A post at the Roundtable on the Liberals’ true commitment to border security.
26 Replies to “SWTE: Run For The Border”
Dang you! Here I was planning to run some guns and drugs north through that Monchy port this weekend — but nooooo, here you gotta go and alert everyone that the border’s wide open there.
Another outstanding article, Kate. I love your work. Just on the side a mother in TO turned in her 17 year old son because he had in his possession an AK-47 and some cocaine, also at the same time the TO police raided several homes and business’ in TO and confiscated a number of weapons among them a grenade launcher. Is there any way to find out if this weapon was registered or did it slip through our customs net. (Don’t mean to be facetious but I’m getting fed up with the gun control program trumpeted by the Liberals.)
Kate; love the blog and was pleased to see someone say you are now the LGF of Canada. Keep up the good work.
But.. I don’t like the little pop-up for comments. It doesn’t seem to inspire long, thoughtful comments or dialogues between posters and seems more appropriate for quick hits and rejoinders.
Now that you are the new Charles, you need to change to keep up with the influx.
You know you are a Canadian when:
You sleep in your car and wait for Canada Customs to open up.
Actually I prefer the popups, Artemis, and I’ve put some pretty long comments in. FWIW
Bob,
Were you planning to also bring some Koreans south as part of the deal? Lol!
I’ll tell you though, I cross Coutts/Sweetgrass quite often. Alot of tough hombres pass that way, truckers mainly. I have noticed that many agents on the Canadian side pack a sidearm there. What’s the diff?
I can just see a Lefty brushing this whole issue off by proclaiming that they cannot iamgine anyone “really” dangerous travelling out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, and what planet are you from? That’s the whole point!
According to reports, the border ‘guards’ are supposed to let criminals etc throught the border and just call the police–sometimes these police are hours away–sounds like we are getting the usual bang for our $9-10B tax dollars–more words but no action. Follow the money–today we have an expose on the Liberal smoke and mirrors on long gun registration, tomorrow will it be following where the $9B for border security has gone? Obviously it has not been spent on beefing up the border—what favoured Liberal insider did it go to?
Candace;
I don’t mind the pops so much, its the size. It feels restricting to a prairie boy used to the wide open spaces.
Also have to scroll too much to read something of any length.
Just saying
I am curious to know what would happen if someone blew through going from north to south — would American border patrol agents open fire? If our border guards are armed, if someone trying to run the border without stopping fair game to be fired upon?
My experiances crossing the border back into Canada is that Customs is more interested in nailing me for duties on purchases made in the USA.
Hands in my pockets…
sometime in the late 80’s i was working on a project in regina and had a weekend off so decided to visit my son in calgary. the route i choose was due south of regina into montana and then west. when i entered the states the border guard there was very friendly and courteous but he was’nt carrying a 45. more like a 357 and was plainly in view. was’nt going to mess with him. when i finally started north to hit calgary via the waterton entrance, about 2330 i was flabergasted to discover that customs was closed. i could’nt even get back into my own country. LOL
i guess this is number 35 the redcoats are chasing. if this keeps up the RCMP will run out of mounties.
Kate,
Any idea of how many hits your roundtable posts are getting?
It’s easy for SDA visitors to click your link and get right to your posts, so it looks good from here.
But if you start at CBC’s Canada Votes 2006, “Analysis & Commentary” is one choice out of eight. Then clicking: Analysis & Commentary page, the roundtable is one out of 25 choices.
And how come under Commentary, you or the other round table bloggers don’t get a byline like the other commentators?
If you use the site search and put in: Kate McMillan
You get “Did you mean: nate mcmillan”
I afraid that your excellent posts are getting buried under a haystack of the usual CBC baloney.
One thing I miss is the simplicity of crossing the border. I usually take a short cut to visit some friends in Whitefish, Montana via the Caraway/Peigan crossing. One would just drive up to the US Customs ‘house’ by the roadside for a quick chat and then drive on.
Coming back I used to just slow down, honk the horn, wave, and then drive on.
Haven’t been back since 2001 wonder if one can do that any more 😉
cheers
tom
The one thing about Canada Customs is that they are only and I mean only an extension of Revenue Canda!
I’d like to see the border guards become “Border Guards” for real and stop acting as Tax Collectors whose primary function seems to be busting weekend holiday travelers for cigarette and booze infractions.
Just to illustrate an experience I had at the MB Ndak crossing near Walhalla. A small group of us were returning from a daytrip to Frostfire ski area (please no comments on the quality of ski hills here! ).As usual we gassed up an bought some road snacks at the town before heading back.The Canadian customs agent at the border asked us the usual questions but when we told him we had made no purchases and were bringing nothing back into Canada he challenged us! Asserting that the three or four open pops and chip bags were indeed purchases and we were required to DECLARE them as such…..I told him he could confiscate them if he wanted! You should have seen the sourpuss turn purple!
The point I guess is that if there is so little usefull work to do or that if these agents are so poorly selected and trained that they need to justify their existence with BS like this then why trust them with guns?
They are no different than tax depaertment clerks and auditors! Would you want to see those people with guns?
No … as long as job one for the border agents is enforcing revenue rules then what difference does it make if they are there or not?
If you want real border guards you need a real border security force not a bunch of lameassed civil servants.
“Dubbed this week the murder capital of the world, Jamaica recorded its 13th murder in the first four days of the year, the Jamaica Gleaner said Thursday.
Three double shootings happened within nine hours beginning Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, the newspaper said.
The murder capital designation was made earlier this week by the BBC, which said Jamaica has now been classed the murder capital of the world, after 2005 saw more than 1,600 people killed; a tally of at least five people murdered a day.” http://www.wpmi.com/news/weird/story.aspx?content_id=2CEA774D-1B90-427D-BF4C-670A3A61059E
Kinda looks like we want control of the borders not tax collection….these days.
Multibilliondollar Liberal National Security Scam?
What did the Paul Martin Liberals do with that nine billion dollars they took off of our paychecks? Has the money been stolen? Is it yet again being used for the purpose of enrichment of Liberal cronies?
Artemis, if you use Firefox as your web browser, you can just right click on the “comment” field and open the comments up in a new tab. Much better than the pop up windows. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Why does this Artemis guy sound like a whinny MSM clown.
If you don’t like the layout that has been freely provided to share your thoughts don’t use it.
I, for one don’t really want to have the MSM dictate to me on what to think or say or the medium in which I decide to convey my message.
I dont think they get it yet.
The MSM is like yesterdays newspaper.
Both are obsolete and only good for lining bird cages.
Just a quick comment on security all along our border with the US.
We heard just a few days before Christmas that the Americans want to build a fence all along the heretofore undefended border.
How long before the Canadian contractors start bitching because they will not be able to bid on the contracts?
After all fair is fair isn’t it. And we wouldn’t want to be left out – in the cold, so to speak!
CRB
I am curious to know what would happen if someone blew through going from north to south — would American border patrol agents open fire? If our border guards are armed, if someone trying to run the border without stopping fair game to be fired upon?
Posted by morison at January 6, 2006 03:54 PM
The boarders that I have crossed and seen are all over water, so there is usually a 1/2 mile to a mile or so between the countries, and over very high bridges. I don’t think bullets from guns fired would be a problem especially with short barrled rivolvers.
GL1800 – you must not have crossed the border much in western Canada, particularly the smaller crossings. I don’t recall ever crossing a bridge to get across the border, and some of the gaps, well, I wouldn’t guess 1/2 a mile.
My families have been crossing USA-Canada borders all our lives.
There are often comments on the differences.
For the most part the Canada side is like a check (cheque?) out line.
Cash registers are the dominent feature.
Jamaica is the murder capital.
The MSM is reporting that Tronas problem is imported from the USA.
But everyone knows its Jamaican gangs that caused the Yonge street ruckus.
Dang you! Here I was planning to run some guns and drugs north through that Monchy port this weekend — but nooooo, here you gotta go and alert everyone that the border’s wide open there.
Another outstanding article, Kate. I love your work. Just on the side a mother in TO turned in her 17 year old son because he had in his possession an AK-47 and some cocaine, also at the same time the TO police raided several homes and business’ in TO and confiscated a number of weapons among them a grenade launcher. Is there any way to find out if this weapon was registered or did it slip through our customs net. (Don’t mean to be facetious but I’m getting fed up with the gun control program trumpeted by the Liberals.)
Kate; love the blog and was pleased to see someone say you are now the LGF of Canada. Keep up the good work.
But.. I don’t like the little pop-up for comments. It doesn’t seem to inspire long, thoughtful comments or dialogues between posters and seems more appropriate for quick hits and rejoinders.
Now that you are the new Charles, you need to change to keep up with the influx.
You know you are a Canadian when:
You sleep in your car and wait for Canada Customs to open up.
Actually I prefer the popups, Artemis, and I’ve put some pretty long comments in. FWIW
Bob,
Were you planning to also bring some Koreans south as part of the deal? Lol!
I’ll tell you though, I cross Coutts/Sweetgrass quite often. Alot of tough hombres pass that way, truckers mainly. I have noticed that many agents on the Canadian side pack a sidearm there. What’s the diff?
I can just see a Lefty brushing this whole issue off by proclaiming that they cannot iamgine anyone “really” dangerous travelling out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, and what planet are you from? That’s the whole point!
According to reports, the border ‘guards’ are supposed to let criminals etc throught the border and just call the police–sometimes these police are hours away–sounds like we are getting the usual bang for our $9-10B tax dollars–more words but no action. Follow the money–today we have an expose on the Liberal smoke and mirrors on long gun registration, tomorrow will it be following where the $9B for border security has gone? Obviously it has not been spent on beefing up the border—what favoured Liberal insider did it go to?
Candace;
I don’t mind the pops so much, its the size. It feels restricting to a prairie boy used to the wide open spaces.
Also have to scroll too much to read something of any length.
Just saying
I am curious to know what would happen if someone blew through going from north to south — would American border patrol agents open fire? If our border guards are armed, if someone trying to run the border without stopping fair game to be fired upon?
I have observed that every agent on the US side carries a service revolver (probably a 45 magnum)and a protective vest.
Somehow I can see that if the “runner” is heading south he would be shot dead first, questions asked later, but not necessarily going the other direction.
OT: a photo to make your day:
Airmen and Soldiers take a moment to pray for each other’s safety before heading out for another day of convoy duty in Iraq. The Airmen run the convoys into Iraq and the Soldiers, in their armored trucks, escort them
My experiances crossing the border back into Canada is that Customs is more interested in nailing me for duties on purchases made in the USA.
Hands in my pockets…
sometime in the late 80’s i was working on a project in regina and had a weekend off so decided to visit my son in calgary. the route i choose was due south of regina into montana and then west. when i entered the states the border guard there was very friendly and courteous but he was’nt carrying a 45. more like a 357 and was plainly in view. was’nt going to mess with him. when i finally started north to hit calgary via the waterton entrance, about 2330 i was flabergasted to discover that customs was closed. i could’nt even get back into my own country. LOL
i guess this is number 35 the redcoats are chasing. if this keeps up the RCMP will run out of mounties.
Kate,
Any idea of how many hits your roundtable posts are getting?
It’s easy for SDA visitors to click your link and get right to your posts, so it looks good from here.
But if you start at CBC’s Canada Votes 2006, “Analysis & Commentary” is one choice out of eight. Then clicking: Analysis & Commentary page, the roundtable is one out of 25 choices.
And how come under Commentary, you or the other round table bloggers don’t get a byline like the other commentators?
If you use the site search and put in: Kate McMillan
You get “Did you mean: nate mcmillan”
I afraid that your excellent posts are getting buried under a haystack of the usual CBC baloney.
One thing I miss is the simplicity of crossing the border. I usually take a short cut to visit some friends in Whitefish, Montana via the Caraway/Peigan crossing. One would just drive up to the US Customs ‘house’ by the roadside for a quick chat and then drive on.
Coming back I used to just slow down, honk the horn, wave, and then drive on.
Haven’t been back since 2001 wonder if one can do that any more 😉
cheers
tom
The one thing about Canada Customs is that they are only and I mean only an extension of Revenue Canda!
I’d like to see the border guards become “Border Guards” for real and stop acting as Tax Collectors whose primary function seems to be busting weekend holiday travelers for cigarette and booze infractions.
Just to illustrate an experience I had at the MB Ndak crossing near Walhalla. A small group of us were returning from a daytrip to Frostfire ski area (please no comments on the quality of ski hills here! ).As usual we gassed up an bought some road snacks at the town before heading back.The Canadian customs agent at the border asked us the usual questions but when we told him we had made no purchases and were bringing nothing back into Canada he challenged us! Asserting that the three or four open pops and chip bags were indeed purchases and we were required to DECLARE them as such…..I told him he could confiscate them if he wanted! You should have seen the sourpuss turn purple!
The point I guess is that if there is so little usefull work to do or that if these agents are so poorly selected and trained that they need to justify their existence with BS like this then why trust them with guns?
They are no different than tax depaertment clerks and auditors! Would you want to see those people with guns?
No … as long as job one for the border agents is enforcing revenue rules then what difference does it make if they are there or not?
If you want real border guards you need a real border security force not a bunch of lameassed civil servants.
“Dubbed this week the murder capital of the world, Jamaica recorded its 13th murder in the first four days of the year, the Jamaica Gleaner said Thursday.
Three double shootings happened within nine hours beginning Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, the newspaper said.
The murder capital designation was made earlier this week by the BBC, which said Jamaica has now been classed the murder capital of the world, after 2005 saw more than 1,600 people killed; a tally of at least five people murdered a day.”
http://www.wpmi.com/news/weird/story.aspx?content_id=2CEA774D-1B90-427D-BF4C-670A3A61059E
Kinda looks like we want control of the borders not tax collection….these days.
Multibilliondollar Liberal National Security Scam?
What did the Paul Martin Liberals do with that nine billion dollars they took off of our paychecks? Has the money been stolen? Is it yet again being used for the purpose of enrichment of Liberal cronies?
Artemis, if you use Firefox as your web browser, you can just right click on the “comment” field and open the comments up in a new tab. Much better than the pop up windows.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Why does this Artemis guy sound like a whinny MSM clown.
If you don’t like the layout that has been freely provided to share your thoughts don’t use it.
I, for one don’t really want to have the MSM dictate to me on what to think or say or the medium in which I decide to convey my message.
I dont think they get it yet.
The MSM is like yesterdays newspaper.
Both are obsolete and only good for lining bird cages.
Just a quick comment on security all along our border with the US.
We heard just a few days before Christmas that the Americans want to build a fence all along the heretofore undefended border.
How long before the Canadian contractors start bitching because they will not be able to bid on the contracts?
After all fair is fair isn’t it. And we wouldn’t want to be left out – in the cold, so to speak!
CRB
I am curious to know what would happen if someone blew through going from north to south — would American border patrol agents open fire? If our border guards are armed, if someone trying to run the border without stopping fair game to be fired upon?
Posted by morison at January 6, 2006 03:54 PM
The boarders that I have crossed and seen are all over water, so there is usually a 1/2 mile to a mile or so between the countries, and over very high bridges. I don’t think bullets from guns fired would be a problem especially with short barrled rivolvers.
GL1800 – you must not have crossed the border much in western Canada, particularly the smaller crossings. I don’t recall ever crossing a bridge to get across the border, and some of the gaps, well, I wouldn’t guess 1/2 a mile.
My families have been crossing USA-Canada borders all our lives.
There are often comments on the differences.
For the most part the Canada side is like a check (cheque?) out line.
Cash registers are the dominent feature.
Jamaica is the murder capital.
The MSM is reporting that Tronas problem is imported from the USA.
But everyone knows its Jamaican gangs that caused the Yonge street ruckus.