Run away!!!
Posted on 10/01/2006 3:35:46 PM PDT by marc costanzo
Canadian Border "Guards" Flee Posts After Security Scare That's weird because I thought guards were there specifically in the event there was a security threat. Silly me.
Guards walk off job at four B.C. border crossings
Canadian border guards at four crossings in the Lower Mainland of B.C. have walked off the job in response to a security scare.
CTV Vancouver reported Sunday night that lineups at four crossings into Canada are massive. Gary Barndt reported from the station's helicopter that the lineups appeared to be several kilometres long at one crossing...This was the first time she could recall all four crossings been affected this way.
The situation started in the afternoon when U.S. Homeland Security officials told the RCMP that a suspected killer from California, who should be considered armed and dangerous, might try to cross the Canadian border.
They thought he was heading northward towards Anacortes, Wa.on a motorcycle -- located about 60 kilometres due south of the border, but sharing a ferry route with Sidney, B.C. -- where a motorcycle rally was taking place. Many Canadians attended the Oyster Run, as it's called.
The RCMP informed the border guards, who walked off first at Huntington at 2:15 p.m. , then the other three crossings. About 60 guards are believed to be off the job.
I'm impressed. Perhaps it's time for a wall up north, too
(Excerpt) Read more at TammyBruce.com ...
Either way, I agree with Tammy Bruce, we should seal off our northern border, we have been to complacent, and our neighbors have been 'do-nothings', for far too long !
At the very least this incident, as well as many others, in trends going back to the Cold War, prove that Canada is unreliable on issues of Border Safety and Security .
Canadians think 'The World is Their Oyster' .
These Liberals only real concern is 'acid rain' or some other politically-correct non-threat .
B.C. border guards?
Figured they'd be french Canadian guards that fled.
Not those with us in the WOT in Afghanistan. A border guard help stop the millenium bombers, so they'ver partnered with us before in HS. Also, thought the new PM was friendly to the US.
"...in the event there was a security threat..."
In the event? Aren't they armed? WTF?
What, again? Didn't this same thing happen a few months ago? Or is this the same story?
Didn't Canada pass a law saying their guards can be armed? I can't remember but I know there was a discussion about it earlier this year.
Don't blame the guards, blame the policy.
Well Ramses, I think you are talking about that Muslim Plot to bomb the Canadian Parliment .
Run away!!!
No, Marc Anthony, I'm referring to (another?) instance where the Canadian border guards (!) fled upon hearing that a wanted American criminal might be trying to cross the border.
They are both at fault . .
Yes, the Vancouver/Washington Border is especially wide open to illegal immigration, , to the U.S.
I liked 'Life Of Brian' better .
Guards walk off job at four B.C. border crossings
which is it? did they flee or walk off the job? Are union workers who walk off the job called "fleeing" as well by the media?
It happened a couple months ago, but it occurred again last weekend. Took some friends from church about four hours to get back into Canada. Ridiculous situation!
Someone else posted about that incident .
Crimanals who have committed a Capitol Offense here in The States, have fled up to Canada in the past ~
remember Charles Ng ?
He, along with Leonard Lake, are responsible for 25 murders of men, women, and one infant, way up in Calaveras County back in the mid 1980's .
Lake committed suicide to avoid capture ~
Charles Ng high-tailed it up to Canada . .
>>Canadian Border "Guards" Flee Posts After Security Scare
Guards walk off job at four B.C. border crossings
which is it? did they flee or walk off the job? Are union workers who walk off the job called "fleeing" as well by the media?
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Maybe that is a distinction without a difference ?
The ones Ms Bruce are talking about ran off apparently .
The result is the same. They are really only there to collect the duty on low cost American tobacco and booze.
The security part is left up to the Americans. As it probably should be. If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.
Canada has forbidden the death penalty, and there is, or was, a treaty with Canada establishing that they did not have to return anyone to the U.S. that was going to be executed .
I do not know if that old old treaty is still in effect .
ROFL, Yah, you guys do a great job guarding borders....
Canadian border guards are not armed because of government policy. IF you were in their situation, would you want to confront an armed crazy? It's the Canadian gun phobia, not cowardly guards.
This is a re occuring problem. The border guards have been authorized to carry guns (Thank you PM Harper)
Sadly, this will take a few years to phase in.
>>Wimps. I thought it was the French who did all the fleeing and surrendering. Must be too much of their influence in Quebec...
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French Canadians have exuded too much influence upon the rest of Canada ~ THAT IS THE PROBLEM !
I went in and back out of Canada last month - and I didn't even think to note if or not they were armed...but I do think I would have noticed had they been...they never checked my bags, and I'm a gray haired old great granny. I thought we were the type to get the thorough once over. :o)
>>It's the Canadian gun phobia, not cowardly guards.<<
Once again, I think it is a little of both .
According to other posters on this thread, the recent Canadian PM's policy is to have such gaurds armed !
The border guards that stopped Ahmed Ressam aka "The Millennium Bomber" were American border guards at Port Angeles, WA.
Ressam had crossed into the U.S. on the Victoria, B.C.- Port Angeles, WA ferry and U.S. Customs officer Diana Dean gets the credit for flushing him out.
U.S. Customs officer Diana Dean told the Digest she found the olive-skinned Canadian who identified himself as "Benni Norris" unusually nervous. The ferry from Vancouver had just chugged up to its slip at Port Angeles, Washington on the afternoon of December 14, 1999, and Norris lowered the window of his Chrysler 300. Despite the chilly air, he was sweating, Dean noticed. When she asked him to open his trunk, he bolted. After a brief chase, "Norris"/Ressam was arrested. In the trunk, they found 130 pounds of plastic explosives, two 22 ounce plastic bottles full of nitro glycol, and a map of LAX. (The link is incorrect about Vancouver. The ferries at Port Angeles have a Port Angeles-Victoria run.)
The only Canadian role in that case was the fact that Canada had made Ahmed Ressam a landed immigrant of Canada.
security scare - I doubt it. Probably another exciting thrilling curling exhibition...eh?
Armed when? The post spoke of years, I think.
Maybe the guards are really their "canaries." If they flee, we should all flee.
>>Armed when? The post spoke of years, I think.<<
That poster refered to Canadian Gaurds taking years to get used to wearing side arms .
Many of the folks around here are more worried about the little brown lettuce picker.
do they have guns??? i think not
Brilliant!
Canada ping.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
Canada has never armed the Customs & Immigration officials stationed on the U.S. border.
It's always been an UNDEFENDED border.
Judging by the comments of some on this thread, you'd think we should be setting tank-traps by the Peace Arch.
In any event, these government employees will be armed soon enough. I, for one, do not see this as a security improvement - just posturing, imho.
Very.
Do not doubt that for one minute.
Apparently they are not yet armed, which I don't understand.
:-(
Duh, Canadian customs agents don't check people leaving their country. US customs don't check people leaving the US.
BTW, questionable FRiend, you meant there, not their.
According the Cal prisoner stats, they should be.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/27/114208.shtml
Now when tgere is a seurity threat, the RCMP are supposed to support the Border Patrol. However, these days they are too busy marrying each other, in dress uniform to bother with supporting the border patrol.
Canada is in a fix, caused by 40 years of liberal hoo haw , and now we see just where we would be if Harper had not been elected.
The Canadian Border patrol are not a po9lice force, they are uniformed civil servants who are untrained in security, but are trained to keep out foreign vegetables and meat products, and are trained to welcome ALL from abroad. No border patrol officer is expected to put their life at risk, the dangerous work is supposed to be RCMP work. Its a UNION thing.
Harper will fix this but it will take a time we do not have.
I kinda find the jihadists with cars full of explosives a little more threatening in general.
Charles Ng was returned to the United States; he was your creation, and you got him back.
WTH are you trying to do here? Stop telling half truths, dammit! Conservatives support each other, beyond borders.
Get it?
Anything "Mamby Pamby" goes over big in Canada. To prove it, I'll bet the "fleers" still have their jobs.
I don't understand your post - it's what they did do that has me worried.
Running away from doing what you were hired to accomplish seems quite sufficient to damn them in my book.
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