We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

In fiction
Arlo Guthrie is mentioned in Tim Winton's novel The Riders – shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. He was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award on September 26 1992. In his often lengthy comments during concerts his expressed positions were consistently anti-war anti-Nixon pro-drugs and in favor of making nuclear power illegal.

Like his late father Woody Guthrie Arlo is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice. Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10 1947) is an American folk singer.