there. You have to go around. What a pain. Are we so full of ourselves that we won’t even let people walk by? And lets be realistic here, what good is having someone cross the street going to do? If someone was going to do something, that little distance across the street isn’t going to make a difference. All it does is make me have to walk way out of my way to cross the street three times when I really didn’t need to cross it once. The best part is the US refused to pay the rent for the property for something like 10 years, and they have the nerve to tell people what to do on public property?
You should have just told them its public property and that they should try and stop you. Or said that you’re an American citizen … then just walked on through… What can they do to you?
btw, posted on my blog for the first time in a long time… maybe I’ll get back into it now…. maybe I wont. Life is full of mysteries!