Brilliant!
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
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>>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!
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